 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Top 5 Friday, the show where I list my own subjective opinion, my own Top 5 of any given media. Today, we are talking about my Top 5 favorite video games. But first, a word from a special guest. Hi guys, JB Taylor here. I'll throw up on the plug. We're talking video games. Plastic video games. We can go at this for days. I mean, you got Mario Kart, GoldenEye, 007, Frogger. I mean, Super Mario Bros. games are there. Tons. You got loads of games. I've been playing since Nintendo, when you had to blow on it, put it back. Sometimes you had like the balance of book on the game to make sure it worked. A lot of the games didn't have save features for the longest time, so you had to write that out. This was tough, but in the end, what game did I choose? I chose Punch Out. It came out in 1984. You play as this little itty-bitty guy called Little Mac. You have to climb the rank of the boxing world. You have to go up against these increasingly unique boxers. You can hit with the left. You can hit with the right. You can duck, and you can dodge to left, dodge to right. This is Nintendo in the late 80s and early 90s, so it wasn't super fancy. Each opponent, they had their own little visual tail. You had to pay attention. Sometimes it'd be like an eye twitch or like a little ruby with blink. You had to pay attention, and when that tail comes, they're going to hit. You can dodge it. You can punch deceptively difficult, and it's kind of fun. Even today, you can get it with the switch. I'm not sure about the wheat, but you can get it today and you can play it today, and it's still kind of fun. It holds up. This came out in 1994. It still holds up. So yeah, punch out. It's a classic. It never, never, ever gets old. Peace. Number five. At number five, we have PsyOps. It's an old PlayStation 2 game. I wish they would remake it. I wish I could get it again. I don't have a PlayStation 2. Unfortunately, my broke right around the time the PlayStation 3 came out, so I just upgraded. I still have the disc, but I don't have the capability to play it. I'm not sure if the PS5 has backwards compatibility with PS2 games. I'm not sure. I don't have a PS5 like many of us just because we can't get our hands on it. I think I'm the only YouTuber who wants one who hasn't gotten one. Just kidding. But anyway, so PsyOps is a game where you're part of a government agency that's working in psychic operations, PsyOps. Anyways, but as you go through the game, you gain more and more powers. I almost put control. It's a newer game, relatively new, last five years anyways. I almost put control here, but I do like PsyOps more. Control kind of feels like a spiritual successor to PsyOps, especially with the whole secret government agency thing. But you're pretty much stuck in certain places in control. And in PsyOps, you go damn near everywhere. I remember there's one point in time where you go to, I think it's either an Incan or Mayan temple. It's just utterly awesome. Now, I love control. I love it a lot. I have not beat it yet. I'm stuck on that Cyclops dude. The second time, I think you fight the thing three or four times from what I understand, but I'm stuck on that. Also, I'm not, I'm somewhere in between casual and hardcore gamer. I like hard games like Dark Souls. I'm not very good at them, but I like failing and learning from my mistakes. So it's a game that I really, really enjoy. PsyOps, I just, I wish it was remade. I remember loving the story. I remember loving everything about the game. And anytime I go through all of my old games, I'm like, man, I really want to play this again. So yeah, number five is PsyOps. Number four. At number four, we have Metal Gear Solid 4. I was working at a restaurant. I was a general manager at this restaurant. While, while this, when this game came out, I remember spending six to eight hours every single night after work and just crashing because I was getting no sleep whatsoever when this game came out, especially because there is one cinematic, I believe it's the ending cinematic of the game that's almost, it's over an hour long. I think it's 64 minutes, maybe 74 minutes, but one of the, one of those, and all of those, it's one of those games that you play, I feel that you play specifically just to get to the next cut scene. The game plays fantastic also, but I just, I wanted to get to the story. And I love a good convoluted story. And good Lord are, are the, Kojima, Kojima writes a, he can't write a normal story. Just like he can't write a normal villain. And I love that about him. I didn't care too much for the post, postal simulator. He released what was a Death Stranding. I didn't care too much for that, but I did watch the boss fights. Those were awesome. I wish I would have gotten to one of them before I tossed the game out the window. Not literally. Anyways, so Metal Gear Solid 4, that game just kept escalating, kept getting better. Every single boss was something special. I almost put number one on here because it's so iconic, but I think four is where it's at. And I have yet to beat five. I don't know what it is about that one. I think because I was kind of spoiled just reading articles about Kojima leaving, who was it, Konami? I think it was. Him leaving that and going and doing his own thing. And there was either rumor or talk about how the game didn't actually end. It was supposed to have DLC that showed the ending. And instead, they did Metal Gear Solid Survivor or Survivor, whatever, which was like a zombie apocalypse kind of thing. Anyways, but if you know for sure whether or not the game has an ending, don't worry about spoiling me because like I said, I already kind of did get spoiled. Leave a comment down there in the doobly-doo if the game is worth finishing. Number three. Okay, so at number three, we are talking about Red Dead Redemption 2. I spent way too much time on this game. I still haven't found all the side quests. I still haven't found all the KKK members. I still haven't completed all that. And I spent at least 100 hours inside this game just running around on a horse. When I was playing it, I called it Grand Theft Western, whatever. Anyways, this game had fantastic characters, fantastic storyline. The ending was superb. I really, really liked how you switch characters at that point. And then it leads up to the events of Red Dead Redemption 1, which is confusing as hell. Because also you have Red Dead Revolver, which released way back for I think either the Xbox or the Xbox 360. I can't remember. Leave your comments down there in the doobly-doo and let me know. But with this one, I felt like I was in the Old West. And it was a lot of fun. The horse riding was a highlight. I just get on my horse and just ride and ride and ride. And the only side quest that I did complete in full was getting all of the rare animals. That was a hell of a lot of fun. But I did that early on in the game. And I struggled because I wasn't strong enough to beat them. Didn't have strong enough weapons, all that stuff. But I like doing that in games because it gives me a challenge. And then the rest of the game is a piece of cake once you get all those side missions done. And with a game like Red Dead Redemption 2, you can go damn near anywhere and do anything you want as long as the area is open. So as soon as an area would open up, I would go searching the side quest so that the story missions were that much easier. So yeah, that's number three. Red Dead Redemption 2. Number two. Next up, we have at number two, Horizon Zero Dawn. Yes. Most of these games are newer games. Just because they are better than older games. Now I know that's going to peak some rage, not peak some rage. That's going to get some rage from some of you and I understand. I love Mario Brothers and I love all these other games. But I do like my fancy graphics and I do like my fancy storylines and all that stuff. Something that you can't really get anywhere else except, you know, you can get them earlier on. But I don't think they're as good. And yes, a game doesn't have to be beautiful to be fun. But I like it more. This is my own subjective opinion, like I say at the beginning of these videos. This is my subjective opinion. But following Aloy throughout this massive open world and leveling her up and just becoming super epic and finding the pieces that you need for the super suit, all that stuff. I haven't played the DLC. I plan to get to it before the next one comes out. But I remember so vividly these wonderful diverse characters all throughout the entire thing and the class structure was really cool too. The outcasts, you know, all the different tribes and everything. It was just a blast to play. And I love games that make you feel like a badass, hence my number one choice. Because I am not a badass. You know, I have a badass shirt. It's a little green meeper in a rainbow and it says you're next. I love it so much. Anyways, but I love games that make you feel like a badass. And this is one if you crank up the difficulty on this one, this is some of the most intense gameplay you will find. So yeah, number two is Horizon Zero Dawn. Number one. At number one, we have God of War, the PlayStation 4 reboot to the series. I do love all of the God of War games. I have not played the ones for the PSP or the Vita. I'm not sure. The kind of spin off side stuff that they did. I haven't played those because I can't find them for the PS4. And yes, most of these are Sony games, if not all of them because I am a Sony fanboy. But God of War is a very special game to me because it is about a father dealing with the fact that he might not be the best at being a father. He is certainly not the best choice to be a father. The only criticism I have about this game, and I hope that they do more with it later on, is I would love to see more of the mother, the wife, that character. I would love to see more about it. But they did a fantastic job talking, you know, giving her character development off screen. I'm just hoping for more later on in Ragnarok, the next one that's coming. This game I had, I had chills all throughout. They updated it perfectly. The controls were updated. I know it's like everybody jokes and says press X to win. But that's not the case. If you actually, you know, bump up the difficulty higher, you are going to have a difficult time. In fact, if you put the newest God of War on the hardest difficulty, I would put it up there with Dark Souls. And you have, especially when you're fighting the damn Valkyries. I didn't have any problems with any of the Valkyries until I went back through the game and I tried to finally defeat the Queen. I have still not defeated the Queen. I might do that on a stream one of these days. I really want to get back into it. But those Valkyries, well the Queen Valkyrie is the hardest one. But yeah, God of War, just a storyline. I loved Atreus' character development. How he was an angsty teenager at one point. He was not really a daddy's boy at one point, but he listened and paid attention. And then he got a little full of himself. It's just normal teenage shenanigans, normal teenage mindset. And I loved that they were able to fit that into the game. It made the game far more poignant and it gave the story more of a purpose than just, you know, Kratos running around killing everybody and screwing, you know, there were the sex mini-games in the original three, which were fun. I ain't gonna lie, they're fun. But this one, you know, I'm able, I was able to play, you know, with my kids in the room, especially my youngest, my son. And we would joke all the time, hey boy, and he would talk smack back. And he was just sitting there playing it. It was a very cinematic experience and I like cinematic experiences. That's probably why I like new games more than I like the old one. The old games felt more like a time killer, like casual, like Candy Crush kind of thing. I know, I'm pissing off a lot of people, I know, I apologize. But with these new games, it's like you're playing a movie. And I really dig that because I'm a huge movie buff. So yeah, number one is God of War. So that's been this week's top five Friday. I hope you enjoyed it. Leave your own favorite video games down there in the doobly doo. Let me know why you like them so much so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have an E, you have an U. This has been another top five Friday. 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