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Over the next few months games will be released that change the industry, that set new standards and break new boundaries. So, before these evolutionary steps make their way into our world of computer entertainment, I'm interested to see what each of you consider your more memorable gaming moments, what games in the time you've been playing really made an impact, for you?
My picks, in no defined order...
- QuakeWorld TeamFortress
- Thief
- Grand Theft Auto 3
- Counter-Strike
- Broken Sword
Counter Stike
BF1942- Desert Combat
Nitto 1320
Close Combat 1 2 3
Worms
WHAT'S HOT
-Warcraft3
-Diablo2
-BFDC
-BFGC
-Half Life:Sven Co-Op
WHAT'S NOT
-CS on Steaming
WAITING FOR
-CZ
-Doom3
-HL2
-Diablo3
Finally another Broken Sword fan (adventure games forever!)
- Full Throttle
I remember playing this so many time.
- Broken Sword
The first PS game I ever rented from the video store. Damn that stupid goat.
- Suikoden
On a holiday overseas I spent a 5 straight days playing this to perfection. Every character discovered, every single rune or whatsit obtained and single minis or whatever done. Yes it was quite a few years ago now can't forget it EVER.
- SC: BW
Months of very late nights online. Was my true RTS calling.
- Homeworld ( Don't diss the goddamn singleplayer )
The story. Blessed the storywriter is. Before this I never believed a RTS could ever have a story that had any meaning in it.
Ahh stuffit I'll break the rules.
- Red Alert for PS
For about half a year, Friday night was Red Alert night. Neo would cart his PS to my place, use the link cable. And laggy tactics would ensue. One of the early forms we had of some sort of multiplayer RTS
Personally I don't think FF series needs to be put in because everyone knows it's always going to be there somewhere.
My top 5 games of all time
- Half-Life + MODS;Counter-Strike (from beta 6.5 to 1.5),TFC,DOD
- Warcraft 3: Reigns OF chaos
- Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne
- Unreal Tournement 2003
- Mario Kart 64
i enjoyed a few gmaes over the years
Counter-Strike
DC
Diablo 1 and 2
Doom
Blood
Counter-Strike
Quest for Glory (all of them)
Zork (all of them)
Quake II
Sam & Max: Hit The Road.
Desert Combat .35
Gabriel Knight
X-Wing
Quake 3
Day of the Tentical
1.DooM2
2.Starcraft: Broodwar
3.Warcraft 2
4.Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
5.Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
and i cant leave out Diablo II :)
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4.Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Damn j00!
How could i have left out Zelda!?!?!?!
Oh well, back to eating my chocolate.
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Mario Kart 64
When it comes out on GameCube Martok and I will be having games at my/his place with two GameCube's connected. You'll have to come round then.....or we'll kidnap you :wink:
lol, im mario kart champain at school.
Warcraft Series
Starcraft :)
Diablo 1 and 2
half-life (and associated mods)
and zork (series) for sure ;)
Quake (and everything associated with it)
Quake 3
Half-Life (+mods)
Umm. Megarace 2 and Deadlock - I played these games every day after school with my best friend for years until I got into Quake and multiplayer games.
In order
1. Final Fantasy 7
2. Quake 3
3. Counter-Strike
4. Starcraft : Brood War
5. Diablo 2
so many people play diablo2, oh and what is morrowind
mine are:
Diablo2:EXP
Warcraft3:EXP
Counter-strike
Jedi-knight 2 <--- don't ask
Natural Selection
Counter-strike
Diablo II
Vice City
Dark Reign
Quake 2
Bf1942
Diablo 2
Age of Empires
Bauldurs Gate 1 and 2
Xcom (enemy unknown and terror from the deep)
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Dark Reign
I saw Dark Reign 2 for "0 at Bits & Bytes ... made me wonder if was worth a go.
DR1 had some cool ideas, however the pseudo-3D terrain used to sh*t me off something chronic.
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5. TFC/CS - TFC was soooooooooo Fing cool back in 98-2000 for me, soldier was my game and sniper was my 2nd name hehe. CS beta2 - 2003, loved every bit of it until they changed to much of the game in beta6.7 and removed DOCKS (THE FUCKERS) from the original map pack. While the game still continues on, v1.6 just hasnt done it for me. need a change and waiting on half-life 2!!
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In order of age.
[list:7fccf0394a]- Deus Ex
- Unreal
- Half-life
- Sam n Max hit the road
- Master of Magic [/list:u:7fccf0394a]
these would top the list of dozens of games I have played and thoroughly enjoyed.
*sighs* ...games... :)
in no particular order. PC.
- System Shock 2
- Half Life and all associated modifications that were any good.
- Aces over Europe / Aces of the Pacific
- Quake 2/3
- American McGee's Alice
Can't Help myself...
Console would add a few more.
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Goldeneye 007 (n64)
- Mystic Quest: Legends
- GTA3 / Vice City
- GT3 / Colin McRae Rally 2.0
- Devil May Cry Series
- Soul Caliber
- Tenchu Series
- Syphon Filter Series
& - Final Fantasy Series
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oh and what is morrowind
1337 RPG. once you get into it.
oh yea a few more games for the record too.
Golden eye 64
Unreal tournament
Mario Kart on snes.
Tie Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Street fighter 2
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[quote:d2c698f6c7="Flammable"]
Dark Reign
I saw Dark Reign 2 for "0 at Bits & Bytes ... made me wonder if was worth a go.
DR1 had some cool ideas, however the pseudo-3D terrain used to sh*t me off something chronic.[/quote:d2c698f6c7]
never played dr2 ... dr1 was good.. i liked it anyway.
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[quote:9f529bc681="LemonJuice"]oh and what is morrowind
1337 RPG. once you get into it.
oh yea a few more games for the record too.
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oh im getting it off my friend hope i enjoy it
some others (not in order)
-FF8
-FF7
-psychic force 1/2
-guilty gear X
-Street fighter vs x-men
"Morrowind: The post man sim" :D
Kinda in order :?
Final Fantasy 7 (probably the other FF games once i play them :) )
Red Alert 2, Yuri's Revenge (For multiplayer RTS) (Dark Reign For single player)
Baldurs Gate
Diablo 2 Expansion
Tribes or (CS/NS and its mods)or Battlefield (DC)
well lemon lemmie put it this way. in normal RPG's your given a quest and you go and do it straight away. well...in morrowind you have to ask for directions before you know where to go. and once you kill/steal/cheat something or someone. it/he/she stays dead. so try not to kill anyone important :)
Anyone know what happened with Deus Ex 2 :? Last time I heard about it was at least a year ago.
Deus Ex was/is the greatest FPS ever - when you played on realistic.
Don't kill all the shopkeepers our you have no one to sell the loot to.
In no particular order
-Final Fantasy 7
-Counter-Strike
-Starcraft: Brood War
-Diablo II + Expansion
-Prince of Persia (the original and greatest one)
GL Doom
GL Quake World Team Fortress
Half Life
StarCraft Brood Wars
Quake III
I agree with Flam, the original Dark Reign rocked. DR 2 however is just ghey.
My top 5 games are:
1) UT2K3
2) Nascar
3) GTA: VC
4) e-Racer
5) Quake 2 & 3
BF and its mods.
Unreal Tournament (The First One)
Neverwinter Nights
Angband and it varients
Total Anihilation
In no particular order
Added; now I just wish to have the time to play them
1. Counter-Strike
2. Halo (Xbox)
3. Perfect Dark 64
4. Bond 64
5. Mario Cart 64
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1. Counter-Strike
2. Halo (Xbox)
3. Perfect Dark 64
4. Bond 64
5. Mario Cart 64
those games all rock i dont care what anyone else says.
those are probably my most played games ever too.
OH AND WHO COULD FORGET "DUCK HUNT" on the old nintendo. the one with the gun where u shoot the ducks.
1. Final Fantasy 7 Playstation
2. Soul Calibur Dreamcast
3. Unreal Tournament 2003 PC
4. Heavy Gear 2 PC
5. Max Payne 2 - The Fall of Max Payne PC
FF Series (Every last frikkin one, go the good 'ol text based days!)
WarCraft Series (Cheating a bit with the series I know :lol:)
Zelda: A link to the past - BEST game ever.
CS
GTA 2
-D.
1. Comand and Conquer Generals
2. Desert Combat
3. Elder Scrolls 3 : Morrowind and expansion packs
4. GTA: Vice City
5. Operation Flashpoint
CS
DC
FF7
Diablo
Diablo 2
CS
CS lan
CS 1.6
CS with Bots
CS just to be different
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CS
CS lan
CS 1.6
CS with Bots
CS just to be different
HAHHAHAHHAHA alan rules :D
Too many to quote
-All my FPS games from Wolfenstein3D/Spear of destiny to Red Faction 2 (Yes it includes Quake 3, CS, Half-life, Deus Ex, System Shock 2 etc...)
If u want a full list let me know :)
-Mech Warrior 2
- SHOGO- MAD
-All my RTS games
-FInal Fantasy (PSX) 4-9
-My huge dos game collection
-Wing Commader 2-5
And I could name ......
-My Mega Drive games
GTA3, goldeneye, smash bros, final fantasy 7, c+c tiberian sun, and a few others are my favourites....
1: Counter Strike
2: SWOTL (Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe)
3: Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
4: TFC
5: Heroes Quest 1
heroes quest? if it's the series im thinking of, they piss me off....
if it's not, then it must be good.
in no order.
1. Pacman
2. Space Invaders
3. Snake and Snake II
4. Crazy Taxi
5. Motocross Madness
I agree with Burk above.
i'd rather do taxi on GTA than friggin crazy taxi...
i must admit in all seriousness (if u missed it, my previous post was not!) GTA3 is a great game and would definately come close to the top of my top 5 list. others included would be CS, BF1942, OpFlashpoint and Motocross Madness 2!
Hmm... i'm dating back a little bit here. I guess whatever entertained me the most.
Final Fantasy 8 on Playstation. Amazing game! I would play it sometimes, and not even eat. Nothing could interrupt me! Minutes were seconds!
Age of Empires. Beautiful game, and my first RTS
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors. First serious online game I played for close to a year.
Counter-Strike. It's what's brought me where I am today :D
Battlefield 1942 & Desert Combat. Nuff said.
The Sims (and all expansions I owned) was a great game too sometimes. Perhaps when I was younger. It doesn't occupy me enough now.
yeah, we all love BF
Top 5.
QuakeWorld
DooM Legacy
Total Annihilation
QuakeWorld Team Fortress
Quake3
Also a fan of Diablo\Diablo2.
BTW, does anybody know if there's ever gonna be a SimCity version with multi-player co-op? Doubt it but I reckon it could be fun.
Anything that has a Steyr-AUG in it :mrgreen:
Halflife
GTA 3
Diablo 1
BF1942
Call Of Duty
Desert Combat
Diablo 2
Angband
Neverwinter Nights
Total Annihilation
In no particular order
FF3 + 7
Half-life + mods
Total Annihilation
Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Anything made by Blizzard (especially wc3 + TFT and)
Also any SNES rpg e.g. Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, Chrono Trigger etc :)
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2: SWOTL (Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe)
I think I've still got a copy of that on floppy somewhere in my garage :D
Okay some games that I have lost too much of my life too
1. Tekken, in all its forms
I have spent too long mastering combos, tactics, frame counting, anti-scrub, 10-hits, traps, poking, turtleing, the tripple EWGF, floats, multi throws and more. And I still could be better at the game, at my height of obsession, I was waking up from dreams where I was playing the game, and my hands were doing the combos.
2. Final Fantasy, in all form
I have finished ALL of them, the first 3 just to say I had, I recomend anyone getting into RPG's to start with these games, they are fan-tas-tic. The biggest jump in quality is from 6 to 7. Number 7 is a masterpiece, great story, great characters, great (for their time) graphics, great music. Just because number 7 is fantastic, it does not mean that the rest arent good, in order of best to worst (IMO) 7-10-8-9-5-6-3-2-1-Mystic Quest. (Mystic Quest is the only one I dont recomend :P)
3. Shenmue/Shenmue 2
Little known RPG that should be MUCH better know, these games are very very good, the story is FANTASTIC, it has love, hope, revenge, loss, betrayal, friendship, humor, and more.... The game is based in Japan/Hong Kong/China (number 3 comes out soon, who knows where that will go :P) in 1987, You play the part of Ryo Hazuki, and in one of the first scenes your Father is murded infront of you, and the story follows your quest to find your fathers killer, and seek your revenge. The game goes into so much realism and detail, they actually got the weather reports in the areas your character is in, and recreate them. The game was made by the amazing Yu Suzuki, who also made the Virtua Fighter series, after burner, and the outrun series. HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMENDED, however only on dreamcast/x-box.
4. Smackdown 1-5
More fun with 3-5 friends cannot be had :P. I have played these through from start to finnish with a bunch of mates, unlocking stuff, shouting, slapping, and screaming as the finishing moves go off :P. The recent one just out changes the system a fair bit, but is still fun, fast and accessible, the 3 things that made the game good in the first place.
5. Diablo 2
Another fantastic game, I have gone on at length about Diablo 2 before, so I am sure you know how I feel about the game, its great fun, but even more so in multiplayer. Once the game is done, you can still spen hours item hunting, building your char, leveling up, remaking with the perfect build, making novelty build chars (try a palladin with a bow) and in the latest patch, TRYING TO MAKE IT PAST HELL, fork that.
So yeah, a bit of a long winded post but eh? what the hell I felt like writing something :P
in order (kinda)
1. Counterstrike (duh) + Half-life and other mods
2. Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
3. Rogue Spear 3: Raven Sheild
4. Battlefield 1942 and mods
5. Diablo 2 + Expansion
other stuff i could add
quake 3 + mods
neverwinter nights
unreal tournament + mods and mutators
serious sam
nfs series
aoe 1 & 2
Necro-post for a link to a tear inducing nostalgic article on Broken Sword, who a few of us put in their top 5...
Feature: Broken Sword: Why it's THE thinking man's epic - ComputerAndVideoGames.com
Argh damn that goat!
so many people who never post anymore... who the fuck grows up... seriously!
Loser adults! :P
Lol, just read my epic post, and I would still keep most of my top 5 there :)
Yep, despite some amazing games since, mine remain fondly the same.
Yeah it's kinda scary that my list hasn't changed since then either.
Bf1942
Diablo 2
Age of Empires
Bauldurs Gate 1 and 2
Xcom (enemy unknown and terror from the deep)
Was my list.
Would mostly stay the same.
I play xcom atleast once a year now thanks to steam.
Finally also be able to play Bauldurs gate again thanks to GoG. Still had my original discs but could not get either 1 or 2 or any of the expansion working on windows 7 but thanks to the like of Steam and Good old Games I can play this old game I loved without as much of a hassle.
The old xcom games I don't think anything will beat them off the list while the GFX don't the gameplay still holds up and it still my favourite game of all time.
Baldur's Gate is one of the game that cemented my love of CRPGs and there is no other genre of game that has taken up more of time even if I put MMORPG in a separate category. BioWares' back catalogue is amounts the best in the industry which why I'm likely to forgive them and play The Old Republic anyway.
Age of Empire was my favourite RST but I never did play star craft at the time. Since I think Star Craft 2 has it beat from a competitive fun PoV but now my favourite RTS would have to be the Company of Heroes series. Company of Heroes took a gameplay element from a game that would likely have been on my top 10 in 2003 and improved it. That game was a title called Z by the bitmap brothers.
Diablo 2 still wins out in the action RPG stacks although I found death spank more pure fun it just lacked depth.
BF1942 none of the successors hold up the original and I never was a CS fan.
So that leaves my at.
Bf1942
Diablo 2
Age of Empires Company of Heros
Bauldurs Gate 1 and 2
Xcom (enemy unknown and terror from the deep)
But wait there is one game that was released that I think is one of the best of all time.
Portal. For me it is a toss up between BF1942 and Diablo2 over which would get cut.
I only played Broken Sword for the first time when they released the updated version for iOS a few months ago. It's one of those adventure games that got past me somehow back when that genre was still srs bsns. Although I'm only a bit over 1/2 way through I'm really digging it, so much so that I bought all the Broken Sword titles on gog.com a while back for when I eventually finish it and want to move on to the next ones in the series.
Since I never contributed my top 5 games when this thread was fresh I'm going to do it now* and win at life:
X-Com
The Secret of Monkey Island
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption
Mass Effect 2
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
* 5 chosen games subject to constant change depending on what mood I'm in when I get asked. Except for X-Com and Mass Effect, that is.
List ranking : time spent enjoying gamming.
1. World of Warcraft
2. Halo
3. Starcraft/Warcraft
4. Perfect Dark
5. Mario Brothers
haha knew you'd have x-com and monkey island in there, Bam :)
my 5 would be:
marathon
monkey island (the lot, they all count as one to me)
syndicate
dungeon keeper 2
portal
i'd love to add Myst, The Dig, mechwarrior 2, descent freespace 2, mass effect, Rune, Ghost Recon, and Tie Fighter, but i'd play any of the above before any of these
Doom (PC)
Wipe out (PS1)
Final Fantasy 7 (PS1)
CS (PC)
Civ 3 (PC)
wow 8 years :|
probably about as necro as it gets.
my list has changed definately.
Doom
Borderlands
Starcraft & Brood War
Civliasation 3
And probs gauntlet dark legacy.
And thats my last 12 years of gaming in a nutshell. Each of these games has definately impacted the way i see gaming. of course theres alot more. but we could only list 5 :(
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of course theres alot more. but we could only list 5 :(
It's a hard-and-fast rule. Those in breach of this rule may be punishable BY DEATH.
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It's a hard-and-fast rule. Those in breach of this rule may be punishable BY DEATH.
Death without respawn? or death with respawn? If death without respawn, oh noes.
If you die at GU, you die in real life. It's like the Matrix. Just FYI.
so the cake wasn't just a lie. it was a piece of my imagination? Damn :(
but how does one eat cake when "there is no spoon?"
Top 5 ? man that's hard. I can say very few in the last few years would even make it to my top 50.
For PC and sheer replay value i would prolly say...
Duke3D
CSS:GG
RA2
WC3
Morrowind
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but how does one eat cake when "there is no spoon?"
Top 5 ? man that's hard. I can say very few in the last few years would even make it to my top 50.
For PC and sheer replay value i would prolly say...
To undermine your metaphorical quote, i will eat it with my face.
And i know what you mean, game quality has being going down lately. especially last year, last year was horrible.
These questions are too biased by nostogia to be meaningful.
I mean say you are a Portal fan, and were asked to choose between Portal and Portal 2. Almost all of you would choose Portal because of the fond memories... but go replay it. Portal 2 is a superior game, but Portal will always be number one in most people's hearts because of that revolutionary feeling they got when playing it.
It is reasons like that which would mean games like Portal barely make it in to my Top 5, because as obviously awesome as Portal is, it is competing with the feelings I first had when I played Metroid, or the seven life times I wasted playing original Civ.
Better questions would be:
- Top 5 Gaming Series (then you don't need to choose between Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2)
- Top 5 Gaming Memories
For me:
Top 5 Gaming Series
1) Metroid (except the Team Ninja PoS)
2) Mass Effect
3) Civilisation (Inc. Alpha Centauri, but excluding Call to Power—it can DIAF)
4) Portal
5) Warcraft (Reluctantly inc. World of Warcraft)
Top 5 Gaming Memories
1) First time I played Metroid (original). I remember being blown away by how vast the game was, and playing it on Christmas Eve with my older cousin, getting him to help me with the boss fights.
2) The first time I played Everquest. The epic lowbie Journey from Kelethin to Qeynos. The scale and detail of Everquest blew my mind. I had experienced nothing like it at the time (late 1999).
3) *spoiler* *spoiler* Mass Effect *spoiler* *spoiler* Holy Crap *spoiler* *spoiler* *spoiler* Mass Effect 2 *spoiler* *spoiler* *spoiler* Blew my fucking mind! *spoiler*
4) My first 100+ man raid in Everquest. This was also roughly the time I decided "fuck this shit", but it still blew my mind seeing that many people working together in a virtual world.
5) The ending to Portal.