Best game of all time!!

[Efrem Da King]

1)Morrowind
2)FF8
3)Ocarina of Time (my pic)
4)Call of Duty
5)Shogun Total War (so much better than medieval)
6)Fifa 2004
7)Soul caliber 2.
8)Pokemon Silver.

[Cazbol]

Best game of all times:
Privateer 2: The Darkening

Best game of those listed:
Shogun Total War

You left out the GAH-option.

[The Wizard]

Best game of all time:
Baldur's Gate II, as I said in the other best game of all time-thread.

[The Tuffen]

I'd say

Zelda: Ocorina of time. It was a really good game, it had enough side quests to keep you entertained and a good story line.

Other great games r:

Morrowind
Shogun + Medieval:TW
Freelancer
Timesplitters 2 (multiplayer is brilliant)
Diablo 2
Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Mario 64
Star Wars (on the NES)
Micro Machines (again on NES, the multiplayer was fun)
Star Fox (or was it star wing over here in the UK?)
Final Fantasy 7+8
Skies of Arcadia
Shenmue 1 + 2

[Efrem Da King]

Quote[/b] (The Wizard @ April 02 2004,06:21)]Best game of all time:
Baldur's Gate II, as I said in the other best game of all time-thread.
Balders gate 2 sucks.

[Ser Clegane]

Quote[/b] (Efrem Da King @ April 02 2004,07:32)]
Quote[/b] (The Wizard @ April 02 2004,06:21)]Best game of all time:
Baldur's Gate II, as I said in the other best game of all time-thread.
Balders gate 2 sucks.
Why?

Actually it would definitely rank among the top5 on my list as well...

[Efrem Da King]

Because it is a horrible game.

[Alrowan]

1. Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries - played it till i dropped
2. Medieval Total War - No need to explain
3. Europa Universalis 2 - No matter what i do, i always come back to this game
4. Shogun Total War
5. Mechwarrior 2
6. Sim City 4
7. Call of Duty
8. Victoria
9. Age of Empires 2
10. Grand Theft Auto 3
11. Heroes of Might and Magic 2
12. Warlords 2
13. Duke Nukem 3D (u either loved it or hated it)


and plenty more i have probably forgotten to mention

[Sir Zack de Caldicot]

Quote[/b] (Efrem Da King @ April 02 2004,04:58)]1)Morrowind
2)FF8
3)Ocarina of Time (my pic)
4)Call of Duty
5)Shogun Total War (so much better than medieval)
6)Fifa 2004
7)Soul caliber 2.
8)Pokemon Silver.
LOL, whats with Pokemon Silver http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wacko.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wacko.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Efrem Da King]

I'm not Into it but someone might be.

[Kekvit Irae]

I refuse to acknowledge the existance of Final Fantasy 8. *shudder*

And my favorite games would have to be...

Daggerfall (first and foremost)
Thief Gold
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 6
Thief II (only for the player-made levels)
Half-Life (again, only for the player-made mods)

EDIT: Doh, forgot two...
Neverwinter Nights
Baldur's Gate II

[Nowake]

So, in this order, not especially for how good they were, but for inovations

Imperialism
Lords of the Realm III
Starcraft
Shogun Total War (not much better, way off better than Medieval)
Morrowind
Warcraft III
Savage (at least what I've played in the demo, mp only)

[Efrem Da King]

YOu have no taste kekvitirae FF8 Rocks, FF7 is medicore at best.

[Nowake]

Tastes should not be argued about.

[Matt Deckard]

Quote[/b] (Efrem Da King @ April 03 2004,13:57)]YOu have no taste kekvitirae FF8 Rocks, FF7 is medicore at best.
No Way As much as i loved FF8, and i really did, FF7 had the most engaging storyline of any game i've played to date. And the materia system was a work of art.

[Kekvit Irae]

I barely stomached 8. I finally just reset the game and rename the Squall to Angst, which was a more fitting name.

[The Wizard]

Quote[/b] (Efrem Da King @ April 02 2004,22:45)]Because it is a horrible game.
Now tell me, why? Because BGII was positively one of the most absorbing gaming experiences I've ever had.

And FFVIII was a great game, IMO. Squall was a bit of a drag, but never too much.



~Wiz

[Kekvit Irae]

Quote[/b] (The Wizard @ April 03 2004,05:16)]Now tell me, why? Because BGII was positively one of the most absorbing gaming experiences I've ever had.
I enjoyed playing my solo Mage. No companions, no cheats. Pure hell until I got the Staff of the Magi, then it was all downhill from there.

[Ser Clegane]

Quote[/b] (Efrem Da King @ April 02 2004,16:45)]Because it is a horrible game.
I probably shouldn't have bothered to ask http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

[The Wizard]

Quote[/b] (kekvitirae @ April 03 2004,11:21)]
Quote[/b] (The Wizard @ April 03 2004,05:16)]Now tell me, why? Because BGII was positively one of the most absorbing gaming experiences I've ever had.
I enjoyed playing my solo Mage. No companions, no cheats. Pure hell until I got the Staff of the Magi, then it was all downhill from there.
Eh?



~Wiz

[Kekvit Irae]

Quote[/b] (The Wizard @ April 03 2004,05:51)]
Quote[/b] (kekvitirae @ April 03 2004,11:21)]I enjoyed playing my solo Mage. No companions, no cheats. Pure hell until I got the Staff of the Magi, then it was all downhill from there.
Eh?



~Wiz
Indeed.

[Rosacrux]

Solo-ing BG2 with a classic Kensai-Mage was a treat. But a fighter-thief was also a pretty funny combo - I missed them spels on occassions though...

I have liste my preferences in a another similar thread, but here goes again:

- Civ series (all three)
- Master of Orion 2
- HOMM 2&3 (almost forgot about that... see what a lousy #4 does to a great series?)
- BG and BG2
- TW series

[Crandaeolon]

Can't name an overall best game, but I'll try by genre:

RPG: Planescape Torment.

FPS: Hmm... tough one. For MP, Enemy Territory. (UT2004 is a strong contender, but it's too new to be included.) For SP, probably Operation: Flashpoint.

RTS: Total Annihilation, of course. The interface was years ahead of its time: unlimited queuing of units and orders is something that's still rare in games. Simple economics with the focus on combat. The huge community has supplied lots of great mods. Modern machines can run the game with literally thousands of units involved in battles on unprecedently large maps.

TBS: Either Steel Panthers: World at War or Dominions 2. Dom 2 is too new to say for certain, though, so I think I'll go with SP:WAW. And it's free http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Alpha Centauri, MOO2 and Civs get a honourable mention.

(Space) Sim: Freespace 2. It gave capital ships a reason to exist (beam weapons). Great military atmosphere.

Action: Diablo 2. I was a hopeless addict for a couple of years, so it's gotta count for something. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif The new Prince of Persia is very entertaining as well, but it probably doesn't have a lasting appeal.

System Shock: Yes, it deserves its own genre. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif And the first Shock is the better one IMO.

[Efrem Da King]

Quote[/b] (kekvitirae @ April 03 2004,04:46)]I barely stomached 8. I finally just reset the game and rename the Squall to Angst, which was a more fitting name.
Squall is my fav main character in a video game of all time. I mean. You get to play an absolute ####### IT is sooo much fun.




I tried BG2 once. Gave up after 5 mins, went back to morrowind and uninstalled it, stupidly overated.

[Ser Clegane]

In no particular order:

- Baldur's Gate 2
- STW + MTW
- KOTOR
- Age of Wonders 2
- HOMM 3 (I have to agree with Rosacrux on HOMM 4 ... hopefully HOMM 5 will be an improvement)
- Tie Fighter
- Dark Forces

and for nostalgic reasons:

- The Bard's Tale


BTW, the expansion to HOMM 3 has IMO been a good example that listening to the group of hardcore fans does not necessarily lead to a better game.
The developers intended to add a new city with a mixture of Warhammer-like and cyborg units (e.g., Naga-tank), after heavy protests of parts of the community (IIRC at Astralwizard) threatening not to buy the expansion, the devs dropped the plan and went to a lukewarm elemental city instead ... sad

[Ser Clegane]

Quote[/b] (Efrem Da King @ April 03 2004,07:14)]I tried BG2 once. Gave up after 5 mins, went back to morrowind and uninstalled it, stupidly overated.
I am sure 5 min is plenty of time to develop a well-founded opinion on a game http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[The Wizard]

Well Efrem, I agree with you on Morrowind. It's quite overrated, I don't like it. This might change, I'm not that far into the game yet.

Ok, let's do a category-by-category listing.

RPG: Baldur's Gate II. My God, I wish more developers put this much time in their games.

RTS: WarCraft III. Actually an RTS for which you need skills instead of knowing what unit to use against another. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-zzz.gif

TBS: Total War. Hehe, call it a wargame, whatever you want. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

FPS: Wouldn't know, not a genre which can hold my imagination for long.

Sim: While not really a sim 'cause it's never happened before, Freespace 2. Epicness.

Citybuilding/sandbox: Sim City. Yeah baby

Godgame: Black & White. Great game, but it misses the epic scale which Peter Molyneux wanted. Too bad his new baby is Fable, I guess he never did like sequels. Even worse: that game is for XBox only. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-wall.gif



~Wiz

[Fragony]

I found morrowind so empty, sure there were npc, but no interesting ones. The only character I liked was that telvani wizard that allowed thieves for his entertainment. And, the game is just to easy. Sure you can slide up the difficulty but being slain by a rat just feels wrong. You also level way too fast. What it does right however it does with grandeur, it really has moments of brilliance, the first time I saw a storm.....wow. Total immersion. And you really have the freedom to become whatever you want. For example, I hate killing NPC. I made a thief character with illusion magic, and I have not killed until I was level 20 and had to kill someone for the main quest. Sneaking and pickpocketing was enough to complete most sidequests. Maybe that is why I am so hard on this one, it is very good, but it could have been so great.

[Teutonic Knight]

#1. The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time

#2. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

#3. Cossacks: The Art of War (Mod1)

#4. Medieval: Total War

For it to be on this list I have to have been playing it for at least 1 1/2 years continuously.

[Chimpyang]

IMHO you cant really point out BEST GAME EVER cos eventually therell b another very good game tht will come along and steal it's crown.

[The Wizard]

Nah, 'best game ever' is a term which is totally subjective. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-yes.gif



~Wiz

[VikingHorde]

I love my games:
MTW
STW
Civilization 3
Mechwarrior 2+4: merc
Wingcommander 3-5
Privateer 2

[Efrem Da King]

Quote[/b] ]Well Efrem, I agree with you on Morrowind. It's quite overrated, I don't like it. This might change, I'm not that far into the game yet.


No mate you mis-interpreted my comments. Morrowind is underrated. THat peice of sh*t BG2 is overated.


Damn I forgot Cossaks Cossacks with first expansion is EASILY best RTS game of all time. MTW can't really be called RTS. But even if you did call it RTS, it is horrible compared to cossacks. Combat in cossacks is just soooo more fun.


Civ 3 is good too. But good not great. I personally like it alot but it just doesn't stand up to the greats like morrowind and Cossacks.

[Sir Zack de Caldicot]

My Favourites (In no particular order http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif )

MTW
STW
BG 1 and 2
NWN
Majesty (lol)
The Sims and all Its expansions
UT2004
Half-life


and many others

[Kaiser of Arabia]

GTA2
GTA1
GTA3
GTAVC
KOTOR
CoD
AOM
SWGB
AOK
NOLF
NOLF2
MTW
MAFIA
POTC
Max Payne
WAP
GoldenEye
Perfect Dark
Body Harvest
etc.
-Capo

[The Wizard]

Quote[/b] (Efrem Da King @ April 04 2004,01:16)]
Quote[/b] ]Well Efrem, I agree with you on Morrowind. It's quite overrated, I don't like it. This might change, I'm not that far into the game yet.


No mate you mis-interpreted my comments. Morrowind is underrated. THat peice of sh*t BG2 is overated.
As Ser Clegane stated, five minutes is indeed a sufficiently long time to build up a well-founded opinion of a game. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif



~Wiz

[Divine Wind]

Here we go:

Goldeneye
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
Shogun Total War
Combat Mission: Afrika Korps + Barbrossa to Berlin
Operation Flashpoint
Final Fantasy 7
Command and Conquer
Sensible World of Soccer
Cannon Fodder
Theme Park
The Settlers
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
IL2 Sturmovik
Championship Manager

[Demon of Light]

I didn't like Baldur's gate much either. I played it for a few weeks but I simply wasn't engrossed. It's a decent enough game but for the most part I was unimpressed by the graphics, gameplay and the rest. Maybe the problem was that I never learned how to properly work all the aspects of the game but I found that after I had bugged around with the game quest for a while I was hit with a profound wave of indifference over completing this game. So I stopped and didn't pick it back up again.

Now I know a bunch of you are going to say but this feature is awesome or what are you talking about with the graphics?? They rock or whatever else happens to inspire you about the game. That's all fine. The damn thing simply bored me. That's all there is to it.

[Kekvit Irae]

I cant believe I forgot Operation Flashpoint from the list...

[Rosacrux]

Quote[/b] (Demon of Light @ April 04 2004,18:17)]I didn't like Baldur's gate much either. I played it for a few weeks but I simply wasn't engrossed. It's a decent enough game but for the most part I was unimpressed by the graphics, gameplay and the rest. Maybe the problem was that I never learned how to properly work all the aspects of the game but I found that after I had bugged around with the game quest for a while I was hit with a profound wave of indifference over completing this game. So I stopped and didn't pick it back up again.

Now I know a bunch of you are going to say but this feature is awesome or what are you talking about with the graphics?? They rock or whatever else happens to inspire you about the game. That's all fine. The damn thing simply bored me. That's all there is to it.
But, hey, the graphics man http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/angry.gif and the gameplay, oh, yeah, it was so cool http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cheers.gif

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

just kidding...

I mean, the face value of every game is not something everybody can agree on. Different players have different expectacions. And it's not only the kind of gamer - for instance, peeps with short attention span or an overproduction of teem hormones, shall probably find most TBS games pretty boring. OTOH, there are guys who'd first shoot off their right leg before playing an FPS or any other action game (me, for instance). Even most RTSs bore me to death.

As for funny things... hell, I even know a guy who loves Master of Orion 3 and HOMM4 http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

BG and BG2 for me did the trick by their immense storyline (1/3 of the time spent on the game was spent reading the various dialogues, descriptions and peaces of info scattered around) extremely fun and simple gameplay, the richest world ever found in such a game, decent combat system, decent graphics, great, great soundtrack, aboundant humor etc. etc.

[Durruti]

Chessmaster 5000
MTW
Railroad Tycoon 2&3
AOE 2
Talonsoft-West Front Elite Edition
(even tho programming of a1 was weak)
Microsoft Pinball (beautiful copies of actual games)
Myst
Europa
LOTR2
Hoyle Casino
Baseball
Women's Beach Volleyball http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cheers.gif

[Beirut]

Falcon 3
Falcon 4
IL2 Sturmovik
Medieval: Total War
Ghost Recon series