best video game of all time?

Screw video games

Battlefield 4. Any game from the COD franchise is not even close.

Galaxian or that tank game

QUAKE 3: ARENA

My vote goes to Half Life 2 + Ep 1 and 2. Amazing story and still looks very sharp and playable 10 years later. Also one of the biggest cliffhanger endings of any game, thus all the hype for Half life 3.

This is the answer.

oh brother wrote:

QUAKE 3: ARENA

half life series was my top series for years until i finished the entire bioshock series. Now, personally, bioshock comes out on top. Much love for the HL series, still VERY close to bioshock. Like a 95 to bioshock being a 100.

gordon freeman wrote:

My vote goes to Half Life 2 + Ep 1 and 2. Amazing story and still looks very sharp and playable 10 years later. Also one of the biggest cliffhanger endings of any game, thus all the hype for Half life 3.

Sgh wrote:

I was always a big fan of final fantasy vii. Also liked diablo II, but that was mostly because I had two world class characters.

Final Fantasy VII was my favorite game as a kid. When I finished it, it left me feeling really melancholic. I haven't gone back to replay it; I suspect there's an element of nostalgia, and I would find it a grind to go back to actually play through. I'll keep it as a memory, nothing more.

I've also always suspected that some elements of the soundtrack use binaural beats to a certain degree... there's a haunting, hypnotic quality to the soundtrack that makes playing the game feel almost trancelike at times.

I'd also throw a hat in the ring for the original Pokemon games. I was the target age when the original red and blue came out, something like 10 or 11 if I remember correctly. It was my first game on the Gameboy that I got for my birthday. I remember the complete lack of any expectation or knowledge of what an RPG was or the breadth of the game ahead of me when I started playing. Every encounter in that game was something new, and the entire game was very exploratory in nature. Finding Mewtwo after already having used the Masterball on one of the legendary birds presented a cool challenge... I don't think I even knew that there were major accomplishments after beating the Elite 4. There's a part of me that misses the feeling I had as a kid exploring that world for the first time. No replay will ever get it back, nor any other video game since then.

best arcade: Galaga, MS PacMan, Mr. Do, Defender

best early console: PTO - Sega; Astrosmash - Intellivision

best 90's/00's console/PC: PS One - Civilization II; PC - COD United Offensive.

Manontherun had it down really well.

Final Fantasy 7 is my favorite video game of all time. As a kid I was mesmerized by the fact that it had 3 disks, the soundtrack was great, and the character development made me care about what was going on.

That being said, pokemon red/blue was great for me too because I was about 10-11 when it came out and it was really fun for me to experience everything about it. For the record, I was ALWAYS a charmander kind of guy.

Other Favorites:

NES:

super mario brothers 3

Mike Tyson Punch out

Top gun

Top gun 2

PS 1:

Final Fantasy 7

Metal Gear Solid

N64:

Starfox

golden eye

smash bros (like every 90s kid)

PS 2:

Final Fantasy 8

Ace Combat 5: unsung war with flight sim pack (that game was awesome, especially with the little simulator joystick, rudders, throttle, etc)

Stopped playing video games shortly after that

I agree. n64 was phenomenal for what it did for local multiplayer. super smash bros, mario party, kart, goldeneye...the list goes on

shoebox diorama wrote:

Robotron 2084

This was my all-time favorite. I was a senior to be in high school when this game was brought into the ice cream/sandwich shop I worked at. Every so often, the arcade tech would set the machine to start at a faster pace. After a few months it was much faster than it had originally been and I could easily play for a couple hours on one quarter. When I went to a different arcade that was set at an easier pace, I could play as long as I wanted. I walked into the arcade in Alamosa, Colorado, put a quarter in the machine and doubled the high score for the month. Went back a few days later to collect my free t-shirt. Too bad I wasn't even close to being that good of a runner.

I remember after a couple hours of intense play, my hands would shake for at least another hour.

renewed marathoner wrote:

ocarina of time is my vote

This thread is ridiculous! There's really not a disagreement on this matter. Super Mario Bros. is the greatest video game ever...by an assload.

Everyone played SMB. People that hated video games played SMB. There were lines at every arcade machine and it launched the NES and "modern" household gaming.

Nothing competes.

themanontherun wrote:

Final Fantasy VII was my favorite game as a kid. When I finished it, it left me feeling really melancholic. I haven't gone back to replay it; I suspect there's an element of nostalgia, and I would find it a grind to go back to actually play through. I'll keep it as a memory, nothing more.

Ff 6 is the best of the series yet. Ff 7 is probably top 3-5 in the series.

Fallout 3/New Vegas

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

renewed marathoner wrote:

ocarina of time is my vote

This thread is ridiculous! There's really not a disagreement on this matter. Super Mario Bros. is the greatest video game ever...by an assload.

Everyone played SMB. People that hated video games played SMB. There were lines at every arcade machine and it launched the NES and "modern" household gaming.

Nothing competes.

You are right.

I'm not a serious gamer, so I haven't heard of many of the games on this thread. Heck, even the music from SMB is iconic!

Bring Back the 880 wrote:

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

This thread is ridiculous! There's really not a disagreement on this matter. Super Mario Bros. is the greatest video game ever...by an assload.

Everyone played SMB. People that hated video games played SMB. There were lines at every arcade machine and it launched the NES and "modern" household gaming.

Nothing competes.

You are right.

I'm not a serious gamer, so I haven't heard of many of the games on this thread. Heck, even the music from SMB is iconic!

I agree that Super Mario Brothers is a brilliant game but popularity doesn't equal greatest. If I was going to pick a Mario game, it would be Super Mario 64 and that would be in my top 5. Granted, I have not played Super Mario Galaxy which is supposed to be unbelievably good.

FF6, Chrono Trigger, Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye... probably my top four right there.

Can't go wrong with any of the mario karts and a bunch of the mario games of course.

Also Tetris. Man I can always come back to Tetris.

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

Everyone played SMB.

That is never true of a platform exclusive. Not everyone had a Nintendo console or went to arcades.