What video or PC game are you best at?

[Raz]

If you were to bet all your possessions and money on beating someone at a game, what game would it be?

For me, anything from the Ace Combat series for the PS2 (AC4, AC5 and ACZ). Those and the original SSX also on the PS2. No one could ever quite pull off a "Double Rodeo Melancholy with a Japan to Late Nuclear" like I could. :grin2:

I actually like PC gaming much more than consoles, but I was never very good at them.

Also, on a separate note: I'd create another thread, but I know there's been plenty of them before. Could someone recommend me a good combat flight simulator for the PC. Preferably a modern setting, I heard Rise of Flight is very good, but I'm not really into the WWI setting. Also, convince me that a joystick is really worth it, as I've never really considered getting one until I found my old FreeSpace 2. I don't mind if it's arcadey like Ace Combat or if it strives for ultra-realism.

Thank you! And do tell what games you're best at! ^_^

[rajpoot]

Age of Empires (Was the first strategy game I ever played)
Tekkan 3.

[Veho Nex]

Despite how much i despise it now, the CoD series. Anyone of them I naturally own at... So do my older and younger brothers.

[Monk]

Gonna go old school with this one, if it's a game for all my earthly possessions then we're gonna kick it back to Unreal Tournament classic. ~D

[gaelic cowboy]

I go real old school and say Command and Conquer way back in the day twas my first PC game after I upgraded from my old Amstrad.

[Fragony]

Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, the best multiplayer ever. I was an absolute god after 6 years playing, was #2 1vs1 pistols on world ladders, (but I should mention that most had moved to Rainbow Six 3), never liked that one kept coming back to Rogue Spear. Even my own clanmembers I couldn't convince I have never ever cheated.

[Vuk]

I am gonna have to say either UT MP (like Monk) or M&B SP. If I had to make a choice, I would say M&B. On the most difficult of all settings, and on my mod which raises the level and skill of AI by enormous amounts (as well as the size of armies), I can still fight through almost a whole army single handedly.

[Hooahguy]

I dont "own" at any game, but I was great at BF2142. Im pretty good right now at Red Faction Guerilla, but still, not great.

[pevergreen]

L4D2, Warcraft 3 (custom maps), Brawl, Soul Calibur 2, Mario Party, EU3, SupCom1/2/Total A.

I mean good, really good, not just average. Its hard for anyone to beat me in any of those games.

[Meneldil]

Gran Turismo 4, Medal of Honor Allied Assault and that's about it.

I used to kick ass badly in MoH. Dunno how or why, since I sucked so much at CoD1. I remember a time when I sniped the whole opposing team by myself while they kept shooting at me (on the bridge map). And with the allied rifle I was litteraly unstoppable.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

This topic makes me feel bad because I'm not particularly good at any game to the point where I'd put money on me winning. Or that I play videogames where it would be very difficult to even define winning.

I'm pretty good (har!) as a heavy in TF2, but I'm neither the best heavy nor really good in general.

[Jolt]

3rd World Best "Populous 3: The Beginning" of 2001.
2nd World Best was my teacher and mentor "Keith52".

We have a record of 54 games - 1 loss on 2v2.

[Monk]

This topic makes me feel bad because I'm not particularly good at any game to the point where I'd put money on me winning. Or that I play videogames where it would be very difficult to even define winning.

I'm pretty good (har!) as a heavy in TF2, but I'm neither the best heavy nor really good in general.

I didn't mention TF2 since it's rediculously easy to counter-class someone in that game. Heavy camping the cart? Backstab time!

That said, i've seen some amazing players in my time. I've seen demomen hold up a cart single-handedly, heavies push the payload through the entire map in a single life, and Engineers stop an assault dead even with half a team spamming rockets at their sentry. Even though i wouldn't bet on it, i enjoy TF2 like no other ~D

[drone]

Of all the games I've played, I was probably best at Quake3. Nowhere near pro level, but I was pretty good. Unfortunately, I can't really spend enough time these days getting good at games.

[Veho Nex]

I just read the second part of your post :/

I recommend Il-2 as a great combat flight simulator. Its WW2 but there are plenty of mods out there for it. Aces High is good as well if you dont mind paying the 15$ a month.

[TevashSzat]

Dota (Warcraft 4 custom map)......so much of my HS life was spent in that game....haven't touched it in ages, but I bet I still got the old skills kicking around somewhere.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

Red Orchestra hands-down. I've played in unofficial matches with two great clans in a match and did a lot to affect the victory. (And I'm not in a clan myself)

Any Total War game.
Bad Company 2.
Tekken 6.
Madden (but the game sucks Backbreaker FTW!)
Perhaps Vegas 2.
I'm pretty darn good at TF2.

[Centurion1]

Age of empires two. I wrote a knight rush guide. Yeah I like to think I was pretty damn good at that game.

I'm fantastic at rtw as well. And here's something reallyyyyyyyyy old school, civilization colonization.

[Prince Cobra]

Age of empires two. I wrote a knight rush guide. Yeah I like to think I was pretty damn good at that game.

I'm fantastic at rtw as well. And here's something reallyyyyyyyyy old school, civilization colonization.

Wow, it seems I am not the only one who was in love with AoE II. Wonderful game really and most of the tactics are applied to the MTW 1. Like the camels, and pikes vs. cavalry etc. Even the mercenaries and bribes. Yes, my favourite enemy (yes, enemy!) was the Persians because they allowed me to build an Imperial guard of elephants via spreading of the Orthodox religion (monks were my favourite unit, btw). Ah, yes, since the AoE II dates my love for the Byzantines. Wonderful game! I still play it occasionally.

Perhaps one of the greatest battle I had was a simulation of the Mongol invasion in AoE II. 3 vs 5 system on the Arabian map. My (the Byzantines) allies were the Chinese and the Persians, the enemy were 4 Mongol armies + 1 Turkish army. It was a very bloody victory. The Chinese seuffered the initial blow and although they survived, they had a ghostly existance until the end of the game, slowly recovering their population. The dirty work was done by me and the Persians. I remember the desert map just beautifully contrasted the pre-New year snow.

[CountArach]

Of all the games I've played, I was probably best at Quake3. Nowhere near pro level, but I was pretty good.
Yeah me too, playing it back in school will always be a fond memory. For me it would either be Quake 3 or Halflife 2: Deathmatch. I had become pretty good at that before I stopped.

[Gregoshi]

... I'm not particularly good at any game to the point where I'd put money on me winning...
Same here. Most every game is a challenge for me and if it isn't it is because the game is so easy a monkey could do it.

[AggonyDuck]

Definitively Total War.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

Wow, it seems I am not the only one who was in love with AoE II.I love AOEII as well. One of the first RTS games I really got into.

That said I wasn't great at but I was pretty good at it.

[Martok]

Same here. Most every game is a challenge for me and if it isn't it is because the game is so easy a monkey could do it.
+2

Generally speaking, I suck at video/PC games. Even with the few I play relatively well, I'm still only moderately good at them overall.

[Tony Furze]

Fallout 1

[Centurion1]

Wow, it seems I am not the only one who was in love with AoE II. Wonderful game really and most of the tactics are applied to the MTW 1. Like the camels, and pikes vs. cavalry etc. Even the mercenaries and bribes. Yes, my favourite enemy (yes, enemy!) was the Persians because they allowed me to build an Imperial guard of elephants via spreading of the Orthodox religion (monks were my favourite unit, btw). Ah, yes, since the AoE II dates my love for the Byzantines. Wonderful game! I still play it occasionally.

Perhaps one of the greatest battle I had was a simulation of the Mongol invasion in AoE II. 3 vs 5 system on the Arabian map. My (the Byzantines) allies were the Chinese and the Persians, the enemy were 4 Mongol armies + 1 Turkish army. It was a very bloody victory. The Chinese seuffered the initial blow and although they survived, they had a ghostly existance until the end of the game, slowly recovering their population. The dirty work was done by me and the Persians. I remember the desert map just beautifully contrasted the pre-New year snow.

Absolutely adored the byzantines and i did the exact same thing with monks!!!!!!!!!!! i loved being able to convert unique units to my banners ii would have armies of huskrals elephants samurai berserkers, etc. Only problem was i wouldnt want to waste them lol.

I remeber one game as the byzantines vividly, i was playing archipelago and i had built a massive massive wall splitting me off from my main enemies, it was easily three of four thick and was dotted with towers it was built in two layers so troops could fight from within, as well it was honeycombed with gates so if the outer layer was penetrated it could recreate a killing ground. I had castles at key choke points and trebuchets set up along the entire perimeter to take out any opposing ones. It was simply put, made impenetrable and needed like 50 troops to fully garrison it.

I was a very very defensive player and absolutely adored having a fully functioning empire as automated as possible. Extensive fields which were always with a key tower placed so that the villagers had a withdraw point, palisade encased mines and lumber yards, markets set up far enough away that i could make a hefty profit and never run out of gold.

I was also a huge fan of naval forces i would have huge well proportioned forces patrolling my islands and protecting my fishing fleets.

One of my favorite tactics had to be building untis of about 10 hussars or so and sending them on patrols guarding my frontier, iwould even name the units.

AOE was such a fun game because it allowed so much customization. Even campaigns were enjoyable.

that being said im going to go fire up the old disc.

[Hooahguy]

I loved AOE II as well. I loved the Teutons. I loved their crusaders, ironically enough.
My favorite memory of that was I was playing in a 6 player match on Hard, at the Black Forest map. I had one ally, the Byzantines, and I was the Teutons. My enemies were the Celts, the Goths, the Persians, and the Mongols. The Persians and Mongols were allies, as were the Celts and Goths.
I remember using the fire catapult to carve a way through the forest for my troops to converge at the center in one massive battle, where everyone seemed to converge at the same time. The ground was literally stained blood-red for a long time, that many people fell in that battle. I won the battle, then assaulted the Goth stronghold, which has three lines of walls, dozens of towers, and a river. I lost many good men, but I was able to defeat the Goths. Then I moved north, burned another path through the forest to defeat the Mongols, which was hard because the Teutons are not good in archery. I also lost many men. Finally I defeated them, but then the neighboring Celts began assaulting me. I preceded to make a maze of towers, just because I was bored and didnt feel like losing another thousand men just yet.
I finally built up a force to defeat the Celts, who actually fell a lot easier than anybody else.
As for the Persians, my ally finished them off.

Good times, good times. Pity I cant find the CD.

[Centurion1]

The goths don't get walls.....

[Hooahguy]

I may have chosen "all tech."
Its more fun that way.

[Centurion1]

Oh yeah forgot about that.

Bah I wasn't really a fan of that

[Hooahguy]

Well, it made games more interesting.

[Centurion1]

debatable it made everyone the same.

the game was sufficently difficult at very hard.

[Hooahguy]

I thought it was more interesting because no nation had a huge leg up on another, besides the one or two units that everyone had that were unique. Also because this made the huge center-of-the-map-with-everyone-involved battles much more exciting, because it made it so things can go either way.

[Centurion1]

but the differences would usually balance each othe rout and created less player decided struggles, (meaning sometimes the ai could wipe each other out without your help)

we should make an aoe exploit thread like a place to brag about your old maps.

[Prince Cobra]

Talking of fierce opponents, Celts were one of the most difficult to wipe out in a certain game and they won my respect. Goths are too, though disavdantaged by the lack of walls, they fight like lions. My favourite system is 4 vs 4, hardest. In one of those battles, I clearly remember wiping out the Turks quickly (a kind of Blitzkrieg). They were very quick in advancing in the ages but very slow in updating their armies. The result was a carnage. I also clearly remember I preferred the Paladins as Blitzkrieg unit and only later I developed gunpowder and Cataphracts. So my cavalry supported by some monks sliced through the Turkish defenders and assaulted the castle with the King!. I have noticed they have not purchased the Murder Holes upgrade and I combined the trebuchets with a mass assault. The King was slaughtered and I withdrew. :evilgrin:

I also clearly remember the song that I listened to the radio at that time during the assault of the Turkish catsle with the King: Arabian star by E-type. I really good Swedish music (I liked the 2007 album as well).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7w0R-Vj-CA

The problem was that my allies: the Japanese, the Vikings and especially the Persians had a difficult time to push back the hordes of the Celts, the Mongols and the Goths. The cavalry I sent stopped their advancement (at a heavy price!) and I was happy to see that the enemy stopped to send reinforcement. But for my horror, the enemy was heading for my walls. I remember I had to built several emergent castles to halt the enemy. I used Demo ships and suicide cavalry attacks to destroy the enemy artillery (the enemy outnumbered me badly) and I managed to stop the enemy. But it was a stalemate. It was one of the few times I have ever seen AI army to sit and wait close to my walls doing virtually nothing. So I made a Naval attack straight at the heart of the Celtic lands but I suffered a horrible defeat. I almost reached the King, almost. The second Naval attack was even more bloody and though all of the cavalry (about 40), monks (5-6)and heavy equipment (5-7, perhaps; all the numbers just demonstrate how big was the force even for 200 limit, though they are approximate strength; it was about 9 years ago!!! ) I sent died (except for 1 monk and 1-2 damaged trebuchets, as I vaguely remmber), the head of the Celtic King rolled on the ground. Everything else is history. Outnumbered by more than 2:1 the Mongols and the Goths faced their destiny. I managed to return the favor of the Mongols for slaughtering a group of gold miners. I was quite harsh, I remember that. :skull: But I was generous to the Gothic and Celtic population.

Yes, a separate thread would be nice!

P.S. Byz are made for the defense. Their castles and walls and buildings get more hit points, I clearly remember that.

[quadalpha]

Gran Turismo 4, Medal of Honor Allied Assault and that's about it.

I used to kick ass badly in MoH. Dunno how or why, since I sucked so much at CoD1. I remember a time when I sniped the whole opposing team by myself while they kept shooting at me (on the bridge map). And with the allied rifle I was litteraly unstoppable.

Ah, MOHAA. I ruled the sniper only servers.