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What is the single best computer or console game that you have ever played? Mine must be Medal Of Honour: Allied Assault. Too bad they shut down the multiplayer.

This should probably be in the Video Games forum.

Regardless, for me it's between 3. In terms of scale, scope, and mechanics, I find AC: Black Flag very hard to beat. I don't really bother with the plot, because cruising around in a Pirate Ship to pilfer, pillage and otherwise plunder my weasly black guts out is just too much fun. Graphics are stunning, the world is huge and the combat system is great.

Skyrim comes in second, again for the ability to take it in whatever direction you want. Even with the base game unmodded, there are countless hours of enjoyment to be had from it, and the more you put in, the more you get out.

And third is Halo 2 Anniversary. As an update of one of my favourite games ever, I had high hopes, and the game blew them all out of the water. My only gripe is the presence of 'original' unupdated maps in multiplayer (because even the XB1 can't make 2002 graphics look good!), but that is easily avoided.


EDIT: Crap, how could I forget Star Wars Battlefront 2? 10 years old and still one of the most fun ways to spend an afternoon!

Also, I need to add that Far Cry 3 probably takes my second place.

Sacrifice, Armored Core Series, Fallout 2.

Fallout 3, Metro 2033, Crusader Kings 2, Mount and Blade: Warband and Distant Worlds are my favourite games. It is hard to pick a single, best one out of them, but if I'd have to, I'd pick Fallout 3.

Fallout 2 is the most memorable one I ever played, though Baldur's gate 2 was a close second.

No chance of picking one but honourable mentions:
WoW TBC, BF series, Deus Ex, Golden eye 64, Mariokart 64, Morrowind, Skyrim, F15 STE2, Speedball 2, Project X and Street Fighter 2 Champion.

RTS: Wargame Red Dragon (same game but better compared to those before it in its series) takes the cake since the original DOW. 1600 units, loads of nations, massive battles and beautiful graphics. Its a military history nerd's dream.

Online FPS: Team Fortress 2, obliterates everything else out of the water. I find Insurgency, Battlefield, COD, all that, boring, bland, repetitive, overpriced and too infuriating at times. In TF2, if I die as a Spy, I cool off by switching to heavy and destroying people with the minigun.

RPG: Fallout New Vegas. Your choices matter, you have miles more freedom than with 90% of other RPGs, and you can kill any living thing you see at any point in the game. You can be level one, march to each faction HQ, (very) carefully murder all of the faction leaders except the NCR region commander (he's a coward who shows up later), and then go to the Vegas strip and make your own faction, effectively.

Story: Bioshock Infinite.

Classic: Battlezone. I want to see a reboot damn it.

Overall: Probably the Mount and Blade series. I haven't played any game as much except TF2.

Honourable mentions:
Empire Total War
Supreme Commander 1 and FA.
Dawn of War 1.
Arma 2/3

Homeworld. A true work of art before the so-called "art games" were a thing.

Honestly, I think the greatest game I ever played was Gladius. God damn Lucas. You finally had an IP that was pretty damn slick in the wake of your Star Wars feth up, and you killed it -_-

Digger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_%28video_game%29

Digger is where it's at.

X COM: UFO Defense or Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines.

Jagged Alliance 2, even better with 1.13 Community Patch.

Digger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_%28video_game%29

Digger is where it's at.

I can hear the music in my head right now.

WAY too many to count, but going off most memorable, probably The Last of Us. That was the last game that really held my attention and straight up WOWed me. It is, in my opinion, one of the few perfect games akin to Halo and Super Mario 3.

Silent Hill 2

In my restless dreams I see that town. . .

The very best game I've ever played is Fallout New Vegas. it is the only game I've repeated more than once... a total of 5 times, no DLC. I just love it.

Final Fantasy 3 on the Super Nintendo [FF6, in the non-North American market] was my favourite game for a very long time.

Bioshock, the first, gripped me from go. I don't think I've ever been as immersed in a story. The part where the splicer is cooing into the baby basket, and then you find it's a... I was actually horrified. In the sense of encountering something so innimically "wrong" that I couldn't un-know it. I still remember considering not looking in the baby basket, just so I wouldn't know what it was.

RBI Baseball, on the NES. I must have played a thousand games with my Dad.

Killer Instinct [Gold?], on the N64, was a favourite of my brother and I. We played until our thumbs grew blisters.

For the old-schoolness of it, Solitare, on Windows 3.X.

Gran Tourismo 3, for PS2, I played for hours.

I once played a naughty game of Golden Eye, with a former girlfriend. Kind of like a poker variant, but by shooting each other in the back of the head. No losers in that game.

My favorite game of all times, is without a shadow of a doutb the Forgotten realms games that came out in the 90 and early 2000s, since those times we have not had a good game set to that setting me thinks.

 greatbigtree wrote:
The very best game I've ever played is Fallout New Vegas. it is the only game I've repeated more than once... a total of 5 times, no DLC. I just love it.

Final Fantasy 3 on the Super Nintendo [FF6, in the non-North American market] was my favourite game for a very long time.

Bioshock, the first, gripped me from go. I don't think I've ever been as immersed in a story. The part where the splicer is cooing into the baby basket, and then you find it's a... I was actually horrified. In the sense of encountering something so innimically "wrong" that I couldn't un-know it. I still remember considering not looking in the baby basket, just so I wouldn't know what it was.

RBI Baseball, on the NES. I must have played a thousand games with my Dad.

Killer Instinct [Gold?], on the N64, was a favourite of my brother and I. We played until our thumbs grew blisters.

For the old-schoolness of it, Solitare, on Windows 3.X.

Gran Tourismo 3, for PS2, I played for hours.

I once played a naughty game of Golden Eye, with a former girlfriend. Kind of like a poker variant, but by shooting each other in the back of the head. No losers in that game.

New Vegas and Bioshock are definitely up on my list. not sure where, but up there.

Mass Effect 2. I feel it was the strongest game of the trilogy. The third one was alright but I felt it was more about the shootin' than character interaction. Plus, the Galactic readiness meter can go eat a dick.

Resident Evil 4, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Ocarina of Time.

The only games I've done at least 3 play throughs of.

Honorable mention to Tony Hawk 2, TH: Underground, Majora's Mask (dat bomber journal) COD 4, and Halo 2.

 Soladrin wrote:
Sacrifice, Armored Core Series, Fallout 2.

There were 2 or 3 Armored Core games I played the hell out of.


I'd say my fave would have to be Morrowind simply because I paged that game for so long and I went back to it several times over the years. Skyrim would be on list for a similar reason.

Anything Legend of Zelda. That series is my crack.

Tough choice. Going with Ultima Online. Or ACW2..... Can't decide!

It's got to be Daggerfall or Morrowind for me. Gameplay-wise, they're not the best. Plot-wise, they're TES. But there's something about them that keeps me coming back and loving them. It's just the way they feel.

Morrowind, Dragon Age: Origins, Company of Heroes, Knights of the Old Republic, my top four favorite games ever. I couldn't pick a number one if I tried.

Maybe KotOR...

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Damnit, forgot RE4 too. Another classic. Side note, the new RE HD Remake is pretty damn fun and a good tribute to the original.

I don't know about best, but most memorable would be either Morrowind or KotOR2. The opening of Morrowind still gives me chills. Best would probably be ME2, ME3, or KotOR2.

Man that's tough.

One of my all time favorites was Halo: CE. Had a cool aesthetic, a cool story, a universe I wanted to learn more about, and some interesting characters that you really didn't get to see enough of in the game. If I had to all out nominated a one above all, that'd probably be it.

My childhood before it was completely dominated by Rogue Squadron and Goldeneye on the 64. Both games aged a bit roughly, but were still a ton of fun and I dust them off occasionally when I feel sentimental.

Other optional mentions

Spec Ops the line: Beautiful (if gruesome) graphics, excellent soundtrack, a story that really stuck with you and got you immersed, an really unique world to go through, some really interesting characters, it had just about everything but great gameplay

FTL: I should not have almost a 100 hours logged on a game that I paid $2.50 for. One of the few games that I would start playing, look up, and realize that it was 8 hours later and that was the sun coming up outside.

Just Cause 2: Most stupid action movie fun you can have in a game, period. And now it has multiplayer on PC. Seriously if you've never played it watch some videos of it sometime, that game was way ahead of it's time when it came out.

XCOM Enemy Unknown (the original one): it's XCOM man, you know why it's awesome.

Red Orchestra 2: If you play shooters, you need to buy it now. No excuses. No other game out there really like it. It's called PTSD simulator for a reason though, probably the most stressful and terrifying FPS I've ever played. No other game quite nails that feeling of being under fire, trying to drive a tank through an urban enviornment crawling with anti tank soldiers, or trying to storm a building with nothing but a bolt action rifle, a bayonet, and a prayer.

 Ratius wrote:

Digger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_%28video_game%29

Digger is where it's at.

I can hear the music in my head right now.

It's the first game I ever had that had music. I'm pretty sure it'll be in my head for the rest of time.