The Staff Picks Their Favorite Video Games of All Time

With Next-Gen everything about to slowly take over the video game market, we had the staff look back at what were some (but not all) of their favorite video games of all time. These games come from all platforms and genres, but the staff definitely loves their classics. Carrie McClain’s Picks: Final Fantasy VII

Years ago, a friend of mine nicknamed me the “RPG Queen” cause that’s all I really paid attention to in regards to videogames. I was your average bookworm who lost herself into the worlds that were built upon pages and pages with characters that I loathed and some I adored. Somewhere along the lines I found out about this and so much more in more than a few video games my older brothers brought home. I LOVED THIS GAME. FF7 was groundbreaking in so many ways: it was the first final fantasy title to make it on the PS1. It also was my first venture into the series. Years later I still fangirl when I see cosplayers dressed like Yuffie or Vincent. Sephiroth’s theme song still strikes fear into my heart. On a epic scale, story wise—I was emotionally invested. I can remember slowly, piecing together the plot twists and losing all my cool on certain character deaths. This game produced some of the best mini games in the franchise. Forget blitzball, that card game and catching all those damn frogs in FF9, if you say you didn’t enjoy saving Fort Condor, you are a lie and the truth is not in you. Corrupt companies that take advantage of the people, government cover-ups, a pla…