http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2001_video_games

A great list of games.

1. Grand Theft Auto III
2. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
3. Final Fantasy X
4. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
5. Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons
6. Halo
7. Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
8. Ape Escape II
9. Max Payne
10. Advance Wars
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11. Pikmin
12. Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
13. Ikaruga
14. Devil May Cry
15. Conker's Bad Fur Day
16. Crazy Taxi 2
17. Sonic Adventure 2
18. Luigi's Mansion
19. Mario Kart: Super Circuit
20. Onimusha: Warlords
21. Golden Sun
22. Silent Hill 2
23. Dead or Alive 3
24. James Bond: Agent Under Fire
25. Capcom vs. SNK 2

I can see that I'm starting to get a bit more picky about which games I like as these threads continue. I saw some fairly popular and well renouned titles in that list that I'm not including. But anyways, out of that list:

1. Devil May Cry
2. Final Fantasy X
3. Legaia 2: Dual Saga
4. Golden Sun
5. Conker's Bad Fur Day
6. Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder
7. Zelda: Oracle of Ages
8. Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
9. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
10. Jak and Daxter
11. Luigi's Mansion
12. Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
13. Fatal Frame
14. Pocky & Rocky with Becky

Lot of 'honerable mentions' but cluck it...

Record of Lodoss War (DC)
Halo (Xbox)
Final Fantasy Chronicles (PS1)
*Serious Sam (Xbox)
Zelda: Ages (GBA)
Zelda: Seasons (GBA)
Fear Effect 2 (PS1)
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth (PS1)
Jade Cocoon 2 (PS2)
Burnout (Xbox)

* Serious Sam is being remade for XBLA this year!! Looking crazy forward to it!

This was such a huge year in gaming, I decided to go ahead and list the tops in order.

1. Super Smash Bros. Melee
2. Final Fantasy Chronicles
3. Final Fantasy X
4. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
5. Luigi's Mansion
6. Mario Party 3
7. Mario Kart: Super Curcuit
8. Animal Crossing
9. Wave Race: Blue Storm
10. Golden Sun
11. Wario Land 4
12. Rayman Advance (strangely missing from that list, but it was a GBA launch title)
13. Gran Turismo 3
14. Bejeweled
15. Baulder's Gate: Dark Alliance
16. Jak and Daxter
17. Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages


I also played Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 and Klonoa 2. but not enough to form a real opinion of.

The stinker of the year is Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage. Wait a sec, Aidyn Chronicles released in 2001? Shouldn't have THQ gotten the hang of making good games by then?

I have scoured all your lists for games I have played and would count (I really never have kept track of when any games I played had come out, to tell the truth), and I conclude thus:

1. Final Fantasy X
2. Halo
3. Grand Theft Auto III
4. Jak and Daxter
5. Devil May Cry

And thus my ignorance cocoons me against ever having played bad games, and thus I attempt to excuse my ignorance, assuming that everything else on your lists must not be worth playing - Right? Right.

Advance Wars alone is worth playing. It plays sorta like Fire Emblem, except there's no permadeath. Give it a try.

I still have the urge to play games, occasionally, the problem is that I just don't have the money to maintain the lifestyle. The only time I've ever been a gamer has been when residing with those who did.
What I like best about gaming is that it's one of the purest forms of entertainment, when done well, and that is something that I can genuinely say about only a few things.

And I genuinely miss making games with RM, sometimes (generally whenever I remember why I actually came here in the first place).

1. Final Fantasy X
2. Skies of Arcadia
3. MegaMan X6
4. Resident Evil Code: Veronica
5. Devil May Cry