One legendary game.

Multiplayer: MTW, Halo 2, and Brother In Arms: Road To Hill 30. MTW gave me the best multiplayer experience in the TW series. so much fun. and Halo 2 playing with 4 or 3 people is never boring. Brother In Arms just playing it with two players is fun as it brings a harder utilisation of tactics when fighting a real person.
Single-Player: RTW fun battles, graphics and special effects. AOM (Age of Mythology) very fun game in 3-D with a nice story in campaign GREAT game. KH2 (Kingdom Hearts 2)excellent story nice gameplay. but after you do everything then you would get bored.

Games Worthy Of Mention: Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader, Age Of Empires 2 and Expansion,Fifa, NBA Live, Madden, Spartan: Total Warrior, Tekken 5, Soul Calibur 2, Halo, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, GTA3 GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, Dynasty Warriors 4 and 5, Star Wars: Jedi Accademy Star Wars (Obi-Wan something)

Ah, I forgot one: Sacrifice. An amazing game both story-wise as in singleplayer as well as multiplayer gameplay. Still a very unique experience, and I take my hat off for Shiny for making such an excellent game.

OFP and MTW

Anybody else love Mafia as much as I did? I still play through it from time to time. As a matter of fact, I just started the game up again today with my fancy shmancy new computer and it's better than ever. With the proper mods, that's still one hell of a game. Really a classic.

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Anybody else love Mafia as much as I did? I still play through it from time to time. As a matter of fact, I just started the game up again today with my fancy shmancy new computer and it's better than ever. With the proper mods, that's still one hell of a game. Really a classic.

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i did. but Godfather was better imo.

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i did. but Godfather was better imo.

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You were playing the PC version of Mafia I hope, as the console versions are pale shadows of the PC version's glory.

I agree Mafia is a legendary game, definitely in the top 5 games ever made in my view. Way better than Godfather, I say.

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Birth of the Federation - being Star Trek just adds in flavour... this particular Cx4 strategy out of all of them struck the ballance betwen being serious and fun that fit perfectly with what I imagine my ideal comp game to be... If only somebody made a mod that would make Research and Diplomacy in it 10 times more complex I'd de-install everything else from my comp (Windows included, he-he)...

Hey Martok - imagine BotF with a Falcon-like dynamic campaign that would play something like SFC, but with the added vertical plane of motion for the ships? Maybe we'll get something like this someday - to quote Sisko, "As the old saying goes: Luck favoures the bold..." Cheers!

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Well never having played or even seen Falcon (sorry!), I guess I can't really say. I'm definitely all for a sequel to Birth of the Federation, though: Updated AI, diplomacy, graphics, etc.... It would be sweet! :2thumbsup:

I cannot choose a favorite. My favoriteS have to be: 2nd Rainbow Six (Good book too.), Battlefield 2, Splinter Cell: Caos Theory and Rome Total War. I choose Rome and Battlefield 2 not just because of the core games (which are great, don't get me wrong, but if I get bored of them, there are so many mods to play!

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You were playing the PC version of Mafia I hope, as the console versions are pale shadows of the PC version's glory.

I agree Mafia is a legendary game, definitely in the top 5 games ever made in my view. Way better than Godfather, I say.

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Here, here Navaros! ~:cheers: Good man, good man. Would you be so kind as to name the rest of your top 5 games sir?

Mafia was good (close to Godfather imo) i like the features that it has.
one thing i hate though:(dont click if you havent played yet)

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he betrays the Mafia

Baldur's Gate 2! Great story, lots of comical moments, wonderful NPC's etc. One of the best games I've ever played. :2thumbsup:

Also I have to mention Neverwinter Nights. Almost unlimited replayability due to great custom modules. ~:)

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No single one for me like most people here. Sea Dogs comes first, then MTW and Port Royal (the original).
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First Settlers. Or Pirates!. Or maybe Ski or die, I don't know. There is too many legendary games to pick just one.

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Mafia was good (close to Godfather imo) i like the features that it has.
one thing i hate though:(dont click if you havent played yet)

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he betrays the Mafia

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Well, that's how he rolls. I liked the game, very good story wise, but the $10 pricetag makes it the best GTAish clone ever.

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Well, that's how he rolls. I liked the game, very good story wise, but the $10 pricetag makes it the best GTAish clone ever.

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I wouldn't be too quick to tag it as a GTA clone actually. It's more of a "sim" than the arcade style of the GTA games, which really gives it its own flavor.

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First Settlers. Or Pirates!. Or maybe Ski or die, I don't know. There is too many legendary games to pick just one.

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Settlers hmm.. A rare choice. I only played 4 and hadn't got the time to finsih it.

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Settlers hmm.. A rare choice. I only played 4 and hadn't got the time to finsih it.

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I think many would agreed, if I Said that Settlers and Settlers II are the best city building games ever made. 3 and 4 doesn't have much in common with the first one.

There are so many games that have given me equally enjoyable and memorable
experiences. To list a few in some kind of chronological order, I'd have to start
with Wing Commander 2, which was really the first PC game that left an
impression. That was surpassed by X-Wing, and that in turn by the brilliance of
TIE Fighter. There was also Mechwarrior 2, and Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries,
which I don't think have been surpassed.

[In terms of absorbing storylines, I tend to remember Bioforge and
Another World among the earlier experiences, and then Outcast.]

When it comes to wargaming and strategy you can't discount Operation
Flashpoint, although I'd say the game which made the greatest impact on me,
and which I still play, is Close Combat 5. Much of the Close Combat series
was excellent, but infantry warfare was brought to the fore in the fifth game
once again. The standard game maybe isn't the best, but the wealth of mods
that were produced make it unbeatable.

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...a/0b8607bd.jpg
Unfortunately this screenshot fails to show how a great many of my Soviet
troops were cut down by Finnish machineguns in a nearby village seconds later.
The subsequent shelling of the village led to frantic suomi screams to retreat and
much bayonetting in the first houses and trenches as some of my survivors
broke through. Excellent stuff.

My standings
1. Rome TW/Guild Wars
2. Medieval TW/Day of Defeat: Source
3. Battlefield 1942/Takeda

Anyhow, I've got many games, and I like them all, but my 4 favourites:

Rome Total War/Medieval TW/Guild Wars/DoD: Source

Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven is the legendary game for me. Very interesting, state of the art (back in 1998 ~D ), set in the HOMM universe, a classic among RPG genre . This game kept me busy for hundreds of hours. Although it's eight years old I wouldn't give up this one in favour of the hi-tec games nowadays.

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Here, here Navaros! ~:cheers: Good man, good man. Would you be so kind as to name the rest of your top 5 games sir?

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Betrayal at Krondor - most fun I ever had with an RPG. By today's graphical standards it doesn't really hold up at all. But the atmosphere was perfect, the writing blows pretty much all other RPGs out of the water (because they actually hired real writers and based the game on the work of a great author) and the interface smooth as silk. I hear everyone talk about how "Baldur's Gate 2" is the best RPG ever, yet when I played Baldur's Gate 2 I found that the hokey writing and terrible, immature jokes ruined the atmosphere. I've yet to see an RPG for the PC that never "jumps the shark" by sacrificing writing quality for the sake of unfunny, juvenile humor, in the way that Betrayal at Krondor did not.

Nocturne - very little known horror game for the PC from 1999. It has in the lead role by far the most stellar voice actor I've ever heard. This game is not for "FPS monkies" who like to shoot 10 000 enemies on every screen, but rather it's more of a slow-brewing terror like a classic black and white horror movie. Many of the things I love about Mafia, I also love in Nocturne. Ie: lead character uses pistols and dresses like a gangster with trench coat and fedora, it has gansters, it has prostitutes - heck it even has undead gangsters and undead prostitutes, it takes place in the 1930's, the atmosphere is oozing with immersiveness and grit. Gameplay is always exciting and fun. Barring a few exceptions, the voice-acting is utterly amazing across the board. It has plenty of dark humor in it but thankfully it never once compromises the intergrity of it's mature theme for the sake of making an immature joke. For it's year, 1999, the graphics were simply beyond belief and still looks great today. The story was exceptionally well-presented. I find it tragic that almost no one has ever bothered to play this amazing game. It's like "the undiscovered System Shock 2". By that I mean, everybody always raves about how awesome System Shock 2 is even though no one played it when it came out. Yet now, it's been discovered and is super popular. Nocturne is in the same boat, except it never achieved that "discovered" stage or became popular. Anyone who reads this and likes horror games or simply games with a great story and atmosphere, I recommend to eBAY Nocturne for a few bucks. You can't go wrong. I say eBAY, because it's off the market. Here is a review in which GameSpy gave Nocturne 94% - every bit of which it deserves. http://archive.gamespy.com/legacy/re...octurne_a.shtm


Emperor: Battle for Dune - best multiplayer RTS I ever played and I've never played an RTS to come since that could match it's tactical depth and intuitiveness of the interface. This game is long-since dead since EA abandoned it 6 months after release whilst it was still in dire need of patching to correct fundamental bugs and defeciencies (ie: doesn't work on Windows XP without jumping thru a lot of technical hoops first, no auto-downloading of maps etc.). Then EA took all the official servers down and killed Westwood as company. Could have been in my view "the next StarCraft" had it been properly supported by the devs.

Deus Ex - commonly known, a true classic. Other than a few nitpicks with how the story jumps the shark once you go to France and the horribly bad NPC AI, it pretty much does everything perfectly that one could ever expect from a game. In addition to setting a new standard of interactivity. Shame they had to butcher the brand by making a dumbed-down "part II". Which thankfully almost no one bought. :laugh4:

Max Payne 2 - also a commonly known true classic. I almost don't wanna put this here because I consider it to be "1/3 of a game" rather than an actual game. Like the others on my list Max Payne 2 also weaves a great story into a mature, gritty atmosphere with exciting gameplay to boot. If only they had remembered to put the other 2/3rds of the game onto the disc before boxing it up to be sold in stores. :idea2:

Splinter Cell, the original left a big impression on me, considering I had just got a ps2 about a month before and the only game i'd been playing was Medal of honour, it was mind blowing the depth of the game, i still play it today, superb game. Didnt even bother buying the sequels so i dunno about them.

Oh yeah, then there's the legendary BattleZone, the PC game, not that other.

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I wouldn't be too quick to tag it as a GTA clone actually. It's more of a "sim" than the arcade style of the GTA games, which really gives it its own flavor.

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I must second this. In my view to call Mafia a GTA clone is a great insult to Mafia.

In GTA, it doesn't matter if you kill a cop because 10 million more will just spawn right behind him forever. In Mafia however, you can lead a cop or two down the secluded dirt road, kill them discreetly, and all of a sudden there are no more cops on your tail.

Also in GTA all the bad guys have unlimited ammo, whereas in Mafia the bad guys have limited ammo just like you do.

Just two quick examples out of many I could cite about how Mafia takes the combo of third person shooter & driving to a level far beyond what GTA is capable of.

To me Mafia makes you feel more like you are playing a real world because when you take a life of an enemy, it actually matters. That guy is dead. 10 million more clones of him are not going to magically spawn in his place to continue to give you grief. Really in GTA I don't generally see the point in shooting anyone because most of the time you'll just have to keep shooting forever.

Planetside, never have I played a game that intense and fun. I haven't played in a few years (the first expansion messed alot up) but I still have vivid memories of shooting up columns of infantry in a Reaver and being bombed to hell by Liberators at the vehical pad. And fighting your way out of the spawn room as the enemy took over your base.

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one thing i hate though:(dont click if you havent played yet)

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he betrays the Mafia

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I hated that at first too though. But then after replaying the game and reflecting on the matter a lot more I realized that:

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Tommy only takes the bank job after he realized that Salieri was screwing him over. Like when he tried to keep the diamond heist hidden from Tommy even though Tommy was the one risking his life to get them. Plus the "poison" picture of Salieri and Morello together which made Tommy learn that in the Mafia even your best friend will kill you. The Don betrayed Tommy before Tommy betrayed the Don. Which makes what Tommy did much more acceptable, I think. :balloon2:

MTW.

Honourable mention:
- Settlers II
- Emperor: Battle for Dune
- Sim City 2000
- Earth 2150
- GTA original

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Also I have to mention Neverwinter Nights. Almost unlimited replayability due to great custom modules. ~:)

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Never could get into that one. I think it was the fighting system. The DnD rules just seemed to devolve into a mindless hack 'n' slash without a proper party to support you.

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Never could get into that one. I think it was the fighting system. The DnD rules just seemed to devolve into a mindless hack 'n' slash without a proper party to support you.

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Yes, I agree. DnD without a party is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.

But you should not give up on NWN completely without trying the Shadowlords/Dreamcatcher series. It starts slowly, as the modder learns his craft, but ends with outrageously virtuoso stunts (like recreating space invaders using NWN :dizzy2: or commanding a squad of soldiers in a tactical combat game). It also has decent dialogue and atmosphere, becoming quite emotionally involving.

A much shorter, but also excellent module is Crimson Tides of Tethyr - it's basically a fun war story where you join a mercenary expedition, but the denouement has an emotional kick like a mule.

World of Warcraft wins hands down for me. Nothing has come even close to having such an impact on my gaming habits and nothing else has been able to satisfy me for any length of time since. On a grander scale, its also had a huge impact globally, with far more subscribers than previously thought existed in the entire MMO market. It has forced many developers to rethink how they design MMO's and has definitely had a lasting impact on the genre even though its only a year old.