World's Favorite Videogames chosen by the people

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:24 am

Tentative list of what I can remember...almost all of them will are pretty old 'cos I don't have a modern PC or console system. And I haven't got into Morrowind yet, so that's not up there but probably would/will be once I've played it properly.

1: Thief 2: the Metal Age. Note I haven't played Thief 1, but from all accounts this is pretty much the best Thief game out there. Deadly Shadows was alright but nowhere near as good as T2 (though the Cradle deserves special mention for sheer terror - I really need to play System Shock 2).
2: Chrono Trigger. In a word: Epic.
3: Baldur's Gate trilogy. ToB was a bit meh besides Watcher's Keep, but we all know how great this game is. If you don't, buy the trilogy set and play it through.
4: Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Sheer madness, I was used to the original SSB but this one is just manic...and fun.
5: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Not quite the number 1 it's often placed as, but a brilliant game that drew you in like few others. Honorable mention to Majora's Mask for it's innovations and creepy mood, and to Twilight Princess.
6: Burnout 3 Takedown. Awesome sheer driving aggression.
7: Aliens VS Predator 2 (old version). Playing as an alien was great fun, and the fact that each race does feel distinctly different deserves a lot of credit. I just wish I could find it again is all...
8: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Level design was often fairly repetitive, but it was a fun game that really showed me how Star Wars can make for great games. And being able to customise your character to an extent was a nice touch.
9: GTA: Vice City. There's just something about being able to terrorise the 80s that keeps me coming back to this one. Later GTAs might be better games, but the setting adds so much to VC.
10: Battlefield 1942. The only Battlefield game I've really played, but the WW2 setting and sheer variety of vehicles/emplacements/settings makes this one stand out for me.
11: Street Fighter 2: Hyper Fight (SNES). Great old-school fighting game, Super SF2 just didn't match up and SF1s inability to do same character matches and not having the bosses as playable characters was a drag.
12: Perfect Dark (N64). Took everything that made Goldeneye great, and made it better, while removing almost everything that detracted from Goldeneye. Great multiplayer, and single player provides decet examples of lots of different mission types, from rescuing hostages to defending bases to taking over starships.
13: Ninja Gaiden Xbox. Really hard, but great ninja game. As a stealth game Tenchu had so much potential but failed, while Gaiden pulled it off.
14: Just Cause 2. Played this at a friend's place recently, and the sheer versatility from just one or two tools and abilities, coupled with the over-the-top-action-movie feel makes this a winner.
15: Secret of Mana. Beautiful, bittersweet, and immensely stylish.
16: [url="http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html"]Robot Unicorn Attack[/url]. Play it and see. And oh God the music. Just one more game and then I'll stop...

17: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.
18: Earthworm Jim. So weird, and yet so fun, with an utterly amazing soundtrack.
19: Worms 2/Worms Armageddon. Worms is just great fun. Also, SUPER SHEEP!

20: Return to Zork. Remarkably twisted with a constant sense of low-grade sinister-ness.
21: House of the Dead: Overkill. Great WII zombie shooter that shows how good the WIImote can be for shooters, with an awesome B-grade vibe.
22: Soul Caliber 3. Toss up with Tekken 4, but in the end Soul Caliber (just) wins out for its ability to create custom characters and for the variety of weapons on offer, as well as the interesting game character designs.
23: Robotech: Battlecry (PS2). Really fun Roboech/Macross game.
24: Dragon Rage (PS2). Not necessarily a great game in and of itself (fairly average in fact), but as an avid dragon-lover this was great fun.
25: Starcraft Battlechest. Great RTS with 3 distinct races and an involved plot.

Papissama · Post by **Papissama** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:25 am

@all: you have to realize the fact that our unikGamer community is at its beginning at the moment. There are only over 1,3oo users right now. It's up to us to spread the word and get more people involved, so that we have a more representative result. So please do so and tell all your friends.

Stworca · Post by **Stworca** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:56 am

Here on Gamebanshee, we don't believe in friends.

sengir · Post by **sengir** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:35 am

Here some of my favorites (just saw the forum header so put these in ranking order

1. Planescape: Torment
2. Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 + extension packs
3. Gabriel Knight 1 & 2 (to a lesser extent 3)
4. Broken Sword 1 & 2
5. Fallout 2
6. Final Fantasy VII
7. Realms Of The Haunting
8. Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
9. Dragon Age: Origins
10. Grim Fandango
11. Day Of The Tentacle
12. Sanitarium
13. Sam & Max: Hit The Road
14. Batman: Arkham Asylum (just for the cheer gameplay fun)
15. Red Dead: Redemption
16. Mass Effect 1&2
17. Tex Murphy: Under A Killing Moon

deadlydis · Post by **deadlydis** » Thu May 12, 2011 9:40 pm

FF7 isn't at the top, Half-life 2 and OoT are above it, FFX is in 11th place and Mass Effect 2 is above the first Mass Effect?

Talk about bad tastes.

ZAchary · Post by **ZAchary** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:19 am

25) Betrayal at Krondor
24) Baldur's Gate 1+2, Icewind Dale 1
23) Jagged Alliance 1+2
22) Might & Magic VI
21) Realms of Arkania trilogy
20) Another World + Flashback
19) Turrican 2
18) Syndicate
17) Transport Tycoon Deluxe
16) Fallout 1+2
15) Gothic
14) Unreal
13) No One Lives Forever
12) C&C 1, Red Alert 1, Tiberian Sun
11) Outlaws
10) Age of Empires 2
9) Rainbow Six - Rogue Spear
8) Dungeon Keeper
7) Rallye Championship 2000
6) Ufo : Enemy Unknown
5) Ultima IX
4) Vietcong
3) Shining Force
2) Warcraft 1+2
1) Diablo 1+2
0) Doom 2

LastDanceSaloon · Post by **LastDanceSaloon** » Tue May 17, 2011 12:20 pm

These are all games which lurk in my memory as little moments of heaven or games that have chewed up at least a week of my time (accumulative, not literal).

1) Civilisation II
2) Super Mario Brothers (all up to 3d)
3) Galaxian/Galaga (or a close clone, I'll double check next time I visit my parents)
4) Icewind Dale
5) Championship Manager III
6) Medieval: Total War
7) Worms (all up to 3d)
8) Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
9) The Great Living Room Escape (and all sequels)
10) Myth (all)

11) Final Fight
12) Divine Divinity
13) Destruction Derby
14) Street Fighter II
15) Max Damage
16) Neverwinter Nights (mainly the expansions)
17) Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
18) Space Invaders
19) Pogo Games (RISK, Monopoly, Cleudo/Clue, Chess etc)
20) Donkey Kong Jr Version 1

21) Dragon Age (mainly the expansion)
22) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Silver Earring
23) Internet Spades
24) Crash Bandicoot
25) Frak!

And an interesting side note, I never had access to my own home computer until around 2000 or just after, so thanks Gamebanshee for reminding me I had friends once upon a time

LastDanceSaloon · Post by **LastDanceSaloon** » Thu May 19, 2011 4:01 pm

I have finally found the galaxian clone via extensive Googeling.

3) Epoch Galaxy II (1981, VFD, 4 C Batteries, Model# 8100)

Epoch's Galaxian clone. (Sold in Japan as Astro Wars, and by Grandstand in the U.K. as Astro Wars)

So I think my brother's was called Astro Wars.

For a peek at this wonderful device (which still works to this day, and it took a LOT of abuse in it's time - they don't make 'em like THAT anymore

) click here:

Epoch Galaxy II

doady · Post by **doady** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:57 pm

deadlydis wrote:FF7 isn't at the top, Half-life 2 and OoT are above it, FFX is in 11th place and Mass Effect 2 is above the first Mass Effect?

Talk about bad tastes.

FF7 sucks.

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:44 am

Just had a look at he list and got down to 40 before I found a game I'd have considered voting for, and that wouldn't have been near the top of my list. clearly the vast majority of voters have only been playing games for about 5 or 6 years at the most.

doady · Post by **doady** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:40 pm

Here's my list:
doady: Infos, Tops & Reviews on unikGamer

galraen wrote:Just had a look at he list and got down to 40 before I found a game I'd have considered voting for, and that wouldn't have been near the top of my list. clearly the vast majority of voters have only been playing games for about 5 or 6 years at the most.

And yet somehow the vast majority of the games in the top 40 are more than 5 or 6 years old, including the #1 game.

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:02 am

doady wrote:Here's my list:
doady: Infos, Tops & Reviews on unikGamer

And yet somehow the vast majority of the games in the top 40 are more than 5 or 6 years old, including the #1 game.

You're right I was wrong, I guess I shouldn't post when I'm half asleep and spending most of my time watching baseball. Hmm, I think I've said that before!

I guess the real deal is that many of them are console, or originally console games, and I've never owned one of those, so just put my unfamiliarity down to age rather than check the dates.

Tenser · Post by **Tenser** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:20 am

People, eat ****, millions of flies cant be wrong !

I dont give a damn what "most" people think is "best". The point of me playing a video game is ME enjoying that game, not me agreeing with everyone else what is supposed to be enjoyable.

So, for example, I dont give a damn if people think WoW is "the best MMO". A large part of these people are asians in the first place, who pushed a weird game like Linage 2 before WoW, and the remaining population of that game enjoyed playing stuff like Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo before, after all, thats how Blizzard got their name.

So yeah, the thread is pointless. Play what you enjoy, not what everyone else enjoys.

phaedruslives · Post by **phaedruslives** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:15 pm

1. super metroid
2. torment
3. final fantasy 7
4. deus ex
5. VTM:bloodlines
6. bg series
7. morrowind
8. arx-fatalis
9. the witcher 2
10. system shock 2
11. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (all of them)
12. gothic (3 is my favorite)

(omfg I realized I bypassed fallout 2 completely. What a massive lapse of judgement. Well, I suppose it would be somewhere in the middle. right above bloodlines.

These are mine anyway. I hope at least one of them makes all of your lists.

doady · Post by **doady** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:56 pm

Tenser wrote:People, eat ****, millions of flies cant be wrong !

I dont give a damn what "most" people think is "best". The point of me playing a video game is ME enjoying that game, not me agreeing with everyone else what is supposed to be enjoyable.

So, for example, I dont give a damn if people think WoW is "the best MMO". A large part of these people are asians in the first place, who pushed a weird game like Linage 2 before WoW, and the remaining population of that game enjoyed playing stuff like Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo before, after all, thats how Blizzard got their name.

So yeah, the thread is pointless. Play what you enjoy, not what everyone else enjoys.

Nobody has told anybody to not play what they enjoy. Your anger is misplaced. Just chill the hell out. If people expressing their opinions angers you so much, don't click on this thread. Or better yet, don't go to any internet message boards.