How old is your all-time favorite game?
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I sometimes do a marathon of Megaman X1 to X8, so X1 being made in 1994, I guess my old timer is quite old 
In close second I still play Heroes of Might and Magic 3, gold edition with a mod, Heroes 3 was out in 1999
In close second I still play Heroes of Might and Magic 3, gold edition with a mod, Heroes 3 was out in 1999
September of 2005. I love me some S.L.A.I.
I loved the mech combat, and the customization was amazing.
I go into multi-screenshot and heavy detail into some of my older posts. But I'm too tired right now.
A second one would be MechCommander 2 or MechWarrior 4, but I don't remember when they came out.
I do play more than giant robot games, but these are some of the best old games I remember.
OH! or republic commando. Think it was 2005...
I loved the mech combat, and the customization was amazing.
I go into multi-screenshot and heavy detail into some of my older posts. But I'm too tired right now.
A second one would be MechCommander 2 or MechWarrior 4, but I don't remember when they came out.
I do play more than giant robot games, but these are some of the best old games I remember.
OH! or republic commando. Think it was 2005...
Final Fantasy IV came out in 1991. lets do the math on that 2011-1991=pi^4 divide that by 42 carry the one..... that makes FFIV 20 years old. "You Spoony Bard!" hahaha still cracks me up after all those years.
I have so many but i'll just go with ratchet and clank 3
it came out in late 2004 so it recently hit the 6 year mark
it came out in late 2004 so it recently hit the 6 year mark
Star Wars: Tie Fighter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_TIE_Fighter] (1994). The shout outs to Wing Commander: Privateer (1993) makes me feel a tad less fogeyish. If Pirates! was deserving of a remake, Tie Fighter definately is. It was also the first time one could join the Emperor's secret Sith Cadre and gentlemen's social club.
Both of them featured (excellent) scores that utilized General Midi, which sounded awesome on a Sound Canvas. I'd love to hear the Empire-as-protagonist themes actually performed by an orchestra. Sadly, much of the iMuse score was lost in the CD-Rom version which featured redbooks of the Williams movie scores (and hence none of the new themes).
Second place: Hyperspeed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspeed_(video_game)] (1991) by Microprose. Lightspeed (1990) would count since the former was the latter plus two more scenarios (four total). This was one of the best explore-strange-new-worlds type games out there. Not one Star Trek game comes close. 20 years plus!
Both of them featured (excellent) scores that utilized General Midi, which sounded awesome on a Sound Canvas. I'd love to hear the Empire-as-protagonist themes actually performed by an orchestra. Sadly, much of the iMuse score was lost in the CD-Rom version which featured redbooks of the Williams movie scores (and hence none of the new themes).
Second place: Hyperspeed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspeed_(video_game)] (1991) by Microprose. Lightspeed (1990) would count since the former was the latter plus two more scenarios (four total). This was one of the best explore-strange-new-worlds type games out there. Not one Star Trek game comes close. 20 years plus!
God that's a tough one. When I think of most games I really can't seem myself playing them after a certain amount of plays or at least when something comes along better that does the former better. There is a couple of exceptions...
Warlords (1980) My all time favorite in competitive gaming to this day... and just as much fun playing a 3 on 1 against the computer... my dream is to get the 4 player cocktail table version of the arcade game.
Yar's Revenge (1981) This one I don't even get... but I got in Game Room on the 360 and well, I found I can still play it for hours on end.
So I guess I have to go with 31 and 30 years for how old my all time favorites are now, I can't see any of the games now a days that I play even sparking an interest in me 30 years from now, I can barely get up the desire to play though most games more then once now.
Warlords (1980) My all time favorite in competitive gaming to this day... and just as much fun playing a 3 on 1 against the computer... my dream is to get the 4 player cocktail table version of the arcade game.
Yar's Revenge (1981) This one I don't even get... but I got in Game Room on the 360 and well, I found I can still play it for hours on end.
So I guess I have to go with 31 and 30 years for how old my all time favorites are now, I can't see any of the games now a days that I play even sparking an interest in me 30 years from now, I can barely get up the desire to play though most games more then once now.
I'm going to have to say (don't yell at me) my favourite is SimCity 4, which came out in 2004. It offers endless fun, infinite moddability (is that a word?), and the ability to run one's own dictatorship.
So six years old for me.
So six years old for me.
I loved final fantasy VI also, but i'd have to say my all time favourite game was on the playstation. It received a fairly small release in the PAL regions,but I still managed to track it down and love it til this day.SimuLord said:
It was released back 1997 and I find myself going back to it constantly.
It is none other than Ghost in the Shell.
So much crazy fun, even though realistically it had very little to do with the movie itself, it was still a great game, running around at breakneck speeds in the tachikoma's, and shooting up everything.
-Tabs<3-
well for overall most successful times beaten and enjoyed, i would say..
Knights of the old republic
coming this july, it will be 8 years old..jesus.
i haven't counted, but i have easily beaten and always enjoyed it completely a good..50-60 times, maybe even more. and a good 40 of those are full on 100% playthroughs.
idk how to descibre it but i am at complete peace when i play this game and i get so fucking immersed and lost in the world that i play it for more than 10 hours at a time usually, it just gets me that hooked even though i can basically walkthrough someone through the game without even being there.
Knights of the old republic
coming this july, it will be 8 years old..jesus.
i haven't counted, but i have easily beaten and always enjoyed it completely a good..50-60 times, maybe even more. and a good 40 of those are full on 100% playthroughs.
idk how to descibre it but i am at complete peace when i play this game and i get so fucking immersed and lost in the world that i play it for more than 10 hours at a time usually, it just gets me that hooked even though i can basically walkthrough someone through the game without even being there.
I love Rome: TW, there's just a delightful RPG element with the various generals and faction heirs and such that seems more watered down each successive iteration after it. I like the research in Empires, but it's not nearly the same. I also adore playing as the Greeks and Egyptians, Greeks when I want nonstop brutal street fights and war and Egyptians when I want to play Civ-style economy building.
As far as my favorite game all time, 18 years (we're still too close to 2010 to tack on another year, especially seeing as it was released in Nov): Star Control 2 [http://www.star-control.com/sc2/].
As far as my favorite game all time, 18 years (we're still too close to 2010 to tack on another year, especially seeing as it was released in Nov): Star Control 2 [http://www.star-control.com/sc2/].
Bravo, I still have my 5 1/4" disks for Lightspeed and I think the manual, when Yahtzee started talking about his 'fun space flight simulator' that was the first thing that sprung to mind. I just loved everything MicroProse produced from Pirates! through the mid-late 90s.Uriel-238 said:
Kingdom Hearts 2 in 2005. Every time I watch a Disney movie nowadays, I have to imagine Sora standing right there. xD
SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle (GOTY Edition 2001). Nearly a decade later, and I still hold it up as the best game I've played. It offers everything I could want in a game, and in the debate of quality versus quantity, it holds a perfect middle-ground, offering choice, but without sacrificing quality of game-play. It has an abundance of weaponry, camouflage schemes, effective tactical equipment, commands to get your team mates to do exactly what you want when you want them to, mod support, community in its time...it's been set aside because of it's age today, but I honestly have enjoyed it every time I play it, no matter what I do. It's realistic, as well as fun.
Saints Row 2 (2009) on the other hand, is only about two years old, but it does the same thing--amazing customization, hilariously fun shoot-em-up game-play, all sorts of opportunities for mayhem and destruction, and while mod support is limited, it is mod-capable (I myself am credited with making a mod which lets the player become positively herculean in mass). It's enjoyable, it's entertaining, it's just plain fun. When I need to unwind after a stressful day, or set aside my routine existence and relax--a visit to Stillwater is the first thing on my mind.
But, I only have two hands, and those are two games, so I guess I'll leave them alone together, how's that.
Saints Row 2 (2009) on the other hand, is only about two years old, but it does the same thing--amazing customization, hilariously fun shoot-em-up game-play, all sorts of opportunities for mayhem and destruction, and while mod support is limited, it is mod-capable (I myself am credited with making a mod which lets the player become positively herculean in mass). It's enjoyable, it's entertaining, it's just plain fun. When I need to unwind after a stressful day, or set aside my routine existence and relax--a visit to Stillwater is the first thing on my mind.
But, I only have two hands, and those are two games, so I guess I'll leave them alone together, how's that.