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Old 21st February 2011, 14:39     #81
Nich
 
too hard to reduce to 10 in my opinion.

also add Age Of Empires 1 and 2 to the mix.
and Mechwarrior, Doom, Hexen, Commanche, EF2000, Desert / Jungle / Urban Strike, Warcraft 3, Tyrian, Age Of Mythology, Duke Nukem 3D, BattleZone 1998 remake, Splinter Cell games, Prince of Persia Original, Deus Ex 1... argh too many amazing games
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Old 22nd February 2011, 22:48     #82
GiBs
 
Too many too list really! Been playing games since I had a C64 haha.

Something like as follows... Pretty much games I spent ALOT of time on
Quake 1 / 2 for online games, any type, TF, CTF, RA etc. It must of been good to get me out of bed early for games so the pings were low hahaah
Starcraft / BW
Star Control 2 (Wow I spent a huge amount of time on this game)
Doom 1 / 2
Civilization 1 and 4
Duke Nukem 3d
Halflife 1
Little Big Adventure games
Ultima 7 black gate and expansions
Ultima 8 (no where near as good as the above)
Mass Effect games - Particularly 2
Freespace 2
Streetfighter 2 or Xmen vs SF (helps I have the gaming cabinets, man these have been thrashed!!)
Total Annihilation
Diablo 2

That's about as small as I could get it I think and Im missing heaps that Id like to say!
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Old 24th February 2011, 10:36     #83
BoyWonder
 
I'm surprised the Total War series isn't a more regular feature... Rome Total War in particular

Guilty of starting it up again last week sometime and getting re-hooked.
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Old 24th February 2011, 22:38     #84
BoyWonder
 
Another one of my favourites recollected from long ago...

Sun Tzu's Ancient Art of War
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Old 3rd March 2011, 21:41     #85
MadMax
Stuff
 
not really in order and not limiting myself to ten

duneII

... end post ... ok seriously ...:

c&c series
red alert series
transport tycoon
qwtf
duke 3d
greater half life series (inc tf2)
cataclysm
homeworld
freelancer
ttdx
populous on the segaMSII
bolo on macs at highschool <-- where i first called myself madmax


I considered listing wow but don't think it's all that worthy. starcraft i enjoyed but not keen on listing it. quake i didn't play seriously enough but it felt like i spent a decade with qwtf

i miss epic gaming
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Old 4th March 2011, 15:55     #86
fobski
 
in no particular order

FIFA Series - Pretty much played every year since it debuted on Sega megadrive

Football manager Series - Time Sink, addictive as hell
Civilization 4 - Time Sink
BF1942 - Nothing comes close
C&C Series - Should really finish the last game aye
Half life Series - hurry up Episode 3
Quake Series - sucked at it online, but fun as
WOW _ Purely from a time suck extent, plus friends made.
Wipeout 2097 - I HEART WIPEOUT
Colonization - Original, not the shitty remake
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Old 4th March 2011, 18:21     #87
Ab
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cEvin
only pc games + not including ports from consoles (like res evil, sf2)
Using cev's criteria:

Quake 1 CTF
Starcraft + Brood War
Everquest
Star Wars TIE Fighter
DOOM+DOOM 2
Quake 2 Rocket Arena
Portal
Diablo 2 + Lord of Destruction
Warcraft 3 + The Frozen Throne incl. DOTA
Half-Life Counter-Strike (beta phase only)

Almost made it to the top 10 but not quite: Duke 3D deathmatch
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Old 5th March 2011, 13:46     #88
[Malks] Pixie
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ab
Using cev's criteria:
I looked back at my list and realised that 9/10 of my games were on PC too (wasn't done intentionally)... The only console game which I ended up listing was for the Dreamcast :-)

I also made the mistake of forgetting to list the Mechwarrior series - probably would have knocked something off my list (quite possibly Soul Calibre)..

Pixie
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Old 5th March 2011, 15:31     #89
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Architeuthis
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BoyWonder
I'm surprised the Total War series isn't a more regular feature... Rome Total War in particular
I quite enjoyed R:TW, but the terribly predictable AI stopped it from going on my list. Sadly I never got a chance to try the multiplayer but it looked like fun.
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Old 5th March 2011, 22:23     #90
lektronimo
 
Big fan of single player FPS games of old:

System Shock 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Half-Life 1 and 2
Shogo M.A.D.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Quake 2
Thief 1 and 2
Doom 1 and 2
and a fuckload of old-skool platforms (Vikings, Rick Dangerous, Jazz Jackrabbit, Flashback, Prince of Persia), adventure (Indiana Jones last crusade, Leisure Suit Larry). My first game ever was Pharaohs Tomb, which I recall was launched as ptomb.exe via DOS... Oh and Gorillas which is like Scorched Earth except with two gorillas throwing bananas at each other (you enter angle and speed)

Modern games:

Assassins Creed 1 and 2
KillmoterhfuckingZone 2!!!
Fallout 3 and New Vegas (lol, still playing New Vegas level 22 yeah!)
NFS, the good one with nice physics
Metal Gear Solid 4 (just wow)
Batman Archam Asylum

Yeah.
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Old 7th March 2011, 06:12     #91
Hunago
 
Those are some older PC games I remember had lots of fun playing.

Dune 2
Warcraft 1
Ultima 7 Black gate / Serpent Isle
Ultima Underworld
Might & Magic 2
Heroes of might & magic 2 & 3
King's bounty
Lords of the realm
Magic the Gathering, Shandalar
Master of Magic / Orion
Syndicate
Prince of persia 2, the shadow and the flame
Planescape Torment
Gothic 2

Recently start playing Jagged Alliance 2 and X-com.
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Old 11th March 2011, 18:51     #92
LordHell
 
In no particular order:

PC:
Doom
Command and Conquer
Age of Empires
Half Life
Baldurs Gate 2
Combat Mission Beyond Overlord
Operation Flashpoint
Neverwinter Nights
Dragon Age
Medieval Total War

Console: Meh
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Old 11th March 2011, 21:22     #93
Soulless
 
Spycraft: The Great Game
Myst 3 and Riven
Dragon Age: Origins
Master of Orion
Starcraft and Brood War
Diablo 2
Neverwinter Nights 2
Ultima 8: Pagan
Dawn of War
Portal
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Old 12th March 2011, 00:11     #94
cryocore
 
Top 10 in order

Planescape - Torment
Fallout (I and II)
Baldurs Gate (I and II)
System Shock 2
Arcanum
UFO - Enemy Unknown
Lands of Lore
Grim Fandango
Diablo II
Eye of the Beholder (I and II)

Ultima 7, Ultima Underworld I and II, and every classic Lucasarts Adventure Game would directly follow.
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Old 12th March 2011, 02:14     #95
iiNEMESISii
 
wow um ok *not the game*I dont do mmorg - only ten in 17 years is to tough!!!
Doom series
Syndicate Wars
Hexen/ Heretic series
MechWarrior Series
Tribes series
Quake series
UT series
Diablo series
Starcraft series
NFS series
Thief/ System Shock /Bioshock series
All valve series (not the entire steam catalog) lol but i own 70+
The Elderscolls series /Forgotten realms series
The BF series
The C&C/ Red alert series
planescape/ Baldurs Gate / Fallout series
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Old 13th March 2011, 09:53     #96
Furry Crew
 
In no particular order

Original Team Fortress (Q1)
Tribes 1
Red Alert 1
Everquest
WoW
Diablo 2
Total Annihilation
Civ 3, 4 and 5
Need for Speed: Porche Challenge
Counter Strike 1
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Old 13th March 2011, 10:22     #97
IceFox
 
QWTF, nuff said
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Old 13th March 2011, 18:02     #98
kRAdENkO
 
would be fun to set up a QW CTF server again. Probably look horrible though.
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Old 13th March 2011, 18:23     #99
Lightspeed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BoyWonder
I'm surprised the Total War series isn't a more regular feature... Rome Total War in particular

Guilty of starting it up again last week sometime and getting re-hooked.
It would definitely be on my top 10 pc games, Rome in particular.
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Old 14th March 2011, 11:45     #100
aR Que
 
Best game, pc and console combined! Order - I do not know.

Starcraft. Mine more vespene gas, 'Dude, you're letting that ugo woman tell you what to do?'
FFVII.
Balders Gate, I was so excited when i got to fight a dragon in the 3rd (??).
Planescape Torment. Played through it many times, couldn't beat the fortress as a mage. (tried doing a super hard combo to get a special ending.... or something??)
QWTF. glhf.
Asherons call. The devil.
Diablo 1. never liked 2.
Fallout 1. the pre-patch loading times for 2 killed it, not to mention the car *rolls eyes* ha.
Civilization 2, best of the series.
Gran tourismo 2.
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Old 24th February 2015, 18:06     #101
[fe]
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by [fe]
No order, off the top of head

1.Elite
2.Grim Fandango
3.Quake
4.Doom 2
5.Chaos Engine
6.System Shock 2
7.Stalker
8.GODS
9.Dune II
10.XCOM Enemy Unknown
I've just picked up GC copy of Metroid Prime having been playing through echoes. The only game I regret onselling, so revisiting the list id swap Grim Fandango with Metroid Prime and GODS with Demon Souls.
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Old 25th February 2015, 18:43     #102
Lightspeed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by IoriDyson
chaos engine - amiga (hd remake plz!)
There's a version on Steam that's not quite an HD remake but it does use upscaling which is quite effective. Such a great game.

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Old 25th February 2015, 19:18     #103
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Looking back on my list, I'm embarrassed to have omitted Elite (thanks fe). I'd probably drop Q2RA for it.
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Old 25th February 2015, 23:46     #104
Madman
 
1. Quake
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Old 10th October 2016, 09:33     #105
[BT]Monza
 
Played around with Dolphin Emulator (Gamecube and Wii) over the rainy weekend and fired up Super Mario Galaxy, with cranked up 1080p graphics with AA and AF I am floored by how fun and addictive this is.
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Old 9th November 2017, 08:04     #106
pxpx
 
In no particular order (using PC games)

Jumpman (C64 is still a PC, right?)
Elite
Wolfenstein 3D
Doom
Warcraft
C&C
Space Quest 3 (or Police Quest maybe..)
Diablo II
TF2
Q2:RA

(Captain Comic / Commander Keen honorable mentions)

Back in the day my old man worked for a company called "The Great Escape" who (afaik) distributed the first WYSE terminals in NZ. He'd often work weekends and drag me and my brother (we were aged 6-12 during this time period) into their Parnell warehouse, to get us out from under mums feet when the weather was shitty.

All of the techs there were in their mid 20s and most probably pretty hardcore gamers. We rarely met them, with one exception who is still a family friend 25-30 years later.

To keep us occupied dad would fire up a couple of PCs and after we had figured out DOS commands we'd steadily make our way through games folders with 20+ games in them, trying each one out with no idea what it was or how to play it. Eventually working out that EGA / VGA was better than CGA, making sure the game was using Adlib instead of PC Speaker, and figuring out the keys by trial and error. These were all pirated games, so no manuals available. I do remember once finding a walk-through for Police Quest that one tech had printed out from some BBS, we had been stuck half way through the game at one point for weeks and at that age didnt care about spoilers because we were so ecstatic to get to the end of the game!

At one point TGE had upgraded to a flash North Shore office/warehouse on Ellice Road and I have an extremely vivid memory of playing Doom for the first time here at about 7:30pm in the middle of winter. When encountering the first pink demon I got the first video game jump scare of my life. Good times.
/reminisce

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Old 10th January 2022, 15:09     #107
[fe]
 
Revision.

1.Elite
2.Metroid Prime
3.Quake
4.Doom 2
5.Chaos Engine
6.System Shock 2
7.The Witcher 3
8.Demons Souls
9.Dune II
10.XCOM Enemy Unknown
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