The reason to start this topic is to let me(and members here) try games that you like and recommend. So please write a bit of introduction(or review) to the games you recommend(new or classic). I might go and buy it, please try to include the company's name to see if i could find it in the internet.

Best RPG game
1) Final Fantasy 8: Cool graphics with a really great story and gameplay! (squaresoft)
2) Toco(a chinese RPG game): A classic rpg where the charactors will get upgraded with better looks, magic, and attack with gained expierence. With humourous animations too.

Best Adventure Game
1) Simon the Sorcerer: Very homourous game!
2) Day of the Tentacle: You control 3 different charactors who were transported to 3 different times and try to beat the tentacle. Funny stuff! (lucasarts)
3) Monkey island series: Everyone know it. (lucasarts)
4) Return to Zork: Great classic and mysterious adventure game..

Best sports game
1) Virtual Striker 2 ver. 1998: I RULE in that game. (sega)
2) ISS: Everyone know it. (konami sports)
3) UEFA Challenge: Great graphics and gameplay. Needs some time to get used to the controls. (infogrames)
4) NBA Jam: All the amazing dunks..

Best driving game
1) Star wars pod racer: Very fast! (lucasarts)
2) Daytona: Play with friends in arcade. (sega)
3) HotWired: Become a car thief and get away from the police. Any damage to the car will decrease the car price(the money you earn). (www.xicat.com)

Best Action Game
1) Counter-strike: Everyone knows that. (gooseman?)
2) Operation Flashpoint: You start as a infantry doing stupid punishments(running to a truck and back), to going to a real war! (codemasters)
3) Alone in the dark series: creepy game. (infogrames)
4) Clive Barker's Undying: Imagine walking near the door, and hearing cries of little children. (EA)

Best Strategy game
1) Warcraft series: Everyone knows (blizzard)
2) Dune I and II: Classic strategy game.
3) Worms series: Every knows that!

Best Puzzle Game
1) Lemmings series: Help them escape..
2) Oddworld: Abe Oddysee: Very cool game where you control an alien to help him escapes from other alien who want to turn them to a new recipe. (Oddworld Inhabitants) Download Demo here(30.7mb) (ftp://ftp.zdnet.com/gs/puzzle/oddworld/abeodd.exe)
3) Tetris/Brick game: Everyone know that.

Best Fighting games
1) SNK vs Capcom(arcade, dreamcast): Cool crossover!
2) SNK vs Capcom(Neo Geo Pocket): charactors looks much cuter(like pocket/gem fighter)
3) Street fighter series: Everyone knows.

I think that's all. I took some time to think and write this so i appreciate you to do the same too.

[ 06-27-2001: Message edited by: iceboy ]

Strategy: Age of Empires (MS)
Sport: World Cup 98 (EA)
Action: Metal Gear Solid (loving every minute of it) (Konami / MS)
Adventures: Any of the classic AGI Sierra Quest games
RPG: I'm not pretty much into the theme...
Driving: Driver, Le Mans 24 and Rally Masters (Infogrames)
Puzzle: Not playing either...
Fighting: Fighters MegaMix (sega)

Sport:
1) World Cup 98 (lot of fun memories)
2) NHL 2001 (good graphics fast past action)
3) UEFA Challenge (good graphics better gameplay)

Strategy:
1) Age of Empire/Age of Kings Series - Microsoft (Thousands of MP players. Economy, Military, destroy other civs)
2) Close Combat Series - Microsoft/Atomic (Good WWII based strategy game)

Action:
1) Delta Force Series - Novalogic (A lot of strategy involved. Not a shoot'em up game. Fun online)
2) Doom/Doom II - iD (Classic Shoot 'em up)

Simulation:
1) Microsoft Flight Simulator Series - Microsoft (Fun pretending to be a pilot and see the virtual world)
2) The Sims - Maxis (EA) (Control people. Get the job you always wanted)
3) SimCity Series - Maxis (EA) (Greatt funn)

Puzzle Games:
1) Lemmings (Classic)- ? (The challenge of helping those Lemmings)

I have really stayed in the line of Sports, Simulation, Strategy and War Games.

You don't ask for this but anyway.....I thought it would be fun to write about it...

The Joe Lemon Gaming Story: The first game I ever played was the Lemmings on a PC. There was some other weird alien game show game I remember playing. Then came SimCity, I have video of me playing it on the computer when I was about eight years old. I had SimAnt, SimCity 2000, SimCopter, SimFarm, SimTower (a lot of fun), SimTown, and SimThemePark (however it was called Theme Park by a partner of Maxis called Bullfrog). Me and my dad loved Doom and it's "awesome" graphics. I also got into aviation and the Flight Sim series with Flight Sim 5.0. Then when I got my new computer I went to Close Combat III and that series. A few months later I was hooked on Age of Empires: Rise of Rome and that series. I was always a soccer gaming fan on console and PC. Then on my in 99 I got Delta Force. Now I spend my free time playing UEFA Challenge, Delta Force Land Warrior, and The Sims: House Party.

[ 06-26-2001: Message edited by: Joe ]

Strategy can be only one game, Civilization II. It is simply brilliant, and the best game I have ever played. The graphics were great for its time, but suck now, but really don't matter at all.

Civ II (Microprose)

Originally posted by Nimreitz:
<STRONG>The graphics were great for its time.

</STRONG>

CIV II graphics were never good... They were just icons over map bitmaps... and of low quality, anyway.

My favorite games:

1) Operation Flashpoint I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!! For the past weeks i have been playing it EvERY SINGLE DAY until 2am. It is so realistic and addictive.

2) UEFA Challenge
3) Street Fighter 2/ & all other SF games
4) Quake 2

there are TONS of more games i love but dont have time to list them, maybe another day...

Strategy: command and conquer
Sport: ISS series and kick off
Action: rainbow six series and mario
Adventures: monkey island ( the first one)RPG: the ones with adult stuff!!
Driving: gran turismo
Puzzle: tetris
Fighting: double dragon

shez

I need to add one more catagory:
Online Based Game
1) Zigire - The Online Rock Star game (www.zigire.com)

Hehe. The name Operation Flashpoint was interesting, I am downloading the demo right now.

Wow, I've only played the demo and that game kicks ass! It's really cool it makes you feel like you are right there. When you sprint there is heavy breathing and you hear your heart beat. Retreats, Bailing Out, taking control of Jeeps. Wow.

(Of course Im talking about Operation.....uhhhhh. im too tired to check the name......zzzzzzzzz. goodnight)

[ 06-27-2001: Message edited by: Joe ]

Well, I played many games, but there is one game I can give the title 'best game I ever played': Grim Fandango

Man I loved that game, unbelieveble. The story was great, the graphics were great, the whole game was GREAT.

i like Starship Troopers Terran Ascendancy a lot... if you wanna to know more about the game you can visit my website...

I am now playing Escape from Monkey Island..
Hey shez, you baddie.. can't you write the titles of adult stuff games? :D

Teletooner: is Grim Fandango a rpg game?

For the past weeks i have been playing it EvERY SINGLE DAY until 2am. It is so realistic and addictive.

You said you were busy with work and school! ;)

I tell what game i hated NHL 98,because it seems as though nhl is good every 2nd year but this one was a real stinka especially on pc

rouge spear is a class game (red storm www.redstrom.com) (http://www.redstrom.com))

what is red alert like

Some of the best games i've played:
Warcraft II, Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War:
Good strategy games with a brilliant story lines (especially Starcraft) that keeps you playing the game over and over again

FIFA2000........NOT! :D :p

Worms Armageddon:
Fu**ing hilariuos game! :D

CM 00/01...speaks for itself, doesn't it? ;)

Rouge Spear.....great game, realism, story line.....

can't really think of more games...............

'Grand Prix legends' 3 years old and counting... 50 odd add-on tracks and still being released on an almost daily basis. Dedicated server (VROC). IMO this is NOT a game for children as there is NO (thank god) 'arcade' element to allow junior to thrash all comers after 10 minutes of playing. A steep learning curve but well worth the effort.

These games are good :

Frogger 2 : A funny adventure
Red Alert 2
Tarzan : A good disney game ...
The Curse of Monkey Island : I know that there is a new part but this one rocks also.
Nba 2000 : A good basketball game ...
Nhl 2001 : Makes u feel that u are in it.
Need4speed4 : Better than nfs 5
Need4speed5 : Many Many Porsches
Screamer Rally : The best controling system
Colin Mcrae Rally 2.0 : The best rally game
in this year
Day Of Tentacle: Old but the best !!
ISS (Winning Eleven) : THE BEST SOCCER GAME..
Winning Eleven 2000 : THE BEST IN THE BEST
Uefa Challenge : great

Try this


"X-wing Alliance"
"Oni"
"Shadow Company"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :) :p

Grim Fandango is an adventure, and guess what, I just started playing it again. :)

Action: Undying, Operation Flashpoint, Hitman
Strategy: AoE 2, Anstoß 3( On the Ball)
Racing Games: Driver, F1RC
Adventures: Grim Fandango, Monkey Island Series, Simon the Saucerer 2
Sports: FIFA 98, Anstoss Action, Tony Hawk 2
RPG: Vampire

Here are my fave games in no particular order:

The Sims - (with expansion packs) Maxis: I just find this game addictive!

Rugby 2001 - EA Sports: Big boofy men going at it to win the world cup... What could be any better?

Tribes 2 - Sierra: My fave online game now (previous it was Counter-Strike)

Escape from Monkey Island - Lucasarts: Maybe the adventure genre is dying now... :confused:

Deus Ex - Ion Storm: Nicce FPS/RPG

AFL 99 - EA Sports: A good ol' Aussie sport!!!

Myst III Exile - Ubi Soft: A place to take all your fustration and make it worse... :D

myst III got horrible reviews

Originally posted by leungtl:
<STRONG>Escape from Monkey Island - Lucasarts: Maybe the adventure genre is dying now... :confused: </STRONG>

Yeah. Nowadays, there are so much games that looks good but with poor gameplay. Nobody thinks of a good story to make a good adventure game anymore :(

Here are some "classic" games I had played 'till night..


FIFA 94 -- the REAL classic.. At the time it was frickin awesome...

Destruction Derby -- the first game released somewhere in 94-95. Woo it was awesome..

Premier Manager 99 -- the first soccer manager I ever played, mostly in summer of 99, 2 years ago... The game was not anywhere close to being perfect, and badly promoted, but I really loved it. It was better than FAPFLM 2000, that's for sure

FIFA 98 -- Never ran with Voodoo, but I spent A LOT of nights playing it.. I got the computer on summer of 98, and the whole August-September-October it was the only game I played.. With the easy "edit" option I created all Russian leagues and played (I simulated the lower divisions, though).. The Road to the World Cup I played a 1000 times, and later started taking teams like Faroe Islands, Estonia, Azerbaijan to the WC, instead of the beloved Russia... "Awesome game" is an understatement to the FIFA 98

Championship Manager 99/00 -- All CM games look the same as every game released is a sort of a patch to the earlier released version.. And this game I played DAYS AND NIGHTS in the Spring of 2000, a year ago.. I played lots and lots of seasons, started over, played with hexediting, etc., and this is one of the games I REALLY got addicted to.. Still miss those April nights..

Delta Force 2 The time I intensely played FIFA 99, which was the winter-spring of 99 (until my computer crashed with the stupid April 26th virus), this game was also frequently played... Was pretty realistic and challenging as you couldn't save during a mission (something that is very unlikely amongst action games). The new Delta Force version, the Land Warrior gives you the opportunity to save during missions, but when I play it I choose to save as less as possible..

Sim City 2000 -- This was the revolution in game-making..

Sim City 3000 -- A better game, also was awesome..

RollecCoaster Tycoon -- Get this game.. Hella addictive.. I bought it in the Summer of 99, and aftr playing it a little bit, I stopped.. But just recently I resumed, and now I understand that this will be a classic for a long time.. Just a good game..

Dune 2000 -- I actually liked this game.. It did not give out anything new as it looked a lot like Red Alert.. But still, I got addicted to it pretty quickly.. The bad thing is that the Dune 2000 CD was the one that had the CIH Virus which destroyed my computer.. ARRGGHH..

NHL 2001 -- I play it a lot, though I am a little dissapointed in it.. I hated NHL 99, it was aweful in my opinion, and this game looks a lot like it.. NHL 98 was not as bad, but had some unrealistic moves by players.. But if you avoided them, it was actually fine. NHL 2000 was actually pretty good, liked it..


SCTW: I know a little about OPeration Flashpoint, but not much.. Know only that it's a realistic action game, in mold of Delta Force, Hidden&Dangerous, Rainbow 6, etc.. But how is it? Is it as complicated as H&D? Is it as simple as Delta Force (don't confuse simple with easy, though. Simple is easy to understand, easy is not challenging)? Thanks..

I bought the new episode of the Monkey Series
Escape from Monkey Island :) and all I can
say this game is great .. great like the previous game.. :) If anybody wants to get
his hands on a good adventure game then get this.. But remember do not use WALKTHROUGHS
they make the game boooooorrrrinng !!!!! :)

I dont play computergames that much :(,
but i really like this games:

-Championship manager 00/01

-Fifa-series (i think 1 the few who actually like these games! :))

-Need for speed series

-Starcraft, warcraft II

-Dungeon keeper (i really loved the first one, i played the second part at a friend but didn't really liked it)

-Diablo (also only the first part)

-Sanitarium (very nice adventure game)

-Phantasmagoria (" ")

Russian Rocket:

Delta Force series was good if you played it online. It is a lot of fun (I've played all of em online). I believe Operation Flashpoint is 100 percent better than DF in Single Player. You move with a whole squad and go to objectives, communicate, and fire, move, communicate, fire. It's a lot of fun.

Here's some of my favorite games (classic and new ones):

Deus Ex - I Really love that game!!
Crimson Skies - Best flight-simulator
Worms - :)))
Sam & Max - Best adventure game
OMF - Haven't really tried other but a nice fighting game
Star Wars Podracer I love the fast races

The best game ever: UNREAL TOURNAMENT!!!!!!(e specialy online)
Pretty good to:
AGE2 KINGS and CONQUERORS(deam good strategy)
KINGS QUEST MASK OF ETERNITY(Litlle old)
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE(Kill Kill Kill)
COLLIN MCRAE 2.0(Recommended with Trustmasters force feedback racing wheel)
METAL GEAR SOLID(Can`t stop playing)

Those are mine suggestions.
(don`t forget UNREAL TOURNAMENT. You must have one)