I have started my games career with Contra, Mario and games like Spartan. And these days i am playing games like NFS, FIFA, GTA, Resident Evil
Call of Duty Black Ops. This game is super bad ass. Anyone else playing it?
Now: MAG (Massive Action Game)
Then: Zelda
Have played FIFA every year since 94.
These days - playing Left4Dead 1 and 2 online. ZombieDeath fun.
Also DragonAge origins. I played that for something stupid like 170 hours straight over summer.
No offense, Tab, but I like neither zombies nor DAO. The latter was a surprise, by the way, as I’ve loved all other Bioware console RPGs.
Recently I’ve played a lot of Forza 3; now I’m mostly playing Fallout New Vegas. I want to play Super Meat Boy some time, and I’m looking forward to Deus Ex 3 and 3DS Super SF 4.
I’ve been playing Civ 5 a bit. Games are fun, but LoOOnnnGGG. I agree with those who feel that gameplay has been simplified from its predecessor and is not as sophisticated or engaging. Nice graphics, though.
Big fan of Gran Turismo 2 (PS1) back in the day. I missed 3 and 4 for the Playstation 2 but I’m stoked for the series’ first full appearance on the PS3. Gran Turismo 5, due late 2010 / early 2011, looks like it’s going to be a state-of-the-art juggernaut and simply the best driving simulation game ever realized.
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Can’t decide whether or not to spend the money on Black Ops. I was a fan of MW1/2, and I had a lot of fun dishing out the pain online (PS3), but it takes a lot of practice to get/maintain those skills and I guess I’m seriously thinking the time isn’t worth the effort. EDIT: I may change my mind, though. 
Yes, about black ops, gotta practice, gotta maintain those skills, only to realize I’m not the best killer and never will be. MAG is better because war requires teamwork. The game rewards teamwork so sometimes people get more XP than the killers. And you still get the chance to kill without the pressure to be the best at it.
In no particular order…
Fire Emblem 4, 5, & 7
Pokemon Red/Blue
Mario Tennis (N64)
Madden [series]
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
LittleBig Planet
…And, of course, Bioshock.
Did anyone ever buy a Sega Saturn? Few did…
If you didn’t, you missed out on 2 of the best RPGs ever (from the same series): Shining Force 3 and Shining the Holy Ark.
These games make the FF series feel like watching paint dry. And they each have the most stunning music (Motoi Sakuraba).
Though possibly the best game I’ve ever played was Eternal Darkness on the Gamecube - anyone ever heard of it?
Other than that I’ve finished each of the first 7 Tomb Raider titles (the original about 8 or 9 times :-")
I grew up on Sonic back in the Master System 2 days.
Mario came later, but Mario Kart on the SNES was clearly better to me.
Mario Kart is the most excellent game ever, at the very tipping point of decadence.
All real 3D is not to my taste, it is too real. The whole point of video games was the unrealistic and often absurd imagery! The only appeal to reality it makes is playcontrol.
Spyro the Dragon.
The first three for the PSX = Nostalgia. I just completed the first game again today, but the real awesome thing is that this time I was playing it on the PSP, which I recently hacked
Other than that, I’ve also been playing the Final Fantasy series for the first time ever. I’ve completed FF1 & 4 and am in the middle of FF5 now. I tried FF2 but got bored, and decided to skip 3 altogether.
And finally I am also in the middle of the original Silent Hill. What a creepy game! And difficult too (I’m trying to get through on the hardest difficulty)!
wow :0
The experience of two current-gen games that have left a definite impression on me are: Uncharted 2 and Mass Effect 2. Uncharted for it’s action-awesomeness, and ME2 for it’s epic-cinematic-awesomeness…good shit.
And I might as well go on record with the previous gen games that most impressed me.
PS2:
Res Evil 4
GTA 3 & Vice
PS1:
FF7
GTA
Not that big of a gamer but the ones that gave me a great deal of pleasure were:
Civilization 4 (Probably spent hundreds of hours, very addicting)
Hitman series (All of them are immensely fun, planning out all of your contract and so on)
Assassins Creed 2 (Recently played this one and it’s beautiful, from the graphics to the music and story)
Command and Conquer Series (Pure strategic fun)
Bioshock (This is a perfect game, absolutely perfect)