Best Games, PC or Other

[Technocrat]

My Picks:

PC:
Action: Duke Nukem 3D
Strategy: Civilization
RPG: Fallout

Honorable Mention:
Quake, for being one of the first games that allowed for mods. Other than that I thought it was one of the worst games ever (Maybe it was because I was a Duke fan).
Half-Life, for being one of the best FPSers with a story and for having the Counter-Strike mod
Wolfensein 3D, For being the game that started FPSers in my mind, not DOOM.

Other
Commador 64: Predator & Blue Max

Whats yours?

[Pix]

PSX : Gran Turismo 2, GTA, Driver, FF8

PC: Half Life, Worms 2

Nintendo: Super Mario 3

There are probably others which I can't think of at the moment :D

[HarryW]

I thought Final Fantasy 8 was a real let-down, I played it for a while, got about 10 or 15 hours into the game, then just got bored. The different game style was a bit crap, especially the weapon upgrades.

I was also a Duke 3D fan, IMO it was much more fun to play than Quake. You have to hand it to Quake for technical achievement though - the original Quake for DOS was written in straight C (and I think a little ASM) with software rendering for the graphics. Bearing in mind the computers of the time (486s?) this was a remarkable feat of programming. Just as remarkable I think is that WinQuake, the later, Windows 95 version used only GDI graphics! The Quake source code is available online somewhere now if you're interested in how they did it.

Well anyway, I was still a Duke fan :)


Fallout was a great RPG, I agree with that. Ultima Online was great until they messed it up with their 'bug fixes' and 'combat enhancements' which basically ruined the fun of it.

Right now, the best action game in my humble opinion is Allegiance, and online space flightsim where you and your team dogfight and build bases in different sectors. It's an ingenious combination of RTS and flightsim which works really well. Unfortunately the game isn't that popular, and the most I've seen on the servers recently is about 100 people, but there's still almost always a game going on.

Civilisation I will agree with you on. It's still a briliant game. I've spent many many hours playing that.

For flight sims, my favourites were the original Wing Commander games (1 and 2, and their addon packs), they were excellent. Shame they changed the style so much with WC3 and later.

Best adventure game is really hard to choose... It's Either Sam & Max, the Monkey Island games, or Space Quest 3 :) The Sierra adventure games don't seem that popular (especially Leisure Suit Larry) but I always liked em.

Best games on the BBC: Elite and Dogfight. And Chucky Egg.

Amiga: Wings, Wings of Fury, Skidmarks, Syndicate (it always seemed better on the Amiga).

[Technocrat]

I think all but FF8 were good games.

Ahh another Duke fan. I had a record of 123 wins 3 losses. All 3 losses were avenged. I miss playing that game. :(

I honestly get a hard-on every time I see or read about Duke Forever. If 3D realms does all the things they had planed for the game, it has the possibility of being the GOD of all games. Damn stiffy go down :)

I never really dug Ultima, dunno why.

Wing Commander was great.

Adventure: I would say anything made by Lucas Arts. If I had to pick one, I would go with Full Throttle. I loved that game.

[HarryW]

hehe ;)

Full Throttle was cool, but just too short unfortunately. Needs a sequel or sommit.

I never played Duke online, played a very brief modem deathmatch once but it didn't last long, parent's phone line an all that.

[Technocrat]

I agree fully with you there, Full Throttle needed to be longer. I heard rumors last year that tentatively in 2002 they would start making Full Throttle 2. But it could end up like numerous other games and just be dropped. :(

[Active]

I rarerly Played Computer Games...

So my Choice Will be Pretty Wierd..

1. Road Rash
2. FIFA 2001

[SteveCRM]

Freespace is the king of all games! :D

[Jeff_1]

Nintendo

1)River City Ransom :)
2)Metal Gear
3)RC pro am

PSX
1)FF7 Best of the FF series in my humble opinion

PC
1)All the command and conquer games
2)Quake 3 Arena
3)Roller Coaster Tycoon

[Cybrg641]

My favorites are Baldur's Gate I & II. I also like the original Red Alert. I haven't played the new one, but I heard it was cool.

[Fox]

Zelda
Secret of Mana
DeusEx
Super Mario
Super Mario Kart
Theme Park
Clonk
GTa
Starfox
Ultima Online
Diablo


No version numbers because I mean the games in general :) I picked some of each genre and sorted them like my favorites on top.
Also I'm sure I forgot some really good games... but at least I know my favourites :)

[Wynd]

Originally posted by HarryW

Ultima Online was great until they messed it up with their 'bug fixes' and 'combat enhancements' which basically ruined the fun of it.


I totally agree. It's getting to the point where I can barely bring myself to log in.

[HarryW]

Hey thanks, you reminded me I have to log on and refresh my house. Yes, even though I haven't played it in months, I still have my account running and pay my $10 a month like the idiot that I am. I suppose I live in hope that maybe one day the whole development team will be involved in a horrible plane crash and have to be replaced with people that actually take some notice of what the players want in the game. Maybe all my characters won't have to go to waste :rolleyes:

[HarryW]

Oh well just for a change Europa isn't up, even though it should have been up an hour and a half ago. Ah well, I don't know why I'm surprised.

[Lord Orwell]

My favorite rpgs are the Final Fantasy Games (again, every one exept 8- i got bored with it too) and the Ultima series- all of them. Martian dreams, Ultima Underworld, etc. I had this great motorcycle game on commodore 64 called Kickstart. Other 64 games worth mentioning are Gorf, *****s. Favorite atari 2600 game: Warlords. Favorite Amiga games: James Pond 2: robocod, and anything by Psygnosis. Favorite IBM games include Baldur's gate I and 2 (just beat 2), Driver, and a neat little racing game about rc cars called Re-Volt. It has many secrets, secret cars, secret levels, and even a secret game mode. Mucho fun and the graphics rock.

1. Broken Sword
2. Transport Tycoon Deluxe
3. Stunts
4. Super Mario World
5. FIFA 2000
6. Allan Border's Cricket
7. Grand Theft Auto
8. Dangerous Dave
9. Prehistorik (Programmed in a 286!)
10. SimCopter

[CyberSurfer]

My 10 Fave Games of all time, not in any order...

Dungeon Keeper 1 (Can't stand DKII)
Half Life
Rainbow Six Rogue Spear
Hidden and Dangerous
Civilisation II
Nuclear Strike
Driver
Shogun Total War
Grand Turismo (PSX, not played GT2)
Diablo II

[HarryW]

I hated Dungeon Keeper. The theme was great, I just didn't like the game. Too much like SimCity without all the options.

[CyberSurfer]

Odd Person...I love it! The best thing, IMO is the simple-ness of the game, so you can concentrate on winning...

[HarryW]

Oh, well I don't think I ever got the winning bit right... as far as I know you just build rooms and stuff... you can use spells to heal/harm creatures, and there's the call to arms, but you don't seem to have much control over the actual creatures. It's like playing Command & Conquer by just harvesting tiberium and hoping your buildings will make troops, and hoping your troops will go off and do something.

i didn't like Dungeon Keeper at all..
deleted after first day..

[Fox]

Reminds me that I forgot Dungeon Keeper in my list ;) (seriously)

[zmerlinz]

The best game ever has to be Diablo 2 and also wipeout, and screamer 2 and grand prix 2

these are my favourite games

[Mark Sreeves]

PSX
Speed Freaks
brilliant game. even better in 4 player mode!


Sled Storm
in Sled storm the 'computer controlled' players make mistakes as well!

[simonm]

I would have to say the game that's kept me enthralled the longest was Civilisation II.

I have recently aquired 'Call to Power II' (which is the same type of game) and that is very good too.

[Padrino]

1.Warcraft2 (still addicted to this game)
2.DOOM
3.Diablo
4.Half-life(Counter-Strike MOD)
5.Half-life(the game)
6.Tetris
7.Sim City 2000
8.FF1-2-3
9.FIFA 2000
10.Grand Prix 3 (so realistic of the configuration of F1 cars)

These are my favorites...anyway...best games making company....Blizzard (Can' t wait to WAR3 to come out!!)

you'll never get rid of Starcraft. It's still hanging in there.

[Padrino]

Knew I forgot a game!! Starcraft is just awsome!! But sometines you better have a lot of coffee or coke, because games can be so f***ing long....not to compare with Age of empires II though....

[Technocrat]

Yeah Starcraft is a great game. And Blizzard is with out a doubt the best game company in the world. Since they have been known as Blizzard they have never had a game that "Flopped". They have also never made a game that they have not made money on.

I would have to give Dungeon Keeper a thumbs down. It was a good concept but it just wasnt that great in my mind.

Rainbow Six without a doubt was a great game, if the graphics were a hair better I think it could have been one of the best.

DeusEx was another good game. But I think it should have had more blood in it. I know it sounds morbid, but when you shot guys this little drop of blood came out.

I think that all games like that should have guys with bodies like in Hitman where there were multiple bend points and they actually interacted with walls and tables.

[ShIzO]

I bet nobody played my favorite games:

Best PC game ever: Another World (fits on ONE floppy) '80s
Best Arcade: Knights Of The Round '90s

i know... i like classics, the new games are missing something in them.

i got over 100 PC classic games (80's, 90's)
and also over 800 classic arcade games (ROMs that run on Arcade Emulator)

also got many 8-bit Atari, Commodore, Amiga games (+emulators).

wojo.

[Technocrat]

Do you have a good Commodore emulator??

[HarryW]

Don't remember Knights of the Round (except the materia in Final Fantasy VII) but I know Another World, that was cool :)

[jdavison]

My turn:

Best rp ever: ChronoTrigger!!! cant believe it wasnt mentioned yet

best PSX Final Fantasy7
8 had better graphic but the story line and play wasnt as good

PC stategy Dune2/2000(same thing basically)
PC RP :Baldurs gate
PC FPS:have to agree with DOOM

[ShIzO]

yes i do, email me if you want one
i can also give you some games i got...

[Technocrat]

AH MAN that would be sweet.
Playing those old games. Here comes an email.

[Fox]

I didn't mention Chrono Trigger because IMHO Seiken Densetsu's better :) ^_^

[parksie]

Strategy: Total Annihilation
Action: Half-Life (for actually having any kind of story)
Nintendo Platformer: Super Mario Land 2
Sega Platformer: Sonic 3
PC Platformer: Duke Nukem 2

To the person that said they didt like DK2:

Give it another try, i didt like it at all when i first played it coz i loved the first 1 and was expecting it to basically be DK1 with souped up graphics. After about a week tho, when i got used to it, i couldt drag myself away from it. It really is an excellent game. Shame they stopped making DK3 :( :(

[jdavison]

there are no better rps than chronotrigger:)

[compuGEEK]

PSX:

Silent Hill - Very creepy and cool!
Any of the Crash Bandicoot games are cool too

[nukem996]

star craft, star craft brood war, diablo, daiblo II, Age of Empiers, Age of Empiers II, Sim City 2000, Sim City 3000, Sim Coptor, The Sims, and Wolfensten. Those are the best games. Those are the best games and yes ive beaten them all, and yes I can beat u in all of them (I could kill u so bad in brood, its my best game.)

My name on all of them is nuke'em996.

[parksie]

Hmmm...right...first thing Nukem.

Please try and calm down slightly, because I don't think anyone wants a repeat of last week. I mean, if you tone down the arrogance a bit and try to act like a human being...then I'm sure we can all get along :)

[nukem996]

u got any of those games? cause i would like to kill u, but cannt do dat legaly. but i could kill u in any of those games.

[Technocrat]

Oh great another WAR

[nukem996]

yea, if u got star craft or AOE. and ill kick ur ass.

[parksie]

Nuke.......remember what happened? Not fun was it?

I'm too tired to get in any kind of animosity, so calm it down!

[nukem996]

what dont u understand? i want to battle u in a fu<|<ing game. thats diffrent then the battles we have been in.

[parksie]

cause i would like to kill u, but cannt do dat legalyOh really?

[barrk]

Originally posted by nukem996
what dont u understand? i want to battle u in a fu<|<ing game. thats diffrent then the battles we have been in.

If you want to play a game with him...why don't just just ask...not use vularity and threatening language??? How hard is it to be civil???

nukem:

What makes you think you could beat us in any game? I'm sure I would kick your ass in any of the Rainbow Six games.

and do you always have to use fu<|<ing?

That is really annoying.

[SteveCRM]

OOOOOOOhhhhhhh dennis I'll kill you in rogue spear!!!

BTW: how do you beat any of the sim games??? :confused:

[Technocrat]

I will make bodies drop in Counter-Strike :)

[parksie]

I don't think Nukem will be replying...check out his status :)

[Technocrat]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wow, poor Nukem

[Jeff_1]

That is so funny HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"Banned"


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[SteveCRM]

I've never actually seen that...I know testiclemole was banned but didn't know it went into the status!!! :)

BWUAHAHAHAHAHA, I guess you shouldn't make death threats nukem... they tend to make people mad.. :rolleyes:

[PatrickCorgan]

But I'm gonna return to the original topic ;)
Best games (all PC--the home of all the best games):

*Half-Life is the best single player game ever
*X-Wing is right up there too
*The Rainbow Six series (not including Covert Ops) are some of the best multi-player games
*Quake and Q2 for the mods
*Total Annihilation is the best RTS ever

[Wynd]

Yeah Harry. I liked it the way it was before UO:R, without the 'enhancements.' I don't even know why I still play, the slowdown on Sonoma has been horrible as of late and I really have no interest in the game anymore.

[Lord Orwell]

Argh! I forgot civilization 1 and 2 also! My 2 disk has a crack in it :sniff: :( Call to power isn't as good in my opinion as civ 2. And why didn't they include the "map over the years" feature in civ 2?? That was my favorite part. I haven't won ctp yet. It might have that feature. I just get bored with it.

[marnitzg]

Hmm where to start...

Police Quest series
Space Quest series
Indiana Jones series
Leisure Suite Larry series (I was really hoping for no.8)
Civilization
Colinization

Warcraft 1 & 2 (& 3 to come (Must see the trailers ... brilliant!))
Total Annihilation
Command & Conquer
Thief 1 & 2 (Also a brilliant Series)
Carmageddon (TDR was a let-down)

My best game is still StarCraft & BroodWars. I've managed to kill 5 (6 with zerg) allied computer players. After that the ammount of units comming after you gets a bit much :).

[HarryW]

Marnitzg - Impressive, which species do you play as? I'm guessing terran, they seem to have the best defence if you have free units (although protoss have good defence too with no unit cost).

Parksie - Commander Keen rocks Duke Nukem 2 any day! :)

Wynd - There was something about casting explosion on soneone, galloping past someone in a horse halberd in hand, hearing that *whack* sound as you pass them, and then ebolting or flamstriking them just as the explosion kicks in that was really, really satisfying.... and you can't do that anymore... :(

[Jamagei]

Favourite PC games are:

unreal tournament
Diablo 1 & 2
Alligience - i love the idea but i need a flight stick and a decent connection
Duke 3D will always have a soft spot
Starcraft excellent
Civilisation - again a soft spot

Psx:

Driver
Tenchu - that is a cool game, sneek up on people and stab 'em :)
Tekken 3 - as Ling Xiayou
Final Fantasy VII - waiting for 9 and 10 as they are back to the original style, you knlow with big heads :)

Psx2: i know there aren't that many games for it but we have a few

Silent Scope is a good fun game, i mean shooting peoploe from on top of a tower. real feeling of power. :) or is that just scary?
Madden 2001 the graphics on this game are awesome, i thought when i walked in on someone playing it that they were watching american football on tv and i am not joking.

and my favoutite commadore game was Ivan 'The Ironman' 4 x 4 racing. the graphics were really cool. and you could upgrade your car and everything :)

Originally posted by denniswrenn
I'm sure I would kick your ass in any of the Rainbow Six games.

Wanna game sometime D?




.....See nukem aint hard is it!??!?! Oh sorry you cant reply MUWAHAHAHAHAHA

[HarryW]

Ironman ruled! Yeah baby. Suck my nitro fumes biotch.

[simonm]

You say 'Call to Power' isn't as good as Civ2? Have you played 'Call to Power 2'? For me, it seems to improve on most of the 'failings' of Civ2...With the exception, perhaps, of the AI.

[Arbiter]

Deus Ex!

Such a cool game, are there any others like it - I have a taste for that kind of RPG genre now...

Starcraft!

How many hours (cans of beer) have I been through playing (drinking) with my partner in crime Behemoth.

If any people wish to challenge us to a two on two then I'm sure something can be arranged, though the logistics may be a problem (esp. if you live in a time zone wildly differing to the UK)

Any challengers?

[chrismitchell]

I think that I will be in my first favourite game:

Final Fantasy games (I love this game, I am hoping they will release FF9 on PC very soon.),

Half Life (CounterStrike),

Rainbow Six and

Project IGI

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire

C'mon Arbiter: bring it on!

[chrismitchell]

Originally posted by Arbiter
Deus Ex!

Deus Ex?

Personally I thought that was a poor game but everyone has different taste!

[Wynd]

Originally posted by HarryW

Wynd - There was something about casting explosion on soneone, galloping past someone in a horse halberd in hand, hearing that *whack* sound as you pass them, and then ebolting or flamstriking them just as the explosion kicks in that was really, really satisfying.... and you can't do that anymore... :(

Hahaha, yeah, 'cept I used maces because I had a few nice vanq warhammers...those were the days :(

[marnitzg]

Originally posted by HarryW
Marnitzg - Impressive, which species do you play as? I'm guessing terran, they seem to have the best defence if you have free units (although protoss have good defence too with no unit cost).


Can do it with both but prefer protoss. Terran have good defense but suck at the end, except if you have 40 battle cruisers :)

[Padrino]

Is there a lot of CS players?? I'm a big addict of CS! and if you are, what's your favorite map ?! For me it's cs_italy all the way!! And for the warcraft2 player who have the battle.net edition, Any challenge will be accepted! Just love that game !

[Technocrat]

Did someone say CS??? Yeah I love to play to. I like italy and prodigy the best. Whats your best record? Mine is 42/6

[Lord Orwell]

Another REALLY good game that seems to have disappeared is Master Of Magic.
It was played like Civilization, except you could cast global spells, could summon undead armies, etc. It ruled. You even had the option to micro-control your battles. Nothing is more satisfying than attacking a town full of soldiers with a tunneling dragon. (pop-up, flame, go under, do it again) :D I wish i could find that game again. i REALLY want it!!!

[YoungBuck]

I have to agree with compuGeek Silent Hill rocked, wasn't my fave game, but defintiely my fave of the survivor horror genre, as far as Final Fantasy goes every version kicked a$$ except pt 8. Just something missing to FF8 mainly character development and storyline, if any of you FF fans haven't played pt. 9 yet, it is the best of the series (IMO) even better than pt. 6 (or 3 here in the US). Here is a list of my faves of all time.

1. Final Fantasy 9 (PS)
2. Final Fantasy 7 (PS)
3. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 or 2 (PS)
4. Age of Empires (PC)
5. River City Ransom (Nintendo)
6. Maniac Mansion (Nintendo)
7. Tomb Raider pt 1 (PS)
8 Double Dragon (any sequel)
9. 194X (Nintendo, Arcade)
10. Any other final fantasy game