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    Favorite Games

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Jamie, Apr 16, 2006.

  1. Jamie

    Jamie Notebook Consultant

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    What are your favorite games give a couple and rate them 1-10
     
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    Final Fantasy IX (PSX) - 10/10

    This is honestly my favorite game of all time, an emotionally involved story that many can relate to. Loving someone without being sure if they love you back, or if you're even worthy of them.. Being outcast and lonely and trying to figure out just why you're here in this world. It has a cast of characters that almost anyone can relate to.. I really love this game and the ending CG still brings tears to my eyes of it being all over again...
     
  3. Jamie

    Jamie Notebook Consultant

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    i would have to say that my top games are:
    Halo 1 and 2 8/10
    Warcraft 3 (custom games are the best) 7/10
    The Ghost Recon Series (Island Thunder great) 7/10

    oh and im a fan of mini golf
     
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    I'm still having a good time with Jump Start 1st Grade. I give it a 9 out of 10, just because of the level of challenge it offers.
     
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  5. Reize

    Reize Notebook Virtuoso

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    Lmao <_> ...
     
  6. Tim

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    I am going to move this to the gaming thread since it has to do with gaming. :p
    Tim
     
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    I'm not a big gamer but Mafia is the best game I have ever played.
     
  8. Reize

    Reize Notebook Virtuoso

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    Ooo, goodie, now my posts count =3
     
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    I'm still very fond of Elderscrolls 2 Daggerfall. I give it a 9.9/10. Chrono trigger I give a huge TEN!
     
  10. dello

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    my favorite games are:
    1.FarCry
    2.Delta Force BHD
    3.Doom III
    4.Half Life 2
    5.StarWars Republic Commando
    6.Halo
    7.Halo II
     
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    1.half life 2
    2.CoD2
    3.halo1/2
    4.BF2
     
  12. Darbyjack

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    C&C Redalert1 - 10/10

    Ghost Recon (Online) - 10/10

    Civilization 2 - 10/10

    Doom1 - 10/10

    GTA 3 -10/10

    Half Life 2 - 10/10

    Duke 3D - 10/10


    Those are all the 10/10 games i can think of right now that I own
     
  13. Photoguy30523

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    NFS most wanted
     
  14. Reize

    Reize Notebook Virtuoso

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    Pong FTW!!
     
  15. Phil17

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    1.)Monkey Island 3; I know I am nostalgic :)
    2.)Oblivion
    3.)GTA San Andreas
     
  16. dgkulzer

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    1 F.E.A.R. (first time I have been scared by a 13 year old girl :) )
    2 Half Life 2 (just incredible)
    3 Painkiller (fun game that alot of people havent heard of)
    4 FarCry (incredible graphics)
    5 BF1942 (might not have the best graphics but it is the funnest WWII game to play)
    6 GTA Series (all of the games in the series are pretty good)
    7 Ratchet & Clank (fun series on the PS2)
     
  17. Notebook Solutions

    Notebook Solutions Company Representative NBR Reviewer

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    1. Zelda Ocarina of Time...this game is a Legend!
    2. Elders Scroll 4: Oblivion...I was never in a game like this. I began to shout: FOR THE EMPIRE at home.
    3. Final Fantasy X: great game, I have good memories about it.
    4. America's Army: the great time I had killing noobs!
    5. Goldeneye on N64: Revolutionery!
    6. GTA 3: great ambience!
    7. Hitman: all series.
    8. Half Life 2: great story and creapy.
    9. FEAR: Incredible scary game.
    10. Splintercell: all series
     
  18. Jamie

    Jamie Notebook Consultant

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    Oh my gosh FEAR is by far the scariest thing in the whole world. Me and a couple GUY friends played through the demo and we were all about to piss our pants and there was about five guys in the room so it would be one of those times where you try to look manly and not be scared by something and we were all like screaming like little babies at every turn. Then we played through it again and saw some stuff we didnt see before and were even more scared.
     
  19. Jamie

    Jamie Notebook Consultant

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    ya darby im not so sure you can just rate all the games you like at 10/10 that is alittle deceiving, you have to like some more than others so they cant all get a 10
     
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    well i been hooked on battlefield 2 lately but i also play halo and mafia PC games so i'll rate them 10, 8 and 9 respectfully.
     
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    FFXI - 10
    BF2-8
    CS-10
    CS:S-7
    FF7-10
    FF8-10
    FF9-10
    FFX-10
    FFX2-8
    Super Mario RPG legend of the 7 stars - 10
    Earthbound - 10
    NHL1994- 9
    F.E.A.R. - 8
    Star Ocean Until the End of Time- 9
    TES3- Morrowind -9
    TES4- Oblivion - 9

    im sure ill think of more.

    pb,out.

    -edit-
    Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
     
  22. CaliDell

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    I can't belive no one has mentioned U.S. Navy Fighters Gold....this was a kick @ss (but now outdated) flight sim. It had everything!! Night and day carrier landings, VTOL aircraft, in-depth mission assignments...SWEET!

    Although, here are a few of my other favs:

    Excite Bike = CLASSIC
    Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
    Gran Tourismo, the series
    Halo 2
    HL 2
    BF2
     
  23. Elderlycrawfish

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    X-Com: UFO Defense for the win. 10 out of 10.

    One of the only games that I still fire up once a year or so, that can consume as much playing time as when I first tried it.

    There's that giddy feeling you get after you obtain and research a Blaster Launcher. Alien crash site, alien near a farmhouse; target and fire, watch the alien, the farmhouse, the hull to the crashed ship, 2 aliens in the ship, not to mention the 4 soldiers you thought were far from the blast radius, all go up in a mushroom cloud of fire and smoke. :D
     
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    It would probably not be as good if I tried it now but as a kid I used to really like Kid Icarus on the NES.
     
  25. Reize

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    I love FFXI as well, forgot to mention that. Just FFIX is my favorite game, period.
     
  26. pbcustom98

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    reize, what server are you on? im on valefor.

    pb,out.
     
  27. Reize

    Reize Notebook Virtuoso

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    I told you before, I'm on Titan =P
     
  28. pbcustom98

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    dont remember that lol..

    also like to add
    Zombies Ate My Neighbors! 10
    Super Punch Out - 9
    Mega Man series - 8

    pb,out.
     
  29. skywalker

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    For me, Zelda-Link to the Past 9/10, and all Hitman series 8/10
    I am not a gamer, but I play some games occasionally :)
     
  30. Jamie

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    I think one of the most addiciting games and im sorry that no one has thought of it. is Starcraft. That is a classic every time i play there is something i want to try. Two favorite things in the game. Actually three. 1)Having a line of seige tank defense so strong that any zerg army within range is imediatly turned into manure by about 50 tanks at one time. 2) A fleet of carriers hidden by an arbiter or recalled into the middle of their base, such unexpected decimation. 3) drop ship three ghosts in range of their base, call down three nukes, dropship three ghosts out, no more base.

    ok and another favorite is having one of the originally made untis make it until the end of the game and their kill count is well into the 100's

    SWEET
     
  31. tianx

    tianx Notebook Geek

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    80's... Super Mario Brothers, Pacman
    90's... Megaman Series, FF3 (or 6 depending on where you're from) Plus a bunch of SNES games... those rocked...
    Late 90's... Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft.... Talk about replay value ;)
    Recent... Mmmm... Half-Life:CS Halo, Doom3, Oblivion :D Rowr

    Wow... Long Game there :p

    1. Tank Defence... Send in the Crabs!
    2. Carrier/Arb... Lock down the Arbiter, Drop an Emp, Call in the Goliaths and watch them burn
    3. Ghosts? wow... Kudos to you if you can pull off nukes :)
     
  32. Aero

    Aero PC/Mac...Whatever works! NBR Reviewer

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    Red Alert 2, Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots, Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, Counter-Strike 1.6 and I guess thats all I like for now.

    Im much into strategy games :)
     
  33. Reize

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    There's no such thing as a long game if you've never played an MMORPG.
     
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    Aero PC/Mac...Whatever works! NBR Reviewer

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    Any game can last 10 hours or 100 hours depending how long you play it for :).
     
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    Well... I was quoting the Starcraft game he placed :p Any strat game that takes more than an hour to play is way too long.

    as for MMO's... well... that's right... no such thing as a long game... heck... a few years back I was MUDding for 12-15 hours a day :p
     
  36. Reize

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    Try an MMORPG, I've got over 3000 hours clocked on FFXI.
     
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    :eek: To much time...thats 125 days...Like 1/3 of a year...My god man...
     
  38. Reize

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    I've been playing it since December 2003.
     
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    125 days :eek:
     
  40. Reize

    Reize Notebook Virtuoso

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    I've clocked 130 days. It's been 838 days since then.

    So about 15% of my time was spent on there, I sleep only 6 hours a night, so I'm up about 15,084 hours since then, and then around 3000 hours. So only about 1/5th of my time.
     
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    What a mission...
     
  42. Reize

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    And then you count the times I've fallen asleep at it, and left it on selling things and it's about... Only 1/7th of my time so...
     
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    oh that wasnt in one game

    Wow... Long Game there :p

    1. Tank Defence... Send in the Crabs!
    2. Carrier/Arb... Lock down the Arbiter, Drop an Emp, Call in the Goliaths and watch them burn
    3. Ghosts? wow... Kudos to you if you can pull off nukes

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    1. just becuase i have alot of tanks doesnt mean i have no air defence. Wraiths and the turrets are there to so the crabs would just have to take it from my wraiths
    2. IF the ghost got close enough to lock down the arbiter and if you managed to drop an emp before the whole base was leveled the other arbiter back in my base would just recall my fleet home safe.
    3. nukes arent that hard if you can create a substantial distraction.

    cheers
     
  44. OmgItsCollege

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    Hello, I'm new...just wanted to mention one game that isn't even out yet...

    Zelda: Twilight Princess

    I'm still waiting for this game. Too bad it comes out near Novemer.
     
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    Star Control 2 -10/10!
    -Top of my list, definite classic, too bad Accolade ruined the series after

    X-Com - 10/10!
    -Yet another classic... a modern version would be AWESOME

    Freelancer - 9/10
    -Gorgeous game, good story... deserves a sequel... the space sim/action genre has been sorely lacking

    Dune 2 - 9/10
    -The one that started it all! Instantly addicted back in the day... was all confused when a nearly identical game called Warcraft came out soon after

    Elder Scrolls: Morrowind - 9/10
    -I love RPGs... and when I played Morrowind it blew me away... took RPGing to a whole new level. Gorgeous graphics, huge gameworld, amazing attention to detail... just got my hands on Oblivion so bye bye life!

    Civilization 1 - 9/10
    -Ah yes, the original... this also sucked away countless hours of my life

    There's too many others to list, but these are among my most favourite
     
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    I'd have to rank mine by how much of my life they consumed.
    1. Counter-Strike
    2. Dark Age of Camelot
    3. Battlefield 1942

    Oh and Reize, I see you are in WV. What area? I work in Charleston and live in Teays Valley.
     
  47. Jamie

    Jamie Notebook Consultant

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    i play alot of games and i dont really see what CS is so popular. the times i have played it, it seemed slow and outdated by other more advanced games. is there something i am missing?

    Thank you all for your posts on games.

    Im about to make a major investment in a latop and im still kinda fuzzy on what games i should buy. if you know anything recent that is worthy of recognition it would help.

    thanks
     
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    OK, I'll show my age (rated by how much time I spent playing):

    Dune (the original) - 8
    Terminator - 6
    Civilization III - 5
    Total Annihilation (deserved better than extincton) - 9
    Age of Conquers - 9
    Empire Earth - 6
    Quake (various versions) - 3
    Rise of Nations - 9
    Doom 1 - 8
    Doom 3 - 6
     
  49. winterymix

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    Jamie, CS appeals to me so much because of it's realism (relative to other games of course). Simple, direct objectives. Team vs team play (which was really quite new when CS came out). Also, CS can be a completely different game when you are playing with a fairly organized group of friends and are utilizying voice chat. If you've ever played any of the Battlefield games, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Plus, veteran CS players know the maps and weapons *intimately*, and it's fun playing at something you really know. I know I'm rambling, but the other thing I like is the extreamly steep learning curve of CS. You can play for a year and still really be learning the game. The dated graphics have never bothered me a bit. I still like the original better than Source.
    -Wintery
     
  50. Jamie

    Jamie Notebook Consultant

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    Thats cool but i have played alot of Halo 2 online with xbox. how is it better than that. i know most of it is opinion but there has to be something about it if it proclaimed as such a great game by so many people. it just seems a little plain to me, like the gameplay. whereas halo has lots of different weapons options and strategies. i dont see that in CS. thanks for the reply.
     
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