[Awetopsy]

In light of all this Lumental stuff and the really bead attitudes Ive been seeing here, I thought Id post something to get our minds back on the fun stuff.

So what are they,

my favs are, in no particular order...

Half Life (great story, great graphics at teh time)
No One Lives Forever (great story, engine sux)
Descent (way too much fun when it came out)
Unreal tournament
Counterstrike
Need For Speed (1, 3, 4, 5)
Quake3 (pure eyecandy)


I have yet to buy Max Payne...

[faustgfx]

Rogue Spear, Delta Force 2, Operation Flashpoint, Baldur's Gate 2, Syndicate, Max Payne, Deus Ex, Final Fantasy 8, Fallout, Fallout 2.. haven't tried Fallout Tactics yet.

bl�h.

[Enayla]

Planescape Torment

[dr . bang]

Operation Flashpoint, Counter Strike, Max Payne and Photoshop

[-Gux-]

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I have yet to buy Max Payne...

You should. And Operation Flashpoint too.

The MP engine is such a great engine. Radiosity rendering, cloth simulation and angry finnish men. I've even started modeling weapons the game allready (I think I'm one of the first to have done this).
lookie here

[faustgfx]

gux- have you seen the vietnam mod thingie some guys are doing with flashpoint? it's looking mighty sweet..

[gLitterbug]

no particular order

Grim Fandango - best characters in a game, great and innovative mixture of film noir, art deco, mayan death-culture and spanish accents, excellent soundtrack and voices, very good story, the only thing that sucks are the controls, and maybe the outdated 3d-graphics

Deus Ex - for being a different shooter and for it�s hours of good gameplay

Half-Life, Opposing Force - for what everybody says

Unreal - excellent graphics even good for today in my opinion, good overall design

Max Payne - bullet time brings you much fun and I like how they tried to make the cinematics more movie-like and how they implemented the graphics novels

Sam & Max - simply for their character and it�s twisted humor

Rune - excellent controls and not the usual topic, very good graphics as well

Rogue Spear - never played it single player, but the network experience I had with 2 friends one night was simply awesome

Some additional games I really enjoyed

Heart of Darkness, Heretic 2, Gunman, some old Adventures, Baldur�s Gate, Duke Nukem 3D, Lands of Lore (only the first one was enjoyable)

I�ll add more if I remember some I forgot now.

[faustgfx]

Jaggged Alliance / Deadly Games, Jagged Alliance 2, first UFO, Sam 'n Max Hit The Road WEHEHhehejeahjfg too (been so long since i've last played it).

yeah, Grim Fandango too, i enjoyed it alot, the visuals are just so lovely, and i loved the voice acting, and the story in general.. i never completed it, though.

Full Throttle.. X-Wing and TIE Fighter. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.... lalalala!

[-Gux-]

Faustgfx: Yeah, it looks pretty cool. Too bad the developers doesn't seem to want to release mod tools yet. They are releasing new vehicles, missions and stuff soon though.

[faustgfx]

gux- what's up with the us release of flashpoint? someone said something along the lines of codemasters will release alot of more missions and whatnot crap with the us version..? been too lazy to confirm this myself.

[gLitterbug]

I�ve played through the full throttle demo 20 times or more, but never got the full game and now I can�t find it anywhere in my country. But it�s too expensive to get it from the usa, with all that toll and shipping shit.

You should really play grim to end faustgfx.

I wanted to replay Sam and Max some time ago but it got graphic errors in WinME. Also I would like to get the version with voice acting.

[-Gux-]

faustgfx: They intend to release patches for the european version the next few months with dedicated server support and other new stuff until they release the US version (september I think). So the european release is almost like a bug test before the american release.
Too bad for the modem people :P

[faustgfx]

maybe by the time they release any bug fixes i have actually completed the game. i dread the upcoming tank missions, in the single player campaign. gah. i know they will drive me crazy, so i'm just not playing them.. but at the same time, i want to finish the game. sucks. mad internal struggle.

[-Gux-]

Tank missions are easy compared to the special ops missions. They drive me almost as mad as I was at certain nes games when I was a kid. The only thing different now is that I'm sensible enough to not break any peripheral connected to my computer.

[faustgfx]

i've smashed two wacoms..

weird, i love the spec op night sneakyweakywhee missions. did a ton of those with the mission editor, 'cause i couldn't find any in zee internjet. hmmmm. *dashes for flashpoint cd*

although what i saw from my co-worker playing some of the latter missions... they're a bit unfair ..er, challenging, no? i guess i'll find out sooner or later.

hmmm... *debates about installing the max-fx package* *rambles* *vanishes to the other side of the net*

[Mezoic]

In terms of gameplay: it's Max Payne
Multiplayer: Tribes2
Roly Playing Game: Planescape Torment
Strategy: Starcraft

[FireFry]

Max Payne
The Dig
Full Throttle
TIE Fighter
Quake II/III
Clive Barkers Undying
Subspace/Continuum
Serious Sam (for pure Carnage)
Total Annihilation
Balders Gate
Heavy Metal
American Mcgee's Alice
Gradius III/IV

and Gran Turismo 3 That game is just awesome.

I'd play more online games but it's no fun on a dailup, I'd go DSL/Cable/Satellite but none of them are available where I live

[faustgfx]

still no gt3 for me =( but then again, i still haven't completed gt2...

[Lunatique]

Half-Life: There will never be another like it. Simply brilliant.

Counter-strike: My favorite multi-player. Good blend of semi-realism with team work.

Unreal Tournament: Kicks Quake 3's ass.

The Longest Journey: Best adventure game I've played. Awesome female lead character that is not insulting to women.

Soul Calibur: Beeeeautiful.

It seems we are all PC gamers? No console gamers here?

[Chris Allison]

My favourite games are spread over multiple formats:

Final Fantasy series- I love the storybook feel to the games- the characters can be really deep and you can really relate to them. Also the graphics and FMV can be so emotional

Gran Turismo series- I have completed 1 and 2 (I love the Skyline and GT40) and the graphics for their time were amazing- especially when "Favourite Game" is playing in the background

WipeOut 3 Remix- As you can see, I am into my racing games and I have been into the wipeout series since it first came out on the PS- great design, great music and I tend to get a buzz from getting a perfect lap

Sensible World Of Soccer- Managed to get Bury into the Premiership

Championship manager series- I love this game!! In CM2, I managed to get Brighton and Leyton Orient into the premiership Currently getting Brighton up the leagues- currently in the 2nd division.....

I also loved Goldeneye- it is one of those games that is a lot of fun to play and there are times when it is fun just to go on the snow level and play with the sniper rifle...


Oh and also Ultima Online- I played it for a year as Gyza Vag (gizza fag) and made loads of friends. My brother still plays it and is well known (Wazza, Wilfy, Wodger and Wilma Wellgard)

[ August 03, 2001: Message edited by: Chunkey ^o^ ]

[balistic]

I've played about two hours of Quake 3 every weekday for the past two years.

Otherwise, I'm more of an arcade kinda guy.

UT does a ton of stuff pretty well . . . Q3A does a couple things perfectly. I prefer the latter UT just feels sloppy to me, especially when you get down to editing things . . . the same map will build slightly differently every time you compile it.

Its certainly fun to play, but for someone who treats deathmatch like a sport, UT is just too roughly-hewn for serious competition.

Its great for non-deathmatch stuff though.

. . . unless you want to do an outdoor level . . . because you can't, because you can't make a light big enough to represent the sun *grumble* . . . if you've ever wondered why UT looks so dark compared to Quake, that's the reason. No radiosity + tiny lights = no sunshine for you. Now go play in a cave.

Hopefully the next version of their engine will address that.

edit: here's some of my current, non-PC favorites:

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Bangaioh
Crazy Taxi 2

and historically:

Street Fighter 2 (got me into digital art)
Mortal Kombat
Silpheed
Virtua Fighter 2
Daytona USA
Afterburner
Every top-down Japanese shooter ever made

RPGs bore the hell out of me, except for Panzer Dragoon Saga on the Saturn.



There are actually two Saturns in that picture . . . I have a 32X also, but it wasn't hooked up at the time. My Sega Master system is in storage back in Nevada. I think I topped out my Genesis collection at 83 games.

[ August 03, 2001: Message edited by: balistic ]

[Pat]

I'm not too partial to RPG's either, but Panzer Dragoon Saga on the Saturn was really good.

-Pat

[ August 03, 2001: Message edited by: Pat ]

[Bishop_Six]

Deus Ex(my favorite game ever)
Max Payne
The Monkey Island trilogy(this excludes the 4th one which, in my opinion, was crap)
Full Throttle(one of the best adventure games ever)
Grim Fandango(this game seriously made me wanna cry. I never wanted it to end)
Day of the Tentacle
Sam n' Max Hit the Road
Half-Life
Rogue Spear(I still love this game's multiplayer)
Thief: The Dark Project
Jedi Knight
Metal Gear Solid(for its story, its gameplay was just like any other console game)
Daikatana(hahaha, just kidding )

[Laemtao]

*Rolls up sleeve... hehe.. i love this topic. Thanks Awetopsy..

My first game addiction .
X-com, X-com2: terror from the deep.

then came
Wing Commander series, and the X-wings series. My Flightstick lived thru tough days.. Amazing. I love my Flightstick.

then Dune2 .. my first taste of RTS.
Been Hooked on RTS ever since.
Red Alert series,
I also loved RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2.

However.. i still play Starcraft Broodwar avidly. Its stil the coolest RTS around.

Diablo and Diablo2 did have its moments.. I have yet to try the Expansion.. too busy.

Other than PC games.. I bought my Playstation specifically for Square's Final Fantasy 7. I also fell in love with some of the console games after that. ( my bud had every console platform that was out, Jap and US ver.).
Console games :
Soul Caliber
Gran Turismo (1,2,3)
Metal Gear Solid (1,2)
Fifa 2001
Bloody roar
Armored Core

are some of the notable ones.

--------
Mo

[Awetopsy]

personally Im not an RPG player or a RTS player much.. I dont mind a game of Starcraft once in a while.. but not habitually.

I really dont care for console systems.. only console game I really ever liked after old nintendo was Golden Eye for the 64.

[Ahcri]

Baldur's Gate II
Diablo/Diablo II
Fallout/Fallout 2 (I hated Tactics though)
Nox
The Longest Journey
Full Throttle
Sam & Max
Alpha Centauri
Strife (uses Doom-engine, but better than Doom)
And SNES emulator w/ FF6 and Chrono Trigger(that counts as a "PC" game, right?)

[Jabberwocky]

• Anarchy Online
  
• Quake 3 Arena
  
• Unreal Tourn
  
• Warcraft II
  
• StarCraft
  
• Age Of the Empires II
  
• SOF
  
• Tribes & Tribes 2
  
• Black & White
  
• And thanks to whoever posted about Neopets!
  

[ August 03, 2001: Message edited by: Jabberwocky ]

[faustgfx]

Strife! hahah. that was fucking fun. and Chasm! although i only got my hands on a demo of Chasm :[