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Originally Posted by Dowly (Post 1114936)

PS. FF8 is better than FF7. End of story. :D

Yeah, a better coaster to put your drinks on.

Remembering Final Fantasy VIII
full article

I remember awaiting it's release. I even bought a second copy of FFVII because it included a disc with a trailer for VIII. It blew me away, I can still pretty much dream the whole thing. That was 10 years ago, but I remember it more vividly than what happened yesterday.

I still have to say VII is better, but VIII is close behind.

Haha, FF fans really tend to overtake any forum. I've seen a thred on a forum about lung cancer that had a "Which FF is best" fight in it :har:.
FF7 was my introduction to the series and at that moment it was the best game I had ever played. But after playing FF1-FF6 (skipping FF3 which had not been translated at that time) I felt that FF9 was the true best Final Fantasy because it somehow took everything I loved about the first 6 and merged them in one amazing pack.
FF7 is not a Final Fantasy at all, it feels too different. It's amazing, but it's not a FF. The new ones however are so far from the old feeling that they should give them a new name. It's as if Ubisoft did "Prince of Persia 5: Assassin's Creed", or "Thief 4: Splinter Cell".

Ok, I call FF and raise with Chrono Trigger. Now, that kicks FF's arse anyday. It was abit on the short side, but the story and the atmosphere were just awesome. :yeah:

1. Combat Mission x 1 series

2. TOAW series

3. IL-2 series

4. SH series

5. Jane's Flight Sim series

This is difficult,i've been gaming since 1985....

1)Command & Conquer Red alert
2)Total annihilation/core contingency
3)Battlefield 2
4)Operation flashpoint
5)Company of heroes

These are the games i played the most,but i'd rather make a top 10,so many good games i played over the years,and crappy ones too..

1. Flightsim 9/X
2. Silent Hunter Series 1/3/4
3. Fallout series
4. B-17 Flying Fortress and the mighty 8th
5. Falcon4AF

1) Deus Ex
2) Silent Hunter III
3) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
4) Fallout 2
5) Clive Barker's Undying

1. X-COM enemy unknown (also known as ufo defense I think)
2. Wing commander 1,2
3. M1A2 tank platoon (the first title from 87 I think)
4. operation flashpoint.
5. commandos (1,2)

1. Half Life (1)
2. Command & Conquer (1)
3. Civilization
4. TIE Fighter
5. FS2004

OT: Shearwater rules, Shearwater.:)

I cant give you my top 5 games, only my top 10 Franchises. (im a sucka for sequels)

Command & Conquer: (mostly Red Alert)
Silent Hunter (3 and above)
Silent Hill
Half Life
Deux Ex
Operation Flashpoint / ArmA
GTA
Hitman
Flatout
UT

:)

In random order

Old games,

1: Defender of the crown
2: Elite
3: Half-Life
4: Silent Service
5: B-17 Flying Fortress

Newer games,

1: FS 2004
2: Silent Hunter 3
3: Mass Effect
4: Eve ( not playing anymore but I think it's the best MMO around )
5: Fear

List below mostly based on time spent playing them, some of these are real old.

1 Morrowind.
2 Silent hunter 3
3 Railroad tycoon I
4 Civilization 1 to 4
5 Diablo I

Did someone just now mention defender of the crown? :yeah:
That certainly deserves honorable mention for me too :know:

In no particular order:

Team Fortress 2 ("Spy sappin' mah sentry!!!")
EverQuest (WoW is better, but EQ had the novelty effect going for it)
Zork
the Flight Simulator series
SH3

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Originally Posted by Robsoie (Post 1026839)

-- Orbiter
Free software, but the most realistic space simulation i ever saw.
I just discovered it a year ago, but since then i spent lot of my nights taking off from KCS in Cape Canaveral, flying around with various kind of ships, going in Orbit, catching a space station and docking to it, then trying to re-entry and land safely in Cape.
When i saw the difficulty of this that sounded so simple in theory but thanks to the realism of the simulation was complex, i had a more profound respect to every of the people that do this for real.
Difficult at first, but don't despair in front of the apparent complexity, once reading some of the very very good tutorials you can get the hang of it and quickly enough do those impossible flights and be the astronaut you always dreamed about when you were a kid.
My first travel to the Moon was really memorable. but my first successfull space station ISS catching and docking gave me a feeling of achievement i never ever felt in any kind of games on my PC.
Recently after finally figuring out some addon MFD, i managed to reach Mars (thanks to the time acceleration as the thing in real time would have took really very long :D )

You can get Orbiter on its main website, check Orbit Hangar for thousand of addons and explore the Orbiter forum for tutorial and help.

I can't thank enough Dr Martin Schweiger, Orbiter author, that basically allowed me to be the nearest i will ever be to achieve this old childhood dream of going to space.
Orbiter is nearly the real deal.

As i mentionned Orbiter in the 2nd page of this thread, in november it will be the 9th anniversary of this fabulous free simulator.

And talking about anniversary, the one that started my addiction to space : this month it is the 25th anniversary of Elite from Braben and Bell , that appeared on BBC micro in 1984.
here is Braben company Elite website :
http://elite.frontier.co.uk/
and here is Bell personnal website :
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/

Can't believe it is already 25 years, though i played it only 2 years later when it was finally converted for my old amstrad.
The 2 sequels from Braben (with a bit of Bell for the 2nd game and without Bell for the 3rd game) were using some very good newtonian physics (and awfull combat) that i played way too much time, i guess it is what lead me to great joy when discovering Orbiter.

As i saw it mentionned elsewhere, there is a free remake of this first Elite named Oolite that features lot of community expansions and addons : http://www.oolite.org/
I just tried it briefly, it is rather faithfull and looks a very lot much better than the original, i have not yet tested the expansion, but reading a bit, there seems to be some very interesting things.

Hello..
First of all I would like to say that I like different types of games very much. I always play PC games as well as mobile games. My most favorite top 5 PC games are Diablo 2, Commandos series, City of Heroes, Sudoku and Solitaire. I like these games very much because these games are really very interesting and fun to play. Thank you very much friends for your different types of opinions.

I don't I have a top 5 but here are my favorites

SH3-4 :rock:
Hearts of Iron 2 Doomsday and armageddon :rock:
the Total war series:rock:
Call of duty 1-2-4:rock:

I think I posted here before but what the hell:D

Without specific order
1. Empire Total War
2. Silent Hunter III with GWX supermod
3. Medieval 2 Total War
4. Dangerous Waters with DWX supermod
5. IL-2 Sturmovik

The Interstate series (;'76, Nitro, and '82)
Operation Flashpoint / Arma
IL2 Series
Silent Hunter series (3&4)
Combat Mission series