The greatest games...

[Farrowlesparrow]

The greates games...

What are your, perhaps not so greatest games?

I know this has been done before, but there are more people now...


I downloaded Desert Combat for BF1942 the toher day. I have to say it is shocking how good that game is. I would play that any day of the week over most fo the games i have.

I Got the demo for Max Payne 2...Thats amazing and i will soon be buying the full game.

I also got the demo for Halo and i have to say up until a couple of weeks ago when i found out more about the story, i thought Halo was just going to be poor, buts its really fun and has a good story. I want to get the full game now.

Other favourites are Avp2, Medieval Total War, Half-Life, Natural Selection, Sven Co-Op, Homeworld 2, C&C Generals/Zero Hour, and various other Hl mods...

 

[Uplink]

Greatest games ever eh? Deep breath...

Half-Life, Deus Ex, Battlefield 1942, Max Payne, Halo, Jedi Knight I,II and Academy, Call of Duty, Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Black and White, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Tribes 2, Metriod Fusion, Metroid Prime, Tomb Raider II, Soul Caliber II, Unreal Tournament 2003, Medieval Total War
Quick, we're running out of games!

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Oooh I forgot Call Of Duty..Iw ant that as well. Black and White was fun, but i want the second one

 

[dawdler]

It depends on what one mean greatest game... Many (99.9%) games have flaws, that make them very excellent games, but not great games. I dont really think I have seen a 'great' game yet. And even if there where one, I probably havent played it.


Example with RPGs:

Take Baldurs Gate. Great? It is awesome!!! But it (and BG2) suffers from something as simple as detachment from the main character (sure, you level up, but where is the soul of your character). This is not a very good flaw in an RPG, is it? Not to mention, it had very static enviroment.

On the other end, Gothic (and II) does everything BG (and II) doesnt do for its character. Perfect then, THE great game? Hardly. Sure, Gothic II (cant speak for I, havent played it) offers a VERY alive world, much better than any RPG I have ever seen, but it isnt a true RPG. Its an RPAG. Meaning, you cant truly roleplay in it (although you can do stuff like sit in chairs, smoke weed (yes, literally ) and such).

Now look at Morrowind. It has good character interactiviy (clothes and junk) AND pretty enviroments AND true roleplay! But its an awfull adventure in the end. Actually, you live so much in your character and is given so much freedom the world becomes detached instead. Vvardenfell is a very dull place.


Excellent games, none of them the 'greatest'

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

There ive changed my question...

 

[Brian Damage]

Planescape Torment was good. So were all the BG and Fallout games. NWN was kinda boring, but the downloadable campaigns make up for that. DX was awesome. HL goes without mention, of course(first modern PC game I played that I actually liked). Frontier and FFE were a couple of the coolest games I've ever played. X was almost as good, and Freelancer was good but too short. Quake II was good for a blast, and Serious Sam was great in a shallow kind of way.

Sam 'n Max Hit the Road rules most of them, though.:E

 

[Kadayi]

LOL

To my mind I guess you should have instead 'gamings greatest moments', after all it's the incidents that make games memorable.

One of the greatest moments in a game for me was in MoH:AA. After the Normandy invasion you have orders to meet some dudes at a farm house, but when you get there suddenly your contact get's sniped in the head and you and your squadmates come under assault from a platoon of german stormtroopers.

At the time as I watched in dismay as the germans emerged from orchard behind the farmhouse I distinctly remember thinking 'Jesus ****ing Christ....the AI is actually attacking!! WTF!!!' as the adrenalin kicked in. Now we take this stuff for granted, but at the time it was quite revolutionary.

 

[el Chi]

Personally I thought the Halo demo was particularly unimpressive. Meh...

Anyhoo <Deep breath also> : Half Life (inc. Op4), Deus Ex, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Monkey Island games, Day of the Tentacle, Tekken Tag Tournament, The GTA series (especially Vice City, natch), Theme Hospital, Max Payne (hnnngh, sorta), No One Lives Forever (the original), Giants (EVERYONE should have this game), Tomb Raider II (at the time), Splinter Cell (sorta), The Thing (but mainly because I was pleasantly surprised at how far it exceeded my expectations), Midtown Madness (the game that, along with Bullit, made me desperately crave an old Mustang)

 

[dawdler]

Originally posted by Kadayi Polokov
To my mind I guess you should have instead 'gamings greatest moments', after all it's the incidents that make games memorable.

With that in mind, I can definetly say Gothic II!

Your enemy (unknown) has just wrecked a vital artifact, defiled it. You take your priest of the three major gods to repair it, in ceremony of fireworks and praying, all within a deep forrest and a stonehenge style rock formation.
But you cant do it of course. You walk around in full metal plate armor and a badass axe on your back and pick flowers. Nothing more... You just walk around... And pick flowers in the forrest... :E

 

[thehunter1320]

i really like NFSU right now.... morrowind, HL, GTA series, CoD, max payne 1 and 2, TLOR: The Return of the King for GCN, sum others i can't think of... METROID PRIME!!! that was an absolutely great game experience!

 

[Anthraxxx]

Hmmm... greatest games....

Super Mario Bros. 1-4
All the Zeldas
Goldeneye
Contra
Super Metroid
Metroid Prime
Wing Zero(All your base are belong to us!)
Sonic the Hedgehog
Asteroid
IMO, pretty much every Final Fantasy games even though some were better than others.
ChronoTrigger
MarioKart on the SNES
Half-Life
the soon to be HL2
Doom I, II, and the upcoming III
Duke Nukem 3d
Rainbow Six, Rogue Spear, Raven Shield
Splinter Cell
Ghost Recon(f you can't tell, i'm a big Tom Clancy fan)
All the Jedi knight/academy
the first Star Wars Rogue Squadron on the pc
Crimson Skies is still the most kick ass arcade style flying game out there
Deus Ex
Soldier of Fortune I and II <- not the greatest, but was still assloads of fun
Call of Duty
Black & White
Medal of Honor: AA
Halo and the upcoming Halo 2
Need for Speed: 2, Hot Pursuit, Hot Pursuit 2, Porsche Unleashed, Underground.
Duck Hunt
Diablo I,II
Morrowind
Neverwinter Nights
Tron lightcycle racing
Max Payne I, II
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time <- very kick ass game
Resident Evil for the Gaycube
the Tekken series
Dead or Alive 3 <- Very kick ass if you get to play it on an HDTV
Unreal Tournament, UT 2k3, and hopefully UT2k4
Hmmm... I can't seem to think of any more....

 

[thehunter1320]

Originally posted by Anthraxxx
Hmmm... greatest games....

Super Mario Bros. 1-4
All the Zeldas
Goldeneye
Contra
Super Metroid
Metroid Prime
Wing Zero(All your base are belong to us!)
Sonic the Hedgehog
Asteroid
IMO, pretty much every Final Fantasy games even though some were better than others.
ChronoTrigger
MarioKart on the SNES
Half-Life
the soon to be HL2
Doom I, II, and the upcoming III
Duke Nukem 3d
Rainbow Six, Rogue Spear, Raven Shield
Splinter Cell
Ghost Recon(f you can't tell, i'm a big Tom Clancy fan)
All the Jedi knight/academy
the first Star Wars Rogue Squadron on the pc
Crimson Skies is still the most kick ass arcade style flying game out there
Deus Ex
Soldier of Fortune I and II <- not the greatest, but was still assloads of fun
Call of Duty
Black & White
Medal of Honor: AA
Halo and the upcoming Halo 2
Need for Speed: 2, Hot Pursuit, Hot Pursuit 2, Porsche Unleashed, Underground.
Duck Hunt
Diablo I,II
Morrowind
Neverwinter Nights
Tron lightcycle racing
Max Payne I, II
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time <- very kick ass game
Resident Evil for the Gaycube
the Tekken series
Dead or Alive 3 <- Very kick ass if you get to play it on an HDTV
Unreal Tournament, UT 2k3, and hopefully UT2k4
Hmmm... I can't seem to think of any more....

i agree with u... except for 1 thing... GAYcube? the GAMEcube has some of the greatest games ever to it's record! metroid, mario, wind waker, viewtiful joe, mario kart double dash, RE zero, Rouge Leader 2/3, Super Smash Bros., and Super Moneky Ball just to name a few!

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

I am going to list a few important moments in gaming for me:



1. Trying lemings and getting hooked
2. Tried random games, couldent shoot streight so quit (FPS)
3. Played the ammazing game Age of Empires the orriginal. Got hooked
4. Played Total Annhination. Got Obsesive.
5. Tried a demo of half life. Got bored of dieing uninstalled
6. 4 Weeks later tried HL again. (I got drawn to it by freaky forces)
7. 1 hour later: Completed HLdemo several times!
8. Next day went to friends and played HL on his PC. No correction watched him play. He wouldent let me play much because he didnt want to spoil it for himself. I happily watched with a twitching feeling.
9. Weekend. Bought HL
10. Nothing much happens for along long time while I play CS and other mods
11. Played deus ex Demo. Got hooked imediately. It actually made me think!!!!
12. Bought game, enjoyed game for huge amount of time!!!
13. Bought more games, Project IGI, Operation Flashpoint, Max Payne, etc.
14. More recently played BF1942, got hooked.
15. Bought BF1942, got mod Desert combat.
16. Still playing DC avidly! And can fly now!!!
17. Just recently Got brand new PC and waiting for HL2/Doom3/S.T.A.L.K.E.R/farcry/TA2/MORE.




So in effect, Lemmings is my most important game of old time.
Then Age Of empires + TA
Then Half life
Deus Ex
BF1942 + others
Then waiting for HL2 ( Iactualy got bored of PC games until I heard about HL2, then I jumped up and signed up to these forums knowing it would be huge!!!)





Sorry about the jumbled post there ^^ I don't have time to correct it

 

[thehunter1320]

OMG!!!! lemmings was so awesome!

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

It sure was!!! lol



Oh and i think before that I played Duck Hunt!!!


Anyone remember that!






I never actually played DOOM until later when I saw it at my uncles house and played it then. Of course it seemed silly because I had allready played HL. But I still enjoyed shooting malliciously

 

[The Terminator]

1. Some dos school bus game
2. Raven
3. Goldeneye
4. Perfect dark
5. Super mario Bros
6. Duck hunt
7. R-type
8. Age of Empires 2
9. Medal of Honor AA
10. Need for speed HP,Porsche Unleashed,underground
11. Raven Shield
12. Counter Strike
13. Max Payne
14. Zelda
15. Doom
16. All Sonics
17. Zelda 64
18. Splinter Cell
19. Call of Duty
20. Duke Nukem
21. Halo
22. Neverwinter NIghts
23. Artifact

 

[Dedalus]

wow where to begin...

the Ultima Series
Doom I & II
Quake I
Duke Nukem 3D
Civilization I
Sensible Soccer
Championship Manager 2
Grand Theft Auto
System Shock
System Shock 2
SimCity
Commandos I & II
Unreal Tournament
Planescape Torment
Morrowind
Rainbow Six
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Half-Life/Opposing Force
Deus Ex
Hidden & Dangerous I & II
Republic: The Revolution
1nsane
Jedi Knight I & II & Academy
Grim Fandango
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Monkey Island I & II
Sam & Max
Day of The Tentacle
GTA III
Vice City
X-Wing
Tie-Fighter
Shogun
Tetris

there's more i just can't remember.

favourite game of all time? tricky one, but i'd have to say Civilization.

does everyone else have 1 single fave game?

 

[Subz]

chronotrigger
deusex
halflife
doom
maxpayne
GtaII/III/VC
Soul Caliber I/II
NBA JAM
Mario Bros III
BF 1942
Quake2
Twisted Metal 2
System Shock II

 

[Lil' Timmy]

you guys are forgetting myth (first one). that game had the best atmosphere of any game i've ever played.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Hey, El_Chi is back.

Mine, in no particular order, and their defining moments:
Half-Life
- The experiment (bang! erk! Whizz! ARrgh! Splat! Eh? etc) and the tentacle.
System Shock 2
- The little game console. And shodan's "if you go into that room I will kill you".
GTA: Vice City
- Stealing some idiot's pink superbike
Hidden and Dangerous
- setting up an amazing plan and watching as all my men get run over by a train
Battlefield 1942
- A LAN jeep race and three people in a bomber
Baulder's Gate 2
- Go for the eyes, boo!
Deus Ex
- Hitting a tramp repeatedly with a basketball
X-Wing
- attacking a star destroyer
Max Payne
- The 'Lords and Ladies' TV show.
Dyson Telescoping Hoover game
- Finally beating level 23.
Escape from Monkey Island - How approriate, you fight like a cow.
Counterstrike
- My first headshot (with the M4) - ah, bless.
Metal Gear Solid
- CD case based tomfoolery.
Syphon Filter 2
- Taking a whole day to finish the first level. And my first multiplayer knife.
Timesplitters 2
- The first level when the base goes kaput and Spetznas are sent in.

Erm, and that's it.

 

[Shuzer]

Let's see..

PC:

Half-Life
Max Payne/2
StarCraft/BroodWar
Dungeon Siege
StarWars Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight


GameCube:

TimeSplitters 2 (definitely an underrated game)
Luigi's Mansion (I really liked it.. dunno why so many people hated it)
Super Mario Sunshine
StarFox Adventures
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Monkey Ball
Pikmin


PS2:

SOCOM
Twisted Metal Black
Parappa the Rapper 2


N64:

Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Mischief Makers
BLAST Corps
Super Mario 64
StarFox 64
DiddyKong Racing
StarWars Shadows of the Empire
WaveRace 64


PSX:

Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy Tactics
Megaman X4/5/6
Wild Arms
The Granstream Saga
Reboot
Parappa the Rapper


SNES:

Final Fantasy 3
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario RPG
Breath of Fire 2
Breath of Fire
Megaman X/2/3
EVO


Genesis:

Zero Tolerance
Phantasy Star IV


GameBoy/Color/Advance:

Megaman Extreme/2
Final Fantasy Legend II
Super Monkey Ball Jr.
Metroid Fusion


GameGear:

Ninku
Phantom 2040


MasterSystem:

Zillion



..lol, those are all the games I remember well and have played countless times.. the good games that I love, still own all of those

 

[Prince of China]

Soldier of Fortune II

 

[Lil' Timmy]

oh and lucas arts' Outlaws, along with Interstate '76. great games.

 

[Subz]

shit yah how culd i forget I-76 and full throttle!

 

[Lil' Timmy]

oh yeah, full throttle! although i think i'd give the nod to i-76. man, what a ****ing great game that was, why don't they make them like that anymore? in no order, to recap (pc only):

i-76
doom
halflife
outlaws
myth
homeworld
full throttle
starcraft
civ1
c&c

 

[Letters]

Super Mario World
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Mario Kart
Super Metroid
Secret of Mana
Act Raiser (I don't know if I'm spelling that right...)
Super Mario World 2
Super Mario RPG
Mario 64
Goldeneye (and Perfect Dark)
Diddy Kong Racing
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Sim City 2000
Creatures
Creatures 3
Age of Empires
Team Fortress Classic
Baldur's Gate 2
Final Fantasy VIII
Starsiege Tribes Demo
Deus Ex
Icewind Dale II

Well, that's all I can remember right now.

Many have been too recent for me to tell yet.

(edit: Honorable mention for Neverwinter Nights's editor)

 

[synth]

I like to keep my "greatest games" list to games that I think are great, not every game I've played, like some others have done...

Doom
Myst
Half-Life
Morrowind
Starcraft
Alpha Centauri

 

[LoneDeranger]

Total Annihilation - 7-8 nearly simultaneuos nuclear strikes on the enemy base. Several missiles are intercepted by the anti missile system detonating midway through the map and destroying an outpost and an aircraft on patrol in the area. The map shakes as the other missiles reach their target. But there is no victory screen. The commander has escaped again and the base is already being rebuilt. I love this game :cheese:

Battlezone - the enemy attack has failed, only one tank is left and it is retreating. It must be the commander. You give chase, but your bomber is no match for his faster scout. Your last hope is to fire off the two missiles, which speed toward his vehicle. The guy ejects, and now the hunt begins ...

Red Alert - build 50 nuclear trucks and park them side by side for one hell of a chain reaction.

GTA: Vice City - 4 Mexicans on dirk bikes are sent to kill you. You get out of the car, take out your minigun and let the fun begin.

 

[Ele]

ufo: Enemy unknown
- the no.1 strategy-game. Oh, if someone would remake this true classic(ufo:a-m sucked imo)
quake2
- It was a blast. Loved the music.
Terranova
- many of you might have missed this game. One of the first(?) Squad based fps-game set in future. Still one of the best games i know. Oh damn.. should i install it again...
half-life
- Well, yup
mechwarrior2
- Critical hit. The first game i bought. Marauder \o/ (too bad they stopped making BT:3025 :/)

 

[JohnnyBeverage]

All Ultima games
Daggerfall
Wolfenstein
Civilization II
Alpha Centuari
Quake
Mule
Halflife
Thief
BurgerTime
Qbert
DukeNukem
Unreal
Red Neck Rampage

 

[Brian Damage]

I forgot to mention Virus. Never could hit anything for shit, but it was one of the best games I've ever played. I can still remember the noises the different alien ships made.

*NnrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRR*
*Weebleweebleweebleweebleweebleweeble*
*Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhpishtpishtpisht*

:E

 

[mchammer75040]

No lunar love on here(didnt see anyone mention it if you did nvm)?? Eh thats my fav game..theres others but im too lazy to type them up lol.

 

[Shuzer]

Originally posted by synth
I like to keep my "greatest games" list to games that I think are great, not every game I've played, like some others have done...

I've played hundreds more games than the ones I listed, but honestly, those are the greatest games I've ever played.. they'll always be my favorite games and in my book.. the best ones

 

[Lil' Timmy]

shuzer, did you ever play landstalker for the genesis? that game was awesome (along with ps, probably the only good rpg on genesis).

 

[Shuzer]

Originally posted by Lil' Timmy
shuzer, did you ever play landstalker for the genesis? that game was awesome (along with ps, probably the only good rpg on genesis).

Can't say that I did.. I rented ALOT more SNES games than Genesis games.. but, still, rented alot on both systems

 

[Lil' Timmy]

you should rom it if you can find it. afaik, sega has no beef with genesis roms, which is cool. i wonder if nintendo is still tight about that..

 

[Fat_Bob]

Half-Life all the way Baby :E

 

[Baal]

Rock and Roll Racing!!!!!!!!!!!!! (SNES)

 

[Shuzer]

Originally posted by Lil' Timmy
you should rom it if you can find it. afaik, sega has no beef with genesis roms, which is cool. i wonder if nintendo is still tight about that..

Considering Nintendo is recycling all of their old games and not really turning out alot of new classics for GBA, they probably do =(

 

[AmishSlayer]

FF7
FF3 - Or FF6..I always forget which is the US version...
FFX (Completely kicked that game's ass. Everyone went around the whole sphere grid. Killed the 10million life guy)
GTA Series
Halo (Both Versions) - Not used to PC controls quite yet because I've been playing it for a few years on Xbox
MGS1
MGS2 - Can't wait for Snake Eater
Devil May Cry 1 - (DMC 2 sucked hardcore)
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Smash Bros.
Smash Bros. Melee
Worms series
Chrono Trigger
Battletoads vs Double Dragon
KIRBY'S ADVENTURE (BEST NINTENDO GAME EVER!!)
Kirby's Dream Course
BF1942 & DC
HL1 & CS
Warcraft 3
Starcraft
Carmageddon 1 & 2
Cannon Fodder 1 & 2
Soul Calibur 1 (haven't played 2 yet)
NHL 93 (Played so many seasons on that game)
Mario Bros. Series (Especially Mario 64)
Contra
Sonic games
X-Wing and other Star Wars flight games
Tribes 2
Zelda: Link to the Past and Link's Awakening
Guardian Heroes (Sega Saturn) - Not many have played this one I bet. I had a blast with it though.
That's all I can think of right now. I know there's a ton I'm forgetting.

EDIT: I didn't like Zelda 64 or its sequel Majora's mask. Didn't like Morrowind - Too much freedom and no story for me. Call of Duty was awesome to begin with. Russian campaign wasn't fun for me. Splinter Cell was ok. I got annoyed when someone would see me in the dark when I wasn't moving.. then I'd shoot them before they made any noise and somehow the entire floor knew exactly where I was. Perfect Dark was just overrated in my mind.