Ultimate Top 5 : Best Games Ever Part 3

So Greg had his turn and James list went up yesterday so i guess i have to chip in with my top 5 games off all time and unlike Greg and James i already had 4 games in mind it was just the 5th one that was a bitch to choose however I've picked my 5 so here goes.

Resident Evil
If you were told that a game these days is only going to be set in one solitary place you wouldn't give it a chance in hell however back in 1996 there was one game that saw you trek through a mansion full of nasties and that game was about to change the face of gaming forever.
Even though Resident Evil wasn't the first survival horror game (that went to Alone in the Dark) but it was the first one to really put survival horror games on the map.
Never before had i ever been scared by a game the way resident evil did, i only thought that kind of stuff was the canon fodder of movies but i was so wrong.
The vast mansion had surprise and new terror around every corner thus making it an experience more than a game but it's still on hell of a game and everybody should play NOW.

Final Fantasy 7
A bit of an easy choice this one as never before had i spent so much time on one game and never before had i invested so much of my life in it and I'm glad i did as i was experience not only a game but a journey so epic that it would change my gaming life forever.
As soon as the first FMV started with the train going into Midgar i knew something great was going to happen and not only was it great it was bloody brilliant.
Games back then only had a usual life of around 10 hours however Final Fantasy had to be played for more than 50 but that's if you only go through the main quest if you spent more time in it's company you would easily get 100 hours of gameplay out of it or even more and you had to spend the time with it as you wouldn't of experienced the vast world that was on offer.
Oh yeah one last thing and i know that i will get a few giggles here but i don't care, when has a game made you cry because i will admit i did have a tear in my eye when Aeris died near the end of the game and i still have never had that kind of feeling from any game since.

Mario 64
I had to choose one Mario game and it was a hard choice as the first one was the reinvention of the platform, the third game had the scope and variety and so on and so forth however it wasn't until Mario 64 came along that Mario showed what he could do as he was about to change history.
So how the hell did he do that well it was down to one thing and that was the jump to 3d, a few games had attempted this however Mario was the game that showed how it should be done.
It wasn't just the fact that this game was in 3D that made this game great it was the constant surprise that was on offer as it gave you something new to do at every turn and each new thing was an experience in itself.
You had every kind of of level type on hand from the water level to the lava one all the way down to a ice level and even though these had been seen in every other platform game it wasn't until Mario 64 came out before each kind of level could be shown in it's truest form and since then every game has tried to copy but not with the high standards that Mario 64 had.

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
When anybody comes up with a greatest game of all time list you know that Ocarina of Time will feature high if not at number 1 and there is a reason for this and that's down to how fantastic this game really is, if i had to put my list in any order this would easily be at number 1.
There is so much i could type about Ocarina of Time that would make this reason so big that i would need much more space but the main reason why this is the greatest game off all time is down to it being perfect in every sense.
From the fantastic graphics, down to each dungeon offering something new, to the brilliant character design and weapons on offer Ocarina of Time is genius in it's purest form.
Never had i played a game where two polar opposites would fit so well together that if done today would just be a complete mess.
Going from the simplistic nature of Link as a child with the sunshine hitting his face down to the vast green fields of Hyrule to the dark and foreboding nature of link as an adult is something of such brilliance that it still hasn't been bettered today.
If you have to go back and play a game from gaming past then this is the one to play, even though against today's standards of high quality graphics etc The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time stands head and shoulders above anything else.

Tetris
This was one of the hardest choices i had to make as there is some many games that have impacted on me but i had to settle on one and Tetris won it by a small margin.
By taking a simple premise of fitting blocks together to make them disappear Teteris had the main thing of gaming going for it and that was fun.
I know i would spend countless hours playing it with me using the one more go line over and over again until the batteries of my Gameboy would run out but that shows you how addictive this game can be.
I doubt that back when Tetris came out that the developers would think that it would change puzzle games forever because it did as all simple puzzle games these days follows that same mechanics of fitting some kind of blocks together to make them disappear.
If Tetris has teached me one thing about gaming is that something can be simple for it to be great and this is simplicity in it's highest form.

Well that's it for my list you can check out the other two list to see what James and Greg had picked and don't forget to leave a comment on some games that you think should be named one of the greatest games of all time.