Top Games you have EVER played
- Thread starter The Liverpool Way
- Start date
S1mon
Registered User
Top 10:
TES III Morrowind GOTY (XBOX) -spent hundreds + hundreds of hours on it. Prefer the vanilla version, though the modding opportunities are remarkable.
Battlefield 1942 (PC)
Fallout 3 (XBOX 360)
TES IV Oblivion (PC)
ISS Pro 98 (PSX)
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (PS2)
Arx Fatalis (XBOX)
Rise of Nations Gold Edition (PC)
Half-Life (PC)
TES II Daggerfall (PC)
TES III Morrowind GOTY (XBOX) -spent hundreds + hundreds of hours on it. Prefer the vanilla version, though the modding opportunities are remarkable.
Battlefield 1942 (PC)
Fallout 3 (XBOX 360)
TES IV Oblivion (PC)
ISS Pro 98 (PSX)
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (PS2)
Arx Fatalis (XBOX)
Rise of Nations Gold Edition (PC)
Half-Life (PC)
TES II Daggerfall (PC)
considine46
Registered User
Well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
PES 5
GTA Vice city
GTA San Andreas
Gran Turismo 4
Road Rash (mega drive)
Skool Daze (spectrum)
BMX XXX (PS2)
Tony Hawkes (any platform,any game!)
Michael Jackson moonwalk (mega drive,Cheeeeeeeeeeeese)
Pes 2009
PES 5
GTA Vice city
GTA San Andreas
Gran Turismo 4
Road Rash (mega drive)
Skool Daze (spectrum)
BMX XXX (PS2)
Tony Hawkes (any platform,any game!)
Michael Jackson moonwalk (mega drive,Cheeeeeeeeeeeese)
Pes 2009
muscularmatt
Registered User
has anyone mentioned and of the civ games? the ultimate ocd ridden control
freak games
freak games
bongplayer
Registered User
PES (apart from 08/09).
NBA 2K series (always!)
GOD OF WAR
NBA 2K series (always!)
GOD OF WAR
The Liverpool Way
Registered User
Wow! Tottaly forgot that I made this thread! Haha 
Here are some more that I will now add to the list:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
PES2010
Uncharted 2: Among Theives
Here are some more that I will now add to the list:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
PES2010
Uncharted 2: Among Theives
Eric Clyde
Registered User
Final Fantasy - The majority of the franchise. I will pick Final Fantasy IV (SNES), VI (SNES), VII (PS1), IX (PS1) as my stand out favourites.
Mafia (PC)
Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)
Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest (SNES)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
GoldenEye 007 (N64)
Banjo-Kazooie (N64)
Perfect Dark (N64)
Super Mario 64 (N64)
Super Mario World 3 (SNES)
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) (PS2)
Metal Gear Solid (PS1)
Sonic the Hedgehog (MD)
Mafia (PC)
Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)
Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest (SNES)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
GoldenEye 007 (N64)
Banjo-Kazooie (N64)
Perfect Dark (N64)
Super Mario 64 (N64)
Super Mario World 3 (SNES)
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) (PS2)
Metal Gear Solid (PS1)
Sonic the Hedgehog (MD)
Nifty1Pound50
Insert user title here
As good as some of the 'series' games are, like Pro Evolution Soccer (let's face it, that is the game - whichever version - that brought all of us here originally), they are definitely 9 months to a year's worth of gaming. Towards the release date of the next instalment, we are all gagging for the new game.
I just can't put a game that has a very definite lifespan into my top games ever list, as good as they were. I mean, imagine Konami said, "Right, that's it. There will be no PES 2011. The next one will be 2012." Can you see yourself in a year's time still going at PES 2010 happily, knowing that you've got another year to wait? Maybe you can - maybe it's a mentality thing, knowing there's a new one coming out that heightens anticipation. But I'll tell you this - once PES6 came out (the last one I owned), I didn't ever have a craving to play PES2, for example.
I still get cravings, from time to time, to play CM 97/98. I have owned every single one since then, almost. But there's something about "he goes past one...and he goes past another...he's only got one to beat...GOAL FOR INSERT TEAM NAME HERE!!" that still gets me. Memories like that define games for me. The fact that I still have that memory says it all.
In a similar vein (in terms of vividness of memory for a game), I have to mention Civilization II. When I first bought the game, I spent ages trying to kill a buffalo. Ages. I just did not get the game. No-one had told me about it. My mate had dropped it round on a CD and told me to play it. So I did. It took me about 10 minutes to install the game. I spent another 10 minutes or so trying to work out what the game was about. I then spent the next hour trying to kill a buffalo.
Eventually, I built a city. Then I harvested the buffalo and turned it into food. Bingo. I was hooked. In a moment. This game was amazingly easy to mod, as well. As was CM 97/98. Me and a friend re-designed Civ II to the point where we gave it another year of playability at least.
In the same way, CM 97/98 allowed you to edit the commentary text. At the time, this made the game so much more unpredictable (my mate did my copy, I did his. Not knowing 4-5 sentences before something's going to happen that it's going to happen is phenomenal after you've learnt the sequences off by heart!). In about June 2000, my database was up to date. And yes, I did own 98/99. And 1999/00. It mattered not.
I feel sorry for people who's earliest console memories are these next-gen ones. Although I guess in 10 years they'll probably look back at them in the same way I look back on games whose 'engines' were largely made up .txt and .jpg files.
The entire game engine of Civ II was contained in a single .txt file. It was phenomenal. The whole technology tree, all the unit attributes, special attributes, resource information - everything.
It also introduced me, properly, to multiplayer gaming that wasn't an FPS or a racing game. Me and two mates used to play 'hotseat' games of Civ II. On a world map that one of my friends built using the in-built editor and an Atlas. We historically placed the starting locations. We named the cities of both us and the AI. We drew the units in MS Paint, one pixel at a time. It was our game.
Generic, once-a-year data update on the same game engine can never compete with this. And I reckon I'll stand by that same point of view in 10 years.
I just can't put a game that has a very definite lifespan into my top games ever list, as good as they were. I mean, imagine Konami said, "Right, that's it. There will be no PES 2011. The next one will be 2012." Can you see yourself in a year's time still going at PES 2010 happily, knowing that you've got another year to wait? Maybe you can - maybe it's a mentality thing, knowing there's a new one coming out that heightens anticipation. But I'll tell you this - once PES6 came out (the last one I owned), I didn't ever have a craving to play PES2, for example.
I still get cravings, from time to time, to play CM 97/98. I have owned every single one since then, almost. But there's something about "he goes past one...and he goes past another...he's only got one to beat...GOAL FOR INSERT TEAM NAME HERE!!" that still gets me. Memories like that define games for me. The fact that I still have that memory says it all.
In a similar vein (in terms of vividness of memory for a game), I have to mention Civilization II. When I first bought the game, I spent ages trying to kill a buffalo. Ages. I just did not get the game. No-one had told me about it. My mate had dropped it round on a CD and told me to play it. So I did. It took me about 10 minutes to install the game. I spent another 10 minutes or so trying to work out what the game was about. I then spent the next hour trying to kill a buffalo.
Eventually, I built a city. Then I harvested the buffalo and turned it into food. Bingo. I was hooked. In a moment. This game was amazingly easy to mod, as well. As was CM 97/98. Me and a friend re-designed Civ II to the point where we gave it another year of playability at least.
In the same way, CM 97/98 allowed you to edit the commentary text. At the time, this made the game so much more unpredictable (my mate did my copy, I did his. Not knowing 4-5 sentences before something's going to happen that it's going to happen is phenomenal after you've learnt the sequences off by heart!). In about June 2000, my database was up to date. And yes, I did own 98/99. And 1999/00. It mattered not.
I feel sorry for people who's earliest console memories are these next-gen ones. Although I guess in 10 years they'll probably look back at them in the same way I look back on games whose 'engines' were largely made up .txt and .jpg files.
The entire game engine of Civ II was contained in a single .txt file. It was phenomenal. The whole technology tree, all the unit attributes, special attributes, resource information - everything.
It also introduced me, properly, to multiplayer gaming that wasn't an FPS or a racing game. Me and two mates used to play 'hotseat' games of Civ II. On a world map that one of my friends built using the in-built editor and an Atlas. We historically placed the starting locations. We named the cities of both us and the AI. We drew the units in MS Paint, one pixel at a time. It was our game.
Generic, once-a-year data update on the same game engine can never compete with this. And I reckon I'll stand by that same point of view in 10 years.
Eric Clyde
Registered User
For me, I play FIFA or PES when I'm relaxing. While they are good football games as well as sport in general, sports games would not be anywhere near my favourite games list.
Jaden-Yuki21
Registered User
Prince Of Persia - Sands Of Time, Warrior Within, The two Thrones, the newest one with the new prince and Elika
Mass Effect
X3 Reunion and Terran Conflict
Prototype
Tomb Raider Series
Dark Sector
Thats all I guess
Mass Effect
X3 Reunion and Terran Conflict
Prototype
Tomb Raider Series
Dark Sector
Thats all I guess
Eric Clyde
Registered User
Dark Sector? The game was decent at best but I certainly wouldn't put it up there with the greatest.
ThaReaper01
Registered User
Halo 2
Pokemon (<-- Good times)
Pokemon (<-- Good times)
