Beaten
The Vanquished, most of them memorable
- Aqua: Naval Warfare XBLA A top-down shooter with RPG DNA. Good gameplay but crappy writing
- Assassin’s Creed 360 The start of a historic open-world franchise
- Assassin’s Creed 2 360 The Ezio Auditore Trilogy, Part I
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood 360 The Ezio Auditore Trilogy, Part II
- Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn PC The Bioware Infinity Engine was an outstanding simulation of D&D
- Burnout Revenge 360 Can you go wrong smashing cars into each other at high speed?
- Castle Crashers XBLA The Behemoth’s finest. Period.
- Civilization IV PC Just one more turn…
- Civilization V PC See: Civilization IV, but with hexes
- Dead or Alive 4 360 I’m man enough to admit that I’m boy enough to play this game
- DeathSpank XBLA I’m still put out with Hothead for bailing on Penny Arcade, but DeathSpank was a great effort on their part
- DEFCON PC The only winning move is not to play
- Fable II 360 Great game, but Molyneux really needs to learn about expectation mangement
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King WiiWare
- Final Fantasy I PSX The dawn of the franchise
- Final Fantasy IV DS Where my love affair with JRPGs began
- Final Fantasy VI GBA Greatest Final Fantasy game ever
- Final Fantasy VII PSX Broke ground in both graphics and gameplay, but it is continually overrated by breathless fans
- Final Fantasy VIII PSX The first really good Final Fantasy love story
- Final Fantasy IX PSX Woefully underrated
- Final Fantasy X PS2 One of the smoothest JRPGs, but clearly the start of Square’s over-linarization of the franchise
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance GBA It’s Final Fantasy Tactics in your hand. What’s not to like?
- Flower PSN Beautiful ambient experience with surprisingly fun gameplay
- God of War PS2 See Kratos. See Kratos kill. Kill Kratos. Kill.
- Gratuitous Space Battles PC
- Green Day: Rock Band 360
- Half-Life PC Took the FPS genre and made it mean something
- Halo PC
- Halo 3 360
- Halo 3: ODST 360
- Halo Wars 360 Surprisingly, mixing Halo and RTS worked… and on a console, no less!
- Left 4 Dead PC
- Left 4 Dead 2 PC
- Linger in Shadows PSN
- Mass Effect 360 Greatest sci-fi RPG of its generation
- Mass Effect 2 360 They took an outstanding game and made it even better. BioWare’s magnum opus thus far.
- Neverwinter Nights PC Dungeon & Dragons’ video game heyday
- NHL 10 360 Two Stanley Cups and both the Hart & Conn Smythe trophies
- Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 1 XBLA
- Plants vs. Zombies iOS I’ve beaten this. Twice. I still can’t stop playing it.
- Poker Night at the Inventory PC
- Portal PC Ground-breaking puzzle game masquerading as a first-person shooter, dipped in deliciously black humor
- Portal 2 PC Valve’s best work, ever.
- Prince of Persia 360 Great graphics, gameplay in this franchise reboot. Kinda sad that Ubisoft abandoned the storyline for the “Sands of Time” prince.
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords PSP
- Rock Band 360 Proved where all the talent really lay in the Guitar Hero franchise. Hint: It was with Harmonix, not Activision
- Rock Band 2 360
- Shadow Complex XBLA Best Metroidvania style title since the vaunted Super Metroid
- Spore PC Wil Wright makes a fun experiement with no staying power
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 360 Good, clean, overamped Jedi fun
- StarCraft PC
- StarCraft: Brood War PC
- StarCraft 2 PC
- Super Street Fighter IV 360
- The Beatles: Rock Band 360
- Undertow XBLA Proving that Nolan North will take any work offered to him at any time for any price
- Viva Piñata 360 Inasmuch as this game can be beaten
- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos PC
- Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne PC