The Top 5 List Thread

[zabu of nΩd]

Top 5 metal songs that bring back good memories of my college years:

1. Opeth - "Deliverance" (driving home from the riverside park on a summer night)
2. Iron Maiden - "Prowler" (wandering around campus right after buying my first portable music player, and being like "wow, it's like my life's a movie and Maiden's the soundtrack!")
3. Sonic Mayhem - "Rage" (back home, driving to a park with my next door neighbor on summer break)
4. Metallica - "Fight Fire with Fire" (riding in my dorm mate's Jeep on a fast food run)
5. Ministry - "Deity" (getting high and writing poetry)

 

[Slayed Necros]

Top 5 metal albums by country

I'm keen. I'll limit it to one album per band though.

Italy:

1. Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance
2. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
3. Dark Quarterer - s/t
4. Necromass - Abyss Calls Life
5. Death SS - Evil Metal

Greece:

1. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
2. Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp
3. Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
4. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
5. Necromantia - Crossing the Fiery Path

Finland:

1. Demilich - Nespithe
2. Sentenced - North From Here
3. Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
4. Oz - Fire in the Brain
5. Adramelech - Psychostasia

Sweden:

1. Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
2. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
3. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
4. Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
5. Sorhin - Apokalypsens Ängel

Norway:

1. Gorgoroth - Pentagram
2. Aeternus - ...and So the Night Became
3. Molested - Blod-Draum
4. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
5. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Australia:

1. Armoured Angel - Stigmartyr
2. Deströyer 666 - Cold Steel... For an Iron Age
3. Disembowelment - Transcendence into the Peripheral
4. Hobbs' Angel of Death - s/t
5. Sadistik Exekution - The Magus

Japan:

1. Sabbat - Envenom
2. Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy of the Beast
3. Sigh - Scorn Defeat
4. Abigail - Intercourse & Lust
5. Ritual Carnage - The Highest Law

(My knowledge of Japanese metal is majorly lacking)

Germany:

1. Scorpions - Taken by Force
2. Destruction - Infernal Overkill
3. Sodom - In the Sign of Evil
4. Morgoth - Resurrection Absurd
5. Protector - A Shedding of Skin

Canada:

1. Infernäl Mäjesty - None Shall Defy
2. Obliveon - From This Day Forward
3. Voivod - Nothingface
4. Razor - Evil Invaders
5. Blasphemy - Gods of War

Brazil:

1. Sarcófago - I.N.R.I
2. Mystifier - Göetia
3. Sextrash - Sexual Carnage
4. Sepultura - Morbid Visions
5. Dorsal Atlântica - Dorsal Atlântica

Poland:

1. Graveland - Thousand Swords
2. Turbo - Last Warrior
3. Kat - Oddech Wymarłych Światów
4. Vader - The Ultimate Incantation
5. Holy Death - Triumph of Evil

Chile:

1. Force of Darkness - Absolute Verb of Chaos and Darkness
2. Invincible Force - Satan Rebellion Metal
3. Communion - At the Announcement
4. Dominus Xul - The Primigeni Xul (I Condemned My Enemies)
5. Hades Archer - For the Diabolical Ages

Belgium

1. Ancient Rites - The Diabolic Serenades
2. Ostrogoth - Ecstasy and Danger
3. Chemical Breath - Fatal Exposure
4. Target - Master Project Genesis
5. Paragon Impure - To Gauis! (For the Delivery of Agrippina)

Austria:

1. Miasma - Changes
2. Abigor - Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)
3. Summoning - Nightshade Forests
4. Disastrous Murmur - Rhapsodies in Red
5. Belphegor - Blutsabbath

Switzerland:

1. Coroner - Punishment For Decadence
2. Messiah - Hymn to Abramelin
3. Samael - Blood Ritual
4. Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
5. Celtic Frost - Emperor's Return

France:

1. Sortilège - s/t
2. Massacra - Final Holocaust
3. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age
4. Supuration - The Cube
5. Agressor - Satan's Sodomy

Netherlands:

1. Future Tense - Condemned to the Gallow
2. Sinister - Diabolical Summoning
3. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
4. Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense
5. Thanatos - Realm of Ecstasy

Czech Republic:

1. Root - The Temple in the Underworld
2. Master's Hammer - Ritual
3. Avenger - Fall of Devotion, Wrath, and Blasphemy
4. Dark - Sex 'n' Death
5. Krabathor - Only Our Death is Welcome...

USA:

1. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
2. Slayer - Reign in Blood
3. Autopsy - Mental Funeral
4. Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
5. Rigor Mortis - s/t

Mexico:

1. The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
2. Argentum - Ad Interitum Funebrarum
3. Question - Doomed Passages
4. Cenotaph - Riding Our Black Oceans
5. Xibalba - Ah dzam poop ek

All right, I'm done. That took way too long.

 

[CiG]

Epic, you added more countries. I was saving them for a part 2 actually which I was slowly working on. Going to include New Zealand with mine though, would be interested to see yours specifically for your homeland.

Kinda surprised I know as many of your choices as I do. Need to check these ones out:

Necromass - Abyss Calls Life
Sorhin - Apokalypsens Ängel
Ritual Carnage - The Highest Law
Turbo - Last Warrior
Holy Death - Triumph of Evil
Dominus Xul - The Primigeni Xul (I Condemned My Enemies)
Paragon Impure - To Gauis! (For the Delivery of Agrippina)
Supuration - The Cube
Agressor - Satan's Sodomy
Future Tense - Condemned to the Gallow
Dark - Sex 'n' Death
Argentum - Ad Interitum Funebrarum
Question - Doomed Passages (you have shared a song by these guys before and it slayed)
Xibalba - Ah dzam poop ek

 

[Sophii]

Top 5 Adventure Games?

1.) Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild
2.) Banjo & Kazooie
3.) Super Mario Sunshine
4.) Rayman Origins
5.) Spyro

 

[Phylactery]

Epic list! Except Candlemass aren’t Norwegian!

 

[Slayed Necros]

Just noticed that.

 

[Phylactery]

Was going to say you should replace it with DMDS! But ABitNS works as well.

Surprised you chose Riding Our Black Oceans over the debut. I’m a fan of it, but it never seems to get mentioned much. Everyone just talks about the debut when they’re brought up.

 

[Bloopy]

Going to include New Zealand with mine

Maybe after the GMD polls are done I'll come up with lists for a few other countries, but my top 5 NZ metal albums are set:

1. Wall of Silents - Looking Through Cadaver Eyes
2. Creeping - Order of Snakes
3. The House of Capricorn - In the Devil's Days
4. Exordium Mors - The Apotheosis of Death
5. Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All

 

[CiG]

I know of Ulcerate but I don't know a single one of those albums, will have to do some Googlin' haha.

 

[CiG]

Top 5 Slovak metal albums:

1. Wayd - Barriers
2. Wayd - The Ultimate Passion
3. Gladiator - Designation
4. Protest - What For Name, When Humanity is Dying
5. Dementor - God Defamer

Top 5 Austrian metal albums:

1. Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
2. Disharmonic Orchestra - Not to Be Undimensional Conscious
3. Disastrous Murmur - Rhapsodies in Red
4. Miasma - Changes
5. Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh

Top 5 Russian metal albums:

1. Scald - Will of Gods Is a Great Power
2. Hieronymus Bosch - The Human Abstract
   
3. Mortem - Amputator
4. Coprobaptized Cunthunter - Failure Prosthesis
5. Gorged Bile - Origin of Contempt

Top 5 Mexican metal albums:

1. The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
2. The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph
3. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution
4. The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
5. Hardware - Hardware

Top 5 New Zealand metal albums:

1. Solar Mass - Pseudomorphosis
2. Meth Drinker - Meth Drinker
   
3. Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
4. Meth Drinker - OIL
5. Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis

Top 5 Spanish metal albums:

1. Wormed - Planisphærium
2. Wormed - Exodromos
   
3. Gruesome Stuff Relish - Teenage Giallo Grind
4. Gruesome Stuff Relish - Cannibalized!
5. Haemorrhage - Emetic Cult

Top 5 Dutch metal albums:

1. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
2. Severe Torture - Misanthropic Carnage
3. Nox - Ixaxaar
4. Valkyrie - Deeds of Prowess
5. Cryptae - Cryptae

Top 5 French metal albums:

1. Catacomb - In the Maze of Kadath
2. Gorod - Process of a New Decline
3. Asgard - To a Golden Age
4. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
5. Skelethal - Of the Depths...

Top 5 Danish metal albums:

1. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
2. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
   
3. King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
4. Hyperdontia - Nexus of Teeth
5. Invocator - Excursion Demise

Top 5 Chilean metal albums:

1. Kizin - Abstraction
2. Samot - Across the Abyss
3. Procession - To Reap Heavens Apart
4. Invocation Spells - Spread Cruelty in the Abyss
   
5. Lucifer's Hammer - Time Is Death

Top 5 Belgian metal albums:

1. Agathocles - Black Clouds Determinate
2. In-Quest - Extrusion : Battlehymns
3. Enthroned - Towards the Skullthrone of Satan
4. Moss Upon the Skull - The Scourge of Ages
5. Possession - Exorkizein

Top 5 Swiss metal albums:

1. Coroner - Mental Vortex
2. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
3. Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
4. Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
5. Coroner - No More Color

Top 5 Czech metal albums:

1. Heaving Earth - Denouncing the Holy Throne
2. Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
3. Ingrowing - Cyberspace
4. Ingrowing - Suicide Binary Reflections
5. Appalling Spawn - Freedom, Hope & Fury (The Second Spawn)

Top 5 Portuguese metal albums:

1. Grog - Macabre Requiems
2. Ironsword - Return of the Warrior
3. Cronaxia - Collapsing the Outer Structure
   
4. Grog - Odes to the Carnivorous
5. Holocausto Canibal - Sublime Massacre Corpòreo

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Top 5 Adventure Games?

1.) Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild
2.) Banjo & Kazooie
3.) Super Mario Sunshine
4.) Rayman Origins
5.) Spyro

I realize I'm not clear on the definition of "adventure game". As far as Nintendo-style action-fantasy games, mine is:

1. Banjo-Kazooie
2. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
3. Super Mario 64
4. Kirby's Adventure
5. Castlevania 64

For action-fantasy games on PC, it's:

1. Thief: The Dark Project
2. Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines
3. Don't Starve
4. Dishonored
5. The Void

Haven't been a hardcore gamer in years, and never owned many consoles, so not many candidates for my list.

 

[Sophii]

I realize I'm not clear on the definition of "adventure game". As far as Nintendo-style action-fantasy games, mine is:

1. Banjo-Kazooie
2. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
3. Super Mario 64
4. Kirby's Adventure
5. Castlevania 64

For action-fantasy games on PC, it's:

1. Thief: The Dark Project
2. Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines
3. Don't Starve
4. Dishonored
5. The Void

Haven't been a hardcore gamer in years, and never owned many consoles, so not many candidates for my list.

Still a killer list! Hard to single out Adventure genre since they coincide with other genres too.

 

[no country for old wainds]

when i hear ‘adventure games’ i think of point ‘n click stuff mostly, all that interactive story stuff. a lot of what you guys listed would be classed as platformers in my book.

cool to see the void get a namedrop!

 

[Sophii]

when i hear ‘adventure games’ i think of point ‘n click stuff mostly, all that interactive story stuff. a lot of what you guys listed would be classed as platformers in my book.

cool to see the void get a namedrop!

You got a favorite point and click adventure game?

I was really into Fallout 1 for a while

 

[no country for old wainds]

i think the early fallout games would be classed more as action RPGs. i always found them a bit clunky to play but better written than the later games.

i'm not super experienced with point 'n click stuff. i was introduced to the genre through stuff like broken sword and the discworld games in the '90s, had some fun with those. i love certain levels of sanitarium, in which you progress through levels of your character's own psyche, but it's kind of inconsistent. i love the last express, that's probably my favourite, although that's not exactly a classical point 'n click as it's in the first person and occurs in real time. i also love a lot of the telltale stuff, more recently. the walking dead games are way better than the show IMO. edit: oh, and since the void was mentioned, pathologic is incredible and does have some adventure elements although it tends to be classed as a survival game or psychological horror or w/e.

gog.com is definitely the place to find a lot of the classics of this genre cheap if you're interested in exploring further. i bought the grim fandango remaster from there not long ago, i should get around to playing that.

 

[no country for old wainds]

as for my favourite platformers, these come to mind:
super metroid
metroid: zero mission
prince of persia
bruce lee
SM64
heart of darkness
oddworld: abe's exoddus
rayman (i keep meaning to try some of the new ones which look great)
tomba/tombi
klonoa: door to phantomile
cosmo's cosmic adventure
commander keen 2
crystal caves

as you can see i'm more into the 2D stuff, although i do have fond memories of playing some 3D playformers (just the demos in some cases) like spyro, ratchet & clank, jak and daxter, ape escape, gex 3D, croc, etcccc

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Did you ever play any of the Telltale Walking Dead games other than the first?

 

[no country for old wainds]

not yet

 

[Phylactery]

Did you never play the 3D Metroid games? Metroid Prime is amazing.

Also, I much prefer Banjo Kazooie and even Donkey Kong 64 to Super Mario 64. But I don't expect many people to feel the same about that.

2. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Interesting choice. This one is generally considered to be one of the weaker Zelda games by gaming communities. I disagree with that as I think it's really good. I haven't played it in years, but I think I remember the first half being really strong, but then it started to lose momentum. Majora's Mask is the Zelda game of choice these days from what I've seen. There was a sudden shift from Ocarina of Time to Majora's Mask. Personally never understood it myself. It's the quirkiest of the Zelda games, so I can see the appeal, but it's not my favourite.​

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Also, I much prefer Banjo Kazooie and even Donkey Kong 64 to Super Mario 64. But I don't expect many people to feel the same about that.

I'm inclined to agree about DK64, though keep in mind I was a Donkey Kong fanatic back when those games were new. I honestly remember if I ever actually finished Mario 64. I remember it took me a while to get a handle on a lot of the controls for 64 games, Mario being one of them. Those camera angles and graphics would trip you out.