Top Five Video Games

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#21
  1. Thief: The Dark Project & Thief: Metal Age (PC) - [The only “stealth” games I can take seriously, actually respect, and that immersed me to the point of being able to scare the pants off me]
  2. Chrono Trigger (SNES) - [Greatest 2D RPG I have ever played. Baldurs Gate 2 comes in a close second to this]
  3. Super Metroid (SNES) - [First Metroid game to capture my attention for the rest of the franchise, and beautifully atmospheric]
  4. Tyrian (PC) - [Best shmup of all time]
  5. Cave Story (PC) - [Newest game on the list - my most recent best platformer fix. Beautifully composed and executed]

Choosing just 5 is rather difficult, so here are two more that I feel deserve notice but don’t fit on the list;

  1. Descent 1 (PC) - [an intense zero-gravity shooter]
  2. Commander Keen (PC) (entire series) - [the platform game remembered with much fondness from my childhood]
#22

I loved the Thief Trilogy, so much that recently (not inspired by this post, but spured on to continue) i’ve attempted to locate my copy of the 3 games, to re-install them. The stealth thing is so realistic (for the game) the ability to move dead bodys rather than them disappearing etc, makes it more realistic. So many games “leash” the bad guys, so if you run away or get out of line of sight, they forget completely about you. Not so much in Thief/

#23

My list will exclude any first person shooters on the basis that they give me motion-sickness. 'Tis an unfortunate day when reality can’t cope with your gaming lifestyle!

  1. Everquest (PC) - my first real addiction. high-fives all the previous EQ acknowledgers
  2. Machinarium (PC) - Combined my love for art, music and gaming into one delicious steampunky package
  3. Any of the Monkey Island series (PC)
  4. Champions of Norrath (PS2) - I’m a sucker for co-op games
  5. Rayman’s Raving Rabbids (Wii) - It’s the only game that’s made me collapse into a fit of giggles.
#24

After writing this list I realise that it is more of a games I have fond memories list because they are the games I grew up with:

  1. Crystal Caves - Back in the day with my 486 DX2 Crystal Caves by apogee was the first game I ever played, and played, and played. I remember asking my dad before I would go to Primary if I could go onto the computer to play this.
  2. SimCity 2000 - It came with the 486 when we first got it for free and I played a bit of it until I got a cheat that gave me 2billion dollars to play with. That was fun.
  3. Return to Zork - My Dad and I played this a lot and worked together to solve it. Great times.
  4. Nexus: TK - My first MMORPG, before Everquest ever existed. One of the best games I have ever seen that had community as a core compotent. There were four main classes but once you got to lvl99 (max level) you could join a sub-class but they were all run by players. There were always player run community events that had an impact on the game which was great.
  5. Command & Conquer - This was the first game I got that required an upgrade to my first computer of any type, and you know what needed upgrading? The mouse… Fantastic RPS, elegant and beautiful.
#25

Thumbs up!

#26

Bah, all these kids with their computer and console games.

Back in my days THE game we played was Gauntlet the arcade game.

“Blue Elf is about to die” “Valkyrie needs food now”

#27

I loved that game!

#28

I miss gauntlet in arcades :frowning: If i ever get the disposable income I am going to get one for the cave :smiley:

#29

[quote=“Muppet”]After writing this list I realise that it is more of a games I have fond memories list because they are the games I grew up with:

  1. Crystal Caves - Back in the day with my 486 DX2 Crystal Caves by apogee was the first game I ever played, and played, and played. I remember asking my dad before I would go to Primary if I could go onto the computer to play this.[/quote]

Crystal caves was amazing. I love all those old apogee games. I still have them, and they used to work on XP - probably need to get an emulator, or something.

#30

I want Gauntlet for the PS3. Also Archon.

#31

There were a few guys remaking Archon for the PC a while back, fully graphical and everything.

#32

Archon is available through Steam for about $5, it is not as good as you remember :slight_smile:

#33

in no particular order

Elder Scrolls Series
Final Fantasy 7
Star Wars: KoToR
Jade Empire
Fallout Series

#34

first : monkey Island
Second : fallout

far behind :

third : baldur’s gate/neverwinter nights
fourth : civilisation
fifth : bloodbowl