What are the most memorable games you have played?
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Skidmarksdeluxe
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GTA Vice City comfortably at no. 1
GTA San Andreas, GTA IV
Half Life, HL2, Ep.1 & 2
Batman Arkham Asylum and Arkham City
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Doom
Assassins Creed 2, Brotherhood & Revelations
NFS Shift, Shift Unleashed & Porsche 2000
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
COD 1 & 2
CMR 2005, DiRT, DiRT 2, DiRT 3
GTA San Andreas, GTA IV
Half Life, HL2, Ep.1 & 2
Batman Arkham Asylum and Arkham City
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Doom
Assassins Creed 2, Brotherhood & Revelations
NFS Shift, Shift Unleashed & Porsche 2000
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
COD 1 & 2
CMR 2005, DiRT, DiRT 2, DiRT 3
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Seraphim401
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Legacy of Kain series
Tiberium Wars
Darksouls
The Witcher
The Witcher 2
NFSPU
Tiberium Wars
Darksouls
The Witcher
The Witcher 2
NFSPU
Cannot resist: What did You do, and how did You pass your time in prison?
On topic, memorable in a good way are also my favs:
C&C Tiberian Sun & Red Alert 2,
NFS Porsche, NFS Underground 1/2,
Return to Castle Wolfenstein,
Mafia
Max Payne 1/2,
Half Life 2 & Portal,
FEAR (little girl actually evoked fear in me when I first saw her),
GTA series (excluding 5, this game was overhyped and story seemed weak, unpolished to Me, not that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, It was just meh )
Splinter Cell 1/2/3
Dishonored,
Far Cry 3
Also I forget failures pretty quick, but since I never buy games fresh, I have time to read user reviews and think I simply avoid weak titles. I haven't finished Farcry 2, it bugged for me in the middle of game, sold it off, never looked back.
hitech0101
Posts: 450 +36
Assassin's creed 1 & 2
Cycloid Torus
Posts: 4,892 +1,711
Most memorable... Fallout 1
Most memorable as a series, Fallout: 1,2,3 & NV (Tactics fell a bit short)
Darn close: Xcom, Morrowind, Jagged Alliance 2, Far Cry 2 (a fine ending), Witcher 2
As yet unplayed: Far Cry 3 & 4, Dishonored, Bioshock Infinite, Planetscape Torment, Fallout 4, Witcher 3
As yet a twinkle in the eye: Van Buren (Fallout 3 1/2)
Most memorable as a series, Fallout: 1,2,3 & NV (Tactics fell a bit short)
Darn close: Xcom, Morrowind, Jagged Alliance 2, Far Cry 2 (a fine ending), Witcher 2
As yet unplayed: Far Cry 3 & 4, Dishonored, Bioshock Infinite, Planetscape Torment, Fallout 4, Witcher 3
As yet a twinkle in the eye: Van Buren (Fallout 3 1/2)
Descent II, Half-Life, Quake 2, and Mass Effect 2.
Halo 2 - anyone? I'm stunned by the lack of seeing this in the responses. This was the first console FPS to get multiplayer right, and probably due to its massive success is the reason we even have Xbox Live today. Hands down THE game spent the most time with. Friends would come over and just would not want to leave after playing it. Couple of hours would turn quickly into all night sessions, and I just couldn't ever get enough of it. First time I've had 'addiction' symptoms with a video game heh
Final Fantasy 7, 8
Bioshock
Kirby's Adventure
NBA Jam
Street Fighter 2
Fight Night Champion
Final Fantasy 7, 8
Bioshock
Kirby's Adventure
NBA Jam
Street Fighter 2
Fight Night Champion
TadMSTR
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I concur with Grandia 2. I had it for the Dreamcast and remember at the time thinking how it had such a good story and the graphics were pretty amazing. In those days it was usually RPGs with good graphics had crappy stories. Grandia 2 definitely broke that mold.
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Raoul Duke
Pong (released in 1971)
Space Invaders
Missile Command
Pac-man
Castle Wolfenstein on Commodore 64 (how did they have good games on 5 inch floppies?)
Half Life 1 & 2
There was another great Castle Wolfenstein, but I cannot recall the name.
MotoGp 15
Space Invaders
Missile Command
Pac-man
Castle Wolfenstein on Commodore 64 (how did they have good games on 5 inch floppies?)
Half Life 1 & 2
There was another great Castle Wolfenstein, but I cannot recall the name.
MotoGp 15
Uncle Al
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The first was the best .... Star Trek as played on the old University of Louisville main frame via our Western Union TTY running at 110 baud. Might get in one strategic move a day, even two on weekends and holidays when computer services were closed and nobody else could get in ........ Of course, everything since then has been pretty impressive too!
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Mr Mister
Mario all stars
Versutus
Posts: 69 +44
Diablo 1-2-3 - I'm ~1500 hours down in the latest, and did two 99ers on Battle.net few years ago.
Desperados+Helldorado (basically Desperados 3) - Commandos-like strategy game, played them through like 5-6 times.
Company of Heroes - one of the best game ever, it's exciting, it's fast, it's tactical, it's the best.
Colin McRae Rally 2 - played in multi, in single, played with friends, played it through on the hardest,
Need for Speed Underground 1-2 - I think the best in the series
Migth and Magic VI - my first RPG ever, never played it through, but started like a hundred times
C64 era: Heart of Africa, Pitstop 2, ACE 2, Pitfall, Wizard of Wor (OMG, BEST MULTIPLAYER EVER!)
Modern games: Life is Strange (love at first sight), Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Football Manager, Serious Sam series, Mirror's Edge, Spec Ops: The Line, Puzzle Agent.
Desperados+Helldorado (basically Desperados 3) - Commandos-like strategy game, played them through like 5-6 times.
Company of Heroes - one of the best game ever, it's exciting, it's fast, it's tactical, it's the best.
Colin McRae Rally 2 - played in multi, in single, played with friends, played it through on the hardest,
Need for Speed Underground 1-2 - I think the best in the series
Migth and Magic VI - my first RPG ever, never played it through, but started like a hundred times
C64 era: Heart of Africa, Pitstop 2, ACE 2, Pitfall, Wizard of Wor (OMG, BEST MULTIPLAYER EVER!)
Modern games: Life is Strange (love at first sight), Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Football Manager, Serious Sam series, Mirror's Edge, Spec Ops: The Line, Puzzle Agent.
Altho I haven't had time to game lately due to being a dental school patient and having cataract surgeries (5 total) having been somewhat blind, the recent games that come to mind are the various call of duties that match the call letters of a community college I went to in 1996 (after having 4 bachelors degrees in 1981 from the u. of illinois), college of dupage to learn pcs. The most memorable which may have caused me to give up my medical career (in computers when you work for the man/govt., you make more money including the benefits anyway) is a 5000 line basic game I listed off my high school's, downers grove south, hp 2000 mini computer and typed in at uic called trek73. I listed this on a paper terminal a nice manager let me use when I worked at darien, il. mcdonalds. Star wars may have appeared thereafter and star trek movies might have appeared. Must have found some extraterrestrials altho I don't believe in them. I found trek73 online years later written in c++, compiled it, and put it on my brother's hp 2000 pc that I had him buy in about 2008. Now the sequels to star wars may have appeared after disney bought the franchise, and star trek is doing new episodes of the tv show. It just basically looks like a command prompt game with only a command prompt display. Memorable.
Squid Surprise
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Accidentally deleted my post... will try and recreate...
Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Still play today
WarCraft 2: I actually purchased Kali, which was a service to enable multiplayer on games that only had IPX/LAN multiplayer modes - Duke Nukem and WarCraft 2 being the most popular. Long before Battlenet...
Civilization 1-5 (6 sucks): I still play 5 a lot... 4 might be the best of the series though...
Wing Commander: Recently downloaded from GOG - still a ton of fun to play
Monday Night Football: Years ahead of its time, I still hum the old themesong when I'm watching football on TV My defensive line was awe-inspiring (simply moving your lineman a step to the right or left before the snap virtually assured you of a sack!).
Faceoff: Best PC hockey game ever, also years ahead of its time - and I still have the themesong in my head to this day!
Hardball 2: Accolade made the best games, including this one, the best baseball series ever made for the PC - 2 was heavily focused on stats (which made it my favourite), whereas 3-6 focused on graphics...
Lakers vs. Celtics: Made when PCs didn't have the processing power to have 10 moving players at once (players basically just stood still if they didn't have the ball - or ran to predetermined locations), this was the best basketball game - long before NBA Jam!
Fifa '96: This game actually made me build my first dedicated gaming PC - Pentium 166 with 16MB of RAM!!! 16MB!!! That was INSANE!!!
StarControl: Apparently they are making #4 - I'll be watching!
Elder Scrolls 4: I prefer it to Skyrim, and am still playing it
NES/Gameboy/N64: Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Tetris, Mario Tennis - I still remember playing Gameboy Tetris against a buddy who refused to stop playing until he won a match (they were best 4/7)... ended up playing until past 2am....
Special Mention to the Freeware game "Pong Kombat", which was simply Pong but with the ability to fire missile weapons (and do fatalities after the match). Your paddle would match the colour of a Mortal Kombat character, and the cheezy voiceovers were classic.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Still play today
WarCraft 2: I actually purchased Kali, which was a service to enable multiplayer on games that only had IPX/LAN multiplayer modes - Duke Nukem and WarCraft 2 being the most popular. Long before Battlenet...
Civilization 1-5 (6 sucks): I still play 5 a lot... 4 might be the best of the series though...
Wing Commander: Recently downloaded from GOG - still a ton of fun to play
Monday Night Football: Years ahead of its time, I still hum the old themesong when I'm watching football on TV
My defensive line was awe-inspiring (simply moving your lineman a step to the right or left before the snap virtually assured you of a sack!).Faceoff: Best PC hockey game ever, also years ahead of its time - and I still have the themesong in my head to this day!
Hardball 2: Accolade made the best games, including this one, the best baseball series ever made for the PC - 2 was heavily focused on stats (which made it my favourite), whereas 3-6 focused on graphics...
Lakers vs. Celtics: Made when PCs didn't have the processing power to have 10 moving players at once (players basically just stood still if they didn't have the ball - or ran to predetermined locations), this was the best basketball game - long before NBA Jam!
Fifa '96: This game actually made me build my first dedicated gaming PC - Pentium 166 with 16MB of RAM!!! 16MB!!! That was INSANE!!!
StarControl: Apparently they are making #4 - I'll be watching!
Elder Scrolls 4: I prefer it to Skyrim, and am still playing it
NES/Gameboy/N64: Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Tetris, Mario Tennis - I still remember playing Gameboy Tetris against a buddy who refused to stop playing until he won a match (they were best 4/7)... ended up playing until past 2am....
Special Mention to the Freeware game "Pong Kombat", which was simply Pong but with the ability to fire missile weapons (and do fatalities after the match). Your paddle would match the colour of a Mortal Kombat character, and the cheezy voiceovers were classic.
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adisoftcafe
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Heroes 2 before Voodoo era, Heroes 3, and after, Starcraft, Starcraft, Starcraft
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