Best Games:

Operation Flashpoint: It was eye-bleeding hard which I love, for its time it also gave you unbridled freedom, drive anything, go anywhere and so forth. I loved that fact that not only was that a great big landmass with tons of little cities littered over it, but in each city most buildings you could enter, which was great, added a whole new dimension.

Grand Theft Auto 3/Vice City: Their both really great, yeah I know some people dont like them, but I certainly do, been quite a fan since GTA2, I didnt think Vice City's story was too great, it had its moments, but I like the freedom and all the things to do around town. Most people glance over it and run in and shoot everyone they see and they pass up a whole city of stuff to do.

Battlefield 1942 + Expansions + Vietnam: I love this game , it was just great fun, for some reason this one hooked me and I didnt want to let go, any of em. A masterpiece in my book

Diablo 2 LOD: I played this game for almost two years, and loved every second of it, thats saying alot coming from a person who gets bored with most games in a month or two.

Crap:

Star Wars Galaxies: Horribly Horrible, tried to be revolutionary but failed horribly, the interface sucks, the combat is piss-boring, and the character reliance on others is utterly pitiful (you needed a buff from a doctor to wear armor for god sakes) I cant believe I bought and wasted time on this crap.

Dungeon Siege: Fun for a little while but soon became incredibly boring. Nice graphics and good combat but Diablo II:LOD was a million times better

Star Trek Armada II: This game really realy sucked, the maps were way too small to even have a nice battle on no less build a base and ****. The ships looked blocky the camera sucked and there was no strategy.


"Dain bramaged"

best game: Half life, or system shock 2, I liked alot first time I played them

best multiplayer game: for me this was medal of honour: allied assault (none of its half arsed expansions) I dunno why, I've played tons and tons of MP games but none of them has done it for me like this one. The excellent tight-nit australian MOHAA community might have helped also.

best sim: definantly lock on: modern air combat

best strategy: this is a tough one...and I hate to say it but my favourite is definantly still AOE II age of kings

most fun game ever: quake 1 (yup the first quake) quakeworld team fortress (multiplayer - sp was shat) still unbeaten in my books

most original game ever: vangers

and just for fl2003: game I'd like to pretend is my favourite, and that generates the most nostalgia, best space game: the Elite series.

worst game: come on is daikatana all you guys can come up with? If your talking about just plain bad how about marine sharpshooter or terminator?

New or old( Since it has been out for a long time) game to hate a LOT:

Aiport Tycoon/Mogul
Hard tutorial
You go backrupt after a hour if not less
Boring mission
Graphics are ok but what Horrible music
the Ppl inside the aiprort just walk here and there
Nothing interesting
Conclusion: It stinks..

I might categorise some things here, as Taw was right, its impossible to pinpoint one classic/uber/awsome/fully sick game of all time.

FPS: Deus Ex or Half-Life.(PC)

RTS: Total Annihilation. It still plays really well. Generals is close behind, but has a lot of catching up to do to beat TA.(PC)

RPG: System Shock 2 (PC) or Final Fantasy VII (PSX/PC). (and yes, I call SS2 an RPG)

Beat-em Up: Tekken 4 (PS2). No comparison, smooth, fluid and more secrets than most. Either that or One Must Fall 2097.

Third-Person Shooter: Max Payne Series (PC/PS2). Noir detective story meets matrix style gameplay.

Racing (sim): Gran Turisimo series (PSX/PS2). Nothing else to be said.

Racing (arcade): NFS Underground (PS2/XBOX).

Flight Sim: Orbiter (PC). Free, physically correct, ona really pretty to look at.

Space Sim: Freelancer(PC). Open ended. No further comments.

Turn-Based Strategy: Civilisation III(PC). Dunno why, but I liked this one a lot, and it ate a lot of my time.

Musical Games: Bust-a-Groove (PSX). Precursor to the DDR games, on the PSX it was a great laugh to see a fat man dancing better than the chick in the cat costume.

Jack of All Trades Prize: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PC/PS2/XBOX). Combination of racing, shooting, downright wrong ethics, and a funny ass selection of radio stations.

Originality Prize: Vib Ribbon (PSX). If you've played this, you'll know why I'm awarding it the originality prize.
Vib Ribbon is similar to Pa-Rappa the Rapper, in which the main aim is hit keys in time with music, but thats where the similarities end. Using Vector graphics, the majority of the programming was used in the level generation system. Not only could you use the tracks on the game CD (which also could be played on a normal CD player) any CD you had could be used to create a level, and depending on the complexity of the noise, the layers, and the drumbeats the difficulty would vary with each track. I've never seen anything like it, and yes; only from Japan.

Wooden Spoon: Daikatana (PC), 360 (PSX), James Bond Nightfire (PC), Counter-Strike (PC), Nigell Mansell's Racing (SNES), and Rise of the Robots.

I will be flamed for denouncing the beloved king of online games, (Counter-Strike), but I have been swayed away from it because of the bad experiences I have had, and the frustrating features it has.

1) Bad expereiences: 10 year old kids screaming "HES IN THE VENTS!!!" in the middle of a LAN cafe and spitting at you when you didn't play Counter-Strike ("HEY THESE F***ING LOSERS AREN'T CS!!! WHAT ARE YA AFRAID THAT I'LL WHIP YOUR ASS? COME ON, DON'T PLAY DMC, PLAY CS YOU MUTHAF***ER!!!", and throwing stuff at you when you kick their ass cos they're too busy T/Killing their own team members.

2) Features: waiting 5 minutes cos of some T/Killing punk.

There we have it. The Main Reasons I don't Like Counter-Strike. #1 cos all the Idiot kids play it.

3. it is extremely unfulfilling

hey dude you forgot to add best multiplayer game there! You had almost everything else imaginable..

Anyway, I just remembered, the VERY worst game of all time is : Survivor the game based on the very worst but at least so-stupid-you-can-laugh TV series Survivor. This isn't even funny stupid.

Another one I forgot to mention. Its from the Earth 2150 series. its called "The Moon Project" and I really really liked it. It was very unique in that it was the first time I played a strategy game and could customize my own units (what armor they should have, what weapons I want on it etc) and there was so much research in the game. And the combat looked amazing, everything from the shields to the weapons even naval battles looked absolutely great. The 3 races were radically different. And I loved how combat was so involving. You could dig trenches and tunnels and I still fondly remember the first time I dug a tunnel under an enemy base then positioned earthquake generators under it and dismantled it from below . The wealth of strategy was absolutely amazing, only game I have ever seen with more strategic depth is Age of Wonders II: Shadow Magic. But still, if any of you played Moon Project, and got past some of the difficulties (each unit could overheat, and needed ammo) . Some of the late game technologies were absolutely great also, like the UAC had "Shadow Generators" a unit with this generator attached to it makes all the units around it invisibile. And there were Shadow Towers also to hide base, the catch being that lights in the base, and the headlights on units had to be off (yeah it had that too) and that slowed their movement considerably, I thought it was ingenius.

"Dain bramaged"

can we include non-PC games, and old-skool? if so, then it's got to be..

GALAXIAN!!!!!

(or Defender)

Best Games:

Star Trek Bridge Commander
Starfleet Command V I,II,III
Freelancer
Halo
Freespace 2
Battlecruiser Millenium
Echelon Wind Warriors
Call Of Duty


Worst Games:
Massive Assault
Star Trek Hidden Evil
Star Trek Away Team
Warhammer 40,000, Fire Warrior




Romulan Spies are everywhere

Galaxian? I remember that. What about Galaga? Classic.

Battlecruiser Millenium


You my son

MUST BURN IN THE HELL THAT SPAWNED YOU YOU EVIL WORSHIPPER OF HE WHO SHALT NOT BE NAMED!!

there are times I think you either work for him or have a Derek fetish, Heltak.

it is/was a pretty cr*p game, but i wouldn't say it was the worst game of all time. it's def a waste of good coin though, the p.o.s.

It's called acquirin g the Freespace liscense think


Battlcruiser : freespace

Nooooooooooo

hmph. a fair point. now I'm depressed again (I'd forgotten all about that, maybe my mind exorcised the unpleasantness)

Can we stop talking about Voldemort and his game series and any potential futuregames from the boy flamer?