Best game

[Trevelyan]

Quake 2 reallly was the first game that made me start building computers to play video games, so I would go with Quake 2.

EDIT: Hmm... I might have to change my answer to Counter-Strike. From Beta 6 to 1.0 I was totally addicted to that game. No other game since then has been able to top it in terms of sheer playability.

 

[luigi1]

Hunt the wumpas

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Zork

Back in the days that men were men, and women were gratefull.

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: Hav0k99

Originally posted by: spherrod

Originally posted by: murphy55d
Baldur's Gate II

Nice - I recently replayed that all over again

Diablo II > Baldurs Gate II

Not even the same type of game

Anyway, I'd say Planescape: Torment.

 

[mundane]

Ultima VII was my first ever RPG, and I'll never forget it. C'mon, you could actually bake your own bread, and sell it for a nice profit. Or find tha magic carpet and explore the entire world. Each new town had a unique atmosphere and set of adventures. Inventory system sucked though, but even new games have that problem.

 

[Harabec]

Planescape: Torment :thumbsup:
Killing Vhailor through logic...that was cool.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: spherrod

Originally posted by: murphy55d
Baldur's Gate II

Nice - I recently replayed that all over again

i installed and started an assassin (after beating it like 4x with a monk)

just got to spellhold w/ anomen, keldorn, minsc, cernd, and edwin

 

[murphy55d]

Originally posted by: datalink7

Originally posted by: Hav0k99

Originally posted by: spherrod

Originally posted by: murphy55d
Baldur's Gate II

Nice - I recently replayed that all over again

Diablo II > Baldurs Gate II

Not even the same type of game

Anyway, I'd say Planescape: Torment.

Yeah, you can't even compare the two games. I hate Diablo and all its incarnations, personally. I like story driven much better than combat oriented.

 

[cirrhosis]

Total Annihilation
Fallout
Carmageddon
Ultima V

 

[icelazer]

Final Fantasy 2

 

[QueBert]

Dig Dug, only game where you use a pump to blow up the baddies. Atari owned the industry, the game is classic on every level. Dig Dug II sucks, and the Dig Dug in the retro re-release, with the bosses and new graphics is kinda interesting. There's nothing like pumping up a Fygar or Pooka and watching them explode.

 

[kaishaku72]

Super Mario 3 (again).

 

[Spacecomber]

Battlezone. I keep waiting for someone else to come along and combine the features of resource collection, base building, and unit production/command with a fully FPS perspective (that includes driving and flying vehicles yourself, too).

 

[meltdown75]

Duke3D

 

[mezrah]

Half-Life 3 :evil:

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: evilharp
Commander Keen - Invasion of the Vorticons John Carmack's greatest game

I spent many hours playing Commander Keen.

Every genre is going to have its own best game though.

StarCraft/Total Annihilation for the RTS genre

Baldur's Gate 2/Fallout/Planescape:Torment for the RPG genre

Half-Life 1 for the FPS genre

SimCity 2000 for the simulation genre

And, of course, you have the classics, Zork, the early Ultima games, the early FF games, etc.

Its a real shame that getting older games to work on a modern PC is getting harder and harder, if not dang near impossible.

 

[jazzboy]

My choices, depending on genre are:

FPS - either Duke Nukem 3D or the original Unreal Tournament

Driving - Need for Speed 3/4 and the Colin Mcrae Series although the Richard Burns demo was pretty darn impressive.

Flying - TIE fighter, IL-2

 

[JPB]

Final Fantasty 2.......................................SNES

The Legend Of Zelda A Link To The Past....SNES

 

[Patt]

Fallout/Fallout2

 

[rwmega]

Space Quest I & II

Half Life 1 and 2

 

[Andres3605]

Duke nukem forever......

j/k

FF VII

 

[Agnostos Insania]

The most fun I've ever had in a video game was in the golden days of Ultima Online. No moronic level grinds or item-based combat. My thief guild terrorized Occlo like no other.

 

[Zelmo3]

Originally posted by: luigi1
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

OMG, you can't be serious. I wanted to like that game, but I kept getting thrown off the Vogon ship. Then, a decade or so later, after I found out how to get the babel fish and finally made it to the heart of gold, seems I can't do anything there except get a cup of something that tastes almost entirely unlike tea! So I yet again resigned myself to the idea that the game sucks.

M*U*L*E* is the best of all time.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: Agnostos Insania
The most fun I've ever had in a video game was in the golden days of Ultima Online. No moronic level grinds or item-based combat. My thief guild terrorized Occlo like no other.

I excluded UO because MMORPG are so mutable I discounted them from consideration. Plus classic UO doesn't exist any more and people on this forum are sick of me waxing on about the magic of that game.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: Hav0k99

Originally posted by: spherrod

Originally posted by: murphy55d
Baldur's Gate II

Nice - I recently replayed that all over again

Diablo II > Baldurs Gate II

No way. Diablo II was boooooooooring. Hack, slash, level, repeat? Since there isn't much a story, the only reason to continue playing is to satisfy your own obsessive compulsive needs to gain levels and find items.

My vote goes to Deus Ex.

 

[Hadsus]

First of all, this is a dumb thread 'cause it comes up every month or two on every board I've read.

Second, 'best' as in what? Kinda like asking about the best wine, best cheese, best magazine, best car, best sky, best lamp, best air, best electron........

Third, the correct answer is Doom.