Best Games, PC or Other

**Technocrat** · Mar 1st, 2001, 05:22 PM

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** · Mar 1st, 2001, 05:28 PM

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

**HarryW** · Mar 1st, 2001, 07:18 PM

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** · Mar 1st, 2001, 07:28 PM

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** · Mar 1st, 2001, 07:42 PM

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** · Mar 1st, 2001, 07:49 PM

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** · Mar 1st, 2001, 09:35 PM

I rarerly Played Computer Games...

So my Choice Will be Pretty Wierd..

1. Road Rash
2. FIFA 2001

**SteveCRM** · Mar 1st, 2001, 10:05 PM

Freespace is the king of all games!

**Jeff_1** · Mar 1st, 2001, 11:26 PM

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** · Mar 1st, 2001, 11:40 PM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 01:03 AM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 01:15 AM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 02:26 AM

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

**HarryW** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 02:29 AM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 02:52 AM

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.

Mar 2nd, 2001, 04:27 AM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 04:52 AM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 05:02 AM

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

**CyberSurfer** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 05:37 AM

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

**HarryW** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 05:52 AM

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.

Mar 2nd, 2001, 05:54 AM

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

**Fox** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 05:57 AM

Reminds me that I forgot Dungeon Keeper in my list

(seriously)

**zmerlinz** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 06:40 AM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 06:45 AM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 07:22 AM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 10:23 AM

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!!)

Mar 2nd, 2001, 10:26 AM

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

**Padrino** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 10:36 AM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 12:10 PM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 12:35 PM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 12:51 PM

Do you have a good Commodore emulator??

**HarryW** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 12:54 PM

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

**jdavison** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 01:03 PM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 01:06 PM

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

**Technocrat** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 01:09 PM

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

**Fox** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 01:53 PM

I didn't mention Chrono Trigger because IMHO Seiken Densetsu's better

^_^

**parksie** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 02:07 PM

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

Mar 2nd, 2001, 02:27 PM

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** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 02:54 PM

there are no better rps than chronotrigger

**compuGEEK** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 02:54 PM

PSX:

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

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