Best game series?

The Janitor · Post by **The Janitor** » 2003-02-26 07:19pm

Civilization (& Colinization) series
I remember one disasterous Civ2 game in which it took me 4000 years of continuous warfare to take a single Aztec city!
And another in which I suffered a major Nuclear attack by my best ally who just happened to be technically more advanced than me, my country was ruined & then three other countries declared war on me!
I remmber the fun of launching D-Day style invasions or of gambling that you can quickly take an enemy city with only a few units.
Any game in which these things are possible is a classic!

Colony wars
In the first game your freedom fighters in the second your fighting terrorists! Excellent spin! They are all beautiful & nigh on impossible to complete, the third one is an underrated classic & far easier to get into for the average gamer. I will never forget my disbelief at the shear amount of data you are given in the original colony wars- what do you mean you dont want the military information file on that smlll moon orbitting that small planet, well what about its general history then?

Final fantasy
Stood the test of time & evolved in so many ways. The true decider in the 'war' between the western & eastern style adventures (western style adventures had lots of freedom but no real structured plot, whilst eastern adventures were the exact opposite structured but a little linear).
Made an enormous impact when FFVII hit the big time western audience nothing in gaming history compares to the addiction one went under after witnessing that plate section collapse or clouds story of Separoth & Weissenheim or attacks by Weapon.

Somebody mentioned Turicane 1 & 2 for the C64.
I remember them but for the Amiga they were the best platform shooters I ever played, the best game on the C64 was 'Flimbos quest' it was great.

Somebody also asked how to get a version of Wing Commander Privateer...
you can get masses of Wing Commander stuff from Abandonware sites the best by a long mile being
http://www.the-underdogs.org/

This is the page with all the Wing Commander stuff...
http://www.the-underdogs.org/genre.php? ... ace+combat

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2003-02-26 07:59pm

The King of Fighters
Shining Force series
Phantasy Star series
Streets of Rage
Front Mission

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-02-26 09:23pm

OH dismay!
HOMEWORLD!
The most beautifully game ever. Epic plot. Unique combat. FIRST ever 3D RTS. Huge unencumbered(though boarded) maps. Beautiful authentic pictures right out of Nasa. Basis in human history. Commissioned song from the band, YES.

irishmick79 · Post by **irishmick79** » 2003-02-26 09:48pm

Darth Pounder wrote:Considering that American Football is one of the dullest shitist sports in the world thats not a good endorcement.

You're entitled to your opinion, I guess. I like it. It's more entertaining to me than the NBA, at least. Or soccer (football). For some reason, I just can't handle watching soccer on TV. And before you condemn me as a knee-jerk American who has too much appreciation for violence in sports, I probably should tell you I am a die hard baseball fan....

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-26 10:02pm

Final fantasy
Stood the test of time & evolved in so many ways. The true decider in the 'war' between the western & eastern style adventures (western style adventures had lots of freedom but no real structured plot, whilst eastern adventures were the exact opposite structured but a little linear).
Made an enormous impact when FFVII hit the big time western audience nothing in gaming history compares to the addiction one went under after witnessing that plate section collapse or clouds story of Separoth & Weissenheim or attacks by Weapon.

You could also argue that Final Fantasy VII was the most important game of its era, with the POSSIBLE exception of Mario 64. Forget Metal Gear Solid; Final Fantasy VII is the quintessential Playstation title.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-26 10:05pm

Durran Korr wrote:
Final fantasy
Stood the test of time & evolved in so many ways. The true decider in the 'war' between the western & eastern style adventures (western style adventures had lots of freedom but no real structured plot, whilst eastern adventures were the exact opposite structured but a little linear).
Made an enormous impact when FFVII hit the big time western audience nothing in gaming history compares to the addiction one went under after witnessing that plate section collapse or clouds story of Separoth & Weissenheim or attacks by Weapon.
You could also argue that Final Fantasy VII was the most important game of its era, with the POSSIBLE exception of Mario 64. Forget Metal Gear Solid; Final Fantasy VII is the quintessential Playstation title.

Oddly with FF7...I felt it's more to do with the fact Square/Sony advertised versus actually content.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-26 10:09pm

Ghost Rider wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:
Final fantasy
Stood the test of time & evolved in so many ways. The true decider in the 'war' between the western & eastern style adventures (western style adventures had lots of freedom but no real structured plot, whilst eastern adventures were the exact opposite structured but a little linear).
Made an enormous impact when FFVII hit the big time western audience nothing in gaming history compares to the addiction one went under after witnessing that plate section collapse or clouds story of Separoth & Weissenheim or attacks by Weapon.
You could also argue that Final Fantasy VII was the most important game of its era, with the POSSIBLE exception of Mario 64. Forget Metal Gear Solid; Final Fantasy VII is the quintessential Playstation title.
Oddly with FF7...I felt it's more to do with the fact Square/Sony advertised versus actually content.

Perhaps, although you really can't accuse FF7 of lacking content. In any case, FF7 is responsible for the enormous market that RPGs have today. Sony advertised the shit out of it for a good reason; they knew they were sitting on a gold mine.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-26 10:14pm

Durran Korr wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:
Durran Korr wrote: You could also argue that Final Fantasy VII was the most important game of its era, with the POSSIBLE exception of Mario 64. Forget Metal Gear Solid; Final Fantasy VII is the quintessential Playstation title.
Oddly with FF7...I felt it's more to do with the fact Square/Sony advertised versus actually content.
Perhaps, although you really can't accuse FF7 of lacking content. In any case, FF7 is responsible for the enormous market that RPGs have today. Sony advertised the shit out of it for a good reason; they knew they were sitting on a gold mine.

True...it helped that it was a quality game...but literally the one thing I felt the game did was that Sony/Square finally advertised a RPG instead of relying upon the small word of mouth they so constantly did and still do.

I mean games are persay not really advertised but think about how much the Sports game dominate the market of the Console?

Mostly because they have base name recognition with actually a moderate advertising(EA is many things...but they aren't complete morons)

With FF7...they advertised...and it paid off...I wish they would extend that thought a bit more, but it was something I saw very evident with FF7.

Content helped...but with advertising it showed that you didn't have to slot RPGs into a niche category.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-26 10:27pm

Content helped...but with advertising it showed that you didn't have to slot RPGs into a niche category.

It did more than that; it made grouping RPGs into the niche market a damned stupid business decision, and was probably the biggest reason the PS1 won the console war.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-26 10:32pm

Durran Korr wrote:
Content helped...but with advertising it showed that you didn't have to slot RPGs into a niche category.
It did more than that; it made grouping RPGs into the niche market a damned stupid business decision, and was probably the biggest reason the PS1 won the console war.

With the RPG...in some way(though the already had the war in many respects)

RPG are still a niche grouping at best...with 300-400K respectible sales.

FF's are the only consistent ones with millions...here or Japan(barring Dragon Quest in Japan)

But honestly Sony won the war because they basically had everyone in their corner and Sega and Nintendo were fuckin morons(sorry cart based...and Sega kept doing some stupid shit with the Saturn).

But really I would like to see more advertising persay for RPGs...becuase in general gaming...more know of Madden, then any RPG...and EA dominance is not really much about quality as much as it's just redo what the last year was, and the fans are pretty happy with that.

mantakai · Post by **mantakai** » 2003-02-27 01:07am

baulder's gate, diablo and final fantasy are some of the best games i have played through

Cap'n Hector · Post by **Cap'n Hector** » 2003-02-27 01:28am

Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle rocked...

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-27 06:24pm

Game series I HATE most:

FINAL FUCKING FANTASY.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-02-27 06:38pm

Quest. For. Glory.

What other adventure game series can your character get drunk or high, passout and find himself penniless in a ditch.

Lt. Nebfer · Post by **Lt. Nebfer** » 2003-02-27 07:27pm

warcraft 1,2&3
command&conquer(at lest the first one and RA 1&2)
Mechwarrior 2(and to an exent 3)
descent 1,2&3
half-life
starcraft(played it for 2 years)
mechwarrior 4 mercanirys(not as good as the first one but good)

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-02-28 12:56am

Darth Pounder wrote:
irishmick79 wrote:I know most of you aren't sports fans, but I have to give the best game series award to the Madden Football franchise. The franchise has been around for a remarkably long time, and the games continue to get better year after year. Can you think of another game that more accurately reflects it's real life counterpart so well?
Considering that American Football is one of the dullest shitist sports in the world thats not a good endorcement.

Amen to that, brother. They even ripped off the name

Funny thing, they ripped BOTH words from something else!

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-02-28 12:58am

salm wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
salm wrote: i was looking for Ultima V on the web, but unlike Ultima IV it´s not freeware so i cant download it. U7 was cool, never played sepent isle though.
U8 was the only Ultima i didn´t like. ascension was alright, even though it had several major annoyances.
Arr! Abandonware-France has the entire series, matey!
ok, found it. i get the following site:

http://www.abandonware-france.org/ltf-jeu.php3?id=56

i have no clue what i´m supposed to do to download due to the fact that my french is limited to "merci and jeux nes compros pas"

<edit>oh, and i tried it with a c64 emulater but that didnt work too good. it was way to slow to play seriously.</edit>

Télécharger = download
Manuel = manual

Sienthal · Post by **Sienthal** » 2003-02-28 11:10pm

Thief, hands down...And soon to be Deus Ex, with its second incarnation,

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Best game series?

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