Five games you think every gamer should experience?
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Disregarding what you've convinced yourself the status of your soul in, Indigo prophecy is the most immersive 3rd person game in my opinion. As such, I believe it deserves my recommendation.Catchy Slogan said:
1. Super Mario Bros.
2. Pac Man
3. Doom
4. Fallout 1 & 2
5. The House of the Dead or Mortal Kombat
2. Pac Man
3. Doom
4. Fallout 1 & 2
5. The House of the Dead or Mortal Kombat
I find it interesting that people's tastes are so different. I can't agree with anyone's five 'should play' games.
I even saw two people mentioned POP 2008. I hope to God this was ironic.
ICO
Silent Hill 2
Timespltters 2.
TLOZ: Link to the past.
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes for the PS2 so there's something to compare the good games to.
I even saw two people mentioned POP 2008. I hope to God this was ironic.
ICO
Silent Hill 2
Timespltters 2.
TLOZ: Link to the past.
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes for the PS2 so there's something to compare the good games to.
1 - Deus Ex; Best game ever, in my view. Such choice, such great plot, such music, etc. etc.
2 - Grim Fandango/Monkey Island - For the fun, puzzle solving enjoyment on show in either.
3 - Bioshock, as it's fantastic throughout...Almost.
4 - Morrowind - Utterly superb, once you get past the awkward (read;At times, excruciating) combat.
5 - Warcraft 3/Dawn of War - Either game, both great, great games for different reasons.
I tried to give a mixture of games, going on the idea of...if I were to show just 5 games to someone with a clean slate, I'd want to show them some of the greatest games, but also a range of experiences.
Special mentions go to Myst:Exile, Half-Life and Uplink.
2 - Grim Fandango/Monkey Island - For the fun, puzzle solving enjoyment on show in either.
3 - Bioshock, as it's fantastic throughout...Almost.
4 - Morrowind - Utterly superb, once you get past the awkward (read;At times, excruciating) combat.
5 - Warcraft 3/Dawn of War - Either game, both great, great games for different reasons.
I tried to give a mixture of games, going on the idea of...if I were to show just 5 games to someone with a clean slate, I'd want to show them some of the greatest games, but also a range of experiences.
Special mentions go to Myst:Exile, Half-Life and Uplink.
1) Portal - Puzzle solving by spawning and clipping through walls. Exploration of gaming basics. Brilliance.
2) Guitar Hero or Rock Band - Nothing beats strange sense of awesome at tapping buttons on plastic guitars in time with a song someone else wrote and produced.
3) Rome: Total War - You...Are...Sparta!
4) Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - Best writing in a game, ever. This is our Godfather. Our glitchy, mostly broken gothic-horror Godfather.
5) SimCity - Even without visible inhabitants, being God of a city is almost as awesome as being God of plastic guitar button pressing.
2) Guitar Hero or Rock Band - Nothing beats strange sense of awesome at tapping buttons on plastic guitars in time with a song someone else wrote and produced.
3) Rome: Total War - You...Are...Sparta!
4) Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - Best writing in a game, ever. This is our Godfather. Our glitchy, mostly broken gothic-horror Godfather.
5) SimCity - Even without visible inhabitants, being God of a city is almost as awesome as being God of plastic guitar button pressing.
1. Monkey Island. Greatest story and writing.
2. Portal. Dark humour at it's best.
3. Goldeneye (N64). What a shooter should damn well be.
4. Sims. So pathetic a concept so well visualised into electronic crack addiction.
5. Shadow of the Collossus. Ico was beutiful, but SotC was truly art.
2. Portal. Dark humour at it's best.
3. Goldeneye (N64). What a shooter should damn well be.
4. Sims. So pathetic a concept so well visualised into electronic crack addiction.
5. Shadow of the Collossus. Ico was beutiful, but SotC was truly art.
Ohh, that's a good few choices I hadn't considered there; namely SimCity and Portal.TheBluesader said:
As much as I truely love Vampire the Masquerade; Bloodlines (and I really, really do), I just couldn't inflict the horribly broken-ness of it upon someone. I...it makes me sad it didn't realise the potential it had.
1. Ocarina of Time - does this one need explaining?
2. Majora's Mask - dovetails perfectly with the above game, and offers the other side of the Zelda coin; deep, involving characters and endless emotional sucker-punches.
3. Killer7 - love it or hate it, you still need to experience it. An example of when style over substance can be used to great effect, whether it's a good game or not is another discussion entirely, but it will blow your mind in one way or another.
4. Eternal Darkness : Sanity's Requiem - absolutely stunning psychological horror, with mind-bending sanity effects and probably the best story ever told in a video game. A must for Lovecraft fans in particular. Shameless self-pluggery for more info
5. Psychonauts - another mind-blower, and the Milkman Conspiracy level is worth the price of admission on its' own. A truly unique take on the platforming genre, I would reccommend it to anyone.
2. Majora's Mask - dovetails perfectly with the above game, and offers the other side of the Zelda coin; deep, involving characters and endless emotional sucker-punches.
3. Killer7 - love it or hate it, you still need to experience it. An example of when style over substance can be used to great effect, whether it's a good game or not is another discussion entirely, but it will blow your mind in one way or another.
4. Eternal Darkness : Sanity's Requiem - absolutely stunning psychological horror, with mind-bending sanity effects and probably the best story ever told in a video game. A must for Lovecraft fans in particular. Shameless self-pluggery for more info
5. Psychonauts - another mind-blower, and the Milkman Conspiracy level is worth the price of admission on its' own. A truly unique take on the platforming genre, I would reccommend it to anyone.
1: Legend Of Mana
2: Castlevnia SOTN
3: Metal Slug (fucking pick one)
4: Final Fantasy 7 (sorry had to)
5: Dance Dance Revolution (To humble whatever fucker thinks gaming is only for losers / nerds.)
2: Castlevnia SOTN
3: Metal Slug (fucking pick one)
4: Final Fantasy 7 (sorry had to)
5: Dance Dance Revolution (To humble whatever fucker thinks gaming is only for losers / nerds.)
Glad I could illuminate the dark corners of your mind for even the briefest moment, Due.DueAccident said:
I agree that it is a tough call to foist such a broken game on even the tech-savvy gaming public. But I'm thinking of a world where I have it installed, I install one of the good unofficial patches, I verify that all the game-killing glitches are improbable, and then I let people pay me $7 an hour to come into my room and play it on my PC. Because then they too will see how awesome it is, and be sad to realize how awesome it could have been, had Troika not used all their money to buy cool professional logos and t-shirts with those logos on them.
And per my personal sense of ethics, you mentioned VtM:B, so you get friended. Yay!
Shadow of the Colossus- A game that is played and will not be forgotten for the only character in the full game....
Okami- Creative, original and funny with a great story with intence game movments that can let you use the gods to help you.
Wipeout- An intence sci-fi racing game that might make you sweat with joy if you survived the race
Dawn of War- One of the best rts games that i palyed and i would suggest it to anyone else; handfull of classes with different weaknesses and strenths...
Mirrors Edge- interesting story with first person parkour style gameplay that was a first
that is my list of game that must be played
Okami- Creative, original and funny with a great story with intence game movments that can let you use the gods to help you.
Wipeout- An intence sci-fi racing game that might make you sweat with joy if you survived the race
Dawn of War- One of the best rts games that i palyed and i would suggest it to anyone else; handfull of classes with different weaknesses and strenths...
Mirrors Edge- interesting story with first person parkour style gameplay that was a first
that is my list of game that must be played
Great list.ghostgnome said:
Replace Grim fandango (because I havent played it yet :S, with dreamfall, Prince of persia:SoT, Rayman 2, a Zelda game, or beyond good and evil, and you have my list.
Not saying those are my favorite games ever, I really like for exampler halo: CE, but each of these games is unique and offers a superb singeplayer experience imo.
i would actually also throw up homeworld up there...
total 3d strategy. and when i say that, i mean making space ships fly through x, y, z dimensions... and with the TFS mod, the game hits epic proportions!
im also gonna throw in 'they hunger' which i guess more like a mod, but its amazingly immersive...
total 3d strategy. and when i say that, i mean making space ships fly through x, y, z dimensions... and with the TFS mod, the game hits epic proportions!
im also gonna throw in 'they hunger' which i guess more like a mod, but its amazingly immersive...
I kinda want to play Vampire the Masquerade;Bloodlines now, but it might only remind me of what might have been. Best to just look at screenshots and youtube videos rather than the ball busting, game-breaking pain.TheBluesader said:
I never found any good unofficial patches, so perhaps I'm tinged with bitterness towards something that didn't live up to my expectations. >.<
And neat...I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds good.
