Best game of all time!

TinCool

Basing my answer on the amount of time that I played one game over the years, I'd have to say Quake II

po0k

Q233R tbh

theciscokid

zelda 64

G

Mario brothers on the NES!

Counter-Strike for MP

G

Mario Cart was the craic too

po0k

Lotus 2 Turbo Challenge

The theme tune rocked.

Alot of those old tunes should be revived and a nice remix done with them.

Kevok

Zelda: LTTP
Zelda: OOT
Eternal Darkness
FF VII
Shadowrun

But to name a few.

ObeyGiant

Finally got my grubby little hands on Ikaruga for my Dreamcast.
Loving it. It's well up there.
And Ico, for being about the only game of the past few years to wholly absorb me. Every spare chance I got, I was playing Ico.

Historically, looking back, I'd say Monkey Island 1, and Excitebike 2 (with track designer!) were the two games that kept me most entertained during my formative years.

ManWithThePlan

Zelda IV on the SNES is my favourite game of all time.

Alot of people saying Zelda 64.. pah!

Mortal Kombat II on the SNES has to be a close second!

Moriarty

Deus Ex

Followed by (in no particular order): Operation Flashpoint, The Settlers 2 and Neverwinter Nights.

<edit: Ooops, and monkey island 1/2. >

Earthhorse

Super Mario Brothers 3
Monkey Island
Street Fighter II
Faxanadu
Elite
Rogue
Doom II

Just some games that I remember having a lot of fun playing.

segadreamcast

Games that I had the most fun with (therefore were the "best" in my opinion)

Metal Gear Solid
Street Fighter II
Soul Calibur
Sonic 2/3 (the memories... eight of us crowded around sonic 3 doing 1-on-1 games.)
Mario 3 (other memories... me and my dad playing Mario 3 into the wee hours.)
and finally the most recent would be Halo (I'll be mobbed for saying that, but it's always a GREAT excuse to bring seven mates around and call out for Domino's . I think most of you who play Halo know what I mean...)

l3rian

GoldenEye

the graphics - really smooth movement and deaths, even with 10 badguys on screen
the sound - songs where fast, menacing and bond, i have all the music on mp3 now
the weapons - dual magnums made enemys fly 10 feet backwards
the multiplayer - as much fun as snes mario kart mixed with cs

Squall

Hmmm, this is a tough one. Probly these in no particular order

FFVII(Most engrosing RPG ever)

Dungeon Keeper (Impus natum , Class game, you get to be evil)

Starcraft (Cant believe no one mentioned it yet, Very cool in its day, and still so)

Imperium Galactica 1 (Great until it got to the stage where everything was reserched and you just built unstoppable fleets, Still one of me favourites, cant wait for IG III)

Caesar 2 (Plebs are needed)

Homeworld (looked stunning and had salvage corvettes )

Baldurs Gate/Shadows of amn series (Played all these through using the same character, got very attached )

I could go on for ages, but those are probly my all time favourites

ManWithThePlan

Originally posted by Squall
Dungeon Keeper (Impus natum , Class game, you get to be evil)

Good game. Very original idea and my brother still plays it!

bugs

Strider - arcade version was great, megadrive version was almost perfect, and the PC engine version (bet no ones played that) had a kind of fmv type thing going on .... best version.

Final fight - double dragon but fun

Tekken 3/tag - most fun you can have watching fighting without the addition of jelly and naked ladies.

batman_oh

hmm
tekken tag due to it bein stupidly deep and actually playin it on a european level
emm super bomberman for multiplayer larks aswell as original mariokart
street fighter2/ce/turbo for takin 4 years of my life
marioworld and donkey kong country for platform perfection
sonic for bein the only reason i ever envied megadrive owners
mario3 for bein too good when it came out
flimbos quest on c64 for the first levels music!
and thats about it

ManWithThePlan

Originally posted by batman_oh
..flimbos quest on c64 for the first levels music!..

That game ruled.
Used to be so envious of my cousin who owned that game!

tman

hmmmm... in no particular order.

quake - started playing it again recently, still love it to bits:)

super metroid - metroid fusion was pretty good as well, can't wait to play prime.

GtaIII - nuff said.

super mario kart - best multiplayer racing ever!
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how could i forget jedi knight 2
by far the best game that i've played in the last 6 months and easily the best star wars game ever (which isn't hard)

dopewars and acid tetris are 2 of my favourite freeware games ever, it's just a shame that dopewars has teamed up with gator recently:(

Asuka

Yup, you guessed it...

...Final Fantasy VII

A

mechanix

my top 3 would be........

1.ffvii
2.ffx
3.gta-vice city

poeticallydead

mario kart for the snes.... i rented that game so many times i could of bought it 6 times over

i've never played a FF game, don't appeal to me

and i really don't get jet set radio future

i loved the game that was bulit into the sega megedrive, you know the game you got when you didnt put a cartridge in!

Bounty Hunter

has got to be FF7 only just nudging out FFX because of it's superior bad-guy in the form of seiphiroth

to quote myself from a former thread about the best bad guy in a game

"Has got to be seiphiroth .
why????? you ask
1.makes the main charecter go insane and become unusable
2.torches your main characters hometown which contributes to no.1
3.kills the love interest in the game.
4.and finaly he also decides to destroy the world.
although I must admit hitler in wolfenstein 3D would be a close second."

DapperGent

Hmm this is almost too hard, anyways in no particular order:

Championship Manager 00-01: probably the game I've put most hours into, almost disconcertingly enjoyable especially when you first get into it.

Day of Defeat: Favourite ever multiplayer game.

Grim Fandango: most wonderful storyline I've ever had the pleasure to interact with - would make an amazing film.

Zelda 1 (NES): Genius.

Zelda (SNES): Genius.

Zelda 64: A work of art.

Super Mario Kart (SNES): Was still playing multiplayer games of it in a dingy attic room in college 10 years after it was released.

Civilisation 3: Fully patched it's brilliant.

Soul Calibur (DC): Best fighting game ever, especially when your flatmate is crap at it.

Starcraft: Favourite RTS ever, the different races and the storyline are very involving, though I never really enjoyed mutliplayer.

NBA 2K1 (DC): Unquestionably the best sports sim franchise ever. Single player was phenomenal and multiplayer seamless and natural, the commentary inparticular was lightyears ahead of anything and still is. Even if you ****ing hate basketball (as I did) it really is a big daddy of a game. "Killer facial Rod!"

Clintons Cat

half-life had to buy a Righteous grafics card just to play the thing.

Sand

Unreal Tournament - Unmatched even by its sequel. The most challenging, frustrating, annoying and rewarding game Ive ever played.

Road Rash 2/GTA Series - Lot of scope for silly fun, GTA 3 is the game one and two were trying to be tho a little bit let down by the consoley approach which made some missons too easy or unrealistic:| - Ill always love RR2 for when i kicked Natasha out in front of an oncoming truck - I still chuckle:)

Total War series - Only game to make you actually feel like your commanding a Samurai/ Feudal army rather than harvesting "energy" to build units to tank rush - the diplomacy/non battlefield side of things could do with some innovation but still good.

Baldurs Gate Series - Great story

Arx Fatalis - Great atmosphere, Morrowind as well - but it seems a bit more disjointed given the way so many cultures fit into the gameworld:|

Thief 2 - Incredible atmosphere, brilliant tension, very rewarding when you pull off the "impossible". Undisputed king of sneak em ups. Other games have tried to incorporate elements of it but have never succeeded in surpassing it - Hitman 2 makes its own bold strides from the original idea, but is let down by some terrible levels.

Spiffing

X-Com and UFO
Doom and Doom 2
GTA 1
Grand Prix
Worms World Party (great with a bunch of friends)
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Monkey Island 1 and 2
Day of the Tentacle
Indiana and the Fate of Atlantis
Unreal Tournament
Half-Life

ManWithThePlan

How could i forget the Championship Manager series?

If you are a soccer fan, it's true, 'it's the most important game of your life'.

Justice

in no order my top 5 games of all time (all PC).

CounterStrike-sheer numbers of hours lost to this game.
warlords 2. loved it.
sensible soccer 98. no better 2 player football game out there imo
Civ 2/3. still playing this game after 6 years
the last spot is a bit difficult to pick but i'll go for
baulders gate 1

public_enemy

1 - HALF-LIFE
2 - Thief 2 - The Metal Age
3 - Goldeneye
4 - Zelda 64
5 - MM2: Day Of The Tentacle

other games up there would have to include deus ex, civilization II, sonic 2, all the mario games, duke nukem 3d, operation flashpoint, iss 98, warcraft 2, c & c - red alert, gta 3, x-wing vs. tie fighter, mortal kombat 2, championship manager 2, unreal, sof, revenge of shinobi, golden axe, streets of rage, wipeout 64, f-zero x, banjo-kazooie, donkey kong country, doom, mega man, kirby's dream land, sim city, dungeon keeper, alpha centauri, sam & max hit the road, ea hockey, jonah lomu rugby, wolfenstein 3d.

...i'll be back to finish the list later