zelda ot or majoras mask most captivating storyline and its the only game im played completely through more than twice

It's hard to pick a single game having played so many. Super mario 64 was pretty good. Zelda: OT is definitely up there. In terms of group fun the first couple Mario Party's were great. Generally I think all the great games from memory came from the N64.

After that I progressed to xbox, xbox 360 to PC gaming, but it seems when thinking about none seem to really match up to those good ol' days.

Well, theres tonnes of games I love because they're great games, but one of the games that had the biggest impact on me was Under a Killing Moon, just because it was really the first game I played that told a really epic, really cinematic story and made me realise games could be a very serious medium and stand shoulder to shoulder with films or books when it came to telling a story. I mean I enjoyed heaps of games before UaKM, on the Atari 2600, Master System, Mega Drive, NES, SNES, but UaKM was the first one that really opened my eyes to the possibilities of where gaming could go.

carmegeddon - just waiting on the recreation to come out
fear - 1&2, 3 is ok
darkness - 1&2
trials evolution (hey khel I am beating some of your scores on there, where you at)
Gears of War - the first one mainly but the rest are ok
Limbo
Dead Space - 1&2
Bio Shock - 1&2

shit there's to many.......

If I'm not including 95%+ of my total gaming time spent on multi-player FPS games/mods,

-Donkey Kong Country
-Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
-Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble

Nothing comes close, these games are over 15 years old and still are my favourite single player experience, I must have finished each one at least 30 times.

I have completed the original without a single death, best gaming achievement ever.

probably original quake, I'm still waiting for that gamearena server booking thing trog!

I'm going to throw down Grim Fandango, My have only played it the once a decade ago, but it still sticks in my mind as the most memorable game I played.

Tom Clancy games when Tom Clancy was still involved (Ghost Recon 1, Rainbow 6 up to and including Raven Shield, Splinter Cell up to and including Double Agent).

More recently Arma, GTA, Hitman, enjoyed WoW a few years back.

The only other game that has grabbed like Quake did was Battlefield 3

you mean BF2??

BF2 was insanely awesome..

I played BF2 solid for 2 years. Got so much value out of that game. BF3, I played for about a month and was sick of it.

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command and conquer. gota love those telsa coils
original zelda
double dragon on the pinnies
the empire strikes back on atari.

Deus Ex, Morrowind, Doom and Doom2, Hexen.

Skyrim as well maybe.

pc: quake. it pretty much started online gaming in a big way for me

playstation: cant decide between ff7,8 or 9.

ps2: ff10

ps3: uncharted 2

Natural Selection .

+1 , NS was epic!!!

In no particular order:

F117a Stealth Fighter
Sim City 2000
Transport Tycoon
Quake 1
Doom2
Commander Keen 4
Yee Arr Kung Fu (c64 game)
Mortal Kombat (the original arcade version)
Diablo 1
Avatar (text based MUD which started in 1995 that still exists today)
Colin McRae Rally

There's heaps more but these are the main ones that come to mind right now.

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ignition

+1 !!!

awesome Dahzel! Donkey Kong was awesome.

Also loved Super Mario Kart and Super Mario All Stars on SNES.
I also remember playing a goofy game on the snes, was heaps entertaining with its little puzzles etc.

Favourite PC games Diablo 2, Battlefield 1942 (my first clan based game - much fun had with this in the old gamearena competitions)

also i just want to throw Final Fantasy 8 .. played this game for literally hours on end.

also battle toads.. haha ftw

f I'm not including 95%+ of my total gaming time spent on multi-player FPS games/mods,

-Donkey Kong Country
-Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
-Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble

Nothing comes close, these games are over 15 years old and still are my favourite single player experience, I must have finished each one at least 30 times.

I have completed the original without a single death, best gaming achievement ever.

me and spook jnr are playing donkey kong country on wii atm, shit is off the hook hard

Kings Bounty on the good old Sega Mega Drive!

Skyrim for my most recent, I can't put it down long enough.
Doom 2 - Coop so much fun

RTCW is still the best multiplayer game ever, imo.

Other than that, the game I probably look back on most fondly would be Baldur's Gate 2. I think that's the only game I've ever played that hooked me so bad I took a sickie to stay home and play it!

Going even further back, I was massively into Mortal Kombat. That game caused so many fights between my brother and I haha!

Quake, Anachronox, Everquest, Dune 2, 7th guest, Team Fortress 2.

I also loved the old adventure games: Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Sam and Max, Full Throttle etc.

My most memorable are Mario 64, Zelda OOT, FF7 and Deus Ex.

whoop, you should know the only q2 mod that mattered was ctf.

cool user name

Super Mario Bros. - Fast, awesome gameplay and repeat play value. 10/10 Never been beaten except for updated versions of itself :)

For sheer replay-ability, Transport Tycoon and the deluxe version that came out after that. I still play it to this day using OpenTTD and it's close to 20 years old. It just hit a trigger in my head that keeps me amused for years. Another early one was LHX Attack Chopper. I played the crap outta that.

Doom for the amazing atmosphere (at the time). Duke3D for the hilarious multiplayer. Quake for the "real" 3D environments, and of course shooting at strangers on the internets. I will never forget connecting to an online quake server for the first time and having my mind blown. Q3 was awesome for the LAN scene, I still whip it out and shoot at bots when I have 15mins to kill.

TBH, there aren't a lot of games that have made me go "Phwoar!" since then, except maybe Eve, just for the sheer scale of it.

edit: crystal caves as well! Played the bejeebus out of that!

GoldenEye N64 back in the day.
Star wars Pod Racer N64.
Zelda OoT
Sierra Trophy Bass (1997-1998)
Morrowind (First played it on Xbox then on PC)
Oblivion
Half-Life
The demo of Age of Empire Ages of Kings. Too poor to afford the full game so my mates and I played the shit out of the demo.
Command & Conquer and Red Alert series except for RA3 and C&C 4.

Currently playing World of Tanks, Skyrim, Max Payne 3.

dont think i have seen this mention yet, which is surprising. civilization 1

Probably Thief - You play a cynical master thief in "The City", a medieval metropolis populated by brutal guards, fanatical steampunk religions, extremely wealthy lords, forest pagans, and a secret society. Dealing with guards in a freeform giant mansion sneaker, slowly piecing together the situation via extensive voyeurism. Has that really oldschool awesomeness about it which games for all their modern greatness still don't manage to catch (which Minecraft managed to channel a little of). Some absolutely fantasmagorical music and atmosphere.

edit: Hell, the only positive Zero Punctuation review was a retroactive review of Thief.

Alley Cat or Bard's Tale.

Gah! How could I forget Thief.

You taffer you. Have some 1998 memories.

Did anyone ever play Rise of the Triad???? that was a heap of fun back then

Starcraft having to dial your friends landline to connect to game then someone picks up the phone ><


Half Life and mods needs it's own section
- cs when the colt had a scope to 1.6 back when you could type simply type shit like cl_model ## and change the playermodel to whatever you wanted (why is there an extra hostage there?!?! THE CHICKEN IS MOVING!!!)
- The Specialists mod - (someone should redo this one)
- TFC so much fun
- Opera mod
- Action Half Life
- FireArms


Others
- Fantastic dave
- Cosmo
- Jill of the jungle
- Decent
- Mechwarrior etc playing with one of the sidewinder joysticks
- Carmageddon so much fun back then
- Quake especially q2 q3
- Diablo etc
- Battlefield 1942/bf2/bad company 2



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RTCW is still the best multiplayer game ever, imo.

orbitor knows the score

mortal kombat II - used to be fun to go to the shops with your parents and then just fuck off to kmart/target and play the demo megadrive against other kids.

counter-strike - the main lan game I played, good times

day of defeat - back when it was new it was great, like a more serious business counter-strike with more variation. I played it recently and did not enjoy it anymore though.

jedi knight II: jedi outcast - the only star wars game that I actually enjoyed and could play for hours and hours, I knew all the exploits, the game got less fun as they started patching it.

tf2 - because it is a well made game


I could get all nostalgic and talk about other games that have blipped on the radar like handhelds, master system games, and RTCW, but their influence on me pales compared to these games.

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It should come as no surprise to people here that in my list of favorites are going to be the Wing Commander saga - WC2, WC3 (for the gameplay), WC4 (for the cinematics/story), Academy etc.

But there are definitely some honourable mentions that I keep coming back to (and buying when they were re-released on iOS, for example):
- Secret of Mana (SNES)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
- The 7th Guest (PC)

I think despite the amount of time I spent playing Quake 3 over a period of *years*, Tribes still has a greater place in my heart. And despite the amount of time I'm currently sinking in to Diablo 3 in preference to Tribes Ascend, I still like TA more, as hard as that is to explain. I dunno, it's something about the reward system of D3.

What about obscure video games that you love?

Mine is Team Buddies. You control a bunch of limbless capsule things (thing raymen sort of limbless) who are all happy go lucky until one day a spaceship starts dropping crates full full of weapons and everything goes to shit. It has really cool controls; you control one but give commands to 3 others at the same time, an interesting building system that uses the crates to make different weapons (from machine guns to tanks to more men for you). The characters also swore a lot. It was lots of fun.

What about obscure video games that you love?

Deathkarz.

What about obscure video games that you love?

I'm having a blast with Creeper World for a second play through at the moment. Haven't played the sequel yet, but it's definitely in my future.

^5 to CHUB for the heads up. Previous threads here and here.

I don't really believe that time sunk in to a game necessarily correlates directly to how good a game is. Consider Civilisation or WoW. They were massive time sinks, with little reward. But for some reason, despite that it would take 15 minutes to complete a turn, or walk from Ironforge to fuckknowswhere, you'd put up with it saying "just one more...", even though it shit you to no end.

Sim City 4 was a great time sink, but best game? Not convinced, even though I love it.

What about Lemmings, or Prince of Persia?

Edit: Also, hows about Commander Keen?

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not sure how hats fucked it unless you were playing the game purely on aesthetics.

Tribes 2 is the absolute stand out for me. No other game has given me the satisfaction that T2 did when things came together. I cant list all the things about that game that i loved.

counterstrike 1.5
warcraft 3 (esp enfo team survival)
battlefield 1942, 2 and vietnam

overall winner has to be counterstrike 1.5~ though... spent so long in netcafe playing it in awesome LAN environment and what seemed like an entire very-high-school playing it online