Best Game ever!

OmegaRed · 02-03-2004 4:29pm #1

What's the best game ever? Metal Gear Solid (PS1) But thats my view!

RobertFoster · 02-03-2004 5:04pm

mine is Beneath a Steel Sky on the PC

Pugsley · 02-03-2004 5:05pm

Half-life, most influential FPS ever

What other 6year odd old game still has a colossal following?

Giblet · 02-03-2004 5:10pm

Originally posted by Pugsley
Half-life, most influential FPS ever
What other 6year odd old game still has a colossal following?

Doom is the most influential.

RobertFoster · 02-03-2004 5:28pm

I'm not really into alien killing FPS - I prefer to kill people...does that say something about me? :dunno:

Chucky · 02-03-2004 5:36pm

Perhaps it means you are a natural born killer...as are we all

hehe

We aren't restricted to PC games alone are we?

It's a tie between:

Street Fighter 2: Special Championship Edition (Sega Mega Drive)
Super Mario World (SNES!!!)

pclancy · 02-03-2004 5:37pm

Id have to put halflife up there with the best of them. It brought multiplayer games into the mainstream and look how many mods/maps/servers/communities/clans etc etc exist just because of that game.

Id say wolfenstein 3d has a lot to be proud of for bringing us into the doom/quake/unreal/halflife world.

AND I FECKING LOVE SUPERBOMBERMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

never forget the classics!

pclancy · 02-03-2004 5:38pm

oh and i also love flight sim stuff but thats just me being sad and wishing i wasnt half-blind :rolleyes:

raphaelS · 02-03-2004 5:47pm

Pong from Atari... Where it all started (at least for me)!

Raphael

tman · 02-03-2004 5:53pm

super metroid; immensely replayable, even 10 years on. memorable boss encounters, one of the greatest lead characters ever...

my idea of gaming perfection

ixoy · 02-03-2004 6:12pm

Originally posted by Giblet
Doom is the most influential.

Is it? What about Wolfenstein 3D? Or, IIRC, Monster Maze on the Speccie? Both had the idea of FPS before Doom.

sound_wave · 02-03-2004 6:15pm

i remember loading up FFVII for the first ever time on christmas morning and being blown away by everything on screen! The 90 odd hours i put into that game were possibly the most enjoyable of my gaming experience! that said Half-Life, i have a game going at the moment nealy finished!, Super Mario World and Zelda: Oracina of Time all deserve a mention in my opinion! Prob missing out load, prob? what am i saying? im definatly overlooking a few...

L5 · 02-03-2004 6:16pm

Super Mario Bros. 3
Close the thread, the best game has been named.!

quarryman · 02-03-2004 6:22pm

Planescape: Torment.

Brilliant, just brilliant.

MisterAnarchy · 02-03-2004 6:30pm

The legend of Zeld :Ocarina of Time
The best game of all time .
Absolute perfection and years ahead of its time.

smiaras · 02-03-2004 6:40pm

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Deadwing · 02-03-2004 6:42pm

Gotta love these best game ever posts, theres one every month but you still feel you have[/] to post on them

Ummm...lets see

FFVII, definitely
MGS1
Halo
..damn, maybe i should move this list into the top 15 games of all time thread..*L*

zAbbo · 02-03-2004 6:44pm

Chrono Trigger on the snes

sigh, better than FF7

Deadwing · 02-03-2004 6:47pm

Originally posted by bazH
Chrono Trigger on the snes

sigh, better than FF7

I played chrono trigger on an emu a few years back, good game, but i never finished it.

Giblet · 02-03-2004 6:53pm

Originally posted by ixoy
Is it? What about Wolfenstein 3D? Or, IIRC, Monster Maze on the Speccie? Both had the idea of FPS before Doom.

But none of those games had the influence that doom had.

BeatFreak · 02-03-2004 6:55pm

Fallout 2, without a doubt the most involving and enjoyable game I have ever played. Dedicated a whole summer to that game, ah the memories.

/me weeps for Fallout 3.

Retr0gamer · 02-03-2004 7:47pm

For me it's Suikoden 2

And nobody else will know why because it got almost completely ignored. In fact I ignored it as well until a friend from Konami sent me a copy.

It's by far the most emotionally involving game I've ever played. The story of three best friends who gradually become more distant from one another and eventually have there whole lives ripped apart almost had me in tears on a number of ocassions towards the end of the game.

Also you can forget about Sephiroth and SHODAN. Suikoden 2's Luca Blight is by far the best videogame villian ever. What makes him different is that he is not all powerful but just a normal human being. Like all characters in the Suikoden series he is not entirely evil. After you learn his motives

(being held prisoner with his family in the last war his father, the king, escapes without them. As punishment Luca is forced by the ruler of the city states to watch his mother being raped by the soldiers in the camp)

for his genocidal war against the city states you pity him instead of hate him

OmegaRed · 02-03-2004 9:08pm

Ok maybe best game ever is to hard, Lets try RTS.
Gotta be RA 2 or Generals!

Fionnan · 03-03-2004 9:12am

Medieval Total War and IL2 Sturmovik Forgotton battles. Say goodbye to your life i f you play these two

crowl · 03-03-2004 12:56pm

FFVII, Baldurs Gate II and Max Payne 2.
Cant choose 1:D

rainbow kirby · 03-03-2004 12:59pm

Depends on my mood.
At the moment, its metroid prime.

Saviour_Angel · 03-03-2004 2:11pm

FFVII on the PS1 is the greatest ,"RPG", game ever ! ! !

:cool:

bizmark · 03-03-2004 2:11pm

Civ 1

angelofdeath · 03-03-2004 2:16pm

ill put in another vote for half-life, it has the biggest modding community, it spawned the most popular online game of all time, its sequel is easily the most anticipated ever, and its still going strong after 6 years

quarryman · 03-03-2004 2:39pm

Originally posted by OmegaRed
Ok maybe best game ever is to hard, Lets try RTS.
Gotta be RA 2 or Generals!

i think RA 2 is very underated. that game was so addictive. ok it was a little bit of a "who can make the most units the quickest" type of game but nowhere near as bad as RA1 or Tiberian Sun.

JCDenton · 03-03-2004 2:57pm

Without a doubt "Deus Ex" is the "Best Game Ever!"

either that or Asteroids...

PiE · 03-03-2004 3:27pm

Originally posted by bizmark
Civ 1

Civ2 > Civ1 > *

With RainbowSix & FFVII close behind.

Cina · 03-03-2004 7:00pm

Chrono Trigger @ best game ever !

FFV, FFVII, and Metal Gear Solid 1 close behind, in that order.

Celtic Tiger · 03-03-2004 7:02pm

I'll say Resident Evil on the PS for being the first game to ever scare me

Sand · 03-03-2004 8:54pm

mmmmmmmmm.......system shock 2 i got to say - mixed combat/survivalism strategy/horror/good story/decent puzzles like no other game before or since. Thief 2 was also brilliant, but was *leaner* in scope so SS2 comes out ahead. Game designers could do worse to take some serious pointers from these games more than others.

Was also kind of tempted by FF7 but only for the sub games - was cool you could forget about the overall story and go about becoming a chocobo stable owner, breeding your chocobos to get the best chocobo you could - but its a case of not quite.

naitkris · 03-03-2004 11:40pm

Quake III Arena

although not the first FPS type game which was Wolfenstein 3D, Quake III Arena when it came out in 1999 brought something new graphicaly and gameplay wise that hadn't been seen before and for which one needed a decent to high end system at the time to play the game with any decent frame rate.

today Quake III Arena still holds its own and the engine (although slightly tweaked) has been used in dozens of popular mods and other very popular games (such as Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, Star Trek Elite Force 2 etc. etc.). no other game offers gameplay as fast paced or as fluid as Quake III Arena in my opinion, for that alone and the other reasons above, Quake III Arena stands out as my favourite game ever.