Wasted a lot of time with Doom II in my day. The graphics and network play were revolutionary for its time.
Wasted a lot of time with Doom II in my day. The graphics and network play were revolutionary for its time.
Descent, the original one.
Fighting the level 7 boss and final boss was epic. I still remember creeping around mines, terrified that some beast robot was going to sneak up behind me and tear my ship apart.
Kind of a typical answer, but I'll also go with Ocarina of Time.
Among more modern games I'll throw out nominations for:
Fallout 3(huge game. so much bang for your buck)
Bioshock (loved the ability to use all the different weapons and plasmids creatively. Made it more than just a "point and shoot" FPS. Truly captivating game world)
Modern Warfare 1&2 (I know most of the nerds out there hate the Call of Duty games. But it's great mindless fun. Sometimes I like to play games that make me think. Sometimes I just want to play capture the flag with an assault rifle.)
Super Mario Kart (SNES)
Dating myself here...
Loved, and still love Ms. Pac-Man. I can't resist playing 3 or 4 games in a row when I find an old machine. I play it online but it doesn't have the same appeal.
I also loved the original Double Dragon arcade game.
They have to be classified for me.
Hanging out with guy friends: GoldenEye (N64)
Hanging out with guy/girl mix: Mario Kart (any of them do)
Being a socially inept loser by myself: many from the Final Fantasy series (FFVI is my favorite [SNES])
Being a socially inept loser that loves to kill zombies: Resident Evil 5 - Mercinaries (PS3)
Puzzle game solo or 1 on 1: Super Puzzle Fighter II (PS1 - also PSN)
Damn, generation after generation I've wasted time on these.
Tetris
Dark Castle
Arcade: Mr. Do
Intellivision: Football, Astrosmash
Sega Genesis: PTO
PS1: Civilization II
PS2: Heros and Magic
PS3: Elder Scrolls
PC: Call of Duty: United Offensive
Goldeneye
NBA Hang Time
TMNT Manhattan Project
Super Tecmo Bowl
i pretty much stopped playing video games after n64
E-30 wrote:
Dating myself here...
Loved, and still love Ms. Pac-Man. I can't resist playing 3 or 4 games in a row when I find an old machine. I play it online but it doesn't have the same appeal.
I also loved the original Double Dragon arcade game.
Dating myself as well...kind of. I'm 32, so I went through everything from arcade games through the Wii.
Ms Pacman is great. I own a full sized one. However, I don't play it as much as Zookeeper or Robotron. I have those as well and play them fairly regularly still. Ms Pacman rarely gets played because it's so repetitive.
In my opinion, Robotron is the most intense game ever made. I find myself almost moving the entire machine as I play it.
After arcade games, I'd go with the Mario Kart series ( I loved the one for N64, and love the Wii one too).
As for sports games, I loved the early Maddens (92-94), and NHL 96.
Since I'm a track athlete, I also gravitated toward F-Zero for Super Nintendo. It was just racing and setting records.
I don't really ever play video games anymore (unfortunately) but some of my favorites from back in the day include Perfect Dark, Donkey Kong Country, SimTower, Zelda OoT & MM, Command & Conquer, NFL 2K, Crash, Chrono Trigger, Mario Party, Mario Kart 64, Metroid Prime, Diddy Kong Racing, Advanced Wars, Pokemon, and undoubtedly countless others that I'm forgetting. Man, I really used to play a ton of video games. Growing up and having real responsibilities sucks.
bmcpool strikes back wrote:
Goldeneye
NBA Hang Time
TMNT Manhattan Project
Super Tecmo Bowl
i pretty much stopped playing video games after n64
TMNT Manhattan Project and Super Tecmo Bowl both amazing. I still play Tecmo on my laptop on those long bus rides.
mario kart double dash!
Braid
my all time favorite game is
command and conquer red alert 2.
other favorites growing up
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super mario bros for NES
super mario world for SNES
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 for Sega Genesis
Pokemon for gameboy.
Ocarina of Time N64
Rogue Squadron N64
Rogue Leader Gamecube
Halo - XBOX
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic - XBOX
Mass Effect - xbox 360
Star Craft: Brood War - PC
age - 25
Portal, Portal 2
-All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade!
-Make life take the lemons back!
-I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?
- Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!
I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that'll burn your house down!
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
The only game I've seen with a 5 star rating on amazon. Also the only game I've sold for more than I paid for it.
Lately the God of War, & Ratchet & Clank series on PS2 & PS3 have me hooked.
It's funny the games I played on NES & SNES I thought were so much fun. I've had the opportunity to go back & play them years later through my pc & I realize how much better newer games are. For me I could never rate on old game as a favorite (except the game above) since updated versions are usually much more entertaining.
kidwithahat wrote:
Starcraft: Brood War
Take this one off the grill. It's done.
Amen.
Doubt there will ever be a game as great as this one. Everything about it was great: gameplay, strategy, forigener tournaments with great storylines, and of course the pro scene.
Sad to see that come to an end. Hope this last OSL is spectacular!
Gray Fox wrote:
Age of Empires II.
+1
I don't play PC any more, but seriously, these games took up all my spare time:
Rainbow Six -Rogue Spear, Eaglewatch, etc.
and of course, Novalogic's Delta Force games.
For me, Novalogics games are still the benchmark for FPS playability.