Spore, I got to play it last year for a short time and it was awesome...sadly some stuff I heard was taken out, but this is favorite game by far, you'll all be impressed by this.
In all seriousness, I'm torn between Ducktales and A Link to the Past.
Ah Ducktales, indeed a very good game surprisingly to me. Thus one of the better NES games I ever saw was Jurassic Park (even more of a shock to me). It was done fairly late in the NES era and the graphics were just stunning for its time. Also the gameplay was variating and plain fun. Not to mention super hard (which most NES games felt to be IMO)
$OE lies list http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0 " And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
1) Lords of Midnight - Highly original game for ZX Spectrum and a genre which to my knowledge was never really built on ( a kind of mix of RPG and turn based war strategy played in 3D). Particularly impressive since the whole thing was less than 48k. Someone made a conversion for windows if anyone wants to try it out.
2) Morrowind is (for me) without question the king of RPGs.
3) X-COM - and pretty much any other Julian Gollop game - some really original and special turn based games. Some good fun multi-player games too.
4) Might and Magic - the whole series including heroes.
5) Civilization (I think I probably played 2 the most from the series)
6) Avalon - Text MUD world - Now 20 years old. This has all the componants many of us long for from MMORPGs. Sandbox world where you have the tools and options to follow any path you choose, whether that be economic, political, war strategy etc.and it's a world where your actions feel like they can really make a difference to the history. Now if only they could make that with graphics...
Anarchy-Online, my first mmorpg i ever played, enjoyed it for three years, after that i've always played mmorpgs. When my brother brought it, i though it was some lame 3th person shooting game, died five times trying to kill those leets on the startup area.
Before you decide which game you think is the best game ever made in history, I want you to do the following:
Think very hard, the first games that pops up in your mind might be false. They might be the games you have had the MOST FUN WITH in your life but that is NOT what I want you to do, I want you to say the BEST game that perhaps was ever made in history.
Best balance, most fitting graphics (notice I didn't say BEST graphics I said the graphics that fit the theme/mood of the game better, let's say Fallout 2 for example, the game's graphics might not be GOOD but I can honestly not find any other graphics that would FIT the game better).
Comment: Oh my, oh my... this is THE GAME to me. RTS in all the pride but StarCraft is something special. Might I say the most balanced game ever? The graphics and style is overwhelming and I never find the art old. It's dark and gritty, the music gives me the creeps, not to mention the terran songs I keep singing to myself and I am yet amazed they managed to get each and every race so different... it's like 3 different games playing each race. The game is still enjoyable today and it's still the golden obvious game for every LAN party I have. Then again, the game is "the national sport in Korea"
Runner up:
PERFECT DARK (FPS game - Nintendo 64 - Released 2000)
Comment: Some might think Goldeneye 64, but Perfect Dark is basicly the same thing but 10, or even 20 times better! Built on the same engine, this game offered endless multiplayer functions for everyone to like. I also have to admit it's the only FPS game I've been able to play on a console. The controls are just incredibly for a console, and even more so, the N64 controler! If you haven't played this game, or goldeneye, you have simply missed alot. This game probably also offered the most enjoyable gaming sessions to date for me and everybody I knew back in the days.
Best games of their day:
Civilizations 2 Gold Edition: Multiplayer
The ability to not only create new maps but also create your own types of terrain, units, etc. with the scenario editor. The ability to play online or over LAN.
Master of Orion 2
You can design your own starships. Turn-based combat which allows for a hundred or more ships on each side in a battle. You can design your own race too. Planetary invasions aren't used much and aren't that great. Master of Orion 1 had the most entertaining planetary invasions in my opinion (sadly enough). This game is easily one of the best space strategy games in my opinion. Still good to play for new-timers.
Asheron's Call 1
Enough said.
Planet Side
This takes FPSs to an online scale. It was a good game in its own time. I enjoyed hacking, being a medic, engineer, sniper, etc. I liked being a pilot and putting my afterburners on as I strafed low under enemy bridges in bases in the heat of combat. Driving the lightning tank was awesome. Its chaingun was great against infantry. Vanu Sovereignty had the coolest suits and close-range splash weaponry. Let's face it, the phoenix rocket launcher was overpowering for the New Conglomerate. I hunted anything from infantry to vehicles with it. It rocked and therefore the NC were the best race for me in the game. The Terran Republic chaingun was insane at close range. That and its prowler tank were the TR's redeeming attributes. Loved the look of the prowler, but the best tank clearly went to the NC. Its vanguard took at least 20 direct close-range shots from a lightning tank's cannon before it died. It could kill infantry in one blast and was good against vehicles as well.
Team Fortress Classic 1
The no respawn wait was awesome. I liked the different classes and the various modificatiosn circulating around on the net. Although downloading all the chickenwave sound files got extremely tediousome. I downloaded like 40 of them in a row one time when I was joining a heavily-modified TFC server. Favorite classes were sniper and engineer. I remember so many different strategies for placing sentry guns. And their emp grenade was the most powerful of all grenades. Medic and scout classes were fun and annoying. My favorite pastime is concussioning (with a cuncussion grenade) myself up to the enemy's sniper deck on the 2fort map and crowbarring them to death as I dropped caltrops everywhere.
Counter Strike 1
Fun game. Didn't much play it myself as I still liked TFC much more at this stage in its development.
Total War Series
Like the massive battles with thousands of troops on each side fighting it out.
Starcraft
Zerg was my favorite race on this game. Sure they died easy, but what're drones good for? I liked swarming but was never an expert at it. After I got wiped out one time in a map, I started building a new hatchery in my opponent's base. Good times...
Warcraft 2
I really liked this game. It was the best for standard gameplay of the Warcraft series in my opinion. I loved the massive paladin and ogre battles. Ogre magi still rocked paladins because of their blood lust. The paladins under the control of human players were at a disadvantage because it was too hard to micromanage their special healing spell each paladin could cast while still fending off ogres. Great game, but Warcraft 3 wins over it when it comes to custom maps.
Gemstone 3
So many memories of this game. Before I ever played it, when I first heard that it was text-based I thought it would suck. I played it the next day and I was hooked. The game itself is dead now. It transitioned to Gemstone 4 which killed completely ruined the gameplay for me. It was good in its own day though. It was a medieval fantasy game with a very strong community, fairly large player-base, and one of the three best MUDs in the world. Actually, it was the best in my opinion. Loved having the drinking competitions with half-giants, figuring out puzzles to get into secret societies, the fast-paced dangerous battles with creatures. I liked the perma-death in the game as well. I liked the invasions of towns and fleeing to other distant towns across icy wastelands. Gemstone even made community service after conviction and trial enjoyable. It only immersed you into the game further.
Elder Scrolls: Morrowind & Oblivion
These games had massive content. I used to steal and buy books and read their lore. The only downside about them was that they appeared to be moreso there for the feel of the game and the quantity rather than the actual quality. I never got very high up into any of the games as they both were heavy into their storylines and I didn't care for their particular storylines (more just for the lore and free adventure). To beat the game you obviously had to go through the main storylines. I didn't much care to be a vampire in Oblivion, but it was still fun to suck necks at night and generally create havoc. I've stolen so many things in those games and killed so many of the shopkeepers... Fun just to mess around in them rather than follow the storyline. They're very immersive and the free-form combat and spell-creation system is a plus too.
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather "Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
Space invaders , i mean come on people this is the start of it all.There is no game that is more original then this one cause it was the mother of games.So if it wasn't for space invaders maybe we never even would have played computer games.Admitting "pong" was the mother of mothers but still.....
As a runner up : allthough i amnot an rts fan i'd have to say dune II : it was the start of the rts , had nice gfx etc for the time and also used reallingame movies by reall actors wich at the timealso was something special.
Ifi'd have to say my own fav : maniac mansion and dark age of camelot
Originally posted by flakes allthough i amnot an rts fan i'd have to say dune II
The only one game of them all (Red Alert and C&C) where I REALLY enjoyed driving over people with tanks! (Or even harvesters).
Hehe truly a genious game Dune II. Just so dissapointed it's movie was so traumaticly baad... well that's what always happends with game movies Especially when Uwe Boll is let to live after each monstrous mistake he makes lol.
$OE lies list http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0 " And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
1. Fallout 2: If you dont understand why this game is so wonderfull, you have never truly played it. This game got a grip of you and dragged you all the way into apocalypse baby! A game that was dark, gritty foul and politically incorrect. But not only that, it was free, the kind of freedom fallout brought upon the players is unsurpassed even today. This is how you make a deep RPG without messy plot, you make your own plot, the task is simple, find the suitcase, tha's it! You can make this fairly easy actually without much violence, actally you can make through the entire game without fireing a single bullet if im correct. This is sandboxing at it's finest, fallout does not play you like todays rpgs like oblivion (choose that one just because i hated auto scaling, and i hate the fact that Beth gets to do FO:3).
2. Final Fantasy IX: This one is not my second choice because of sandboxing, or freedom, no just the opposite. This game has the most indulging storyline ive ever come upon in a game. When the final battle fades, and when the song melodies of our life plays a tear went down my cheek. I didnt want it to end, i wanted more, i wanted the final fantasy to never be final. This game sweept me off my feat, i sat inside my house playing this game for 3 days in a row, i didnt go out, and i almost didnt eat. This game is what defines a great storyline, this game is what DEFINES great character personality. To all of you FF:7 fanbois who would never think of playing this game i have nothing to discuss. I have beaten ff7 so dont start, FF:9 has better storyline end of story.
1. Starcraft 2. halo ce 3.lords of magic 4.diablo 5.homeworld 6.fear
Wow, another Lords of Magic fan; I thought I was the only one. As for the best? I'd have to say it's a tie between Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (between each other, not the whole thing) and Planescape: Torment.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche
I agree with you on perfect dark. Oblivion is pretty nice too, but the absolutely best game is ofc:
Comment: The first game I played (I'm not that old... yet). Probably the greatest of all Zelda games ever. Kept me playing for a really long time and had more temple than nearly any other Zelda game to come later. Loved it.
DC: Soul Calibur Crazy Taxi (still playing others MSR/Shenmue an almost mention)
PS1: Pro Evo series Driver1/2 Tekken 3 Hogs of War (mentions to R-Type Delta, Urban Chaos, Crash Bandicoot 2 and Sled Storm(last two only bought recently!)
Comments
seriously i can't believe no one said that yet. without pong there would be no games all hail mighty pong
ok but seriously i would have to say
1.) Zelda Series = because this is the only series i've played that ALMOST every game is good
2.) Final Fantasy 7 = Any game i can play 5 times through is obviously awesome. Best storyline i think i ever played
3.) Command And Conquer= quite literally the game that started the game revolution we have today, so many games stole ideas from this one
4.) Age Of Empires 2 = how could you not like this game.... seriously
5.) Diablo 2 = rivals any modern day mmo, and this one is pretty old, but nether the less still great.
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http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0
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And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
2) Morrowind is (for me) without question the king of RPGs.
3) X-COM - and pretty much any other Julian Gollop game - some really original and special turn based games. Some good fun multi-player games too.
4) Might and Magic - the whole series including heroes.
5) Civilization (I think I probably played 2 the most from the series)
6) Avalon - Text MUD world - Now 20 years old. This has all the componants many of us long for from MMORPGs. Sandbox world where you have the tools and options to follow any path you choose, whether that be economic, political, war strategy etc.and it's a world where your actions feel like they can really make a difference to the history. Now if only they could make that with graphics...
I wasted 20 minutes thinking about my signature.
Best games of their day:
The ability to not only create new maps but also create your own types of terrain, units, etc. with the scenario editor. The ability to play online or over LAN.
You can design your own starships. Turn-based combat which allows for a hundred or more ships on each side in a battle. You can design your own race too. Planetary invasions aren't used much and aren't that great. Master of Orion 1 had the most entertaining planetary invasions in my opinion (sadly enough). This game is easily one of the best space strategy games in my opinion. Still good to play for new-timers.
Enough said.
This takes FPSs to an online scale. It was a good game in its own time. I enjoyed hacking, being a medic, engineer, sniper, etc. I liked being a pilot and putting my afterburners on as I strafed low under enemy bridges in bases in the heat of combat. Driving the lightning tank was awesome. Its chaingun was great against infantry. Vanu Sovereignty had the coolest suits and close-range splash weaponry. Let's face it, the phoenix rocket launcher was overpowering for the New Conglomerate. I hunted anything from infantry to vehicles with it. It rocked and therefore the NC were the best race for me in the game. The Terran Republic chaingun was insane at close range. That and its prowler tank were the TR's redeeming attributes. Loved the look of the prowler, but the best tank clearly went to the NC. Its vanguard took at least 20 direct close-range shots from a lightning tank's cannon before it died. It could kill infantry in one blast and was good against vehicles as well.
The no respawn wait was awesome. I liked the different classes and the various modificatiosn circulating around on the net. Although downloading all the chickenwave sound files got extremely tediousome. I downloaded like 40 of them in a row one time when I was joining a heavily-modified TFC server. Favorite classes were sniper and engineer. I remember so many different strategies for placing sentry guns. And their emp grenade was the most powerful of all grenades. Medic and scout classes were fun and annoying. My favorite pastime is concussioning (with a cuncussion grenade) myself up to the enemy's sniper deck on the 2fort map and crowbarring them to death as I dropped caltrops everywhere.
Fun game. Didn't much play it myself as I still liked TFC much more at this stage in its development.
Like the massive battles with thousands of troops on each side fighting it out.
Zerg was my favorite race on this game. Sure they died easy, but what're drones good for?
I liked swarming but was never an expert at it. After I got wiped out one time in a map, I started building a new hatchery in my opponent's base. Good times...
I really liked this game. It was the best for standard gameplay of the Warcraft series in my opinion. I loved the massive paladin and ogre battles. Ogre magi still rocked paladins because of their blood lust. The paladins under the control of human players were at a disadvantage because it was too hard to micromanage their special healing spell each paladin could cast while still fending off ogres. Great game, but Warcraft 3 wins over it when it comes to custom maps.
So many memories of this game. Before I ever played it, when I first heard that it was text-based I thought it would suck. I played it the next day and I was hooked. The game itself is dead now. It transitioned to Gemstone 4 which killed completely ruined the gameplay for me. It was good in its own day though. It was a medieval fantasy game with a very strong community, fairly large player-base, and one of the three best MUDs in the world. Actually, it was the best in my opinion. Loved having the drinking competitions with half-giants, figuring out puzzles to get into secret societies, the fast-paced dangerous battles with creatures. I liked the perma-death in the game as well. I liked the invasions of towns and fleeing to other distant towns across icy wastelands. Gemstone even made community service after conviction and trial enjoyable. It only immersed you into the game further.
These games had massive content. I used to steal and buy books and read their lore. The only downside about them was that they appeared to be moreso there for the feel of the game and the quantity rather than the actual quality. I never got very high up into any of the games as they both were heavy into their storylines and I didn't care for their particular storylines (more just for the lore and free adventure). To beat the game you obviously had to go through the main storylines. I didn't much care to be a vampire in Oblivion, but it was still fun to suck necks at night and generally create havoc. I've stolen so many things in those games and killed so many of the shopkeepers... Fun just to mess around in them rather than follow the storyline. They're very immersive and the free-form combat and spell-creation system is a plus too.
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather
"Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek
AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
Space invaders , i mean come on people this is the start of it all.There is no game that is more original then this one cause it was the mother of games.So if it wasn't for space invaders maybe we never even would have played computer games.Admitting "pong" was the mother of mothers but still.....
As a runner up : allthough i amnot an rts fan i'd have to say dune II : it was the start of the rts , had nice gfx etc for the time and also used reallingame movies by reall actors wich at the timealso was something special.
Ifi'd have to say my own fav : maniac mansion and dark age of camelot
Hehe truly a genious game Dune II. Just so dissapointed it's movie was so traumaticly baad... well that's what always happends with game movies
$OE lies list
http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0
"
And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
2. Final Fantasy IX: This one is not my second choice because of sandboxing, or freedom, no just the opposite. This game has the most indulging storyline ive ever come upon in a game. When the final battle fades, and when the song melodies of our life plays a tear went down my cheek. I didnt want it to end, i wanted more, i wanted the final fantasy to never be final. This game sweept me off my feat, i sat inside my house playing this game for 3 days in a row, i didnt go out, and i almost didnt eat. This game is what defines a great storyline, this game is what DEFINES great character personality. To all of you FF:7 fanbois who would never think of playing this game i have nothing to discuss. I have beaten ff7 so dont start, FF:9 has better storyline end of story.
Swiper no swiping!
Nothing gets the blood pumping like a good ole game of RUSSIAN ROULETTE.
Click......Click.......BANG. I win, i win, yaaaaay!
Swiper no swiping!
2. XCom: enemy unknown
3. Quake
4. Warcraft
5. Starcraft
6. Ultima Online
7. Half-life
8. Eve
9. Everquest
10. Wow
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
2. UO
3. FF7
4. counter strike
5. starcraft
I agree with you on perfect dark. Oblivion is pretty nice too, but the absolutely best game is ofc:
Comment: The first game I played (I'm not that old... yet). Probably the greatest of all Zelda games ever. Kept me playing for a really long time and had more temple than nearly any other Zelda game to come later. Loved it.
Swiper no swiping!
If we're mentioning favourite games then:(in no order)
PC:
TFC(Half-life mod)
Warcraft 3
Dota(warcraft mod)
Everquest
DC:
Soul Calibur
Crazy Taxi
(still playing others MSR/Shenmue an almost mention)
PS1:
Pro Evo series
Driver1/2
Tekken 3
Hogs of War
(mentions to R-Type Delta, Urban Chaos, Crash Bandicoot 2 and Sled Storm(last two only bought recently!)
Railroad Tycoon 3
Rome: Total War
Medieval II: Total War
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