Best game you have ever played?

Console: MGS series
PC: CoD4 hands down.

 

Bridge builder (you know that old game that used sticks to build a train bridge)

 

Master of Magic, X-Com, Starcraft and Duke Nukem 3d are my favorites of all time.

 

If I had to choose one, I'd choose Civilization III - it's one I keep coming back to again and again, which gives it the edge. Spent many many days and nights playing it, and have a few gigabytes of saves to show it. Other top contenders:

*Railroad Tycoon II. Another one that I come back to fairly often, and have played a lot overall. Never saw a reason to upgrade to the others, even after trying demos.
*Halo: Combat Evolved. I've got newer FPS games with better graphics and some nice additional features, but I keep coming back to this one. Maybe it's the rockets. Halo 2 for XBox is close as well.
*SimCopter. One of the few games that has survived three computer changes. Only downfall: It doesn't get along with Windows NT (or derivatives) at all. Not that it had great reliability in 9x, for that matter.

Medieval II Total War and Trackmania Nations Forever are also contenders, but I haven't had them long enough to know if they're amongst the best or if they're just really fun for awhile and then fizzle out.

 

NHL 08. Go Habs.

 

Heroes 3 and Starcraft, still playing them and mods too.

 

C&C Generals-Zero Hour

 

damn, choosing just one title is going to be totally impossible as my "gold medalist" spot is taken by a few games... well it's more or less the result of my playing a lot 'till 'bout last year... now it's only during longer breaks

so if i'm restricted to pc titles (are we talking 'bout pc only? or maybe pc originated? or maybe pc available? i'm taking the last option as my base here just for your information) and not all games possible... here we go:

* "arcade boardy logic" thingy -> chessmaster series (huge fan ever since the first one got onto my pc's hdd ) beats all the ms 'dow(n)s' built-in titles (minesweeper, solitaire, freecell or the, new to the family, mahjong) and is probably also the series i spent most on (both of time and money). apart from the huge chessmaster franchise there's always othello/reversi and the best of all - the GO game (been playing it for years both on pc and on board and recently analysing the games for the AI courses) eg. GNUGO i really can spend quite willingly hours and days on the go games

* adventure thingy -> besides larry's adventures, mystical mysts my first and foremost best would be the grim fandango (i built my 1st pc for the title as before it i only ordered products to be built by companies)

* rpg thingy -> the one and only baldur's gate saga... i simply always prefered plots over straight hack'n'slash action of diablo (and most shooters on the market). maybe oblivion can get here but it's more of a nostalgic recall of the past that makes me choose here the bg series.

* strategy thingy -> sorry not CivIII nor its free counterparts... nor starcraft (zerg rule however) but due to my ancient greece and rome interests - rome tw...

* sport thingy -> besides those from "arcade" group some of the racing sims such as gtr and gtr2... and nfsu2 we used to play here on our city wide lan but getting back to gtr2 we reach the bmw m3 challenge which i liked a lot till my desktop crashed some time ago...

* shooter thingy -> 'cause we're pc bound snake's out... i'd say either thief 3, splinter cell chaos theory (i believe it is the best title in the series) or hitman blood money (climate, action again as in the codename 47 and silent assassin series' parts) with the latter one possibly winning in the whole group... ac unfortunately lost here even though it was high on the list... and as many shooters were rather weak on the plot side... there's not much here to be mentioned (perhaps that nostalgic melodramatic end to ut2... or rpg/fps vtm:b big bang end ). ah, and maybe swat4 should be high here...

so now the question is which one of those titles should be called the best... tough question... really. sport/races are out from the list here quickly 'cause i do not fancy to play them for long... mostly i find only one car and its settings that fancy my game-driving style. similarly goes strategic rome tw with its empire building... adventures tend to glue me for a short time (basically single walkthrough through the game), yet they did force me to forget about the world around me a lot rpgs fare a lot better here even though one knows the most part of the plot after first finish... but you can often finish the game a tad differently through different choices and classes (as eg in kotors...). what does this leave us with? board vs. shooter... well h4bm is really great but as soon as you manage to discover most if not all of the dozens of ways to fulfill the missions you get, and as the plot never changes it's basically up to 10-go title (even scct seems better here due to multi that allows to play together both "shadow" maniacs and smg swat wackos...). and this lets us draw this simple conclusion - either chess or go, with the 2nd one always present with me, from all my mobile devices, through presence on every pendrive i have (just a precaution if people i visit didn't have one), lots of notes everywhere and all my pcs with gnugo present... damn i even set it on my work pcs taking into consideration the fact that i always have the game with me and i play it almost daily for a number of years greater then a decade i'd say that GO is the best game i played, play and even maybe that i will play for years to come. plus you can play it even when there's no electricity and with the very simple rules and a lot of strategic thinking throughout the game and lack of a need of any kind of thick manuals as with p'n'p rpg like dnd4 games it simply is the best!

i'll be back, now it's time for a PvP block of flats area lan GO tournament that starts in roughly 8 mins... cheers!

 

FFVI
FFX
Starcraft
Halo
Tekken 5
MGS series

 

Wing Commander IV:The Price of Freedom, Red Alert 2, & Half Life 2, sorry can't get it down any smaller

 

Team Fortress 2. No other game in my opinion combines comical cartoon-like entertainment with addictive gameplay.

 

grim fandango does

 

counter strike source and diablo 1&2

 

My early youth:
-Nemesis (C64) pic
-Road Blaster (C64) pic
-Super Mario (NES)

My teenage years:
-Mortal Kombat 2 pic
-Shinobi 3 pic
-Streets of Rage 2 pic

My early- and mid twenties:
-Bioshock
-Deus EX
-Half-life series (Portal included)
-Oblivion

 

Half Life series!!

 

aoe 2 play lan with family

 

STARCRAFT!!!! Warcraft III is also a very good game, single player & custom games

 

Three way tie between Starcraft, Sins of a Solar Empire, and EVE Online...the only three games to ever occupy me for entire nights.

 

Runescape ftw

 

this thread proves that it's nearly impossible for any true gamer to choose 1 single game

 

Counter Strike 1.5 and 1.6... years passed by, still I gather at least 10 hours a week. Been playing it in PGL a couple of years back..

 

diablo 2, got addicted from the first minute, and was still playing years and years later

 

I just died a little inside

 

Before I graduated from college, my college funds supported not only me but my addiction to Streetfighter (4 years and then some!). Through it all, I started out from Street Fighter II (I VAGUELY remember the first Street Fighter but that was not the version that got me hooked) ... from the cheating bug that allowed players to "lock in/chain" the opponents and be done with the fight ... to the stupid 3D versions (EX) that just didn't feel right... and who can forget the movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme ... good thing I was a grown man at the time, otherwise, that movie would have scarred me for life.

Street Fighter Championship Edition (Turbo speed) was probably the version I spent my most time playing.

So, I'll have to give a shout out to those who have supported me during my up and down years with Streetfighter: Ken, Ryu... without both of you to bail me out during harsh times in competition, I really would not have been able to make a dent against any of those "pro" players no matter HOW MANY quarters I inserted into the damn machine.

Chungli, I really would have LIKED to have been able to play you more often, but I just couldn't get your combos right against the REAL players... you were special though so definitely mad props to you and your s3xy legs .

Bison, oh Bison... you were right... evil does pay off sometimes, because you were so easy to control... not much of a learning curve and yet the power you possessed... incredible... only Ken or Ryu had the power to defeat you easily.

Zangief, I would have loved to play your character more often, but I believe the joy stick at the arcades never lasted long enough for me to perfect your moves so I would just basically be donating quarters to the machines... not to mention boosting the ego of that stupid kid next to me playing Ken, defensively.....

Ahh, the memories, the late night rendezvous NOT with my girlfriend but with the arcade downtown that opened up until 11 PM regular nights and until 2 AM Fridays/Saturdays (well as much as possible after what study I could cram and homework I could finish) ... also wasting an entire Saturdays trying to keep up with the frantic by placing my quarter in line so that I can be the next challenger ... good thing for Nintendo and Dreamcast consoles, I was able to keep my addition running for a few more years with their support. Finally, cured from the disease ... I am capable of visiting Street Fighter on my current PS2 (Dreamcast stored in a box) once in a while just for kicks.

Even though Street Fighter IV seems like the same old thing, I might end up revisiting the old hood again (arcade) just to check it out if they end up bringing it to the States. :twitcy:

Oops, not referring to a PC game... SF PC game sucked, sorry about the reference. LOL

 

Played Starcraft for several years online... but I'll give it up to Warcraft II.

 

That's the type of reaction I was looking for.

 

While you were dying on the inside, I was laughing on the outside.

Best EVER=Adventure for Atari for me. I wore out two of those tapes. I was totally in love with it. Played lots of other stuff, too, allll summer long (at least when it rained or was dark or this or that reason for not playing outside) but it was SO cool. Even if the "dragons" were, to me, evil crazy ducks chasing me I never understood why they had evil ducks until we programmed on IBMs in elementary school and, using FORTRAN, I made an animation with a whole 8 colors... of a clown making a face.

OK, to computers...
Baldur's gate got me hooked on PC games after a long time of being a board game person... and I had to do NWN after that... and so on... it has a still-amazing storyline and I like the old rules flexed a little... It was an ultimate sign of trust to have my friend loan me his BG CD to get me nice and hooked... it was coveted collectible stuff to him

Morrowind and the other Elder Scrolls games are visually wonderful, too, for that genre... I spent SO MANY hours... cause um I arrived late at Morrowind because I was so obsessed with all the expansions of NWN... so I did all the expansions of Morrowind as I went, getting seriously just about every single thing completed, even the tiny tasks/mini mini teeny quests . Oh man... but I had trouble stopping sometimes because I wanted to know EVERYTHING about a whole region, figure the whole story out THAT Night and make sure I didn't come back the next day and forget in the middle of something (since its one real downfall=tooo slow, wow too slow, so I didn't want to get alll the way across my expanded land only to ... heh... leave and forget why I was there! Great stories, beautiful on my 22" CAD monitor!! Awesome characters on there, too, with so many "optional" storylines... having over 50 hours of game play made me happy.

Civ IV is something I can still play despite playing it so many times it's ridiculous... I love its custom options for size, competition (like number of other societies, what civilization you would be) in particular, and I always went with getting the scientific and industrious Ottomans after a while... even when it got "old" for a while... yep, sure enough, I'd be back sooner than most others, and playing for half an hour or letting a game last for hours on end... either was fine... all the options for victory, and yeah, still love the map options best on it. Was awesome to have to strategize all kinds of different places you'd start, land layouts, etc. just amazing.


No one said pacman....

Figures, I was reading Choose your own Adventure books from the 70s-80s the same time I was playing Adventure on my Atari 2600... I don't remember what I played on the Tandy, the Commodore 64, etc... but they were fun... it's just a mental block in my brain where school stuff sort of made everything blurry. Old consoles feel like old cars to me. In that respect, the Atari 2600=a suave, powerful Packard. My 2 definite all time faves

 

I think it is Commander Keen. Makes so much fun, even nowadays.

Ok, it's a bit old, a newer game, well then "Fahrenheit" (aka "Indigo Prophecy")

 

Age of Mythology, and Titans expansion.

Not the best game ever, it is for sure. But it is the game I enjoyed the most.

 

Yeah definitely one of my runner ups next to Unreal Tournament 2004. I put a lot of hours into that game. I try to pick it up every now and then but the goddamn cheaters in the game totally ruin it. Not to mention the fact that everyone ACCUSES everybody of cheating even if they aren't. The game is totally obnoxious now. But trust me, I would still be playing that game if it were still in good shape.

 

I'm not into multiplayer, but there is no doubt that, after all this time since the game has been released, many cheater reside on servers. But you can always play single player campaign, which is also very interesting (I played it many time, just to see other combinations of gods and their powers, the game has good replay value, although it is linear). Besides Titans expansion, check out some mods for this game, there are some interesting ones, and they will prolong your enjoying experience with this game.
This is always good place to start, and this one contains all mods for this awesome game.

 

Elite.

Duh, look at my avatar!

 

Mine would definitely be Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. Great story, Great characters, Great Gameplay !

 

tetris, pacman, arkanoid

 

Call of Duty 4

 

Warcraft 1

 

Jezzball anyone? haha

 

Of all time: Super Mario Bros on the NES.
Last ten years: Counter-Strike on the PC, this is probably the one single game which has gotten the most hours of my attention.

I'll also say that I'd consider the Metal Gear Solid series to be the best series of games of all time.

 

I thought Syphon Filter for PS1 was pretty addictive, as were Ape Escape and Tekken 3. The original RCT was great as well. The modding community made Jane's Fighters Anthology great... I wish I could get it to run on XP/Vista without having the screen turn green and purple.

Now that I have my FX, I can try playing something that was released after 2002. LOMAC has been a lot of fun and eye candy, though I haven't even brushed the surface of its functionality yet. Sometime soon I will have to try RCT 3 and Sim City 4. Until then my all-time favorites list is populated by oldies.

By the way, does anyone know of anything similar to Syphon Filter that would take advantage of a 8800gts?

 

owuld have to be the first two KOTORS, i really hope the new MMO is good, but i dont think it has anything to do with finishing off that story.

 

i put the most time into counter-strike and world of warcraft.

 

I cant hold back i need to say more great games that i love.

Dungeon Keeper 2
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Age of Empires 2
Empire Earth 1
Command and conquer pluss Red Alert 1
KOTOR
Baldurs Gate series
Final Fantasy 7,10
Counter Strike Beta 5.2 (best version of CS ever)
Half Life series
Max Payne 1,2
Tekken series
Diablo 2
Final Fight
SWG

That was the list of the best and most fun games i ever played.

 

You claim to be... 14, correct? How would you remember the CS Beta? I was only 19 or so when it came out... making you, 5 years old or so.

 

i never said i was 14 -_-

I played CS since the first beta 3.2 back in 1999 or something. No one had heard of that game than though, at lest not as many as now ^_^

 

Well I couldnt say just one, but RTS = Empire earth FPS = anything in the UT series, MMORPG = Diablo series

 

I thought you had said in another post you were 14 or 15. Hmm... well, judging by your "picture" you must be, at a max, 16. Still making you 8 or so in 1999.

 

yeah, i'd say if you are younger than 20 i don't see you beta testing that game. i don't know any 11 year old beta testing any games, or any software for that matter. but i guess it could happen. i'd more likely say most beta testers for that game were at least 14, meaning they would be like be about 23+ years old now.

 

It all depends on your knowledge of software. I started building PCs when I was 9-10, and this was back in the late 80s/early 90s where building a PC wasnt just plug and play...there were jumpers and DIP switches galore as other stuff. So it really depends on the knowledge of the user, and with as smart as some people can be I wouldn't doubt it.

 

^Early Years
Quoted for Truth, that is for my early years. I bought that instead of diablo and never had enough money for diablo after that. So never ended up playing diablo; lol.
*Monster Bash
*There was an early side-scroller with some main character with a red trenchcoat.....anyone remember who this is? It is not Carmen Sandiego.


Teenage years:
There was some strategy RPG game I played that had a story to it. I can never remember its name only the game itself.
It wasn't like C&C. This was a Crpg with a grid-base system, and an actual adventure-like story plot...had decent graphics, not some cartoony 2d thing like Fire Emblem....damnit wish I could remember it.


Present: Early Twenties:
World of Warcraft until it got too repetitive, and lost most of my original guild-mates that I leveled-up with.

 

Unreal tournament 2004
Warcraft 3 Frozen throne
World of warcraft
Crysis