Your top three all time favorite games

[skace]

1. Quake1
2. Quake1
3. Quake1

Yea, sorry but Quake1 actually occupies the first 15 slots of my top 100 favorite games list. 13 years, thousands of mods, dozens of gaming engines, and the best online community I've ever been a part of. I play and love a lot of games, but nothing has ever been such a total package as the original Quake. It was more like a gaming platform than a single game. And the kicker is, I doubt it will ever lose that top spot, because you will never see another community like it, people will never come together in that manner again and put so much sweat and love into basically free software.

 

[Earballs]

1. Quake 3
2. Team Fortress 2
3. Shogo MAD

 

[yacoub]

Originally posted by: skace
1. Quake1
2. Quake1
3. Quake1

Yea, sorry but Quake1 actually occupies the first 15 slots of my top 100 favorite games list. 13 years, thousands of mods, dozens of gaming engines, and the best online community I've ever been a part of. I play and love a lot of games, but nothing has ever been such a total package as the original Quake. It was more like a gaming platform than a single game. And the kicker is, I doubt it will ever lose that top spot, because you will never see another community like it, people will never come together in that manner again and put so much sweat and love into basically free software.

Well said. It truly was something special, especially when it first came out and you joined a server for the first time on our 28.8k-33.6k modems with our 300ms pings (or on ISDN if you were really lucky). So much fun running around the campaign maps, deathmatching with other real people. And then when Threewave CTF came out? OMG. And then TeamFortress? Wow! Not to mention all the crazy mods in between, from Navy SEALs to SuperHeroes to Runes.
13 years ago was such an amazing time to be a PC gamer.

 

[yh125d]

HL: 2 + episodes
Homeworld (Samuel Barbers Agnus Dei soundtrack is amazing)
Halo multiplayer with 5-6 of my buddies all in one big room. Not so much because of the game, but the experience


Honorable Mention:

Trackmania Nations - Once again for the epic lulz/fun when playing with 6-8 buddies. LAN parties > online multiplayer

Baldur's Gate II - I never got around to playing the first BG, but I watched my brother playing BG II when I was young and thought it looked cool, but he would never let me use his computer. So one time he went away on a long weekend for 4 days when I was like 12, and I hijacked his comp and did nothign but play this through to finish in those 4 days. Half orc kensai FTW!

Master of Orion II - I never would have thought a turn based game could be so fun

CoD 5 - Great graphics, great maps, refinement of the already amazing CoD franchise

Far Cry 2 - Wow. Not like any game I have ever played. Amazing graphics and AI, limitlessly open ended, engrossing gameplay. You can beat this game 10 times and do it completely different each time

 

[Absolution75]

1) KOTOR
2) HL1
3) Metal Gear Solid (Hey. . . its avalible for PC. . . but play it on a console).

 

[Northern Lawn]

America's Army 2
System Shock 2
Rome: Total war

 

[Rankor]

Tie Fighter
Deus Ex
Max Payne

 

[tokie]

Counter-Strike before Steam
Team Fortress Classic before Steam
tossup between UT2004/BF2

countless hours put into those games.

 

[Wardawg1001]

I've tried but I can't pick only three, so I'll cheat and list five.

1. Diablo 2 / Ultima Online - my first real experiences with online gaming, and I dumped more hours into both of these games than I care to remember. Listed as number one because they really launched me into online gaming and solidified the pc as my choice of platform as a youngster.

2. Baldurs Gate 2 (with expansions) - best RPG I've ever played. From the number of times this game is listed by other people, I feel like I don't really have to explain its place here. I have serious doubt that any DnD based RPG will ever come close to the experience this game created.

3. Age of Empires 2 (with expansion) / HoM&M3 - Spent a lot of time on both of these games, and their successors were never able to capture the unique gameplay that made them great. AoE3 was too long after AoE2 and lack of support from developer and a poor online community did the game in. HoM&M3 captured everything great from the first two games, fine tuned the balance, strategy, variety, and had a great selection of maps. HoM&4/5 were steps backward in my opinion. Too much focus on graphics upgrades (and the graphics weren't even that great) and not enough time spent on innovating/improving the real strength of the series, strategy and kingdom building.


To be fair I played a lot of the old school FPS games (doom, hexen, quake, UT) and loved most of them, but I was never very good at the twitch style shooting of PC FPS games, so I didn't spend that much time playing them.

 

[TheWart]

1. Jedi Knight
2. Half-Life
3. Battlefield 1942

 

[slugg]

1. Team Fortress Classic
2. Diablo 2: LOD
3. Super Mario World (SNES)

Yes, I know... #3 is not a PC game.

Here is my reasoning:

1. This game completely consumed my life when I played it. I'd wake up, play a couple rounds, go to school, come back, play a round, eat, then play some more, do some homework, then play til I got tired and fell asleep. I just found the gameplay to be THAT GOOD and I just didn't want to stop playing! I put it at #1 since I got pretty serious with it, being involved in many leagues and competing at LAN events. I still think that to this day, TFC is still the best multiplayer game (not just FPS, but across all genres) for the competitive player. What's stopping me now is that pretty much nobody plays TFC anymore and the bots suck. So basically, I just don't have people to play with.
2. This was the only other game to get me hooked. I played quite a lot, took breaks, and came back to it. I never got super serious, though. What's stopping me now is the lack of a safe map-hack. Come on, Blizzard, give us a freaking map!
3. This is the only game that I take pleasure in playing every single time. I played it on the SNES when it originally came out. I played on it emulators on my PC and Xbox. A version of it also came out for Gameboy Advance. Played them all, beat them all. Every single level, every single goal. And I'd like to do it again

 

[zinfamous]

Computer would have to be:

Warcraft II
Sim City 2000 (or any, really)
"Random Sierra Game X" --primarily the Space Quest/Hero's Quest games. must I name one? they're all the same.....

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Jesusthewererabbit
Star Control II
TF2
Crusader: No Remorse

oh frick...forgot SC II.

maybe one of the awesomest games ever devised, IMO.

:beer:

 

[Red Storm]

Age of Empires II

Baldur's Gate II

Dragon Age: Origins (yep, I'm already certain)

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: zebano
Planescape: Torment
Diablo II
Starcraft

Honorary mention to Counterstrike, but it never got as much play as the games listed above.

Originally posted by: totalnoob
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 7



oh, and Resident Evil 1 (PS1) + Team Fortress 2 (PC)

You do realize that FF6 > FF8 > FF7 and all are eclipsed by Chrono Trigger?

FF8 is the absolute worst of the series...and only one of those is available for PC, no?

besides, FF II (the English version, you freaks ) > *

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Dead Space <---A friend told me he and his other buddies couldn't beat the demo; I couldn't believe it
Deus Ex

Morrowind
<---Died on first mission by a cliff racer - rude awakening.

 

[djnsmith7]

1. BF2
2. World Superbike '00
3. Unreal Tournament '99

 

[Modelworks]

1. EQ1 - never spent more time in a game than this. Played it from launch and about 3 years after that. There was nothing like it at the time. It was frustrating as hell at times, corpse runs sucked and trains were funny, but probably the most memorable of games I have played.

2. Stronghold crusader - still play it, the graphics are dated , but just something about the builder in me that likes building my castles and walls and taking on the enemy.
3. Thief - played it tons, still waiting on that remake.
http://www.strategyinformer.co...ms-thief-4-development

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: Jesusthewererabbit
Star Control II
TF2
Crusader: No Remorse

oh frick...forgot SC II.

maybe one of the awesomest games ever devised, IMO.

:beer:

Maybe? I dare anyone to name a more awesome game without mentioning Mario Bros. 3! It can't be done.

 

[brandonb]

1. Everquest 1 - 1999
2. Falcon 4 - 1998
3) Master of Orion 2 - 1997?

The mid-late 90's was a good time for video games. Everything today is just so blah and dumbed down/boring, or they have the "I win" button. Those games above gave me some fond memories, and alot of frustration, which I believe causes immersion and enjoyment.

Honorable Mentions:

Bard's Tale series.
Civilization 2.
Battlefield 1942.

 

[lupi]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm..........

Number one and two are easy, TA and CoH.

For three it's a hard split between V4V(and it's later avalon hill branded titles), Civ, Xwing/Tiefighter, and the HL1 mods (CS, DoD, TF).

 

[Patt]

Ultima IV
WarCraft II
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

 

[zerogear]

X3
Deus Ex
Privateer

 

[sash1]

Unreal Tournament (orig)
Starcraft
Diablo II

honorable mention: Counter-Strike (pre bunny-hop nerf)

 

[BladeVenom]

X-Com
Masters of Orion
Steel Panthers