What is your favorite video game of all time?

[Squilookle]

While I'm here, I decided to ask a question that I was surprised to not see in this board. What is your favorite video game ever?

I don't mean to sound harsh, but did you look? I mean actually search? There's only about a hundred billion different threads already asking that exact same question.

See for yourself- [link]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/search[/link]

OT- Goldeneye, I suppose, or Driver.

 

[Mr Cwtchy]

I would have to say Fallout 3. I spent so much time on that game, constantly completing most of the content, then restarting characters, rinse repeat. Loved every second.

Special mentions go to LOTRO, SW Battlefront 2 and Timesplitters FP.

 

[Guffe]

I think it has to be SuperSmashBrosMelee on the GameCube.
I've played that game so much with my friends I can't even count the hours we put into it and all the exciting battles with strange rules to make the game even more fucked up.

 

[excalipoor]

I'm going to be original and say Final Fantasy VII. The only game to ever blow my mind and splatter my brains across the room. My only problem with the game is that it's piss easy, and the translation is pretty lazy.

 

[woodaba]

While I'm here, I decided to ask a question that I was surprised to not see in this board. What is your favorite video game ever?

I don't mean to sound harsh, but did you look? I mean actually search? There's only about a hundred billion different threads already asking that exact same question.

See for yourself- [link]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/search[/link]

OT- Goldeneye, I suppose, or Driver.

To be fair, I've been on these forums for a year, and I can't recall this thread ever coming up.

 

[kingthrall]

MYTH II SOULBLIGHER, THE BEST GAME IN THE UNIVERSE. No other strategy game ive played in 12 years
has as much detail and has a great a storyline at the same time.

 

[Henriot]

Would probably say Might and Magic 6.

Nostalgia aside, I can still pick that up every now and then and get lost in killing goblins and mages.

Honourable mentions go to XCOM and Morrowind.

 

[CrashBang]

Final Fantasy IX.
FF IX is the most complete and perfect game for me. It has an astoundingly beautiful soundtrack, and wonderfully detailed and executed world filled with wonders and excitement. It is beautifully rendered with great aesthetics and character models. It's characters are well-ranged and hugely lovable. The story has amazing pacing and some great twists and turns.

I've played through it countless times and never get bored of it.
I fucking love Final Fantasy IX.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Well before last year it was Oblivion. Skyrim IMO is a better Oblivion so it's my answer.

 

[wakeup]

my two faviourte games are quite modern, they are alan wake and heavy rain. Simpy because i love the characters and stories in both of them.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Very good question.

In terms of most liked to play again and again, probably Fallout 3 or one of the latest Tomb Raider games.

In terms of impact on my life? Tomb Raider III was the game where gaming stopped being just something else and started being this whole big thing in my life, and Final Fantasy IX has had so much impact on my life it's unreal.

Like without Final Fantasy IX I might not have started writing, without FFIX I definitely wouldn't have gotten really deeply into gaming (like immersing myself in the subculture sort of deep) I might well have stopped gaming shortly after I turned 11 if it hadn't been for FFIX and still nowadays I boot up the PS2 every once in a while and get back into it in a big way.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Persona 4 no doubt. I find that game absolutely sublime from start to finish and would even call it perfect.

The Ace Attorney trilogy comes in second. Those games are best judged as though all three games are one long ass line of cases in the same one game in my opinion. Solely because the games are great not due to one single game in the series but because of the character development over the three games.

Seriously, Phoenix Wright's character arc is freaking beautiful.

As for multiplayer... Skullgirls maybe? Even in the short amount of time I spent online before the community died was the most fun i've had online for ages.

Hell, i'd call Skullgirls the only fighting game where it's near impossible to feel salty after you lose. That's kinda impressive really.

I've been throwing way too much time into LoL recently (read: over several months) but I would hesitate to call it my favourite multiplayer game. Just because, well, have you seen the average community of a MOBA game? It's kinda not pretty.

People take one lane feeding hard way too seriously. I've been in a fail Graves/Leona lane where we gave Teemo however many kills it takes to give him "Godlike" and Ahri around 3 before we shut them the fuck down. We then proceeded to win because Leona is the best tank in the game.

Come on she has a God Mode as soon has she hits level 9 for gods sake! Extra 70 armour and magic resist bonus for about 5/6 seconds that hurts people... That plus one or two tank items and she's completely unkillable during that duration. She surprisingly squishy without it on though so that's a shame

 

[Mondai Randy]

My favorites games would be Persona 4, Dark Souls , Devil May Cry 1 and 3, Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne, they were games that I would play for hours and hours without getting bored

 

[xPixelatedx]

I would call it a three way tie between Super Metroid, Castlevania: SotN and Resident Evil 4. I can play these three games indefinitely and they are always still just as great as they were 10-15 years ago.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

The only thing that comes close to that (I never could have a definite favorite) would be one of two things, Dragonball Z: Budokai 3 or Metroid Prime.

Both surpassed my expectations, both kept having more to show me with each play through and both have given me countless hours of enjoyment.

Metroid Prime for the (I don't usually use this kind of term lightly) perfect transition from 2D to a 3D perspective and how it never lost any kind of depth while doing so. Creating a unique way to tell a story, without it being forced down your throat if you didn't want that. Making lock-on combat challenging and keeping the mind working in it as well as with the puzzles.

DBZ:B3 for the countless hours of fun my friends and I had with it, always finding new things in it, whether it be the things some characters say to each other (Goten and Omega Shenron had a funny exchange) to the way the epic battles of the anime shone through without it losing the skill that fighting games can require in you to play at the highest level. It improved on the previous games in every way and I don't think any of the later ones have been as great.

 

[ABLb0y]

Either Dead Island, Pokemon White or Mass Effect 2.

 

[Jeremy Dawkins]

My personal favorite and what I consider the "magnum opus of the video game world" are two entirely different games. I actually know what the former is.

My all-time favorite is the original Devil May Cry. The combination of the creepy atmosphere, awesome sound design, intimidating enemies, (then) relentlessly stylish and fast-paced combat, and the cool, collected protagonist who ventured into the darkest depths of hell with a grin and a one-liner all won me over like no other game had before or has since.

I loved the original but my favourite of all time is Devil May Cry 3. It was pure fun with cool cutscenes and showing us the story behind the sons of Sparda.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Mass Effect 2 or Kingdom Hearts 2. I can't decide.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

Dark Souls for me. It's addictive, gorgeous, challenging, moving, and wrapped up in a coating of mysterious and very intriguing lore. I've played that more than any other game this generation, possibly of all time (Pokémon excluded), and I actually can't think of a single thing I'd change about it!

Runner ups include Red Dead Redemption, Sid Meier's Civilization V, and Timesplitters: Future Perfect. Dark Souls has to take the cake though. The dark, dreary, brutal, atmospheric, unforgiving, yet perfectly balanced cake.