[theJuice]

1. Ultima Online - Heh, was quite suprised when I saw 2 other guys mention it as well. This game for me will always evoke so many memories from me, most of them good, a few of them bad. It was one of my first online games ever, and the concept of a monthly fee at the time was so out their, too this day I don't know how I convinced my parents to give me their credit card number and pay that fee. Bear in mind this was when I was in Junior high. The absolute freedom of being able to do whatever you want, the Fear and thrill of Pk's killing you and stealing all your equip was amazing. Easily my favorite MMO to this day, probably played and thought about this game more than any other. So many good memories of just sitting infront of the Brit Bank, and checking out the cool crap that people were wearing. Alot of the music files for me still bring back memories, Brit/Yew damn I miss that game.

2. Counter-strike - Played this at a friends house one day, and I was hooked. Was a relative newbie at that point to the world of FPS, but CS completely changed that. It got to the point where I was playing around 6 hours a night, keyboard all dirty, the wasd keys all smudged, sweating and constantly twitching, playing de_dust over and over again. I remember how proud I was that one day when I finally found out how to put your own sprays into the game, and of course, I made one of a naked women :P Good times.

3. Starcraft - I remember the day I bought this game, raced home from the Local London drugs, and popped this baby in and didn't stop playing till the wee hours of the morning. The moment I watched the cool intro CG, I knew I loved this game. Awesome story, cool characters and units, and of course, incredibly balanced in relations to the 3 races. But of course, it was the multiplayer and B.net that made this game in my top 3. All my friends at school played, and we would spend all day discussing various strategies and tactics we would use, and relieve the nights battles and matches the next day. That, and our computer teacher was awesome and used to let us all play during lunch hour, nothing beat playing in the same room.

4. Baldurs Gate 2 - I'm pretty much just a multiplayer game these days, and even back then, I needed to play and compete against other players, but something about BG made it so awesome for me. I suppose it was the fact that the story was so good, the characters really memorable, and just how huge the game was. I was a big reader of Forgotten realms at the time, and seeing alot of the locales and characters from the books made my day. Meeting up with Drizzt and crew was a sweet suprise. I LOVED the 3rd person isometric view of that era (still do), and the fact it ran well on alot of PCS. All the characters had interesting back-stories, and I remember agonizing many times over cutting certain characters, just because I had actually gotten quite attached to them.

5. Planescape Torment - This game for me caught me completely unawares. I was playing CS one night, and one of my friends told me over MSN that he was playing this cool RPG, Planetscape or something. I thought at the time it was some space game or something, and didn't give it much thought. Fast forward like 2 weeks, and all I could hear from that guy was how awesome the game was, and how I needed to get it. Well, after borrowing it from him, I couldn't put it down. I remember thinking what a *weird* story it was, not your typical fantasy fare, and I was initially put out by it. The more I played, the more I enjoyed it. I never really thought it got the attention that it deserved, at least, aside from hardcore fans, but it was definetely a gem.