How old is your all-time favorite game?

[kakaomasse]

i dont know whether its already been said but for me its the original tomb raider series...that got me into pc gaming, really, so...its about 16 years now, if im correct?
and the first unreal tournament is my guilty pleasure nowadays.

 

[DistinctlyBenign]

2007, TF2 is still a baby.

But a baby that took 10 years in the womb to grow to perfection.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Morrowind for now. Perhaps New Vegas will replace it, but I haven't even completely beaten one play through yet because of all the dicking about I've been doing, so I can't judge it perfectly yet.

In any event, its made by Bethesda.

 

[Lambi]

'Tis would be Final Fantasy IX, which came out in 2001 here in Europe. So, a good 10 years.

 

[Ramin 123]

I just spent the last 25 hours (straight!) playing a campaign in Rome: Total War. Anyone who knows me even slightly knows my love for that game (and for what it's worth, I played as the Julii, my favorite faction. So easy to get those first 49 provinces when taking them from barbarians, then simply march on Rome).

Way back in 2004 I got the game when it came out, and at release I said "if they can get most of the bugs out of this game, it's quite possibly the best game I've ever played." And sure enough, when the 1.2 patch hit in late fall '04, I elevated RTW to my "best game ever" position where it has stayed constantly for the past six years.

For Discussion:

So...what's your favorite game of all-time, what year did it come out (or did you first play it), and has it constantly held that "best ever" position or have other games come and gone from your #1 all-time spot?

(fun fact: Since 1996, only three games---Final Fantasy VI, Alpha Centauri, and Rome---have held the #1 spot on my list.)

I really should download all these patches...I have never downloaded a patch for a PC game in my life...except for maybe COD2. You played any of the expansion packs? Alexander is supposed to be good. You play Medieval 2? (I am pretty in Total War series in case you don't get it already lol)

Ohhh and mine had to be...jeez either Metroid Prime or Ocarina of Time.

 

[Tdc2182]

Not very. 5 years.

Oblivion is still on the current console generation.

Although, it is old enough that my generic, non-gaming labtop can run it!

Well, I can't put "distant land on". But I can make the draw distance solid enough for play. It's just the vast distance that it can't handle. I can't see mountains, landscape and shape, etc.

One of the reasons I still play the console version.

Well...

I was just ninja'd apparently.

I'm gonna go sulk.

 

[BrionJames]

17 years, FF VI one of the best games ever made.

 

[gurall200]

I'll go by the US release date and say close to 12 years with Final Fantasy Tactics, to date it has remained the only game I am physically required to play every couple of months, and still remain interesting to play.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

Six years old (will be seven this year)

Look at my avatar; I think you can guess what it is.

 

[eelel]

My favorite game is Nights into Dream which will be 15 years old this year. Hard as hell but still really fun.

 

[iBananaCrazy]

Rome: Total War (2004), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007), or the Assassin's Creed games (2007-2010). I just find those 5 games just so damn awesome!

 

[chrono16]

Chrono Trigger. 1995. It got GOTY in Nintendo Power that year. Or it could also possibly be Mega Man X for the SNES as well.

 

[Siyano_v1legacy]

I sometimes do a marathon of Megaman X1 to X8, so X1 being made in 1994, I guess my old timer is quite old
In close second I still play Heroes of Might and Magic 3, gold edition with a mod, Heroes 3 was out in 1999

 

[Neotericity]

Half Life 2 (2004?) 7 years W00T

 

[F-I-D-O]

September of 2005. I love me some S.L.A.I.
I loved the mech combat, and the customization was amazing.
I go into multi-screenshot and heavy detail into some of my older posts. But I'm too tired right now.

A second one would be MechCommander 2 or MechWarrior 4, but I don't remember when they came out.
I do play more than giant robot games, but these are some of the best old games I remember.

OH! or republic commando. Think it was 2005...

 

[Fxh_legato]

Final Fantasy IV came out in 1991. lets do the math on that 2011-1991=pi^4 divide that by 42 carry the one..... that makes FFIV 20 years old. "You Spoony Bard!" hahaha still cracks me up after all those years.

 

[Les Awesome]

I have so many but i'll just go with ratchet and clank 3
it came out in late 2004 so it recently hit the 6 year mark

 

[InnerRebellion]

Fallout 1. It's... 13 years old now? How delightfully ambiguous.

 

[5mj7R7yf4Dwr3gdZyyu9PeGNwYjlNrjzuh3iTXQG]

Star Wars: Tie Fighter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_TIE_Fighter] (1994). The shout outs to Wing Commander: Privateer (1993) makes me feel a tad less fogeyish. If Pirates! was deserving of a remake, Tie Fighter definately is. It was also the first time one could join the Emperor's secret Sith Cadre and gentlemen's social club.

Both of them featured (excellent) scores that utilized General Midi, which sounded awesome on a Sound Canvas. I'd love to hear the Empire-as-protagonist themes actually performed by an orchestra. Sadly, much of the iMuse score was lost in the CD-Rom version which featured redbooks of the Williams movie scores (and hence none of the new themes).

Second place: Hyperspeed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspeed_(video_game)] (1991) by Microprose. Lightspeed (1990) would count since the former was the latter plus two more scenarios (four total). This was one of the best explore-strange-new-worlds type games out there. Not one Star Trek game comes close. 20 years plus!

 

[Lynxan]

God that's a tough one. When I think of most games I really can't seem myself playing them after a certain amount of plays or at least when something comes along better that does the former better. There is a couple of exceptions...

Warlords (1980) My all time favorite in competitive gaming to this day... and just as much fun playing a 3 on 1 against the computer... my dream is to get the 4 player cocktail table version of the arcade game.
Yar's Revenge (1981) This one I don't even get... but I got in Game Room on the 360 and well, I found I can still play it for hours on end.

So I guess I have to go with 31 and 30 years for how old my all time favorites are now, I can't see any of the games now a days that I play even sparking an interest in me 30 years from now, I can barely get up the desire to play though most games more then once now.