What is your Number 1 all time video game?

[Linoa06 1,374]

I have to name Final Fantasy VI as my all time favorite game.

 

In no particular order, I've enjoyed throughout my life Mass Effect I/II/III for the quality of the diegesis and the breathtaking immersion, as well as for the gameplay; The Elder Scrolls II, III and IV for their special playstyle and the depth of the lore (Skyrim, however, isn't a game I particularly enjoyed.); Fallout I/II, The Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy V/VIII/IX/X/X-2 (my RL and online namesakes directly stem from Final Fantasy VIII), Diablo as one of my first games ever, barring Simcity, Simcity IV pretty obviously (9 years of playing straight! Not even on and off..), GTA IV for the gritty humor and the moral dilemmas of the storyline (for once it's not all about shooting innocents, unless you choose to, but then again it's the same with the Elder Scrolls); I would also need to place Civilization IV (not V) and Endless Space in somewhere, as well as Dragon Age : Origins, LA Noire and Cities in Motion. 

 

Other games that I consider part of my childhood but that, in the end, I don't think are great are Midtown Madness 2, many SNES games I'm too lazy to go check right now, the independent but EXCELLENT Ahriman's Prophecy and Laxius Power RPG series, many other Zelda games, and the lovely classic games Chrono Cross (which I played early in my teenhood, in fact) and Secret of Mana.

 

A note on GTA IV : If you complain that GTA IV is bad because it's a game where you can shoot innocents - don't play the Elder Scrolls or Fallout series, just don't play these games. Doing otherwise makes you an hypocrite given you can be the most notorious killer in all of these games, and kill in otherwise gruesome ways in organizations that are MADE to slave people, kill people, steal from people, etc. In all of these games you can do despicable things, and in all of these, you can also be heroic; the hero of GTA IV's main storyline redeems at the end, and is morally conflicted by what he sees - I dare say he's a better man that Winston in 1984, yet you guys will bash on GTA IV because of its connotation alone. Play the game by yourself, instead of watching Youtube videos of lolkids murdering people, and don't bash on it because it's immoral. Or stop playing any game where you can kill or enslave people, that includes Skyrim. Don't doublespeak me. 

[Terring 6,476]

Galactic Civ was..... decent. It lacked a lot of realism though, and the alien species looked FAR too humanoid for my personal taste (sorry I have a personal vendetta against scientific inaccuracies).

Did you checked the background story of the game? An ancient civilization called Arnor ruled the galaxy millions of years ago, when the dinosaurs ruled our planet. Arnor was a powerful and mysterious race of human-like creatures, who affect the evolution of intelligence in the galaxy. This is why all aliens looks like... not humanoid but Arnoroid. Even the humans looks like the ancient Arnors

Of course with so many humanoid aliens in popular science fiction, you get bored somehow. This is why my aliens in Spore are not very humanoid. Some of them has 2 legs and 2 arms, but still you can't tell them "too humanoid". Here is an example...

 

 

It standing upright and has 2 arms and 2 legs like a human... but still it's no way too humanoid

 

 

 

But it looks like the Overlords, something that I discovered later...

 

[KonstantinII 1,106]

^The truth is that any of the creatures created by science fiction fools would not exist in real life. Let's suppose God made of of the creatures just for fun. They won't be able to eat or they have breathing problems or they fall over while walking due to anatomical peculiarities. As natural selection favors survival of the fittest or ones that are capable to survive, your "creatures" would just die.

When we think of what could life on other planets be like we need to think about what life looks like on Earth. All animals have certain roles that they occupy. Predatory roles or plant eating roles. This governs why in the history of our planet similar animals have evolved.

Triceratops, rhinoceros; fast running herbivores like horses and deer; aerial creatures like bats and birds (who themselves evolved from flying dinosaurs.)   If we think about intelligent creatures on other planets we can say that they are people. Regular people like us with two eyes,two legs,one nose etc etc. Now their characteristics may be different due to gravity on their planet or intensity of their star (why Africans and Europeans have different color skin.) But intelligent creatures on other planets capable of traveling from their home star would look like people Luke Skywalker or Mr.Spock.

[Terring 6,476]

Because an evolutionary strategy worked well on Earth, doesn't mean that it will also work well on the other trillions of trillions of planets in the whole Cosmos. But that's a different story for a different topic...

[Bdub01 201]

If it is the game I have spent the most time playing that would be Civ II for the play station. I have spent many a hour building and destroying the world!

[AnathemaDevice 35]

Morrowind and Oblivion combined with the Morroblivion mod.

Simcity 4 is close second.

[Evil_One 119]

Stalker - Call of Pripyat.

Combined with the Atmosfear mod and played on max difficulty, awesome game.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

• The SimCity franchise from SC Classic to SC4 (surprise, surprise!)
• UFO - Enemy Unknown and XCOM - Terror From the Deep (the former being called "UFO Defense" or something in the US)
• Master of Orion 1 and 2
• Transport Tycoon, Transport Tycoon Deluxe and OpenTTD
• Earth 2150 (best RTS I've ever played)
• Master of Magic
• SIlent Service 2
• Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior (first the game, then the level editor)
• Turrican II (Amiga; best Jump'n'Run I've played)
• Diablo 1 and especially 2
• Wizardry VII
• Dungeon Master
• Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2
• Worms 1 and 2 (there's also a great freeware clone these days called "Hedgewars")
• Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies (Amiga)

Phew... that's all I can think of right now.

[DazzaDazza 29]

Stalker - Call of Pripyat.

Combined with the Atmosfear mod and played on max difficulty, awesome game.

that’s

funny because its one of the worst games I’ve played, the way your guys walks

with the screen moving from side to side gave me a head hake, the story seemed

good to me to it I always wondered if I was missing out not playing it    

 

[Evil_One 119]

Stalker - Call of Pripyat.

Combined with the Atmosfear mod and played on max difficulty, awesome game.

that’s

funny because its one of the worst games I’ve played, the way your guys walks

with the screen moving from side to side gave me a head hake, the story seemed

good to me to it I always wondered if I was missing out not playing it

Yeah, the view bobbing does take a lot of getting used to... The story isn't too bad, but the best part about the game (with Atmosfear) is the survival aspect, Atmosfear activates the previously locked psi, rad and chemical emissions, as well as letting you change the weather and emission frequency settings, which turns it into a real survival game (it also makes it so that NPCs are more effected by emissions as well).

The only thing that REALLY lets COP down is the ending of the story (I won't spoil it for you but it really isn't a very good ending).

I believe there is 'supposed' to be a way to fix the head-bobbing problem, I've never tried to myself.

[DazzaDazza 29]

i do love survival games, and since there all the rage a the moment i am in heaven, as for the ending I got though  the  Mass Effect 3 ending(s) un harmed, and that
was confusing and poorly  written, but still enjoyed the game, I think I will give stalker another shot   

 

[Zukunftstraume 220]

A note on GTA IV: If you complain that GTA IV is bad because it's a game where you can shoot innocents - don't play the Elder Scrolls or Fallout series, just don't play these games. Doing otherwise makes you an hypocrite given you can be the most notorious killer in all of these games, and kill in otherwise gruesome ways in organizations that are MADE to slave people, kill people, steal from people, etc. In all of these games you can do despicable things, and in all of these, you can also be heroic; the hero of GTA IV's main storyline redeems at the end, and is morally conflicted by what he sees - I dare say he's a better man that Winston in 1984, yet you guys will bash on GTA IV because of its connotation alone. Play the game by yourself, instead of watching Youtube videos of lolkids murdering people, and don't bash on it because it's immoral. Or stop playing any game where you can kill or enslave people, that includes Skyrim. Don't doublespeak me. 

 

The entire GTA story is just is so heavily branded by the mass media as being overly violent. But yet, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, and other best-sellers are never branded in such a way. It's disgusting. The vast majority of the people who play those games are by no means violent people, they're just fun games to them and nothing more. If anyone is to ever mistake any of those games for being real life, then said individual needs to be committed to hospitalization before something tragic happens. A very small percentage of society just ruins it for the rest of us sometimes.

 

*Sidenote: 1984 references ftw!

 

Galactic Civ was..... decent. It lacked a lot of realism though, and the alien species looked FAR too humanoid for my personal taste (sorry I have a personal vendetta against scientific inaccuracies).

Did you checked the background story of the game? An ancient civilization called Arnor ruled the galaxy millions of years ago, when the dinosaurs ruled our planet. Arnor was a powerful and mysterious race of human-like creatures, who affect the evolution of intelligence in the galaxy. This is why all aliens looks like... not humanoid but Arnoroid. Even the humans looks like the ancient Arnors

Of course with so many humanoid aliens in popular science fiction, you get bored somehow. This is why my aliens in Spore are not very humanoid. Some of them has 2 legs and 2 arms, but still you can't tell them "too humanoid". Here is an example...

 

It standing upright and has 2 arms and 2 legs like a human... but still it's no way too humanoid 

 

Even imo, 2 arms and 2 legs are still a bit too humanoid. But you're right, I'm just incredibly tired of sifting through sci-fi and finding creatures that resemble animals from Earth far too much, in particular humans. It does get dreadfully boring, and it reeeeeally grinds my gears. Even that Arnor back story seems pretty redundant compared to other sci-fi titles.

 

But I guess that's just me. When the science in sci-fi is top notch and incredibly realistic that's when I absolutely love it! As awesome as games like Halo are, their back-stories always have to reference humanoid aliens or life being planted by an intelligence greater than our own. But in real life, the chances of finding anything within a billion light years that's remotely similar to us is incredibly slim. Plus, making the assumption that life was planted by an intelligence, like in the Prometheus/Alien series and then showing the aliens themselves to resemble us (after 4 billion years of evolution) is just as incredibly farfetched. On another note: StarTrek and Star Wars aliens are an immense pet peeve of mine.

 

I guess part of the reason I love Starcraft so much is because it actually isn't even farfetched and the aliens are astonishingly unique and only slightly similar to humans.

 

 

Because an evolutionary strategy worked well on Earth, doesn't mean that it will also work well on the other trillions of trillions of planets in the whole Cosmos. But that's a different story for a different topic...

 

Exactly! The only reason things turned out the way they did here was because conditions on this planet were the main influencing factor. Also, evolution is completely random and in no way "destined" to turn out a certain way. The chances of finding a planet anywhere out-there that has anything strongly resembling us are next to impossible.

 

I guess all the junkies who believe otherwise are going to be disgruntled when we discover life that isn't anything like they expected it to be. Not chemically nor physically. Too bad I won't be around to see any of their reactions to that moment.

 

 

^The truth is that any of the creatures created by science fiction fools would not exist in real life. Let's suppose God made of of the creatures just for fun. They won't be able to eat or they have breathing problems or they fall over while walking due to anatomical peculiarities. As natural selection favors survival of the fittest or ones that are capable to survive, your "creatures" would just die.

When we think of what could life on other planets be like we need to think about what life looks like on Earth. All animals have certain roles that they occupy. Predatory roles or plant eating roles. This governs why in the history of our planet similar animals have evolved.

Triceratops, rhinoceros; fast running herbivores like horses and deer; aerial creatures like bats and birds (who themselves evolved from flying dinosaurs.)   If we think about intelligent creatures on other planets we can say that they are people. Regular people like us with two eyes,two legs,one nose etc etc. Now their characteristics may be different due to gravity on their planet or intensity of their star (why Africans and Europeans have different color skin.) But intelligent creatures on other planets capable of traveling from their home star would look like people Luke Skywalker or Mr.Spock.

 

This is worthy of a screenshot...

 

*saves*

[DazzaDazza 29]

@ Zukunftstraume

I was always told that evolution was just  something adapting to it environment and buy the looks of this plant with possible millions of different species past
and present it seem quite “easy” for life to succeed and just because it’s far away and you can’t see it doesn’t mean it not there.  

Sorry off get off topic, I could help my self   

 

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Because an evolutionary strategy worked well on Earth, doesn't mean that it will also work well on the other trillions of trillions of planets in the whole Cosmos. But that's a different story for a different topic...

I mean for habitable Earth like planets with an atmosphere of nitrogen,oxygen, and carbon dioxide.

As for creatures who live on planets with different conditions they would have to be adapted to the too. Because evolution occurs not only on Earth but on another planets too. For example creatures who live on the planet Europa could look like this

[_marsh_ 1,118]

I suppose I'll add another to my favorites. I've been playing The Last Of Us these past few days and.... my god...

 

I cannot say it is my favorite yet, I still need to finish it, but chances are good that it'll be up there.

[euverus 20]

Half-Life

Grand Theft Auto

Fallout

Civilization

Total War

Sim City

[RipRap 4,400]

Pong.

 

Works like normal Ping pong

 

But seriously, a game is better even if it's simple

[wgames77 5]

I honestly don't know at all. I f it was just a certain genre, I could probably pick a favorite. Like, for sports, I would say MVP Baseball 2005 or for platforming, Super Mario 64.

[MatTSW 41]

Skyrim and of course SImCity 4

[zombie615 9]

Xbox #1 - Elder Scrolls III Morrowind ( I was a teen when I fell in love with this one )

 

Super Nintendo #1 - Harvest Moon ( Bout 6 years old when I was in love with this title )

Super Nintendo #2 - Zelda a link to the past

Super Nintendo #3 - Yoshi's Island

 

Gameboy #1 - Pokemon Red Version

 

Computer #1 - Sim City 4

Computer #2 - Sims 3

Computer #3 - Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 Triple Thrill Pack

Computer #4 - Age of Empires III

Computer #5 - Tropico ( I remember when it first came out I rocked back in my chair an came back down on my big toe, almost cut it off while playing this game. Lmao!!!)

 

N64 #1 - Harvest Moon 64

N64#2 - Diddy Kong Racing

 

 

[Cool_Z 1,547]

It's quite hard to pick a number one. But my favorites (yup that includes quite old stuff) are :

 

Simcity 4

Simcity 3

Theme hospital

Rise of nations

Jagged alliance 2

Dune

Starcraft

Warcraft 3

[Munchiez 74]

Default number 1) Flight Simulator X -not really a game, but my favorite thing to practice landings with.

 

1) Sim City 4

2) Cities XL Platinum

3) GTA- ALL of them

4) Battlefield Bad Company 2,3,4

5) Empire Total War

[Larks2242 251]

Default number 1) Flight Simulator X -not really a game, but my favorite thing to practice landings with.

 

1) Sim City 4

2) Cities XL Platinum

3) GTA- ALL of them

4) Battlefield Bad Company 2,3,4

5) Empire Total War

 

You know there is only 2 Bad Company games right?

[thegreatago 0]

Hands down, nothing beats A Link to the Past. Nothing.

 

After that though, I'd say anything from the Fallout or Zelda series. And of course SimCity 4

[Bdub01 201]

It's quite hard to pick a number one. But my favorites (yup that includes quite old stuff) are :

Simcity 4

Simcity 3

Theme hospital

Rise of nations

Jagged alliance 2

Dune

Starcraft

Warcraft 3

Just curious. What is Theme Hospital?

[KevinPaul06 57]

Of all time, Final Fantasy series. My favorites are 6 and 9.

 

These past years, Skyrim, Tomb Raider, Batman Arkham series are my favorites.

 

I play a lot of NHL09 too(until now) because it can be modded

[Cool_Z 1,547]

 

It's quite hard to pick a number one. But my favorites (yup that includes quite old stuff) are :

Simcity 4

Simcity 3

Theme hospital

Rise of nations

Jagged alliance 2

Dune

Starcraft

Warcraft 3

Just curious. What is Theme Hospital?

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmc3EwuZ_H8

 

 

It can be found as abandonware

[47ply 1,100]

1.GT4

2.Super Metroid

3,SC4

4. StarFox wish they still made it

5 Fzero

[APSMS 1,893]

I have, like two "video" games. No consoles at my house. I got my copy of SC4 from a friend, and picked up Cities XL when someone mentioned it was offered in a Humble Bundle on the ST main page.

 

So, since I've only ever played computer games in reasonable amounts, and in fact incredibly low amounts compared to the rest of y'all, I'd have to say my favorite game is in the following general order:

 

1. Sim City 4

2. Wargame: European Escalation--definitely not a typical RTS; very realistic almost to the point of frustration, and incredibly detailed, even on my graphics poor laptop.

3. Lego Loco (yeah, back from the Win 98 days)

4. Any of the Jumpstart learning programs. Once you figured out how to beat the game, it became really fun to see how much you could do before you reached a win condition, or even testing to see if you could fail the game. I think nowadays the same functionality can be had in browser games, but with decidedly lower quality. Of course, when these computer games are the only ones in the house, you learn to make the best out of them.

 

For games that I have played at other people's houses or computers:

 

Call of Duty for FPS team games (on PS3); especially fun since I'm a $%&^! and fighting the CPU on Veteran mode is surprisingly nerve-wracking. Ever get sniped with a shotgun? I didn't think so.

 

Battlefield 3/4 for FPS in general, though I can say that since I've only played it on PC, my aim is slightly better, and I actually can manage around 2-3 kills sometimes before getting slaughtered.

 

I really suck at Super Smash Bros or Mario Cart, but they're also really fun, even if I can never figure out how to grab.

 

Also, anyone ever play any of the old vectrex consoles? They had some great ones there too, like Blitz (a football game, where it's X's vs. O's, and you can steer the ball mid flight) or a side-scrolling bombing campaign (I forget the name).

 

I've never really played any of the more story oriented games, so it's hard to say that I find games generally that interesting. I'm more a Lego/sandbox kind of person.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

I can never pin down a singular number one favourite, but these always are the standouts for me: Zoo Tycoon 2, Runescape, Simcity 4, Minecraft.

Call me weird; I've said it a few times in a bunch of different places, but all of the other games out there simply don't interest me at all; I'm talking things about Super Mario or Sonic or Skyrim or Zelda... Or Pacman. I've said this as well: music from older-style games (like from the 8-bit era) would scare me because it's so repetitive and beep-y and I've never owned a console of any sort. The games I play are through a computer and that's been the only way I've gotten into the (video; not sure if it's appropriate to still call it that) game world.