DA:O and RE5

Okay, so due to extenuating circumstances, I now own both of these games.

Dragon Age: Origins is still waiting... it's on the queue, because I'm not touching it until next year after I come back from Taiwan. RE5 is... omg, fun. Even after beating it with Jon/Josh on the PS3, it was still really fun for me to play through again on the PC. I never actually ran out of ammo (though I used the 92FS, so ammo was fairly common), but it didn't feel limitless, and there were times when I had to conserve. It's a nice feeling.

Even after beating it on the PC, I'm still having tons of fun... RE5 has struck some kind of chord in me that makes it one of my favorite games ever. I enjoyed it a lot on the PS3, but experiencing it again on the PC has basically reinforced the notion that it deserves a spot among my favorites.

I don't expect it to be great fun for everyone -- even the gamer house friends put it down when we couldn't manage to unlock any characters in Mercenaries mode -- but then again, in my experience, most of my favorite games are the ones that appeal to some quirk within me.

They are -

• Day of Defeat: Source - good times with OYWA
• Street Fighter III: Third Strike - an acquired taste, but once acquired, it's destined to stay
• Infantry (CTF and Skirmish) - Quite possibly the deepest Team vs. Team game out there, skill and persistent RPG elements combine with a very deep class-based system on large-scale battlefields
• Resident Evil 5 - best Co-Op experience... possibly rivalled only by Duke Nukem 3D

.... I now realize I'm fond of making lists. I keep making lists of my favorite games here and there.