User blog comment:BlazikenGod/What is your favorite game of all time and why?/@comment-4060139-20130409052522

TL;DR: Either Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door, or Fallout 3/NV. Ahhhh, so many to choose from. Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door will always have a special place in my heart. Absolute favorite game from my childhood. Great storyline - I effing LOVED the way the story progressed and the towns you had to go through. Decent combat system - not much to say. Nothing special, though the audience part was a pretty neat touch. Lots of side quests - "badge hunting" (lol), tasks, secret areas, and other optional content. I'm a sucker for those kinds of things for some reason. Just beautiful. Hardly any replay value IIRC though. It was so good that I played through at least three times as a kid, but every playthrough seems like it'd be almost exactly the same.

And I'm addicted to Fallout 3 and Fallout: NV right now. I borrowed it from a friend a while after it came out, and finally bought the GOTY and Ultimate editions about a week ago. There's just so much content, so many areas to explore, it's amazing. I can't tell which one I like better. Fallout 3 has an overall lonelier, gloomier mood, which is great considering the premise of the series. And omg, "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire". The intro set SUCH an AMAZING mood for the game!! Fallout: NV, on the other hand, has much better combat mechanics, and a more interesting main quest/story IMO. The downside is that it doesn't quite feel like a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Which is good in its own right, but I just felt that the mood in 3 was much more powerful.

Others...Runescape's another childhood favorite, and I love the quest writing. TF2 has addicting gameplay. Counter-Strike's another childhood game, the fact that there's such a big modding community for it means there's never a lack of custom/mini games to play. Mass Effect had a great storyline, likeable characters, and a decent combat system.

And yikes this turned out to be a long post. In short, my all time favorite game would be either Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door, or Fallout 3/NV. Unless I'm forgetting about another game I absolutely loved.