Favourite Games

Laithlis · Post by **Laithlis** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:43 am

Well, let's see... I'll use a numbering to keep track, but the games won't be in any strict order - just typing the really great games down as I can think of them. I'll probably forget some, too...

1. UFO: Enemy Unknown (or: X-COM: UFO Defense for those living on the wrong side of the pond)
2. Fallout -series
3. Sid Meier's Civilization -series
4. Sid Meier's Pirates!
5. Silent Storm
6. Space Rangers 2
7. King of Dragon Pass
8. Dwarf Fortress
9. X-Wing/TIE Fighter -series
10. Jagged Alliance -series
11. Operation: Flashpoint
12. Master of Orion I&II
13. Steel Panthers -series
14. Syndicate -series
15. Old LucasArts adventures (yes, a great many of them would deserve being individually mentioned, but since I'm stacking games in groups by series anyway...)
16. FlatOut -series (occasionally a driving game is good for relaxing, too :P)
17. NetHack (phew, almost forgot)
18. Sid Meier's Colonisation
19. Crusader Kings (consider it stacked with other Paradox strategies)
20. Max Payne -series

Now, I'm sure I couldn't remember a dozen or so awesome games that would deserve to be on the list. But practically all of those are must to know for anyone calling himself a game hobbyist.

LCL Fewrfreyut · Post by **LCL Fewrfreyut** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:56 pm

ah yes. I forgot about the Sid Meier's games. Pirates! was a great game, and I like Civ's Revolution a lot as well.

Trooper_Fenix · Post by **Trooper_Fenix** » Wed May 13, 2009 2:42 pm

I just got Civ 4. I like it but I'm not sure it will make it into my top 20 games list

Laithlis · Post by **Laithlis** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:39 pm

A great many long-line gamers would always include Civilization in the Top 3 games of all time, but it's definitely something you can view best as a series instead of individual games - after all, it's just always a tweaked and (mostly) improved version of the old one. In my opinion, just the fact that Civilization after nearly two decades, Civilization keeps drawing you back to itself, forcing you to play just one more turn... or a thousand.

Obviously it's not a game to everyone's taste, but the series is definitely one of the foundations for modern computer games. Very few games have that kind of longevity and addictive character. Every game on my list, however, is one of those few. There isn't a single game I mentioned I couldn't imagine to be happily playing in 20 or 30 years' time :)

Post by **Vortagh** » Wed May 13, 2009 6:44 pm

Ok, I hope that I have everything on this list. If applicable, I also picked entire series instead of individual games. It also has more than 20 entries, but these are my personal top 22 :P.

1 Deus Ex
2 Wing Commander Series (ALL of it)
3 Lucas Arts Adventures (each and every one of them)
4 Master of Orion II
5 UFO
6 Fallout Series
7 World in Conflict
8 IL2
9 Hearts of Iron & Victoria - technically two games, but same series.
10 TIE Fighter
11 Colonization
12 Lord of the Rings Online
13 Ice Wind Dale
14 Ultima 7 & 8
15 Syndicate
16 Ascendancy
17 Shadowrun (SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive)
18 Jagged Alliance series
19 Crusader Series (WHY didn't they make more?! WHY?!)
20 Starlancer
21 Z
22 Shenmue

Laithlis · Post by **Laithlis** » Wed May 13, 2009 7:39 pm

Lots of awesome games on Vort's list as well, some of which I've played, some I haven't. Also, made me remember something that definitely deserves to be mentioned: Thief -series.

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:30 pm

Vort: Company of Heroes?

Post by **Vortagh** » Thu May 14, 2009 8:25 am

23 :P

LC La Forge · Post by **LC La Forge** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:48 pm

Thought so. :P

LCP_Anderson · Post by **LCP_Anderson** » Thu May 21, 2009 4:51 pm

kriffing aye thats like ancient why still play it ya know gears of war still has ust about any game beat cept for the SW games

Post by **Vortagh** » Thu May 21, 2009 7:20 pm

Gears of war beating any of the aforementioned games? Pardon me while I LAUGH :P

tioneaudrine · Post by **tioneaudrine** » Fri May 22, 2009 10:10 am

Anderson... how old are you?

Also keep in mind one of my favourite games of all time is Pitfall for the Atari 2600.... and serious how old are you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall!

COL Longstreet · Post by **COL Longstreet** » Fri May 22, 2009 11:53 am

Can agree with the Pitfall games, though I reach not back as far to the Atari version. SNES, to be true.

Some of the all-time best are and will be the Total-War games and the Cossacks line, as well as Gothic. Also the games of C&C are rightful included.

Does anybody remember Dark Colony? Not the best game of all times, but worth a try; if anybody wants to try itÂ´s available full and free around the net.

LCL Fewrfreyut · Post by **LCL Fewrfreyut** » Fri May 22, 2009 12:23 pm

no never heard of it, but then again I was only 6 years old when it was released :P

tioneaudrine · Post by **tioneaudrine** » Fri May 22, 2009 10:05 pm

I played Dark Colony, It was meh. I perfered SSI's other games like pool of radiance.