What is the best video game you have ever played?

[Paul Riley]

Quite simple really,we all like video games here,but which was your favourite game of all time?,and we all have them.We werent all playing SH3 back when we were kids ;)
For me,hands down,no question about it was the absolutely legendary unbeatable XCOM Enemy Unknown & XCOM Terror From The Deep for PC.
For those that are unfamiliar here is a brief description of the series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM

I still have the original discs and may even buy a second hand PS1 from Amazon just to play them again,as my old PS1 naturally died after all the hammer it got hehehe
God bless XCOM :cry:

Cheers :salute:

[antikristuseke]

Just recently grabed X-COM: Enemy Unknown off steam, one of my old favorites, but i think theb est of all time for me would have to be Fallout 2.

[Paul Riley]

Just recently grabed X-COM: Enemy Unknown off steam, one of my old favorites, but i think theb est of all time for me would have to be Fallout 2.

oooh,a classic,I have all three.Fallout 3 is flippin brilliant :arrgh!:
You played Crisis too?,just got a bit tedious towards the end.
Dont forget Splinter Cell Chaos Theory too :up:

[antikristuseke]

Splinter cell has been fun, but crysis was a bit disappointing. Then again I prefer shooters like Rainbow six used to be, before this vegas nonsense.
As for fallout, 1 and 2 are greats, fallout 3 was meh, new vegas is a bit better but still in the meh territory.

[Paul Riley]

Splinter cell has been fun, but crysis was a bit disappointing. Then again I prefer shooters like Rainbow six used to be, before this vegas nonsense.
As for fallout, 1 and 2 are greats, fallout 3 was meh, new vegas is a bit better but still in the meh territory.

Yeah,the Rainbow Six games were good,in fact most Tom Clancy games are good,from a tactical view of course.
Do you play the Sid Meier games,like Alpha Centauri and the Civ series?
Alpha Centauri was amazing in its day,and Civ 3 was great,Civ 4 not so good due to the comic like graphics,and I dont think my system could handle Civ 5.
I am currently waiting for Elder Scrolls Skyrim,from what i've seen I may need some extra tissues at hand ;)
OMG! what about Deus Ex?! that and XCOM were my favs! (how could I forget this legend?!)
The new Deus Ex (Human Revolution scheduled for late 2011) looks promising too.

[Paul Riley]

*thumps head against floor really hard* HOW COULD I FORGET RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN?!! :o:nope:

[BossMark]

PS1 Resident Evil
PS2 Gran Turismo 4
PS3 Uncharted
PC Silent Hunter 3 with GWX :salute:

[Paul Riley]

PS1 Resident Evil
PS2 Gran Turismo 4
PS3 Uncharted
PC Silent Hunter 3 with GWX :salute:

Oh man,Resident Evil was bloody great back then,i'll never forget the scene where you were walking down that corridor and the dog burst through the window! yeah,good call that one :up:

[BossMark]

Oh man,Resident Evil was bloody great back then,i'll never forget the scene where you were walking down that corridor and the dog burst through the window! yeah,good call that one :up:
Yep one of the best games ever if not the best, and that is one scene that I will never ever forget bloody marvellous.

[Spoon 11th]

Airborne Ranger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlgF4lSatPM) on C64.
Harpoon on Commodore Amiga.
Battlefield 2 and GTA San Andreas on PC.

[the_tyrant]

Yeah,the Rainbow Six games were good,in fact most Tom Clancy games are good,from a tactical view of course.


I'm sure you missed End War right?
Glorified rock-paper-scissors costing me 50$:damn:


Anyone here like hitman?

[BossMark]

Anyone here like hitman?
Yep Blood Money is a good game :yep:

[Osmium Steele]

Mass Effect 2. For me, hands down the best by quite some margin, and I've been playing PC games since Lemonade Stand.

[Feuer Frei!]

I'm going to be crucified here, since i'm a PC Gamer, through and through but:
Panzer General and Final Fantasy 7 on PS1!

[deceptiboat]

hmmm, i need to wait until my death to answer this question :hmmm: :O:

Basically, I like every games :D, but my favorite maybe :hmmm:
Mass Effect 1-2, Assassin's Creed 1-2-Brotherhood, L.A Noire, Crysis 2, Shin Megami Tensei series :D, Supreme Ruler series(Somehow i like this game :O:), and Silent Hunter series :salute:

Maybe there's many more, but i only remembered that :D

Edit: Dammit i Forget about Ace Combat Series, Halo 3-ODST-Reach, Far Cry 2, F1 2010(I'm a F1 Lover :D), The Saboteur

[Armistead]

I've only played a few in my life. Use to love Novalogics Delta Force series back in the old days. Probably first game to have large online multiplayer with large maps.

[mookiemookie]

Deus Ex. No question.

[Gerald]

Return to Castle Wolfenstein!

[antikristuseke]

I'm going to be crucified here, since i'm a PC Gamer, through and through but:
Panzer General and Final Fantasy 7 on PS1!

errrrr... nearly all of the games mentioned before your post were pc games.

[Task Force]

Hmm...

probably For me, that ive played in the past few years. Mass effect, really liked that game, pretty good science fiction.

Don't really play Story games.

[Rilder]

Dwarf Fortress, enough said. 90% of other games are Skinner Boxes.

[CaptainMattJ.]

Mine are (in order of systems)

Nintendo 64: Extreme G (1 of only 2 racing game i play to date), Super smash brothers, 007

PS1: Crash bandicoot, Crash Bash, Crash team racing(2nd racing game)

PS2: Mercenaries: Playground of destruction, GTA San Andreas, Final Fantasy XII (can be very frustrating some times), Socom: Combined Assault, and Heroes of the Pacific.

PC:
Empire Total War (has so much potential its scary, wonderful game),
Battlefield 1942 complete collection,
Call of Duty World at War (nazi zombie maps are free to PC users, haha),
Silent hunter 4 & 5,
Counter Strike Source,
Day of Defeat source,
Battlestations pacific,
Company of Heroes,
Fallout New Vegas (F3 was beyond ridiculously bugged on PC), and
Halo: Combat evolved.

Those i didnt mention werent *all* that worth mentioning. i liked them, but either they are the type of game you play through a couple times and get sick of the repetitiveness, or they werent that good to begin with.

Left for Dead 2 and Bioshock 2 are works in progress, havent played enough of either to speculate.

[Garion]

OOh lets see...

CBM 64: Elite, Paradroid, Infocom Adventures.
Atari ST: Dungeon Master, Captive, Starglider
PC: Xcom, IL2 Sturmovik, Lotsa Matrix Games, Aces of the Deep, SH1 and SH3, Wing Commander Ultima Underworld 1&2

And lots more


Cheers

Garion

[Paul Riley]

OOh lets see...

CBM 64: Elite, Paradroid, Infocom Adventures.
Atari ST: Dungeon Master, Captive, Starglider
PC: Xcom, IL2 Sturmovik, Lotsa Matrix Games, Aces of the Deep, SH1 and SH3, Wing Commander Ultima Underworld 1&2

And lots more


Cheers

Garion

Another XCOM fan,man that game was absolutely beautiful,I miss playing it so much.

[antikristuseke]

grab it on steam, its something like 5 euros, or if GOG.com has it, get it there.

[Betonov]

Victoria II is currently my favourite game. It's easy to mod and if Paradox keeps releasing expansions like with Europa Universalis III (every expansion mind blowingly improved gameplay) it has a potential of a game I'll keep playing for years.

[RickC Sniper]

GOG HAD xcom for free but when Steam started selling it I think they dropped it from their inventory.

It runs quite well in Windows xp. Have not tried to run it on Win7.

[antikristuseke]

the steam version runs via dosbox, had to change some settings to get it to run smoothly on my puter, but it works great. on win 7 ultimate 64bit

[MH]

Another XCOM fan,man that game was absolutely beautiful,I miss playing it so much.


Have a look at this:
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News

Its open source and free.

[RickC Sniper]

the steam version runs via dosbox, had to change some settings to get it to run smoothly on my puter, but it works great. on win 7 ultimate 64bit

Does it run in fullscreen in Win7 64bit? I could not get it to on Winxp.

[Paul Riley]

grab it on steam, its something like 5 euros, or if GOG.com has it, get it there.

No no I have the original PS1 discs still,just dont have a console anymore,may have to try and get a good working model from Amazon.Also in my opinion the PS1 versions were better than the PC,graphics and sound were slightly improved,esp the music.

[Paul Riley]

Have a look at this:
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News

Its open source and free.

Very interesting,I was aware of the AI freeware game but there is other stuff on here worth looking at too.Many thanks for that :up:

[antikristuseke]

Does it run in fullscreen in Win7 64bit? I could not get it to on Winxp.

I have it runing on full screen without any issues, alt+enter is your friend.

[Stealhead]

I would have to say right now that my favorite would be Fallout:New Vegas because it has the feel of the old Fallout and Fallout 2 and according to the Fallout Wiki has many elements that would have been in Blackisles Fallout 3 aka Van Burren(some things changed to fit the NV story). I suppose this is because Obsidian is has lots of folks that made the "old" Fallouts. I really like Old World Blues alot as it really feels like the old games to me.I also liked the Dead Money and Honest Hearts as well they had good story to them.

I like Fallout 3 because it did bring the series back to life but it needs mods to truly be enjoyable while New Vegas does not.

I feel the same way about STALKER series good games but they need mods to feel right and I cant say that a game is truly great if you need mods to bring out that greatness.

[Rockstar]

The table top game of Missile Command and having a couple of beers.

[Snestorm]

Silent Hunter 3.

They didn't have video games when I was a kid, and I haven't been computer literate all that long.

[Castout]

That's very hard. I tend to like the games which I bought very much.

No point in buying a game which you don't think great. Would be a waste of money and time to me.

I can't decide if it's only one.

But since I also saw table top game being nominated then I'd say this

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20551/shogun

It's a German designed game and the gameplay impresses me very much. I think the design is BRILLIANT.

[ajrimmer42]

sure there's already at least 3 of these threads over in General Games :06: :D

PS1 -
Spyro 1+2
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Soviet Strike
Tomb Raider

PS2 -
Black
Resident Evil 4
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Call of Duty Finest Hour
Red Dead Revolver

PC -
The Longest Journey/Dreamfall
Call of Duty 2
Flight Simulator 9/X
IL2 1946
ARMA II/OA/BAF
Half Life 1+2
Dragon Age Origins
World of Tanks
Alliance of Valiant Arms
F.E.A.R
Crysis
LOTRO
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl/Call of Pripyat
Portal 1+2
Minecraft


I'm sure there's more lol

[Castout]

Meh Okay then these are what I think the best PC games overall:

Rome Total War
Medieval 2 Total War + Kingdoms expansion
Empire Total War + Napoleon Total War
Shogun 2 Total War
IL-2 1946
Free Falcon
Silent Hunter 3
Silent Hunter 4
Dangerous Waters(really)
Dragon Age Origins
Mass Effect 1 and 2
The Witcher 2
ArmA 2 + expansions
Steel Beasts 1
Steel Beasts Pro PE
Combat mission 1 (all of them: Beyond Overlord, Barbarossa to Berlin, Afrika Korps)
Hearts of Iron 2 and 3
Company of Heroes Anthology
Star Wars Knight of the old Republic(KotoR), all of them

[Paul Riley]

sure there's already at least 3 of these threads over in General Games :06: :D

PS1 -
Spyro 1+2
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Soviet Strike
Tomb Raider

PS2 -
Black
Resident Evil 4
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Call of Duty Finest Hour
Red Dead Revolver

PC -
The Longest Journey/Dreamfall
Call of Duty 2
Flight Simulator 9/X
IL2 1946
ARMA II/OA/BAF
Half Life 1+2
Dragon Age Origins
World of Tanks
Alliance of Valiant Arms
F.E.A.R
Crysis
LOTRO
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl/Call of Pripyat
Portal 1+2
Minecraft


I'm sure there's more lol

Hi from Sheffield! :salute:

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

I used to buy a lot games so this is a difficult task. I list my favourites by category:

Strategy:
Rome Total War - absolute number one! :yep:
Victoria: An Empire Under Sun
Civilization 2 & 3
Settlers 3 & 4 (not combat side of them)
Sim City 4 - fits best to this category
Space Empires 4

Action:
Hitman: Blood Money - very fun game! One problem, I have lost the disc :wah:
Fallout series: Fallout 1 & 2 (refuse to work on my PC :06:) and Fallout 3. Fallout: New Vegas maybe my next fav when I get my hands to it.
GTA: San Andreas - very fun, especially because my game got bugged and I got M-4 with infinite ammo, lucky me! :D
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion

Simulators:
Silent Hunter 4
Flight Simulator X - just would like to know why my approach to Stockholm - Arlanda in 737 always fails. :hmmm:

I and my brother have (available to both) combined collection of about 30 games. First being Flight Simulator for Windows 95 and second being Grand Theft Auto. I was about 12 when I bought then brand new original GTA. Nobody asked about age in 1998! :haha:

[Feuer Frei!]

sure there's already at least 3 of these threads over in General Games
Indeed, that's why i'm surprised the 2 game threads haven't been relocated yet.

[Egan]

I was going to go all old school and say 'Elite' or 'Lords of Midnight', both of which I loved and played to death. But if I'm honest with myself I'll have to say 'Championship Manager/Football Manager''. No other game has ever come close for the amount of my life I've wasted playing that thing. No other game has me day dreaming about a post match press conference after my team have lifted the cup. No other game has ever made me throw a boot at my monitor.

In fact, I'm off to play it now to celebrate the start of the season. :yeah:

[STEED]

Arcade Games -
Missile Command
Space Invaders
Star Wars
Asteroids

Sega Mega Drive -
Mercs
Road Rash II
Flashback
Abrams Battle Tank

PC
The free versions of the old Dos Games of Steel Panthers
Panzer General II
SH3/4

[ajrimmer42]

Hi from Sheffield! :salute:

:yeah: whereabouts are ya? I'm in Norton.

[Howard313]

Anything Team Fortress


Quake World Team Fortress
Team Fortress Classic 1.5
Fortress Forever
Team Fortress 2

There's another one but it's name escapes me.

Lets see I'm also a fan of Warzone 2100 (great real-time strategy, designing your own units, thousands of research and technology options, and probably the best artillery system to date.)

[Stealhead]

:wah:
Fallout series: Fallout 1 & 2 (refuse to work on my PC :06:) and Fallout 3. Fallout: New Vegas maybe my next fav when I get my hands to it.
GTA: San Andreas - very fun, especially because my game got bugged and I got M-4 with infinite ammo, lucky me! :D


:hmmm:



Why wont F1 and F2 work? have you tried http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9 it is a site for only Fallout 1 and 2(well they mention the others) if someone can help you it would be here.

Also for my Vista machine I have to open the app by going to its base folder and clicking the game icon from there then they will work for me.

[Onkel Neal]

Age of Empires

[krashkart]

It's tough to nail down just one or two games that I thought were the best. So I'll post a really, really long list of my favorites instead. :D


HoI 1 & 2
X3


*phew* I got blisters on my fingers!

[TarJak]

I'd have to say IL-2 in all its forms with mods. It's the one I keep going back too even though it was a bit rough round the edges when it was first released, it's certainly the benchmark for combat flight games IMHO.

[Paul Riley]

:yeah: whereabouts are ya? I'm in Norton.

I live in a place called Walkley,do you know it? :)

[Paul Riley]

Does anyone remember Rastan Saga?,especially the arcade version,man that game was bloody amazing! :rock:

[RickC Sniper]

Age of Empires

I still play that once in awhile.


From the same era:
The Command & Conquer series.

[krashkart]

The Command & Conquer series.


How in the world could I ever forget that. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=258&pictureid=4487

I spent hours upon hours playing the first one. :)

[Falkirion]

For me on the PS1 my favorite without a doubt is final fantasy 9. Played plenty of good games in my lifetime.
Zelda Ocarina-Majoras-Wind waker are brilliant.
Vampire Slayer mod for HL1. That was always fun with friends at around 1am at a LAN party. Lights off, headphones on, screams and laughter ensued.
Heaps of other games out there that I love

[yubba]

I think the best flight sim was Janes WW ll fighters now that I got it all modded out and it will run on a 20 dollar machine all day long.

SH 4 is a top notch subsim and SH 3 with the S-boote mod is sway cool.
Played Metal of Honor series and Brothers in Arms, Aces High 2 online was something else.

[Randomizer]

I think that I spent more time with Aces of the Deep, X-Com UFO Defense and Harpoon 2 than anything else since.

[Flaxpants]

I like games that give me the most freedom to play how I want, and open worlds in which to do so. So for me, my favourites in no particular order:

SH3 or 4
Fallout 3/ New Vegas
FSX
Arma 2

[Sledgehammer427]

I'm a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SOC Nut. (Planning on getting a "marked by the zone" tattoo sometime in the near future)
I miss playing that game. THe only reason I don't is because my poor computer is hooked up in the attic, which was 115 degrees Fahrenheit last I checked (Excellent for immersion when playing GTR 2 though, race cars don't have air condidioning!)

I loved playing Metro 2033. Test Drive Unlimited, GTR 2 with the Power and Glory mod, and GTR 2 with the ALMS mod.

[ajrimmer42]

I live in a place called Walkley,do you know it? :)

yeah, kinda other end of town to me though lol

[SubV]

Deus Ex, of course.

[Dowly]

Always had tons of fun playing and making maps/mods to the build games, so:

- Blood (One unit whole blood)
- Shadow Warrior
- Starship Troopers (mod)
- Platoon Leader (mod)
- WWII GI

[Raptor1]

Let's see. I don't know if these are the best games I've played, but they are some of my favourites:

Crimson Skies
Arcanum
TIE Fighter
Homeworld (All of them)
Zelda: Majora's Mask (Hard choice over OoT, but I'll go with this one.)
Norm Koger's Age of Rifles (Obligatory wargame is obligatory)

And a whole bunch I can't think of at the moment, of course...

[TheSatyr]

Freelancer
Mafia II
Fallout 3
Shogun Total War (NOT 2)
Both KOTOR Games

[Osmium Steele]

OMG, I completely forgot about Bard's Tale. :oops:

[Herr-Berbunch]

:yeah: whereabouts are ya? I'm in Norton.

I live in a place called Walkley,do you know it? :)


And I bet you both come to sunny Cleethorpes for your holidays :D

Oh, games - nightshifts playing Tomb Raider and Resident Evil on PS, along with Colin McRae Rally and the original GTA that you could put the disk into a cd player and play the in-game tracks :rock:

PS2... GT4.

PS3... Only really played GT5.

PC... used to borrow a mates when he was away and play Delta Force. Finally got my own and it would be FS9 in lan setup with Vulcan add-on :yeah:. Current PC favourites are BF:BC2 (calm down people, calm down) and DCS's magnificent A-10C :rock: