So. Lungfishopolis.com is two years old today. Woo. Yes, I hear the crickets. I understand that approximately three point five people visit this site every month, and it was never intended as anything other than a hobby. It was fun designing the site’s layout and all the random header and footer sidebar images. I’ve also […]

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10- Resident Evil 4 (Capcom, Playstation 2, 2005) It pains me that I’ve placed another Resident Evil game higher than my beloved Resident Evil 2, and it further pains me that it really isn’t a survival horror game. But survival horror as a genre seems to be taking a backseat nowadays, and we’re left with […]

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13- Shadow of the Colossus (Team Ico, Playstation 2, 2005) When I think of the bygone era of the Playstation 2 and all the amazing games it had to offer, Shadow of the Colossus is generally one of the first games to come to mind. Although the graphics are grainy by today’s standards, it still […]

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The closer I get to the top of my list, the more verbose I expect my text on each game to become. We’re closing on Lungfishopolis’s two year anniversary, and I can’t speak highly enough of each game listed here. 16- Okami (Clover Studio, Playstation 2, 2006) Okami is squarely within the genre carved out […]

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Sequels. They’ve been around for nearly a century. Thankfully, in the video game world, sequels more often than not end up better than the games before them. And while I’m very much looking forward to Portal 2, Dragon Age 2, and most of all Beyond Good and Evil 2, those sequels have already been announced. […]

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Now we’re into the home stretch. We started at top fifty, but now we’re into the top twenty: my favorite games of all time. Encouragingly, three games in this list didn’t yet exist when I wrote up my original list back in 2007. 20- Ultima V (Origin, Commodore 64, 1988) I’m a great lover of […]

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25- Braid (Jonathan Blow, PC, 2009) Braid took the gaming world by storm primarily because of its creativity. The game originally showed up on XBox Live Arcade in 2008, but I didn’t play it until later, when it became available on Steam. Although it’s an excellent 2D sidescroller in its own right, Braid’s greatest achievement […]

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My wife and I have always played video games together. Back when we were first dating, she bought a gaming PC and left it over my house so that she could come over and play Neverwinter Nights and Baldur’s Gate with me. Later, we played Dungeon Siege, Champions of Norrath and Gauntlet Legends together. These […]

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This week is all about the PC games. In looking over things, just about half the games on my top 50 list are PC games. As an aside, twenty-two of them have zombies in them. List analytics aside, let’s look at the next five games. 30 – Dungeon Keeper (Bullfrog Productions, Windows, 1997) Despite being […]

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Insanely ridiculous. That’s how I’d describe No More Heroes. And I love it. I was a fan of the first game, but it had issues. In the sequel, many of those issues have been fixed. And as far as over-the-top goes, they’ve outdone themselves. It’s like the boss battle in the first game in which […]

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