Top 5 All Time Games?

[kalniel]

Street Fighter II et al, SNES

This game sinks a full set of teeth into you and just Won't. Let. Go.

Ever.

Ultima VII, PC

Massive, fully explorable and interactive world. Non-linear gameplay. Full NPC scheduling. Day-night cycles. Weather. Fantastic story. Mouse controlled interaction. Real time combat. Even today's games can't squeeze many of these things in, yet Origin did it back in 1992, and with what style!

Daggerfall, PC

At a time when everyone else was plinking around putting D&D games onto the computer and spectacularly failing to produce anything anywhere near as good as the Ultima series years before, one group of developers thought BIG.

You experience, in first person, a world over 162 thousand square kilometres big, with tens of thousands of towns, cities and villages. A branching political story to explore, or cruicially, ignore completely if you so wished.

The sheer size wasn't without it's problems - bugs abound and many players thought it rather dull.. but put some effort in to roleplay yourself and the game becomes a virtual world that provides years of fun.

Strike Commander, PC

Back to Origin for a massively ambitious and oft delayed mega title. Stunning graphics for the time, this wasn't just an F16/F22 game, it was a whole squad management title backed up by a mega storyline you just don't find in flight games.

Beyond Good and Evil, various

This amazingly polished, stylistic game proved that modern games did not have to rely on blood and guts to be excellent. BG&E has a fantastic storyline with vibrant characters and locations that have rarely been matched. Well recieved by critics, but perhaps not enough blood and guts for the general public, who went on to buy the engines later title Prince of Persia in droves.

[usxhe190]

Starcraft Broodwar x 5

[danroyle]

my top 5 would be

5:final fantasy 7 (ust amazing depth for a game loved it)

4:half life (ell it was a superb fps)

3:wolfentstein 3d (omg i was about 13-14 when i saw this and was amazed)

2:tekken 2 (when i was at college played this alot with a girl i knew game was wicked fun and so was she )

1:battlefield 2 the hours i put it on this with matt (cptwhiteuk) it was so much fun i miss playing it:

in terms of impact on me personally then wolfenstein 3d or sonic the hedgehog are top as they got me into gaming.

and if it wasn't for wolfenstein 3d on our olivetti pc at school then i would never had bought a pc.

[Salazaar]

My top five fave games after trtawling through my highly shoddy memory (in the order that they occour to me and no other):

X-Wing, Tie Fighter, X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter etc. (They're all the same game really)

System Shock 2

Monkey Island 2

Half Life

GTA Vice City

[Stewart]

1) Zelda - Ocarina of time. N64.
Any one who disagrees, simply hasn't played it. It's that good.

2) Mario 64 - N64

3) Doom - Every console ever.

4) Street Fighter II Turbo - The Snes Version.

5) Final Fantasy 7 -PS2

Great list.

Anyone with any of these games in their list:
Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, GTA, Any Tom Clancy Games (decent though they are), Sonic the Hedgehog in any form; should hang their head in shame, buy an old nintendo console and play some of the highly rated games. Pure magic. That's how it's done.

Eh? I'm a die hard big N fan, but Sonic I \ Sonic II, and Metal Gear Solid on the PS are classics. I think, if you don't like Sonic, you are being more of a football style fan - hating the opposition for no logical reason.

Sonic was quality.

[raibatal]

There is one game I can never forget and that is Omikron: Nomad Soul. Other than this I will keep POP: Sands of Time, Ninja gaiden:Black, Final fantasy: 7/8/9 and Half Life 2

[Bazzlad]

Great list.

Eh? I'm a die hard big N fan, but Sonic I \ Sonic II, and Metal Gear Solid on the PS are classics. I think, if you don't like Sonic, you are being more of a football style fan - hating the opposition for no logical reason.

Sonic was quality.

Sonic 1 and 2 are not all time top games. Classics yes, all time top games. Never, in a million, billion years, unless all time is redefined to mean: Shockingly easy to complete game, that although fun wasn't even the best in it's genre.

Metal Gear Solid 1 on the PS you may have a point with. It was a great, great game (and I played the hell out of it) so I think you've turned me on that - any other version, naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

[Zadock]

Mine would have to be:

1. System Shock 2 - Genius; scared the hell out of me a lot of the time.
2. The Elder Scrolls : Oblivion - I don't think I need to say anything hear, it speaks for itself.
3. Thief 2 - a lot of people prefer the first one but I enjoyed Thief 2 more.
4. Tyrian (2000 or original) - Still love this now mindless fun, if anyone is interested I can post a link to where you can download the full tyrian 2000 (legally).
5. Wingcommander : Armada - Little known spin off of the series, it is also a turn based strategy as well as a space combat sim. I used to play this with a friend of mine all the time on split screen, we bought the game between us when we were about 11/12 years old!

[kalniel]

5. Wingcommander : Armada - Little known spin off of the series, it is also a turn based strategy as well as a space combat sim. I used to play this with a friend of mine all the time on split screen, we bought the game between us when we were about 11/12 years old!

Yay I had this (and every other wing commander game too ). The ship graphics were awesome - first time they used actual 3d models. The movement of them was ace too. Shame there wasn't really a story. Oh and I killed a tree printing out the manual that was only in PDF form :/

[MadduckUK]

Tyrian (2000 or original)

the bonus game thing was actually better than the proper one. used to play that for hours

[Salazaar]

Ahhh Tyrian 2000... Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the one with a secrect mini-game which just happened the best variation on Tanks I've ever played!

[CaseyV9]

Top five games?

1. Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines PC.
My favorite game, ever. I have never played a game as atmospheric than this.

2. Fallout 2 PC.
Can't believe I forgot about this one.

3. Legacy Of Kain: Blood Omen. PS1.
A top down adventure. The first 5 minutes you are human.
When you beat a yokel into a daze, to feed you would hold out your arm and the blood would float through the air from their body into to you. Great narration.

4. Bauldur's Gate 2 PC.
Or this.

5. Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver PS1.
Totally original game, Great atmosphere, Great story.

[MadduckUK]

Ahhh Tyrian 2000... Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the one with a secrect mini-game which just happened the best variation on Tanks I've ever played!

your wrong

no, no your not, see prev post. was ace

[simonfitba]

Based on how many hours I logged...

Operation Flashpoint
Armed Assault
Championship Manager 3
Sensible World of Soccer
Grand Theft Auto 3

[RageTitus]

Not really my 5 all time, but most memorable games that i still remember:

Half-Life 1
TIE-Fighter
Tetris
GTA 3
C&C Red Alert

[Zadock]

Yay I had this (and every other wing commander game too ). The ship graphics were awesome - first time they used actual 3d models. The movement of them was ace too. Shame there wasn't really a story. Oh and I killed a tree printing out the manual that was only in PDF form :/

I think mine came with a manual? I'll have a look, pretty sure it did. Out of that list there its the only one that I've not played for a while, I may fire up dos box and see if I can get it working.

@Salazaar/MadduckUK : Destruct? you just type that in on the main menu and it loads.

I was having a look at opentyrian last night, there are ports of it for GBA, GB colour and the PSP now