Now here's a hard list to make. Perhaps the first game ever that really grabbed me was Elite, a space trading sim for C64. I must've spent an entire summer trading between planets and shooting them space pirates. It probably wasn't until Civilization rolled out that I was that hooked to a game again. My next major experience was a game that still sits near the top of my most revered games' list: Xenogears. Deep and oh-so-confusing plot, great characters and excellent graphics (for the day)... I spent over 120 hours on my second play-through, turning over every stone. Oldschool Final Fantasy fans will no doubt curse my name after I nominate FFX as the best in the series and as my fourth choice (disclaimer: I have not yet played FFXII). Finally, as not to pile too much credit onto Xeno-series, I'll nominate as my fifth attention-grabber the recent Suikoden V.

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