What's your personal GOAT ? (Game of all time)
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Tough call
Going back as far as the original Max Payne - unreal - was obsessed with it and the "bullet time" effects it brought to gaming.
Loads of notable mentions as well - PUBG/Project Reality: Battlefield 2/Half Life/ Goldeneye on N64 with 4 players..../
For me - based on pure play time, enjoyment, frustration and every other emotion - Escape from Tarkov....
Going back as far as the original Max Payne - unreal - was obsessed with it and the "bullet time" effects it brought to gaming.
Loads of notable mentions as well - PUBG/Project Reality: Battlefield 2/Half Life/ Goldeneye on N64 with 4 players..../
For me - based on pure play time, enjoyment, frustration and every other emotion - Escape from Tarkov....
Damn this is a hard one!
I think my shortlist would be:
Counter Strike (1.6 and prior)
Star Wars Galaxies
World of Warcraft (original + first few expansions)
C&C Red Alert 2
DotA (original WC3 mod, DOTA2 is good, just not quite the same, especially now)
Escape from Tarkov
Honourable console mention - Rambo on the Megadrive.
I don’t know if I can just pick one of the above, they were all games at stages of my life I couldn’t put down but I need to sit down and work out if that’s just because of the people I played with and met online, or the actual game itself.
I think my shortlist would be:
Counter Strike (1.6 and prior)
Star Wars Galaxies
World of Warcraft (original + first few expansions)
C&C Red Alert 2
DotA (original WC3 mod, DOTA2 is good, just not quite the same, especially now)
Escape from Tarkov
Honourable console mention - Rambo on the Megadrive.
I don’t know if I can just pick one of the above, they were all games at stages of my life I couldn’t put down but I need to sit down and work out if that’s just because of the people I played with and met online, or the actual game itself.
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List updated, great thread, enjoying it! Witcher 3 is the clear winner so far - I better play it 
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List updated, great thread, enjoying it! Witcher 3 is the clear winner so far - I better play it
I could never get into it myself. I bought on Xbox at launch. Better give it another go!
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Dragon age origins
Mass effect 2
Resident Evil 4
Witcher 3
Bioshock
Dark souls (any of them really)
Elder scrolls Obvlivion
Special mention goes out to Mirrors edge. Its a game I run through every couple of years and its like comfort food to me. I just love playing through it.
Mass effect 2
Resident Evil 4
Witcher 3
Bioshock
Dark souls (any of them really)
Elder scrolls Obvlivion
Special mention goes out to Mirrors edge. Its a game I run through every couple of years and its like comfort food to me. I just love playing through it.
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Everquest...in respect of the amount of hours i plugged into the game over the years....the friends i made....the enjoyment I had.
Nothing comes close.
Nothing comes close.
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Planetside (the original) - in my opinion, in it's day it was massively overlooked and WAY ahead of its time. (but its steep learning curve and monthly subscription probably didn't help to draw new players in). It was an amazing game for its time - the servers don't run anymore, so it's not really something accessible now, so I'm unsure if it could pass the criteria of regularly being re-played tho...
The game came out in 2003, had 3 teams/empires each map could hold up to 166 players (later dropped to 133 to help populate multiple servers) for each side. So, a fps shooter with a 498 (later 399) player servers!!! Not just a fps, but also 12 different common ground vehicles (plus an additional 4 specific to each empire/team), then 7 different aircraft. I think there were approx 10 big maps (plus smaller ones), loads of weapons, skills, abilities etc. Compared with modern shooters, the only thing really missing was location damage. Even today, 18.5 years later, something recent like Battlefield 2042 brags about only 128 players (and nowhere near the weapons, vehicles or customisation).
The game came out in 2003, had 3 teams/empires each map could hold up to 166 players (later dropped to 133 to help populate multiple servers) for each side. So, a fps shooter with a 498 (later 399) player servers!!! Not just a fps, but also 12 different common ground vehicles (plus an additional 4 specific to each empire/team), then 7 different aircraft. I think there were approx 10 big maps (plus smaller ones), loads of weapons, skills, abilities etc. Compared with modern shooters, the only thing really missing was location damage. Even today, 18.5 years later, something recent like Battlefield 2042 brags about only 128 players (and nowhere near the weapons, vehicles or customisation).
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Half life
Deus Ex
Age of empires 2
Deus Ex
Age of empires 2
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Same for me, first online game and all that. Also remember my very first game and how dumbstruck I was. I'd been playing offline for six months thinking I was dead good, but the style of play online was just so different, and I quickly branded everyone a cheater
Also had no notion of what 'ping' was and why there was a significant projectile delay when firing weapons, lol.
Awesome years, though. I missed this game from time to time when it started to die out. Probably still do.
Totally agree. JC Denton should be top, not that Gerald weirdo.
It's shame Fortnite became such a success and stopped development of the new Unreal
Can't really blame them but yes, as the Alpha was not bad at all and already had a fair few players. You'd think with how rich it's made them, they could afford to continue developing it still.
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People are just listing games. Remember make it clear what your ONE CHOICE is or I can't update the tally.
