Your top 5 computer games

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Buff

1. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (w/both expansion packs)

2. Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic (1 & 2)

3. Call of Duty 2

4. Age of Empires 2

5. Sim City 4


Most of my time has been spent playing Medal of Honor. In fact I still play it quite regularily.

The fact that you have included that abortion of a game KOTOR 2 makes me think less of your entire list.

[MarchHare]

2. Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic (1 & 2)

Oh snap, I really should have found a spot for KOTOR (the first one) somewhere on my list. I actually liked the sequel even better than the original until I got to the last few hours and it became obvious that the game was rushed out for a Christmas release and they hadn't finished the ending yet. If only they had spent just a few more months working on that game it would have been incredible.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Counter Strike
NWN
Company of Heroes
Battlefield 2
City of Heroes

[Kerplunk]

Top 5:
Homeworld
World of Warcraft
Starcraft
Company of Heroes
Galactic Civilizations

Also good:
UT2K4
BF1942
C&C
Civilization II&III
Supreme Commander
Police Quest
Warcraft

[tripin_billie]

Civ IV
Battlefield 1942 (with Battlefield 1918 mod)
NHL 2002
Pizza Tycoon
Worms 2

[habernac]

Ultima IV
Wizardry I and II
Loderunner
......

can you tell I haven't played computer games since the 80's?

[BlackEleven]

Cool to see some other Civ players on here.

My list includes a variety of different games on different platforms from different eras. I'm just listing ones I had a lots of fun playing throughout different times in my life:

Civilization IV
Space Quest III
Final Fantasy VII
Chrono Trigger
Zelda

Honroable mentions:
LORD (back in the BBS days)
Monkey Island (great humour!)
Wii Tennis (I was so amazed at the controls)
Pac Man (on the classic Atari)
Duke Nukem 3D (used to play multi-player with a friend over dial-up, good times)

Edit: oops didn't read computer games and just listed any video games. But you can play all those games on emulators now anyway

[PsYcNeT]

1. Quakeworld Team Fortress - The first mod to ever make it big, and undeniably one of the most amazing games to ever be created for free

2. Fortress Forever - I am currently beta testing this yet unreleased Half-Life 2 mod, a follow up to QWTF, TFC, and the proper heir to the TF throne, it is balls to the wall fantastic...and FREE!

3. Day Of The Tentacle/Sam And Max/Space Quest 4 - Collectively the three most hilarious adventure games ever created, I still play them all every year or two on an old Windows 98 rig I have built specifically for pre-1996 games.

4. Battlefield 1942/Vietnam - The last two installments have tried but have yet to match the awesomeness of the original, or the jungle fun of it's sequel.

5. Counter-Strike/Counter-Strike:Source - I am insanely good at twitch gaming, so these are both tops for me. BOOM! HEADSHOT!

Honourable Mentions:

TFC - Team Fortress Classic, the Half-Life remake that was slightly slower and about 80% as fun as the original
C&C Red Alert - Still the best RTS ever made
Police Quest 4: Open Season - Insanely inventive and in depth adventure game
Civilization 4 - Best turn-based strat ever made, most balanced and fun in the Civilization series
Duke Nukem 3D - Epic's masterpiece, turned the world of gaming on it's head with violence, sex, and loads of toungue-in-cheek humour

[FireFly]

You know, after reading this I do remember playing Duke Nukem and Doom. I suck at FPS games though.

[STeeLy]

Unreal Tournament - Entire Series
Tactical Ops - Initially started out as a mod for UT
Battlefield 1942
Flight Sim 2004
NHL Series from EA - I don't know why, I just like that game.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Oregon Trail, Police Quest, and LORD. Man those bring back fond memories. Also brings back memories of being on the Octopod BBS in the library in Jr. High. Back when I downloaded .mods instead of .mp3s heh.

I recently had a really strange urge to play the original Quest for Glory. Like ORIGINAL original VGA version.

What would you like do to? Climb
You climb the tree. Strength +1

[I-Hate-Hulse]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Starcontrol 1 or especially 2. Many a night was spent by me and my brother hammering away at the crowded keyboard of a Tandy 1000TX trying to suck the life out of an Ur'Quan with a Syreen vessel. Or with an Arileeloo. Great times.

So I'd have to go with:

1) Starcon 2
2) Counter Strike
3) Ultima 5
4) SimCity Franchise
5) Civ 3

Honorable mention to Space Quest / Police Quest. Roger Wilco Rules!

[czure32]

Im more of a console gamer but theres so much crossover now...

FFXI - only because the HDD on my PS2 fried and its so hard to find a new one + it looks like ass on the PS3
Civ IV
SIm City 2000
Diablo 2
Scorched earth was always a blast as well

[Tawiskaron]

Had to post after reading this. Though way to many to list, so will stick to the games that prompted 4 of us to network the house while going to school.

1) Diablo (Many tests barely passed due to this game)
2) Mechwarrior 2
3) Warcraft 2
4) C&C
5) Duke Nukem
6) Doom 2
7) Civilization
8) Syndicate
9) Heroes of Might and Magic

Since the technology advance of the 14.4k modem. Would have to say Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, WoW, Diablo 2, Kotor.

[HalifaxDrunk]

Half Life (Nothing beats the origional HL!)
Neverwinter Nights
Unreal Tournament & Quake II (I kinda miss my old Voodoo2 3500)
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Starcraft

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

The fact that you have included that abortion of a game KOTOR 2 makes me think less of your entire list.

I didn't realized that I wasn't allowed to like games that you didn't like. I also wanted to add these games to my list, perhaps I'll ask you first if I should've liked them or not:

The Kings Quest Series (1 through 3)
The Space Quest Series (1 through 4)
Police Quest & Police Quest 2

There is more in those 3 series, but I didn't play them.

[BlackEleven]

^ All the old Sierra games are classic.

There was also the Hero's Quest and Gabriel Knight series which were good as well. But I prefered the old typing interface to the point-and-click ones. The point and click made it too easy.

And I think the Internet took away the challenge of those games. For me, at least, it was way too tempting just to look at a walkthrough on the Internet when I got stuck rather than spend weeks figuring it out and restarting from the beginning to see if I had forgotten anything along the way...

[Buff]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

^ All the old Sierra games are classic.

There was also the Hero's Quest and Gabriel Knight series which were good as well. But I prefered the old typing interface to the point-and-click ones. The point and click made it too easy.

And I think the Internet took away the challenge of those games. For me, at least, it was way too tempting just to look at a walkthrough on the Internet when I got stuck rather than spend weeks figuring it out and restarting from the beginning to see if I had forgotten anything along the way...

I recently pulled out and booted up my old Tandy and played King's Quest. I too found it easy to go look on the internet for cheats becaue I couldn't remember a thing.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Buff

I didn't realized that I wasn't allowed to like games that you didn't like. I also wanted to add these games to my list, perhaps I'll ask you first if I should've liked them or not:

Sorry, I'm still bitter about the (non)ending.

[J pold]

OK maybe two....