Best Made Game?

Spunj99 said:
What he said. Half Life 2 doesn't deserve a single vote in this thread.

I'd have to say GTA San Andreas was very well made, admitedly it's a console port at heart but a very nicely done one. And to have very few, if any bugs in a game of that scale, is very impressive.

Must been a hella' lot of testing.
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I encountered no bugs or problems in HL2 but I did get the no sound when it rains bug in GTA: SA. I get what you're saying though, neither are worthy of the best made game title I guess.
 
Retail Quake has an absolutely huge number of bugs :)

HL2 - not for me, out the box there's that horrible sound stuttering.

Far Cry - again, buggy to start with especially on Nvidia cards.

Riddick - was tempted to put this in myself but there's some scripting 'loopholes' in conversations I noticed if you approach people in an unexpected order. The native 64bit executable also runs a lot slower than the 32bit one for no good reason. PS2++ shader mode is also incredibly slow.
 
Doom 3

Yeah it needs a reasonably beefy card because it's OpenGL, but damn the engine is amazing!

Works flawlessly, no graphical glitches ever. And it doesn't need to pause for 30 seconds three times a level like HL2.

IMO, Id make the best game engines, full stop.
 
There's no way on earth Half-Life 2 would get my vote, far too many issues with it and people seem to be looking through rose tinted lenses. There were tons of issues when it came out, STEAM updates etc.

The game had a patch before most people even installed it!

Personally it would have to be Quake, it simply worked even on some of my REALLY old PCs at the time with software rendering, I was posh, I had one of those PowerVR cards :p
 
weeble said:
Gotta throw Guild Wars in here - it's the only game I've not had CTD's/BSOD's or any driver issues. To me that implies a well written game.
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Agreed, it also plays respectably on ancient systems and very very rarely do the servers have issues.
 
Killerkebab said:
Made well, runs well?

Far Cry. It flew on my average PC at high end settings back when it came out. I was very impressed.
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Yup, gotta agree. Far Cry was awesome when it came out. Outstanding graphics and wide-open gameplay. I still dive into it these days, from time to time. Its a real masterpiece, plus it wasn't hyped to death or delayed for a number of years. Patch frequency could've been better but still an excellent game.
 
mk17 said:
Yup, gotta agree. Far Cry was awesome when it came out. Outstanding graphics and wide-open gameplay. I still dive into it these days, from time to time. Its a real masterpiece, plus it wasn't hyped to death or delayed for a number of years. Patch frequency could've been better but still an excellent game.
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Hey hey, patch frequency doesn't count. If we were voting for 'best support for game' then suddenly you'd have a valid reason to vote HL2 :)

Either that or anything released by Blizzard...
 
Purely because it was a new (ish) idea, Worms, fatastic game for its time, could play it endlessly...

I'd also have to add a vote in for total annihilation, the game just worked, even today it still looks ok (mainly because u can up the rez unlike the original c+c and RA) HUGE variety of units, different ideas for the rts genre.. still my fav rts game out there (fanboy anyone :D)
 
As good as HL2 is - possibly one of my favourite games ever - it most certainly isn't the most well made game. There were loads of teething troubles, getting Steam to work, endless patches and updates to get it running smoothly... And the infamous stutter bug.

ID seem to make well made games. Been playing Doom 3 since I bought a new GFX card last week - runs great and smoothly, looks fantastic, no bugs, no crashes... They do good netcode as well.

Grand Prix Legends should get a mention (well, it would from me) purely because at the time in 1998, being able to race an online field of 20 racers was amazing. The GPL netcode was amazing, very stable, and well written.

Deus Ex was a well written game too, good story, no stability problems, ran well and looked good even on modest hardware at the time... One of my all time favourites in fact.
 
I'd have to say Baldurs Gate, Planescape Torment etc. All the games made with the Infinity Engine. I played those games to death (nearly of me :p) and I can't remember any real issues, coupled with the best gameplay ever they were the best made. :p
 
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