What's your favourite video-game?

[Drathmoore]

Classic Sonic Series (in particular 2, CD and 3 & Knuckles)
Lylat Wars
Pokemon... Series as well.
Portal
New Super Mario Bros. Wii

[Twistkill]

Wow... if I had to narrow it down to 5, they would be (in no order)

1. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
2. Crash Team Racing (first game I lost sleep over)
3. Metroid: Zero Mission
4. Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
I notice that Naughty Dog used a near identical label, "among thieves", in Uncharted 2's sub title. The 2 studios are friends, after all.
5. Pokemon G/S/C. I haven't had a chance to try HG/SS yet.
I tried not to include any current gen games in that list because some of the best games (from a pure mechanics standpoint) are earlier ones, but it's hard. Honorable mentions go to Crash Bandicoot 2 and 3 as well as some current-gen titles: Need for Speed Shift, inFamous, Killzone 2, Metroid Prime 3, and Red Faction: Guerrilla.

[a happy song]

Ok, right this moment my top five are:

1. Metal Gear Solid (PSX)
2. Halo: Combat Evolved
3. Team Fortress 2
4. The World Ends With You
5. Borderlands

Number five might be subject to change, but right now it's the coolest thing I've played in ages.

[capt_weasle]

I would have to say my favorite would be Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. As far as the plot goes, it's your standard Tom Clancy information warfare and the like, but the writing is absolutely outstanding and extremely quotable. The graphics are also amazing for an original Xbox game, and of course the game play is awesome. I don't remember how many times I've played it. While I was very disappointed with Double Agent, apparently the version made for the old Xbox (I played the 360 version) was developed by the studio who made Chaos Theory, and is a lot better. So as soon as I finish RDR I might pick up a copy of that DA and give it a go. I read somewhere that there is an easter egg within that version that lets you play an extra mission as a... Splinter Seal? And you have to save your seal friends (I'm completely serious).

Anyway, what are your favorites?

[SlappyMcGee]

Merged, and I'll add SC2 to my list.

[capt_weasle]

Ha, of course there would be another thread. And of course I'm too lazy to look past the first page to find it.

[Slayr]

As of right now
Fallout 3 (still)
Alan Wake
SotC
Thief: The Dark Project
Civilization Revolution

[Vyacheslav]

Add Vectorman to mine. Toasty.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Sure, now they add achievements to Borderlands.
Looks like it's time for another play-through!

[bobaganuesh_2]

Grind Session, Medal of Honor, Spyro 2, Shadow of the Colossus

SC2

and Soul Calibur II more or less, considering that it is best one of the series so far since I'm not to be bothered to get a PS3 and because I got bored with III after playing it for so long.

and possible Tenchu: Fatal Shadows, but I haven't played any other games in the series.

as for in-browser freeware games, my favourite is Gun Run and the best I've played is Year of the Snake

[Combo Bustperson]

Grind Session, Medal of Honor, Spyro 2, Shadow of the Colossus

SC2

and Soul Calibur II more or less, considering that it is best one of the series so far since I'm not to be bothered to get a PS3 and because I got bored with III after playing it for so long.

and possible Tenchu: Fatal Shadows, but I haven't played any other games in the series.

as for in-browser freeware games, my favourite is Gun Run and the best I've played is Year of the Snake

I'm pretty sure he meant StarCraft 2.

[SlappyMcGee]

Grind Session, Medal of Honor, Spyro 2, Shadow of the Colossus

SC2

and Soul Calibur II more or less, considering that it is best one of the series so far since I'm not to be bothered to get a PS3 and because I got bored with III after playing it for so long.

and possible Tenchu: Fatal Shadows, but I haven't played any other games in the series.

as for in-browser freeware games, my favourite is Gun Run and the best I've played is Year of the Snake

I like Soul Calibur 2, but




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[Luminaflare]

Grind Session, Medal of Honor, Spyro 2, Shadow of the Colossus

SC2

and Soul Calibur II more or less, considering that it is best one of the series so far since I'm not to be bothered to get a PS3 and because I got bored with III after playing it for so long.

and possible Tenchu: Fatal Shadows, but I haven't played any other games in the series.

as for in-browser freeware games, my favourite is Gun Run and the best I've played is Year of the Snake

I like Soul Calibur 2, but




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[Vyacheslav]

In South Korea, there are 2 television channels dedicated to Starcraft. No joke. Source: Korean classmates at NYU.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

In South Korea, there are 2 television channels dedicated to Starcraft. No joke. Source: Korean classmates at NYU.

This is not news.

[T3chno]

I'm gonna have to add TeS: Oblivion to my list.

[Rose]

Super Mario 64, the first two Paper Mario games (hate Super Paper Mario with a passion though), the Golden Sun games, and Riviera: The Promised Land

[29403]

Classic Sonic series. It's meeee baby

Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 and Super Smash Bros. Brawl get honourable mentions.

[Tanner]

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Honourable mentions: Ogre Battle 64 and Starcraft.

[Universezero]

I'm probably going to get hate for it, but Modern Warfare 2. I'm totally addicted to it.

[SlappyMcGee]

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Honourable mentions: Ogre Battle 64 and Starcraft.

Why did I not know this about you? We would have had more sex, if that were possible.

[Geti]

This is going to be a trip through the games I've loved with thoughts pouring out everywhere. It's 20 past 12 now, so I'll keep it concise.

A link to the past was awesome for nostalgic reasons alone and for the gameplay (and that crazy water maze) but I think they really nailed the gameboy zeldas with the Oracles games. Minish cap managed to get some of that feel, too, for those who need thousands of colours to be having fun. There was just something awesome about being able to beat both games twice on the same save what with hero's codes and all. Ages was my preference.

If we're going the nostalgia route, Jet force Gemini and Perfect Dark get mentions as shooters I used to love (goldeneye never did it for me, for some reason, though there was definitely fun in proximity mines), especially the former. Still, on N64 the games I lived for were Banjo Kazooie, Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask. Especially that last game. The fact that they're remaking OoT for the 3DS makes me really, really want them to do Majora's mask as well. If they don't I'll be sopissed. Beh, zelda in general is awesome, especially on that magical first playthrough. There's something cool about that universe. I never got to play through wind waker. Banjo Kazooie also made me happy, it's a pretty juicy game in terms of audiovisual feedback, and I can appreciate that. Tooie was also good, though it would've done well to be just a little bit more dystopian. Still, great games.

All of the first 3 crash bandicoot games got played to death by me. No joke, my Crash 1 disk doesn't load level 19 anymore. Loved them to death, the whole thing felt lush and interesting. Heck, 3 even had reflections in puddles ffs.

At some point, I discovered emulation and the fun that brought about. Part of that was rediscovering pokemon after a year or so of being immersed in whatever else was going on. The 3rd Gen pokemon games are my favourites (I like the second gen as well) for reasons I've gone through before, mostly just cause it still feels like pokemon but without all the obtuse town layouts and idiotic menus. I still play my second gen games sometimes though (gold and crystal for those wondering - I know I know, lugia is cooler).

Other games that really shone on the GBA (or VBA-M now) were the Megaman games (battle network was cool for a while, but zero is the best. It's hard, something I appreciate in a game, and feels more like old megaman but refined. I really like what they did with that universe) and that little gem Mario & Luigi, Superstar Saga. If they had a battle system like they had in MaLSS in the old final fantasy games, I'd play them again.
On that note, I can't really stand turn based battles any more, especially when they're coupled with random encounters. Its something I've realised doing a lot of game design; when the least fun part of your game is the action sequences, something is wrong. Thus, the old Final Fantasies aren't on here :(

Final Fantasy X was good. The battles shit me to no end but there was a fun universe happening, and some amazing animation.
Kingdom Hearts 1 was a game I loved though. Me and a friend got amazing at it, and it managed to make disney characters interesting to me again. Hurts my eyes a little now like all old 3D does, but still had an engaging battle system if you weren't being a massive asshole and hiding and using cure on everyone. The enemies were awesome too.

I just about only play indie computer games now, I think that probably came from my affair with N. Cortex Command, Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, Spelunky, all of these are names that I could give you too many silly anecdotes from, but I won't. It's late. I might come and fix this up later, or just post again later on.

[smartalco]

Super Mario 64, the first two Paper Mario games (hate Super Paper Mario with a passion though), the Golden Sun games, and Riviera: The Promised Land

Holy shit. Based on the rest of your post, I really really need to play Riviera.

[Vyacheslav]

Come on, no one else is showing love for Link's Awakening?

[capt_weasle]

JEDI KNIGHT: DARK FORCES II