Hmm, okay, let's expand upon it then:

Favorite RPG: Fallout.

Favorite sandbox game: Saints Row 2.

It's lovely to see a game which doesn't give a flying [censored] about realism but instead just wants the player to [censored] around and have fun.
Been too long with realistic [censored] and gray boring setting, finally a franchise that bring back the FUN in video games.
Saints Row 1 was fun too but since this is my favorite sandbox game I'd say SR2.
So why is it my favorite "sandbox" game?
Because the only way I'm going to have fun in a big open world game is if there's [censored] to do in it.
And SR got a ton of [censored] around every corner.

GTA IV fails in being a good sandbox.
It has lovely graphics and very realistic gameplay. (I beat an NPC down to his last breath and as he squirmed on the ground I executed him with a pistol. The whole scenery was so grim and what I did was so disgusting that I just couldn't do it anymore, I did it once and could never do it again, sometimes "realism" is a bad thing.)
But it fails to be fun in the sandboxmap.
There's tons of environment but nothing to do around it except jack a car and drive over people.

GTA San Andreas/Vice City were also very, VERY fun games and I love them both, but due to SR's smooth gameplay it wins out over the stale gameplay of these older titles.

Oblivion, Fallout 3, Two Worlds Two, Risen.
Yeah they were fun games but Oblivion, again, had nothing to do in it except go down the same copy pasted dungeon over and over again.
Fallout 3 had a big gameworld but going through it became repetitive with the fights and unchallenging, since the only thing to do in the sandbox world is to kill stuff then when even that isn't joyful then it's a bad sandbox to me.
Two Worlds Two, I haven't played it a lot but it follows the same as Risen.
Risen is incredibly fun and very rewarding with it's crypts but the gameworld can still feel very empty with little to do except farm items and kill enemies.



Favorite multiplayer game: Left 4 Dead (1, not 2, 1.) and the old zombie servers on Counter Strike.

Left 4 Dead does what a multiplayer is meant to do well: teamwork.
Without teamwork you're screwed.
Simple as that.
The game design is incredibly fun and exciting and you really have to care about one another to make it through.

Zombie Server @ CS were also awesome, if a server housed 32 people then at bigger maps you get panic.
First everyone starts as human except one player who is a zombie, the zombies have ridiculous health pools and turns someone into a zombie in one hit.
What is exciting about this is to find a good location to defend from but to also have a good escape route.
Once a zombie do get in and turn someone then if everyone is cluttered up then the turned zombie can hit the next player which in turn hits the next.
You get paranoid of "Can we make it, is this a good location to defend, what if they come through both areas?"
And what's best is the thrill of being the last human survivor.
You start off with everyone else but then you get split up and escape and slowly on the scoreboard everybody else turns into zombies, and you know that at some point you're going to die too, yet, even though you know this you fight for your life to survive.

Awesome multiplayers.

Morrowind

It needs no explanation.

hmmm this is tough, but i will say Lagacy of Kain: Defiance.
The voice acting in the series is fantastic. action, puzzles, switching between Kain and Raziel,... real and spirit worlds.

Easily Morrowind.I'm playing it since 2005 and I'm still often amazed by the wonderful world and lore.

Ah, Metroid Prime is one of my favorite Gamecube games. It also has some of the best music i've heard in a FPS. Retro Studios did a wonderful job with it.

Not list-o'-favourites, or top 3, or favourite in each subgenre... but absolute all time favourite? That's tough.

Combined with the nostalgia factor, I have to say The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

One of the first RPGs (if not the first) with what felt like an open, explorable world of varied geography and cultures in 3D;
A fun battle and equipment system;
Wonderful and varied dungeon and quest design (the belly of an enormous monster, the interior of a huge, dead tree...);
A gorgeous soundtrack (esp. the Spirit Temple theme);
Imaginative and challenging boss encounters;
A satisfying and useful horse riding mechanic ahead of its time;
Perfectly-paced and rewarding, gameplay-changing treasure;
A playable instrument and song system implemented as a facet of character progession;
Enough minigames and sidequests (among them fishing, horse archery and ghost hunting) to make the game feel huge and replayable;
And a charming fairytale setting brought to life by fantastical world design untrammeled by concerns of realism or maturity.

I could easily (and perhaps more rationally) place TES IV: Oblivion (and Morrowind before it) at the top, for a combination of gameplay, design, lore, scope, and modding & roleplaying potential; or Neverwinter Nights (1) for its potential as a multiplayer RPG development platform alone.

Still, Ocarina of Time. But ask me again mid-November...

The nice thing about Secret of Mana, is that isn't really a JRPG. I mean, it is, but it doesn't play like one. It doesn't have turn based combat like 99% of the JRPGs from that era, it's combat is real time based with a spinwheel(like NWN) that lets you switch to different weapons/magic and/or switch to controlling one of your other party members(AI will start controlling the character you just left). It isn't over-loaded with armor choices like most JRPGs either, just a few standard pieces that you can predictably upgrade in each new major area you uncover. The Boss Battles are fun, and can be challenging if you aren't high enough of a level, but really, the game does NOT require a ton of grinding, it's quite possible to just play straight through the game without ever going back and killing enemies in an old area to level up more, it just requires a bit more strategy in fights.

So, yeah, calling it a JRPG is kind of misleading, really ^^

I will second every single thing you stated about Deus Ex. It's not my favorite, but it's surely in my top 15(my top 10 is pretty much stuffed with JRPGs). I recently(within 3 years) re-bought Deus Ex(had lent it to someone and never got it back), and decided to play through the entire game(for some reason, I had never actually beaten it before), and man, it was such a blast. Trying to find everything and do everything took a long freaking time, I was playing it for at least 2 weeks, several hours a night. The amount of choice, both in storyline, and in upgrading your character was astounding. it really is a game that stands the test of time.

Edit: I apologize for back to back posting in this thread, but everytime I press multi-quote, it never works, so if I want to quote someone, I have to do it in separate posts ><

Morrowind. Hands down.

"Favourite Game of All Time! ...and why? Seriously" :spotted owl:

Judging by the time I spent playing, probably Oblivion or Civ5.

Also big fan of New Vegas, but I haven't replayed the game after finishing it the first time. Maybe I will try installing more mods.

When someone asks a top 10 of favourite games it's nearly impossible for me to define an accurate order, however when asking for THE favourite game it has to be Oblivion. It's a near flawless game, which becomes virtually flawless through mods...so yeah, best game EVAAH (atleast unti lSkyri mcomes out )

Morrowind.......
It's my favorite game of all time because it has a certain 'feel'. The sights, the sounds, the quests, the potential places to live.
It's hugeness. I have been playing it since shortly after it's release and just yesterday I found a pile of gold and some lock picks in a hollow log that I have never seen before. Seriously.

Blazblue, fighting game where you actually need skill and a good sense of guessing. (: Mash buttons here and it's over!

Also each character is COMPLETELY different. Not like Street Fighter where half the cast does that uppercut. Each with their own personality, making the game a rich source of entertainment!

For me, it's definitely a toss-up between The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Morrowind. Zelda was the first game where I truly felt engrossed and wanted to play to the end. Whereas, Morrowind was pretty much the first true open world game I played (besides Grand Theft Auto). Either way, both games are simply amazing and I can, still to this day, continue to play them and not get bored.

Hmmmm....

Thats really hard. I guess the closest I could come would be to say Doom (and Doom 2, they're pratically the same game except for a few enemies and the SS). Why? Because its so pure. There are no frills, no attempt to have a really coherent story, no cutscenes or crap like that. Its just straight up monster killing action with no bull crap. One of the best soundtracks ever made, fast gameplay, awesome level design, and just one of the most fun games one could possibly play. It doesn't try to be anything more than the best GAME it can be, and that's why it so good.

My fondest memory about Doom 2, (don't remember if you could do it in Doom) was to pull up the map and run around looking for secrets.

Can you do this in any other game?

Heretic

:P

Didn't play Heretic much. Don't know why.

Either Starcraft or Morrowind.

Final Fantasy VII or Morrowind. I can't decide.

Mine would have to be Final Fantasy Tactics. spent so money on renting that i could have gotten a 70 inch hdtv, im sure. It was the first game I plyed where I really listened to the story, and got enamored in it. Not to mention the gameplay was super addicting, I spent countless hours going from place to place, just leveling my people, teaching them new skills, and seeing what ability combantions worked. great game, that is.

Runners up:

Morrowind
Oblivion
Knights Of The Old Rebublic
Halo 2
Starcraft 1
Starcraft 2
Warcraft 3

Quake 3 Arena. Perfect gameplay.

Indeed. A great example of a game where http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything. In fact, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything/Deusix.

Despite the fact that it's not completely open world like in Morrowind/Oblivion/Fallout 3, I still find it to be the game that offers the most freedom to do whatever you like.

I didn't play the game for the first time until 2005 or so, so it's definitely not nostalgia for me.


Deus Ex first, Morrowind second, and the third favourite game changes all the time.

Phantasy Star IV, developed in 1993 for the Sega Genesis.

Well developed characters with their own personalities
A cool sci-fi setting taking place across 4 distinct planets
Beautifully drawn manga-style cutscenes
Large detailed battle sprites that actually had animation
A complex battle system that includes: dual-wielding weapons (or even shields), two types of special attack moves ("skills" and "techniques"), combination attacks, and programmable macros
Three different vehicles with different transportation properties and attack modes
Five party members at once, who get swapped regularly during the storyline to keep things fresh
A main character death that predated FFVII, but made sense and had emotion

Totally unparalleled by anything else of the 16-bit era. :wub: