-Half-Life 1, 2 and Episode 1 & 2. Half-Life is in a league of its own, and truly deserves first mention. I honestly can't do it justice here in a brief paragraph.
-Counter-Stike (all iterations across the generations). Somehow this incredibly competitive and addicting game has stood the test of time. The world could be about to end from nuclear war or a meteor impact and you would still have servers running some future version of this game on some server running some 24/7 Dust 2 map, right up until humanity's last moment.
-Golden Eye N64. That was a wonderful time to be a teenage kid with no responsibilities. If you didn't play and enjoy this game, it meant you were just a miserable person who couldn't enjoy even the simplest of pleasures. Fucking everyone was playing this game.
-Metal Gear Solid 1, 3, and 5. Sons of Liberty was ass, because of that twink faggot Raiden. Seriously, what the fuck was he even doing in that game? Cocksucking, male prostitute-looking character. Kill yourself, you fucking whiny, nasaly faggot. Made me question if Hideo Kojima is a closet fag. Guns of the Patriots was Hideo Kojima with his head too far up his own ass and breathing in nothing but his own methane releases. It felt like a fucking theatre play making commentary on human wars.
This game won a Guinness World Record for Longest Cutscene in a Video Game. There are over 8 - EIGHT - hours of cutscenes. There are more minutes of cutscenes in this game than there are in one season of some shows. The ending is 90 minutes. THAT IS AN ENTIRE FILM. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.
"Would you like some video game in your television program?"
Fuck you, Kojima. Fuck you very much.
-Mass Effect Trilogy. I don't think I can accurately convey how awesome of an experience this game series was - and still is. If there was a selective amnesia procedure, I'd zap my complete memory of this game just so I could experience it all over again for the first time. What a ride, holy fuck.
-Bioshock series (1, 2, Infinite). Bethesda tells amazing stories here using the single-player FPS genre. Not playing any one of these games is disservice to yourself.
-Dragon Age series. Origins is king, there is no contest. The sequel is a gaylord-infested anal cancer shitstorm. I played it only once and wanted to light the rental disc on fire. That's how much I fucking hated it. Inquisition is actually not bad. The fetch quests can eat a fat dick, though. I'm the motherfucking inquisitor, motherfucker. What the fuck makes you think collecting 10 fennec furs for this shitty fucking scout outpost is even important enough to bring to my attention when there is literally a giant fucking hole in the sky with DEMONS pouring out? You fucking imbecile.
-Deus Ex series. This series belongs in a league just below the Half-Life series. The orignal is OG and should be played at least once. The sequel is an embarrassment that really should not be mentioned. Better to cope by pretending it never existed. Human Revolution was a true masterpiece. This Dues Ex game is one you absolutely need to play. The game's score rivals that of Hans Zimmer's work. Just fucking listen to this:
View: https://youtu.be/Ns7fNPiNiNc
If you listen to this and don't feel a thing, you must have no soul and are probably a zombie.
Mankind Divided was an abortion of a game - literally aborted midway into the story to be sold off as DLC that never came because of MTX cancer that tanked the sales. Such a tragic end to the series. The Illuminati won again. Bastards.
-SW: KOTOR 1 & 2. The first game is your classic Lucasian Star Wars experience (eposides 4-6, not the cancer that was episodes 1-3). A fun experience set in a DnD RPG system. The second one is very, very good. It has a dark story and things are not what they seem. By God, is it ever amazing storytelling. The game is a buggy mess, though. Play it on PC and get the mods to fix the bugs (some are absurd, like rewinding a save and losing ten hours of gameplay....yeah).
-Splinter Cell series. I love stealth action, and so should you. This game series alone drilled and trained patience into me like Pai Mei from Kill Bill. This helped develop in me the patience of a saint in my adulthood. The first game is very good and also very punishing. The sequel is alright. The campaign feels like DLC of the original game, but the multiplayer introduced something revolutionary: asymmetrical action gameplay. Chaos Theory is king. It's just so fucking good. The game is the perfect installation in the series. There is literally nothing you can find wrong in it from the point of view of the franchise and the stealth action genre as a whole. I don't believe in perfect, but this game makes me question that belief. Double Agent is passable. It's the very definiton of mediocre. Conviction is Fast and Furious levels of retarded. You have to play 1 through 4 to understand. Blacklist is Conviction 2.0 but with a better plot and surprisingly good multiplayer. There's more to this series we will see in the future.