Top five Games

Key · 09-04-2012, 11:53 AM

Hmm.

Call of Duty - Black Ops
Maybe not one of the best Call of Duty releases to date, but I absolutely loved the story line, from start to finish. I also thought the missions were well done in terms of being difficult and different, not a whole lot felt repetitive.

Vanquish
Just a fast paced fun game for anybody who loves fast action packed games. I found myself enjoying more of the boss battles than anything. Some of it was repetitive and the voice acting was terrible, but that doesn't mean it isn't a fun game to play.

The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time
By far one of the best Nintendo 64 games I have ever played to date. The story line was perfect, the emotion in the characters was outstanding, and the general game play was great. I also found it impressive that some of the temples were absolutely hard as ****. The shadow temple was the most frustrating, and the water temple was just confusing. I did find a bit of disappointment in how easy the spirit temple turned out to be.

Pokemon - Heart Gold
I remember enjoying the hell out of the Game Boy Color version of Pokemon - Gold, and when I heard they were doing a re-release of Gold and Silver, I was excited beyond belief. Playing through Heart Gold brought back a lot of fond memories of playing through the original Gold version. It was weird seeing the game with such great graphics and battle sequences, but still a very cool remake of a fantastic game.

Warcraft III - Reign of Chaos
One of the first PC games I ever played, I also want to include Frozen Throne into this because of how much more I enjoyed the story. Anyway, time and time again I enjoy going into a custom game against a computer and trying to increase my speed of making buildings and making an army and taking out the enemy as quick as possible. There are other times when I just enjoy cheating as much as possible. Like using the gold and lumber cheats as well as making it so everything builds super quick. I still have a lot of fun playing this, and will continue to enjoy it for years ahead.

The Batlord · 09-05-2012, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Ki

Pokemon - Heart Gold
I remember enjoying the hell out of the Game Boy Color version of Pokemon - Gold, and when I heard they were doing a re-release of Gold and Silver, I was excited beyond belief. Playing through Heart Gold brought back a lot of fond memories of playing through the original Gold version. It was weird seeing the game with such great graphics and battle sequences, but still a very cool remake of a fantastic game.

Haven't played the new one yet, but I did play the old Gold and Crystal. Pokemon games are always quality, and the first two were the best, but I will always love Red and Blue (though Fire Red and Leaf Green are better for obvious reasons). The first part of Gold is just too short. It's cool that you get to go back to Kanto, but I'd rather they would have just concentrated on more original content. The same with the new pokemon. I prefer to only use new pokemon when I play Gold, and it's sort of a challenge finding six good pokemon in those games.

FloydFlowrider · 09-05-2012, 11:11 PM

1. Gothic II
2. The Clou
3. The Settlers I & II
4. Wing Commander IV
5. UFO (XCom)

Face · 10-04-2012, 04:30 PM

Ninja gaiden 2:
Amazing hack and slash, fast-paced, challenging, gazzilllions of combos, loads of weapons.

Bayonetta:
Take all the good things from ninja gaiden, add amazing art design, a hot chick, even more weapons, insane boss levels and an even more incomprehensible story line. Shame the second one is a wiiu exclusive.

Company Of heroes, world at war:
Hands down the best RTS ever IMO, especially the campaign.

Mass effect series:
I haven't played mass effect 3 yet.....

About vanquish, the gameplay was amazing! But the wasn't enough really to keep playing it once you finished the short campaign. Shame really.

Sparky · 10-04-2012, 04:33 PM

1.Ocarina of Time
2. Resident Evil 4
3. Super Smash Bros melee
4.Call of Duty 4
5.Starcraft

Vertigo · 10-12-2012, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck

Paradroid

Oh, that brings back memories. I got it as a copy and remember it took me ages to work out how to do this:

That and chasing down a 999, thinking I'd got the boss hog droid and it turned out to be a real turkey.

Ah, memories....

Howard the Duck · 10-12-2012, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Vertigo

Oh, that brings back memories. I got it as a copy and remember it took me ages to work out how to do this:

That and chasing down a 999, thinking I'd got the boss hog droid and it turned out to be a real turkey.

Ah, memories....

you must be younger than me then - i had no problems figuring it out

999 is a pile of crap

i didn't manage to complete it, though

LoathsomePete · 10-12-2012, 01:20 PM

I'm going to break mine up into Newer and Older games lists because otherwise my list would be almost entirely old games.

Older Games (1980-2004)

5) Pandora's Directive

The second of the newer Tex Murphy adventure/detective games that are probably responsible for my career path. Pandora's Directive really upped the ante from 1994's Under a Killing Moon by adding a bunch of new toys to play with, and a money system that I think let you bribe characters to reveal information you otherwise had to get out of them by picking the right dialog options. I was also really big into The X-Files at the time and the game made a lot of references to alien mythology so I was pretty engrossed. I really hope the Project Fedora kickstarter works out for them because I'd like to play a new Tex Murphy game.

4) Battlefield 1942

While I was never that big into online multiplayer games, there was something unique about Battlefield 1942 that has really stayed with me. I think it was the vehicles, there was just something so cool about sitting next to my friend at an Internet cafe as he piloted the bomber plane with me in a gunner seat taking on armored vehicles below, or in the air. I really liked the expansive maps too that allowed for some exploration and tactics if you were on a server with enough players. The Desert Combat mod was also really awesome.

3) Silent Hill 2

I've always enjoyed survival-horror, ever since watching my friend's older cousin play through Resident Evil 2 on my Playstation. While I was never particularly good at the Resident Evil games, I did get into Silent Hill 2 around the time it was released because I had just gotten my PS2 at around that time. There was something so surreal about the experience, and there was A LOT of stuff I didn't understand at the time, but playing it through on PC and PS2 at later times in my life really helped the game cement itself in my permanent gaming library, where I will always have a copy no matter what.

2) Half-Life 2

This was a tough choice, I mean I played the first one back when the gaming industry was still feeling the effects of its release. At the end of the day though I had to go with its sequel, whose effects are still felt to this day... 8 years later. It's really easy to just praise everything Valve does and run the risk of sounding like a fanboy, but I really do think they are the epitome of what a video game developer should be. To me they hit everything I expect from a video game, a good narrative, pretty visuals, great voice acting, standout audio sections, and just a feeling of total immersion. It's a game I replay about once a year and am still constantly wowed by set pieces in the game I already know, like turning the corner in City 17 and seeing that Strider walk by. The episodes have been great and have really made me fall in love with Alyx Vance as a character, and has actually influenced some of the attributes I now look for in a companion. I don't care how long Valve takes for making the sequel, I will happily wait.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Now I just want to clear this up first, OoT was my first Zelda game and indeed one of the first real fantasy/adventure games I ever played. I have so many memories and emotions tied up to that game it's ridiculous. So why is Majora's Mask here instead of it? Honestly it's because I think MM is the better game. I loved the darker narrative and themes of sorrow, death, and acceptance, and I really like how well developed a lot of the NPC's are. I love how the story feels more personal to the character of Link, who is doing everything because he's the hero, not because a tree called him over and said he was going to save the kingdom. The character of Tatl is so much better than Navi because she actually has a personality. The time limit element was really cool too because there was always this sense of constant dread and hopelessness as your progress is constantly removed as you go back in time.

So that's my older games list, I'll do a newer one later on today when I have some free time.

IvanMC · 08-11-2013, 11:57 PM

My top 5 of all time:

1) Maniac Mansion (C64)
2) FIFA98RoadToWorldCup
3) PES09 (yes, 2009!!! flawless nowadays footie game!!)
4) Defender of the Crown (C64)
5) Red Storm Rising

LoathsomePete · 08-12-2013, 12:14 PM

Huh, I guess I never got around to doing my second list.

Okay here it goes.

Newer Games (2005-Present)

5) Skyrim

The first Elder Scrolls game I truly got into. I remember getting Oblivion at some point in 2006 or 2007 for my 360 when the guy who worked in the video game portion of my Hollywood Video said it would provide me with countless hours of entertainment. A bold claim but I was pretty desperate for something and there weren't many other options yet as the console was still in its infancy. In any case it was my first Elder Scrolls game and I was not use to the massive amount of freedom which actually made it very hard for me to figure out what was going on. I couldn't figure out how to level up nor did I really know what I was suppose to do. I also found the UI to be pretty piss poor for a console and ultimately abandoned the game.

Anyways after playing Fallout 3 I learned how Bethesda games worked so when I got Skyrim last year for 360 and I got quite absorbed. Sure there were things about it that still bugged me as with any Bethesda game, but that hasn't stopped me from sinking over 300 hours of my life into it. One of these days I'll actually get around to finishing it (as well as FO3, FO:NV, Oblivion, Morrowind, ect.) but as it stands I absolutely love the freedom to play quite a few different build sets.

4) S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Easily one of the most atmospheric and engaging games of all time, but not without its share of problems. I've heard that the expansion pack Call of Pripyat fixes a lot of them, but I've yet to play it. What I do know is that I've sunk a great deal of time into a game that is very linear, but somehow manages to be both deeper and more intimate than a lot of other open-world games. I just downloaded the 2009 Complete Mod that fixes a lot of the problems so I'm pretty excited to re-play it and hope it can create the same sense of engagement I got out of playing it years ago.

3) Condemned: Criminal Origins

Sadly one of the last AAA developed survival-horror games to be released that wasn't just a 3rd person shooter in the vein of Resident Evil 4. This game was flawed in many ways, but it was also one of the scariest games I've ever played and one of the ones that made me feel incredibly uncomfortable with the killing of enemies. Sure they were all psychotic and out to kill you, but they were also the downtrodden and you're an FBI agent so bludgeoning a teenage runaway's skull in with a lead pipe was a little disquieting. I think that's what made part of the horror so effective, by tapping into the subconscious levels of privilege and guilt I think we all feel to some degree when we see the homeless.

2) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

I really hate what this series has devolved into and I really hate how every other AAA publisher has screwed up the industry in an attempt to homogenize their IP in an attempt to tap the CoD market and get the same sales numbers by "widening the audience". I also hate how the series has really become the go-to catharsis for middle-to-upper class white people to blow off post-9/11 steam and spout their own racist/sexist/homophobic rhetoric, because up to this release, the series was a lot of fun. I remember how much fun I had playing the original Call of Duty in 2003 when I was driving along the French countryside performing drive-bys on Nazis in a tiny blue car and thinking how this completely blew Medal of Honor out of the water in every way possible.

Anyways as much as this game changed the landscape for AAA gaming, I can't deny that it's a well made and engaging game. From the intense escape of the first mission on the tanker to the stealth mission in Pripyat to the

Spoiler for CoD4 Spoilers:

the game really does engage you to a very scary degree and just showcases how much effort was put into it. I remember the buzz in 2007 around that game and how big it was going to be and it's a reputation that was not ill deserved.

It's just a shame the series got too big for its own good.

1) The Walking Dead

Given the games I grew up playing, gameplay has always been secondary to me. Obviously it's important and there are some games that are a lot of fun just to play, but a game with a good story will always leave a bigger impact on me than anything else. Sadly it seems that game stories have really fallen off the list of importance this generation in favor of either letting players make their own story (a la Skyrim/Fallout 3) or just shunning story altogether and focusing on muliplayer. Anyways what I'm saying is that I grew up with games that had a strong story focus usually because gameplay was sh*t so you made up for it by having a good story, and I just thought that video games had good stories.

The Walking Dead was the first game to make me cry in a very long time. It was the first game to have a story that really stuck with me long after I turned off my 360. It was the first game I actually felt like talking about to people who weren't gamers. It was the first game in a long time that reminded me why I decided to continue playing video games after it seemed like maybe I was beginning to outgrow them, and for that TellTale Games has my eternal thanks.

10-12-2012, 01:20 PM	#68 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	I'm going to break mine up into Newer and Older games lists because otherwise my list would be almost entirely old games. Older Games (1980-2004) 5) Pandora's Directive The second of the newer Tex Murphy adventure/detective games that are probably responsible for my career path. Pandora's Directive really upped the ante from 1994's Under a Killing Moon by adding a bunch of new toys to play with, and a money system that I think let you bribe characters to reveal information you otherwise had to get out of them by picking the right dialog options. I was also really big into The X-Files at the time and the game made a lot of references to alien mythology so I was pretty engrossed. I really hope the Project Fedora kickstarter works out for them because I'd like to play a new Tex Murphy game. 4) Battlefield 1942 While I was never that big into online multiplayer games, there was something unique about Battlefield 1942 that has really stayed with me. I think it was the vehicles, there was just something so cool about sitting next to my friend at an Internet cafe as he piloted the bomber plane with me in a gunner seat taking on armored vehicles below, or in the air. I really liked the expansive maps too that allowed for some exploration and tactics if you were on a server with enough players. The Desert Combat mod was also really awesome. 3) Silent Hill 2 I've always enjoyed survival-horror, ever since watching my friend's older cousin play through Resident Evil 2 on my Playstation. While I was never particularly good at the Resident Evil games, I did get into Silent Hill 2 around the time it was released because I had just gotten my PS2 at around that time. There was something so surreal about the experience, and there was A LOT of stuff I didn't understand at the time, but playing it through on PC and PS2 at later times in my life really helped the game cement itself in my permanent gaming library, where I will always have a copy no matter what. 2) Half-Life 2 This was a tough choice, I mean I played the first one back when the gaming industry was still feeling the effects of its release. At the end of the day though I had to go with its sequel, whose effects are still felt to this day... 8 years later. It's really easy to just praise everything Valve does and run the risk of sounding like a fanboy, but I really do think they are the epitome of what a video game developer should be. To me they hit everything I expect from a video game, a good narrative, pretty visuals, great voice acting, standout audio sections, and just a feeling of total immersion. It's a game I replay about once a year and am still constantly wowed by set pieces in the game I already know, like turning the corner in City 17 and seeing that Strider walk by. The episodes have been great and have really made me fall in love with Alyx Vance as a character, and has actually influenced some of the attributes I now look for in a companion. I don't care how long Valve takes for making the sequel, I will happily wait. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Now I just want to clear this up first, OoT was my first Zelda game and indeed one of the first real fantasy/adventure games I ever played. I have so many memories and emotions tied up to that game it's ridiculous. So why is Majora's Mask here instead of it? Honestly it's because I think MM is the better game. I loved the darker narrative and themes of sorrow, death, and acceptance, and I really like how well developed a lot of the NPC's are. I love how the story feels more personal to the character of Link, who is doing everything because he's the hero, not because a tree called him over and said he was going to save the kingdom. The character of Tatl is so much better than Navi because she actually has a personality. The time limit element was really cool too because there was always this sense of constant dread and hopelessness as your progress is constantly removed as you go back in time. So that's my older games list, I'll do a newer one later on today when I have some free time. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

08-12-2013, 12:14 PM	#70 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	Huh, I guess I never got around to doing my second list. Okay here it goes. Newer Games (2005-Present) 5) Skyrim The first Elder Scrolls game I truly got into. I remember getting Oblivion at some point in 2006 or 2007 for my 360 when the guy who worked in the video game portion of my Hollywood Video said it would provide me with countless hours of entertainment. A bold claim but I was pretty desperate for something and there weren't many other options yet as the console was still in its infancy. In any case it was my first Elder Scrolls game and I was not use to the massive amount of freedom which actually made it very hard for me to figure out what was going on. I couldn't figure out how to level up nor did I really know what I was suppose to do. I also found the UI to be pretty piss poor for a console and ultimately abandoned the game. Anyways after playing Fallout 3 I learned how Bethesda games worked so when I got Skyrim last year for 360 and I got quite absorbed. Sure there were things about it that still bugged me as with any Bethesda game, but that hasn't stopped me from sinking over 300 hours of my life into it. One of these days I'll actually get around to finishing it (as well as FO3, FO:NV, Oblivion, Morrowind, ect.) but as it stands I absolutely love the freedom to play quite a few different build sets. 4) S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Easily one of the most atmospheric and engaging games of all time, but not without its share of problems. I've heard that the expansion pack Call of Pripyat fixes a lot of them, but I've yet to play it. What I do know is that I've sunk a great deal of time into a game that is very linear, but somehow manages to be both deeper and more intimate than a lot of other open-world games. I just downloaded the 2009 Complete Mod that fixes a lot of the problems so I'm pretty excited to re-play it and hope it can create the same sense of engagement I got out of playing it years ago. 3) Condemned: Criminal Origins Sadly one of the last AAA developed survival-horror games to be released that wasn't just a 3rd person shooter in the vein of Resident Evil 4. This game was flawed in many ways, but it was also one of the scariest games I've ever played and one of the ones that made me feel incredibly uncomfortable with the killing of enemies. Sure they were all psychotic and out to kill you, but they were also the downtrodden and you're an FBI agent so bludgeoning a teenage runaway's skull in with a lead pipe was a little disquieting. I think that's what made part of the horror so effective, by tapping into the subconscious levels of privilege and guilt I think we all feel to some degree when we see the homeless. 2) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare I really hate what this series has devolved into and I really hate how every other AAA publisher has screwed up the industry in an attempt to homogenize their IP in an attempt to tap the CoD market and get the same sales numbers by "widening the audience". I also hate how the series has really become the go-to catharsis for middle-to-upper class white people to blow off post-9/11 steam and spout their own racist/sexist/homophobic rhetoric, because up to this release, the series was a lot of fun. I remember how much fun I had playing the original Call of Duty in 2003 when I was driving along the French countryside performing drive-bys on Nazis in a tiny blue car and thinking how this completely blew Medal of Honor out of the water in every way possible. Anyways as much as this game changed the landscape for AAA gaming, I can't deny that it's a well made and engaging game. From the intense escape of the first mission on the tanker to the stealth mission in Pripyat to the Spoiler for CoD4 Spoilers: slow death of your character after a nuke goes off the game really does engage you to a very scary degree and just showcases how much effort was put into it. I remember the buzz in 2007 around that game and how big it was going to be and it's a reputation that was not ill deserved. It's just a shame the series got too big for its own good. 1) The Walking Dead Given the games I grew up playing, gameplay has always been secondary to me. Obviously it's important and there are some games that are a lot of fun just to play, but a game with a good story will always leave a bigger impact on me than anything else. Sadly it seems that game stories have really fallen off the list of importance this generation in favor of either letting players make their own story (a la Skyrim/Fallout 3) or just shunning story altogether and focusing on muliplayer. Anyways what I'm saying is that I grew up with games that had a strong story focus usually because gameplay was sht so you made up for it by having a good story, and I just thought that video games had good stories. The Walking Dead* was the first game to make me cry in a very long time. It was the first game to have a story that really stuck with me long after I turned off my 360. It was the first game I actually felt like talking about to people who weren't gamers. It was the first game in a long time that reminded me why I decided to continue playing video games after it seemed like maybe I was beginning to outgrow them, and for that TellTale Games has my eternal thanks. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

09-04-2012, 11:53 AM	#61 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	Hmm. Call of Duty - Black Ops Maybe not one of the best Call of Duty releases to date, but I absolutely loved the story line, from start to finish. I also thought the missions were well done in terms of being difficult and different, not a whole lot felt repetitive. Vanquish Just a fast paced fun game for anybody who loves fast action packed games. I found myself enjoying more of the boss battles than anything. Some of it was repetitive and the voice acting was terrible, but that doesn't mean it isn't a fun game to play. The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time By far one of the best Nintendo 64 games I have ever played to date. The story line was perfect, the emotion in the characters was outstanding, and the general game play was great. I also found it impressive that some of the temples were absolutely hard as **. The shadow temple was the most frustrating, and the water temple was just confusing. I did find a bit of disappointment in how easy the spirit temple turned out to be. Pokemon - Heart Gold I remember enjoying the hell out of the Game Boy Color version of Pokemon - Gold, and when I heard they were doing a re-release of Gold and Silver, I was excited beyond belief. Playing through Heart Gold brought back a lot of fond memories of playing through the original Gold version. It was weird seeing the game with such great graphics and battle sequences, but still a very cool remake of a fantastic game. Warcraft III - Reign of Chaos** One of the first PC games I ever played, I also want to include Frozen Throne into this because of how much more I enjoyed the story. Anyway, time and time again I enjoy going into a custom game against a computer and trying to increase my speed of making buildings and making an army and taking out the enemy as quick as possible. There are other times when I just enjoy cheating as much as possible. Like using the gold and lumber cheats as well as making it so everything builds super quick. I still have a lot of fun playing this, and will continue to enjoy it for years ahead.

09-05-2012, 11:11 PM	#63 (permalink)
FloydFlowrider Groupie Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 11	1. Gothic II 2. The Clou 3. The Settlers I & II 4. Wing Commander IV 5. UFO (XCom)

10-04-2012, 04:30 PM	#64 (permalink)
Face Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: UK Posts: 306	Ninja gaiden 2: Amazing hack and slash, fast-paced, challenging, gazzilllions of combos, loads of weapons. Bayonetta: Take all the good things from ninja gaiden, add amazing art design, a hot chick, even more weapons, insane boss levels and an even more incomprehensible story line. Shame the second one is a wiiu exclusive. Company Of heroes, world at war: Hands down the best RTS ever IMO, especially the campaign. Mass effect series: I haven't played mass effect 3 yet..... About vanquish, the gameplay was amazing! But the wasn't enough really to keep playing it once you finished the short campaign. Shame really.

10-04-2012, 04:33 PM	#65 (permalink)
Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	1.Ocarina of Time 2. Resident Evil 4 3. Super Smash Bros melee 4.Call of Duty 4 5.Starcraft

08-11-2013, 11:57 PM	#69 (permalink)
IvanMC Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 258	My top 5 of all time: 1) Maniac Mansion (C64) 2) FIFA98RoadToWorldCup 3) PES09 (yes, 2009!!! flawless nowadays footie game!!) 4) Defender of the Crown (C64) 5) Red Storm Rising