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Red Storm Rising on a commodore 64.

1. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlanis
2. Day of Tentacle
3. Morrowind
4. Diablo 2
5. Half-Life

Ultima V and Ultima IV tie.

This is no fun if you don't post why your favorite is your favorite, so kudos to those who took the time in this thread so spell it out.


For me, hands-down, no-brainer it has to be Halo 1 and here's why:


When I first played Wolfenstein 3D I thought it was funny and interesting, but when I later tried 'Doom' I knew there was something magical about first person shooters for me. Soon after Doom, the 'Deathmatch' FPS modes started to become popular...Doom 2, Quake, etc, but everytime I tried these out or watched anyone else play them, they always seemed like crazy ridiculous sped-up frag-fests...they were so disconnected from the way real people moved that it ceased to seem like a game representing human beings shooting each other and more like flying, hopping robots.

I had some friends that were into Macs at the time and they had Marathon, and when Marathon 2 came out we were able to have some LAN parties playing multiplayer of that game and it always seemed just a bit better and more creative than the rest of the Deathmatch FPS I'd played...king of the hill, capture the skull, etc, the modes were just more fun!

I didn't know that Bungie made Marathon at the time and I certainly didn't follow their progress as the years went on.

Fast forward until several years later and I walk into some college buddies room and see them playing 'Halo'. Now, I'd heard about Halo through gaming magazines, etc, but having a severe hatred for Microsoft (yeah, Mac guy here) there was no way I was picking up an Xbox to play it. But I sat down and just watched them playing deathmatch on a four-way split screen.

I was instantly enthralled. Here was a game where the players actually seemed to move at a speed more like human beings...I could actually kind of tell what was going on! They seemed to be having a blast. They asked me if I wanted to play and I said 'sure'. I proceeded to play for like an hour getting my ass beat every time but absolutely loving every minute of it.

When I finished and was on my way home, all I could think of was how awesome the game was and how I wanted to play it...but I'd be damned if I bought something from Microsoft! Of course, I still had no idea that it was made by the same company who had made Marathon!

Fast forward again to Christmas that year, and my roommate, who clearly wanted to also play the game, actually got me an Xbox, which was nutso at the time, but whatever, it happened and I had one now.

I popped in Halo and immediately played through the campaign and if I loved the multiplayer before I was abso-frickin-lutely floored by the campaign. Being a sci-fi junky I love the sci-fi universes where you have the colonial marines and super-soldiers and bad-ass aliens, etc.

Absolutely everything about Halo is on my list of favorite sci-fi themes...of course I realized that it was basically an updated version of Marathon, and then it all started to make sense why I liked it so much in the first place. So I finished the campaign many, many times, playing it co-op with my roomates and loving that you could even do that.

But of course, the real magic was our multi-player games. I was living in a 5 bedroom house with 4 of my buddies, so you can imagine Halo was a favorite pastime. We started out playing 4-player split screen for hours on end, but soon the cries of 'screen looker!' were being yelled across the room and it wasn't too long before a 2nd Xbox was purchased and now we could play 2v2 against each other from separate rooms of the house.

Before long, two more Xboxes were also pruchased and soon everybody was playing from their own TVs, screaming trash talk up and down the stairs at each other!

Oh, we would play epic matches of 'Blood Gulch' that would last 2 hours for just a single-round and we never got tired of it. I just cannot express how great fun it was, and it will forever be ingrained on me as the best period of video game fun I've had in my life, because although we can still play via Xbox Live, there was something magical about all being in the same house, or even in the same room that made it somehow more fun.

The only thing that made it end, of course, was the need to move out and on with our lives (stupid women and marriage, am I right? ).


So yeah, long live Halo...I don't care if it was over-hyped...it is also perfectly representative of everything that is fun and great about video games.

That is what I am talking about.

Long live the LAN party.

I second LOZ:Ocarina of Time.

Oh and Starfox 64, probably my favorite.

Starfox 64 really is underrated. The N64 had alot of games that did what they wanted to do extremely well, and that is one of them.

Civilization 2. - I've always loved the god game genre, and that one had just enough of a blend of warfare, development and negotiation to not be overwhelming, and hadn't yet overcomplicated itself with extraneous bells and whistles (that's 3 & 4's biggest sin, but they're still pretty good)

It's also the only thing that's sucked as many productive hours away from em as 40K has over the years. Even now, if I started a game, I'd be playing for at least 4 straight hours easily.

Is it odd that in my first ever game of Civilization 1 , I played 'Emperor Adolf of the Germans' and conquered the entire world by 1945AD?

Have you tried the DS version of Civ Revolutions? I have heard that its alot like Civ 2. I would have preffered something more Civ 3-like, but hey it sucks up a plane ride like nothing.

I'm going to toss in a why with my choice. Chrono trigger on snes. The graphics were beautiful and still keep my attention with the sparklies. Including the team up special attacks make it an amazing tactical rpg system without needing a grid. The story was spectacular and the only moment in any game that ever made my jaw drop more than Chrono getting blasted away was when Aries got skewered in FF7. Being able to do the new game + let you go through over and over until you found the different endings without having to do all the overly complitated and otherwise impossible parts of the fights (such as killing Lavos before Chrono gets killed).

All in all its a spectacular game that after all these years is still fun to play and if you dont have an snes but do have a ds go buy it. Its gonna cost you about the same regardless of what system you get it for anyway. :3

In terms of campaign I would say elder scrolls oblivion. I don't know why but I loved playing that game so much and cannot wait for the fifth one. In terms of multiplayer I would say Gears of War 2 or MW2.


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I also have to agree with yakface on the first Halo though. That was a great game and the campaign levels on it were unbelievably fun and the game never got boring.

So many...

UFO enemy unknown was mint though! And XCOM apocalypse was also pretty awesome.

My "Best Game Ever" list is:

5) CoD:MW 1 + 2 (thinking this may change after I get my hands on Bad Co. 2, but we will see) Never played a FPS online untill CoD4 and then the obsession began. Stupid time sink MP.

4) FF7 - Played the US FFs as they were released, but didn't take the time to play FF7. Kinda got tired of RPG. Then I was w/out a job during a holiday season and my roommate was visiting his mom. Time on my hands and he left the game so I picked it up. Oh, dang! Next thing I know, my job started back up and it was summer time.

3) Fallout 3 - Time sink hell! Fun and soooooo many side quests to distract me from the "main story".

(same theme for both of the next titles)

2) MGS2 - Played the first game but got really excited when the second game came out. Picked up the player's guide and played the crap out of it. Yeah, the story was off and Snake got replaced by Raiden. But the gameplay was outstanding and all of the hidden things and the extra missions were worth the time and money I put into the game.

1) Resident Evil 2 - True story: drove 90 minutes to try and find the game. Shows you where this is going. The only game that I might have gone to far in playing. Finished it an ungodly amount of times. All of the ending, all of the hidden characters, all of the items, finished the Hunk and Tofu scenarios, and even borrowed a game hacker thing (not sure of what it was called at the time) from a friend and opened unfinished levels.

After they released the remake for RE1, I was hoping they would release the remake of RE2. But, deep down inside me, I'm glad they didn't. It would look pretty, but don't think it would be the same.

Altered_Soul wrote:It has and always will be:

Chrono Trigger

Here's my history of Chrono Trigger, to show how obvious the love is.

Friend had SNES, he got CT from somewhere, we played the first few hours. I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Friend buys Chrono Trigger, I buy SNES a year later, friend loans me Chrono Trigger. It is the only SNES game I play for a long time.

I go through Goldeneye phase when the N64 is out, then I find a used copy of Chrono Trigger for SNES and rehook it up, pissing off my parents (I started getting into the PC gaming scene at this point, never getting another console until GBA and properly with the Wii). Play it again and again. I somehow lose CT, SNES stops working well. I buy the PS copy to play at another friends since I don't own one.

I fix SNES, bring it to college. Pay ridiculous amounts of money for an Ebayed copy of Chrono Trigger. Becomes my comfort game in times of super-stress.

Move to AZ, bring SNES, video connections fail, can only find cheap knockoffs that make picture suck ass. Still play Chrono Trigger. I buy a Wii, praying that someday, I will get Chrono Trigger on VC. Hear about Square Enix Nintendo disputes. I cry. I hear about Chrono Trigger remake for DS. I buy DS and Chrono Trigger.

Still waiting for big-screen re-release.

I love Chrono Trigger.

QFT

I was a little sad it took 3 pages to get to hear Chrono Trigger mentioned.
I was really sad that it takes 4 pages to hear this mentioned.
Earthbound
-Earthboud was an unfindable gem where I grew up. Three of us would rotate my copy between us to play it, I even kept it after it stoped working. The silly serious in deph adventure became my defintion of RPG standards and I still compare every new rpg to it after all these years.

The Homeworld series.
Fallout 3 is nifty.
Then there are the Blizzard games .

Finished Heavy Rain last night. Now on my list. Play it.

Id say either the Hitman series or Elder scrolls Morrowind. I played that game from front to back for an un countable amount of time. Hell talking about it makes me want to play it again lol. Same with Hitman though. The way you set up the kill is just intoxicating.

Opps. My daughter asked why I didn't mention Shadow of the Colossus? Slipped my mind.

Honorable Mention: Shadow of the Colossus

With it being on the PS2, it was rather breath taking. In both scale and graphics. As you progressed through the game, it became harder and harder to take down the Colossus. Not only in game play, but you could sense that something was off. The ending was something else. Not the last Colossus, but what happens at the end game. Play it and find out.

Looking to see what The Last Guardian is going to be like. Guess if I want play it I might have to buy a a PS3.

I am going to sound like atotal hack now for naming a computergame actually older than myself, but whatever.

Star control 2.

Sure, I could name a few problems and annoyances with it that would not be encountered in a more modern game, but really, it was a blast all the way through. I have but one regret and that is ruining the surprises with to many internet guides.

I mean really. The combat was entertaining and challenging, with a boatload of different styles of play and unique abilities. The music was lovely. The many rich little stories were, for me, unsurpassed anywhere else. This game is so awesome I have annoyed my friends silly talking about it.

It easily is the best game I have ever played, but just skimming through this thread, I see I have a lot to explore yet.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gdf9vX3OqWTlQDhOeg9Qxlj678Tw

Found this is in a quick wiki search on SC2. Gonna check it out. ITs nice when it is free and works without dosbox et al...

EDIT: Ok, been playing this. Very interesting game. Its not as much like elite as I expected, more like MAssEffect. A couple of thoughts.

Forerunner = Precursor. Nice Job Bungie.

How did what appeared to be two people (lucky that they were male and female, and attracted enough to eachother to do this) survive, begin a colony AND build a spaceship in twenty years?

How did we get the whole planet to agree to lockdown? wouldn't there have been a bunch of dicks (from Texas) who were raring to go attack other species?

These VOs are pretty good.

I have got NO IDEA what I am doing...I sure hope this game doesn't have the steep learning curve of most space exploration games that I have played.

Right, back to the game.


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*sigh* we are spoiled by autosave...

Well. The best game EVER for me?

Star Wars: X-Wing Versus TIE Fighter, specifically the "Balance of Power" campaign(which introduced alot of Expanded Universe vessels like the TIE Defender, the E-Wings, the Gunboats, Skipray Blastboats, etc as flyable--but most importantly, it let me use my favorite fighter/bomber, the B-Wing in its PROPER environment. Killing Star Destroyers with ease).

The story is this. I used to play XVT with a good group of people, and we tended to do skirmish multiplayer matches online. 'Twas a blast, as we used the moniker of "Echo Squadron" and flew Rebel Alliance/New Republic ships exclusively. This is when I was like 13? 14? Around there. Anyways, the story was this:

We got to play one of the most historical and amazing Star Wars scenarios that every Star Wars nerd would have loved to have played:
A game with Mark friggin' Hamill playing with us(you have never played a Star Wars game...until you've had Luke Skywalker's voice in your ear saying that "We've got TIEs inbound on the medical frigate! Gold 2 and 3, peel off and we'll distract them!) and flying against an Imperial exclusive wing(I believe they called themselves The 282nd and "Zsinj's Claws") in an asteroid field while they escorted a Super Star Destroyer through, without being destroyed by the Rebel fleet laying in ambush.

I remember this match the most vividly, just because of the sheer scale of it. We didn't *just* have Echo Squadron there. We had two others(a Gold Squadron and Wraith squadron, respectively) who we were buddy-buddy with. This in itself was amazing as this was in the days when online games at best supported 12 people.

We had 36.

But AGAIN, I digress:
I got to take all 3 squadrons' fighter/bombers in for a run in the backwash of the Super Star Destroyer where their fighter and interceptor screen couldn't spot us. We get up behind this massive thing, unload all our weaponry into it and barely dent it. We peel off, rearm our heavy weapons and come back. Next run...we bring down the engines, right as the fighter screen and frigates escorting the SSD show back up. The game turns from cat and mouse in the middle of an asteroid field--to something I would have loved to have seen played out on the big screen in a Star Wars movie. B-Wings and Y-Wings gunning down the throat of a massive wave of TIE Defenders, X-Wings coming up behind the Defenders blowing them to pieces, all while a Super Star Destroyer floats helpless and gets pounded on by a massive Rebel armada.

Suffice to say:
I want a new X-Wing game.

I fired that game up recently. It was cool, but the controls confused the hell out fo me. Guess you had to be there. It certainly SOUNDS like fun...

Well, I played with a ridiculously expensive joystick/throttle setup that I saved up for over the course of two birthdays+Christmases.

No presents for two years, just asking for money so I can save up for a joystick/throttle combination.

I'm still kinda surprised I managed to do that without getting distracted by something shiny.

Kanluwen wrote:Well. The best game EVER for me?

Star Wars: X-Wing Versus TIE Fighter, specifically the "Balance of Power" campaign(which introduced alot of Expanded Universe vessels like the TIE Defender, the E-Wings, the Gunboats, Skipray Blastboats, etc as flyable--but most importantly, it let me use my favorite fighter/bomber, the B-Wing in its PROPER environment. Killing Star Destroyers with ease).

The story is this. I used to play XVT with a good group of people, and we tended to do skirmish multiplayer matches online. 'Twas a blast, as we used the moniker of "Echo Squadron" and flew Rebel Alliance/New Republic ships exclusively. This is when I was like 13? 14? Around there. Anyways, the story was this:

We got to play one of the most historical and amazing Star Wars scenarios that every Star Wars nerd would have loved to have played:
A game with Mark friggin' Hamill playing with us(you have never played a Star Wars game...until you've had Luke Skywalker's voice in your ear saying that "We've got TIEs inbound on the medical frigate! Gold 2 and 3, peel off and we'll distract them!) and flying against an Imperial exclusive wing(I believe they called themselves The 282nd and "Zsinj's Claws") in an asteroid field while they escorted a Super Star Destroyer through, without being destroyed by the Rebel fleet laying in ambush.

I remember this match the most vividly, just because of the sheer scale of it. We didn't *just* have Echo Squadron there. We had two others(a Gold Squadron and Wraith squadron, respectively) who we were buddy-buddy with. This in itself was amazing as this was in the days when online games at best supported 12 people.

We had 36.

But AGAIN, I digress:
I got to take all 3 squadrons' fighter/bombers in for a run in the backwash of the Super Star Destroyer where their fighter and interceptor screen couldn't spot us. We get up behind this massive thing, unload all our weaponry into it and barely dent it. We peel off, rearm our heavy weapons and come back. Next run...we bring down the engines, right as the fighter screen and frigates escorting the SSD show back up. The game turns from cat and mouse in the middle of an asteroid field--to something I would have loved to have seen played out on the big screen in a Star Wars movie. B-Wings and Y-Wings gunning down the throat of a massive wave of TIE Defenders, X-Wings coming up behind the Defenders blowing them to pieces, all while a Super Star Destroyer floats helpless and gets pounded on by a massive Rebel armada.

Suffice to say:
I want a new X-Wing game.

Old skool.

Not my most favorite game ever, but up there. I LOVE that game.

Nostalgia reasons cuz it was the first game where I could play the Empire, which I like waaaay better than the rebel scum. Flying around in Interceptors and TIE Defenders? Mwa ha ha, I laugh at your X-wing and A-Wing loser pilots.

Anyone here remeber spryro. pure awesome.

My favorite games are the ones that forced my brother and I to work together cause that was the only time we got along, until one of us died.

1.Ninja turtles back in time

2.Halo 1 and 2

3.Left 4 dead

Tetris on the original Gameboy.

Start at Level 9 and high 5 and carry on for hours and hours. Brilliantly simple puzzle game on the hand held of its time.

Panzer General and Civ 2 were awesome time consuming titles.
Fallout 1, 2 and 3. Love the settings on these games, loved the love put into 1 and 2.

Got to mention rainbow 6 on original x box, that game rocked. and Halo.

No outright favourite just favourites covering different genres.

nintendoeats wrote:http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gdf9vX3OqWTlQDhOeg9Qxlj678Tw

Found this is in a quick wiki search on SC2. Gonna check it out. ITs nice when it is free and works without dosbox et al...

EDIT: Ok, been playing this. Very interesting game. Its not as much like elite as I expected, more like MAssEffect. A couple of thoughts.

Forerunner = Precursor. Nice Job Bungie.

How did what appeared to be two people (lucky that they were male and female, and attracted enough to eachother to do this) survive, begin a colony AND build a spaceship in twenty years?

How did we get the whole planet to agree to lockdown? wouldn't there have been a bunch of dicks (from Texas) who were raring to go attack other species?

These VOs are pretty good.

I have got NO IDEA what I am doing...I sure hope this game doesn't have the steep learning curve of most space exploration games that I have played.

Right, back to the game.


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*sigh* we are spoiled by autosave...

I can answer all of this. I am glad you like it. As for the forerunner= precursor reference, I deduced the same, and mentioned it to a couple of halo fan associets of mine. They countered that More-or-less every sci-fi setting has some sort of long extinct super race.
As for The decision to slave shield, The ur-quan forced every human being to vote within a week of subjugation. I don't think there even was a electorial campaign, As noone got organised quickly enough. After some decade of war I guess the regular people were fed up with the thought of more. I least thats what I think. And it is very much like mass-effect, In fact I once heard it being called mass-effect before there was mass-effect. As for the colony, there were actually some hundred people there, and you play captain zelnick, A genius child born on the alien world. You are the only one in the whole colony capable of operating precursor technology because of a special gene, And it was that way that they actually understood what the factory created. The factory churns out an incomplete vessel during the course of some ten years, But the controls are precursor ones and only zelnick can operate it. During the journey to earth the vessels are attacked by an unidentified red probe, and the commanding officer is killed. That is why they are forced to have the kid in charge.

If you are having difficulty with the game, I can give you a link to a load of non-spoiler hints. One little question, have you been everywhere in the solar system yet?


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http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Non-Spoiler_Hints

Hope that helps

Yeah, a couple hours in and alot of those things are answered. The non-spoiler will be useful though.

I'm looking forward to spending a good chunk of time with this one, It seems alot more playable than most space exloration games.

Thanks for the recommendation!


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A Pkunk just told me that I was Archduke Franz Ferdinand in a past life...

...while I was listening to "Tonight" by Franz Ferdinand.

Its statistics. Suck it up.

Thief.

Either version.

I love unorthodox games and it was the first to convincingly be a FPS, but not a FPS at the same time. You want to live, you got to sneak.