Greatest game of alllll time

tecmo04 · August 2005

id like to start a compelation of games that have surpassed all expectations are still great no matter who your playing with, what time of day, yada yada yada...

rules:
there are none!
any system, any time period...

My vote is tecmo super bowl for nintendo! (is my name a dead give away??)

halo 1 is a close second

VR3 · August 2005

Older Games -
Pong : Greatest Game on Earth
Pacman : Timeless
007 Goldeneye on N64 : Everything else is by far an imitation of a GREAT game.

Newer Games -
Halo 1 & 2 : no reason needed.

neomagus00 · August 2005

ditto, minus pacman, plus the Gran Turismo series

Tide · August 2005

Doom

tecmo04 · August 2005

was doom ever online or always solo?

VR3 · August 2005

Quake series was online

Doom 3 is online, as is the XBox doom (system link, 4 players - 4 xboxes)

PolkThug · August 2005

Wolfenstein 3D

From what I remember, this is the first good FPS I ever played, and it laid the path for the all other FPS's to follow.

aaharvel · August 2005

I don't play vgames anymore but Enjoy some old school threads so here we go:

The Legend Of Zelda I (NES)
The Legend Of Zelda III (SNES)
Actraiser (SNES)
Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night (Playstation)
Intelligent Cube (Playstation)
Super Mario Kart (SNES)

the last 2 were more addicting than Crack/Cocaine :eek:

Mike682 · August 2005

For old school games, my favorite was Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System.....man that game kicked butt during its time....

Emlyn · August 2005

Pong

Asteroids, Defender, Space Invaders, etc. on Atari 2600 system

Doom (the whole series, clearing a room with the BFG)

Tomb Raider (the first one, nice guns plus great story)

Goldeneye for N64 (amazing game, love the sniper rifle zoom)

Half Life

BrentMcGhee · August 2005

WOW!! goldeneye on the 64. That game was incrdible, the mulitplayer in the game was so much fun. I always kicked my friends asses

I think i will have to download tha game on a rom today so i can play it again....

landry_p2000 · August 2005

Millipede on the Atari 2600. :cool:

Wait a minute. I liked Double Dribble on the NES better.

tecmo04 · August 2005

double bribble was great but did u ever try arch rivals? so much fun

wolfenstien 3d frecken amazing. a true pioner of all video games

i think you are all forgeting clasic sonic for genisis. i remember trying to get all those dam rings. what a great game

Spawndn72 · August 2005

SNK All-Star Baseball for the NES. Best baseball game EVER!

PolkThug · August 2005

Street Fighter

Double Dragon

PolkThug · August 2005

I can still hear the original Pitfall noises in my head.

landry_p2000 · August 2005

tecmo04 wrote:

double bribble was great but did u ever try arch rivals? so much fun

Aw, Hell Yeah! You got to beat the crap out of each other. I spent more time laughing and losing than I did winning.

landry_p2000 · August 2005

PolkThug wrote:

Street Fighter

Double Dragon

Got the Street Fighter collection for Xbox. I got blisters on my fingers when I first got it.

Tide · August 2005

tecmo04 wrote:

was doom ever online or always solo?

Doom and Doom 2 were both online. I'm assuming Doom 3 is as well, although I've never played it online.

Wolfenstein 3D may have been the FPS precurser, but Doom was a much better game.

PolkThug · August 2005

When Wolfenstein came out in 1992, it blew everything else away.

Another good FPS that came out of the 90's was called Rise of The Triad, it had (and still has IMO) some of the best weapons. It was one of the first multiplayer games I played over the Internet.

I should also mention MechWarrior 2, the first game I ever played with Voip, it was ahead of its time.

All the memories are coming back now... Descent was one of the best spaceship flying games, and X-wing kicked arse too.

PolkThug · August 2005

:cool:

PolkThug · August 2005

Rise of the Triad relased Dec 21 1994 on a very modified Wolfenstine engine. Here's the weapons I mentioned earlier (Bring back the Flamewall Missile!):

Weapons
The weapon system was ahead of its time in complexity, brutality, and realism. Players could carry one or two pistols, and a machine gun (each of which had infinite ammunition). Players could also carry one of several different missile weapons, considered a realistic limitation. If players picked up another missile weapon, they dropped the first. The players could also drop the missile weapons manually. Like the earlier game System Shock, these dropped weapons retained the exact amount of ammunition they had left in them.

The Bazooka fires a single missile straight ahead.
The Heatseeker fires a single heat-seeking rocket.
The Drunk Missile fires five missiles simultaneously in five different directions; the missiles heat-seek individually.
The Flamewall is nearly impossible to escape from. When the missile fired from it hits the ground, it sends a wall of flame in one direction, and any player whom it catches not wearing an Asbestos Vest is instantly incinerated. If the missile hits the wall or a player, it just makes a weak explosion. This is how one of the numerous end-of-level bonuses in single-player is obtained.
The Firebomb's rocket explodes on impact, sending a twenty-foot-wide explosion outward in four directions. If a player has an asbestos suit to protect them, they can use it to rocket jump.
The Split Missile sends out two rockets locked together, until the player releases the fire button, at which point they split up and heat-seek individually.
In addition, players could wield a magic baseball bat (the "Excalibat"), enter a literal God mode for a short time (complete with invulnerability and the Godfire homing instant-kill weapon), or in a dyslexic gag, enter Dog Mode, in which they were shorter (although the player also gained invulnerablity in this mode), and bit enemies. Dog Mode also allowed the use of the devastating BarkBlast.

MacLeod · August 2005

Final Doom for PS1.

I thought this version was much better because of the music. The soundtrack and sound effects gave it a very eerie and creepy feel to it. I still play this game regularly and always will.

Technology aside, I think Final Doom is the perfect game.

Jstas · August 2005

Gotta agree with PolkThug.

Wolfenstein 3D changed video games completely and how they were viewed. It was ground breaking and far ahead of it's time.

Pitfall was literally the precursor to the Zelda games and other roleplaying games. It was a first to have a story line and multiple paths to reach the end goal. Not necessarily ground breaking graphics work but far ahead of its time in the basic idea of the game.

Street Fighter changed the arcade game forever and we never would have had such titles as Tekken, Mortal Combat, Virtual Fighter and a slew of others without the popularity of Street Fighter.

MechWarrior brought a whole new dimension to FPS/RP games and its engine was so advanced that it took 5 years for computer hardware to reach a point where the average joe could actually afford a system that could run the game at its full potential. You could play the game for months and never see all of it.

Warlords was one of the first strategy games and was the basis for quite a few other games that copied the engine behind it and improved it.

Warcraft/Starcraft/Battlenet and the ease of access to online play broke unprecedented ground in online play and then did it again with World of Warcraft. Games like Everquest and Myst based the online play engine off of Battlenet.

Gran Turismo. Not only did it put the Sony Playstation on the map and steal a huge chunk of the market from Nintendo overnight but it set a standard that was unheard of for a physic engine in a console game. It changed console gaming forever and every other "real" racing game after that mimicked GT in one way or another, some even bettered the idea too.

avelanchefan · August 2005

I also am echoing PolkThugs choice of Wolfie 3d. They literally changed the way we game. Someone else would have thought it up, but when your first you get the props.

I also want to give a vote for Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I feel the best Zelda game out there. Excellent story line, incredibly hard bosses, and the graphics are still good to this day. I never felt so satisfied when I finished that game.

Giving a heads up to N64's version of Rayman 2. great run and jump game. Best ever...no...but fun. Goldeneye was also great, and fun as hell to play with friends.

My favorite WWII game has to go to Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. Folks this is not "another" WWII game, this IS the WWII game to get. Great AI, very tough missions that involve real soldiers from that era. If you like the mini-series Band of Brothers, than Brothers in Arms is up your alley.(Plays a lot like the mini-series)

Best new-generation FPS is Halo and Halo 2. But if it were not for the Halo series, Rainbow Six 3 would be king of the hill. And they by far have the best online gaming. Best third person shooter would go to Ghost Recon series.

michael_w · August 2005

Gran Turismo 1 + 2 (for PSX)
Final Fantasy 7 (psx)
Top Gear 1, 2, 3000 (SNES)
Brain Lord (snes)
Legend of Mana (psx)
Lost Vikings 1 + 2 (snes)
World of Warcraft (pc)
Diablo 1, 2, 2: LOD (pc)
Secret of Evermore (snes)
R-Type(snes)
Starfox(snes)
Super Bomberman 1 though 5 (snes)
Wanderers from YS (snes)
Zelda III - A link to the past (snes)

Just mentioned a few there lol
Most of the snes ones I have on my pocket pc in form of roms as well as the original snes games and system.

SniperREX · August 2005

Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy Tactics
Metal Gear Solid
Gran Turismo
Winning Eleven series
Civilization
Resident Evil 2

I guess I forgot some

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thehaens@cox.net · August 2005

When I seen the subject line I thought you were talking games..........

Like

83' NCAA Championship NC State/Houston
67' Green Bay/Dallas "Ice Bowl"
81' NFC Championship San Fran/Dallas

MSkeezer · August 2005

Sonic the Hedgehog 1-4 (Sega)
Donkey Kong Country 1-3 (SNES)
Resident Evil 1-3 (PSX)
Super Mario World (SNES)
GoldenEye (N64)
Medal of Honor 1-2(PSX)
MOH: Allied Assault (PC)
Brothers in Arms (PC)
Dino Crisis 2 (PSX)

Wow, I didn't realize how many great games are out there. This list could go on and on... If I had to choose THE greatest game, it would have to be:

Donkey Kong Country 2

I friggin love this game. It had the best graphics and sound for a SNES game, and the gameplay was just awesome. And talk about HARD. I've played this game almost 10 times since I was a kid, and have only managed to beat it once. I could NEVER finish all of the Lost World levels and beat the game the way it was meant to be beat. I don't even remember how many controllers I broke over this game...

michael_w · August 2005

Chrono Trigger for SNES was another awesome game.

tecmo04 · August 2005

now this is what i call a list! makes me want to go out to gamestop and buy all the old systems/games and play untill i go blind!

p.s. forza is waaaayyyy better than gt4

haha im on page 2!

Greatest game of alllll time

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