Your best gaming experience (I.E. your favorite game).

[CaptHawkeye]

Hmm,

Viet Cong. One of the last games where the devs cared about shit like immersion. You had a very decent (even though it was pretty run-of-the-mill) story, likeable and believable characters, jungle combat was very well portrayed... even if it was not a perfect game, it was one of the better fps's that depicted a real world conflict. And I dare to say: the ONLY Vietnam shooter that didn't suck donkey balls. Remember the first mission? Where you could really feel like a bad-ass sniper by finding and putting a bullet in a VC sniper camped outside the village? Nowadays its just generic shooting to shit you don't even remotely care about, like in Medal of Honor (2010) or the latest CoD, which frankly just sucks.

Yeah Viet Cong was such a cool game. It did things like have a working first person cover system. It also had so far the *best* selection of balanced guns i've seen in a shooter so far. With everything from WW2 era Mosin Nagants to state of the art M16s in one game. The missions all had a ton of atmosphere especially the tunnel rat missions which were freaky as hell.

[Chardok]

Man, Star Control II's getting a lot of love here. Makes you wonder why TFB is stuck doing cruddy movie license games (Madagascar Kartz, anyone?) I have correponded with Alex Ness on why they haven't done a preoper current-gen sequel, and his replies always amount to *shrug*.

At one point I told him to go kick Bobby Kotick in the boys and beat him about the head and shoulders with the rabid emails from the fanbase and tell Bobby-san that each email represents 60.00 that could be in the Activision coffers RIGHT NOW.

[PainRack]

Close Combat II and III.

Why? For the sheer, awesome pawning power my MG and flamer crew had in II. My MG 34 team racked up over 150 kills and 3 TANKS before he died in one of the last Nijagemen battles. My flamer had a much smaller kill count, but it involved several Panzer IVs and a Panther, The sheer awesome it brought to the Arnhem bridge was...............

In III, I had an infantry team that was proficient in killing both tanks and infantry, although sadly, I would never have the pleasure of two shot flame killing tanks that II offerred(Yeah yeah, I know, realism).

The sheer pleasure of creeping infantry up to tanks and masscaring them was addictive. Similarly, I found myself playing the Battle for Berlin and the last ending campaign as the Germans over and over again, testing my anti-tank tactics against the Soviet Horde on hard mode. Going up against 3 JS II tanks, multiple T-34 85s and Su 152 guns with only a Panther and your scratch infantry/AT gun force was.....

Ditto to the use of snipers and flamethrowers to defend the Reichstag. A sneak out, one shot that would most likely miss before moving into cover against the barrage of tank guns, flamethrowers blazing away in the Reichstag as wave after wave of Russian infantry and assault engineers rushed in....

[Stark]

Yeah Viet Cong was such a cool game. It did things like have a working first person cover system. It also had so far the *best* selection of balanced guns i've seen in a shooter so far. With everything from WW2 era Mosin Nagants to state of the art M16s in one game. The missions all had a ton of atmosphere especially the tunnel rat missions which were freaky as hell.

The tunnel missions are why I wish it worked in 64bit. Go into a pitch-black tunnel full of *redacted* with a 1911 and a lot of optimism? Sure!

The first tunnel level took me an hour to finish. It was awesome.

[Darth Yan]

halo 3 has great campaign.

[Chardok]

halo 3 has great campaign.

Care to...elaborate?

[Darth Yan]

I liked the story, the gameplay required more then just charging in and shooting, and it was addictive as hell playing coop with my dad.

[Stark]

Can you describe more than one non-appearance attribute of any of the characters?

And hilariously the game is built around charging in and shooting.

I got Severance working last night - that game had awesome melee combat. And beating goblins to death with goblin arms was awesome.

[Thanas]

Guys, I know it is used in that game, but no more calling Vietnamese "gooks" or so.

[Darth Yan]

whenever i charged in blindly i always died. dad and i had to pick enemies off methodically in order to win.

[General Zod]

whenever i charged in blindly i always died. dad and i had to pick enemies off methodically in order to win.

That doesn't mean it requires more than charging in and shooting. It just means you have to have good hand-eye coordination. It's not like the idea of requiring more than charging in and shooting is unique to Halo or anything though.

[Darth Yan]

I found that deciding a routine order of who to pick off and when, as well as advancing slowly and methodically, and making sure not to engage too many enemies at once helped, especially on the higher difficulties. That's all I meant by strategy. It's not a sophisticated one by any stretch, but I found that it worked.

[Ghost Rider]

I found that deciding a routine order of who to pick off and when, as well as advancing slowly and methodically, and making sure not to engage too many enemies at once helped, especially on the higher difficulties. That's all I meant by strategy. It's not a sophisticated one by any stretch, but I found that it worked.

Then you understand the difference between thinking and going blindly into a situation. As Zod said, this has been done since the dawn of strategic and tactical thinking. Good to see you've caught up with the average caveman.

[Darth Yan]

to be honest, halo 3 was one of the first really difficult shoot em ups I played other then the ratchet and clank series, which doesn't count since you can get really fancy armor, shitloads of health, and various obscenely powerful weapons that make killing enemies not terribly hard. Plus it doubles as a platformer. In a way, you are right. In shoot em ups, I am as tactically skilled as a caveman.

[Talhe]

In order of favorites:

Planescape: Torment. I played it almost a decade after it came out, and I still thought it was awesome. Immersive, intriguing story, likable characters and a well-built world. The game system might not have aged as well as it could have, but I count it as my favorite game.

Baldur's Gate II/Throne of Bhaal: Same reasons as above, although the plot wasn't as original. Despite using 2nd Edition AD&D rules, I thought it captured the system near perfectly, and unlike Torment, the combat system is still decent.

I think I'm suffering from nostalgia, but those are the two games I love the most.