1 - The World Ends With You 2: Sengoku Era
2 - Vagrant Story 2
3 - Metroid Prime 4, by Bamco
4 - Persona 5 Portable, Switch edition (I'm slowly accepting that Persona 5 R is more than likely a PlayStation-only reboot like P3 FES)
5 - Let's Go Magikarp
1 BOTW with dlc
2 Smash ultimate with fighters pass
3 Splatoon 2 with Octo expansion
4 Kingdom battle with DK DLC
3 Super Mario oddyssey and still waiting for DLC 😉
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5) Splatoon 2 (with Octo Expansion)
4) Super Mario Odyssey
3) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
2) Bayonetta 2
1) Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (even by itself, with Torna it's even better)
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@Ralizah It might be a nice approach! However, I just like segmenting these lists by games that were originally released and I experienced on the system. Perhaps it is for simplicity's sake, but I also think I just want to give each system's own games a chance to shine. There are so many rereleases of older games on modern systems, it just feels wrong to let those games define a console for me. In no way am I saying those games shouldn't be on the system, but I put them soundly in a separate category.
@toiletduck There's a saying in photography tech circles - "The best camera is the one you have with you".
Your top game is the one you play the most. I can rave about Breath of the Wild ad infinitum, for instance, but FIFA18 has somehow had more of my time. Why is that?
PS. I haven't mentioned MK8D here because there's a silly reason why I haven't played that for ages which is nothing to do with the brilliance of the game itself.
@gcunit You're always free to have your own criteria, however, I am as well. I won't judge games that way because it puts multi-player games that I have played online for ages (Mario Kart 8/Deluxe) at a major advantage over single-player titles that I played through their story and moved on, and I personally don't think that's always justified.
Mario Kart 8/Deluxe may have way more hours than pretty much any other game I've played in recent years, but that doesn't mean that Mario Kart 8 would ever be ranked above Breath of the Wild for me. Playing through Breath of the Wild was something new and magical for me. Playing through Mario Kart 8 online is just silly fun for me. Mario Kart 8/Deluxe is indeed a very solid Mario Kart game which is why it is on my list, but to rank it above BoTW just because I put more hours into it makes absolutely no sense for me.
@gcunit I disagree. Some of the best games are short. Some games are more replayable than others. Granted, I probably wouldn't pump hundreds of hours into a game I hated, but otherwise total playtime is more down to the game design than anything.
Some of my favorite games of all time were once and done affairs.
@gcunit That's silly. As I said, some forms of media are just more conducive to rewatching/replaying/etc.
Certain films, for example, aren't particularly good, and don't make much of an impression, so they're a great thing to put on as a kind of 'background noise' while I'm cleaning or cooking or something. Some films aren't great, but they're that particular type of mediocre that makes them the equivalent of cinematic comfort food, so you end up watching them a lot.
Some of my all-time favorite films I've only seen once: the impression they made on me was so strong and enduring that I don't even feel the need to put them back on. Even the memory of them evokes strong emotions.
How much you engage with a piece of media has nothing to do with how much of an impact it has on you, or how much you enjoyed it, for that matter. You don't need to endlessly consume something to enjoy or appreciate it.
Think about the food you eat the most: would you call it your "favorite" food? Or would you grant that, for various reasons, that food happens to be more frequently consumed than other foods you like more?
Have you never had an experience you held off from re-experiencing because you wanted to hold on to the emotional memory of your initial engagement?
If you reduce your aesthetic standards down to what you engage with the most, then that is your right, and I'm not going to judge you for it, but it makes no sense to me whatsoever.
@gcunit I'm not even sure whether or not you're trolling right now, you make a lot less sense than I'm used too.
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We can all have opinions on what we think, objectively, the best Switch games are, but when asked for our personal 'top' Such games, to me that's asking for my most played.
A casual/multiplayer game might not win any critic awards, but if you're putting 2, 3, 5 or 10 times the amount of time into that casual game, at some point you gotta acknowledge that that casual game is better suited to you.
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@Ralizah Beautifully put. As you say, everyone has the right to judge games according to their own standards, but I can't base my opinions purely on the number of hours played.
On that note, I played through both Hollow Knight and Octopath Traveler from start to finish last year, more or less 100% completing both. Octopath took me roughly twice as long, 100+ hours compared with about 50+ hours for Hollow Knight. By the gcunit criterion, I must have therefore enjoyed it twice as much.
I didn't.
(I liked it a lot. But nowhere near as much as Hollow Knight.)
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