Your Top 3 Video Games ever

[supraman]

Had the best intro music for any game in my opinion.

By far, no better intro in video games than that one. It captured the the essence of hockey

 

[supraman]

Hmm, this is actually tough, but here we go with my top 3 video games of all time in order:



- Ultima IV. (my brothers (who wanted to play it), convinced my grandparents to get me it for Christmas saying it was an educational game. More hours put into just the end of the game than the total of many other games combined).

- NHL 94. (Yea they have gotten better, but no other sports game has been as exciting for me. I still crack it out from time to time, where as the others usually get a month or two).

- Rainbow 6. (Changed the way 1st person shooters are played)







Honorable mentions

- Marathon. (yes it was Mac only, and yes I made a small amount of money from it by selling code and animations. Came out around the same time as Doom, but was far prettier, the environment was interactive to some extent, there were Tomb Raider like puzzles, and multiplayer up to 8 which was amazing in and of itself at the time.)

- Neverwinter Nights on AOL (yes, I was a subscriber, but this game really took MUDs to a whole new level)

- Warcraft

- Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider was an awesome game. Wish I could still play the original one. Even the remake of it isn't nearly as good.



RB6....what a game, god I wish Red Storm was still around making tac shooters. **** Ubisoft, Red Storm 4 Life

 

[MassHavoc]

Hmm, this is actually tough, but here we go with my top 3 video games of all time in order:



- Ultima IV. (my brothers (who wanted to play it), convinced my grandparents to get me it for Christmas saying it was an educational game. More hours put into just the end of the game than the total of many other games combined).

- NHL 94. (Yea they have gotten better, but no other sports game has been as exciting for me. I still crack it out from time to time, where as the others usually get a month or two).

- Rainbow 6. (Changed the way 1st person shooters are played)







Honorable mentions

- Marathon. (yes it was Mac only, and yes I made a small amount of money from it by selling code and animations. Came out around the same time as Doom, but was far prettier, the environment was interactive to some extent, there were Tomb Raider like puzzles, and multiplayer up to 8 which was amazing in and of itself at the time.)

- Neverwinter Nights on AOL (yes, I was a subscriber, but this game really took MUDs to a whole new level)

- Warcraft

- Tomb Raider

Neverwinter nights sucks! Gemstone FTW! haha

 

[LordKOTL]

Forget both of those...Legend of the Red Dragon, Tradewars 2000, and MajorMUD.

 

[the canadian dream]

Can't believe no one has mentioned Goldeneye yet. We played the shit out of that game in college.

Oh god yah. Played the shit out of that game back in the days also. We would get 4 televisions and blank out the other players screens so each player had their own television and couldn't look in the other players play screen to find out where they were easier.



I sucked balls at the game but it was a blast.

 

[jakobeast]

River City Ransom. Period.



All other games pale in comparison.



I played a decent amount of Doom, Hexxen, and Heretic when I was 17ish. I was living with my boss at the time and he loved the PC games. He made his own levels and we would shoot each other. A lot.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

Top three is a difficult choice.



I'll have to narrow it down from:

Legend of Zelda

Baseball Stars

River City Ransom

Castlevania I,II,III, IV, Symphony of the Night

GTA III

Morrowind

Super Tecmo Bowl

NHL 94, 98, 01, 04

Red Dead Redemption

Doom

Ultima VI

Pools of Radiance

Mega Man 2

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Bioshock

Portal 2

Metal Gear Solid

Final Fantasy 7

Metroid

Super Mario 3

 

[TSD]

Top three is a difficult choice.



I'll have to narrow it down from:

Legend of Zelda

Baseball Stars

River City Ransom

Castlevania I,II,III, IV, Symphony of the Night

GTA III

Morrowind

Super Tecmo Bowl

NHL 94, 98, 01, 04

Red Dead Redemption

Doom

Ultima VI

Pools of Radiance

Mega Man 2

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Bioshock

Portal 2

Metal Gear Solid

Final Fantasy 7

Metroid

Super Mario 3

Symphony of the Night was bar-none the best castlevania game ever made. They haven't replicated that since and I've played a few of the installments following....Castelvania 64,, Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness for PS2. I never played the PS3 installment, but I know they have a horde of castlevania games for handhelds.



I'd like to see a new Mega Man X game, I loved them for SNES and PS1.

 

[Tater]

Oh god yah. Played the shit out of that game back in the days also. We would get 4 televisions and blank out the other players screens so each player had their own television and couldn't look in the other players play screen to find out where they were easier.



I sucked balls at the game but it was a blast.

OH MY GOD!!!!

I was too embarrassed to post that but we did the same damn thing.

Everyone still tried to sneak a peak though. It got heated at times and each team/player got to inspect the others viewing area to make sure there was no gap to peak through.

We used to set up elaborate cardboard wall dividers too.

 

[TSD]

As far as games I played the hell out of with friends:



Alot of dreamcast/N64 games, dreamcast was an underrated system, I had one and I liked it alot.



PowerStone 1 and 2

Smash Bros.

Marvel vs Capcom 1 and 2(still play MVC2 with friends to this day on ps3 all the damn time, its funny we played mvc3 like 4 or 5 times, then went back to 2).

Dead or Alive 2

 

[supraman]

I never heard of like half of these games....

 

[MassHavoc]

I don't really consider sequels different games for the most part, I kind of consider franchises as one game so to me it's like putting FInal Fantasy up against Zelda against Uncharted Waters... Whether it's one game or 13 they all kind of hold the same position for me.

 

[TSD]

I don't really consider sequels different games for the most part, I kind of consider franchises as one game so to me it's like putting FInal Fantasy up against Zelda against Uncharted Waters... Whether it's one game or 13 they all kind of hold the same position for me.

There are some franchises that definitely have some stinkers in their family tree. Zelda 2 for example, blew ass in my opinion. While a link to the past completely redeemed itself and is in my opinion still the best zelda game. Ocarnia of Time was very good too, I havent played any since that one. I think I was a Jr. or Sr. in HS when ocarnia of time came out, I cant recall.

 

[MassHavoc]

I just have a hard time separating the good from the bad, and while one may have been good and like you said others stinkers, to me they are all one. So the stinkers affect my perception of the great ones.

 

[LordKOTL]

See, I can only compare like games in the franchises. Take Metroid, for example. 1, 2, Super, Fusion, and Zero Mission are the only one comparable unto themselves. All of the Prime diverged so far from the whole game dynamics that was metroid that i can't consider them part of the series. And of all of those, There is no reason that any of the Metroid Primes should be allowed to drag down the awesomeness that was Super Metroid.



The same reason that games like FFVII, FFVIII, and the later ones should never bering down the awesomeness that was FFVI and FFIV



Even tough I thought Zelda II was okay, and Ocarina of Time was meh, there's no reason that Majora's Mask, Windwaker, and the Minish Cap should ever detract from the Original Zelda or A Link to the Past.



Ditto with any other Chrono game draging down Chrono Trigger.



Ditto with any Mana game dragging down Secret of Mana or Seiken Densetsu III

 

[supraman]

I see Zelda mentioned a lot...I have to be honest, never liked it.

 

[bubbleheadchief]

I see Zelda mentioned a lot...I have to be honest, never liked it.

Rot in hell blasphemer

 

[jakobeast]

I see Zelda mentioned a lot...I have to be honest, never liked it.

Rot in hell blasphemer

Nah, I am with Supraman here. Never got into it. Granted, I am not a gamer in the list. I actually don't mind watching others play and seeing what they are capable of. Zelda didn't hold my interest, but I would go over to a buddys house and watch him play. Video games past me up right around the time PS1 came out. I never got into the sports games. Baseball, football, hockey, never got it. It seemed like so much time to set up. Same goes for the role playing games. Final Fantasy, all those, meh.



I am awesome at the button mashing games. I kick ass at button mashing.

 

[supraman]

Rot in hell blasphemer

said the caps fan...

 

[TSD]

Nah, I am with Supraman here. Never got into it. Granted, I am not a gamer in the list. I actually don't mind watching others play and seeing what they are capable of. Zelda didn't hold my interest, but I would go over to a buddys house and watch him play. Video games past me up right around the time PS1 came out. I never got into the sports games. Baseball, football, hockey, never got it. It seemed like so much time to set up. Same goes for the role playing games. Final Fantasy, all those, meh.



I am awesome at the button mashing games. I kick ass at button mashing.

Im the opposite, when I was younger I was more into platformers and didnt have the patience for RPG's and such. As Ive gotten older, the only things that interest me are games that are heavy on story, sports or strategy games. I dont think I will ever play a typical hack 'n slash lvl1, lvl2, lvl3 etc type platformer again.