what if the OP / readers who are also interested is female?
i'm pretty sure there's a females alternative to that.
but my little bit of sarcasm you have all missed, is that games are inhernetly tied to the times they are made; the great games of the 80s were cool because they were in the 80s, and so on for each generation. I can point you to a dozen games which were absolutely epic, but today, they have passed their time.
Sure you can still play them and maybe enjoy the story, maybe wonder at how great they were for their time. But you'll never have that sense of wonder we had, because those were the games of the future, not the games of the past.
If you want to find great games, you need to play what's coming out now.
or two chicks at one time.