and to comment on some previously mentioned ones
-Bioshock. Great choice. Tons of backtracking to make a world seem bigger. 7/10 game at best.
-FF9 is pretty well liked among the entire FF community. Its not just here. B8 probably has a few more people putting it closer to the top FFs, but not too many online communities that ive posted on hate FF9.
-SMRPG gets maybe a bit more love than it should, but the game is very well liked mainly because:
1) Its the first RPG for many gamers born in the late 80s/early 90s, and these gamers are the young adults in the gaming spotlight now (especially on internet message boards)
2) its a really good starter RPG due to its relative ease, simplistic menus and equipment structure. While catering to more hardcore jrpg types with quite a bit of hidden items and minigames (get a super jacket people cmon!)
EDIT: Dota is also extremely overrated. It ruined the Warcraft 3 custom map community. War 3 used to have so many fun custom maps to supplement a main game that was good, but inferior to starcraft.
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(2:50:41 AM) Andrew Gripshover: and i've kind of accepted that pittsburgh is superior to my city