Top ten of games

[dessa14]

i prefered diablo 2 to the original, the original was quite buggy, so i prefered 2
thanks,
dizzy

[therother]

Probably forgotten some classics, but off the top of my head:

1. Super Twintris
2. Zolyx
3. STW
4. Civilization
5. MTW
6. Frontier: Elite 2
7. Sim City
8. GTA: Vice City
9. Monkey Island
10. Sensible World of Soccer

[Duke Malcolm]

1. Final Fantasy VII
2. MTW
3. Counter-Strike (never played Half-Life 2...)
4. MOHAA
5. STW
6. Final Fantasy IX
7. Baldur's Gate
8. Halo 2
9. Command & Conquer Generals
10. Dynasty Warriors (stuck between 3 and 4, though...)

[Butcher]

Top ten games eh?
Well I don't know about numbering them one to ten, or even ten, but some games I have found supreme have to be:

-MTW VI (of course): no explanation needed here!

-Call of Duty: Great cinematics and audio, truly astonishing experience on some levels that can be truly frightening.

-Resident Evil 2: The gretaest survival story ever; fantastic graphics (for it's time), excellent replayability (4 different ways of playing it!), truly marvellous plot and the only game I actually had to keep the lights on for.

-Operation Flashpoint: Excellent game due to it's environment and modability. Sure the squad control could be a bit awkward but once you grasped it it was manageable. Plus one of the first FPS games that had the 'one hit and your basically dead' attitude to it.

-Streets of Rage 2: I got this the day it came out, and still play it on my emulator now. Excellent mindless fun, great SFX and music, and still one of the best 2P games around.

-Civilisation: The game that got me into strategy games, Classic case of gameplay over graphics!

-Max Payne: OK, you could only play it once, but it was great entertainment for that one time.

-Total Annihalation: The original and best RTS. Never beaten in my mind.

Might add more if I think of any.

[Templar Knight]

not in any order:

Anno 1602
Operation Flashpoint
Victoria: an empire under the sun
Cossacks Series
Wargamer: Napoleon 1813
Total War series
Pirates of the Caribbean
Age of Empires 1 and 2
Europa Universalis 1 and 2
Cuttroats

[Chimpyang]

No real order really but here goes:
Call of Duty
Homeworld
GP4
Giants : Citizen Kabuto
Warrior Kings
UT 2004
Need for Speed 3 - This got me hooked to racing games for a while
Dungeon Siege
Medieval Total War :VI
Theif II

[screwtype]

Dunno about a top ten, I've played so many games I tend to forget what I've played, but here are some that come to mind which I got heaps of enjoyment from (in no particular order):

1. Hack - public domain game (Amiga) - the graphic version of the game (not the text version). This is the game that caused me to go out and buy a computer. I played it for months on end, obsessively, compulsively, until finally I realized the damn thing had a bug that caused it to crash at the deepest dungeon levels. Never did get to beat it, but for depth, immersion and challenge it was up there with the best. And it was totally free! Later versions of the game were ruined by features like the Keystone Kops which made it too easy.

2. Larn. Another Amiga PD game, much like Hack but with sexier graphics. Not quite as much fun as Hack but pretty good all the same. I beat this one multiple times, eventually giving up at difficulty level 6.

3. And while we're on PD games, there was Wizzy's Quest (Amiga), a sort of Lemmings type game (before Lemmings was thought of) only better. The levels were exquisitely well designed and you could only save every five levels, which made the game incredibly compulsive. And all written in BASIC by some guy in his bedroom!

4. Speedball II (Amiga). Great fun brutal sports game for one or two players.

5. Cannon Fodder I and II (Amiga). Not usually a fan of arcade games but this one was a beaut, you really had to get your tactics and strategy right *as well* as your trigger finger and timing. Played CF II right to the end, CF I unfortunately had a bug which prevented me from playing beyond about the 12th level.

6. Dungeon Master (Amiga). Not quite the first dungeon game (the execrable Bard's Tale series probably took that honour) but took the genre to new levels of excellence with high res graphics, hard but logical puzzles, locational sound effects and great atmospherics and attention to detail. Still fun to fire up and play even though it's not true 360 degree 3D.

7. Lords of the Realm II (Amiga). Much better than the PC version, which itself is something of a legend. But for a couple of very minor features (the really silly autocalc results, and the fact that autocalc is used between two human factions instead of allowing one the initiative) I might still be playing it in preference to the TW series.

8. Silent Service II (Amiga). The graphics were pretty basic but there was heaps of gameplay in this one, and quite a bit of historical flavour as well. I'd LOVE to see an updated version of this game, where is it?

9. STW (PC). The battle engine is smoother and faster than MTW and the atmospherics are better. Really miss my warrior monks! A little more detail in the campaign system and some tougher difficulty levels and you'd almost never grow tired of playing it.

10. Gee I'm not sure what to put in this slot. Maybe I'll go for Accolade's Elvira II (Amiga) , just for the haunted house section. The gruesome graphics are so cool and funny.

Come to the end but I'm sure there must be at least half a dozen brilliant titles I've totally forgotten

[GoreBag]

8. Silent Service II (Amiga). The graphics were pretty basic but there was heaps of gameplay in this one, and quite a bit of historical flavour as well. I'd LOVE to see an updated version of this game, where is it?

I don't know about an updated version, but I remember the original Silent Service well. It was the only video game I could play with my father, naval buff that he is.

[Kekvit Irae]

8. Silent Service II (Amiga). The graphics were pretty basic but there was heaps of gameplay in this one, and quite a bit of historical flavour as well. I'd LOVE to see an updated version of this game, where is it?

Walmart, in the bargain bin. At least, Silent Hunter II for the PC. The new SHIII just came out as well
http://www.silenthunterii.com/

[Drisos]

not in any order:

Anno 1602

Hey, the first one I hear mentioning this game, It was my first game ever, I loved it just like I love STW now!