Weekend Open Forum: What is your favorite video game franchise?

[VitalyT]

Starcraft 1 and 2. Before that - Descent 1,2,3

 

[cldmstrsn]

Hahaha. I like that. While I do not try to defend FF XIII I have to say over the years I have really come to like that game a lot. I enjoy for the music and visuals and I really like the battle system and it always reminds me of X. It just would have been nice to have the party together for a lot of the beginning and had some downtime rather than just on the run the entire time.

 

[SantistaUSA]

Gears of War and GTA series

 

[Guest]

-Metroid
-Tomb Raider
-Zelda

 

[Guest]

Zelda & Chrono trigger
Max Payne, not 3
Total War Games

 

[dikbozo]

Transport Tycoon Deluxe. The original tycoon game. The continuation of this through Open TTD is proof of its continuing support.

Carmageddon all versions. Just cause it is too much fun to run over pedestrians. BTW check out gog.com for it.

 

[captainawesome]

Mass Effect and all the Forgotten Realms (Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter). Dragon Age = not a fan.

 

[captainawesome]

Oh! I almost forgot. The timeless Dungeon Keeper

 

[thewind]

After the top 4 Their all about equal. I really love games and these are my favorite series:
1) Half-life (although I have to say its hard to get excited about any more since nothing has come out in so long...)
2) Bioshock (I like this game for the same reason I like Half-Life! An amazing story line!)
3) Max Paye (I haven't seen anyone put this but I love these games!
4) Batman series (Great story and gameplay)
5) Mass Effect (Story)
6) The Witcher (Imersion)
7) GTA series (exploration)
8) Saints Row (crazy fun)
9) Borderlands (Fun co-op)
10) Metro 2033
11) F.E.A.R.
12) Alice
13) Crysis
14) Halo
15) Dead Space
16) Kane & Lynch
17) Red Faction:
18) Resident Evil

 

[darkzelda]

The Legend Of Zelda, The Witcher and the Total War series... Thousands of hours playing those franchises.

 

[63Jax]

Half life, Diablo, StarCraft, The Witcher, Dead Space, Borderlands.

 

[Percy PKS]

- Final Fantasy
- GTA
- Elder Scrolls

 

[ArXiv76]

Kings Quest
Space Quest
Leisure Suit Larry
Hero's Quest
The Island of Dr. Brain Series
The Legend of Kyrandia
Resident Evil
Dune series
Monkey Island
Doom
Unreal
Elder Scrolls
Half Life
Zelda
Super Mario Bros.
Boarderlands
Mass Effect

And many more. Thinking about it for a second makes me think 31 years of gaming adds up.

 

[Guest]

Placed in a random order:
The Witcher
The Legend of Zelda
Heroes of Might and Magic
The Elder Scrolls
Gothic (I, II with add-on, III without add-on)
Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Mass Effect
Thief
Neverwinter Nights
Infinity Engine games

 

[Kakichi]

My number one would have to be Final Fantasy. It's the series I really got into ever since FF2US, and then FF3US. When FF7 had come out, I was skeptical of the new sci-fi universe, but when I couldn't stop listening to the music and playing the game on long nights with my friends, it and all things video games had made a huge influence in my life. I'll never forget opening my PS and FFVII on Christmas morning that year.

Chrono Trigger, Legend of Kyrandia, EverQuest, WoW, Zelda, Mario, Uncharted, Elder Scrolls (specially Morrowwind when it came out, damn that game had some mood and environment to it, and the music!), Fallout, Sonic, Warcraft III, Starcraft, Heroes of Might and Magic III (so many long nights playing that game hotseat with my friends), and Assassin's Creed II.

It would take far too long to type explain why every one of these games of franchises has meant so much to me, but they've all held a special place in my gamers' heart for as long as I've been able to hold my orginal Nintendo controller.

 

[TS-56336]

Wow, plenty! The Mass Effect Series, Doom, Quake, and Grand Theft Auto.

 

[Cota]

WoW, almost all the answers are very actual o.o

The Legend of Zelda: since I hugged that Nes box for half an hour, until it went dull on the wii.

Metroid: After I hugged that box until that guy couldn't play on it...

Elder Scrolls: from Daggerfall when the ship was still wood and the internet cafe had a free burner (No they didnt sold it on my country).

AoE: <3 until AoE 3 meh...

From up there are all the "standard" game almost all play.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

There are quite a few I like. Assassins Creed, Bioshock, Half Life, Batman and others but nothing comes close to GTA.

 

[Guest]

Fallout and Total War series

 

[Guest]

Red Alert. All C&C series were good till huge disepotment in Red Alert 3. After that it's just downhill. Total War series get my blood going always. Is Company of Heroes and it's 2 expansions a series or not? Civ realy did a good job whit Civ 5. I wold go on and on. There is no short answer here

 

[cmbjive]

Favorite? You're asking me to choose? Why would you do that?

 

[cmbjive]

Tomb Raider 2013 dials up the stupidity even further by being the Rambo wannabe (seriously, watch Rambo first, then play through TR2013 and you'll see what I mean) that walks like a reboot, trying to turn Croft into a grizzled, desperate survivor on a semi-tribalistic island that just happens to have an army of samurais in gleamingly clean, full plate armour to boot. She goes through apparent pangs of guilt the first time she kills Bambis mum and a man who looked like he was trying to rape her but turns out he just wanted to throttle her (the timings on the QTEs are a bit obtuse), but after the one kill of each, you're happily wiping out all of the wildlife in each area map and building up for the Accomplished Killer perk. Such a brilliant game with tone that couldn't be more consistent if the developers had Croft gently giggling to herself as her bodycount rises higher and higher.
The big thing that makes me laugh though is the way the focus shifts around Laras body from game to game. It started with an apparent mouse slip accident on the first game that gave Croft a Kim Possible-esque pointy set of double Ds, then it's moved around to her rear, her legs, her skin getting dirty and now to her hair. I wonder if the bookies are willing to take bets on what's going to get the key focus in the next game...

You do realize it's a prequel, right?

 

[Lurker101]

Does that invalidate a single thing I've said so far? Nope? Didn't think so.

 

[cmbjive]

Does that invalidate a single thing I've said so far? Nope? Didn't think so.

I wasn't trying to invalidate anything you've said. It's your opinion. I state it's a prequel because this is the first time that Lara is put in those situations. Her improvising is what sets the way for a more refined Lara Croft that thinks and plans ahead in the future games.

I happen to think many of the things you criticize worked well, making it the best Tomb Raider ever created. She was better to control than prior iterations (although Tomb Raider Legend's controls weren't bad either), combat is more intricate and it's a story that I could get fully invested in. In no way did I see Lara Croft as Rambo or Kim Possiblesque (besides, Lara Croft came well before Kim Possible so it would be Kim Possible that is more like Lara Croft)

 

[Magic Rat]

It would have to be Need for Speed. I enjoyed not only the game play but watching the amazing changes in the technology of the games themselves. I was so amazed by "how real" the cars looked and drove the first time I played it until the latest versions which are just insane. I'm now blown away by Forza 6 and Project Cars. Yeah Sony and I came to a parting of the ways over what they insist on calling "backwards compatibility". Looks like its XBone S for me. And my PC of course.