What are they, and why? Don’t lie to me - you know that there are games, quite a few from your teenage years, that you’ll never forget, and always cherish. Mine:
Half Life (and Counterstrike) - fused action and adventure in an FPS in such an awesome way. Had seen nothing like it before this!
Grim Fandango - not sure how many of you touched this, but it was like a top class film. Incredible atmosphere, characters and writing. Unrivalled in its hilarity.
Unreal - the atmosphere, the atmosphere!
Dizzy (Commodore 64) - you played a fucking puzzle-solving egg!!! Hidden coins in magic clouds. What more can you want?
Age of Empires 1/2 - nothing better than setting up your english longbowmen well outside the range of the enemy’s shitty seige weaponry. Also, using your priests to convert men from a distance! Holy shit, literally!
EDIT: How the fuck did I forget about Morrowind!? Talk about atmosphere in a game! I actually wanted to be transported there!
Quake - the game that got me started. especially with godmode cause I was that bad.
Diablo - both of them and expansions packs.
Witcher - enjoyed the storyline.
never did finish Oblivion. didn’t do it for me. Nore Dragon Age. Did play hours of Heroes of might and magic with a box of chocolate chip cookies and a cup of green tea.
Civilization series - I lost so much sleep with that game it wasn’t even funny. Intending to play another 1/2 hr always ended up with me going “How did 3 hrs pass so quickly?”
Quest for Glory series aka Hero’s quest - My entry to RPGs, back in the days of 5 1/4 inch floppy disks.
Fallout 1 & 2 - The graphics may not have been great, but I loved the writing and atmosphere
Morrowwind
Jagged Alliance 2
Wanted to play the witcher and grim fandango, but never got around to it.
Frozen Throne (WcIII alone wasn’t that good, but with the expansion, kicked ass)
Starcraft 2, lots of features of Wc3 gone, with no good reason behind, that’s why it slips behind, even though with every feature included it’d clearly be ahead.
Red Alert 2, awesome awesome fast paced game, puts the arcade game in RTS, but lack of support from company and smaller community made it relatively short lived.
Counterstrike, favorite FPS.
Diablo 2 with LOD, blizzard games without expansion aren’t that good lawl. Act 5 >> any other act.
Special mention goes to Max Payne 1 and Red Faction 1.
It is ungodly how much time I blew on those 3 games.
F.E.A.R.
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
There are better more updated versions of these two games, but both of these to me were awesome. F.E.A.R. just did a great job of bringing in great action with a f’ing creepy atmosphere, JKII was one of the first games to really allow lightsaber combat…nerdgasm.
