The best Video Game ever??

Poststructural Pub
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What is the best video, or computer game ever created? A simple question, yet so complex and difficult to answer. I haven’t hung out at the pub for a long time, and I miss it. Here’s the best topic ever. I can’t make a poll, but I would have if I could have included 4068 options, you just have to write here and explain what the best video game of all times is and why you think so. I almost forgot to mention: it includes every console and format: PC, PS2, Wii, Sega Megadrive, Nintendo 8 bits, you name it. The best game of all times, in all categories!

Here’s my vote: The best video game ever created is:

Suikoden II (for PSX)
if you ask for a motivation, you haven’t played it…

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You should make a poll about it. My favorite has to be PSX or PS2. SNES brings back a lot of memories.

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not console! Game.. That’s why I can’t make a poll.

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I know there are superior games out there, but for my money there’s not much more addictive than Halo.

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I can’t comment on the best game ever since I haven’t played nearly enough but the best game I have played would likely be Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64). From what I have read, that game has been surpassed by later Zeldas, including Twilight Princess. Honorable mentions go to Goldeneye, Tecmo Super Bowl, Everquest, Super Mario 3, Dragon Warrior and others that I can’t think of at the moment.

With that said, I haven’t been a gamer in probably 5 years or so.

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IMO things have not improved since Galaxian and Asteroids. If asked abut a computer-only game, I’d have to say Crystal Quest.

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Sid Meier’s Pirates. Hands down.

For arcade games, I always favored Joust.

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Dang it WyoBadger…you stole the wind from me sails…Sid Mieier’s Pirates be the best game ever made.

Now, I’m off to look for the treasure ship sailing from…if I told you I’d have to make you walk the plank.

Captain Eric

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Ooops. Ok then, the best games would have to be the Final Fantasy games, or the Dynasty Warriors. Call of Duty 4 online can get pretty addicting.

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Oh God. I can’t answer that.

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Sensible World Of Soccer on the Amiga.

NOT any of the variations of Sensi on the consoles. Only SWOS on the Commodore Amiga. The true pinnacle of gaming.

Sure Fifa 09 might be more realistic, but it’s not the same amount of fun that SWOS was. We spent years playing that game and it was directly responsible for keeping the whole clicky joystick industry in employment.

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  1. MSN Gaming Zone Spades.
  2. Wii Tennis

I played racquetball a lot. I even moved 200 miles when my former racquetball partner called me with a job opportunity. After busting my knee for the second time, I gave the game up, completely. Anytime, I was in a YMCA or Rec-Center and heard that “thwamp” of a racquetball, I stopped what I was doing to watch a game. Wii Tennis is as close to a game of racquetball as I’m ever going to get ever again.

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Hard to narrow this down to just one game.

In the early days, there was an intensely addictive space combat and trading game called “Elite.” I burned a lot of hours on this one. One of the things that made it so cool was it was extremely open-ended: be an honest trader, be a pirate, be a bounty hunter, take on secret missions…how you played it was entirely up to you. I played it on the old Commodore 128, but there are still PC versions available for download today. Also the modern game Vegastrike is based in large part on Elite.

On the PC, no game has been more influential than “Doom.” A fun game in its own right, it bred a whole new industry. People bought new computers just to be able to play this one game. Doom is still around; Doom 3 was a good horror-survival game, and a new Doom 4 is currently being developed.

One of Doom’s descendants, Quake II, was the first major game to use hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics. I remember seeing this game run for the first time on a 3DFX Voodoo II card: it was absolutely jaw-dropping. Everything was smooth, no pixelation anywhere, and the motion of the characters on screen was fluid and smooth like a cartoon. This game more than any other created the billion-dollar accelerated graphics card industry, and though 3DFX is long gone, nVidia and ATI are still duking it out for top player, producing graphics processors which, in many cases, have more raw computing power than the CPU of the system that they are installed in. Modern games like Quake 4 and Crysis are the descendants of Quake II.

–James

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I vote for something like Donkey Kong or Wii Sports. Each was a single game strong enough to launch and support a franchise big enough to support an entire gaming platform.

On computers and such Doom or Castle Wolfenstein have to be up there. They were flawed as games, but launched a thousand others that were basically the same game with better quests, different graphics. Similarly something like Civ, or Flight Simulator, were games that sold computers.

Most of the titles mentioned may be fine games for those that play them, but many are derivative in their concepts and player interaction and of limited appeal.

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Katamari Damacy and it’s sequel have held my attention the longest. They’re quirky, sort of surrealistic and very re-playable. Great soundtrack too.
I first played it on the PS2, but recently got an iPod Touch version which is excellent.

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Best game ever all categories, easy :smiley:
ELITE II

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Brilliant game and if you are in to computer programming the code of this software will bring tears in your eyes.

The game that I have spent most time playing is Counter Strike :blush:
But I’m cured now :puppyeyes:

/M

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Interesting nominations. I still stick with my Suikoden II for the PSX. The Suikoden games are more popular in Japan than anywhere else I guess and they only had limited releases in the west. But the games have many fans over here too, and because of the limited releases, a used Suikoden I or II for PSX costs at least 5-10 times what it would have cost new, if you can find one that is.

A couple of PC games which I also think are up there among the best are Civilization and Deus Ex, which are both magnificent, ground breaking and very addictive.
For fans of racing, I don’t think there has ever been a better game than rFactor. That is just brilliant; as real as it gets, an endless number of add-ons (you can race on almost any track of the world with almost any racing car in the world and play individual seasons of F1, CART, Formula Nippon, Le Mans series, GP2 and all the way down to karting with free add-ons) and it has really good graphics as well.

Funny that no one reacted, I’ve made two posts already in this thread and never mentioned
whisky :slight_smile:

I better make up for it here, the reason why I failed to mention the magic word was ironically enough that I had perhaps had bit too much
whisky :tomato:

And yes, it was very nice, the
whisky :party:

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That’s because video games and whisky don’t mix that well, it can easily end on a bad note :astonished:


/M

Edit:
Link to youtube clip removed upon request.

Henke, you might want to edit your quote for the same reason.

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eeh. yeah… ok.

Anyyyway, here’s another wonderful little game. Not a contender for the best ever, but scoring points for innovation. Jumping Flash for PSX. It’s sort of a 1st person shooter, where you play some sort of robotic bunny in some weird cartoon style platform world, your enemies are frogs and turtles and stuff. Here’s a video, very nostalgic for me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2hukvZ0zBw&feature=related

But when I used to play that game I was too young to drink
whisky :slight_smile:

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There was a game I found on the internet, years ago, which involved rolling cubes around a grid in order to solve the puzzle. The music for it was the best thing about it. If I could remember the name I would nominate it.

The best all-around game, I think, is Worms. (2D) Worms Armageddon is a good, all around, amusing and compelling game. And you can play hot-seat.

In terms of simple RPGs, Diablo. I even prefer Diablo 1, because you can (almost) play it with your eyes shut.

If you want something a little more complicated, and “true to life” (or at least, consistent fantasy world) the Baldur’s Gate series is hard to beat. My son took over Baldur’s gate 2. I managed to get to the end of Icewind Dale… but not Icewind Dale 2. Never got past the dragon.

Oddly enough I picked up Doom 2 in a garage sale the other day. Son was very pleased, as it means he now has them all.

I am playing a curious French originating game called “Silverfall”. I should be able to play it on the net, but I think that bird has flown. It is a little quirky but I think I have its number now - after dying about fifty times. The characters are in French Graphic style, which means the women are absolutely mesmerising. When a character dies, they reappear back at the base in their underwear. This does not encourage you to keep them alive, which is a shortcoming. In its way. It’s a bit like Neverwinter Nights. I think Neverwinter Nights is probably the better game, but by gum, the graphics are good on this. (Drool.)

Incidentally, there was an article in the newspaper a while back saying that the idea manufacturers have of lust-crazed geeky gamers is not exactly true. Or at least, if true, the gamers prefer to have their females accurately proportioned and not exaggerated. Silverfall is a good case in point. The dame on the CD cover is, not to put too fine a point on it, exaggerated in one or two respects. But the actual game characters are hard to fault. The article said that Lara Croft has been reproportioned to have more natural proportions, and the Toomb Raider series has improved as a consequence. There were other examples. Of course, that’s not what makes a good video game. :poke: