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My top ten gaming franchise/series to date.

Now, I've been gaming for nearly 30years now and though I've had many memorable gaming experiences over 25yrs ago, I'm just not one to harp on days gone by with false delusions of games with past glory.

I however am not one to just pick the latest hype material either but rather I just enjoy what I enjoy and that's that. Here are my top 10 favorite gaming experiences in the 30years of my gaming.


Number 10
The Silent Hill series

This series for me has been my number one horror adventure game for over a decade. Silent Hill was probably the first time I had ever gotten legitly scared out my ass by any video game and Silent Hill 2 just ramped it way up later on. Though some have gripes of later installations, I however have really enjoyed this entire series.

However, with the new Home Coming installation I was rather disappointed cause though I enjoyed it a lot, I felt Current gen Silent Hill should have been way more "meaty" in over all quality. Here's to hoping the Hill can continued to be climbed instead of forgotten about and dropped off my top ten list.


Number 9
The Driver Series

I can't help be feel infuriatingly mad at Atari when I look at what they've done to this great franchise. For me, the game Driver was a heavy hitter entity on it's own and commanded respect from other top hits. Driver 1 was an incredible experience while Driver 2 just expanded on everything and brought a high level of potential hope to future renditions of the series. A level, however, that Atari miserably fell way low below.

In not recognizing the nature appeal and unique gameplay elements to the game, they went for cheap knock off thrill with some messed up GTA wannabe for the rest of the series and this really pisses my off to no end. There were so many great gaming qualities that this game was delivering back on thePS1 and it's unconscionable that Atari would dump all the greatness of this game and sell out to being just another GTA clone.

Driver's Director editing mode, where you can record your actions in the game and then edit them like a film director and replay the scenes like a real movies was, for me ground breaking and something I looked forward to improvement in later console generations but alas, Atari were too stupid to understand what to do with this thing that they actually removed this incredible feature. I'm hoping with all hope that the Driver series gets a worthy developer to give the fanbase what we've been awaiting for years, the real Driver 3.

Number 8
Gladius

All I can say to this title is OH MY GIDDY ARSE! Turn based strategy is my bread and butter genre; I eat that thing up like no other genre. However, with this game, I hadn't expected I'd been floored by it as I did. It's RPG like elements were a very welcome addition to the gameplay and it is the only TBS game I've ever sunk over 200 hrs of story mode campaigning. For me, it is the ultimate TBS game on the planet and though not a series, one can only hope that this great gem doesn't just end with this one game.

Number 7
The Hitman series

I was actually, ironically, turned on to this series around the time of the infamous DC Sniper saga a number of years ago. I walked in to get a rental and I saw this game that I'd seen for the PC many years previously but never got into and was now intrigued. WOW, what a game. It delivered way past any expectations I may have had and I had to go experience this game from the beginning of the series. Great to see it's still a great series and totally looking forward to this current gen rendition. Eidos, DON'T 'UCK THIS UP OR ELSE! *looks square at Kane 'n Lynch tapping toe furiously with arms folded*

Number 6
The SOCOM franchise

Gosh, not much to say at all to the greatness of this series. When you get tonnes of gamers world wide throwing thousands of hours into a tactical shooter like this game, that should be enough to tell you about it's greatness. Between it's SP campaign to it's renowned MP, the series has done the best job at relying the feel of Navy Seals Special Forces operations from both a stealth stand point with it's SP campaign to all out rock'em sock'em action to display that side of the work Navy Seals get into.

Hands down the most incredible strategy online shooter I've ever experienced in my life. It's nick name, SOCRACK, is well placed with this one.

Number 5
L.A.I.R

Yeah, we all know of the controvesy of this title and just a peek at any forum discussing this game is covered in wall to wall insults but for me, not only is it one of the best current gen games I've experienced on the PS3 so far (second only to MGS4) it has also become my top 5 favourite gaming experiences of all time.

Though not a series... yet, my fingers are firmly crossed on this title cause for me to believe such an incredible game with equally incredible gameplay can be lost just cause of a bunch of closed minded and sheep like gamers persuaded by cheap viral marketing tactics & campaigns, is unacceptable to me. You dont' like lair? great for you, just quit trying to dictate MY gaming experiences. Here's to a Lair II down the road - HERE, HERE!

Number 4
Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver Series

To date, no game has surpassed the theatrical performance of this series. Save for the likes of Heavenly Sword (which is the closest to toping this game in this field) and the well renowed God of War series, you'll be hard pressed to match the quality of thearical entertainment which this game oozes and for which was the primary reason I got so endeared to the series.

The blend of action and puzzle solving with a deep involving  story line is too much for me to resist. Yet another incredible game you feel sick to think there might never been another rendition of it. For the love of all things good in gaming, surely this can't be the case for this great series.

Number 3
God Of War Franchise

Ok, I'm sure I don't even have to say much about this game. One of the most thoroughly satisfying gaming experiences I've ever had in all my years of gaming. A supreme master piece of enormous proportions and indeed a series that I'm baffled hasn't made it to Broadway yet. It would be killer if it did.


Number 2
Killzone & Half Life series

I don't know what it is about the Half Life series that just commands interest. Could it be the fact that I feel so happy that I actually have to think while playing a FPS? It being known as a thinking man's FPS is well noted but I think the reason I've been so smitten by this series is the way Valve have masterfully found a way to connect the player with all the characters in the game. They have this ingenious way of making you care - INGENIOUS! I say.

Then there's this other game called Killzone. Very different from Half Life but I believe what got me about the series was the fact that it, consciously or not, pulled of what Valve had done with the Half Life series - it made me care. Care about the Characters, their backgrounds, the Killzone universe, everything. Though not an optimized game, technically speaking, it made me see the huge potential in this game's universe down the line and I'm so ecstatically happy when I now see current gen renditions in Killzone Liberation & the beast it's self - Killzone II.

THIS is what happens when games aren't dictated and manipulated into the gaming community's gaming experiences; we get to experience bigger and better gaming. I shutter to think what would have happened to this great series had the naysayers had their way and totally squashed it's potential or had gamers not gone out and supported it cause of the negativity surrounding it back in the day. No Killzone II? Say it can't ever be so.. SAY IT!

Yes, two games I love so dearly and equally they just have to share this number 2 spot for my second best gaming experiences of all time.

Number 1
Metal Gear Solid Franchise

Never has and video game put me through the kind of emotional roller coaster this game has in all it's series; with MGS4 totally blasting me with emotional turmoil, from extreme joy to extreme anticipation to low bouts of sadness and everything in between.

The emotions I've gone through with this game's series are on the same level as I've had viewing great movies that have also had this effect on me like Brave Heart, Cool Hand Luke, Saving Private Ryan etc and even surpassed them in many regards for me.

The metal gear solid series for me is the poster child for what video gaming is about and where I think it should head towards. A game that deals with real human issues and displays such intellectual prowess but through it all, never forgets that it is, after all, still just a video game.

Hands down THE ULTIMATE GAMING EXPERIENCE OF MY ENTIRE GAMING LIFE.









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Gang of Dragon Studio Reportedly Removes YouTube Channel Amid Funding Uncertainty

Nagoshi Studio’s YouTube channel with the Gang of Dragon trailers appears to have been removed following reports that NetEase will stop funding.

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We Are Xbox

Dear team,

Xbox has always been different.

We started with a simple idea. Games should bring people together through shared experiences. That led to the first Xbox in 2001, Xbox Live in 2002, and new ways to connect, from friends lists and achievements to parties and play across devices. Today, Xbox reaches over 500 million players around the world, with some of the most important franchises in entertainment.

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Itveds12h ago

re-evaluating exclusivity 💀

PS players will need to go back to pretending to dislike Xbox games

pwnmaster300012h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Or meaning since it’s doing so good they might just do everything day 1.

They didnt say re-evaluating their multiplatform approach.
🤣🤣🤣 Xbox is so dead. I know you scared🤣🫵ӿ 97;

12h ago
Eonjay8h ago

Even when the topic is strictly Xbox he can't stop talking about PlayStation. Xbox has basically become the hate of PlayStation... and not much else.

peppeaccardo1h ago

This whole mess is the result of bad decisions and strategy from those who have "the vision" inside the company.

pwnmaster300012h ago

Hurt over video games 🤣🤣

Lmao we all grew and got jobs but apparently you stayed home broke 🤣🤣.
Man I love loyal dogs like you. MS kicked Spit and slapped you around but you still come back on all 4s.

Good little boy 🤣🤣

11h ago
GhostScholar10h ago

My only question is what games are PlayStation gamers gonna play now? They don’t really come out with new games anymore. I’m looking forward to wolverine, but after that then what?

-Foxtrot11h ago

Lmao

There’s no way after everything it’s going back, the damage is done

What you are seeing now is the new management telling what the core fanbase (aka…you) want to hear so they are pumped full of hope and are more likely to invest in the next Xbox console

When Phil took over after the awful Xbox One reveal he did the same thing, he told people what they wanted to hear for damage control.

It’s crazy people are getting suckered into this again.

GhostScholar10h ago

I mean I always buy both systems, so none of this affects me.

darthv723h ago

FWIW..... wasn't the new management speaking to the other staff.... not so much us (regular folk)?

CrashMania11h ago

And you'll now go back to again thinking exclusives suddenly matter, that multiplatform is no longer the future, or that revenue from multiplatforms doesn't matter, like all you flop flopping xbox grifters lol.

The whole post just sounds like the previous phil corpo slop talk to me, whole thing reads like a nothing burger lol.

Jin_Sakai10h ago

“re-evaluating exclusivity”

She also said this.

“The model that got us here won’t be the one that takes us forward.”

Profchaos7h ago

I don't know if they have a model anymore it's flipped so many times since the xbox one reveal

TriniOutsider9h ago

It must be miserable being someone like you.

Aloymetal9h ago

There's a bunch just like him but that's what happens when some rely on dreams, hope and wishful thinking. lol

isarai_lee9h ago

"pretending"? Bro gears hasnt broke 1mil on ps5, and starfield hasn't passed 200k, Hellblade 2 was even stated to be a financial disappointment in sales on its own console, let alone ps5. Im not saying people don't like them, but they certainly aren't setting the community on fire, Forza may be different tho

Neonridr8h ago

Forza broke 5 million on PlayStation. So yes. And there's a new one coming soon.

badz14937m ago

if only they make a real physical version of those games, especially Gears, it would have sold more on PS5

Aloymetal9h ago

Xbawx is ''re-evaluating exclusivity''... Translation: After throwing all sort of crap to the wall to see if something sticks but clearly nothing worked, we, including our lord ''in charge'' Phil came to the conclusion that exclusives indeed do matter so please forget if we ever said otherwise.
Yup, I feel it in my gut, next gen belongs to xbox, PS6 is cooked...

9h ago
1Victor8h ago

Someone can’t sleep after those 5 million forza games PURCHASED by PlayStation owners🤣 🧌 💥

7h ago
Extermin8or3_6h ago

Well with the decreased price of gamespass even with cod off it there is no way it is profitable given the cost of making their 1st party games (not if you actually include that cost in gamespass costs which they typically dont but should) they will just make a loss without the sales on

Xx_Pistol_xX4h ago

They don't hate the games. They hate the box.

DazaMc2h ago

Forza just sold five million copies on PS5, they have a taste for it now.

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Outside_ofthe_Box12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

If they go back to exclusive games it at least shows that they are finally getting it. They would be turning down immediate money for something that will potentially workout in the long term.

Only issue is they've already opened Pandora's box. A lot of their base has moved to PC or jumped to PS. So will be a long road to get back on track.

We have been saying this from day one exclusives are a must if you are going to be selling hardware look at Nintendo and Sony before Jim Ryan. That's the proven formula. You had some that were deluded and blinded by loyalty accepting that multiplat was the future and that MS was merely getting ahead of where the industry was headed, but at least they can finally see the light and agree with what everyone has been saying for a decade+

pwnmaster300011h ago

True, blame it on the rabid fanboys. MS can do no wrong and spinner this multiplatform move. While the actual fans moved on.

I feel like with the new Xbox coming they are hoping to bring back those old fans and then if it goes well. Bring back exclusives.

If the new console is performing like series x and one. Naw they staying multiplatform.

darthv723h ago

Actual fans dont move on... they can add to their hobby while waiting for the next new release. If you believe what you typed then I guess PS fans moved on too.... you know, since its been a Sahara for 1st party games this gen.

Itveds11h ago

Gonna be a funny world where Xbox games are exclusive and Sony games are not lol

Outside_ofthe_Box10h ago(Edited 9h ago)

Funny world where Sony is pro consumer and Xbox is not? At least according to what you loyalists have been saying all this time 🤭

VenomUK9h ago

@itveds For how many years have you been doing this sad stuff? For how many years have you been creating fake accounts to troll? For how many years have you always been cl vnn

fr0sty7h ago

Pathetic incels with nothing better to do than argue over a box... Because they don't have any good games to play on theirs, obviously. If your precious box is so special, why don't you shut the fuck up and go play it?

Elda1h ago

Sony exclusives will always be better than anything XB puts out.

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CrashMania11h ago

I think it's too late, xbox sales were diving even before ABK, they got even worse since then even long before the full multiplatform push. I'd be surprised if they even went back to timed exclusivity at this point, Helix is basically a PC and is going to be expensive, they already struggle to sell cheaper xbox consoles, it will be low volume and they'll have a very small 'console' base to sell to, which has already been conditioned to just play via gamepass anyway.

Neonridr8h ago

I don't see them removing PC from the equation. Considering MS has a heavy enough investment in the PC market, it would be foolish to abandon them. I could see them taking away games from PlayStation or ensuring they are timed exclusives at the very least. Say what you will but if Call of Duty ends up becoming a timed exclusive to Xbox machines, that would hurt PlayStation, don't pretend like those games don't sell millions.

Outside_ofthe_Box5h ago

They would lose out on a lot of CoD sales tho. Doesn't PS make up most of the sales?

Pyrofire956h ago

Their lifeline of solely the Xbox consoles is dry. Good-Great games on a 1st party scale can't be made at a loss so willingly - sent to the Xbox to only sell limited copies.
They invested billions scooping up studios and need to start making returns.
Sucks that nearly every company is publicly traded and have to be so shareholder biased but that's how it is.
Their words are strong but it'll take time to see what their actions accomplish. Lowering the cost of Game Pass and taking CoD off of it was a good clear start.

darthv723h ago

More like, allot of their base just played game pass. So now they need to encourage them to start buying again.

--Onilink--48m ago

What exactly is the long term goal with exclusives though?

Because for the most part, the hardware side of things has never been the most profitable, even sometimes being subsidized for a period before breaking even. And that’s before the hardware component nightmare we currently live in.

The whole point of exclusives was to get more people to buy your console in order to have a bigger install base, which meant even bigger software sales.

But if their ports to PS5 are selling (for the most part it seems) quite well, then other than negating the cut Sony takes there, unless you are REALLY increasing your software sales on your own console, it probably doesn’t make that much of a difference?

Honestly I don’t even understand Sony’s decision to scale back on it for PC unless they weren’t even recouping the port expenses. They released ports when the hardware sales never really dropped, and now that all consoles will undoubtedly take a noticeable drop in sales due to the ridiculous prices, that’s when they decide they don’t want to sell to a larger install base to more easily recoup dev costs… it’s just weird

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maximusprime_11h ago

Despite all of that, it's clear that Microsoft's Xbox division is broken beyond repair.

11h ago
BeHunted9h ago

PlayStation is currently draining money on flop after flop. It's Sony that needs to re-evaluate their strategy

9h ago
CrashMania7h ago(Edited 6h ago)

Wonder how much money was lost on perfect dark, hellbalde 2, 300 million lost revenue
by putting cod on gamepass. The recent Jason schrier news that Xbox has cancelled dozens of projects, spent 70 billion just to see Xbox sales further collapse and gamepass see little growth.

The fact is this has been PlayStation's most profitable generation and they are making loads of money and selling plenty of consoles and games. While MS won't give you any sales figures or profit numbers for Xbox, says it all really.

shadowT11h ago

"Our presence on PC isn’t strong enough."

Fishy Fingers10h ago

It isnt. But I dont think they mean in 'games', rather, footprint.

They own the OS but as far as gaming is concerned, Steam dominate. I imagine the VAST majority of people who use the Xbox app/launcher are PC gamepass subs. No ones buying their 3rd party PC games through Xbox PC.

badz14933m ago

and many gamers prefer SteamOS for gaming over Windows too. If only Valve would be more uncompromising to the anti-cheat makers that locked out non-windows players, more pc gamers would have moved onto SteamOS by now and not looking back to Windows. overall, Win11 is a terrible, bloated, unoptimized OS which is not what many people want

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Marathon Was One Of The Best-Selling Games In March 2026

Insider Gaming writes: "Marathon was one of the best-selling video games in March 2026 in the United States. On Wednesday, Circna released the best-selling games of the month, and it featured six new releases along with two games returning to the top 20 after previously falling out."

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92nar1d 15h ago (Edited 1d 15h ago )

Is it April fools day again?

The game is dead.

EDIT: the numbers are fudged. “digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox weren’t included in the data”

italiangamer1d 14h ago

🖕🖕🖕 29313;🤡🤡

92nar1d 12h ago

How’s concord 2, sorry I mean marathon doing? 🤣🤣

Neonridr18h ago

well it's not on Switch / Switch 2.. so their number would be zero.

The game had a decent launch however the userbase numbers are dwindling on Steam.

1Victor18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

“ Is it April fools day again?

The game is dead.

EDIT: the numbers are fudged. “digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox weren’t included in the data”

Does it hurt you to hear a SONY game was BEST selling ?
You gotta let go of those OBCURED feelings 🤷🏿

Neonridr18h ago

I mean the only reason MLB was the best selling title was because it was multi-platform. Likewise with Marathon. Will ring true for MS games. Only Nintendo titles are truly flexing their muscles when they chart as they are only to be found there.

S2Killinit7h ago

So that means we are going to act like it wasn’t best selling?

ChunkyMonk6h ago

It's kinda funny how this Obscure guy lives rent-free in your head. lol

Does Phil also live there?

1Victor5h ago

It's kinda funny how this Obscure guy lives rent-free in your head. lol

Does Phil also live there?
I’m sorry did you wrote something smart ?
Or are you trying to to be funny because you failed at both
Now kid run to mommy legs the grown ups are talking.
Don’t bother writing anything I will not respond to a bratty child like you

Outside_ofthe_Box17h ago

Can't wait to see how this is spun negatively. 😜

-Foxtrot11h ago

Yeah sure, yet the player count is no where near what they want for a AAA game with so much money behind it

Why people are trying to spin this game like it’s done overly amazing is baffling to me.

It won’t even be a blip on peoples radars by the end of the year .

S2Killinit7h ago

I really doubt that. I see it getting more and more traction.

ChunkyMonk6h ago

You must me typically wrong cuz those Steam chart numbers (AKA where the game sold the MOST) is less than what Hunt has, and Hunt didn't cost $500 million to make lol

Soy8h ago

So........doing better than most expected, but not enough to make back what it cost.

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