Best Video Game Ever

[CaramonLS]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

That game was amazing. Do any current wrestling games play similar to this?

Holy smokes. Loved this game. We used to have weekly revenge parties after school at one of my buddies houses.

[Cain]

Tons of good ones have been posted already, so I'll put forward the one I don't think I've seen.

It is a masterpiece, and imo much much better than the civ series.

Alpha Centauri.

Also Galactic civilizations.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Saturn

1. Virtual ON

2. Virtua Fighter

3. Virtua Cop

4. Clock Tower

5. Shenmue

OK I'm done for now, I'll take on next-gen and PC stuff later...man that's tiring

Shenmue on the Saturn? That was never released or even completed.

[Nage Waza]

Lots of good games here, I forgot a few, since we are going old school:

Vic 20 - Radar Rat Race
- Money Wars

Turbo Grafix - Wonder Boy in Monster Land

[dobbles]

Originally Posted by Cain

Tons of good ones have been posted already, so I'll put forward the one I don't think I've seen.

It is a masterpiece, and imo much much better than the civ series.

Alpha Centauri.

Also Galactic civilizations.

though it had lots of ideas that worked into civ3, i was never crazy about that game.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

Holy smokes. Loved this game. We used to have weekly revenge parties after school at one of my buddies houses.

I have lots of good memories of a group of friends being over having big Revenge and Goldeneye matches.

My brother was amazing at Goldenye, he even used Boris in that damn bright Hawaiian shirt. He used to yell out "I am invincible!" like Boris did in the movie after each kill... ten years later, he still laughs about it with a hint of smugness.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Here's a good one, Command and Conquer: Red Alert.

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

If you like this one, you absolutely must play its predecessor, Ico. The journey is good, the ending is breathtaking.

Ico's a tremendous game that I've never been able to completely enjoy... my PS2 has a lot of trouble reading those old blue discs, and my PS3 isn't backwards compatible. One day...

[MJM]

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire was years ahead of it's time. An Amazing game.

Also, for those who has the Sega Dreamcast, the hockey game was absolutely amazing and years ahead of it's time (Believe it was an NHL 2k game). Dreamcast in general was years ahead of it's time. Got the crap end of the stick due to it being released to far in advance of XBOX and Playstation

[Tower]

Civ II

[Tower]

Originally Posted by Cain

Tons of good ones have been posted already, so I'll put forward the one I don't think I've seen.

It is a masterpiece, and imo much much better than the civ series.

Alpha Centauri.

Also Galactic civilizations.

Still play Alpha Centauri as well... So fun.

[Ronald Pagan]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Decathlon -- Atari
Tecmo Bowl -- NES
Tony Hawk -- Playstation. "I'm not sitting around on a Friday night watching you guys drink beer and play that stupid skateboarding game again..." is a sentence I'm ashamed to have heard more than once.

Wow, so much of my life...

Tony Hawk 2 consumed even more what with the "Gap Checklist."

[driveway]

Oh, one more big shout-out to Duke Nukem 3D.

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum - but I'm all out of gum.

[Esoteric]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Shenmue on the Saturn? That was never released or even completed.

Nope, Shenmue on the Dreamcast. It was originally for the Saturn, but the project was transferred over to the Dreamcast. Shame it was on the system, since not a lot of people got to play it. Shenmue 2 came out for Xbox, and Shenmue 3 is rumoured at the moment. I've played countless hours of this game.

Edit: lol, my bad, I thought you were quoting my list :P

[jammies]

I'm a big fan of the multiplayer games:

Gauntlet (NES) - "Red Wizard shot the food!" <- still kills me every time I hear it, my brother loves the Red Wizard and he loves to shoot the damn food just as I am going for it.

Secret of Mana (Super NES and now WII VIRTUAL CONSOLE!!!!) - Had 3 player multiplayer option with the multi-tap, it was great for those all-night game playing sessions.

Champions of Norrath (PS2) - another game where multiple players is a blast, the best part being, of course, telling the other guy why it was HIS fault you just died...

And as far as classic arcade games, ROBOTRON was brilliant and deceptively simple: just you in the middle of the screen, and enemies closing in from all around.

[burn_this_city]

Starcraft w/ Brood War
Counterstrike 1.3 or Source
Goldeneye for N64
Simcity for SNES
MarioKart SNES or 64
Zelda Ocarina of Time N64
Boy and his Blob Trouble on Blobblonia NES (hardest game ever)

[BlAcKNoVa]

PC

Lineage II - Four and a 1/2 years later and I'm still playing this MMORPG.

The Witcher - Won lot's of RPG of the Year awards last year, but still somewhat an unknown game to most.

Warcraft III: RoC & TFF - Great RTS from Blizzard.

Xbox 360

Call of Duty 4 - Epic single player missions with really, really addicting online multiplayer.

PSP

Final Fantasy Tactics - A remake of the classic on PS1. I just had to have it. With the new added content, it's even better then what it used to be.

PS2

SOCOM II, SOCOM III & SOCOM Combined Assault - My favourite online shooter(s) of alltime. SOCOM II's multiplayer was godly.

PS1

Final Fantasy VII - After buying my first RPG (Suikoden) a few months earlier and liking it, I was expecting big things from this title. It didn't let me down. Greatest single player RPG I have played, and ever will play.

Xenogears - Another superb RPG from Squaresoft. Ranks right behind Final Fantasy VII on my favourites list.

NHL FaceOff '98 - My brother, a friend and myself played this game religiously for an entire year. I still have all the stats on paper that I compiled after every year was complete of our teams. I believe we played something like 24 seasons. Never had more fun on a hockey game.

Sega Dreamcast

Quake III - My first real experience with online gaming. I just have to add it here.

Sega Genesis

NHL '94 - I think most of us would put this game on their list if they had a Genesis growing up.

Street Fighter II - Good times, good times! Lot's of tourneys with the friends.

[PsYcNeT]

Here's my PC list from last year copied for your pleasure:

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. Team Fortress 2 - This was actually Fortress Forever last year, but TF2 has completely usurped it on my playtime. Fun, frantic, bloody, and gorgeous to look at. TF2 is everything an FPS should be online.

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

[Igottago]

My top 10. Tough to come up with, even harder to rank.

1. Resident Evil (PS1)
2. NHL 94 (Genesis)
3. Deus Ex (PC)
4. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox)
5. Double Dragon 2 (NES)
6. Winning Eleven 7 Soccer (PS2)
7. Super Mario Bros. (NES)
8. Final Fantasy 7 (PS1)
9. NHL 2K4 (Xbox)
10. WWF Royal Rumble (SNES/Genesis)

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Shenmue on the Saturn? That was never released or even completed.

Damn my faulty brain :<

Sorry about that one.