Three of Your Favorite Videogames Thread!

[Cheez]

Funny I say "amazing"; that could be seen as a pun for the DAMN WATER TEMPLE. Which isn't as bad as people make it out to be :D

I'm playing OoT. I'm up to the Water Temple, coincidentally.

Well, I loooooved Pokemon Crystal. Still do. Still will.
Played it for hours, then my aunt sold it. ._.

SSBB still gives me hours of play, despite playing it for about 5 months.

Hmmm.... I guess N(anyone heard of it?) and Castlevania(series) are great games too.

[Aphex]

Fallout

quotes:
"Fallout 3? I shit on fallout 3!" - Aphex
"Don't drink the glowing water"- Junktown Citizen
"GAARRGGHH!"- Raider's reaction to a Sledgehammer smashing into his groin

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This game is my favourite RPG ever. Most of you will be familiar with the setting, what with (shitty) fallout 3. The differences is that fallout's graphics use sprites, not 3d models, and the gameplay is slower in pace than that of fallout three. There are so many reasons why this game is awesome and these are just a few:

-The length of the game is perfect, as it is not so drawn out that you bore of it, but it is just long enough that you start to feel for your character and those that he/she meets in the desolated world of fallout.

-The Character creation system was stunning at the time of release, and still is, the design has influenced so many RPG's. With a brilliant selection of skills and attributes that define the way you play, as well as gaining perks that shape your character, with such variety that every playthrough will feel entirely different.

-ULTRA VIOLENCE! This has been toned down in fallout 3 >:(
luckily the original fallout was back in the days when games were manly, so you can melt peoples skin off, shoot chunks of your enemies torso off, and hit people in the groin with a sledgehammer.

-There are drugs which enhance your characters peformance for a limited time, making you double your strength, or make you much more agile. But using drugs means that your stats are constantly changing, and if your character gets addicted to drugs, its going to be tough to fight without them.

-The storyline. Its amazing, i'll just leave it at that.

-There is so much more stuff that I haven't mentioned, like the side quests, the originality of the enemies, the deep locations, the travel system, the vast array of weapons, the way your choices effect the ending.... just play it... its sooo much better than Fallout 3.

You know that Fallout 3 for PS3 is much better.

i would like to direct you to the first quote i mentioned:
"Fallout 3? I shit on fallout 3!" - Aphex

Anyway, this thread is a gold mine for some forgotten classics. Im going to be dusting off my old games consoles for some nostalgic gaming ^^

[pinballwizard96]

TF2
Call of Duty 4: MW
Warcraft 3 TFT

[Luminaflare]

Honourable mention: MechWarrior series

[Drathmoore]

Honourable mention: MechWarrior series

I second that. Mechwarrior 3 was awesome. Maybe a little difficult to play without sound (on one mission there is a container of corrosive gas, that if destroyed, kills you instantly. I saw it on the briefing screen, couldn't hear anything about it, and destroyed it).

[//Zander]

Morrowind GOTY:
I played this for so long, and on two different platforms, I still play it every so often.
It is the free roaming rpg, much better than oblivion turned out (which is really saying something imo). especially with the expansions it was so awesome looting every building you came across.

Escape Velocity Nova:
I play this game every spring, like I play rpgs every autumn. something to do with the weather reminding me of years past.
you fly space ships, do them up (weapons mods etc) trade, missions, pirate, kill...
great game.

Jedi Knight Jedi Academy:
go good or evil, force powers, double ended lightsabers and a battle with Boba fett...
what more can you ask for in a game?

my list of other good games:

-oblivion
-fable 1 and 2
-N
-zelda: oot, mm, tp, lttp, etc...
-republic commando
heaps more

[toasters]

Chip's Challenge reminded me of the old computer games I played as a little kid, so I couldn't resist throwing them up here.

SkiFree - I used to have nightmares about that damn gray monster



Star Wars: Yoda Stories - fun little game, it had random scenarios you had to complete



Lego Island - I loved Legos, and I loved this game

[Drathmoore]

Another honourable mention would be the Chzo Mythos games by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw / Zero Punctuation.







Awesome games, reminiscent of the old Sierra point-and-click era.

[SlappyMcGee]

I LOVED YODA'S STORIES AND LEGO ISLAND!


YODA'S STORIES WAS THE BEST ROGUELIKE EVER.

[toasters]

GAH! How could I forget KOTOR?!
Edit: Just beat Alma, so I'm happy with Ninja Gaiden Black again ^.^

[remm]

well. I really can't pick between Star Wars Battlefront and Timesplitters 2 for my favourite.


I have recently gone back to playing Timesplitters 2 again. I just love its wackiness. It has unlockable cheats throughout, but they're not normal. Silly hats anyone? how about paintball versus fat cardboard cutouts with big hands and big heads. I don't know any other game where you can be fighting so many different characters (126 of them). Its an adventure through time from 1853 to 2401. Personally I like 1920's Chicago, taking down Big Tony (with TNT and dual wielded tommy guns).
The music is the best I know of in a game and i never block it out with my own music. in fact, I have the whole Timesplitters 2 album on my walkman.

The amount of depth to this game is stunning. There are 3 game cartridges hidden in the story levels, games within a game. there are awards in the arcade mode for doing various things (brain surgeon, most cowardly, hypochondriac, lemming award, backpedaller...etc). There are challenges like breaking all the Notre Dame windows as an undead priest with a grenade launcher.
But perhaps the best thing is it is hard. Not just hard, but really frickin hard. I had completed most of the game before I had completed the first story mission on hard mode. Some maps it is frustratingly hard, but there is always a way to do it without getting killed, there is never someone just around the corner who will always hit you.
Don't get me started on the multiplayer part.


This is my other favourite game, also on PS2, also a FPS. Except this is a class based game where you take over command posts to gain control of the battlefield. It also doesn't take itself seriously, which is good. Most battles have an array of vehicles which you can pilot (or steal). This leads to a vast amount of things which you can do in each battle.
For example, at Geonosis you can:
- take an AT-TE and blast your way about.
- take an LAAT and destroy the techno-union ships.
- Be a soldier and go forward to take either the East or West Bunkers, or both, or the Spire.
- Stay and defend the main base from droidekas.
- Sit back and snipe
- Take a jet trooper and try climb the spire
- Try steal a spider walker
And that is just a few options if you're playing as the Republic.

Most battles are either 200 or 250 troops, with 10% of that number fighting at any one time. I love the replayability of Battlefront, every battle is different.
Also, the game doesn't care about realism in most places, which leads to some pretty funny things. For instance I use the sniper as a front line soldier because the gun is a fast firing with a two shot kill, also the sniper can launch orbital strikes (haha why?). The Empire's shock trooper has a missile launcher that I like to use as a sniper rifle.
There's something really satisfying about picking off an enemy sniper with a missile, or shooting a guy about 5m away and watching the body fly away. Another thing really good about Battlefront. The ragdoll movements from a grenade (or missile, mortar, mine, turret, etc) are as good as in N. And that's true with grenade jumping too.
Also, it is a very hard game sometimes (Empire at kashyyyk: islands is near impossible in one player). I like to lose a battle every now and then, because it makes it even more of an achievement if i can conquer the galaxy without losing a battle.


Awesome game. And even better that my brother has done a full modification of the game to our likings (units, technologies, terrain, cities, leaders, civilisations, rules, resources, buildings, art). Complete with his wacky humour.
eg "The wanker Australians have taken Ha Noi. Make them pay!!"
Recently we have found that he can turn an existing single player game into a multiplayer. Effectively he can join in my own game, taking over an existing civilisation.

Honourable mentions to:
Crash Bandicoot
Jak 2
Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors Expansion

[Drathmoore]

Honourable mention: MechWarrior series

Heheh... And earlier this week they announced they were re-releasing MechWarrior 4.

And that it'll be free.

Awesome...