What are your top 5 games of all time?

Video games.

1. Galactic civilizations 2 and 3

2. Fantasy star 3 or 4

3. Civilization 4

4. Call to power

5. Tetris

Board games

1. Chess

2. Dungeon and Dragons

3. Monopoly

4.. Life

5. Risk

1. Mass Effect

2. Deus Ex

3. Fallout

4. Civilization

5. Star Control 2 / Heroes of Might & Magic 2 / Hearthstone

There are only a handful of computer games that I've replayed (or in the case of PS:T, reread the source material)...

In no order...

X-Com 1 and 2

Master of Orion 1 and 2

Master of Magic

Planescape: Torment

Star Control / Ur-Quan Masters SuperMelee

Ohh... I played Master of Magic way back when, that was a really great game.

Most people don't know this, but Master of Orion is an unlicensed Star Fleet Universe computer game.  It is the combination of Steve Cole's Star Fleet Universe (Star Fleet Battles and Federation & Empire) into a single game, within the framework of a Civilization like game.  It's a long story how that happened, but Master of Orion is essentially a Star Fleet Universe game that was made with no licensing or permission from ADB/TFG.  How and why that happened is too long of a story to tell here.

video games

1)Star Control 2

2)Tecmo Bowl

3)Gain Ground

4)Command & Conquer (ps1 addition)

5)Street Fighter

I'm and old fogie, but this is my list. At least the ones I never got bored of playing.

Board games

Monopoly

Axis and Allies

Strategoo It wont let me spell it right. Lol...always replaces the o with a "y". Lol

Chess

Warlords: Battlecry series

Counter-strike, pre beta 6

Homeworld

Sins of a Solar Empire

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

I mainlined Counter-strike for about 17 hours a day at one point, but they kept trashing the system with random spray and made only a couple guns actually accurate even with the first shot.  Sins would be the second most played, but only because I sank a few thousand hours into modding it.  The top of my list is actually third most played, even between all three parts, but only for lack of a player base.

The WBC series is some epic stuff for a friendly multi-player game, 2 being the best.  It's only good for friendly multi-player though.  If you're going to be cutthroat and abuse the poor balance(17 unique sides with persistent RPG heroes on a small budget is guaranteed to have horrifying balance problems) and mechanical exploits, you wont get anywhere near the enjoyment from the game.  It's far and away the greatest RTS out there in the right environment, the sheer variation gives it more replay than even heavily modded games like Sins can afford.

I'd say:

1) Star Control II

2) The Fallouts (1,2,3,NV,4)

3) Tie between Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind and

3) Mount and Blade: Warband (single player only)

4) Any Infinity Engine RPG (Baldur's Gates, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment)

5) Multiple Open World Games (only the good ones) like Dying Light, Shadow of Mordor, etc. (not Assassin's Creed or the Arkham games)

6) Space Pirates and Zombies!

7) Civilization 2, 3, 4 and 5 and Alpha Centauri (too bad Beyond Earth was garbage)

8) Oh my God, I'm missing so many and I've already listed like 20... ummm...

9) The old HOMM games

10) Deus Ex 1 - everything after that has been a drag

11) Still waiting for a good Warhammer 40k game, which will go here *crosses fingers*

12) Wait, how many were we supposed to list?!

1) Star Control 2

2) Shattered Galaxy

3) Civilization Series

4) X-com Series

5) C&C Red Alert / Lineage 2 / MoO2

Console Games

1. Final Fantasy Tactics

2. Mike Tyson's Punch Out

3. Ico

4. Red Dead Redemption

5. Intelligent Qube

PC Games

1. MechCommander

2. Age of Empires II

3. Star Control II

4. MechWarrior II

5. Medieval: Total War

Video games:

1) Gal Civ III and II

2) Call to Power

3) Everquest

4) Xcom

5) Half Life 

Board games:

Seriously there is only one game, the best game of all time:

Advanced Squad Leader...nothing compares. (nearly $2,000 in modules, equipment and maps) 

You are a 1%er of hardcore gaming.  Only two games qualify you for that, Star Fleet Battles and Advanced Squad Leader:-)

I know you said five, but dang it I'm going to do ten!

(in no particular order)

1. Star Control II/The Ur-Quan Masters - 1993

2. X-COM: UFO Defense (especially with OpenXcom mods on top of it!) - 1994

3. X-COM: Apocalypse - 1997

4. Civilization V - 2011?

5. Zork I - 1983

6. Wargame: European Escalation - 2013

7. Undertale - 2015

8. Space Engineers - 2013

9. Arma III - 2013

10. X-COM: Enemy Within w/ Long War mod - 2012

I am certain that I am forgetting some, but these are the ones I can remember.

1. Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters

2. Star Control II: Supermelee

3. Star Control II: Planet Lander

4. Star Control II: Find the Rainbow Planets

5. Star Control I  Master of Orion

Shouldn't Rainbow planet finder be your number 2? That was easily one of the most exciting moments of the game!

1. Star Control 2

2. Civilization

3. Heroes of Might & Magic 2

4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles

5. Neverwinter Nights

In no particular order:

X-Com

Master of Orion

Civilization 2

Star Control 2

City of Heroes

Serious contenders: SimCity 2000, Fallout 3/4, Baldur's Gate 1/2

In no order:

CaveStory

Starcontrol 2

Undertale

The Binding of Isaac

The Legend of Zelda original, and Majora's Mask

1.      M.U.L.E.

2.      Master of Orion 2

3.      UFO - Enemy Unknown

4.      World of Warcraft

5.      Civilization V

Other Favorites:

Eye of Beholder Series, Might and Magic Series, X, X2, Jumpman, Diablo 1-3, GalCiv3

In no particular order:

Video Games:

• Street Fighter 2
• Phantasy Star 2
• Neverwinter Nights (specifically the Avlis/CoPaP persistent worlds)
• QTF
• Diablo/SC
• GC2
• Sim City franchise

RL Games

• D&D
• D&D
• D&D
• Chess
• Risk
• Did I mention D&D?

I might edit this post later if I can think of anything else that was really influential, but I think that this pretty much nails it down...  More than anything, though - what I think that this post is getting at as to what my formative experiences were that defined how I view games and life today - I would have to say was simply being smart; being smart is the one thing that has paid dividends over and over in life and is the one thing that I wouldn't have been able to compensate for if this were not the case - choice in entertainment I think simply reflects this.  Not just for me, but probably everyone who is serious about quality games and reads forums such as this.. Life is just a game, a fucked up game, but a game nonetheless...

gal civ

civ

starcraft

star control

command & conquer

These games I still hold at my computer.

Starcontrol 2

Shadow of the Colossus

Mass Effect 1

Gothic 1, 2, & 3

Dark Souls

ARMA 3

Leaving out SC2, kind of a given.

Top 5 

1. Starflight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight

 - Size of the game just seemed huge at the time.  Spent a good bit of time going to every system, just to see what there was to find.  After the final, you could pretty much keep on going till you PC died.  Races seem'd Alien, and the mystery of how we (humans) got here was a gem to find.

2.  Herzog Zwei 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_Zwei

- The Grand dad of the RTS.  No base building, but all the fortifying and capturing you can have.  Stupidly fun in versus mode.  AI wasn't the best at that the time.

3. Ground Control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Control_(video_game)

- First RTS that felt immersive with a very good story.  Unit selection was balanced well, and just challenging enough to keep you intrested.

4. Mechwarrior 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MechWarrior_2:_31st_Century_Combat

 - Not the most realistic sim ever, but insanely fun to play.

5. Master of Orion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Orion

 - East way to kill hours upon hours being the first one to find orion and spread out then in, to get the biggest foothold you can.  

Runner's up.

Rise of Nations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_Nations

Spaz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pirates_and_Zombies

Homeworld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeworld

World in Conflict

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_in_Conflict

Adventure

1. Quest for Glory

2. Space Quest

3. Full Throttle

4. Grim Fandango

5. Beneath a Steel Sky

RTS

1. Command & Conquer (C&C was meant to be Dune 3)

2. Dune 2

3. Warzone 2100

4. Homeworld

5. Starcraft 2

Simulation/Builder

1. Reunion

2. Evil Genius

3. Sim City

4. Dungeon Keeper

5. XCom/Breach 2

RPG

1. Star Control 2

2. Freelancer

3. Out of this world

4. The Witcher

5. Mass Effect

FPS

1. Terminator Future shock

2. Deus-Ex

3. Half-Life

4. Call of Duty

5. Gears of War

Breach... Few people know that's where X-Com came from, most think X-Com was some totally original thing that came out of nowhere:-)

Star Control 2 (3DO version)

Serious Sam Series

C&C

Mass Effect 2

Diablo 2

Close Contenders…

Dragon Age: Origins

Fallout 3

Battlesport

Twisted (with a group of inebriated friends)

Streets of Rage

Gladius (xbox version)