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Just wondering what everyone's opinion of ground breaking, favourite computer games are that they've grown up with - the ones that stand out through time as the most enjoyable.
My (not so much) top 10 would be this lot probably, just wondered what everyone else's would be and what the common ones to stand out would be...
- dizzy,
- dan dare,
- midnight resistance,
- doom,
- sonic the hedgehog,
- mario
- street fighter 2,
- mortal kombat,
- half life,
- fifa 2003,
- quake series
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory ;)
Any game with PB really so we can actually have fun screwing it :D
Do you always play with hacks on?
Nah, only when I'm developing them really, but otherwise I hardly play, unless I'm playing with my (legit) team for ET.
Half Life (1,2,E1,E2)
Portal
Tomb Raider (series)
Prince of Persia (series)
Resident Evil 4
Sonic the Hedgehog
The Lost Vikings
1:Oblivion
2:Super Mario 3
3:Streets Of Rage
4:Golden Axe
5:Zelda (Links awakening)
6:Morrowind
7:GTA Series
8:Sim City 3000
9:Sonic and Knuckles
10:Half Life
Rogue
The ones I grew up with and loved at the time:
Tomb Raider (1,2,3,TLR,Chronicles)
The first 3 Crash Bandicoots
Descent
Soviet Strike
The ones I think are pure brilliance now:
The Halo Series.
Tomb Raider Legend (Haven't played Anniversary yet, but I want to)
Half Life 2 & Portal.
The ones I think should have got a better rep than they did, because they were excellent despite their flaws:
Battlefield Vietnam.
SW Jedi Acadamy.
SW Battlefront.
Freelancer.
And finally, the ones I want to play but haven't been able to yet:
Spore
Crysis
Mass Effect
Cheers!
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
COD
Medal Of Honor
V8 Supercars
Doom
Unreal
Wolfenstein
WarBlade
Civilization
Roller Coaster Tycoon (for my wife)
I have played
Neverwinter Nights
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Portal
Sacred
Yoot Tower (Hotel Management and Economics Game)
Pokemon
Bejeweled
The Sims
Super Mario and loads of other arcade games
House of the Dead
Tekken
Diablo 1
Classics
I grew up with these. Magic in the days of 386 / 486 PC's. :)
Jill of the Jungle (1 - 3)
Commander Keen (1 - 6)
Alley Cat
Street Rod II
Sokoban (Who remembers this?)
Current
Love these. For the modern age, they're awesome!
Gears of War
Halo 3
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Need for Speed Underground 1 / 2 / Most Wanted
StarTopia
command and conquer all the way
Ohhh yeah... that too! :afrog: C&C is probably my favourite PC game of all time! (That is: The favourite game franchise ever... :D )
Is spore out yet? I really really really want to play Crysis but will need a new PC for that so won't be happening any time soon.
I posted this thread after a comment I saw on here from someone who'd never heard of duke nukem & it got me thinking - me and my brother have been trying to think of what would be the most popular ones. Thought half life would popup and sonic seems pretty high up there then.
I said to him "Wolfenstein?? Ok that was a great game, but it's really just a rip off of Doom" at the time, and got the answer "yeah, but it was the first FPS to give us a decent flamethrower to fire". Guess I included doom myself as it was there first and remember spending longer on that one...
Prince of persia I didn't play the 1st time round, but the 3D one, sands of time was it, that's a tough call now you mention that. Must be the closest next one that just missed the list for me. With the MK series, I'm including all the games there as I loved them all - that's my favourite game of all time MK2!
I never liked Command and Conquer. Never understood why.
BACK THEN:
Civilisation 1+2
DOOM 1+2
The Lost Vikings
Day of the Tentacle
Street Fighet II
Comander Keen
Age Of Empires Series
Command and Conquer.
Duke Nukem Platform + 3D
QUAKE
TODAY:
Halo 3
Gears of War
Forza Motorsport 2
F.E.A.R
GTA IV
Command and Conquer 3
BioShock
Call Of Duty 4
And I am affraid to say Still played frequently
DOOM
I never really got Tekken myself - street fighter and mortal kombat had far more combos and special moves and were just fun to play - everyone was in awe of the 3D fighting applied, but the gameplay just wasn't there in that.
Interesting to see everyone loves the quake series and not any/so many unreal fans. I always thought quake was greater too.
Quake 3 engine is the easiest to understand and reverse :thumb:
In no particular order...
Blood
Big Red Racer
Lemmings (Tribes)
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Ultimate Race Pro
GTA San Andreas
Quake 2
Doom
What was the arcade game where your guy was from greece or something. It was a side scroller where you could turn into a wolf. The beginning had a guy say:
RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!
Ah yeas ALTERED BEAST!
Altered Beast
I hated that game with a passion.
Really... I loved it, that and golden axe.
N+ is good too.
No one suggesting "zero wing" or "zork" yet?? :p
Age of Empires I & II also.
I'm bad at remembering games I used to play...
i forgot to mention that I played CS and Warcraft for a total of less than a few hours...
and also StarCraft which was to me... a bit pointless after awhile.
In no particular order:
Dave
Prince of Persia (very first)
PacMan
Star Commander
Commander Keene
Bricks
Bio Menace
a flight simulation game (don't remember the name)
Age of Empires (1, 2, 3)
Diablo (1 and 2)
Mafia
Max Payne
Half Life
18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to Metal
td (IBM's test drive, back in the VGA display adapter's days)
UBISoft Tennis (ref: td above)
Wolf 3D
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D (also 2D)
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Does anybody ever play BomberMan?
ANd and the arcade game
metal slug
just awesome!!!
Metal slug was good, cant believe i forgot the AoE series, god going wossy.
I still play bomberman now, it's my partner's favourite game! Was on my brothers list but didn't quite make it to mine...
it's fun playing especially when you have full blast !!!
i used to die by my own flames. :|
Yep you got that right! I'd be fantastic at the game if the option for killing youself wasn't put in. They updated it on the gamecube and on the X-box live download site into 3D but it's nothing near as good as the original!
hmm it's on XBOX! hmmmmmmmmm
Yeah, is it marketplace or something they call it? I haven't got a live subscription, but there's an area in one of the tabs that lets you scan for and download games from. I've got a few demos from that and you need to pay for the full version, but I managed to get these working on the 360 using it's controllers:
Bomberman (though 3D version unforunately)
Street Fighter II
Speedball 2 (which should have really been included in my list there)
Oh yeah, Paratrooper.
And Armored Fist 2.
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I bought the full version of DOOM 1 through MS Points... ITS GROOVY!
Popular now, or popular throughout the years? Those two are fairly recent. Alltime, I would say Rogue, Zork, and Doom would be up there. I'm surprised more people haven't listed Oblivion, as every RPG game seems to be compared to it these days, and never favorably.Quote:
Originally Posted by alex_read
Which Wolfenstein are you talking about? Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny predated Doom. They used an earlier ray casting game engine that really cracked open the world of 3D on PCs. Doom was the next generation engine, with many added features, such as diagonal walls and certain types of door opening.Quote:
I said to him "Wolfenstein?? Ok that was a great game, but it's really just a rip off of Doom" at the time, and got the answer "yeah, but it was the first FPS to give us a decent flamethrower to fire". Guess I included doom myself as it was there first and remember spending longer on that one...
Of all time - that you've ever come across, played or owned. My 1st 3 there were from one of the earliest computers I had, a C64 and were those types of games that I'd just never seen anything like before, thought were fantastic and had me hooked for weeks and months...
yeah the 1st wolfenstein, if I remember right the final boss was in a room of pillars and had huge arms with a huge machine gun in each hand...
I have oblivion and morrowind in mine. I don't think its fair to compare them to other RPG's. They are different in approach. God i forgot Final Fantasy 7. I wasted many years on that game.
That's the first Wolfenstein. It was built on an engine that predated Doom, and launched not just a revolution in computer games, but a revolution in marketing...which has since died out. The original Wolfenstein, like the original Doom, was produced as Freeware. Id let you download the game for free, with the expectation that you would get so hooked that you'd pay cash for the other levels (or games, it kind of depends on how you see it), which I did. I remember the first time I tried Wolfenstein 3D, and how amazed I was to see an actual 3D environment. I ended up with a whole shelf full of books discussing how that engine was made. Doom significantly improved it, and so on.
The original Zork had some pretty classic pieces that can still be found in popular culture, so that one was pretty big. Rogue was really popular on computers for a while. I recently downloaded it so I could play it again. Frankly, for a dungeon crawl game, it really had some impressive game play qualities.
On the other hand, I also found Hunt the Wumpus, and found it too easy to stay with it for long. That was a cool game....back around 1980.
In no particular order:
Call of Duty
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Medal of Honor
GTA (series)
Prince of Persia (series)
Diablo 2
Age of Mythology
Rise of Nations
Mafia
Battlefield 2
oh yeah..Half Life Ep2
We knew this one as the Space Commander.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
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Another similar was "Galaga". :D :afrog:
Blake Stone
Caves of Thor
Commander Keen (Goodbye Galaxy, Keen3, Keen dreams etc)
Crystal Caves
Dark Ages
Duke Nukem
Jill of the Jungle
Kiloblaster
Wolfenstein3D
And who here HASN'T played Lemmings ?
I forgot to add Descent.
Another beautifully crafted game was MDK.
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Would anyone suggest any OLD OLD Games that may interest me? That I Will be able to get working under Windows XP? And list anywhere I can get them?
I forgot to mention Transport Tycoon. Spent WEEKS on that.
Pretty much most of those I mentioned at the start are fairly old - you can use a search engine to lookup SNES/Megadrive/Commadore 64 emulator" and "roms" to download freeware apps mimicking those machines. The roms are usually freeware versions of the old games that you can play on the PC using an emulator.
TC:E's worse than the original ET :eek:
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Originally Posted by Lerroy_Jenkins
Search google for abandonware or dosgames.
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I forgot "Frontier: Elite II".
Uhm, no.Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiVisser
And you're a hacker, you need to be quiet.
That reminds me of uplink - that was an awesome game and might've made the list if the save file didn't corrupt on every game I ever played on that.
Jumpman :afrog: