Probably too hard to pick just one so lets go by genre.....


Across all platforms too..

Fighting Game - Tekken series for me....

RTS - Total war series..

FPS - Battlefield 2..

Racing - kinda stuck on this....

Sports - fifa series...

MVP Baseball 2005

still has the best overall baseball feel than anything thats come since

Madden :(

Still playing 2008.

my favorite is when we turn off all of the lights and play...

"who's in my mouth?"

Joe Montana Sports Talk Football

Racing; Xbox + 360 = Project Gotham Racing series

RTS: Total Wars
FPS: probly will be homefront.. til then, I guess the Medal of Honor begining games.
RPG: Dragon's Age/SW:KoToR's
Sports: NCAA Collage football...
Fighting: Streetfighter... I'm a sucker for Chun Li....
Racing: probly Need For Speed... its the only one I semi enjoyed...

FPS: Unreal Tournament (the first one) I was hooked for ages
RTS: Civilizations
Sports: Fight Night
Fighting: Tekken
Racing: Slick (small game from the '90s, there's nothing more entertaining than 4 guys racing on the same keyboard simultaniously :)

Adventure: The Dig

Total War is good. Civilization is better.

I have to agree, I've recently been introduced to Total War, and I'm really enjoying it now, but Civ is the best. Although you have to stipulate, Civ2 and Civ4, were the best. I lost a lot of hours on those two games, but Civ3 was terrible. Also, just to be an fluff, Civ is not technically RTS, because it's turn based. :)

FPS: For me is easy, because, while I've played many that I liked, it's not generally my favourite genre. Therefore, GoldenEye for N64. Best multiplayer in an FPS EVER. *Laughs* Prox. Mines... in the Caverns.

RPG: This is really my favourite genre, despite that a majority of the games that are mass produced in Japan are utter drivel. That being said Final Fantasy IIX was one of the best games of any genre, ever. I have rarely played a game that developed such an emotional attachment with the characters. When Aerith died... Yeah. Rumors were that they were going to remake the game for the release of PS3. If they had, I was ready to buy a PS3, for that reason alone.

I prefer perfect dark for the n64 over golden eye, both of which consumed countless hrs of mine when not killing usimp/tc :P

I played perfect dark more, it was much more fun for 1-2 people to play, but Goldeneye hands down is better for 3-4 people.

And prox in caverns with friendly fire and license to kill is pretty damn fun.

Pistols in facility is good too.

FPS - Rainbow Six series

RTS - Age of Empires series

Sports - NHL 06

Fighting - Mortal Combat had a few good ones

Racing - Forza Motor Sport

RPG - WoW i guess..

RPG- Super Mario RPG. i loved that game so much.. Final fantasy 7 is close second

Racing- Gran Turismo 3

Fighting- Street fighter 2 turbo

Sports- Ken Griffey JR baseball

FPS- Modern Warfare 2

Have you played the original game or better yet the original Colonization? Those were truly great games. Civ3 had problems but it really was a great transition from the Civ1/Civ2 style to the Civ4 game. Civ4 does have a few scenarios that aren't turn based.

FPS - Duke Nukem 3D

RTS - Starcraft

Sports - Madden Series

Fighting - XMEN vs Capcom

Racing - Gran Tourismo Series

RPG - Diablo Series



These were all no brainers for me :)

Fighting Game - UFC Franchise

RTS - Total war series. (Shogun being my old school favorite with rome close behind)

FPS - Battlefield 2 Modern Combat

Racing - Need For Speed Underground series

Sports - UFC or Madden

RPG - Elder Scrolls Series

Some of my favs (not by category or in order):

AOE 1 or 2
Counter Strike
Day of Defeat
Team Fortress Classic
COD Black Ops
Perfect Dark
Civil War Generals 1 and 2 (Prolly my all time favorite)
Sim City
Axis and Allies
Halo 2 (consumed most of my free time during college)

Final Fantasy 3/6, 7 and tatacis
Mass Effect 1&2
assassins creed 1&2(have not played brotherhood)

Final Fantasy 7/8
Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake
SOCOM: Navy Seals 1
Oblivion
Guitar Hero (all of them)
Vagrant Story (PS1)
Vanguard (MMORPG)
Everquest (MMORPG)


Old School (NES,SEGA)

Mike Tyson's Punch Out (NES)
Ninja Gaiden
Legend of Zelda
Missile Command
Aerobiz Supersonic
Theme Park
Sim City

Old School PC (1980-2005)

Wizardry
Warp Factor
War In The South Pacific
Bard's Tale II
Command & Conquer (all)
Civilization

I did play the original Civilisation, many years ago, but I think that was just about the time when 2 was out, and it was superior. I don't remember 1 at all actually.

But I stand corrected about the scenarios in Civ4. I had forotten about that. I remember being shocked when I first tried to play it. Really, I didn't play scenarios too much in any of those games, I just played the single player campaign over and over on random settings, and tried to explore different ways of winning.

Also, I forgot about fighting games: you won't believe this one... Although I have a great nostalgia for Street Fighter II (I'll never forget how pissed my buddy Steve was that he couldn't beat me with any character) and also for Virtua Fighter ummm... 2 I think, the one for Sega Saturn, my favourite fighting game of all time is actually Eternal Champions. I can't even explain why, I just loved that game.

I'm also suprized that not even one Sierra game has been mentioned here. :P

I'd like to say... once you've played a civ game... you've played them all.. even the newer ones :-P Civ is like playing the Sims :-P new packaging... same game :-P

Numbugus's Ambition and Paper Boy
Then of course this

i remember playing Civ and Colonization on an old DOS computer. It was awesome. :P

Have you played the Colonization expansion for Civ4?

Civ1/Civ2 is very different from Civ3/Civ4.

go Police quest and lesiure suit larry :)

This is an inspired choice. In my mind it's the best baseball game, and I look forward to a time when EA might get the rights back to make official baseball games again.

Other choices of mine:

Age of Empires II (played it a LOT in college)
Warcraft III
Legend of Zelda--Ocarina of Time, Link to the Past, Original Game
Mario Kart series (pretty much all of them, but I'd say Double Dash is my least favorite)
Epic Mickey

And Bsnake's choices are pretty rockin' too. :)

Those old Sierra games were great. Quest for Glory/Hero's Quest and the Space Quest series were my favorites, but LSL, Police Quest and King's Quest were all great games too. Those are games I wish they'd update and re-release. I'd play them all if they had even like circa 1995 graphics instead of the terrible circa 1988 graphics they actually have.

A couple others I forgot:
FF2 with Cecil the Dark Knight and FF3 with Terra for SNES. The last two summers when I've been on summer vacation, I've played through each of these again. Awesome storylines.

yeah i loveed the Civs series and AOE.... played some epic Lan AOE over the years......

heh, yeah, I played a fluffload of AoE2 in college, as I said. My freshman year, there were about 6-10 of us that would play every night. We called it "After Dinner Age" or "ADA" and it was a daily thing at least during the week. Not that we wouldn't play on the weekends--it just wouldn't be right after dinner.

Counter Strike is another game I played a lot of.

hmmm and for Racing im going all the way back to my good old C64.... Pitstop.......

maybe its becuse i was only 11 or 12 and we used to stay up all night playing it and defender of the crown....


damn all coming back to me now....


Amiga 500 - Fighter Bomber....

Across all platforms: Screw that, I'm all Sony. XD

Fighting Game - Soul Calibur 3, 4 and Smackdown Vs Raw '09 & '10

RTS - Tom Clancy's End War (though I wish that the gameplay lasted longer)

FPS - Mercenaries 1 & 2, Army Of Two.

Racing - Need For Speed Most Wanted (I have a backwards compatible PS3, so playing this PS2 game is worth it)

Sports - No real interest. :P

yeah soul calibur is up there... i still play 4...

I am waiting for them to make Soul Calibur V, I liked that they kept the whole create-a-character thing from Soul Calibur 3, I've made some sexy characters and even made some edits on some of the existing characters like Ivy and Taki. :)

yeah its funny how those small changes make a difference....


take gran turismo that menus are fluffty but the game play is great...

I like Ridge Racer 7 too... you can listen to the music you have on the hard drive while racing. The one song I listened to the most when I moved back to California from Utah in 2005 was Marilyn Manson's 'Long Hard Road Out Of Hell' XD

Exactly, although I would say that 3 is different from all of them. However, having said that, although they are very different mechanically, the thing that I liked most about Civ4 when I first started playing it was that it reminded me of all the hours I spent playing Civ2. Don't know if that makes any sense, but it was just sorta a similar feeling, but you're right, a very different game.

But, I haven't played the Colonization expansion, I thought it was a stand alone game?

In addition, props to BSnake, it takes balls to call out a C64 game as one of your favourites. My favourite game for C64 was Jumpman. Do you know that there were something like 100 different levels for that game? Although, I also had a Dragon Riders of Pern game that I liked, text based RPG/stratagy.

man im an old fart ;)

some of my best gaming days were spent as an 11/12 year old playing games for 24 hours when life was all about mates and playing C64.... heck you even knew what number the counter had to be on the tape to load the game.... good times....

or the internatinosl soccer or Pedro cartridges...


i was a god when i got the 5 1/4 disk drive.... the the notcher so you could double side diskettes ;)

I also love Civilization. I still remember the little sounds bytes when you won or lost a battle. But love them all, when they work.

For fighting and racing I have to go to N64, Mario Cart and Super Smash.

Spent many hours on Madden Series. I remember playing 98 Madden, at this point they didn't have music on the game. So, I would play my bestie boys cd, while dominating on madden.

Also, when I got bored with earth, I would play some Runescape now and then.

Wow. I forgot the Resident Evil series of games.

i forgot about counterstrike.. loved it

LOMFAo!

*Laughs*
Yeah international soccer on the cartridge! I had that one. The players were hardly better than a single giant pixel... The ball was a barely rounded square... Awesome.

Another great for C64... California Games!

The C64 that I had we got with the 5 1/4 drive, but I do remember when this dude I knew got the punch to notch the disks so you could record on them, whoa that was mind blowing technology.

I also had a Batman game that was way ahead of it's time for C64. And right towards the end before NES took over gaming for the next decade, I had a game called something like Medeival Games, which was fun.

did it have beer drinking?
or cat throw?
i'm having flashbacks of a weird olympics type game for C64 :P

Leisure Suit Larry... LMAO

Ah, to be in the penthouse.. Caught the clap too many times...
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That was pretty fun, but hated to type..

What the fluff are you talking about UA?!? :P

Naw, California Games had Skateboarding, hacky-sack, Ummm... roller-skating or something, I think.

But I do remember that my copy was pirated, and when it loaded the pirate's logo came up (it was a text rendering of Darth Vader's mask) and the PC speaker actually voiced a garbled sounding "Holy fluff!". I was blown away, because such technology as speech through computers did not yet exist.

never mind, it was a good game :P
we had so many games for C64 (100-150, gotta love copying with a tape recorder :P) so i can't really remember even half of them.

HALO 1 FTW! I loved that game :)