Favourite Computer Games

I wld be really interested to hear your favourite computer and console games. Here are some of mine...

1) Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
2) The Witcher 2 (XBox 360)
3) Fable II (XBox 360)
4) Football Manager 2008 (and others in the series) (PC)
5) Portal 2 (XBox 360)
6) Warcraft 2 Orcs Vs Humans (PC)
7) Populous II (Super Nintendo)
8) Goldeneye (Nintendo GameCube?)
9) Doom 2 (PC)
10) Magic Carpet (PC)

 

Manic Miner (Spectrum)
Goldeneye (N64)
Pitstop II (C64)
Head over Heels (Spectrum)
Civilisation (PC)
Monty Mole (Spectrum)
Daley Thompsons Decathalon (Spectrum)
R Type (Spectrum)
Hyper Sports (C64)

 

1 call of duty ps 2 pacman 3 football manager spectrum

 

Civilisation! Good call.

 

Ha ha got a feeling we're probably same generation carrabuh.

 

1. Call of duty: Modern warfare Xbox 360
2. GTA San Andreas PS2
3. Championship Manager PC
4. Call of duty: MW2 Xbox 360
5. Rainbow Six: Vegasb Xbox 360
6. GTA Vice City PS2
7. Halo series Xbox 360
8. Elder Scrolls Oblivion/Skyrim Xbox 360

 

1. Pokemon (gameboy/ds)
2. Football manager (pc)
3. Pro Cycling manager (pc)
4. Professor Layton series (ds)
5. The world ends with you (ds)
6. Fantastic Dizzy (master system)
7. WWE smackdown vs raw (ps2)
8. Gran Turismo 2 (ps1)
9. Super Wario (gameboy)
10. Dungeon Siege (pc)

I haven't bought a console since my ds seven years ago. I won a Wii in a raffle, but I don't use it that much.

 

Maniac Mansion
Monkey Island
Cannon Fodder
Zelda ocarina of time
Goldeneye 64
Shenmue
GTA San Andreas
GTA Vice City
Fahrenheit
Heavy Rain
Uncharted 2
Mass Effect
Batman Arkham City

 

Pitfall - Atari vcs
Chuckie egg - Dragon 32
Jack the nipper - spectrum
Head over heels - spectrum
The entire magic knight series - spectrum
Target Renegade - spectrum
Axels magic hammer - Atari st
Star control 2 - pc
Dune - pc
Day of the tentacle - pc

 

Head overs heels - forgot all about that game - loved it -

 

I gotta say, most of those games before my time but I recall playing some of those games round friend's houses and so on.

My favourite games are more 'contemporary' right now the only game I really play is FIFA but Fallout 3, Rainbow Six: Vegas and Skyrim are probably my favourites ever.

Definitely though Pokémon games invoke a happy memory of my childhood.

 

Populous - PC
Doom 2 - PC
Sonic the hedgehog - Sega Megadrive
Street Fighter 2 - SNES
Mortal Combat - Saturn
Sensible Soccer - master system
Zelda - N64
Virtua Fighter - Saturn
Lemmings - PC
Sim City - PC
Syndicate - PC
Streets of Rage - mega drive

 

Skyrim- xbox 360
Fable 2- xbox 360
roller coaster tycoon 2- pc
gta 5- xbox 360
age of empires 2- pc
stat wars battlefront 2- xbox
the sims 3- pc

 

Some of my favourites over the last 25 years -

Gta (San Andreas)
Megalomania
Kick off...then goal
Battlefield bad company 2/3
Marble madness
ISS, then more recently FIFA.
Sensible world of soccer
Cannon fodder
Double dragon 2
Civ
Advance wars on the ds
Zelda - ocarina of time
Zool
Command and conquer - red alert 2

 

I don't play videogames half as much as I used to, but, while a lot of my friends are playing Halo, CoD etc. I'm still more than happy to play Pokemon (started Red again fairly recently), Super Mario, Mario Kart and so on.

By the way, if you've got a Wii that's no longer in use and you liked Ocarina of Time, then pick up Zelda: Skyward Sword (the best game I've ever played) and Okami. Two astounding games. And if you're looking for something quirky, pick up Rhythm Paradise: Beat the beat for about a tenner (you could probably get Okami for a fiver). It's flippin' mental but great fun.

 

It never ceases to amaze me just how far ahead of its time Pokémon really was. On something with the processing power of a Gameboy (Which can't be alot) it made a massive world with so many intricate variables it really is impossible to explain; no two Pokémon were ever the same and if you trained your Pokémon up against others which excelled in a certain attribute then yours would grow in this same attribute!

 

I didn't know that, but it seems pretty clever!

On the rest of your point, I completely agree, but it's a shame it hasn't really developed since. Pokemon Yellow was the first game I ever owned in around '99, and if you play Black or White 2 today the game's barely changed! Shame because, as you say, it was once so cutting edge.

 

Gold and Silver had possibly the nest end of game reward ever DM. Complete the game and you unlocked the entire Blue/Red world to play through. On a regular gameboy cartridge.

Even the current ds games don't have that much game play. They have all the online stuff and mini games, but not what was essentially two complete games for the price of one

 

Supermario and especially Mariokart were great, but just out of interest do you prefer to play them to newer games, or is it just that it's not worth the living room space to use your Wii or get an xbox360 or ps3?

I played tennis recently and it seemed a no-brainier to use a modern racket rather than a wooden one. For the same reason I have always sold my old console when i have got the next generation equivalent.

Not a criticism, just interested in the contrast to my view. In a way, it wld suit my life much better if I cld reignite my enjoyment of SNES cos the games I used to play tended to work for the odd twenty minutes here and there. The best games nowadays tend to rely on absorbing me for hours on end, which I don't have time for (e.g. I bought Skyrim well over a year ago, but altho I can see it is a wonderful game I haven't got past the opening few sections and haven't picked it up for months).

 

For me this is the main reason I tend to steer clear of a lot of newer games.

Games like Pokemon, Football Manager and Professor Layton are set up in such a way that you can get the same experience out of them playing them in 20 minute bursts as you can do playing them in two or three hour sessions. You don't lose anything out of the game if you keep stopping and starting. I also get bored with games quite quickly so a game I can keep picking up and putting down is a big must for me. I'm more likely to play if I can play one match, one puzzle or one battle at a time than if I need to go through half an hours worth of game play to just to complete one objective of a mission and then find out there are another six mission objectives followed by another 20 odd missions. This is partly why, despite the fact I love the games, I've never completed a Final Fantasy game.