How old is your all-time favorite game?

[SimuLord]

(anyone who's played as Russia in Empire may have noticed that Dagestan likes to go to war with you, regardless whether you have three full armies in the region)

/nodding my head

The weird thing about Empire? With the 1.6 patch, the AI manages to be better and worse AT THE SAME TIME. Countries will think twice about declaring war if you put a full army by the border between your country and theirs...but countries YOU ARE ALLIED WITH won't hesitate to break the alliance the moment they think you're weak.

Which is why I think Napoleon's a much better game than Empire. I swear the tighter focus helped the AI.

 

[Gamblerjoe]

im gonna have to go with KOTOR which is, what, 7 or 8 years old now?

 

[Noble Korhedron]

10+ years old.... Mario 64.

 

[ahrnygoose]

Mega Man 2 - 1988
Advance Wars: Dual Strike - 2005
Doom 2 - 1994

 

[echioderm]

man, so hard to narrow it down to one single game... mine would have have to be Final Fantasy X, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, The Metal Gear Solid Series, The Fable Series, the Resident Evil Series (particularly the first one, genuinely creepy and claustrophobic)and Spyro the Dragon (the old ones, I used to play them with my grandparents for years, possibly my first game experience was playing it aged 5).

So many games I've loved over the years, wopuld take hours to think of them all

 

[spiffleh]

Final Fantasy X. 2001, although I played it in 2003 I think. And explaining why something is a favorite is kind of stupid. It's totally subjective. It's like trying to explain why green is my favorite colour. I just liked it.

 

[Nimzar]

A little over 10.

Baldur's Gate II.

 

[RuralGamer]

/nodding my head

The weird thing about Empire? With the 1.6 patch, the AI manages to be better and worse AT THE SAME TIME. Countries will think twice about declaring war if you put a full army by the border between your country and theirs...but countries YOU ARE ALLIED WITH won't hesitate to break the alliance the moment they think you're weak.

Which is why I think Napoleon's a much better game than Empire. I swear the tighter focus helped the AI.

I find the Empire and (sometimes) Napoleon AI rather oddly amusing and yet also infuriating as anything at times. Like the Dutch deciding to declare war on me which will cost them their alliances with neighbouring states, their trade with me and said allies and their independence because I massively outnumber them. Yet they still do it?! That would probably be the sole reason why one of them isn't my favourite strategy of all time. I hate the Medieval 2 AI - the most backstabbing and yet drooling stupid I've ever seen, yet at the same time they could be really devious...
On your note of tighter focus making the AI better, let's hope Shogun 2 will improve on that; from what I've read the developers are making considerable changes in that area.

 

[Amphoteric]

Heroes of Might and Magic 3; so it's been, maybe, 10 years?

Yay for Number 6 Coming out after 5 years.

I really don't know what my favourite game is, it might be KotOR which is 7.

 

[JaffaFrost]

The first Crash Bandicoot
which was released in 1996? I think...
and its been my favourite game for like... 7 years.
I LOVE the bandicoot seris.

 

[Signa]

Morrowind in 2002. I think I started playing it at the beginning of '03. As for the rest of my favorites, they are all peppered around that area +/- 3 years. There are exceptions beyond those bounds (Doom ranks in, and I played that in '08), but it seems like after the 360 hit that games just started not reaching the levels of awesome they did around the turn of the century. Hell, I just started Deus Ex for the first time 8 months ago, and it is great.

 

[SimuLord]

/nodding my head

The weird thing about Empire? With the 1.6 patch, the AI manages to be better and worse AT THE SAME TIME. Countries will think twice about declaring war if you put a full army by the border between your country and theirs...but countries YOU ARE ALLIED WITH won't hesitate to break the alliance the moment they think you're weak.

Which is why I think Napoleon's a much better game than Empire. I swear the tighter focus helped the AI.

I find the Empire and (sometimes) Napoleon AI rather oddly amusing and yet also infuriating as anything at times. Like the Dutch deciding to declare war on me which will cost them their alliances with neighbouring states, their trade with me and said allies and their independence because I massively outnumber them. Yet they still do it?! That would probably be the sole reason why one of them isn't my favourite strategy of all time. I hate the Medieval 2 AI - the most backstabbing and yet drooling stupid I've ever seen, yet at the same time they could be really devious...
On your note of tighter focus making the AI better, let's hope Shogun 2 will improve on that; from what I've read the developers are making considerable changes in that area.

Oh, dear gods, the Medieval 2 AI. Got a port? Prepare to be blockaded by that friend and neighbor you've had for 200 turns because keeping their ships off your port is harder for the AI than keeping his hands off young sluts was for JFK.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

Its a constant toss-up between Okami (4 years) and shadow of the colossus (5 years)

 

[Asmundr]

Dragon Quest III for the Gameboy Color. Still one of my favorites today.
So about 10 years old.

 

[Gizmo007666]

Final Fantasy IX so 10 going on 11 years old. Was my first FF seen probably more playthroughs than any other game I own and it's the only game that I bought a second copy of just so I have the ability to play it on console or psp.

 

[Jodan]

freespace 1998 coming up on 13 years

 

[bulldogftw]

Mine is the orange box so only 3 years old, but it is still amazing

 

[alimination602]

Thirteen years.

Banjo Kazooie. It's use of comical graphics, diverse puzzles and speech imperiments won my heart as an N64 player and still holds it now even as i commit my gaming time to the xbox360.

 

[RuralGamer]

/nodding my head

The weird thing about Empire? With the 1.6 patch, the AI manages to be better and worse AT THE SAME TIME. Countries will think twice about declaring war if you put a full army by the border between your country and theirs...but countries YOU ARE ALLIED WITH won't hesitate to break the alliance the moment they think you're weak.

Which is why I think Napoleon's a much better game than Empire. I swear the tighter focus helped the AI.

I find the Empire and (sometimes) Napoleon AI rather oddly amusing and yet also infuriating as anything at times. Like the Dutch deciding to declare war on me which will cost them their alliances with neighbouring states, their trade with me and said allies and their independence because I massively outnumber them. Yet they still do it?! That would probably be the sole reason why one of them isn't my favourite strategy of all time. I hate the Medieval 2 AI - the most backstabbing and yet drooling stupid I've ever seen, yet at the same time they could be really devious...
On your note of tighter focus making the AI better, let's hope Shogun 2 will improve on that; from what I've read the developers are making considerable changes in that area.

Oh, dear gods, the Medieval 2 AI. Got a port? Prepare to be blockaded by that friend and neighbor you've had for 200 turns because keeping their ships off your port is harder for the AI than keeping his hands off young sluts was for JFK.

Erm, yes - Medieval 2's AI were rather bad - like the Pope excommunicating me because I defended myself against him or my ally attacking me when my territory completely encompassed his - oops I'm sorry, did I just annex your entire nation in one turn? To this date, half the AI betrayals seemed to have no valid reason.