What is your favorite game ?

Hmmm this is tough, so I gotta break it down by genre.

FPS:
-Dark Forces (the first Kyle Katarn game)
-Halflife series
-Wolfenstein 3D

FPS-RPG Hybrid:
-Deus Ex
-Oblivion
-System Shock 2

RTS:
-C&C series
-Homeworld series
-Dune 2
-Earth 21xx series

Turn-based Strategy:
-Alpha Centauri
-Galactic Civilizations 2
-Total War series

Simulation:
-Tie Fighter
-Aces over the Pacific
-Independence War 2

Racing:
-NFS: Porsche Unleashed

City Building:
-Simcity 3000
-City Life
-Caesar IV
-Pharoh

If I had to choose one game right now, I would choose Deus Ex

i think its impossible to tell but at the moment its oblivion gears of war and wow(even tho i dont have it on comp any more)

p.s how is oblivion FPS hybrid???? its RPG all the way

i think its impossible to tell but at the moment its oblivion gears of war and wow(even tho i dont have it on comp any more)

p.s how is oblivion FPS hybrid???? its RPG all the way

mightyfoot

Lets see...

you play from a first person perspective (be honest, the third-person camera was not practical at all), and the general feel of the game was more akin to a shooter than a full-on RPG.  I felt like I was playing a fantasy-based Deus Ex the whole time, which is problably why I enjoyed it so much.

Its all subjective though.  To me an RPG is Fallout, Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights, etc..  Oblivion doesnt fall into that category, not only because it lacked the traditional isometric view but also because the RPG elements (specifically the story and leveling system) were extremely shallow, and the developers appeared to focus more on the "shooter" aspect than the RPG aspect of the game.  The only time I was aware it was an RPG was every few hours I was told to go to sleep and the game "automatically" leveled for me.

To sum up, Oblivion has more in common with STALKER, Deus Ex, and System Shock 2 than it does with traditional RPGs.  Thats why I consider it a hybrid.  That may be hard for people to accept since "oh its got goblins and elves and all that RPG crap so it must be an RPG"...but if you look at the core gameplay, it is a hybrid in the purest sense.  I mean the game even has a crosshair!

Games such as Gothic 3 and Fable are Adventure-RPGs imo, but since that genre doesnt "officially" exists I just call them RPGs.

Old school PC games:

- The Residents Bad day on the Midway

- The Dark Eye

- Descent

- Doom II

- Dark Forces

- Sam & Max: Hit the Road

Recently:

- UT2003 (1st game I played on broadband connection)

- R6: Raven Shield

- F.E.A.R. + EP

- Battlefield 1942 & 2

- Oblivion

- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (my latest addiction)

congratulations for the highly original topic.

I would choose Starcraft or Company of Heroes. 

mine would be the folowing:

1. the c&c sries

2. max payen 1 and 2

3. doom 3

4. halo 1

5. Diablo 1

6. delta force: black hawk down: team saber ( for the online play )

7. fable 1

and the first neverwinter nights

P.S.does anyone have diablo 2 that i can download, or know where i can download it, like a website or something like that ????

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gamespot2199

Quake 4

:D 

i think its impossible to tell but at the moment its oblivion gears of war and wow(even tho i dont have it on comp any more)

p.s how is oblivion FPS hybrid???? its RPG all the way

mightyfoot

nope, obivion is definately a fps/rpg... your virtual world aiming and timing matters, thus fps.  it is like Undying, combat wise.  And no one would doubt that Undying was a fps, with some RPG elements. 

1.Max payne series

2.Commandos series

3.Desperados

4.Age of empire series

5.Doom 3

6.Return to castle(Latest one)

7.Warcraft 3+Expansion

8.Kotor series

9.Fable

9.Mafia

10.Gta series

11.Tomb raider series

and many many more. 

1.Rainbow Six VEGAS

2.GRAW

3.FEAR+EXPANSION

4.SWAT 4+EXPANSION

5.GTA Series.

I only like FPS. Apart from GTAs

my favorite game is again max payne 1 and 2

in fps

halflife series

action adventure

tombraider series and vampire blood lines

That's a tough one there are so many games I had a blast with.

RPG/FPS Hybrids - STALKER, the Theif series, and the DeusEx series.

RPG - Titan Quest, Planscape Torment, the Fallout series, and the Baldur's Gate series.

FPS - The Doom series, Quake 1,2 & 4, the Serious Sam series, Farcry, the Half-Life series, the Unreal sereis and Fear + expansion.

TPS (Third person shooter) - The splinter cell series and the KOTOR series (even though they are also RPGs).

RTS - Starcraft, Command & Conquer series, the Age of series, and the Warcraft series.

TBS - The Warlords series, the Civilization series, and Heroes of Might and Magic series.

Why are people always so curious on game forums what my favorite games are?

And why am I such a sucker for responding all the time?...

Anyway: Baldur's Gate 2, or ideally, the Baldur's Gate series would be my favorite of all time. Followed by Thief 2: The metal age as well as Thief 1: Dark Project, System Shock 2, Fallout 2, The Longest Journey, Freespace 2 & Planescape: Torment. For more recent games that I'd add to my list, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, SWAT 4 and Medieval 2: Total War. 

Thar ya go, use the information for whatever nefarious deeds you wish. I can't put them in numbered order, that'd be too hard on my frail little gaming addicted mind. It's hard enough just picking Baldur's Gate as my favorite!

Old school PC games:

- The Residents Bad day on the Midway

- The Dark Eye

- Descent

- Doom II

- Dark Forces

- Sam & Max: Hit the Road

Recently:

- UT2003 (1st game I played on broadband connection)

- R6: Raven Shield

- F.E.A.R. + EP

- Battlefield 1942 & 2

- Oblivion

- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (my latest addiction)

OkuLaris

sam and max hit the road that my favorite as well great game with fab jokes and thge voice acting in its great as well i don't see why people say its not as good as day of the tenticle

as for me... 

1. GTA:SA

2. Battlefield 2

3. Last Chaos

Command and Conquer 95,

even tho im a fps guy (fear, hl, lh2, cs:s etc) i also am biggoted against all other rts besides ones set in the cnc universe, i dn why though.

Battlefield 2

Diablo II

C&C 2 Red Alert

Warcraft III