Gaming Favorite video game?

[Eli13]

where did you get the X-wing and Tie fighter with XWA graphics engine at? That sounds like.... the probe made it....

 

[communist]

other than orbiter i usually drive a car:
http://www.rigsofrods.com/content/
or ride on elevators:
http://www.skyscrapersim.com/index.shtml

 

[jthill]

A couple people mentioned simutrans, one said he missed TT -- openttd is now standalone, doesn't need the TT data files.

My favorite game wanders, when I want to think it's Orbiter or Civ, for fighting and lighter strategy Warband rocks. I used to love the Karate Champ arcade game, it'd gradually learn your favorite sequences so you'd have to find new moves even against the computer. For building I go back and forth between Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.

 

[Keatah]

Thought I'd also mention Slot Racers from the Atari 2600 days, 1978.. Gosh how we loved that game. This game 4K bytes in size and ran on a system with 128 bytes. Folks, that's 128 bytes! Count them.. And the processor was a cut-down 6502 known as the 6507, even less address lines. And the graphics chip had enough internal memory to do 1 line of graphics. Then it required an update from the 6507.
http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=441


Shortly thereafter I got into Star Raiders, this was in 1979. The first 3d Space game that used real procedural algorithms for the starfield. It runs an the Atari 400/800 8-bit computers. This ran on a 1.79MHz 6502, and the size of this program was 8K bytes. The ram could be 16K or greater.


Also from the same era was this! Saturn Navigator. This was absolutely fantastic, and in some small tiny remote way, a forerunner to Orbiter. The physics was real! This ran on a system that had no graphics chip. This ran on a 1MHz 6502, and needed 48K bytes of 300uS ram. This is fractions of a millisecond. Extremely slow by modern-day standards. Sorry for the advertisement. I didn't feel like searching through my disk images for a real screenshot.

 

[Quintuss]

-Fallout 1 & 2
-Thief series
-Splinter Cell till Double Agent
-S.T.A.L.K.E.R
-Various realistic shooters (Operation Flashpoint, R6, Sniper Elite etc.)
-Silent Hill and similar

 

[chobolatom]

Orbiter
The Neverhood
Uncharted 1/2
Gran Turismo 5
TeeWorlds
Angry Birds

 

[Polaris]

I'm getting quite a great time out of L.A. Noire.

 

[iamwearingpants]

Crysis.
Or Sandbox 2
Minecraft
Lock On

How about life? That's a game!
You compete, theres rewards, levels, NPC's, and different save games :hmm:

 

[fireballs619]

I'm getting quite a great time out of L.A. Noire.

I, too, have been sucked into LA Noire.

I've also been playing the alpha release/tech demo of a nice little indie game called Project Zomboid. I recommend checking it out if you're into those types of games.

 

[n122vu]

Also for me over the last 3 months, Uncharted 1 & 2 have rocketed to the top of my list (bought a PS3 late last year). Gran Turismo 5 is also right there. But I haven't had time for much gaming with all the RL stuff going on right now. Not much time for addon dev either

 

[Izack]

How about life? That's a game!
You compete, theres rewards, levels, NPC's, and different save games :hmm:

Not too sure about that "no monthly fee" bit, though. :hmm:

 

[Ghostrider]

How about life? That's a game!
You compete, theres rewards, levels, NPC's, and different save games :hmm:

Yes, but the controls are awkward and the game logic makes little sense sometimes. In-game info screens are also badly designed and what's this thing about no HUD?

 

[Grover]

right now im hooked on Skate3. not that im a real "skater kid", but theres something really satisfying about nailing a huge air, or failing and being rewarded by being told how many bones you broke, it has a real care-free attitude about it, you can break every bone in your body, then just get up and do it again, and you can also edit your world, and completely remake your own skateparks, setting up for the monster trick [/rant]

but seriously, good game for when you dont want to take life too seriously

 

[fsci123]

HALO

 

[Dambuster]

I tend to judge games on how I feel after I no longer play them. I find most games that I play fun, but if I don't play for maybe a month, then my views may change.

So my favourite games are:
Halo 1 (Combat Evolved - PC version), and also Halo: Custom Edition
Age of Empires 1
Battlefield 2/Project Reality Mod
Aces High

Additionally, there's a game that I can't remember the name of, which was a web based Java game, where you were a space pirate, and clicked your way through various scenes, like going to a bar to get a mission or some cargo, buying mining equipment, getting a new ship, getting held up in orbit by the Intergalactic Revenue Service, and eventually dying. I think everything in the game was green on a black background, and the loading screen had a flashing skull and crossbones. The name may have been Space Pirates or something - if you know which game I mean, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! - I'd love to play this one again

 

[nygiantsrob]

...'Beyond Good & Evil' ...A Real Classic ...

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[Arthur Dent]

World in Conflict - The only RTS since the C&C Red Alert that really drew my interest. World in Conflict with the Soviet Assault add on is IMHO still the best RTS. The gameplay is good and the story is awesome.

Duke Nukem 3D - Spend a good portion of the mid and late nineties developing multiplayer maps for it and met with friends on the weekends to play them. I preorderd the Duke Nukem Forever - Balls of Steel edition. The demo looks awesome.
Other FPS like Modern Warfare 1+2 are really good to, perhaps with better gameplay and a more "realistic" story, but hey, you can't beat the Duke.

The Secret of Monkey Island - Best. Adventure. Ever.

Other more casual (and favorite) games I wasted a good amount of free time to:

• Creatures (1+2)
• Defcon (I always loved Global Thermonuclear War from WarGames)
• GTA:San Andreas
• Mag!
• Minecraft
• Sims (2+3)
• SimCity (2000 & 4)
• Stunt Island
• The Movies

Like most people around here, I could probably name another 20 games, but these will do for the moment.

 

[Wonderer]

"Bomberman" and "Mafia" the two competitors at the top of my list :lol:

 

[IronRain]

Battlefield series
Medal of Honor (2010 edition)
Minecraft
Borderlands(!)

 

[Ripley]

If memory serves me...

Microsoft Flight Simulator (on Commodore 64!)
Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
F29 Retaliator
DiD's EF-2000
Fleet Defender
Jane's F-15
Jane's LongBow 2
Jane's F-18
Falcon3
Falcon4
IL-2 from the start to the latest version
Rise Of Flight

And just to say that I'm NOT an over-enthusiastic flight sim fan:

Also some car racing with Live For Speed