The BEST game ever.

[Vindekarr]

Guild Wars 2. I've been mooching along, getting about a level a day, sometimes a week, but I'm enjoying it like no other MMO I've ever played. It feels more like an RPG that got converted to be an MMO than a traditional MMO does. There are still a few issues, but I haven't seen an MMO this good since early WoW. And it's hard, too, you don't have a whole lot of health even on a heavy armour class, and I really appreciate that. There's a genuine challenge to some fights, which require stratergy and a plan instead of hammering on the number keys.

 

You also feel like the game was designed to reward exploring. The map is ungodly huge, but split into sectors with their own climate, enemy types, dungeons, and even races. Once you find all the Vistas(scenic overlooks), POIs(noteworthy locations) complete all the quests, and acquire all available Skill points, you get a usually enormous money and items reward, which is fantasticly rewarding and makes the game feel much less grindey. There's something to be said for a game that rewards you for just wandering off. The game also downlevels you if you enter a low level zone, but you still have a small chance to get loot your level, and any World Boss chest will be filled with gear for you. This means you still get rewarded for mooching around low level zones, and can srtill get a decent amount of XP and money for doing Events(area based multiplayer quests that spawn randomly, like Skyrim's Radiant)

Edited November 26, 2012 by Vindekarr

[XanAlderon]

Oh boy, as a young kid playing games as complete escapism, in my games I looked primarily for interesting characters, awesome story and set-pieces and more than anything, a journey to strange and diversified locations. To me, 'Super Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door' was literally everything I wanted, combined with a sort of quirky humour and charm I really dug back then. In fact, I'm pretty sure if I dusted it off and played it again, I could enjoy it as much as I did back then.

 

Other mentions for back then would be Animal Crossing, Zelda: the Wind waker (and all the Zeldas since then), and Mario Kart.

 

But as I got older and migrated to PC gaming, Morrowind definitely took over it's place for me, and I certainly sunk many an hour into it haha, and then Oblivion, and then, albeit to a lesser extent, Skyrim. These days it's all Metal Gear Solid, and Grand Theft Auro haha, hardly as colourful as the games of my childhood.

[Deleted472477User]

For me, aside from Morrowind, my big favorites are the old SSI Gold Box Dungeons and dragons games like Pool of Radiance, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and so on. Also, Wasteland. Spiritual ancestor of the Fallout Series. Edited November 28, 2012 by nyxalinth

[Zephyr2011]

In order of when they affected me.

 

Zelda OOT (N64) This and super mario bros for the NES were the first video games I ever touched.I remember watching my older brothers play hours and hours of this and I just loved watching it. A little later I took it up myself with all of its awesomeness. Recently I purchased a new N64 (new to me) and a copy of OOT. The second I found out my local video game store had N64s and OOT I pulled out my wallet and bought both without a second though. I don't think there's any other game that would make me do that.

 

Age of Mythology (PC) My first RTS and the first game I ever bought. I loved this game, I still love it. I pop it in every couple of months and play several games of it. It has such a great feel to it and has, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the most creative take on an RTS I have played. There have been countless historical based RTSs but only one based on Mythology and I only wish that there had been a sequel (or two, or three). I also played a lot of AOE (1, 2 and 3) and Empire Earth (currently playing a marathon game of that in space so still get some fun)

 

Morrowind (PC) was the first open-ended RPG I ever played and I love it to death, still installed on my computer and has been since Oblivion came out (that's when I first picked up Morrowind GOTY). My only issue with Morrowind was how clunky combat felt, at least compared to the other Elder Scrolls games since then (the whole dual wielding and such makes it hard to go back to the awkward click and movement button mash fest) but the depth of the game was so amazing. I have logged somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 hours in Morrowind without ever finishing the main quest or any guild line more than once (don't hold me to the last one, but I'm pretty confident) the sheer breadth and magnitude of everything there was to do in Morrowind was just amazing and the best part of the game. It felt utterly massive which is what I miss most about it in Skyrim and Oblivion where with less than half the time I put into Morrowind I've found every location and completed almost every quest. Morrowind just rocked my world and is what changed the games I play from RTS to more RPG

 

KOTOR I and II (PC) another huge RPG for me that I played to death, unfortunately my copies of both are bugged on my computer now or something because every time I try to play them, whether I reinstall it or not, it doesn't want to work. As others have already said, the intimacy you felt in that game, and the raw emotions it could portray with its cinematography-like feel and the different ways to play it was great. The story itself was fairly linear but you still had a great amount of roleplaying depth in your actions, defining yourself and your companions. Truly a great couple of games and a series I wish I could see more iterations of (the heavily criticized MMO does not count).

 

Mass Effect Series (xbox 360) I only recently got into this series after a friend suggested and loaned them to me recently. These games are amazing and I feel all of the interconnectivity in them that I did in KOTOR. They have a similar feel but without the strange turn-based/real time hybrid combat of KOTOR. Rather than sing its praises, I'll put it into perspective. I got the series at 2 o'clock one day and by 8 o'clock the next night I had more than 12 hours of play on my save on ME1, with several deaths causing me to replay quite a few chunks, so I'd probably played more like 14 hours. I also was not home during all of this time, so basically every waking moment I was able to be at my TV, I was playing it. That's the closest I've come to getting addicted to a game. A little scary for me.

[james234]

favorite games huh? well here it is

 

warcraft 3(dota): why? it's still awesome despite quite old. you picked a hero and then play it, buy item, creeping, ganking, killing....... and teamwork is important.

 

fallout new vegas: favorite game of all time.

 

company of heroes: best ww2 strategy game i've ever played.

 

the sims 3: yes i know it's weird for a boy/man but really the whole gameplay is cool especially the house designing aspect.

 

space ranger: interesting turn based rpg and the only turn based game i like. the dialogue are especially funny.

 

bad company 2: interesting shooter which require coordinated tactics and not tacti-cool and crappy like call of duty modern warfare and black ops series

 

left 4 dead series: what's more funny other than blasting infected head with a shotgun or crowned a witch?

 

that's all

[Georgiegril]

Pong.

 

Seriously. Although technically I think it wasn't a PC game. Four pixels pushing one pixel back and forth, and it sucked hours if not days out of the lives of folks back in the day. That has to be a victory in minimalism, at the very least.

[Vindekarr]

Call Of Duty Black Ops 2.

 

This one get's a mention for being absolutely nothing like what I expected. There's something great about seeing an old franchise try to relaunch itself and I think COD did that this time. The gunplay is as good as it ever has been, but the far greater effort put into story really pays off. For too long shooters with strong multiplayers, such as Battlefield 3, have had low-grade, tacked-on campaigns, assuming nobody plays them anyway. With Black Ops 2, and Halo 4, a trend towards the campaign as a major part of the game, is clearly visible.

 

Tetris. Because Tetris. Tetris is potentially describable as a Class-A substance it's so addictive, the little thing can suck hours out of yur day, make you miss public transport, and completely destroy your timetable. And all this by stacking bricks. Like Pong, Asteroids, and Space Invaders, it's a superb triumph of absolute minimalism.

Edited December 2, 2012 by Vindekarr

[RubikNight]

Oddly enough my absaloutley devout game of all time is The World Ends With You on NDS.

 

Incredible sprites, set in modern day Tokyo, fantastic soundtrack and visuals, and story that is just brilliant and would warrant a purchase alone!

 

Another would be Virtue's Last Reward on PS Vita/3DS. Visual novel with puzzles that are a pain, but the drive of the 30 hour campaign with 23 endings is groundbreaking.

[TYPUNK715]

My most favorite game so far over the years would be Two Worlds.(One and Two)

But other than that:

Xbox: Halo 2

Xbox 360: Gears of War (All of 'em)

Pc(Mac is for queers!!!(No offense)): Half-Life (All of 'em)

Nintendo: Super Smash Bros. (Any)

PS: Crash Bandicoot Games

PS2: Tekken Games

PS3: Heavy Rain or Little Big Planet

[SSGB21]

I'll go in reverse order for my list of top 5 games.

 

5th: Dishonored (P.C.). A very recent addition to my list, but it deserves it. This is the game that got me into stealth games and I've been playing a lot of Thief lately. This game has great voice acting, a well written story, fantastic world building, fun gameplay and a reasistically sized city! I hope that they do make a sequel, but only if the don't reopen Corvo and Emily's story. I want to see more of the isles and also the Pandysian Continent rather than just more Dunwall.

 

Joint 3rd: Fallout 3 (P.C.). After Skyrim got me into open-world RPGs, I wanted more. I've always liked the idea of people struggling after a nuclear apocalypse and with a believable (for me, at least) world, Fallout 3 delivers this. Being able to mod the game was a great thing as well.

 

Joint 3rd: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (P.C.). This game passed me by when it was first released, but that was because of me not knowing what genre of game it was! After watching the start of a Let's Play at around Christmas 2011, I decided to buy it. I do not regret this decision.

 

2nd: Super Paper Mario (Wii). You may think this an unusual choice for second best, but I really like this game. It has great music, good humour, fantastic storyline, deep and quirky characters, etc. I think this is a great game.

 

1st: MOTHER 3 (GBA). You may not have heard of this game released in 2006 because of its Japan-Only status, but it can be played in English with a Fan Translation. The game has great music, a quirky and offbeat sense of humour, uses mood whiplash fantastically, has an amazing story, great characters, but possibly what propells this to my #1 spot is the minor details such as

the flowers at Hinawa's grave changing colour as the story progresses

and the fact that until Chapter 4, when the story takes a sudden turn, almost all of the characters, important or not, have unique names. This game lives up to its tagline of "Strange, Funny and Heartrending."

 

 

Those are, in my opinion, which is my own and no one else's, The BEST games ever.