Chris Crawford's Eastern Front All the Ultimas Bard's Tale All TES games (except for Battlespire and Redguard) Dungeon Master System Shock Master of Orion Dune II - my first RTS game Xcom All Witcher games All Dragon Age games All Mass Effect games (yes, even Andromeda) Civilization (over 6K hours on V) Kingdoms of Amalur Elex
And many more
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1. The Bards Tale 1/2/3 C64 2. Knights of Legend C64 3. Pool of Radiance C64 4. Command and Conquer Playstation 5. Final Fantasy Tactics Playstation 6. Panzer General Playstation 7. Allied General Playstation 8. X-Com Ufo Defense PC 9. Dark Colony PC 10. Rainbow Six PC 11. Hidden and Dangerous PC 12. Baldurs Gate PC 13. Jagged Alliance 2 PC 14. Diablo 2 PC 15. Warcraft 3 PC 16. Pretty Much MMOs mostly WoW since 2004
Sid Meier's Pirates! Seven Cities of Gold Shadowrun (Both the NES & Genesis ones) Roadwar 2000 OOTP 99
I'll count those as the ones that I would absolutely put on the list.
Getting a ton of consideration and could make the list, but just not on the list today...
Knights of the Old Republic Morrowwind Zork Daggerfall Fable Neverwinter Nights Mount & Blade Warband Baldur's Gate Freelancer Total War: Medieval II Command & Conquer Red Alert
Introduced ally AI squads (maybe some other game did it, but made it mainstream), great guns, cool vehicles, great story, horror moments (queue Flood music), tight gameplay, and AI that was fun and would try to flank you.
Runner up, the original Call of Duty (although I like campaigns in a bunch of the sequels... but the first one was groundbreaking).
Games I have not played yet(but will)... that could be better: Mass Effect Series, Fallout 4. Bioshock
RTS - Starcraft. Full stop.
RPG - Really hard. I love dungeons and dragons, and the Forgotten Realms books... that gave the edge to:
Baldar's Gate 2. Amazing story, turn based "dice" combat, beautiful game for the specs of it's day... guest appearance by Drizzt!? ( the dark elf that has a ton of Forgotten Realms books about him). And yes, on one play through I killed him and took his stuff.
Runner ups: Fallout (original turn base one), JRPG - Lunar on Sega Genesis CD, Diablo 2
Sports - Original John Madden Football at the Christmas launch of Sega Genesis. Full Stop. (Well for Americans).
Movie Based - Lord Of The Rings: Return of The King
2003's hack N slash action combat hit.. gameplay is awesome, graphics great... everything great.
Runner Ups: Battle for Middle Earth I and II (awesome RTS games, you have main characters playable as heros on the battlefield...with special abilities available... like Gandalf, Nazgul).
Puzzles: Tetris (the go to game for original Gameboy).
For weeks now, I cant find anything I want from the Steam winter sale. I think I'm just burntout on game overall. So I'm downloading the "Turtle Vanilla Wow" client and I'll play that if it's heavy populated.....Just hope it doesn't screw up my beloved Vanilla WoW I have installed, it shouldn't, its a different version.
Leisure Suit Larry hands down...or...hands somewhere I guess...While I kid about it, those old Sierra games; Space Quest, Police Quest, etc...were fun for their time.
Otherwise, Final Fantasy 1 as that was an early RPG for me that helped get me hooked on the genre. Not a slight to the others, but this could end up just being a list of FF games so I'll leave it at 1. Zelda, and its shiny gold cartridge, would be another one that helped rope me in early on.
More recently. the ones that spring to mind first are: Mass Effect 1-3 (haven't played Andromeda) Dragon Age Origins/2 (haven't played Inquisition) Oblivion Skyrim Fallout 3/4 Witcher 1-3
and. while it can be played as multiplayer, I've got to give honorable mention to No Man's Sky with multiplayer turned off.
Aside from NMS, this really shaped up as an RPG list for me. I'd also add the Borderland and more current Doom series though, like NMS, those have multiplayer components to them.
Great thread though. I see a lot of games listed that I had forgotten about. Gothic 2/3, Might and Magic series, and Baulder's Gate/Icewind Dale would be some examples.
-mklinic
"Do something right, no one remembers. Do something wrong, no one forgets" -from No One Remembers by In Strict Confidence
So, I find that a different games for different moods approach works best for games, but I do want to share one obscure little JRPG I absolutely and unexpectedly fell in love with last year.
YS 8: Lacrimosa of Dana
Great combat and mechanics designed to keep the gameplay flowing nonstop. A compelling 70 hour time travel story involving dinosaurs and a Mass-Effectian civilization ending cycle of creation, prosperity, and destruction. A small, lovable cast. And a bangin soundtrack designed to make you want adventure from the word go.
The best one I have ever played is 7 Days to Die...The reason why? It fits exactly what I am looking for in a game....Tons to explore.....Crafting that has a purpose.....Can build your own house/base......Horde night is a blast....Several different builds for replay value......Day/night cycles....weather....etc etc etc....Over 500 hours and counting.
The best one I have ever played is 7 Days to Die...The reason why? It fits exactly what I am looking for in a game....Tons to explore.....Crafting that has a purpose.....Can build your own house/base......Horde night is a blast....Several different builds for replay value......Day/night cycles....weather....etc etc etc....Over 500 hours and counting.
What do you think of the new A20 release?
Some parts of it I really love and other parts not so much......It felt like the game was easier until I got to T5...lol....then I got swarmed by about 20 zombies in the main stash of a PoI.....THe game doesnt feel as stable to me but my PC and WiFi are mediocre so I dont know if its the game or just my set up.....
I'm still not sure how I feel about the neighborhood setting.....I liked it at first but as Iam playing more it feels like every neighborhood is close to the same...i've even found my house and base several times in other cities....There is still alot of the game I havent seen...Thats what makes it so much fun.
The best one I have ever played is 7 Days to Die...The reason why? It fits exactly what I am looking for in a game....Tons to explore.....Crafting that has a purpose.....Can build your own house/base......Horde night is a blast....Several different builds for replay value......Day/night cycles....weather....etc etc etc....Over 500 hours and counting.
What do you think of the new A20 release?
Some parts of it I really love and other parts not so much......It felt like the game was easier until I got to T5...lol....then I got swarmed by about 20 zombies in the main stash of a PoI.....THe game doesnt feel as stable to me but my PC and WiFi are mediocre so I dont know if its the game or just my set up.....
I'm still not sure how I feel about the neighborhood setting.....I liked it at first but as Iam playing more it feels like every neighborhood is close to the same...i've even found my house and base several times in other cities....There is still alot of the game I havent seen...Thats what makes it so much fun.
Thanks for the feedback. That is about my feeling as well. Our last play through was on a 6K world with a custom generated map using Nitrogen map builder. This time we're on an 8K world using the vanilla map builder and it feels smaller. There is too much space between cities although it didn't look like it from the map preview.
Some of the changes are nice, although it feels much the same as before, but there are more stability bugs and crafting requirements got a lot more grindy. There are some stability bugs with base block calculations too that cause them to crumble.
For this world we wanted to see the vanilla changes without mods. Normally we usually at least use BDubs vehicle mods. Our last world was using a full conversion mod called "Undead Legacy" which I love.
Overall a good update with some issues that need ironing out. I'll be glad when they hit final release supposedly sometime next year.
I didn't start in 7DtD until Sept/Oct of 2021.....I didnt know some of the things that you mention here....I learned most of the game watching Glock9 and some of the other Youtubers play......My highest character in A20 is approaching Game Score 100 and i have noticed the game has become more difficult....Im struggling to keep up with ammo and working on getting my base to steel.....This is the first character that I havent had major food and drink issues but I started out with him hunting for food so that helped alot.
While I've played all the Civs extensively, Alpha Centauri is hands down the best version of them.
Alpha Centauri Stalker. Xcom Planescape Torment Crusader Kings 2 (though it suffers from the usual Paradox excessive additions) Morrowind (though the first ES game you play tends to be your favorite. Morrowind is just too tough to get working nowadays, so dumbed down Skyrim has to suffice. Fortunately, the mod scene uplifts most of the ES series games.)
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
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Never played the original xcom though I did watch a friend play it "back in the day." Was always a hoot.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
All the Ultimas
Bard's Tale
All TES games (except for Battlespire and Redguard)
Dungeon Master
System Shock
Master of Orion
Dune II - my first RTS game
Xcom
All Witcher games
All Dragon Age games
All Mass Effect games (yes, even Andromeda)
Civilization (over 6K hours on V)
Kingdoms of Amalur
Elex
And many more
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
1. The Bards Tale 1/2/3 C64
2. Knights of Legend C64
3. Pool of Radiance C64
4. Command and Conquer Playstation
5. Final Fantasy Tactics Playstation
6. Panzer General Playstation
7. Allied General Playstation
8. X-Com Ufo Defense PC
9. Dark Colony PC
10. Rainbow Six PC
11. Hidden and Dangerous PC
12. Baldurs Gate PC
13. Jagged Alliance 2 PC
14. Diablo 2 PC
15. Warcraft 3 PC
16. Pretty Much MMOs mostly WoW since 2004
Seven Cities of Gold
Shadowrun (Both the NES & Genesis ones)
Roadwar 2000
OOTP 99
I'll count those as the ones that I would absolutely put on the list.
Getting a ton of consideration and could make the list, but just not on the list today...
Knights of the Old Republic
Morrowwind
Zork
Daggerfall
Fable
Neverwinter Nights
Mount & Blade Warband
Baldur's Gate
Freelancer
Total War: Medieval II
Command & Conquer Red Alert
All the older Tomb Raider games
Syphon Filter
Soul Reaver Legacy of Kain
RDR 1&2
DEHR
All of the Max Paynes
to name a few
FPS - Original Halo on Xbox.
Introduced ally AI squads (maybe some other game did it, but made it mainstream), great guns, cool vehicles, great story, horror moments (queue Flood music), tight gameplay, and AI that was fun and would try to flank you.
Runner up, the original Call of Duty (although I like campaigns in a bunch of the sequels... but the first one was groundbreaking).
Games I have not played yet(but will)... that could be better: Mass Effect Series, Fallout 4. Bioshock
RTS - Starcraft. Full stop.
RPG - Really hard. I love dungeons and dragons, and the Forgotten Realms books... that gave the edge to:
Baldar's Gate 2. Amazing story, turn based "dice" combat, beautiful game for the specs of it's day... guest appearance by Drizzt!? ( the dark elf that has a ton of Forgotten Realms books about him). And yes, on one play through I killed him and took his stuff.
Runner ups: Fallout (original turn base one), JRPG - Lunar on Sega Genesis CD, Diablo 2
Sports - Original John Madden Football at the Christmas launch of Sega Genesis. Full Stop. (Well for Americans).
Movie Based - Lord Of The Rings: Return of The King
2003's hack N slash action combat hit.. gameplay is awesome, graphics great... everything great.
Runner Ups: Battle for Middle Earth I and II (awesome RTS games, you have main characters playable as heros on the battlefield...with special abilities available... like Gandalf, Nazgul).
Puzzles: Tetris (the go to game for original Gameboy).
I need to stop writing now...
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
Otherwise, Final Fantasy 1 as that was an early RPG for me that helped get me hooked on the genre. Not a slight to the others, but this could end up just being a list of FF games so I'll leave it at 1. Zelda, and its shiny gold cartridge, would be another one that helped rope me in early on.
More recently. the ones that spring to mind first are:
Mass Effect 1-3 (haven't played Andromeda)
Dragon Age Origins/2 (haven't played Inquisition)
Oblivion
Skyrim
Fallout 3/4
Witcher 1-3
and. while it can be played as multiplayer, I've got to give honorable mention to No Man's Sky with multiplayer turned off.
Aside from NMS, this really shaped up as an RPG list for me. I'd also add the Borderland and more current Doom series though, like NMS, those have multiplayer components to them.
Great thread though. I see a lot of games listed that I had forgotten about. Gothic 2/3, Might and Magic series, and Baulder's Gate/Icewind Dale would be some examples.
-mklinic
"Do something right, no one remembers.
Do something wrong, no one forgets"
-from No One Remembers by In Strict Confidence
YS 8: Lacrimosa of Dana
Great combat and mechanics designed to keep the gameplay flowing nonstop. A compelling 70 hour time travel story involving dinosaurs and a Mass-Effectian civilization ending cycle of creation, prosperity, and destruction. A small, lovable cast. And a bangin soundtrack designed to make you want adventure from the word go.
What? Pong didnt make the list?
Skyrim
The Witcher 2 and 3
Grim Dawn
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Let's see....
Final Fantasy Tactics
Disgaea
Front Mission 3
<<trend detected>>
X-com
Borderlands 2
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It's early, I might think of more as I wake up
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
I didn't start in 7DtD until Sept/Oct of 2021.....I didnt know some of the things that you mention here....I learned most of the game watching Glock9 and some of the other Youtubers play......My highest character in A20 is approaching Game Score 100 and i have noticed the game has become more difficult....Im struggling to keep up with ammo and working on getting my base to steel.....This is the first character that I havent had major food and drink issues but I started out with him hunting for food so that helped alot.
While I've played all the Civs extensively, Alpha Centauri is hands down the best version of them.
Alpha Centauri
Stalker.
Xcom
Planescape Torment
Crusader Kings 2 (though it suffers from the usual Paradox excessive additions)
Morrowind (though the first ES game you play tends to be your favorite. Morrowind is just too tough to get working nowadays, so dumbed down Skyrim has to suffice. Fortunately, the mod scene uplifts most of the ES series games.)
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
Elder Scrolls Oblivion
Drakenguard
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
They released it in 2016 and keep improving it ever since.
honorable mentions: grim dawn and hades
skyrim, oblivion daoc, eso
old school:
the shining force and phantasy star series.
faxanadu
Legend of Zelda
final fantasy 1 ( only one I liked, lol)