Favourite Game ever?

[JM28Cardiff]

Whats everyones favourite game ever? I'll let you have 2 choices - 1 newer game, and one old skool game (as its not really a fair to compare old and new).

My favourite newer game has to be Ico on the PS2. It had bags of atmosphere, and was just a beautiful game alround. The fact that you had to protect Yorda, rather than just go through the game on your own, raised it to another level and was emotionally engaging.

My favourite older game is 3d Deathchase on the ZX Spectrum from about 1984. You had to ride a motorbike through woods and shoot at the bad guys-each time you went up a level, the woods became thicker and thicker, it was like the speeder bike chase in Return of the Jedi-amazing game! It was a quick game. and sometimes you would just be "in the zone" and would be weaving in and out of the trees like you just knew where the next one would be.

[d rod]

Old school: Atari Space Invaders
Intellivision: Baseball
Colecovision: Donkey Kong

(Since I'm going really old, thought I'd add this category)

Midschool: Command & Conquer
Newer one: Halo

[Zurbaran1]

The first game I got hooked on and played endlessly was Dune by Westwood Studios. Man that was a great game at the time.

[grendelscott]

The first game I got hooked on and played endlessly was Dune by Westwood Studios. Man that was a great game at the time.

I believe Dune was the First RTS wasn't it?

My picks are Pitfall on the Atari and Ghost Recon on PC/X-Box.

[Zurbaran1]

I believe Dune was the First RTS wasn't it?

My picks are Pitfall on the Atari and Ghost Recon on PC/X-Box.

I think you are correct about Dune. It put Westwood on the map.

[EXITAR007]

I love rpg games old school final fantasy 7 can`t think of any new game

[MONSTER]

The first game I ever got obsessed with was the original Final Fantasy for Nintendo. I played this game for 8-10 hour periods every day over Christmas vacation and could not get enough. I guess that will be my favorite old school game even though I was also hooked on Tron Deadly Discs for Intellivision II.

My favorite newer game over the last few years would have to be Devil May Cry.

[JR2]

It's not the greatest game, as the engine was somewhat dated when it was released, but my favorite is Icewind Dale 2 from Bioware/Black Isle Studios.

:thumbs2:

[grendelscott]

...though I was also hooked on Tron Deadly Discs for Intellivision II.



oh man, I forgot about that one...What a great game! Simple, but a total blast to play...

[phrmcst]

Old: Wing Commander (PC)

Kinda old: Fallout (PC)

New: Halo (Xbox) ....someone finally got grenade physics correct

[DDura711]

Here is a list of all my fav's from every game system I've had:

Atari: Haunted House
Colecovision: Kongo Bongo
Nintendo: Contra
Genesis: Golden Axe
Super Nintendo: Mortal Combat 3
PS1: Twisted Metal 2
PS2: Final Fantasy VII
X-Box: Prince of Persia

[MONSTER]

oh man, I forgot about that one...What a great game! Simple, but a total blast to play...


Its a classic! Glad to see that you enjoyed it too.

[homerthegreat]

The original Donkey Kong Country on the SNES was awesome. I geuss my new fav is NHL 2004. Oh, and I can't froget about Halo...

[The General]

Tecmo Bowl. Classic. :thumbs2:

[grendelscott]

Tecmo Bowl. Classic. :thumbs2:

This is an awesome thread. I forgot about this one as well. My brother and I would always get into arguments over Tecmo Bowl. He always kicked my ass with the Cleveland Browns...It was a fun game though...

[Daywalker]

great topic
i would have to go with:
old school : solstice for nintendo
new school : halo
new school : asherons' call ( mmorpg for comp ) - was addicted to this game for 8+ hrs a day for 3 years

[Apocalypse]

Hmmm lets see....

Old School - Galaxians (Atari)
Middle - Toe Jam and Earl 2 (Mega Drive)
New - Project Gothem Racing 2 (X-Box)

[Avenger]

I love RPG, so I have to go with Final Fantasy VII

[MONSTER]

Tecmo Bowl. Classic. :thumbs2:


I forgot about this one as well. My brothers and I used to play it all the time!

[Tao]

Old School
Galaga

New
Knights of the Old Republic

[Lunchmin]

i gotta jump in here on this one... i'm a closet gamer who wishes he had more time for it.

old: anything that was available for the "vectrex". anyone remember this?
kinda old: final fantasy 7. i've yet to play a better RPG.
new: soul calibur 2. just ask devil's drifter how blistered his @ss is, when he leaves my home. that should indicate how much i dig this game.

-gabe

[Underdog07]

Devil May Cry was entertaining and I recommended it to everyone with a PS2. The sequal was not as enjoyable.

[Underdog07]

Tecmo Bowl. Classic. :thumbs2:

One of the greatest games to paly amongst friends, but I can't rate it as the greatest game ever simple because the reason it was so great was that skill really did not play into it.

Bo Jackson up the middle. Touchdown.
Bo Jackson up the middle. Touchdown.
Bo Jackson up the middle. Touchdown.
Bo Jackson up the middle. Touchdown.
Bo Jackson up the middle. Touchdown.
Bo Jackson up the middle. Touchdown.
Bo Jackson up the middle. Touchdown.
Bo Jackson up the middle. Injured out 4 weeks.

Too predictible.

Still, a great game to pull out (along with a case of beer) whenever your buddies are over.

[Spidey]

Hungry Hungry Hippos! :laugh: :laugh:

[bat_collector]

Nintendo: Metriod
Genesis: Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Super NES: Super Metroid
N64: Rogue Squadron
Playstation: Tie Resident Evil - FF7
Dreamcast: Jet Grind Radio
PS2: Final Fantasy 10
Gamecube: Metroid Prime
Gameboy SP: Metroid Fusion/Zero Mission
X-Box: Nights of the Old Repulic :thumbs2:

[carrillj]

Atari 2600- Pac-Man

Nintendo- Mike Tyson's Punch-Out

Super Nintendo- Super Metroid

Sega Genesis- Sonic the Hedgehog

Playstation 1- Final Fantasy 7

Nintendo 64- (Tie) Mario 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time

Sega Dreamcast- Grandia 2

Playstation 2- Grand Theft Auto Vice City

Nintendo Gamecube- Zelda Windwaker

PC- Call of duty

[Tattoo-S]

Hungry Hungry Hippos! :laugh: :laugh:
Here I am reading along thinking this is cool, I had forgotten about such games, as age will do to a person, then I see this HHH post, I just about fall out of my chair laughing. Reminded me though of all those "old school games"
Barrel of Monkey, mousetrap, Operation, etc. Fond memories, :)

[Tattoo-S]

This is a cool thread though, I think my favorite games were Asteroids, Pitfall, and Centapede. Then when Nintendo came along, I really liked Link, and Metroid. Now it hard to pick a favorite, as there is so much to choose from, But I really like my Spiderman game, and Wolverines Revenge, and Love my Madden games. Tough one.

[commerce_of_thieves]

Old School: Galaga (still play it once in awhile)

Jr High School: Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Double Dragon & Final Fantasy (Sega version with Odin)

High School: Street Fighter & Mortal Kombat

College Years: Final Fantasy (the one with Cloud)

Now: Just got PS2 and I'm trying to find something out there to get hooked on to...

[DDura711]

Here is a list of all my fav's from every game system I've had:

Atari: Haunted House
Colecovision: Kongo Bongo
Nintendo: Contra
Genesis: Golden Axe
Super Nintendo: Mortal Combat 3
PS1: Twisted Metal 2
PS2: Final Fantasy VII
X-Box: Prince of Persia

I almost forgot to add PC: Liesure Suit Larry, City of Hero's, & Half-Life

[Collection King 13]

PS2 - NFL Street
Nintendo - Super Mario 3
Super Nintendo - Mario Go Kart
Genesis - Sonic the Hedgehog
PS1 - NFL Blitz

[grendelscott]

I picked up Battlefield 1942 for a measly $15, and it's quite entertaining...

[Sniper]

Grand Theft Auto Series , Followed By Resident Evil !!!

[Collection King 13]

GTA 3 was the best one!!!

[homerthegreat]

GTA 3 was the best one!!!
Nah, it was the first one that revolutionized the world and won over all of our hearts. I feel GTA3 was the same thing, only more controversial, and in 3D.

[Superhero]

My absolute all time favorite was Betrayal at Krondor. Simply the best RPG ever created. It set the bar for all CRPGs because it was literally like being sucked inside a great book where you could affect the outcome. The story, combat system, magic system and environments were so well done. I still have this and have thought many times of making a DOS box simply to play this game.

My favorite console game was Super Metroid--Just an absolutely amazing game that kept me saying I just have to get that one more power up.

X-Com--best strategy game with some minor RPG aspects in that your soldiers got better as they survived missions.

Freedom Force--a great squad level superhero game where they perfectly captured the Steranko, Kirby era artwork and the Stan Lee dialogue.

Halo--Great first person shooter

I am sure I will think of others later but those are some of my favorites

[ButtonsKitsune]

My favorite games are the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' games but if I had to say which was my most favorite one, I would pick 'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' because I grew up with that one the most and playing it brings back memories.:)

[xreynoldsxcorex]

Nah, it was the first one that revolutionized the world and won over all of our hearts. I feel GTA3 was the same thing, only more controversial, and in 3D.

Well we can count GTA3 as 3 games because it is the same renderware caca on Vice City and San Andreas making one giant pizza delivery game. So I would say combined it is the bestand counts as one game?

[AsOneDead]

Donkey kong on super nintendo and Gears of war on 360 :buttrock:

[rxj71]

Space Quest 3 - funniest thing I've ever played...

[cougartrace]

The old WASTELAND RPG on the APPLE and PC was the best game ever made.

[berenger]

old: Command & Conquer Tiberium Dawn by Westwood studios(now EA Games)

new: Gears of War

[sellin71]

Super Tecmo Bowl for Nintendo. That was my major in college.

[CocoPUFF]

CONTRA!!! on NES....remeber U,D,U,D,L,R,B,A,select, start...(for the infinite lives!) LOL

[RichBamf]

Old school games: Flashback and Shadowrun on the SNES
Newer games:God of War 1&2, Fable

[RichBamf]

CONTRA!!! on NES....remeber U,D,U,D,L,R,B,A,select, start...(for the infinite lives!) LOL

That game was called 'Probotector' over here in the UK for some reason. :confused:

[Ink]

super mario 3:thumbs2:
gears of war

[Tony Coca]

Contra.

[riderV3]

Nintendo: Mario <= no doubt about it :thumbs2:
Sega Mega Drive: Sonic
Super NES: sen ken densetsu 3 (Legend of the holy sword 3)

N64: Zelda: Ocarina of Time <= My answer to this thread. Absolutely All Time Legend!!!! :buttrock:

Sega Saturn: Sakura Wars series
Playstation: Super Robot War Alpha
Dreamcast: Grandia II <= my favorite one of the entire Grandia titles!!
PS2: Dragon Quest 8
Gamecube: Metroid Prime

[CaptCracker]

My all time favorite was the first Rainbow Six 3 online multiplayer for the xbox, I would still be playing it if there were rooms.
Right now its Guitar Hero II and Command and Conquer

[sincity]

Goldeneye for the N64.
I keep my old N64 hooked up to the tv in my bedroom play it weekly.
also got all the atari 2600 games for my ps2 and play yar's revenge and berzerk alot.

[oxgambit]

CONTRA!!! on NES....remeber U,D,U,D,L,R,B,A,select, start...(for the infinite lives!) LOL

I think you mean U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, B, A, B, A, select, start. Or was that for a different Nintendo game.

As for my favorites:

Atari: Missle Command
NES: Super Mario Bros. 1 and 3
Playstation: Metal Gear Solid
Xbox: ghost Recon any of them
Xbox 360: GRAW 2

[Duke]

Here is a list of my favorite games from each system I've owned

Atari 2600- Tank Plus
NES - Super Mario 3
SEGA - X-Men 2: Clone Wars
PS1 - Resident Evil Director's Cut (played this at a friends house, went out the next week and bought a PS1)
PS2 - Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater
GameCube - Resident Evil 4
Xbox - Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green (still have my Xbox so I can play this because it is the only game I own that wont work on my 360)
Xbox 360 - (Currently) A three way tie between Rainbow Six: Vegas, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance

[Merlose]

per system:

NES:Mega Man 2
SNES: Secret of Mana
PSX: Xenogears
GC: Fire Emblem
Wii: Zelda Twilight Princess (so far, still waiting for more games on the wii)

[patrickwm68]

Atari: Yars Revenge, most of the Activision games

Atari 5200: Miner 2049er

Nintendo: Super Mario Brothers, Ninja Gaiden, Contra I & II

Super Nintendo: Donkey Kong Country I & II

PS2: War of the Monsters, Destroy All Humans

[Boerboel]

Tecmo Bowl and RBI Baseball for sure, still play'em from time to time. Also liked Contra, for newer games its Gears of War at #1. Also enjoyed GRAW 2 and had fun with Crackdown too.

[pablocruze]

Favourite Game ever???

Best Pie Elimintaion Game...hands down!!!

[snappahead]

Tough one. Castlevania Symphony of the Night is way up there. A game called Vandalhearts is another favorite. Street Fighter II, Resident Evil 2, Goldeneye, Halo. Hard to pick one.

[Sgt Taz]

This is an impossible question for me but this I can say, the best game to ever grace the gamecube was Resi4 :buttrock:

[Zoyvod]

Dreamcast - Skies of Arcadia Collecting Chams on the mini GB was a blast, and being able to download. It was really repetitive, but it was a fresh spin on the RPG market.

Playstation - Resident Evil Damn dog through the window made my heart stop

Jaguar - Alien vs. Predator When the Alien popped out in the air vent it was another heart stopping moment.

Atari - Pittfall I remember having to take a Polaroid of my score then mailing it in for a patch

[Sgt Taz]

Jaguar - Alien vs. Predator When the Alien popped out in the air vent it was another heart stopping moment.
Another easy call. Indeed the best game on the Jaguar...if not the only good game.

[abarron]

Goldon Axe was pretty good and Turricane (sp)

I like Metal Gear Solid the first one but wasn't keen on the other and RESI 2 and Tombraider

I get addicted to games all the time and play them none stop until i buy summat new
Currently addicted to burnout revenge again

[abarron]

Oh and the original Medal of Honour game

[Venom4131]

Atari - Breakout
Nintendo - Castlevania
Super Nintendo - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time
Sega Genesis - Super Street Fighter 2
Nintendo 64 - Goldeneye 007
Playstation - Final Fantasy IX
Dreamcast - Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Playstation 2 - Final Fantasy X
Gamecube - Metroid Prime
XBOX - Halo
PC - Counter-Strike

I have a 360, but I never play it. I haven't played a PS3 and I've only played the free sports game on Wii...

[JM28Cardiff]

Im on my second playthrough on Shadow of the Colossus (after leaving it for a while). I like this game a lot, it has bags of atmoshphere. I want to reach the secret garden, but need to play it through twice more to get my stamina meter up.

[RichBamf]

Tough one. Castlevania Symphony of the Night is way up there. A game called Vandalhearts is another favorite. Street Fighter II, Resident Evil 2, Goldeneye, Halo. Hard to pick one.

Vandal Hearts was VERY cool, been trying to get hold of a copy of that for a long time.

[Barbarian]

This is an impossible question for me but this I can say, the best game to ever grace the gamecube was Resi4 :buttrock:

I still gotta pick that up. Still my favorite games ever are fighting games; Soul Calibur (I & II) and Street Fighter. :buttrock:

[JadeGiant]

old school would have to be Defender - had one at the local Mart and got good enough to flip it back in the day. I would love to pick up an old school stand up machine or two

new - nothing

[Primal]

Kid Icarus for the NES.

Awesome game. :buttrock:

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/4073/kigoombasnp1.gif http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9384/icarusuo6.jpg

[snappahead]

Vandal Hearts was VERY cool, been trying to get hold of a copy of that for a long time.

I was lucky enough to come by a copy a couple years ago at EB. It was in perfect shape thankfully. You play the sequel? They ruined it.

[Relic Reaper]

Kid Icarus for the NES.

Awesome game. :buttrock:

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/4073/kigoombasnp1.gif http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9384/icarusuo6.jpg


I downloaded Kid Icarus using the Wii Virtual Console a few days ago...it's a classic!

[RichBamf]

I was lucky enough to come by a copy a couple years ago at EB. It was in perfect shape thankfully. You play the sequel? They ruined it.

unfortunately i did, it was awful wasn't it? :banghead:

I have to add a new favourite-Guitar Hero 2 on XB360.

Anyone want to let off some steam, just buy this freaking gam, it's awesome.:buttrock:

[Marvel]

Im on my second playthrough on Shadow of the Colossus (after leaving it for a while). I like this game a lot, it has bags of atmoshphere. I want to reach the secret garden, but need to play it through twice more to get my stamina meter up.

Yeah Shadow of the Colossus is one of the better games for the PS2. Are you talking about climbing that castle looking thing where you start off the game? I tried that once and man that thing is hard, good luck though.

[bruiser72]

I like the madden series - any system

Some other games of note - God of War I & II

I always liked sid mieres pirates, star wars knights of the old republic

For sega it was always hockey from ea sports man that was fun!

How about for the old mac I cant remember the name castle something that one was cool. It was an scroller with some mystery involved.

There was some classics like super mario and burger time!

[Zoyvod]

The Legend of Dragoon is a sleeper game for the PS.

[marvelboi77]

It's tuff... If I could pick one now if I was stuck on a dessert island it would be Marvel Ultimate Alliance... But the game I have the fondest memories of is Street Fighter II... Which I would have to update to Marvel vs. Capcom 2... If I could have two favorites these would be it.

[The Fog]

Syphon Filter, all of them, don't ask why, just liked the game play, never finished the last one.
Ace Combat, all of them, believe the fourth one was the best, as I never finished the last version either.
Someday when I get everything in my new house situated I'll finish both up.
MGS has taken over as my fav's in the newer era, waiting for the next installment of Solid Snake's Cloned life, and I don't know if anymore Ace Combat's are ever coming out?

[DarthPredamorph]

Old Skool game?

TMNT 2: The Arcade Game



Newer game?

Non-multiplayer - Resident Evil 4

Multiplayer - Rainbow Six: Vegas

[chromesamurai]

Old school: Final Fantasy 3 (SNES)

Newish school: Suikoden 2 (PS1)

New school: Disgaea (PS2)

Plenty of others, but those three mean a lot to me.

[Barbarian]

No doubt, Dana. I used to love that game too. It's amazing how much fun a game with little square characters can be.

[protector2814]

Draken, The Ancient's Gate. I love this game. Have been revisiting Rynn for years, now.

[JM28Cardiff]

I loved the original 2d Prince of Persia, which had great animation using rotoscoping. Similarly, I also loved the French games Another World and Flashback (they may have had different names in the States) which used similar animation techniques I believe.

Looking forward to the updated Prince of Persia on XBLA next week.

[JM28Cardiff]

Yeah Shadow of the Colossus is one of the better games for the PS2. Are you talking about climbing that castle looking thing where you start off the game? I tried that once and man that thing is hard, good luck though.

Yeah, the US version had a bug that let you climb up using a diagonal jumping glitch. They removed this from the PAL version, so the only way to get up there is to increase your stamina meter by completing the game 3 or 4 times and eating lots of white tailed lizards.

[J Storm]

I think you mean U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, B, A, B, A, select, start. Or was that for a different Nintendo game.


No, your right, thats the code but it wasnt for infinite live. It was for 30 lives. I have it for my psp & the code still works. :thumbs2:

[J Storm]

My favorites of all time:

1. Final Fantasy 7 (PS1)
2. The Legend of Zelda (NES)
3. Gears of War (Xbox 360)
4. Mike Tyson's Punch Out (NES)
5. Halo (Xbox)
6. Fable (Xbox)
7. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (Xbox)
8. Marvel Super Heroes (PS1)
9. X-men Arcade (MAME)
10. Simpsons Arcade (MAME)

[taizo99]

once i got used to controls .i got hooked on zelda for the wii

['Nuff]

baseball

[devgru6]

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time

[Barbarian]

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time

Damn that game. It swallowed SO many wasted hours of my life. :banghead:

[scott]

Old school would be Road Rash,I'd put my own tunes on and ride& kick ass.Mortal was a good 2 player game too.Xbox would be Halo,but I really suck at it.

[Dosuchin]

EarthBound on the SNES.

[Poisonous]

Sanitarium.

No game has provided such a twisted and atmospheric gameworld since. Pure genius and still is. One of the first games that actually held my attention long enough for me to want to play through the whole thing.

[Psylocke]

tombraider series

[Gatekeeper2Hell]

My all time favorites are the Ninja Turtles and X-Men arcade games. Does anyone else remember arcade games?

The King's Island theme park in Ohio used to have the double screen version of the X-Men game that took up to, I think, 6 players at once. I wasted a lot of quarters on that game. I prefered it over the rides.

[rilynil]

Here are my favorites of all time:

Galaga
Doom
Ghosts n Goblins
Tempest
Joust
Pengo
Asteroids
Zektor
Berzerk
Centipede
Space Fury

As you can tell, I came of age during the hey-days of the video game arcades. Man, those days were a blast. :thumbs2:

[El Diablo]

My fave games ever.if I had to narrow it down to a few, would be (though i`ll be forgetting many)

Last Ninja 2 - C64
Street Fighter II - arcade
Legend of Zelda : A link to the past - SNES
Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of time - N64

And finally the game i`d probably pick as my all time favourite :
GTA : San Andreas
This game still blows me away today the sheer size of it is just unbelievable. There is so much to see and do you don`t have to touch the missions in the main game and still get hours and hours of fun from it. It`s such a believable world too they got every detail nailed even down to the smallest back alley, awesome awesome game :buttrock: :buttrock: :thumbs2:

[Ink]

My all time favorites are the Ninja Turtles and X-Men arcade games. Does anyone else remember arcade games?

The King's Island theme park in Ohio used to have the double screen version of the X-Men game that took up to, I think, 6 players at once. I wasted a lot of quarters on that game. I prefered it over the rides.

the arcade in tri county mall had a double screen too

[Hellboy]

Old school: Castlevania III

New school: Halo series

[Model Giants]

Way of the Warrior on the 3do.....

[Kujo]

Fave games for all consoles i've owned:

Atari - Rally-X

Amega - Lemmings

NES - Mario 1

SNES - Zelda

Saturn - Magic Carpet/Panzer Dragoon/Nights into
Dreams (new one coming for wii!!!)

PS1 - Resident Evil 1 & 2/ MSG 1

N64 - Zelda: OOT/Mario 64/Turok 1

Dreamcast - Shenmue series (fantastic RPG games - i
want the 3rd one :bawling:)

PS2 - GT4/GTA series

X-box - Halo

360 - RS:Vegas/GRAW/Lego Star Wars

Wii - Zelda (the only reason i bought it!!!)

No interest in a PS3....yet

[Red X]

Top 3 games in history:

Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy VII
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past