What's The BEST video game you've ever played?

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bioshock 2 has an atmosphere very few games i have played can stand up to.

Would be cool to have an edit option on my post(s), but anyway...

I realized I haven't given any honorable mentions yet, so even though I still think Super Mario World is hands down my favorite, here are a "few" others, in no particular order...

Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3 (NES, SNES [All-Stars 2 and 3 only, didn't care for some of the changes they did to the game mechanics in SMB1 for the All-Stars remake])
Tetris 1 and 2 (NES)
Minecraft (We all knew it would eventually end up being mentioned)
Portal 1 and 2
RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2
Planet Coaster (I have the Alpha version, and cannot wait for the full game to be released!
The Sims 2 and 3 (4 gets a semi-honorable mention. If they kept the open world of TS3, it would get a full mention.)
You Don't Know Jack! (Original PC series. Hated the remake in the early 2010's.)
Legend of Zelda (original, Wind Waker, A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Zelda II [it was a bit different, and got a bit of backlash from Zelda fans, but I like it myself)
Wolfenstein 3D
Doom (original series)
Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, 3, Sonic & Knuckles
Faxanadu (NES)
Adventures of Lolo 1, 2, 3 (NES)
Maniac Mansion (NES)
Paper Mario 1, 2
Super Mario Kart (Mario Kart 64 goes here as well)
Cities: Skylines

^ you can only edit for about the first two hours after original post submission, i think.

Earthbound, Pokemon(can't pick one), Zelda Twilight Princess, Final Fantasy VII and VII, and Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door. I think I have some other favourite games but those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

^Nice! We like similar games! I wish I could play Earthbound, but I have neither an SNES nor a WIIU. Do you have a favourite part in FFVII?

Magic Rush: Heroes is the first game I've played that allows good communication and global multiplayer combat while still retaining endless and varied character development. If you're not in it, try it.

Mirror's Edge. Besides the absolutely fantastic gameplay i find the aesthetic style of the game extremely comforting and beautiful.

deus ex original.
empire earth 2
age of empires 2
gta v
farcry 3 then 4, but primal is a disappointing release.
cities skylines.
flight simulator x.
half life 2.
farming simulator 2015.
space orbiter.
red alert kane series (not the original one).
command and conquer generals.
command and conquer "dawn of the modern world"

etc etc........

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver



One of the best written games of all time. And acted brilliantly as well with the characters doing a derivative of Iambic Pentameter.

It's a metroidvania inspired 3D platformer with a dark, gothic atmosphere.

The plot and dialouge was written by Amy Henning who later went on to do the first 3 Uncharted games.

It concerns Raziel, a vampire. First born childe of Kain. Vampires have taken over the world and subjugated the humans for millenia. The world is doomed and beyond saving. Raziel is ordered killed by Kain and betrayed by his vampire bretheren. He gets thrown into the lake of the dead to burn for eternity. He comes back as a soul devouring wraith to exact revenge.

You can get it for PS1 and PC or you can get the PS1 version on PS3 through PSN

That's hard, but I'm going to have to go with Legend of Zelda Wind Waker.

Ultima IV on a Commodore 64.
I think I was about 9 years old or thereabouts, I'd play it with my brother after school, great times.

^^My video gaming friend would agree with you, but he thinks that Ocarina of Time is the best [except for Navi, of course...]

i don't get all the unwarranted hate for n64 navi. granted, she is on the more obtrusive side compared to tatl's gentle ringing and KORL's nudging, but she doesn't get in the way of actual teleplay, which can't be said for fi (who is little more than a spit in the face), or some other game companions.

i say n64 navi, because they actually made her worse in the 3ds version, popping out after playing for a while to tell you to put the game down and go outside, or something.

ideally video games shouldn't tell me to get fresh air. i have parents for that.

I have to say Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii, best $72 I ever spent, felt it was worth every cent within 10 hours of play. Beat the story once and I'm still not even close to knowing a quarter of the intricacies of the game, even if my party was all lvl 99 at the time i beat it. Never have i played a game so well crafted and so huge that after 100 hours i still easily get lost going through some of the first zones, then it's sequel came and i felt the same all over again. Though the biggest surprise about Xenoblade Chronicles were the graphics they achieved on the standard Wii, most of my friends thought it was on an XBox 360 or Playstation 3.

Mass Effect 2

To name a few:

BattleBlock Theater
Crash Bandicoot 2
DOOM (2016)
Ori and the Blind Forest
Trine
Xenogears