The best game in history

[PirateCy]

Ok guys. The question is simple. Which is the best game in history it has ever been designed? For me is Quake III Arena. For you?

[wingnut2600]

My personal favorite is Final Fantasy VII, and I am not alone:
http://gamefaqs.com/poll/spr04_bracket.html

[mp3master1215]

The Best Game in history hmm... I Think Halo and Halo 2 are the best games in history!

[wingnut2600]

The Best Game in history hmm... I Think Halo and Halo 2 are the best games in history!

Halo 2 isn't out you fool. You can't name a game that hasn't come out as the best game ever. Are you prescient? Can you remember playing it in the future?

You people and your FPSs... where is the story? I will admit it can be fun to frag, but they lack substance.

[ducttapeBigSexy]

You guys are going to hate me, but I'm going to say Myst. For the time, it was a groundbreaking game - it was the first to ever use a CD as it's only medium, it featured gameplay that was never really done before, not to mention that it made that difficult cross over into mainstream (with everyone buying it) - which, at the time, was a lot tougher to do then it is today.

[ferrarimodena360]

Age Of Empires

[fujow]

Duke Nukem 3d

[northwest stew]

Me personaly I liked Bounty Hunter :shoot

[Al13]

The legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. No contest. The contest at gamefaqs was bullshit, how on earth is chrono trigger better than zelda. The only good turn-based fighting rpgs to ever come out were mario rpg, paper mario, and Earthbound. The rest of that genre, including all the final fantasy games, are terrible. The only good final fantasy game is final fantasy adventure for gameboy, because it is realtime fighting rather than turn based.

Peace Out

[cjules13]

dude! Goldeneye for N64 - groundbreaking! Best game of it's time!

[crackerjacker]

well it depends on the type of game
for leisure gaming i would choose hearts, spades, euchre lol

[bookmansour]

well it depends on the type of game
for leisure gaming i would choose hearts, spades, euchre lol

I don't think it's a joke...
Give me a deck a cards, a case of beer, and a group of friends over any videogame...
Any day of the week...

Personal favorites are
Euchre
BlackJack
Any Poker Game

[stewiegriffin]

Deux Ex. That game was revolutionary at the time!

[YLZ]

um.... space invaders?

either that or the original Quake.

[andrew70677]

anything in the Wing Commander series...

[XtraNtnse]

Black & White (B&W 2 coming soon!) I don't know what it was about that game but I've played it for almost a year until I got bored with it, even after I found myself installing it again after uninstalling it.

[cjules13]

I don't think it's a joke...
Give me a deck a cards, a case of beer, and a group of friends over any videogame...
Any day of the week...

Personal favorites are
Euchre
BlackJack
Any Poker Game
I hear that. I thought we were just on video games only.... Otherwise I vote for spades and and pretty much any poker game too!

[D12]

Legand of Zelda: A Link to the Past. That game is the best.

[Siskabush]

My personal favorite is Final Fantasy VII, and I am not alone:
http://gamefaqs.com/poll/spr04_bracket.html

Amen Brother!!! FF7 is still the greatest game ever made, im my opinion.

Now that im done college, methinks ill start playing that great game again.
Honorable mentions to Chrono Trigger and Star Ocean 2

Originally Posted by bookmansour
I don't think it's a joke...
Give me a deck a cards, a case of beer, and a group of friends over any videogame...
Any day of the week...

Personal favorites are
Euchre
BlackJack
Any Poker Game

Case of beer + Kaiser + Friends = Loads of fun
Blackjack is also very fun. Play for shots.

[broadwayrock]

Any Poker Game

Even strip poker?

I thought halo was overated. Good multiplayer, but in single player the levels are very repetitive.

I wonder if half life 2 will ever get to make it onto this thread.

[LordLOC]

For it's time, Doom.

But in my opinion, and I know I'm not alone, Half-Life is the best game of all time, still to this day.

For consoles, I'd have to say Final Fantasy VII is the best of all time.

[mybackhurts]

psst all those games suck, jk jk , ummm im stuck in between counter-strike and goldeneye for n64

[shawners]

man, i guess im going to have to go old school as well as New school..
From Pong, IKARI warriors, mike tysons punch out to Legend of Zelda Original.. TOMB RAIDER 1-3 are very awesome!!! =) Im playing SPlinter cell pandora tomorrow but i think the original is way better. Rainbow six 3 is awesome. Its so hard to choose.

[mp3master1215]

were do you live halo 2 is out you ass!

[wingnut2600]

were do you live halo 2 is out you ass!

WTF? What sort of dipshit are you?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/halo2/

It comes out November 9th you fool. I would be surprised if the game is even half done.

[ASUmusicMAN]

Give me a deck a cards, a case of beer, and a group of friends over any videogame...
Any day of the week...


give me several cases of beer, all my friends...halo and darts...sounds crazy...but good times

[tvaddict817]

You people and your FPSs... where is the story? I will admit it can be fun to frag, but they lack substance.

What are you talking about. The game that promped this reply, Halo, has a very good story. You have obviously not played it all the way through. What do you mean by substance?

I think Halo, Goldeneye, and Super Mario 64 are all magnificent games. Final Fantasy requires to much thinking. :shoot

[Cenarious]

X-Com Apocalyopse is probably my all time favourite. In a close second is Deus Ex (shudders thinking about Deus Ex 2 :IW )

[IshareManyFilez]

Doom, Quake, Hexen,

[Face's Vette]

never officially released, but undeniably on of the most hailed games of all time

The A-Team for the Atari 2600

[maynoth]

The absolutely most fun I have ever had (and still do) from a video game has to be from Daggerfall. It is still considered the biggest computer role playing game ever made. This place has tens of thousands (yes you heard me right) of unique dungeons houses temples towns etc etc. and they are all huge sometimes taking days to find your way out of. It has working weather and time and calendar systems. You can catch diseases towns have holidays that are unique to the country your in. a nice weather system which is seasonally accurate. A huge collection of monsters about 5,000 pages of text worth of REAL books to read in game. Huge political factions and a functional economy. You can buy ships houses horses carts. You can talk to random people and have conversations. You can make you own weapons and armor and magically enhance them. heck you can build your own custom character class with like 32 million possible combinations. its not a game its a reality SIM.... I could go on forever there is so much to tell... THE SKY IS THE LIMIT you don’t even have to follow the main quest you can settle down in a town of your choosing and work for a living. It is one game that you can truly suspend your disbelief, and forget your playing a game. I have vivid memories of playing the game and eating food (in game) and wondering why I was still hungry, or trying to remember how to urinate in game because I had to go in RL LOL (NO JOKE) its is quite possibly the best game ever made ever IMHO. you can get it off of any major p2p app but i didn't tell you that. also you have to have an older win98se machine to play it or set up a dos partition on your hard drive and use a slow down util.

[Psilaxs]

Pong, Packman, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Gran Turismo, original Half Life, SOF2 Online. There are so many great games, i know i am supposed to pick only one, but there are too many milestones to name just one game.

[crackerjacker]

handcuffs
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[Miniver]

FFVII, SuperMario 1-3, MT Punchout, Starflight, Star Control, Soul Calibur, Age of Empires 2, Battlefield 1942, anything made by ID Software, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Gran Turismo, Mega Man 1-5, Medal of Honor, Tenchu, Star Ocean 2, Civilization, and many others. Oh and wingnut, halo2 alpha has been leaked. Check the newsgroups.

[YLZ]

were do you live halo 2 is out you ass!

WTF? What sort of dipshit are you?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/halo2/

It comes out November 9th you fool. I would be surprised if the game is even half done.

Yea, seriously. Its definetly more than half done, though, I bet if they arent already finished they will be by september. That leaves a good couple of months for a full on media blitz, preorders, and all that. Its gonna kick ass though. And for those who say it was overrated, what are you smoking? Are you comparing Halo to Half-Life 2 or something? 'Cuase Half-Life 2 isn't even out.

[YLZ]

man starcraft kicked ass.

[Siskabush]

If you drink, and love video games, I have some recomendations:
Goldeneye - Best played with good friends while wasted
Mario Kart 64 - Play for beers each race, or shots.
Super smash bros - Simply fun when smashed.

:)

[shawners]

i liked leisure suit larry along ago =) Also their was a Dungeon game called corridor, or gate, or something along those lines for the commodore 64-128. Also if you ever played playstation vandal hearts 1 and 2.. Very awesome.

[wingnut2600]

i liked leisure suit larry along ago =) Also their was a Dungeon game called corridor, or gate, or something along those lines for the commodore 64-128. Also if you ever played playstation vandal hearts 1 and 2.. Very awesome.

There is a new LSL game "coming" out soon; although it lacks the creator of the game and will more than likely be a lame "new-style" Sierra game instead of the Graphical adventures we all loved so much.

[black_magiic]

Unreal Tournament 2004 all the way. I can see the eyes being rolled already.

[Ken17625]

The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

Nothing even comes close.

[origin]

doom 3 although it is not rlsd. yet lol

l8

[rebirth]

Final Fantasy VII

[Fudge Tunnel]

Golden Eye on the N64 as it was the first game me & my mates would rather stay in and play rather than go down the pub!

[PirateCy]

No-one loves Quake 3 Arena? :-(

[Mels_Smileys45]

Tetris



winner up - Ms. Pac Man


Final Fantasy 3 was amazing though

[The Gauge]

Pacman.

Still as devilishly addictive as it was 20 years ago and has more than stood the test of time.

http://www.miniclip.com/pacman.htm

[Afn]

If you are a computer game player, you know that so many great games have over the years been produced.

In the early 80's Asteriods was the coolest game ever. There has been nothing since Asteroids or quite like Asteriods. It might have been the first videogame that I saw. (I did see a sears VCS pong machine, but it was not working at the time. )

I remember a time when computers were not in homes. I think it added a mystic to the games. The first videogame I saw was in mall (single unit) and played asteriods. There was nothing like it. It had sound and the vector graphics were fluid like you were in outerspace.

Atari 2600 had some good games, I played hours of "Haunted Mansion" when I was a kid.
Commodore 64 had the best home game software in the late 1980's.
NES games Zelda, Early Final Fantasy games, megaman, bionic commando. All Great games.
SNES squaresoft titles were great, as were many of the SNES titles.

Grandia 2, Harry Potter game one, and Return To Castle Wolfenstein were all great games. RTCW vas (joke) very realistic.

The best modern game has to be FF7. I bought a PSX just to play FF7. FF7 was the first game I played that had female characters with breasts. FF9 was also good.

Some of the gameboy and gameboy advanced titles were great. Kid Dracula was an import that was the best gameboy game I ever played. For fun I liked the Lola puzzle series, and Zelda a link to the past as well as the final fantasy games (ff) were great to play on the gameboy. The only gameboy advanced title I played was castlevaina circle of the moon. A great game, just so many games and same repeating elements that take 40-80 hours of gameplay just take to much time to complete.

In the last few years I was thinking of getting back into gaming, but too many choices, and most of the games are based on the same repeating game elements that younger players find interesting are now repetative and boring.

In a few years we will have pda's that run winXP. With existing emulator software and a (hopefully) detachable) mini-keypad attachment, we could play almost any game ever produced. The hackers have been doing this for years thanks to Mame, GB, SNES, PSX, and other console and home computer emulators....

There was an online game bbs game called tradewars and then tradewars 2000. Tradewars was fun to play. It was a sector based trading game trade ore, organics and equipment to make money to build your ship and your planet game and blast other players out of the game.

At some point you have to ask yourself is this worth the time?

All of this at one time was considered cutting edge technology. 100 years from now perhaps pacman will be cited as best game ever. Like us most of this technology and games will be forgotten, unless we live to 180.

My prediction is that in a few years open source games will be better than any single commerical product ever produced.

[shawners]

Remember NES Metroid?? And MeTAL gear? Also they had gauntlet.. Super mario brothers 2 is still good =) Graphix kept improving on it. I remember having a commodore with cartridges to plug in the back, and playing Ghost Busters and other great games. I had tons of games for NES and then i went to Sega rather then buying super nes.

[carbonated_H2O]

Final Fantasy VII, no question about it

[Digital Bliss]

The best game ever is obvliously half life that game changed the rules for all games to come and hl2 will do it again if it ever comes out

[cjules13]

peep this... regarding half life 2


FBI: Arrests Made in 'Half-Life' Game Hacking Case (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=3&u=/nm/20040611/tc_nm/crime_halflife_dc)

[MushroomheadXIII]

I like strategy and simulation games, fps is about 50/50. I like sim city 4 and tycoon games etc. Empire earth is good.
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But then again, its all about Flight Simulator 2004!!!!!!!!!!!! <-----------serioulsy, im not kidding...it is!

[Psilaxs]

My prediction is that in a few years open source games will be better than any single commerical product ever produced.

Yes, we all KNOW the best software and or products come from those who work for free.

[jujubeans]

my favorite has always been the baldur's gate series, I mean that had to be the best rpg I've ever played, great game, great graphics (for its time), and the best story in any rpg ever made in my opinion. To all you final fantasy nuts I suggest you go play that game to know what a real rpg should be likeif that is you have the patience to play an rpg of that level.

[Lehk]

Yes, we all KNOW the best software and or products come from those who work for free.

The difference is, with games so much is both reusable and portable, example being the unreal tournament [200{3|4}] mods, which are awesome and change the game drastically, now imagine if the whole thing was open source, people could use the engine and other parts to make a flight sim, racing games, all kinds of stuff. Open source gaming would really kick ass.

[FalconXR6T]

aoe2 a classic

[shawners]

remember civilization? i guess there was one game along ago, that required you to make colonies and barder with tribes, and buy food, and you lose men on ships when your out to sea to long.. and such.

[D12]

Any Doom game in the series. My favorite is Doom II.

[cheapprick]

........Civ 3

[carbonated_H2O]

Civ 3 is a awesome game, that game kept me away from my real life for so long and Diablo2 , love that game as well. I played that one so long that I started hearing the sound effects to that game everywhere I went.

[WE_DELIVER]

I personally think that Final Fantasy 6 was the best game ever...
...even better than 7.....although 7 is a good one....

[Poullos]

Ok guys. The question is simple. Which is the best game in history it has ever been designed? For me is Quake III Arena. For you?

Ise pou Kipro pekti mou?

I think Age of Empires and Generals series for strategy and Half-life for FPS.

[Shadow, Thief of the Sun]

Carmageddon.

Mainly since its introduced some band named Fear Factory to me..

Also - Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Sin, Deus Ex. Maybe few others as well.

[MegaMog]

SC/Broodwar

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

marble madness for the C64

[FrozenShadow23]

Deus Ex, the first one, not the second. Or maybe Wolfenstein 3D.

[legendsofaranna]

No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way

[boogiedan]

mario bros

[legendsofaranna]

Ok guys. The question is simple. Which is the best game in history it has ever been designed? For me is Quake III Arena. For you?
Are you going to buy quake 4? There's a screenshot of it.

[Turbine]

Such a question will always be colored by subjective preferences about genre, depth and artwork.
I've a damn hard time coming up with an order, but games I have really, really enjoyed a lot are:

Amiga version of original Rail Road Tycoon (None of the successors or PC version were ever as fun).
Baldurs Gate 1&2 and expansions (RPG that probably will forever be unequalled)
Morrowind (Far out experience if you do it right: patience and no powergaming)
Far Cry (IMO the supreme shooter so far. Better than HL2.)
Amiga version of Frontier (Fantastic experience at the time. Probably boring by todays standards. PC versions were unplayable)
Amiga version of PowerMonger (Extremely underrated game, by reviewers who never figured out how to play it. I could never get the PC version to work. Another of the pre-Windows95DirectX games.)
Grand Prix Legends (Still the ultimate race driving simulator? Haven't tried GTR yet)
Amiga Speed Ball 2 (Ultimate "physical" sport and ultimate sport game)
Masters of Orion 2 (The empire/strategy game that got it right. No boring artificial balancing and still keeping you on a knife edge for days.)
C64 Silent Service (Unfortunately the last real Sub-Sim ever made. But pretty good for a C64 and it's days.)

[Matt]

shenmue...definitly loved the open ended gameplay. that and seaman, loved bein able to talk to the computer.

[angryinvalid]

Shining Force 2 for Sega Genesis
(Best RPG ever. I've never been a fan of the final fantasy "3 people standing taking turns, running up to the oponnent to attack, or shooting with a gun, space doesn't really matter" format.
Final Fantasy Tactics was pretty cool, but it had already been done before and, I feel, better by SF2.)

Honorable mention: Total Annihilation
The storyline was kind of lacking, but in terms of the game play I'd take it over Starcraft any day.
Plus all the 3rd party created units for it were kinda fun.

Can i get an amen on either account?

[Ne007]

Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Halo, Halo 2..........I also Liked RTCW. All these capture somewhat the same gameplay "feel" of being in the game.

[inoesomestuff]

starcraft or age of empires

[greepy]

halo & then halo 2
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