Favorite Video Games

[cuzog]

Post your favorite games here.

I'll start with:

World of Warcraft
Portal
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Halo: Combat Evolved
Marathon
Escape Velocity
Zelda
Fable

[WhizzBang]

Atic Atac
Donkey Kong Country
Metal Gear Solid
Shenmue 2
Gran Turismo 3
Metroid Prime
Oblivion
Super Mario Galaxy

[Malksta]

too many too name/remember :P

here a few though:

Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, 3 and 4 ofcourse
Shenmue 2
Soul Calibur 1
Final Fantasy 7 and 8
Parasite Eve
Resident Evil 2 and Code: Veronica

[Triv1um]

Why does everyone like Shenmue 2?!

I have it for my Dreamcast, it's horrific.

[katachristic]

Guitar Hero Anything
Zelda (plural)
Metal Gear Solid games (2 especially)
Soul Calibur games (again, 2 especially)
Super Mario RPG
SSBM & SSBB
DK64
Banjo Kazooie & Tooie
Super Mario Galaxy
Duck Hunt
Paper Mario Anything
Halo Games
Left 4 Dead
Gauntlet
Super C
Pac Man 2-The New Adventures
Gears of War games
Almost anything Pokemon
Tony Hawk games
Sonic games (especially adventure 2 Battle)

these are the titles that pop into my head but to broaden the perspective...
in this order
1) anything extremely medieval and violent (Zelda)(SCII)
2)Guitar Hero
3)Only the best covert op games (MGS2)
4)Any good 1st person shooter with lots explosions,blood, and gore (must be realistic and load quickly)
5)Anything that moves extremely fast (like sonic)

pretty long but at least you didnt ask about songs.
i think i might start a 100 best songs thread
upload your list later!

must look in to Fable and Parasite eve

peace.

[jamotto]

The Legend of Zelda
Shenmue 2
Oblivion
Resident Evil 5
Batman (NES version)
Jeanne D'arc
Metal Slug (any of them)
Castlevania (except those on the GBA and DS)
SpyHunter

[WhizzBang]

Why does everyone like Shenmue 2?!

I have it for my Dreamcast, it's horrific.

It is not to everyone's taste but I love the world and the overwhelming amount of detail in it. Most adventure games use fantasy settings but this uses Hong Kong and China in the mid-80s and it is so detailed I felt I had got a flavour of what it is like there. It is basically a cross between an adventure game and a beat-em-up.

It has a pretty good fighting engine in it, and you have to adopt different fighting styles for different opponents as you go through the game - which sound a bit like the unfinished Bruce Lee film Game Of Death concept, now that I think of it. There is even a bit where you have to make your way up a building and on each floor you find a new opponent with a different style of fighting, so maybe Game Of Death was an influence.

The first game isn't as well balanced as Shenmue 2. it is fun in it's way but really serves as a very long prologue to the real game in Shenmue 2.

[beetroot bertie]

It's difficult to pick, what with games being such transient things but here's some memorable ones for me (in no particular order):

Donkey Kong (Nintendo LCD Game & Watch)
Scramble (Grandstand Table top game)
Chuckie Egg (Acorn Electron)
Frak! (Acorn Electron)
Hobgoblin 1 & 2 (Acorn Electron)
Zany Kong Junior (Acorn Electron)
Way Of The Exploding Fist (Acorn Electron)
Ghosts and Goblins (Arcade - never got very far)
Outrun & Space Harrier (Hydraulic arcade cabinets)
Silkworm (Amiga)
SWIV (Amiga)
Pinball Dreams (Amiga)
Midnight Resistance (Amiga)
Street Fighter II Turbo (Snes)
Mario Kart (Snes)
Super Probotector: Alien Wars (Snes)
Soul Calibur (Dreamcast)
Ikaruga (Dreamcast)
Rayman 2 (Dreamcast)
Outrun 2 (Xbox)

There's far too many really. Nostalgia really is a stong thing. I have good memories of playing loads Speccy games with friends when I was a kid, waiting for the cassettes to finish loading all the horrible screeching noises.

As for the current gen, I guess I'm not as grabbed by games as I used to be but I really like Gears 2, CoD3 multiplayer and Guitar Hero 2 on 360.

[Darksaviour69]

Rise of the robots!

[Shadowblind]

Doom(Damn near every system)
Tales of vesperia*(X360)
Quake(PC)
Civilization: Call to Power(PC)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour(N64)
Bioshock(PC/X360/PS3)
Sonic 1-3(Genesis)
Sonic Adventure 2(DC)
vectorman(GEN)
Wacky Worlds(GEN)

I'm sure I'm missing some.