What is your favourite game of all time, and why?

Couldn't choose between these:

Quake
Quake 2
Doom 2
Blade Runner
Shivers 1 (if you've never played this and you enjoy horror/puzzle games PLAY it asap! - one of the best soundtracks in a PC game ever, amazing atmosphere)
Bad Company 2 (so many epic games - enjoyed it way more than BF3/4).
 
For the PC, rather than old skool 8bit... Well, it's always a toss up between three titles for me, but this time I'm going for Baldur's Gate 2. Reasons? The main NPC's, in particular Imoen, Jaheira :o and of course, the legendary Minsc. I loved David Warner's voice acting as Jon Irencis too. BG2 was a proper party based RPG, and thankfully came out before the Xbox crippled the genre. It gave you flexibility, a decent story and kicked you in the face if you wandered casually in to a fight. :D

I measure all other RPG's to this title, and probably always will.

kthula666 said:
Ultima 7 & Serpent Isle.

Just wish they would remake it with oblivion/skyrim engine it would be so good.
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I was only 17 or so when those came out, and never gave them (or Ultima 6) the time it deserved. It's one of those games I wish I could play now.

TopOfTheWorld said:
Skyrim for me or for the nostalgia a certain mmorpg I used to play.
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Skyrim (modded) has entered my Top 10 list. Which for games made after about 2002, is almost unheard of.
 
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Console; FF7 because of the scale, story and feels.

PC; Counter Strike - so addictive and judging by my play times it's my favourite game.
Steam shows my 1.6 play time as 526hours, and I held off playing on steam for the longest of times, have a lot more than that when it was on WONIDs. :o
 
Battlefield 2 without doubt. I have never had so much fun playing a game ever. It really made playing with friends so much better than the series has since and it is also the only game which I have made real lifelong friends who I met whilst playing the game. I still meet up with numerous of my old Battlefield buddies even though we do not game together anymore and we are now just very good friends.
 
Looking back over the years, I have 3 strong contenders for this.

For a very long time, I would say it had to be Ultima Online, with nothing else coming close. (the sheer level of freedom in the game, risk v reward, act v consequence, it really was exactly what an MMO should be)

However, in recent years, looking back...the game that I used to consider my 2nd favourite, has risen in hindsight and now sits there level with Ultima Online. The game in question being Dark Age of Camelot (DAOC) , there was real pride, I mean REAL pride in your faction and your part in your faction, be it Midgard, Hibernia or Albion. A pride that I don't see reflected in any MMO since, where people will happily swap from one faction to another in an MMO. Combined with some of , if not THE, best large scale PvP ever in an MMO, its now right up there with UO for me.

And as an honourable mention, I would say Battlefield 1942, which I still consider to be the best Battlefield game to date, with the best sized maps and the best balance.
 
Really hard to just pick a single game.

If I had to, I'd say FF7. Amazing story, great characters, huge world and some of the toughest bosses in any game ever.

Close contenders:

Ocarina of time
FFX
MGS1
Baldurs gate II
Eve Online
 
Fluke? said:
Team Fortress Classic ~99-2002

The amount of time I wasted on this game was unreal. Euro leagues, wptfcl, wp ladder, bwtfcl etc etc. Mercing. "watching" the uk/euro team take on 'Mericas finest on IRC just as the bunnyhopping controversy was taking off (pre 1.6). The USA team refused to use this tactic and had thier collective bottoms handed to them. Uber clans like ~A~ and [DW]. Uber players like imm0 and Runesky. Hearing of players with £1k+ phone bills for one months' use :o.

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TFC for me too. Crazy fun, played it for years prior to there being Euro leagues, then the swedes came over with their super fast internet and smashed almost everyone except DW and BC, was ace :D
 
Very difficult to decide, as there are quite a few!

I probably spent the most time with Quake II though, and that's probably my favourite of all. It spawned a lot of popular mods that later made it into Q3A (including my favourite game mode, instagib), also my favourite gun in any FPS ever (the railgun :D). There was also a multiplayer mod for it called KOTS (King of the Server) that was basically Quake II with persistent stats stored on a database, with rankings, weapon upgrading and some cool extra abilities etc... probably the most addictive multiplayer mod I've ever played in any FPS, and it's a real shame it didn't seem to make it into later FPSs (there was a project to bring it to UT 2003, but it never properly took off).

Other favourites of mine include the Doom series (it got me into modding, and is pretty much why I joined the games industry), Quake (again, spent a lot of time modding it) and Q3A, Counterstrike (original, basically up to 1.6), Command and Conquer series (up until Red Alert 2) and honourable mentions for Magic Carpet, Populous III and Dungeon Keeper (amazing to think Bullfrog made three of my favourite games, despite each one being completely different). I really enjoyed the Unreal Tournament games too (played them a lot), but I wouldn't consider them favourites as I always preferred Quake, the aiming and movement just felt better to me.

Sadly very few recent games make the list :( My favourite recent games are probably Team Fortress 2 and Demon's Souls/Dark Souls.
 
Panos said:
Dark Age of Camelot.

Countless hours clocked between 2001 and 2012.

Hopefully, TESO will be as good.
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Amazing game and i completely agree. I play some GW2 WvW when I need a PvP fix. It's not as good but it's about as close as it has gotten since.
 
It'd probably have to be World of Warcraft, still playing it now (had a good few "breaks") nothing has came close to the sheer involvement and fun I have had with a game... Tend to be very casual now with playing but back when I started it was all consuming :p


Honourable mentions...

Goldeneye for the amazing matches where me and my mates would turn up to another friends house pads in hand and play for ages.

Mount & Blade / Mount & Blade: Warband - Very nearly my perfect games, spent so many hours playing those games by myself, never really embraced the modding side of things which is just as well as i'd probably still be there now :p Very much looking forward to Bannerlord! :)
 
Command & Conqueror: Red Alert - Simple to pick up and pretty simple to play as well. First RTS I really got into playing. Still play it now from time to time.

Special mentions should go to CSS, L4D1+2 and World of Tanks too...
 
Some of my favourites have already been mentioned so I'll go with this one:

Guild Wars. I'd never spent so much time on a single game before or since. An enjoyable storyline, plenty of sidequests and excellent end-game content. Genuinely difficult in places that you could overcome with some actual thought. Tank n spank was the default approach for people who couldn't think outside the box and it generally paid off to do so. With the later expansions it brought some problems but usually far more good additions.
 
Nostalgia is a powerful factor here and those games that made a big impact on you at the time might well outweigh "better" games played in later years when you have become a bit more jaded :D

My list seems a bit FPS heavy but Doom, System Shock 2, Deus Ex and Half Life were all ones that I remember as great and Doom and Half Life are on the very short list of games that I have actually played through more than once.
 
On PC it would probably be STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl. Just loved the setting, story and atmosphere. It was almost perfect.

On console it would have to be Resident Evil 1. So many fond memories and such an amazing game. The remake was even better, but you can't beat the very first playthrough, when you didnt know what was around the corner and didnt know if you should save that ink ribbon for later or use at the next safe room, then when you finally make it to a safe room and the calming music plays, it's a great feeling. Much better than games now where you can save constantly or respawn at checkpoints, really ruins the tension.
 
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