Top 3 Games

WoW (as much as I dislike it now, I did spend years playing it)
Diablo 2
Counter-Strike 1.5/1.6
 
PC: (couldn't pick just 3! And I ONLY play online!)

Return to Castle Wolfenstein (I'm a medic!)

Battlefield 1942 (A-doobie-taco!...I think that meant "get in!")

Battlefield 2 Desert Combat (man I can't wait for BF3...miss dog fighting!)

Battlefield Vietnam (loved jammin' tunes and flyin' choppers!)

Battlefield Bad Company 2 (the best online war game I have seen!)

Console:

I have not played a console in over 10 years so these choices are ancient!

Twisted Metal!

Rally Sport! (split screen off road racing!)

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Since this is a PC Board:

Doom 2 -- My first experience with PC Gaming. So what if I was five? I had fun and I am perfectly fine now.

World Of Warcraft -- My first MMO. I started off playing with friends, but I have made a few other friends because of it. I am getting bored wiht it at this point, but a lot of my friends are picking it back up again so I will inevitably be playing it again.

Team Fortress 2 -- The look and feel of this team based online shooter is unlike anything that exists. I love the gameplay, the way weapons b onuses/penalties work, and the personalities of the characters.
 
Personally:
World of Warcraft
Civilization IV
Sins of a Solar Empire

Honorable mention: Betrayal at Krondor

Impact it had on the industry:
World of Warcraft
Half-Life, especially its mods Counter-Strike and Team Fortress Classic
Starcraft: Brood War
 
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From a single player standpoint:
Morrowind
Max Payne 1-2
The Witcher


Honorable Mentions:
HL 1/2
CoD2
Fear 1
Stalker

From a multi-player standpoint:
Counter Strike
Unreal Tournament
Halo

Honorable Mentions:
Quake (fits in with UT but have always preferred UT)
TF2
CoD2

That was fucking hard...
 
Thief - The Dark Project
Fallout (1)
System Shock (1)


On PC that is, in no particular order
 
1) The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
2) Quake
3) Half-Life 1
 
Descent II (Descent I and II are what turned me into a PC gamer. II gets the nod here because it was everything that was great about I and more)
Warcraft III
Vanilla WoW
 
For PC my top 3 are:
Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries
Unreal Tournament 2004
Portal 2
 
Proper BF series(1942, original Vietnam, 2)
XCOM 1 and 2
Civ series

I also live vagina's and large milky white breasts, mainly sticking my penis inside the one, and between the other.
 
My top two were easy. The third is the hardest.

Thief 1 - 2 was probably the better game but I love Lord Bafford's mansion
Total Annihilation - Gameplay is leaps and bounds better than any more recent RTS
Quake 3 - My favorite LAN party game of all time.

Honorable mention to: The Incredible Machine, King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gabriel Knight, Action Quake, and pre-Valve Team Fortress.
 
Half-Life - Best FPS SP experience to date (the second one is damn good too!)
Freespace 2 - Sadly released near the death of the genre. (the first one is damn good too!)
Total Annihilation - Best RTS to date
 
1. Guild Wars Prophecies
2. Unreal Tournament 2004
3. Half Life 2

This list is based completely on nostalgia and me starting pc gaming in 2004. :p
 
1. Total Annihilation (years after being made modern RTS games can still learn a lot from this one)
2. Quake 3 (fond memories of hauling ye olde CRT monitor to LAN party)
3. WoW in its vanilla + TBC heyday

Ask me on another day depending how nostalgic I'm feeling and Deus Ex / System Shock 2 / Half Life (all) could be up there too.
 
drako said:
Freespace 2 - Sadly released near the death of the genre. (the first one is damn good too!)
Total Annihilation - Best RTS to date
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Man I loved Freespace 2 and TA... they really deserved more love than they got.:mad:
Granted TA matches were long and so hard to be an e-sport, but the depth of the game was terrific.
 
Heh...I got sensory overload when I tried to narrow it down to three. UT,Dark Reign, Rainbow 6, Wing Commander, Tie-Fighter, Aces of the Pacific, Quake, Civ, Wizardry, Battlefield Series, Monkey Island, ...it just kept going and going...too difficult to compute, must shut down....
 
Wow... just three from all time is hard.

For me it would probably be:
1. Starcraft
2. Masters of Orion II
3. Wing Commander: Privateer

That's a pretty sci-fi heavy list, there would be a bunch of RPG's in my top 20 but none of those had the multiple year long addictions like the above three. I played Starcraft constant for a good 4 years, and then would have relapses every few months until SC2 came out, now I don't play either... probably MineCrafts fault.
 
DarkSaturn, I loved Wing Commander: Privateer as well, such a great game. For me it would probably be:

Wing Commander: Privateer
Ultima 7: The Black Gate
Quake II
 
oscrogo said:
Too many to choose from...Three off the top of my head:

Quest for Glory: So You Want To Be A Hero - best adventure game ever
Mechwarrior 2 - nothing like it before or since
QWTF - took up 2 years of my life

Special honorable mention to pre-expansion Everquest. Only MMO I've played that was fun from level 1-50. It didn't matter if I was stuck on level 36 for two weeks while fighting my way to Castle Mistmoore's gates...it was a great time.
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suck blue frog razzle dazzle rootbeer

I agree, but i'd replaced QWTF with Counterstrike or planetside (hard to decide) for my choices.

Tie-fighter, EQ, starcraft all get high mentions as well.
 
Deus Ex
Freespace 2
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Runners up: World in Conflict, Mirror's Edge, Nagano Winter Olympics '98 for N64 (Don't judge me. Had a blast playing this game with friends for damn near a decade.)
 
Top three is tough, Portal 2 was a great game and might wind up on my list, but I tend to go for the nostalgia factor when think about personal favorites.

As far as PC games go:
X-Com UFO Defense
Diablo II
Unreal Tournament 2004

Followed closely by:
Myst
Zork Nemesis
Half-Life 2
Wolfenstein 3D
 
Tough choices but for PC:

X-COM 1 & 2
D&D Gold Box games
WoW - pre expansions... there were issues but it was a much more fun time.
 
MiG31_Foxhound said:
Deus Ex
Freespace 2
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Runners up: World in Conflict, Mirror's Edge, Nagano Winter Olympics '98 for N64 (Don't judge me. Had a blast playing this game with friends for damn near a decade.)
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Just realized exactly which forum this is in. Christ, I fail. Just substitute WiC for MGS3 and completely omit Nagano in that case. Shame Snake Eater never got ported like its predecessors.
 
1. Vanilla WoW by FAR. I've put in about 4000 hours on that (3000+ logged on xfire alone and I didn't use that much) between ages 14 and 18 (... whatever). Nothing will ever come close for me in terms of how much fun and awe I had in this game, PvP especially. I'll always remember you WoW, RIP ;(
2. NOLF. Most fun single player experience for me.
3. UT3 or 2004, not sure. Both were good but I didn't enjoy some of the weapons in UT3 and physics weren't as fun.
 
Maybe this is just nostalgia, but these three games were just epic.

Single Player
1. Half Life 2
2. Morrowind
3. Portal

Multiplayer
1. Counter Strike 1.3
2. BFBC2
3. Red Orchestra Ostfront
 
Really tough to choose ... could divide them into mutiplayer and single player but Im just going to list the ones that impacted me the most by playing them.
Ive played PC games since they well first came out ... and played computer games long before the pc was a machine people used.

My favs in no particular order:

- Ultima online, one of the first MMO to come out to bring a sense of community and excitement and adventure. I dont think anything can compete with this.

- Shadowbane, IMO how a true MMO should be, free reign to do what you please and make a community and concur and defend. It was not about building a character as much as diplomacy and fighting others.

- WoW, I really hated the way they implemented this rigid game - but they seemed to get the loot system right with always keeping the best items far out of reach and addicting tons and tons of people to play. The arena system was pretty cool but you had to go through alot of hassle just to enjoy it.
... IMO most people play this not because they like the particular game but because it gives them a sense of community and accomplishment. Again I disliked alot of things about the game but it was always nice to hang out with friends and adventure with them (pve or pvp).

- ultima 7 the blackgate; the ultima series was a successful pc series and ultima 7 has to be the best and biggest implemented besides ultima online. Was the best pc adventure game of its time.

- Diablo 2; again it used a formula that worked well. Had a ladder system (competition) and had that sense of lottery and accomplishment.

- Ultima underworld was a really fantastic game of its time also. I can still feel the feeling of excitement I had when I played that game. Was one of the first type of 3d games out there.

Even thou I have bought and played many many pc games; they really changed once you started playing with people online. Ive played all the ultimas, betrayal at krondor (very cool also), system shocks, you name it ...

for me ultima online and shadowbane and diablo 2 and yes WoW (even thou I hated alot of things about it) will always hold a special place for me.
 
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