Your favourite game of all time. Ever.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-20 09:50pm

There's too many to pick just one, so I'll pick 5, in no particular order:

Perfect Dark (N64)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Game Boy)
The SimCity series (PC)
GTA: Vice City (PS2)

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-04-20 09:57pm

Darth Yoshi wrote:Super Smash Bros. Melee. Fear my super grapple beam!

Bah. I was king of the 64 version. You simply could NOT mess with Kirby man. I was undefeated. I bestrode Hyrule Castle like a collossus. Three lvl 9s, in a team against me? No problem. All my friends in a team against me? I can dig it.

In a flat out, bare knuckled, no holds barred battle to the death, Kirby will win every time. Stock. Timed. Ownage.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-04-20 10:07pm

Total Annihilation. Installed it in 1999 and it has been present on my computer in some way or another since that day.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-04-20 10:15pm

Seiken Densetsu 3 (Super Nintendo)

Choosing character-types and then going through with other people and chopping everything up is similar to Diablo, except this game actually has a story.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-04-20 10:20pm

Seggybop wrote:Seiken Densetsu 3 (Super Nintendo)

Choosing character-types and then going through with other people and chopping everything up is similar to Diablo, except this game actually has a story.

EH?!??!?! Diablo has a HUGE backstory to it! Did you actually read the books you found in the dungeons? There were at least 20 didn't sessions in there explaining how it all went down. Which is why they didn't bother slapping that part of it into D2 (not that it didn't already have its own stroy there), because you were supposed to already know that stuff.

Now the games aren't plot driven or anything. BUT they do have an enormous backstory to them thats well worth reading. Some pretty interesting stuff.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-20 10:54pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
Darth Yoshi wrote:Super Smash Bros. Melee. Fear my super grapple beam!
Bah. I was king of the 64 version. You simply could NOT mess with Kirby man. I was undefeated. I bestrode Hyrule Castle like a collossus. Three lvl 9s, in a team against me? No problem. All my friends in a team against me? I can dig it.

In a flat out, bare knuckled, no holds barred battle to the death, Kirby will win every time. Stock. Timed. Ownage.

i liked the original, but i never liked melee, they made samus' screw attack suck -_-

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-04-20 11:18pm

Super grapple beam more than makes up for the weakened screw attack. It homes, it's twice as long as the regular grapple beam, and it doesn't increase your vulnerability time. Besides, they gave her wall jump ability, and the grapple beam latches onto walls for 3 seconds. But I use the two Links. By simply standing still, their shields stop even Charge Shot.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-21 05:55am

b.d you are melee god...

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-04-21 10:35am

Top 5 (no particular order)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis) - unadulterated platforming goodness.
Bangai-O (Dreamcast) What's not to like about a game that combines giant robots with more missiles than you could ever conceivably fit into one battleframe and ludicrously cute (and sometimes disturbing) super-deformed character design? Nothing, that's what! Bangai-O gives you more bang for your buck than any other shooter, EVER.
Soul Calibur (Dreamcast): Sorry Super Smash Brothers, but Soul Calibur is a better game, even if you're a better party game.
Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast/GameCube): One of the best RPGs EVER. Extremely definitive of the "16-bit" style of role-playing game.
Virtual On Oratorio Tangram (Dreamcast): You must play in order to believe. Kinetic, frenetic and fun. Time to crunch steel. Or ferrous-reinforced fiberplast.

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-04-21 10:35am

Arrrggghh!!! So hard to choose!!!! I guess the Age of...Series and SWGB (Armored Elephants, Mamelukes, Hydras, or Assault Mechs. Hmmmm...)

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-04-21 10:36am

Aaargh... Difficult question, I'd say that it is either Civilization III, Master of Orion II: Battle for Antares, Total Annihiliation or Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, but I can't decide with is the best.

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » 2003-04-21 10:45am

I have to go with Civilization. I was addicted to that game for years. It was a large factor in my declining high school grades.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-04-21 11:05am

TIE Fighter. Played it more times than any other game I've ever had.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-04-21 11:11am

Medieval: Total war
GoldenEye
Lord of the Realm I
Europa Universalis II
TIE Fighter

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-04-21 11:22am

1. Civilization
2. Smash Brothers
3. Baldur's Gate II: SoA
4. Super Mario 3
5. TIE Fighter: Collector's CD-Rom
6. Jedi Knight
7. Half Life
8. Neverwinter Nights
9. Warcraft II
10. Perfect Dark

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-04-21 11:32am

1. Fallout 2(played more times then I care to count)
2. BG2:SoA
3. JK1
4. TIE Fighter
5. Diablo 2+LoD
6. FF6
7. GTA:VC
8. King Of Fighters 97
9. Sonic CD
10. Capcom vs SNK 2

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-04-21 11:41am

I dun really have a favourite as it were....the games I've bought because I enjoy them all...even the ones I had been told had no real game life...I'm still playing!

In short....I have no favourites because I enjoy all meh damn games as they should be

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-04-21 04:04pm

Well since no-one else has put up[ a non-computer game i'll chip in some of my fav. com. games:

GTA:3 and GTA:VC
Warcraft 3
Starcraft
Championship Manager
Half Life
Dungeon Keeper
MechCommander
You Don't Know Jack! (The best quiz game on a PC)
Duke Nuke'm 3D
Discworld and Discworld 2
X-Com Apocolypse
One Must Fall: 2097

And other non-com. games:
Monopoly
Let's Buy Hollywood
Warhammer 40,000
Inquisitor
Blood Bowl
Gorka-Morka (If you don't know, don't ask!)
Pictionary
Charades
Cranium

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-04-21 04:40pm

Star Munchkin

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-21 05:47pm

Doom ][ !!!!

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » 2003-04-21 06:29pm

Can't believe none of you have mentioned Fronteir: Elite II. My top 10 would probably be, in no particular order:

Tetris - I don't need to say anything here.

Fronteir: Elite II - lots more scope than the original and simply incredible scale given that it ran on two 720Kb floppies. Once pointed at a star,opened the throttle wide open and left it for a few hours on full time compression to see if I really needed a hyperdrive to get between systems. Then there was a power cut. Bah. Only game I've played that comes close is Escape Velcoity on the Mac, but it's not in 3D, you can't fly round planets and it just doesn't feel the same.

Harpoon 3 (with the DB200 database) - great realism and strangely addictive with good gameplay despite graphics that wouldn't have stressed a ZX Specturm.

SimCity 2000 - it's kinda disturbing the amount of time you can spend as a virtual civil engineer.

Perfect Dark - GoldenEye, but with bots and more guns - woohoo!

Marathon 2 - better than Doom and weird story :^)

Myth II - I can't believe how nice it looked and ran on a low spec machine with software rendering.

X-Wing - I've never played TIE Fighter, so it may be better.

Halo - if you've played, you'll understand.

Cannon Fodder - I loved this game. Spend countless hours over many months playing and replyaing it on an Atari STE.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-21 06:32pm

Haha marathon 2. .. i remember that game. It was like a FPS out of the journyman project. Macintosh games are great xD ... i used to play that against other kids at my school on the LAN network there. I was totaly the best cos i played Doom ][ and Duke 3D. Hehe, suckers

(p.s.) the original controls for that game are shit.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-04-21 07:04pm

In no particular order...

Sim City 2000: Still the best of the series, especially with the mighty FUND negative interest cheat. Its gameplay was superior compared to SC3K's and it doesn't suck up computer resources like SC4 does. Arcologies are fun, too.
Civilization II: Excellent, repeatable gameplay. Civ3 was fun but corruption and the combat engine made it less enjoyable; I never played Civ1.
TIE Fighter Collector's Edition: Great gameplay, it really made you feel like you were part of the Empire. The music was great for MIDI as well (and I had a Turtle Beach GM synthesizer at the time, too ). The boost to 640x480 VESA mode was good for it's time (The W95 version, alas, will not run on my machine).
Doom: It's Doom, what more can I say?
Wolfenstein 3D: It introduced me to the FPS genre and I still have fond memories of it.
Total Annihilation: Still far and away the best ground-combat RTS I've yet played
Homeworld: Great fun, and the integration with music was well-done. Adagio for Strings remains a favorite of mine.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-04-21 07:55pm

DEFEND THE EMPIRE AS STEELE IN TIE FIGHTER!

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-04-21 08:03pm

JediNeophyte wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:The best game of all time is, of course, Tetris.
Your statement is false. It is common knowledge that Soldat is the Best Game Ever.

Soldat is great. It's like... side-scrolling Counter-Strike.