10 Best Games Of All Time

Joos · Post by **Joos** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:12 am

I guess this means a list of all the games I've kept interest in enough to actually play the whole way through. So this would be my single player game list in no particular order (for PC):

Eye of the Beholder 2
Never managed to finish the first one and the third one was a bit of a turd, but EOB2's got a permanent place in my heart.

Master of Orion 2
If anyone can recommend a true MoO2 successor worth playing (nor galactic civilisations 2, its too complex), I would appreciate a PM.

Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark
The first campaign and the first expansion were just plain dull.

Baldurs Gate series
I am still playing it from time to time.

UFO: Enemy unknown
Tactics and strategy at its best.

Quake 1
Just loved it at the time.

Max Payne
What a game! What a story! Bullet-time!

Diablo 1 & 2
Great plot and story for the SP and a simple but sometimes challenging game that provided heaps of fun! Remember when I heard RAAAR, fresh meat!!!! from the Butcher the first time. Scary!

Starcraft
Best RTS I've played so far.

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2
Awesome game at the time. First Star Wars game where you could choose between good and evil and have separete endings.

Knights of the Old Republic
Compelling story, both dark and light side.

Halo
Don't know if it really applies, but as an Xbox game, it makes it to my PC-game list. I had good fun playing this game coop all the way through. In my mind, there are not enough coop play games out on the PC, that does it good.

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Fantastic RPG with heaps of re-playability and depth.

MDK2
One of the most clever FPS's I've played. Silly but dark humour, interesting level design and varied gameplay with funny boss fights! This one is solid gold!

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
The game is short, but never repetitive. Story is really good with some really strong moments. For example, when Marine Jackson , lone survivor of a helicopter crash, crawls out of the wreck, only to see a giant mushroom cloud and a few seconds later die from the radiation, I experienced gaming epiphany.

Games that I am currently playing that will most probably make it to this list is F.E.A.R, NWN 2, and Max Payne 2. May add Bioshock and fallout 3 there as well.

For multiplayer, my list looks like this:
NWN1
Starcraft
Warhammer 40K
UT2004
Day of Defeat
Diablo 2
City of Villains (the only Mmorpg that actually hooked me for a time)

AlmightyTDawg · Post by **AlmightyTDawg** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:17 pm

mxlm wrote:My only real issue with BB is that the Russians are rather, ah, clumsy. Command delays of several turns are a bit of a turn off for me. That, and too many of the scenarios are too large for my liking. Stops feeling like a game and starts feeling like work.

What? You didn't like the 5+ minute turn calculations from "To the Volga?"

You're probably well off to wait on Shock Force - I think it's probably around 2 - 4 patches from being excellent quality; I still have yet to play off campaign though so I haven't seen the "asymmetric side" other than bombarding trenches with artillery and Mk.19s.

Mikayla · Post by **Mikayla** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:51 pm

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (love love love this game and I was sad when it ended)

Max Payne (how cool is bullet-time? This was one of the best "film noir", or perhaps, "game noir" games I ever saw - I just wish it had had a really good supernatural twist to it)

Half-Life 1 (one of only two games I ever played all the way through twice and the game that made me like first person shooters).

Call of Duty (the other game - and when I say "Call of Duty" I mean the whole franchise that is available for PC - CoD, CoDUO, and CoDII. I have played each of them all the way through more than once.)

Knights of the Old Republic (Best. Plot. Twist. Ever. And it had fantastic music - that piece in the city where you crash land, that starts almost ephemerally, then rises to this sweeping, grand but soft crescendo is just beautiful. It made me want to just stand around on the platform checking out the city-scape).

Baldur's Gate 2 (the first D&D CRPG worthy of the name that I encountered)

Lego Star Wars I and II (I played them with my son, side by side, so, you know, GREAT fun!!!)

Deus Ex (a game that just kept making me go "whoa, this is so cool!")

and I will leave a couple places open for NWN2 (which I am just starting to play through now) and Bioshock (which I have heard so much about). NWN1 is not on the list because it occupies its very own niche - as a stand-alone game, I did not like it. I never finished ANY of the original campaigns, but ... when implemented in ALFA ... it is my hobby - 2 years building North Underdark, 2 years DMing here, 3+ years playing. What more can be said?

Lusipher · Post by **Lusipher** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:01 pm

Best 10 games of all time for me: (in random order)

1) World of Warcraft

2) Starcraft

3) Civ 4

4) NWN

5) Knights of the Old Republic 1

6) Knights of the Old Republic 2

7) Diablo 2

8 Diablo

9) Everquest

10) Quake 4

Burt · Post by **Burt** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:29 pm

You are all noobs.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) - I got this for Christmas one year. Best present ever.

Goldeneye (N64) - Endless multiplayer fun and the single player was pretty good too.

Mario Kart Series (Nintendo consoles) - Joyous racing japes. I like all of them for a variety of reasons.

Starcraft & SC Broodwar (PC) - What needs to be said? One of the best RTS ever made.

Baldur's Gate (PC) - I rate this higher than PS:T or BG2 because I played it first, not really because it's a better game.

Half-Life (PC) - Anyone who doesn't rate this in their top 10 is a njub or hasn't played it - in which case they're a njub. Half-Life 2 is inferior, it just looks better.

Metal Gear Solid (PlayStation) - Snake? Snake! SNAAAAAAAAKE!

Final Fantasy 7 (PlayStation) - That one part brings a tear to my eye everytime I play it.

Neverwinter Nights (PC) - As bang for buck goes this can't be beaten. What's it been? 5 years?

Grand Theft Auto III (PlayStation 2) - Great game. Great soundtrack.

Honourable mentions to: Deus Ex, Diablo, KotOR, Tetris, etc.

Mulu · Post by **Mulu** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:38 pm

I can't believe I forgot X-Com, though I haven't been able to get it to work on a modern computer in a long time. One of the few games that was truly spooky.

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:52 pm

Rumor has it Irrational's making a proper X-Com sequel, too.

Can someone explain the appeal of FF7 to me? I've been reading the SA game playthrough thread of it and it's hilariously terrible, yet everyone seems to love it. I don't get it. Half the dialogue is so badly translated that it doesn't even follow the previous line, and the "plot" is completely nonsensical. The general consensus in the thread's been "how the hell did I ever think this was good". Is it one of those "had to be there" things? The FF8 thread was the same way.

Post by **paazin** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:20 pm

Grand Fromage wrote:Can someone explain the appeal of FF7 to me? I've been reading the SA game playthrough thread of it and it's hilariously terrible, yet everyone seems to love it. I don't get it. Half the dialogue is so badly translated that it doesn't even follow the previous line, and the "plot" is completely nonsensical. The general consensus in the thread's been "how the hell did I ever think this was good". Is it one of those "had to be there" things? The FF8 thread was the same way.

Eh, play through it and see. It's actually pretty fun - though I imagine the "ooh" factor has diluted since '97.

mxlm · Post by **mxlm** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:01 am

Mulu, DOSBox is your friend.

Actually, you don't even need DOSbox; some of the abandonware sites (the underdogs, abandonia) have the xp-compatible version available for downloading.

JaydeMoon · Post by **JaydeMoon** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:13 am

Strangely, Burt's on the right track*. What were you all... born after 1985?

Some games you might have missed because you were sucking your bottles when they came out:

Rush N' Attack, Kung Fu, Gun Smoke, Robotron, Guerella War (Guevera), Joust, Tempest... whoo boy!

Honorable Mention: Lode Runner on the Commodore 64. You don't know, you just don't fuckin know.

10. Final Fight - I pumped MANY MANY quarters into that machine. The length of the game, the awesome AWESOME bosses, the first game I played that allowed you to select the faster guy as opposed to the strong guy, or the average guy. Probably because it was the first game that featured it. Bitches.

9. Bubble Bobble - STFU. This game was awesome. And I spent several hours playing it with my mom. It was a bonding experience, and when we finally beat it, it was like we had accomplished something together. I hate you all.

8. Yar's Revenge - The only game I remember playing on the Atari 2600 besides Pac-Man. Eat the force field to create a nuke. Static field protected you from the inexorable approach of the dash. Die swirly vortex of death... DIE!!!

7. Mario Kart - The only racing series you ever needed to play. Don't make me kick your ass.

6. Metal Gear Solid - I don't know that this was really a game. But they sold it like one and I really liked it. It was more like watching a movie and every 10 minutes of film you had to push some buttons and make Snake do stuff. Kind of like a Choose Your Own Adventure Book, but for a movie. Great Movie.

5. Starcraft and Broodwar - Carriers pwn. I don't care who you are. I cut my Starcraft teeth in the smokey internet dens of South Korea. Call em cheap if you want, if you let me get to a point where I can have 12 of em, you deserve to lose.

4. Aliens vs Predator II - The first game to actually be scarey when I played. Holy shit, as the Colonial Marine you get to points where you're afraid to continue down the corridor. Lot's of games have improved on this, this was the first, for me. And the multiplayer? Awesome. Nothing like being a lonely pred and sniping 6 marines, or playing a marine and pwning the preds while they bitch about "WTF? How can you see me, I'm cloaked?!?" Didn't you watch the movie? If you move, I can see you. Now die.

3. Bionic Commando - The sequel to Commando was nothing like it. Non-linear game play, choose a level, skip levels. Knock people down with that arm, or swing like Tarzan, and in the end you get to fire a bazooka in Hitler's FACE! And then he melts like them Reich dude's in Raider's. Awesome sauce.

2. Street Fighter II - Did you know they made a Streetfighter RPG? The same guys that made Vampire the Masquerade made it. It used a strange card based fighting system. Mostly it was just cool to make up your own streetfighters with moves that made them comparable to the ones from the game. Anyway, Streetfighter II, Granddaddy of all Fighting Games.

1. Best game EVAR: Neverwinter Nights as played in ALFA. Because of all the njubs I get to pwn, everyday.

No game released today belongs on a Top Ten games EVAR list except by virtue of the technology of today is better. Rate the games for how good they were at the time of release. Most of these games aren't breaking any barriers.

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:36 am

The_Phoenyxx wrote:No game released today belongs on a Top Ten games EVAR list except by virtue of the technology of today is better. Rate the games for how good they were at the time of release. Most of these games aren't breaking any barriers.

And don't rate on nostalgia. ;) We've been in a very good time for games in the last couple of years, maybe even as good as the 1997-2000 era.

Mulu · Post by **Mulu** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:36 am

mxlm wrote:Mulu, DOSBox is your friend.

Actually, you don't even need DOSbox; some of the abandonware sites (the underdogs, abandonia) have the xp-compatible version available for downloading.

I am so googling all of that. Of course, they probably don't have the base hak I loved to use.

Mulu · Post by **Mulu** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:42 am

Well, if you want to include arcade games and go all the way back, then Pong rocked the world, followed by Space Invaders, Asteroids, Berzerk, 01 Tank, 02 Air-Sea Combat, Joust of course, I *loved* that sit down Star Trek game with Nimoy's voice "Welcome Aboard Captain" (Kill Nomad!), Sega Roadrash *smack,* and the all time best game EVAR:

Battlezone! I used to flip that machine four or five times in a row on a single quarter, talk about cheap entertainment. LOVED IT!

The original Star Wars pinball machine was pretty awesome too.

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:45 am

Mulu wrote:
mxlm wrote:Mulu, DOSBox is your friend.

Actually, you don't even need DOSbox; some of the abandonware sites (the underdogs, abandonia) have the xp-compatible version available for downloading.
I am so googling all of that. Of course, they probably don't have the base hak I loved to use.

DOSBox is pretty awesome. I've been playing Battle Bugs again with it. INSECT WARFARE!!

Mulu · Post by **Mulu** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:51 am

Cool. Now I have to find my disks.... Floppy disks.