Possibly the greatest adventure game created, Funcom's "Dreamfall" was stated by writer/designer Ragnar Tornquist as more of an interactive virtual tale. Part of an agenda to forge new ground in strong, emotion inducing story-driven gaming, Dreamfall is a critically acclaimed title with a fanatical fan base, of which I'm proud to be a part.

TLJ, as its known to its fervent fans, provides players an introduction to Ragnar Tornquist's enthralling twin worlds of Stark and Arcadia. I doubt anyone who played this game managed to remain untouched.

The second installment of Black Isle's amazing Baldur's Gate series resulted in many hours of sleep and food deprivation for me. I couldn't get enough of this franchise, and I still play it a few times a week to this day.

I'm a World of Darkness fan. Diehard. So it was no surprise that I devoured this game whole, bugs, kinks and all. Sadly, Troika no longer exists to provide us pale vampire wannabes any more amazing games to sate our bloodthirsty pangs for solo VtM play. Let's hope CCP and White Wolf come up with something grand with that MMO they have planned.

So I played AD&D a lot in high school. At least we didn't LARP, right? I remember being in hospital when BG was released, and my mother bringing it to my bedside one day as a surprise. I managed to score some day leave so I could spend every minute of it eating home cooked chicken soup and playing this. I'm pretty sure I got better because of it!

Well, you can sleep with NPCs and pimp out party members while insta-gibbing dudes who don't agree with you. All that with a hugely compelling storyline, convincing dialogue and well paced gameplay. What more could you want?

I first took a gander at this title purely by coincidence as I was browsing through a local gaming store. I like the whole post-apocalyptic deal and, being an avid RPGer, gave it a whirl. Rest is history.

My very first MMORPG and, as such, takes its place on my HIGHLY COVETED top ten list. Around a year of my life was poured into this game, and netted me an Agent and a 'Crat sporting various spiffy bits of gear and trinkets. Bureaucrat was by far my favorite of the two, and so far there really hasn't been an MMO I've seen that has a class like it in concept. I still believe that AO has the richest storyline, largest world and most diverse content of any MMO out there. Sufficient enough to keep me logging in every once in a while to this day. I believe my first PA, Vox Populi, is still kicking around on Rimor.

I'm a big Dune fan, so of course I would end up playing the odd adventure-cum-strategy masterpiece that was Dune, on my old 486. It was, and still is, a very good game that very roughly followed the story as written by Frank Herbert in his first book of the series. There have been very few games that captured the mix of political intrigue, diplomacy, sense of civic duty and grim conflict that Dune managed to successfully convey, albeit with help from a venerable canon of works.

I'm including the expansion in this list because there's no room for the original as well as the expansion. Suffice to say, I mean AOE2 with Conquerors, which added a lot of replay value and game play functionality. No RTS in my opinion quite captures the sense of epic protracted war quite like Age of Empires, and I've been an avid player of all three in the series. It really is a satisfying mix of actual strategy and tactics, rather than speedy tactical victories found in similar generic games. AOE2 has particular multiplayer memories attached, so here it is, number 10 with a bullet.