Man this is hard... :hmm:


1. has to be the Half Life series (I'm including 1, 2 and the episodes in that). The characters are brilliantly fleshed out and believable, it's just so well made.

2. Tomb Raider 1. Such a scary game (well, when you're 7 anyway). Absolute classic.

3. World In Conflict. Despite not being as tactical or long as CoH, it had one of the best storylines I've ever seen in a game, if not the best, and certainly the most thought provoking.

4. Call of Duty 2. By far the best of the series imo (although I haven't played the first much). I still go back to that game even after completing it many a time.

5. Flight Simulator 2004. I've pumped sooo many flying hours into that game, it had to be on this list somewhere!


Some that just missed out, or are on different platforms but are worth a mention:
Bioshock
Fallout 3
Uncharted Drakes Fortune
Overboard!
Spyro 1, 2 and 3
Total War (probs Medieval 2 but they are all brilliant)
Ballance
Deus Ex
F.E.A.R
The Lost Crown

oooo that is a tuff one :hmm:

1. Zelda - Wind waker.
2. Banjo kazooie
3. Project gotham racing 4
4. Resident evil remake (gamecube)
5. mario kart double dash

I dont spend much time now playing games but in my opinion my best gaming days were on the N64 and gamecube :up:

Oh and crash bandicoot and spyro as well :)

I'll purposefully avoid the obvious Silent Hunter 3/4 mention as it almost goes without saying...

Since it's so hard to narrow down, here's 5 of my many all time favorites that I didn't see anyone else mention.

1. MechWarrior 4
2. Jedi Knight Academy (but I haven't played Force Unleashed yet)
3. Fable (that reminds me, I need to pickup Fable2!)
4. Railroad Tycoon
5. Roller Coaster Tycoon

Thanks for the thread and all who posted, since I was just lamenting over the lack of new games.
Now I have a list to take with me to hunt the jewel-case-bargain-shelves at Target!

1) Fallout series original only.
2) Mech Commander series
3) X3 Reunion
4) S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
5) Silent Hunter 3

1. IL-2 Sturmovik
2. Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
3. Aces of the Pacific
4. Wing Commander Privateer
5. Fallout

1. Aces of the deep2. SH III3. Operation Flashpoint4. IL-2 + all expansions5. Pacific Storm (just to damed buggy)

Empire Total war comming soon :D
Arma 2 too, bautifull graphics...

And Il2- Sturmovik is my 6th best game

Can't do it. Can't pick just 5. There are so many great games that I have loved in my life.

If I had to say - right now.....

#1 Thief series - culminating in T3 - but all of em were great and scared the bejezzus outta me.

#2 Rome - Total War - I have MTW and MTW2 with expansion but somehow, Rome just is more... polished and sucks me in more. I started out with Shogun TW and then the Mongol Invasion - great game that was! I am looking forward to Empire!

#3 Warhammer40k DOW - both Dark Crusade and Soulstorm have eaten innumerable hours of my time. The first DoW was good - the Winter Assault expansion however was a serious flop. But DC and then Soulstorm really were a big leap. Another series that I look forward to the next one - Dawn of War 2

#4 Star Wars - Empire at War - This was what every Star Wars fan that owned Rebellion has wanted for many a year. Don't sleep on this one - I fully expect that there will be another run with this - and if so - it could improve even more. Larger planets, randomized surfaces for battle - explorable random universes, etc. The engine could be the foundation for an elite type (talk about classics!) RTS 4x galaxy game

#5 Klingon Academy - I so wish they would do for Star Trek what they did for Star Wars with EaW. Would need more of a focus on space - like Rebellion did - but it has SO much potential!

#6 All the rest. Starshatter TGS, Spaceforce:RU, Company of Heroes with Opposing Fronts, Pacific Storm Allies, Galactic Civilizations (I gotta get the last expansions still) , Imperium Galactica 2, Seadogs, Sins of a Solar Empire, Supreme Commander, the Brothers in Arms series, Nascar Racing 4, Blazing Angels 2 - the list goes on and on.

Ultimately - the one thing that drew me to the classics such as Silent Service and SS2, as well as SH3 and 4 - was the sense of freedom. I remember the old Lightspeed and Hyperspeed games, Elite Plus, Freelancer, Privateer, Wing Commander (Armada anyone???) and on and on and on. The freedom was what I loved, and still do. I don't need a storyline, but I do like a good one. I also enjoy the ability to create my own. Thats one reason I wish there really was a true, modern sequel to Elite. I know there have been many attempts, but they never really pulled it off. Often the games got too bogged down with complexity and lost the flavor. Some of the modern privateer remakes suffer from this. Though bless those guys for trying! If Spaceforce RU had playable capital ships, a randomizable universe (that would need to be MUCH larger) and the ability to build an empire - it would be the ultimate Elite remake.

I also miss the really good 4x games. Master of Magic, Masters of Orion 1 & 2 (3 blew really bad) were great games. I understand MoM may be getting an update - and its about time! Galactic Civilizations comes close to Moo2 - though graphically it suffers. But I don't mind - and support Stardock with my greenery because they care about gameplay (though impulse I killed asap). They also did good with Sins - though its a bit more on the simplistic conflict (hardcore) side.

1-Operation FlashPoint 2-Unreal Tournament the first one 3-Blade of Darkness 4-DeusEx 5-SH3

Fallout 3

World of Warcraft

Aliens v predator 1

Lock On

Half life 2

Only five is tough, and I cannot bring myself to rank them.

Starflight
Sandbox games today wish they were this free form

X-COM
One of two games I can remember that honestly scared me, and brilliantly executed.

Fallout 1 or 2.
Play one for five minutes and you'll know why. Two was draggy at the start, but once it got going...man...3 is awesome, but I haven't spent enough time with it to determine whether it's hall of fame yet.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
I haven't played the fourth yet, but the options in this game were staggering. Wherever you looked there was something new to try or do. Finishing the game, you were just getting started.

Quest for Glory series
Sentimental favorite.

So many honorable mentions...

Funny you should mention it... it did have that sorta creepy feeling to it. You really did feel afraid for your squad going to those first few crash sites. I recall in the early days we'd lose 2 or 3 men on every mission.

Remember that alien tech rocket launcher that could shoot an exploding football, follow waypoints around corners, and blow the crap out of everything... ahhh good times.

It was so far ahead of anything that had been done... and it came outta MicroProse; I bought it thinking it was a spaceflight sim!

1/. Silent Hunter 4 + mods
2/. Rome Total War + rome total realism platinum mod .
3/. Trainz Railroad simulator 2008 + Razorback Railway routes and scenarios .
4/. ?????????
5/. ?????????

1. Il2
2. Rtw
3. Miitw
4. Shiii
5. Far Cry

Those first few missions...whatever they turn out to be...are always real nail-biters even when I play it now. Unarmored, with so-so weapons, and the foreknowledge that the little alien bastards will be firing at you from windows, behind bushes, etc...yeah.

First time I played it, though, was tense. Before you had some idea of what to expect it was 10 times worse.

I loved that thing. One of my favorite 'bring 'em back alive' techniques involved using it to blast a hole in the top of a Martian battleship right where the little 'command room' was. Usually, there'd be the alien commander and some other more valuable prisoners in there...I'd blow the top open, and put stun bombs down on them and take the battleship from the top down.

I went into it with what I thought was full knowledge cuz I'd played the 'single terror mission' demo. I wore out that little disk, but it was weeks before I could buy the game as no one locally stocked it!

It turned out that the (excellent) combat was only part of the equation of course.:D