Best Game Thus Far?

[everman]

Originally posted by: jdiddy

Originally posted by: VIAN

Crono Trigger, Zelda: link to past (both snes)... FFVII

ah... memories...

God Chrono Trigger is definately my fav. I skipped alot of school work trying to finish all the different endings. My favorite magic till this day has to be Chrono's Luminare move well that and Knights of the round in FF7

Knights of the Round + Mime. nuff said...well if you played ffVII Oh and then you could have your character auto ressurect too, hehe. I really liked that materia system.

 

[EvanAdams]

Wing Commander 2 w/ speech packs and add ons.

 

[stnicralisk]

Starcraft.

 

[1Cheap2Crazy]

Hearts

Half-Life

Max Payne

 

[SonicIce]

i still play doom/doom2 everyday... zdaemon.org

 

[igowerf]

I've spent a lot of time playing SimCity.

 

[Otrant]

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Baldur's Gate II yet. As others have said, it's very hard to make a definitive list, but this game is so good it deserves a mention.

 

[LandRover]

Best looking, definitely Far Cry.
My all time favorite PC game, Operation Flashpoint: Resistance

 

[BFG10K]

Has to be original half life...for breakthrough story, excellent single player and a host of multiplayer offshoots, and great graphics for the times.

I wasn't all that impressed with HL. It was a reasonable game but I don't think it deserves the hype it got.

 

[KB]

The best selling game of all time, next to Tetris: Super Mario 3.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: gordanfreeman
from some of the replies i have seen so far, i have to wonder how much experience some people have with games

in my mind, Half-Life is the best computer game made to date. few, if any, FPS games can match the story (heck most games of any genre don't have a story comparable to HL), the gfx were great for the time, the multiplay still holds up today-nearly 6 years after release. it launched the modding craze. it reinvented how the FPS single player game was setup. it continues to be the FPS game that all games are compared to. graphics aside it is still a GREAT game and could be released today successfully.

At the time, HL was by far the best computer game ever made. But other games since then have come along and improved on the concept. I first played HL about 2 years ago and I found it to be quite boring. I played CS shortly after that and it was fun. But then I tried Medal of Honor Allied Assault and never went back to CS or HL. MOH was just a better game. Certainly, it owes earlier games a debt of gratitude because it took many of the concepts and improved them. Then BF 1942 came along and added so much variety and strategy to the WW2 FPS genre.

The question asked what the best game is. Not what the best game was at time of release or what the most influential or groundbreaking game was.

My vote goes to Battlefield 1942.
No other game has even come close to the amount of fun I have had playing that game.
I keep trying other games and while fun, none of them seem to measure up to BF 1942.

EDIT: by the way, I find it pretty funny that such a seemingly devoted fan of HL would misspell the lead characters name.

 

[Slogun]

Seeing as how I have played some version of HL or one of it's mods for several hours per day since 11/98 up to the present, I will have to say HL, or perhaps more specifically, CS.

Probably the single best return on a $30 investment I have ever made.

 

[jay75]

1. Sokoban - a puzzle game about getting boxes to their destination.
2. NFS 5: Porsche Unleashed - fantastic graphics, handling and evolution
3. The Sims

 

[screw3d]

Kingdom of Loathing

 

[stockjock]

I can't believe no one has yet mentioned:
TOTAL ANNIHILATION