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Lifer
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All are great games (I've never played FF VII but I hear it's good).

However in the Zelda series many feel (myself included) that A Link to the Past was the best.

Goldeneye was great for its time and on a console (especially multiplayer), but console FPSes can't hold a candle to PC FPSes. Counterstrike?

And where is Starcarft?!
 

mugs

Lifer
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Originally posted by: loki8481
am I the only one who hated Ocarina?

from an objective standpoint -- in terms of copies sold, versions made, and people who were addicted to the game -- I'd have to list Tetris as the best video game of all time.

I didn't hate it, but I prefer 2D Zelda games.

You're right about Tetris being wildly popular, but I don't think it has enough dept to call it the best game of all time.
 

jdini76

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how far back do your video game playing days go?

Cause I woul dhave to say Zelda (NES)

But pac-man is up there as well as Asteroids.
 

EngenZerO

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
with a list like that you must be 18 or 19. FF7 wasn't even the best in the series (II/IV was), let alone the best game of all time

*sigh*

noobs

nah, we are 25 year olds... i think we were focusing more on games that kinda changed the way we look @ games...
 

EngenZerO

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
with a list like that you must be 18 or 19. FF7 wasn't even the best in the series (II/IV was), let alone the best game of all time

*sigh*

noobs

nah, we are 25 year olds... i think we were focusing more on games that kinda changed the way we look @ games...

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
you cant compare an online game like D2 and FF7...they are totaly differnet GENRES!!!

D2 >=< FF7 for me


we understand that... its hard comparing different geners... it was just fun comparing what we thought... what was more interesting was the results we found when we googled top games of all time in google....
 

Joemonkey

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Originally posted by: mugs
All are great games (I've never played FF VII but I hear it's good).

However in the Zelda series many feel (myself included) that A Link to the Past was the best.

Goldeneye was great for its time and on a console (especially multiplayer), but console FPSes can't hold a candle to PC FPSes. Counterstrike?

And where is Starcarft?!

seriously, how can starcraft be missing?
 

Baked

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X-Com. This came out before most people here were borned probably.
 

brikis98

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zelda: a link to the past was awesome... but you can't not include things like half life, the civilization games, deus ex, and a whole slew of others.

also, if you want to think of games that had an impact on.. uh... everyone... here's a fun experiment i did a few years back: take a bunch of college kids, sit them in a room with a little bit of boos and one of the super mario games. count how many of them know the location of EVERY SECRET for the first 20 levels or so. has any other game had that much impact on ppl of every culture/race/sex? i mean, seriously, EVERYONE knows that game. it's kind of creepy, really.
 

BurnItDwn

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IMO it would have to be any one of these: Total Annihilation, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, or Quake.
 

zebano

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Originally posted by: JujuFish
Ocarina of Time isn't even the best Zelda game, let alone the best game of all time. That title belongs to Chrono Trigger.

FF7 isn't even the best Final Fantasy game, let alone the best game of all time. That title belongs to FF8 (with FF4 a close second).


Edit: D2 was the best of the games listed. That game was just addictive.
 

EngenZerO

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Originally posted by: Joemonkey
Originally posted by: mugs
All are great games (I've never played FF VII but I hear it's good).

However in the Zelda series many feel (myself included) that A Link to the Past was the best.

Goldeneye was great for its time and on a console (especially multiplayer), but console FPSes can't hold a candle to PC FPSes. Counterstrike?

And where is Starcarft?!

seriously, how can starcraft be missing?

it was just a debate... that game did come up though... we all just picked one game we thought was the greatest game we ever played...
 

EngenZerO

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Dec 24, 2001
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Originally posted by: zebano
Originally posted by: JujuFish
Ocarina of Time isn't even the best Zelda game, let alone the best game of all time. That title belongs to Chrono Trigger.

FF7 isn't even the best Final Fantasy game, let alone the best game of all time. That title belongs to FF8 (with FF4 a close second).


Edit: D2 was the best of the games listed. That game was just addictive.

really... you liked 8... it was good but no where as good as 7... but that is my opinion...
 

Firsttime

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Originally posted by: mugs
All are great games (I've never played FF VII but I hear it's good).

However in the Zelda series many feel (myself included) that A Link to the Past was the best.

Goldeneye was great for its time and on a console (especially multiplayer), but console FPSes can't hold a candle to PC FPSes. Counterstrike?

And where is Starcarft?!

Yeah, when I read that list and missed Starcraft I began to doubt your knowledge on the whole subject.

 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: Baked
X-Com. This came out before most people here were borned probably.

Has it really been that long? :(
I never played the full version, just the demo I got with some game magazine.
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Baked
X-Com. This came out before most people here were borned probably.

Has it really been that long? :(
I never played the full version, just the demo I got with some game magazine.

works fine in windows xp last i tried it. little fast, though
 

thirtythree

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Some friends and I have started playing Diablo II again. That gets my vote. Only game I was ever addicted to.
 

secretanchitman

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zelda ocarina of time.

but zelda twilight princess is looking more and more to take over OoTs place.