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<!--quoteo(post=1623313:date=Apr 26 2007, 03:11 PM:name=Merkaba)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Merkaba @ Apr 26 2007, 03:11 PM) [snapback]1623313[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I think this thread would have been much more interesting if people had actually answered the question in the title. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine. Back on the Sega Genesis. If this game were multiplayer over the internet, I would never go outside. Best puzzle game ever.
<!--quoteo(post=1623335:date=Apr 26 2007, 08:12 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Apr 26 2007, 08:12 PM) [snapback]1623335[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine. Back on the Sega Genesis. If this game were multiplayer over the internet, I would never go outside. Best puzzle game ever. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo" target="_blank">Puyo Puyo</a> and more specifically: <a href="http://fractal.leet.net.au/page.php?page=dl_games" target="_blank">NetPonk</a>
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<!--quoteo(post=1623313:date=Apr 26 2007, 11:11 PM:name=Merkaba)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Merkaba @ Apr 26 2007, 11:11 PM) [snapback]1623313[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I think this thread would have been much more interesting if people had actually answered the question in the title. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's almost impossible to narrow down over a decade of playing games to one all time favourite. "Favourite games for each platform" or "favourite games from each genre" would've been a bit easier.
<!--quoteo(post=1623437:date=Apr 27 2007, 10:07 AM:name=X_Stickman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(X_Stickman @ Apr 27 2007, 10:07 AM) [snapback]1623437[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> It's almost impossible to narrow down over a decade of playing games to one all time favourite. "Favourite games for each platform" or "favourite games from each genre" would've been a bit easier. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> No it isn't. I did it.
<!--quoteo(post=1623438:date=Apr 27 2007, 10:12 AM:name=exoity)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(exoity @ Apr 27 2007, 10:12 AM) [snapback]1623438[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Metal Gear Solid 2, hands down. The game was perfect in every way. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Are you trying to get flamed? I didn't dislike the game myself, but most MGS fans seemed to believe it was made of fail and lose.
<!--quoteo(post=1623439:date=Apr 27 2007, 04:13 PM:name=Swiftspear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Swiftspear @ Apr 27 2007, 04:13 PM) [snapback]1623439[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> No it isn't. I did it. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> He did say "almost". Some might be able to (although I worry if you consider NS the best game you've ever played). Simple fact it, quantifying that many games to the best is too hard. I don't have a best, simply cos I don't consider one game above the rest.
im sorry, but i just <3 that game so much. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
I'll elaborate on why UW2 is the best game evar, since some people think we should be going into more depth on our personal favorite, rather than listing a buncha favorites.
Despite its ancient graphics and music, no game since has come anywhere near pulling me in and making me feel like I'm there as well as this game. I want to become a professor at a game creation college and my class will just involve me playing this game on the overhead and pointing out every little nuance in the level design, the music, the dialogue, the engine, the whole world... or should I say, all 9 worlds. Every world in the game has its own personality, and every character feels unique and involved... from the frozen city that evokes such sorrow, even though there's only one real NPC - the ghost of someone who died as the city slowly turned to ice... to the derelict magic academy that has you solving puzzles and casting spells to get through a test whose administrators died centuries ago... to the dystopian castle city floating above a desert... don't even get me started on Talorus... and the Ethereal Void... yeah, I think I'll be playing this sucker again real soon <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
GG, Looking Glass. GG. This game was way ahead of its time. Before Doom, and had a much much MUCH more advanced 3D engine, and so much more. too bad FPS games are so much more popular than immersive gems like this. (and too bad the latest Madden is more popular than FPS games)
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Agreed. I'd say that genre is my favorite of all time, I'd die if SCUMM VM came ot XBOX live.
However, LOOM and Monkey Island I brought me into the genre, but Monkey Island was by far the one that got me hooked.
Baldur's gate I & II Unreal tournament series Quake III Silent Storm Starcraft Warcraft 3 Deus Ex Grim Fandango Combat Mission II Serious Sam Sacrifice Fallout 1 & 2
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<!--quoteo(post=1623438:date=Apr 27 2007, 09:12 AM:name=exoity)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(exoity @ Apr 27 2007, 09:12 AM) [snapback]1623438[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Metal Gear Solid 2, hands down. The game was perfect in every way. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> DOOM would rip you head off.
<!--quoteo(post=1623492:date=Apr 27 2007, 11:25 PM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Apr 27 2007, 11:25 PM) [snapback]1623492[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> DOOM would rip you head off. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Remember he has the forum title "Worst.Critic.Ever." for a reason <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
I'm stuck between doom1/2 (WTH their the same with some minor engine updates lol), quake 2 (the mother of all good mods), and half life (the son of awesome q2 mods)
But if this includes mods, the gloom flat out. Nothing sucked a pure summer out of my life like gloom did back in 2001
<!--quoteo(post=1623454:date=Apr 27 2007, 11:38 AM:name=Aldaris)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Aldaris @ Apr 27 2007, 11:38 AM) [snapback]1623454[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> although I worry if you consider NS the <b>best game</b> you've ever played <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> That wasn't the question. I make no apologies that my preference isn't directly proportional to developmental quality. Simply put there just isn't any other games out there that do what NS does the way NS does it, and what NS does the way NS does it just happens to be exactly what is needed to make a game ridiculously fun and addictive to me personally. Combining insane movement speeds, attacks from abstract angles, and a nearly infinite skill curve with a highly intellectually challenging base platform makes NS the game I probably will never put down long after everything else has gotten boring. NS is littered with problems, ya, but even so it's a game that I never get bored of and always find fun. That's why it's my favorite game of all time.
The BEST game I've ever played? Probably Kingdom Hearts 2 IMO... That game did so many things right it's sickening. Blizzard doesn't make any bad games, DiabloII or Starcraft could also contend. Fallout 2 was a brilliant game as well. There's alot of games out there that are very high quality in my opinion, but they aren't the games that combine everything I want to have in a game I'm playing, and most aren't games that I just find infinitely playable for whatever reason. Take FF12, for what it does it's an amazing title, VERY VERY solidly built, but I got bored of it before I beat it, it just wasn't the title I need to keep me interested the whole way through, let alone through infinite replayability. Quality of a title doesn't directly correspond with preference for me... and frankly I'd doubt it really corresponds with preference for anyone. You'd have to be some kind of robot to always enjoy every game that was incredibly brilliantly designed without any lack of distain in any area, and always hate every game that just wasn't perfectly solid irrelevant of whatever it did happen to do right.
Kinda hard to choose. Frankly, I have yet to play the game that makes me go, "OMGWTHBBQ" yet. I just thought there're fun, never thought much about quality wise. Probably FF IX if I have to choose one.
Most fun I've hard however is the like of Dungeon Keeper/Simcity 3000.
Again, a difference. To me, favourite and best are the same thing. The best games I've played are my favourites, and can drag me back over and over again.
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this thread made me remember some of my favorite games ever: megaman 2, x-wing (i want a remake of this badly), chronotrigger.
I think this thread would have been much more interesting if people had actually answered the question in the title.
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We all answered NS, basically.
Back on the Sega Genesis. If this game were multiplayer over the internet, I would never go outside. Best puzzle game ever.
On the subject of puzzle games, anyone played Super Puzzle Figher 2 Turbo?
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No.
Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine.
Back on the Sega Genesis. If this game were multiplayer over the internet, I would never go outside. Best puzzle game ever.
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See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo" target="_blank">Puyo Puyo</a>
and more specifically: <a href="http://fractal.leet.net.au/page.php?page=dl_games" target="_blank">NetPonk</a>
See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo" target="_blank">Puyo Puyo</a>
and more specifically: <a href="http://fractal.leet.net.au/page.php?page=dl_games" target="_blank">NetPonk</a>
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Oh... My... God
Why did you do this to me?
I think this thread would have been much more interesting if people had actually answered the question in the title.
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It's almost impossible to narrow down over a decade of playing games to one all time favourite. "Favourite games for each platform" or "favourite games from each genre" would've been a bit easier.
It's almost impossible to narrow down over a decade of playing games to one all time favourite. "Favourite games for each platform" or "favourite games from each genre" would've been a bit easier.
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No it isn't. I did it.
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Metal Gear Solid 2, hands down. The game was perfect in every way.
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Are you trying to get flamed? I didn't dislike the game myself, but most MGS fans seemed to believe it was made of fail and lose.
No it isn't. I did it.
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He did say "almost". Some might be able to (although I worry if you consider NS the best game you've ever played). Simple fact it, quantifying that many games to the best is too hard. I don't have a best, simply cos I don't consider one game above the rest.
im sorry, but i just <3 that game so much. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
Despite its ancient graphics and music, no game since has come anywhere near pulling me in and making me feel like I'm there as well as this game. I want to become a professor at a game creation college and my class will just involve me playing this game on the overhead and pointing out every little nuance in the level design, the music, the dialogue, the engine, the whole world... or should I say, all 9 worlds. Every world in the game has its own personality, and every character feels unique and involved... from the frozen city that evokes such sorrow, even though there's only one real NPC - the ghost of someone who died as the city slowly turned to ice... to the derelict magic academy that has you solving puzzles and casting spells to get through a test whose administrators died centuries ago... to the dystopian castle city floating above a desert... don't even get me started on Talorus... and the Ethereal Void... yeah, I think I'll be playing this sucker again real soon <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
GG, Looking Glass. GG. This game was way ahead of its time. Before Doom, and had a much much MUCH more advanced 3D engine, and so much more. too bad FPS games are so much more popular than immersive gems like this. (and too bad the latest Madden is more popular than FPS games)
Secret of Monkey Island
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Argh! How could I forget that? Day of the Tenticle was also great.
Oh almost forgot, Sam & Max Hit the Road was amazing.
Argh! How could I forget that? Day of the Tenticle was also great.
Oh almost forgot, Sam & Max Hit the Road was amazing.
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Agreed. I'd say that genre is my favorite of all time, I'd die if SCUMM VM came ot XBOX live.
However, LOOM and Monkey Island I brought me into the genre, but Monkey Island was by far the one that got me hooked.
NS
Atmoshpere:
Thief
Insane lan fun:
Hidden & Dangerous Co-op
Other awesome games:
Baldur's gate I & II
Unreal tournament series
Quake III
Silent Storm
Starcraft
Warcraft 3
Deus Ex
Grim Fandango
Combat Mission II
Serious Sam
Sacrifice
Fallout 1 & 2
Metal Gear Solid 2, hands down. The game was perfect in every way.
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DOOM would rip you head off.
DOOM would rip you head off.
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Remember he has the forum title "Worst.Critic.Ever." for a reason <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
RTS: Rise of Nations.
RPG: Final Fantasy 6 or Morrowind or Fallout 2.
Adventure: Zelda, either OOT or TP.
But if this includes mods, the gloom flat out. Nothing sucked a pure summer out of my life like gloom did back in 2001
Heretic or Hexen
or even a racing game called PODS that i cant find for the love of god!
although I worry if you consider NS the <b>best game</b> you've ever played
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That wasn't the question. I make no apologies that my preference isn't directly proportional to developmental quality. Simply put there just isn't any other games out there that do what NS does the way NS does it, and what NS does the way NS does it just happens to be exactly what is needed to make a game ridiculously fun and addictive to me personally. Combining insane movement speeds, attacks from abstract angles, and a nearly infinite skill curve with a highly intellectually challenging base platform makes NS the game I probably will never put down long after everything else has gotten boring. NS is littered with problems, ya, but even so it's a game that I never get bored of and always find fun. That's why it's my favorite game of all time.
The BEST game I've ever played? Probably Kingdom Hearts 2 IMO... That game did so many things right it's sickening. Blizzard doesn't make any bad games, DiabloII or Starcraft could also contend. Fallout 2 was a brilliant game as well. There's alot of games out there that are very high quality in my opinion, but they aren't the games that combine everything I want to have in a game I'm playing, and most aren't games that I just find infinitely playable for whatever reason. Take FF12, for what it does it's an amazing title, VERY VERY solidly built, but I got bored of it before I beat it, it just wasn't the title I need to keep me interested the whole way through, let alone through infinite replayability. Quality of a title doesn't directly correspond with preference for me... and frankly I'd doubt it really corresponds with preference for anyone. You'd have to be some kind of robot to always enjoy every game that was incredibly brilliantly designed without any lack of distain in any area, and always hate every game that just wasn't perfectly solid irrelevant of whatever it did happen to do right.
Kinda hard to choose. Frankly, I have yet to play the game that makes me go, "OMGWTHBBQ" yet. I just thought there're fun, never thought much about quality wise. Probably FF IX if I have to choose one.
Most fun I've hard however is the like of Dungeon Keeper/Simcity 3000.
DOOM would rip you head off.
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Rip and TEAR his head off, you mean?