Favorite Video Games, Part 4

And now for another installment of my favorite video games; this one focusing on what I dubbed as I created this list a couple months ago now: "PC - The Middle Years." These are the CD/DVD-ROM computer games I enjoyed over the years.

Favorite Video Games, Part 2

I've spent a lot of time over the past couple weeks enjoying South Park: The Stick of Truth. It is easily one of the funniest games I've ever played and the whole game is littered with fan-service references to the show's past. This coming week, I'll be diving into the Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (the last games in the series I really engaged in and didn't just play hoping for the best) and Infamous: Second Son (the first next-gen game I'm really excited about). I imagine I'll write up some thoughts on each of these games in future posts.

So here is round two of some of my favorite video games/video game memories over the years.  If you're just joining me, you can catch up on my thoughts on Atari, early PC, and Nintendo games in Part 1.

Favorite Video Games, Part 1

During the month of February, the editors over at IGN presented write ups on their favorite games. A gamer as long as I can remember, it got me thinking about my favorite games and how I'd never really quantified/categorized them in that manner. In high school, we were tasked to write about a collection of ours and I wrote about (and was mildly ridiculed for) my video game collection. But even that was more focused on what my collection of video games said about me as a person. For example, I argued that video games were, in part, responsible for my intelligence and problem solving skills as I grew up playing more on strategy games or role-playing games than first-person shooters. It has been nice to see these thoughts validated in the years since through numerous studies about the positive effects video games have on a variety of faculties.

Anyway, I've decided to tackle this on a system by system basis (and I didn't realize how many I've actually had/played until compiling this list). Below you'll find the games that stood out to me in on each system I've owned. It was hard to classify the two and a half decades of PC gaming into one chunk so I've divided it up into three: the Early Years (featuring the old school Floppy Disks), the Middle Years (CD/DVD-ROMs), and the Modern Years (Steam).