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Yea, Hexen has a special place in my heart and especially the N64 version. Funny that I never played it on PC because I did so with all the other games I mentioned in that section. I think it was the dark vibe of the game that hooked me. I still have a vivid auditory memory of the frogs croaking in one section of the game. The sound sample was pretty realistic and in that context, creeped me out. I'm noticing now that I have a thing for dark fantasy: Demon's Souls, the Planes of Oblivion in Elder Scrolls IV, Hexen - all of a piece.

I really want to go through my list of top picks and play them all again to see if they are as good as I remember. Gotta finish Ni No Kuni first though.

I read your blog on it and I'm interested. I did these games from the late nineties because I already presented my current gen favs in another blog. My next blog is going to be about the games from 1990-1994.

I created a female character in Fable III that I ended up writing some fan fic about. She was a total rebel, then went into politics to save the children in the factory, and then became queen only to give it up so she could go on another adventure across the sea. She was a restless wanderer with a sword. Kinda like Red Sonja now I think of it.

Also, Sakura in Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. Whenever she won she would scream her head off. It's the primal scream of a woman who's just kicked your ass! I loved it.

My first thought too.

Excellent choice! Those games are always high on my list of games to play. 

I noticed this last week (plus E on Major Nelson's podcast mentioned it), but you can just go through the purchase screen and then not download it. It's owned by you once you pass the purchase screen and you can download it whenever you need it.

Awesome game, but I have it. I'm not sure I'll download it for the convenience since it'll take up hard drive space but maybe I'll go through the purchase screen so I own it digitally and then not bother downloading it.

Damn! That's hardcore man. I can't imagine doing that, but I want to.

Carmack is very interesting to listen to. Ryan McCaffrey over there at IGN did an interview with him not too long ago and it was fascinating. I'll have to find the complete audio for his QuakeCon speach somewhere, but your article Travis did a good job summarizing it. Thanks.