What are your top 5 video games of all time
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List your top 5 and their respective consoles.
Took me a while to come up with this list and place them accordingly. Honorable mentions are for Diablo 2 and GTA Vice City. I am a Gamer stuck in the 2005ish era and haven't grown up much ^^
1. Baldurs Gate 1&2 for the PC
2. Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne for the PC
3. Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64
4. GTA San Andreas for the PS2, Xbox, and the PC
5. Halo 2 for the Xbox
Took me a while to come up with this list and place them accordingly. Honorable mentions are for Diablo 2 and GTA Vice City. I am a Gamer stuck in the 2005ish era and haven't grown up much ^^
1. Baldurs Gate 1&2 for the PC
2. Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne for the PC
3. Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64
4. GTA San Andreas for the PS2, Xbox, and the PC
5. Halo 2 for the Xbox
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So my favorites tend to be 10+ years old.
1) BG I & II + TotSC & ToB Expansions ( PC )
2) Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven ( PC )
3) Alundra ( PS1 )
4) Soul Blazer ( SNES )
5) Dungeon Siege + Legends of Aranna Expansion ( PC )
1. Baldur's Gate series, obviously. I think that reasons why are obvious, considering of what game this forum is.
2. That one will be surprising - Rayman 2: The Great Escape. Fun gameplay, "magical" world, nice atmosphere, awesome music etc, etc. Current Rayman games (Legends, Origins) are crap in comparison.
3. Oddworld: Abe's Odyssee. One of the games that basically made my childhood. Interesting setting, good gameplay, great atmosphere... And remake is coming either in 2013 or 2014. I can't wait
4. The Witcher II - I am fan of the novels, on which games are based on. I prefer W2 to W1 due to more interesting storyline, dynamical gameplay, difficulty level and overall feeling of the game.
5. Either Diablo 2 or 3. I can't decide. Both games are REALLY fun to play, but they are also suffering from some serious disadvantages. Besides that, both of this games are unitentionaly forcing me to play solo, for different reasons thought.
1. Baldur's Gate saga
2. Civilization: Call to Power II
3. Madden football franchise
4. Planescape: Torment
5. Allied/Panzer General
1)Entire Baldur's Gate series
2)mass effect(all 3 but more so with 1)
3)sim city for the ps1
4)FF VII
5)Elder scrolls Oblivion
I'll sign off this post before i start change my mind and make a million changes
1. Starcraft I (with expansion)
2. Warcraft II (with expansion)
3. Doom II (all of it's map-packs)
4. Diablo I (with expansion)
5. Baldur's Gate
I know, I know, the list is putting Baldur's Gate at the bottom. My reason being is that I was far, far too young to understand how AD&D worked. I was around 8 or 9 when my Dad got the game so alot of unfinished characters haunt me
It took a lot of nerve to not put any of the Heroes of Might & Magic's (II-IV) on here and Might & Magic IV: The Mandate of Heaven. Those games ruled my childhood too, but Starcraft and Warcraft were easier for a young boy because they didn't require as much reading. :P
- Planescape: Torment
- Sonic 3 & Knuckles
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
- Deus Ex
-demon souls
-baldurs gate saga
-VTM: Bloodlines
-FF6
-Metal gear solid 3 snake eater
-ocarina of time
sorry i cant cut it down anymore, so ill just have to have a top 6.
Id also have Mass Effect in there but ME3 annoyed me too much for it to make the the list
2) Pokemon Red
3) Ocarina of Time
4) CoD4
5) Grandia 2
Honourable mentions: Okami, Halo 2, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Virtua Fighter 4: Evo, Mass Effect 1, Age of Empires 2.
-Baldur's Gate 2 (PC)
-Planescape: Torment (PC)
-Age of Empires 2/Age of Mythology (PC) (I couldn't decide between the 2. I have AoE2 to thank for getting me into RTS, and I probably played it more, but overall I think AoM is a cooler game)
-I don't really know what else to put here, it feels like there's a dozen games that are all worthy, for various reasons. I guess I'll go with Ocarina of Time and/or Majora's Mask (N64) and Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3).
Does anyone else feel like they could almost make 2 seperate lists, one with games that they think are the best in an objective, overall quality based way, and another for games that they find the most fun/are the most likely to play (or have played the most in the past)?
2) Icewind Dale I (PC)
3) King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (PC)
4) Chrono Trigger (SNES)
5) Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
Honorable Mentions: Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation), Dragon Warrior IV (NES), Super Mario Brothers III (NES), Deja Vu (NES)
1. BG2 - PC
2. Alpha Centauri - PC
3. Civ 4 - PC
4. Dark Wizard - Sega Genesis 32x
5. Elder Scrolls III Morrowind - PC
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
This was the first game I ever played that I wanted to be good at. Super Mario was fun when I was six, and it continued to be fun throughout my childhood, but when we got our SNES and I saw how vast the world was, and how many different ways there were to interact with it, I fell in love with it. The red boomerang behind the waterfall, the super bomb and the golden sword... there were secrets to that game that I loved finding, and years later when I know where they are I still love finding them.
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
I was just entering high school and my parents decided to take a road trip to Enfield Connecticut for this hot dog stand called Guido's that we'd read about in the paper. The hot dog was great (chili and cheese, and chili-cheese fries on the side--yum!), but the high point for me was when we stopped at a Target and I saw two games on the rack that caught my eye: The first was Warcraft 2, which I later bought and didn't like very much. The other was Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. I was enthralled by the box art, and by the screenshots and the description of its story. I didn't know what Baldur's Gate was, and I didn't care. I showed the box to my parents and said, "We need a better computer."
A few months later we had one; and the next time we went to Guido's, we stopped at Target and bought the game. It was my very first PC game that was my own and not my brother's, and it was my first exposure to what eventually became the modern RPG. I loved the character interactions, the quests, the moral quandaries (even though they were pretty straight-forward by today's standards). Even when I went back and played Baldur's Gate 1, even after I played Throne of Bhaal, I still have a soft spot for Shadows of Amn. It had the same vastness that I enjoyed in A Link to the Past, plus a much more complex combat system and actual choices.
Chrono Trigger
Noticing a pattern? That's because when I play a game, I like my choices to have an impact. I like my world to be expansive, but I want to have a reason to explore it. That's why you won't see Skyrim on this list, even though I do enjoy that game. Chrono Trigger is all of that, plus time travel.
Let me repeat that. Time Travel.
You can play this game seven times, and each time you play it you can beat it a different way, with different characters, and with a completely different ending. And because of the game's New Game + feature, you can do so while powering up your characters at the same time. It creates incentive for replays, which encourages you to experience all of its numerous layers. This is a game the way a game should be designed. The characters are fully realized (even the frog, especially the frog, even though his name is Frog), the combat is intuitive and elaborate, and the story is compelling.
Final Fantasy VI
This was the rented video game that spawned some of my very first actual discussions about a game's story. I played it when I was in high school at the recommendation of several friends who had already played it. And once I played it, we talked about our different takes on it. We each had a different opinion about the characters in the game. We had arguments and heated debates about specific plot points. This was the beginning of me thinking about video games as an art form, rather than just a way to pass the time.
Donkey Kong Country 3
This one I don't have a long explanation for. It's just genuine good fun. It has all of the great gameplay from Donkey Kong Country 1, plus the enhanced graphics of late-system SNES, plus a collectibles system with the bears and Funky's different vehicles. I loved all of the DKC games, but this one was my favorite, so it earns a spot on my list.
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I tried really hard to come up with a game that came out in the last ten years, but while I've certainly enjoyed a lot of them (Portal and Portal 2 come to mind as being particularly good), I have yet to play anything that rivals the kind of life-altering events that were spurred by the five listed above.
Ghouls and Ghosts - On my old Spectrum +2a. Loved it. This was one of the first games I played where the gameplay was almost surpassed by the other elements of the title. In this case, the music. It just hit the right tempo for how I played the game, and made it seem more complete.
Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat. - A classic title that let me play my hobby, even when I was alone in my room. Dark Omen was probably a "better" game, but SotHR just sticks with me more strongly for its "first play" impact.
Fallout 2 - The first was good, but I really got into playing the second in a much bigger way and enjoyed the dialogue and story just a smidge more. This game left me with a serious "got to play it again" feeling that not many games can do these days.
Far Cry - The original FPS to make agoraphobia fashionable. OK, so maybe not the first FPS set outside and in daylight, but I cant think off-hand of any earlier, that were quite so bright and, well, tropical. And, it had hang gliding! Genius.
Morrowind - For a game of its age, how huge was this beast? Yeah, if you belted through it, you could do it in a few sittings. . . Took me three years of "on and off" play to finally finish it. Not only that, but it had a story, something its later counterparts sacrificed a little for looks ( though they were by no means bad games ).
I left out any BG titles deliberately. We're on the forum for what is, an old old game, so it stands to reason we all might have it in our top five, so lets go on the assumption that I like them too.
As others have said, I would have mentioned Mass Effect as the greatest game/s of all time, but then I played the last hour of the third travesty . . . er, I mean installment. More than 250 hours of my life being used, mocked and ridiculed by those ba. . . . . :snip:
Mass Effect 2 - The whole series is great but if I had to pick one of the three this is my choice easily. Even though relatively little happens in the grand story it is an important installment simply for giving the universe a solid emotional connection with the ME universe. Mass Effect 1 was about the setting, Mass Effect 2 was about the people that inhabit it.
Gabriel Knight : The Beast Within - While mired by the FMV format that was trendy for the time, this game has a fantastic narrative with an amazing villian, sadly one that is rarely acknowledged as such. If you like adventure games this is a must play.
Spec Ops: The Line - In a great year for smart video games, this one stands out for using the game itself as a tool to tell the story, instead of relying exclusively on cutscenes. There have been a few games that can make people cry, but Spec Ops is the only one that makes you feel depressed.
Crusader Kings 2 - Feels obligatory since I have invested an unhealthy amount of time into it.
The Walking Dead - This one gets a spot for freshening up an increasingly stale franchise, and for proving Telltale apparently does have the ability to write good games, wish they'd show it more
I'd have added King's Quest VI but @Melicamp already did.
1. (best 2D RPG) The Baldur's Gate series (not surprising, with a bias as I still like it a lot),
2. (best first person shooter) Battlefield 1942 (with side-shows for Bf 2 and Bf Vietnam), like BG it's a game where the enjoyment of it can be multiplied with lots and lots of mods,
3. (best real-time strategy) Age of Empires I & II (a classic from the old times of my gaming career, when I first got a PC around 2004 or so),
4. (best turn-based strategy) Rome Total War (epic game, starting with 3 provinces, building a whole empire and massive battles with AFAIK good historical accuracy in units and geography)
5. (best 3D RPG) Dragon Age Origins (recently I picked up where I left and it surprised me how detailed the lore was, if you set yourself to reading all the codex entries, quite epic, I changed my mind and find it a worthy 3D successor to BG after all).
honourable mentions (games I like or have liked a lot, but 5 is only 5):
- (best city-builder) CivCity Rome: wonderfully detailed city-building, and I like history a lot,
- (2nd best 2D RPG) Icewind Dale I: though it hasn't got NPC interaction, it's got my beloved 2nd Edition AD&D in the beloved Infinity Engine, a good story and wonderful area art,
- (2nd best turn-based strategy) Heroes of Might and Magic IV: though much disliked by others, I like this HoMM game the most, as the heroes are really part of the battle, sharing the sweat, toil and danger with their troops. Also, I like turn-based strategy for being less overwhelming for my senses, you can focus on 1 move at a time
- (2nd best 3D RPG) Fallout 3: the game that kind of took away my dislike for 3D games, very involving and even though the game is all post-nuclear wasteland, it still manages to make the world varied and alive.
- (2nd best city-builder) Children of the Nile: I like the little details - scribes teaching, women weaving, protesters on the street if you don't manage your cities well, beautiful sunrises and sunsets, lots of different trees, shrubberies and tiles to beautify your cities.
2. Crusader Kings 2
3. Europa Universalis 3
4. Baldurs Gate series
5. Either Daggerfall, Morrowind or Planescape:Torment. Can't decide which.
I have high hopes for either Europa Universalis 4, Fallout 4, Wasteland 2, Project: Eternity and/or Planescape: Tides of Numenera to replace a few of the titles on my list. Or perhaps a Baldurs Gate 3?
Edit: How could I forget Jagged Alliance 2?! Awesome game. Probably the fifth one. Although Skyrim, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI plus VII, Donkey Kong Country (series) and... A lot of other titles also deserve a mention. Portal 2 was awesome too for instance. I like the games from this era just as much as the old ones, I guess. (Oh. Deus Ex: Human Revolution!)
Herzog Zwei - Sega Genesis - The original real time strategy game - years ahead of its time and arguably the best two person console game for much of the 90's.
http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=GameMuseum.Detail&id=242
Hero's Quest (Quest for Glory) - PC - Bridges the King's Quest line of games with RPG games with a great dose of hilarity.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/heros-quest-so-you-want-to-be-a-hero
Knights of the Old Republic - PC - Loved this one. Great RPG that is probably known to everyone on this thread. Also enjoyed the sequel.
Mike Tyson's Punchout - NES - Many fun hours with this one. No other boxing game has come close for me.
Resident Evil 4 - Wii - This has been on almost every platform but I didn't find it until later in life when I got a Wii for my son and got this game for dad. I liked the aiming mechnism and getting the full version of this classic didn't hurt. Great game.
-Civilization 3
-Diablo 2
-Baldur's Gate series
-Warcraft 3 & the frozen throne
-Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
♥ Icewind Dale series
♥ Baldur's Gate series
♥ LotR: BFME-II: RotWK
♥ Yoshi's Island (SNES)
Halo series
Starcraft
Half-Life 2
Tetris
The first four are the games that I played as an adult that really meant the most to me. These are games that I not only finished, but that I became really invested in their universe.
I couldn't decide on a 5th game. I had a four way tie for the games that I remembered meaning the most to me as a teenager, Legend of Zelda, Legend of Zelda Link to the Past, Metroid and Super Mario Bros. . Three great original NES games that I played through multiple time. One great SNES game. I found it strange that I have nothing from my Sega Genesis or the original Play Station. Should I put Final Fantasy 7, Quake 2, or Gran Turismo on the list. I used to play a ton of Madden football, including the original that came out in 1988. Shoud I put Portal on the list? Should I put Final Fantasy Tactics on the list, I really really loved that game. Nope, I went with Tetris. I almost forgot about it. I doubt I put more hours into any other game. It might be stupid, but I used to be insanely good at it.
EA NHL (insert year here)
Civilization V (yes I prefer it over 2-4)
Mass Effect 2
Sim City 2000
2. Europa universalis 3
3. Gothic 2
4. Rome: total war
5. Icewind dale 2
Interesting thread!