What's the best game you have ever played?

[Snow_Flake]

Howdy nerds :p

so whats the best game you have ever played?

mine is Guardian's Crusade for the Playstaion 1, fuck

secrets of mana
Populus the beggins
Lufia
Rayman 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFOngyoVBBU

i still have the original disc and cover for it :) and it still works gr8

https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?view=att&th=14421f0fabd80865&attid=0.1&disp=inline&realattid=1459763315289882624-1&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P8dlw1D_-J14TpiLX782kaP&sadet=1392138964286&sads=MZpXQH1bVFl9rHOJhZXZNlnWs_c&sadssc=1

Enjoy :)

plz post a vid or a picture of the game it makes it more a live :cool:

[chu]

guardian's crusade!!! good call

[Grubbz]

DAO (Yes best game i ever played was an rpg, blow me)

[SamwiseRed]

ff3, earthbound

recently dark souls

[Nocte]

Resident Evil (the GameCube redux)
Metal Gear Solid
Beyond Oasis
EverQuest
City of Heroes
Assassin's Creed II
Bioshock Infinite
Dishonored

[Raavak]

There was this softball game about 8 years ago that was epic... made a diving catch in left field, threw a runner out that didn't tag up.

[Mac Dretti]

EQ

Pocket pool

Top 2 no particular order

[r00t]

age of empires 2
grand theft autos
deus ex
everquest
commander keen
goldeneye
crash bandicoots
splinter cells

[nilzark]

MechWarrior 2 / Mercs
EQ
Half-Life franchise

Them my top 3.

[Dr. Edge]

Tempest
Tron
Pitfall
Zaxxon


EQ
DAOC
City of heros

[Oogei]

P1999

[Furniture]

some of my favorites:

eq
x3:the terran conflict
europa universalis 4
monkey island 2
quest for glory 1

[Uteunayr]

Chrono Trigger.

It is a game that has you playing Crono, who ends up getting thrown through time with his companions Marle and Lucca, and discovering that in year 1999, the world is destroyed by a world-parasite called Lavos. The three of them set out on an adventure through time, from 65,000,000 BC to 2300 AD to try and prevent the future destruction of humanity.

The game is one that offers a story that is not only accessible and easy to understand, but at the same time is complex and takes advantage of time travel as a story telling device. Numerous times through the game, you can find that your choices in the past effect things that happen in the future.

The game was among the first to offer many different endings, featuring 13-15 different, unique endings based on how you complete the ending. These endings can vary from a default good ending, to one in which humanity never existed because of the way you went about completing the game.

The storytelling is not directly linear, in which you are lead from place A to place B, nor totally unlinear. Instead, the game will offer you a puzzle to think out. Such as at one point, you are told that you cannot do something because you need something that hasn't been available for a very long time. It is up to you to put 2 and 2 together to figure out that you need to go back in time.

At no point do you have to stop and "grind" to get strong enough to defeat certain encounters. All boss encounters are based on strategy, rather than brute force. All regular monster encounters are engaged by in-world mobs, rather than random encounters like the early Final Fantasy.

The game has an unparalleled soundtrack. There is nothing else to say. It is absolutely beautiful, and it fits every aspect of the game perfectly to truly emphasize the feelings you're meant to get at each stage of the game.

It is "epic" in that you feel you've spanned huge times and done something great, and yet this story is told in 10-15 hours of gameplay. You are never strung on in a way that is irritating.

Ultimately, it remains a game that is truly perfection. I still play it to this day.

[Tradesonred]

lol make it interesting, you only get to pick one game

[Tradesonred]

I might go back on it but playing phantasy star 2 on genesis at 13 was pretty fuck me this is so fuckin awesome.

[moklianne]

EQ
Lunar 1 and 2 on playstation 1
Most of the old Sierra adventure games (King's quest, space quest, leisure suit larry series, etc)
The Legend of Kyrandia series (another older adventure game)
Simon the Sorcerer series
Original Civilization (the one that fit on two floppies)
Classic Nintendo games like Zelda, Metroid, and Blastermaster
Classic Sega Genesis games like Sonic the Hedgehog

These were hella fun at lan parties:
Command and Conquer 2 and expansions
Star Trek Armageddon

[Peatree]

Yars Revenge

[Peatree]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Yars_Revenge_cover.jpg

[Millburn]

Starsiege: Tribes
Star Ocean: The Second Story (PS1)
Final Fantasy Tactics
Planescape: Torment

[Mandalore93]

Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Star Wars Battlefront 1. Just such awesome communities for FPS games. A lot more chatter was heard in those games than any other I've played.

Europa Universalis 4 is such a great game too. Paradox in general just makes fucking outstanding games.

EQ is the best MMO I've played I would say. But to be honest, it more felt like an addiction than something I really loved. Now that I'm older and have a lot more game (and life) experience I just can't get hooked back on it like I used to. LOTRO has the best feel to a MMO though. Just wish the game mechanics worked differently.

Civ 3 was absolutely outstanding as well. Love that game. Can't play any other Civ since they just can't stack up.

[Peatree]

Also could not tell you how many countless hours I wasted in my 1985 college days playing...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Bard%27s_Tale_Box_Cover.jpg

[Dr. Edge]

Alex Kidd

[Lune]

Vanilla/BC WoW

tbh p99 was a better experience for me than classic EQ was.... and p99 is great and all but nowhere near my favorite game

non-MMO contender would have to be Dwarf Fortress

[deezy]

Chrono Trigger.
I love that you can fight (and die) to the final boss fairly early in the game. It makes it a lot more interesting in repeat playthroughs when you use the new game+ option and fight the final boss at various different points in the game.

[Tradesonred]

Tribes was a pretty wtf landmark as well, takin games like quake to the next level, played that shit high till 8am lots of times lol

Not alot of people must know what peatrees talkin about with yars revenge, that shit used to drive my momma mad, i had to compromise and shut the sound down sometimes

Faves on atari:

River raid, combat, star wars (the side scroller that was like defender a bit), the blisters i got playing decathlon damn, asteroids, freeway, mr. do

lol

[Babayaaga]

My list:

Diablo. (level 5 with the red bat scared the SHIT out of me)

Age of Empires franchise. (much LAN party fun)

Starcraft. (many lan party nights with IP games)

Everquest. (first month it's all I dreamed about... too many other reasons to list in short)

Lineage 2 - Beta. (Awesome game, stunning graphics, amazing classes. I say Beta because the asian bots made it obvious the game would not have been the success it could have been so never played live).

Dark Age of Camelot. Amazing PvP on versus servers, epic raid scene on coop server. Nothing like 250 man raids where almost everyone walks away with loot, and guilds actually like working together.

Everquest 2 (pre Sony Store crap). It wasn't quite Everquest and wouldn't top it in my list, but it had at least 4 years of staying power for me. The introduction of RM items at the same time as the account security breach alerted me it was time to say goodbye to Norrath 2.0

[Babayaaga]

Oh and...

Fruit Ninja! (sober or drunk there is nothing better than playing and watching people play this game, especially on Xbox)

[Peatree]

Tribes was a pretty wtf landmark as well, takin games like quake to the next level, played that shit high till 8am lots of times lol

Not alot of people must know what peatrees talkin about with yars revenge, that shit used to drive my momma mad, i had to compromise and shut the sound down sometimes

Faves on atari:

River raid, combat, star wars (the side scroller that was like defender a bit), the blisters i got playing decathlon damn, asteroids, freeway, mr. do

lol

Damn man, I totally remember that too!

[Culainn]

Everquest Online Adventures. It was amazing, although the content was limited to one expansion (Odus, PoS, PoD, PoW). SoE finally took it down in 2012. I've never seen a community of players as dedicated to the game they played before or after EQOA. When the game's population started to dwindle, everyone banded together into one server on their own initiative to keep the game going.

It was beautiful.

/end EQOA nostalgia worship

[Reguiy]

World of Warcraft. *ducks*

[Reguiy]

As far as console games I'm gonna have to say Super Smash Brother 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Super Mario Brothers 3. In no particular order.

[Kayso]

Spent countless hours playing Starflight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight) on my 8088 IBM clone-probably in beautiful CGA graphics. I actually paid for this one on floppy instead of getting a pirate version from a BBS.

As shitty as it would be now by today's standards, nothing at the time compared to it IMO.

[Kimmie]

EQ
King's Quest 4 + 6
Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles for Genesis
Kid Chameleon
OOT
Terraria
Zoombinis, ofc

[Lojik]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Battlezone_Coverart.png

[Asap]

Everquest Online Adventures. It was amazing, although the content was limited to one expansion (Odus, PoS, PoD, PoW). SoE finally took it down in 2012. I've never seen a community of players as dedicated to the game they played before or after EQOA. When the game's population started to dwindle, everyone banded together into one server on their own initiative to keep the game going.

It was beautiful.

/end EQOA nostalgia worship

this you?



hi im just here on a mission. my mission is to get EQOA back because its a major part of my life. lately without it life has been such a drag like its barely inching forward ,like i cant even function with out it. that is how my whole liife has been without EQOA for this past year. I'm depressed never want to do anything, flunked outta college, and feel like theres nothing special in my life anymore. when sony shut down the game i couldnt believe it was over with how hard we all tried to keep it up with our forum posts ,our emails, our youtube videos just all of it failed. yeah we got 3months of gold to EQ 1+2 but to us these games dont even compare they bored me horribly nothing will ever be like EQOA in the past year ive tried several MMORPGs and none of them can keep my interest like EQOA. i know its not just me who feels like this when sony gave us such a great game and ripped it away. it was my home and it got torn down. sony says they care about our opinions and will do anything for their customers then why didnt they keep EQOA up. it makes us feel like sony doesnt care and they have lost our respect because it was our home even in our home it was a second home. PLEASE sony try to open your hearts and bring EQOA back all the servers too because we had several homes Castle light wolf, Direns Hold, Hodstock, Ferrans Hope, Hagley, Marrs fist, i forget the last one but please find it in your hearts to bring back a great game and fantastic part of EQ history its part of a major timeline and needs to be kept. sony if you recognize this thankyou it means alot

[Uteunayr]

I love that you can fight (and die) to the final boss fairly early in the game. It makes it a lot more interesting in repeat playthroughs when you use the new game+ option and fight the final boss at various different points in the game.

Yup. My favorite is that if you wait for the point in the game when Lavos lands and begins to burrow into the planet in 65,000,000 BC, and you kill him while he is still on the surface. You prevent him from going into the core to build up, and so the humans do not win the war against the Reptites, as there is no Ice Age to bring about the death of the Reptites. Because of this, the future is entirely Reptite.

I further love that that reality was a central one to the story of Chrono Cross.

[Furniture]

Europa Universalis 4 is such a great game too. Paradox in general just makes fucking outstanding games.


Yeah paradox games are so damn good. the europa series and victoria series are some of the best games ever for sure. Way better then civ games and its unfortunate that the civ series is more well known then paradox games. While I feel that the civ games arent "bad" games compared to games of other genres, they are inferior by far to paradox games and bad by comparison to most games in the genre. Civ is like the world of warcraft of 4x games in my opinion.

[Tradesonred]

Angry birds

http://brianwatkinsisfat.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/troll-face22.jpg

Im sorry, carry on

[Ahldagor]

eq
majora's mask
empire total war
shadows of the empire
wow up to lich king
skyrim

[Oogei]

you know what PC game i played a lot of when i was growing up? Sanitarium i actually liked that game a lot when i was young

[Culainn]

this you?

Nope, but that is the general sentiment of all die-hard EQOA veterans.

[haank5]

Knights of the old republic I / II on xbox

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Betrayal at Krondor. My Heart.

[NextGenesis88]

Derk Serls

[Fame]

Zelda on 64, shit changed my life

[Sirken]

Howdy nerds :p

so whats the best game you have ever played?

EverQuest

[quido]

golf and table tennis

[Heisenberg]

Ultima Underworld
Lands of Lore Series
Might and Magic III

[myriverse]

Tie: EQ/City of Heroes

[jarshale]

In no particular order,

Nier
Wizardry 8
Quake 3
FF6
UT99/04
Baldurs Gate 2

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Quest 64
Galactic conquest (mod for bf1942)
Everquest
Oblivion
Pokemon red/blue
Action quake
Bf3
Metal warriors

[Swish]

What really gripped me one summer growing up was "Street Fighter 2" (the arcade).

For pure foam at the mouth, "I want more!!111!"... SF2 was it for me ;)

[Otto]

Everquest
Final Fantasy Tactics
Dota 2
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Smash Bros. Melee
Dark Souls

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Everquest
Final Fantasy Tactics
Dota 2
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Smash Bros. Melee
Dark Souls

Oh and Super Smash Bros Melee

Project M is amazing btw.

[Skittlez]

Dark Souls, Bioshock(s), EverQuest, Vanilla WoW, Star Wars Galaxies, Need for Speed: Shift, Pikman, Star Wars Battlefront. All these games I have easily put 400+ hours in each.

Edit: Holy shit I can't believe I forgot Mass Effect 1-3, I have beaten each of those 5-10 times. I CANNOT get enough ME.

[Alde]

- The Last of Us
- Dark Souls
- Demon's Souls
- vanilla EverQuest

[Sorrow*qc]

Fallout 1 2 3 new vegas, when a new fallout is released, i tell my wife that she can forget me for that week, the wasteland is my new world

Super smash bros

Left 4 dead 2

Counter strike

[Tecmos Deception]

Edit: Holy shit I can't believe I forgot Mass Effect 1-3, I have beaten each of those 5-10 times. I CANNOT get enough ME.

I really liked the ME games, but in all honesty they didn't do anything that

http://www.myabandonware.com/media/captures/S/sentinel-worlds-i-future-magic/sentinel-worlds-i-future-magic_2.gif

didn't do 18 years earlier on 2 5.25 floppy disks with 1 guy doing all the design, programming, and music by himself.



And that's my issue with most everything made in the last 5-10 years. These games BARELY are any different than the games from 15-20 years ago except they have fancier graphics and soundtracks.

[Bones]

EQ vanilla
EQOA
rocket arena 3 (quake 3 and all its mods really)
counter strike
return to castle wolfenstein

and of course.. super monkey ball

[Origin]

Everquest
Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (honorable mentions for Oblivion and Skyrim)
Dragon Age: Origins
Knights of the Old Republic I
Civilization (the entire franchise)
World of Warcraft (Vanilla)

[drktmplr12]

Planescape: Torment

[MrSparkle001]

Best game I ever played was strip poker with my girlfriend with special "house" rules that went way beyond losing clothing.

[Vellaen]

TIE Fighter
Total War (Medieval 2)
Mass Effect 1-3 (MEHEM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOBz3KlGbDg) ftw)
Civilization (2 and 5 are my favorites)
Knights of the Old Republic
StarCraft
WarCraft III

[Mirana]

WoW: BC - I have a special place in my heart for this game because when it came out Austin had frozen over. Most places were closed but gamestop was open. I rode my bike an hour each way in ice covered roads to get it and played for 2 days straight because classes were canceled. I remember coming home and kids were sledding on cafeteria trays down MLK. I was like "damn, that looks fun. But I've got leveling to do." Ahhh, good times.

Diablo 2
Final fantasy 7
Zelda: Ocarina
Super Smash Brothers Melee
Marvel Vs Capcom (1-3)
Gauntlet motherfucking Legends
Armagetron (LAN)
and of course Everquest

[phacemeltar]

WC3 custom online games

[Skydash]

KaosMUD
Y's
Herzog's Zwei
King's Field
Everquest (upto Velious)
Counterstrike
Dungeons & Dragons Online (upto Freeplay)
P99

I agree with you Tecmo's, a few developer's designed every type of game that we see now very early on. There has been very few breakthroughs in game design in 20 years.
I have an emu collection for Dreamcast, and I see all the early Japanese game developers had designed the major game play styles/views. Then everyone copied those.

I hope we get to play a Virtual Reality EQ at some point in our lives. So someone can become: Lawnmower Man!
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/explodingkinetoscope/lawnmowerman.jpg

[khandman]

EQ
Hired Guns (Amiga)
Rock Star Ate my Hamster (Amiga)
Oblivion
Skyrim
Dishonoured
Thief Series
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

[Pringles]

I can't believe there isnt one single mention of Ultima Online.....

my list:
Computer:
Hero's Quest
Space Quest
Police Quest
UO pre trammel
EQ Classic through PoP
Vanilla WoW
Tribes 1 and 2

Console:
Contra
Sonic 1/2/3
NBA Jam (I bought this for my kids Wii and still love it)
Desert Strike

[stormlord]

MMORPG's:
Wurm Online

Single Player:
Master of Orion 2

[Tongpow]

Wurm Online



Wurm online pvp was amazing, regret selling my Libila Champion account some of the game mechanics involved in casting spells in that game was crazy as shit

literally had to lead sermons to get "mana" and i would need like 10+ people standing around or it wouldn't work and none of the god damn spells worked anyway but we all still happily paid like 10 euros a month for mmo in alpha phase basically

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa309/Kuja2600/wurm201010262323232242.jpg


looks better now that its actually 1.0 though

[stormlord]

Wurm online pvp was amazing, regret selling my Libila Champion account some of the game mechanics involved in casting spells in that game was crazy as shit

literally had to lead sermons to get "mana" and i would need like 10+ people standing around or it wouldn't work and none of the god damn spells worked anyway but we all still happily paid like 10 euros a month for mmo in alpha phase basically

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa309/Kuja2600/wurm201010262323232242.jpg


looks better now that its actually 1.0 though
The game will never get the attention it deserves because it's just too harsh in terms of grind and mechanics. HOwever, for people who like it anyway, the news needs to get out. I can't even start explaining how much of an impression this game had on me. Standing out in a clearing in a forest at night with a cart and danger all around and intrigue and being new and not knowing where you're going to go and no in-game map or radars... on a pvp server... for me it was bliss. Trees that actually stuck around and could be killed or replanted or become a different tree. A place where players really can have an impact on the world, especially on the PvP servers. The pvp serers relaxed a lot of hte rules common in other MMORPGs. No lvl limits... everything you had could be stolen. And back when I started this game was dirt cheap. It's still only about $21 for 2 months of premium. I know that doesn't include deeds, but I've never felt the need to make a deed so far.

I haven't played lately. I got turned off by some crashing. I log in occasionally to lower decay. I've lost several homes over time. The game is becoming less harsh, but it's the danger that's always been attractive to me. Can't explain why I'm that way. Maybe I'm a thrill seeker, but in RL I'm a coward, so how can I be a thrill seeker? I just like danger in games. The feeling I can lose everything. That's why I play on the pvp servers. That's why I played Wurm Online to begin with. I enjoyed the way the game was. It was unfriendly. I liked it.

[Tongpow]

also, you're all wrong this is actually the best game


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgTQglGvNUs

[Snow_Flake]

WOW tnx for posting some Awsome games :)

i have to check some of them out later for sure!

[San]

Loved part 2. The Destiny Knight. Spent a lot of time of that game. ZZGO

Also could not tell you how many countless hours I wasted in my 1985 college days playing...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Bard%27s_Tale_Box_Cover.jpg

[Tradesonred]

A starflight remake of some kind would be awesome

http://higherlevelgamer.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/starflight-analysis.png

[lecompte]

Freelancer
Might and Magic 4 (the turn based strat one, not the rpg)

[Sinestria]

Any of you nerds play Atari Jaguar? It was the first "64 bit" system. Alien vs. Predator was unreal.

[Zadrian]

I finally have an answer...

It's Pokemon Red, on Twitch.

[Swish]

Officially, we got to page 8 without anyone suggesting Final Fantasy 7... so I'm putting it out there ;)

[MrSparkle001]

Loved part 2. The Destiny Knight. Spent a lot of time of that game. ZZGO

I loved all three of them on my commodore 64. I actually still get the urge to play them now and again on my c64 emulator.

How about

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Pool_of_Radiance_Coverart.png

Between the Pool Of Radiance series and The Bard's Tale series I was set for most of my childhood and early teens.

and there's a little-known and underrated SSI gem that's the precursor to the gold box series:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Wizard%27s_Crown_Coverart.png

That's the one I recommend people play on a c64 emulator. The combat is surprisingly advanced for a 1985 game. I actually play that more than POR and The Bard's Tale.

[Azure]

#1 of all time? Mechwarrior 2-3. Cuz that was were I learned to pvp and play with other people. Was like a real family over 56k or 48.8...
Quake 3, Q3F mod. Most Skill Intensive game ever (Admit it, waz better/legit until 2.0 and RtoCW remake)
Dues Ex1-2 for a good story. 3 suxxed a bit, but was still well done, with some pros, but 2 danb short and blunt. Could not overcome it's shortfalls.

Runners up? Got to admit in hindsight, Vanilla Wow > EQ, yet Classic EQ (1-50) was something special. Ultima VII. BG1-2.

Guess you could throw Oblivion in there somewhere cause I played the fuck out of it on xbox, than modded the fuck out of it on PC later and got countless hours out of it anyway. Morrowind never immersed me. Yes oblivions quests were dumb, but who cared? Skyrim never had the support to build a good community after TESNexus went 2 shit.

[Recycled Children]

Dark Souls.

[citizen1080]

How has no one mentioned the Metroid games...

[BahamutDF]

Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, FF7 / 6 / 4, Lunar: SSSC, Star Ocean 2, EQ, FFXI, Zelda: ALttP, original Crysis was pretty amazing as well.

I can't and will never be able to pick one game.

[formallydickman]

When I read the comments I was thinking this was a thread about influential games, not BEST games, which is much harder for me to pin down.. assuming pure enjoyment is the equivalent of best

UO pre-trammel/felucca
EQ
Ocarina of Time
Super Mario 3
Perfect Dark (daaaahm bots w/ golden eye??)
Counter Strike

[BahamutDF]

How has no one mentioned the Metroid games...

Super Metroid is easily one of the best games ever made. I can't even tell you the number of times I've played that one through start to finish. It's a mind bogglingly well made game.

[Tongpow]

#1 of all time? Mechwarrior 2-3.

Mechwarrior was dope as fuck i forgot which one i was playing but dat jumping and shooting fucking gaus cannons or w/e over dunes at people was fun as shit

[GrumbleMumble]

Crusader of the dark savant
Knights of the old republic
Civilization

[Nastinate]

Desert Combat BF1942 MOD capture the flag is prolly my all time favorite nothing like rushing a base against 32 people and having them chase u and the flag in humvees tanks helicopters and jets. those games were such epic battles. Ill list some others.
Original Everquest back when nothing was discovered.
Mario kart 64
Age of Empires 2
Harvester
Galaga
Gran Turismo 4

[Sebekkha]

EQ
DAOC
Championship/football manager series (soccer )
FIFA series on play station

[Peatree]

Shooter that I had the most fun playing was...

http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080813235547/dukenukem/images/7/70/DukeNukem3D.jpg

[Nydosa]

The best game you never played:
http://www.gazillionaire.com/gazillionaire.php

[justin2090]

Final Fantasy 7
Resident Evil 1
Metal Gear (NES)
Call of Duty (Modern Warfare 2 if I have to pick a particular one)
Everquest: The Scars of Velious

[Lordwhiskers]

Everquest, first few months bar none the best gaming experience ever
Baldur's Gate series
Eve online
Dwarf Fortress
Super Smash bros 64
Dayz may be getting up there too.

[beentheredonethat]

Final Fantasy 7,
Resident Evil 1,
EQ (Classic).

[Brut]

Monkeys shooting out of barrels, monkeys throwing exploding barrels, oh hey also pirates.

[FoxxHound]

Heroes of Might & Magic 2/3

[radditsu]

Baldur's Gate 2 before the throne of ball expansion


http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0085123/quotes


Especially:

Jon Irenicus: I cannot be caged. I cannot be controlled. Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools!

[katrik]

OoT

[Faerie]

EQ VZ server #1
A Link to the Past
Earthbound
Final Fantasy games (I only played 7-10, like a fef)

[Nads]

System Shock 2
Bioshock Series
Final Fantasy Tactics
Anarchy Online
Diablo 2
Final Fantasy 4/7/11/12
Chrono Trigger
Ocarina of Time
Planescape: Torment

Off the top of my head

[Nocsucow]

Last of Us ( PS3 )
EverQuest 2
God of War 3
Everqust
DAoC
War Hammer Online ( RVR aspect )
Mortal Kombat Trilogy ( PS1 )

[Weekapaug]

Been gaming since Pong in the 70's.

Without a doubt, EverQuest.

Beyond that the hall of fame (just off the top of my head and in no particular order):

Myth and Myth 2
Ancient Art of War at Sea (amazing for its time)
Empire Earth (the peak of RTS games imo)
Empire Deluxe (amazing for it's time)
Marathon and Marathon 2
the Avalon Hill WW2 games circa '94 that could be played via email
Civilization and the first couple sequels
Warlords and Warlords 2. (first one caused me to rediscover gaming)
DAoC
Skyrim
GTA5
Assassin's Creed and sequels
Borderlands and Borderlands 2
Ghost Recon (the original is still my fav shooter to date but didn't like them since)
the first several Rainbow 6 games where you could automate the action and make it totally about planning assaults

[Lamil]

I played the hell outta Gemstone III. Something about typing /attackrat then /skinrat was exciting with other people. EQ was next

[Sularus Oth Mithas]

EQ
Rock and Roll Racing!

[Swish]

Target Renegade (ZX Spectrum) (http://youtu.be/79oCOlTITg0?t=15m1s) - arguably the first Double Dragon clone? Got this at the age of 6 (thanks parents lol, don't mind me while i beat the shit out of people with a hammer/pool cue/etc), one of my old favourites.

[Hailto]

Everquest
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Halo
Mass Effect
Dark Age of Camelot
Star Wars Galaxies

[nndiro]

for me, they werethe ones i played the mostas a kid. i like the nostalgia factor of FF VII, os course EQ. and as an "adult" i liked very much assasins creed saga (specially AC II) and dragon age, just the first one, did not care for II

[Scrooge]

Best game (not plural like topic asks) would have to be Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX)!

[Nads]

Best game (not plural like topic asks) would have to be Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX)!

Oh fuck yes, how could I forget this gem? /ninjaeditmypost

[Dangermouse]

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

I'm not surprised, but it's sad that more people haven't said this. VTM:B had such potential, nearly ruined by a rushed shoddy release (the fault of the publisher, not the devs). But with the fan made patches it's truely a great game with massive replayability. If anyone owns a copy you should really check out the latest patches by "wesp5", find them on planetvampire.com.

Other games I keep going back to, which must mean they're good in some way:

EQ (of course)
Final Fantasy 7 (yeah I'm not hardcore enough to like the earlier ones!)
Ocarina of TIme
Eternal Darkness
Halo (good for a bit of co-op with the wife, oo er missus)
Dark Souls

[Kika Maslyaka]

excluding MMOs due to inherited controversy of a subject:

my top favorites are:

Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Master of Orion 2
Medieval Total War 1
Lords of the Realm 2
Civilization 4
WarCraft 3
StarCraft
Diablo 2
Eitherlords 2
Plants vs Zombies

[Sckrilla]

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQXNgETEOUceOkbr9vPg2cwLxlCpSHbC FrVMURpBJKy0BGolFWH
Without a doubt. How I found out and began playing EQ to begin with. No gaming experience will surpass the amount of time spent/enjoyment of the OGL/TWL ladders.

[brandonkr]

Star Wars Galaxies and EQClassic!

[Peatree]

Anyone else actually "finish" the original Atari " Pitfall " besides me?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Pitfall!_Coverart.png

Good luck!

http://www.free80sarcade.com/pitfall.php

[Daldaen]

EverQuest
Starcraft 1+2
Guild Wars
Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Diablo II

About in that order. Warcraft 3's Tower Defense is pretty solid too.

[quido]

Super Mario World

[Remeygi]

on C64:
Impossible Mission
Boulder Dash
Bard's Tale 2

PC:
Diablo
EQ
EQ2

[Nirgon]

EverQuest, Rallos Zek server on my classic video computer system

[Lyrith]

Howdy nerds :p

so whats the best game you have ever played?

So to Jeremy's point: Billards... I have a pool table right next to my gaming PC so I can play while camping shit.

Main Point:
RPG: Super Mario RPG, Secret of Mana, All Final Fantasy's, Dragon Warrior, Mystic Quest, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire, Earthbound, sure I am missing a ton...

RTS: Age of Empires 2, Warcraft 3, Total Annihilation, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Civilization, Populas?

FPS: Quake w/OPEN GL!, Quake 3, Counter Strike, Tribes, Unreal Tournament, Descent, Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2.

Basically every game everyone has played. But Favorite games of all time: EQ, WoW, Final Fantasy 2, Earthbound.

[Halius]

Probably my top 5 games in order:

Final Fantasy VII
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Metroid
Everquest
King of Dragons

Categories (top 5 in order not including my all time favorites):

MMO: DAoC, WoW, Rift, Ragnarok, FFXIV
FPS: Counter Strike, Doom (SNES version), Golden Eye, CoD, Unreal
RPG: Chrono Trigger, Legend of Legaia, Diablo II, Legend of Mana, Lufia
RTS: Starcraft, Warcraft III, Lords of the Realm II, Rome: Total War, Starcraft II
Fighter: Street Fighter II, Mortal Combat, The Bouncer, Tekken, Soul Caliber

I know people may crucify my for not putting EQ first, but can't beat some SNES games. And if you haven't played King of Dragons, try it out, shit is awesome.

[LulzSect]

http://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1386/10/1386108156972.jpg

[Laugher]

Vid game favs I would base on time played+replay-ability

With that said the list obv starts with

forEVERQUEST
Diablo II (it had its moments, I wouldn't call it a current favorite but still play it like once a year)
Zeldas (NES-N64, haven't played any of the new ones)
Ogre Battle (any SNES-PS1/N64, p awesome series)
Castlevania (any up to 64/gameboy advance)