What is the best game of all time, for it's time?

[Outlander]

oh well, gl with that then. I have to goto bed this time! nn

 

[Ezteq]

lol gave up, am reading sin city now.


go to bed or youll just procrastinate and be here till 3am lol, nn

 

[liloe]

FPS:
-Quake 1
-Half Life
-Thief 2: The Metal Age (Dark Project had too many flaws imo, but was really really good aswell, just Thief 2 had that little bit that made it superb)

RTS:
-Warcraft 1+2 (they were the trendsetters for RTS games, not Dune from Westwood)
-Command & Conquer
-Starcraft (for still being alive)
-Die Siedler (or "The Settlers", as the gayjin ehh...I mean the non-Germans call it. The game was fun, had a cool economy and the settlers were just too cute =) )
-Earth 2150 (combining different chassis+weapons on your units was something new afaik)

Roleplay:
-Diablo (first really big Hack & Slay game that attracted the masses)
-DAoC (yes, DAoC, cause it was the first game to open up gigantic battlefields, which hundreds of players can access at the same time. It brought PvP, but with a protected leveling area =) )


I'm near to 100% sure that I forgot lots of games, but these are the ones I can think of atm =)

 

[GRAK]

Baldur's gate saga :worthy: (rpg)
DAoC (mmorpg)
Starcraft (rts)
Diablo I (hack 'n slash)

 

[Tasslehoff]

sid meiers pirates! (playing that atm )

Rawr! Loved that game. Too bad mine suddenly turned pink

 

[Urgluf]

red alert

 

[Bubble]

Can't believe no one else put Planescape Torment.

Such an underrated game

 

[Dakkath]

Planescape Torment was fun, kept me amused for a while...

For me though, there are 2 games in existance that I doubt will ever be surpassed...

Final Fantasy 7 - Awsome game. Just couldn't put it down
Elite - That game was years ahead of its time...

 

[Tiztla]

1. Baldurs Gate (givf more)
2. Diablo (Givf More)
3. Warcraft 2
4. Zelda (all except the Gamecube version)
5. Icewind Dale and Newervinter Nights

Then Daoc SI , Daoc Toa
Givf More good games....

 

[cHodAX]

Elite - That game was years ahead of its time...

The follow up game was better, millions of star systems to explore, you could trade, take missions for various factions, become a pirate, become a bounty hunter and track down pirates or even become an assasin. That is barely scratching the surface of what Frontier offered, Elite is legendary and deservedly so but Frontier was a better gaming experience in every way.

 

[cHodAX]

Oh and before I forget, Monkey Island 1 and 2 have never been surpassed as adventure games, they were funny and clever. I spent 3 days straight without sleep playing MI2 I was so hooked, I suppose 2 of those days were spent swapping discs though! Happy days

 

[Basic_X]

DaoC
Transport Tycoon!!
Diablo 2
Command And Counqer
Age Of Empires
Battlefield 1942
Dune 2000
Hero's of Might and Magic 3

imo

 

[Mikah75]

Other- FF7 or 10

 

[Solo]

nothing on that list tbh (maybe ff7)

but if I have to choose one, then WoW - brought mmorpg's to the masses. People who had never even heard of mmorpg's before, from TV, FPS's, Battlenet and exsisting mmorpg players.

 

[echome]

Red alert... first pc game I ever bought.

Love it and still remember my teslacoil hell hahahahaha <stops laughing>... Where did I lay my lighter now...

 

[ilaya]

Space Invaders
Elite
Bards Tale

 

[Tio McShire]

mariocart on the snes

 

[Addlcove]

DAOC

I still get a tingly feeling when remembering the first few weeks there.

a noob not only to the game but to the genre that one game definetly changed my life, in many subtle ways, some which have a major bearing on me still today, 5 years after.....

 

[MaditioN]

doom1/2 then quake
but no game has given the feeling like daoc did in the start, running off in galplen and spending 2 hours in the woods (50meter from galplen) and wondering where the fuck i where, then saw a shadow on a horse come riding and leept into the woods getting killed :] was ace!

 

[Aran Thule]

For groundbreaking games i would have to choose the following...

Elite: for shear vastness and playability, in thoose days when you didnt mind spending an hour to fly around a planet as station was on other side.

Lords of Midnight: one of the first directional perspective games with multiple ways to win/loose (if any finished doomdarks revenge can you tell me what happened when you got to the end of the tunnel, my version crashed the one time i got there)

Star Control 2: so many differant aspects (resourse gathering, asteroid like battles, conversing with aliens ect) to it and had a great sense of humour as well, and not forgetting the funky music.
(as mentioned before someone did an updated version with voices <grin>)

 

[tris-]

would also say DAOC. the things it did to my life are still in effect today. pretty major things in fact.

 

[Korax]

Baldurs Gate. I've never seen other games that had me addicted like that one. The other blackisle/bioware games after that also had me junking pixles but BG1 I have to vote as 'superiour' of it's time.

And yes, diablo was fun too

BG1 > FF7 > all

 

[Dahakon]

Goldeneye on the N64 - is still the best fps
Metal Gear Solid - such an amazing game, made stealth games fotm for ages, but was only ever bettered by MGS2
Starcraft - is still a great rts
Medieval Total War - simple for the hours of my life that it took while i was conquering europe
Jedi Knight 2 - a purple light saber and the dismeber cheat, need i say more?
Rogue Squardron - still the best flight sim that i have played

Theres prob alot more out there, but i am too tired to remember any more

 

[Maeloch]

Lords of Midnight: one of the first directional perspective games with multiple ways to win/loose (if any finished doomdarks revenge can you tell me what happened when you got to the end of the tunnel, my version crashed the one time i got there

Mine did the same. Tbh I think that was the end .

If you're interested goggle it, there's a PC conversion available with a game editor. Still playable for an afternoon's or so messing about.

 

[Icebreaker]

Doom from this Poll. But the best Game for me is Turrican 2!

 

[Eeben]

Anno 1602 an dune 2000 also really liked settlers 1 an 2 but really suckt when the 3rd came out..heroes 2 an 3 was also <3

 

[Krait]

Elite : Frontier

No contest there, never been any game that had the scope, size or freedom that game had. It was sheer brilliance for it's time, they couldn't reproduce it now in my opinion.

Agreed.

 

[Maxgirth]

DAoC and kiss chase, best games ever imo ;p