what is your favorite game of all time?

[Josiahfk]

Definitely Ninja Gaiden Black for me, with Final Fantasy 11 close behind. Black had

-ninja dog
-Normal
-Hard
-Very hard
-Master ninja
difficulties and out of the 100,000 people that registered with the leaderboards before server went down, only 150 of us beat the game on master ninja. just retarded difficult lol

And each difficulty added shitload new enemies, bunch of new bosses etc, amazing game.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Metroid Prime

The music, the atmosphere, the loneliness, the everything, it all pleases me so much. I must have analyzed several million layers of subtext and how everything it does just strengthens the experience. The visuals have been stylized in such a way that it will always look good; every inch I see and every byte of sound I hear is just absolute bliss, I just, oh, I love it so much.

Although I have to say, Bioshock Infinite has come dangerously close to knocking Samus off her throne a couple of times. I'd say the only reason it hasn't is because I found Metroid Prime first.

 

[Sir Christopher McFarlane]

Final Fantasy VII for the Playstation.
I have never been good at electing a favourite anything. This is the one I have enjoyed the most for the longest time. When I was a teenager and the first games that I actually enjoyed playing in years were Steep Slope Sliders and Chrono Trigger, FFVII made me a gamer again. I just had to play something like it. So I played other Final Fantasy games then other RPGs.

 

[jebara]

Persona 4 without a doubt,as previously said, the characters play a hell of a role in making that game and the calendar/social link aspects were unique to the series and made it stand out, however the thing that wraps it all together is that damn brilliant atmosphere.
The music, the bright colorful lighting and the change and contrast from bright and chirpy tone to mysterious and horror does so much to suck you in.

 

[VajraDante]

Asura's Wrath is my favorite game of all time. Sure the game is immensely short even with the part 4 dlc and the 2 lost episodes and most of the time it's in cutscene/ QTE mode, but the unique thing about the game is the fact it's more story based than gameplay unlike most hack & slash and beat em ups. Also the fights were epic! What other game has a first boss the size of the Earth and you kill him by punching his finger! And he's the weakest of the demigod bosses. Heck, you fight Ryu and Akuma from Street Fighter, one of the first fighting games. The only thing that could make this better is dlc against Goku, Dante (Devil May Cry), Amaterasu (Okami), Viewtiful Joe (Viewtiful Joe), and Megaman (Old school Megaman or Megaman X) and i'll die happy.

Honorable mentions

Okami

Resident Evil 4

Ultimate MvC 3 (Dante, Vergil, Frank West, Amaterasu, Nemesis, Strider Hiryu, Deapool, Dormannu and Ghost Rider)

Walking Dead (not Survival Instinct)

( as you can see from my name and the list, I love Capcom games)

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I'm struggling between Rick Dangerous, Operation Wolf, 3d tennis and Rockman...fuck it, i'll say Rockman since it was the first of a long line of puzzle games of that style and i would still play it through today.

Seriously though, nothing since the late 80's/early 90's has kept me interested like those games. Modern games are just too fucking easy to be my favourite

 

[scorptatious]

Shadow of the Colossus. A game with nothing but traveling across a beautiful landscape and having epic fights with giant colossi in order to bring back the soul of your beloved. It's a fantastic game and I always find myself playing through it again and again.

Honorable mentions go to (in no particular order):

ICO

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Valkyria Chronicles

Final Fantasy IX

Bioshock 1

and others I can't really think of right now.

 

[Stinovitch]

I really enjoyed playing Star wars knights of the old republic, must have completed that game over a dozen times. However I still enjoyed the mass effect trilogy a bit more. Even though the ending wasn't what I expected it to be, I had an amazing journey playing those 3 games.

 

[Terramax]

Sonic Adventure 2

First of all, the Gamecube was my favorite console (so I guess SA2B is my favorite game, but whatever) and made up a good part of my childhood. The stages were fun and exciting, there were lots of levels, a great story with an even better soundtrack, and chao.

Never liked that game. However, I own the Dreamcast version, so not sure if the Sega Technical Institute ever made improvements to things like the camera for the gamecube version.

If that's the case though, may I ask if you ever played Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg? If so, what did you think of it? I'm currently playing that right now. Fun game, but it's camera, again, is a real pest at times.

My fav game ever? I dunno, I'll have to narrow it down to these:

Panzer Dragoon Orta
Mushihimesma
Mushihimesama Futari
Sonic CD (Japanese or European version, NOT the US version, with it's terrible soundtrack)

 

[Vern5]

Morrowind.

I'm lucky in that I'm not too picky about how a game is depicted graphically and I'm used to non-intuitive combat mechanics. There's a wealth of lore and a sheer depth to this game that makes it feel more like an enormous saga of myth given new life as a game rather than just a game with lore. It was a world populated with people who looked like they belonged, who all had a purpose, even if it was to try and sell me crappy literature on the street or call me an "outlander" at every turn.

The factions were all interconnected. The Fighters, Mages, and Thieves Guilds were all newcomer businesses in a frontier expansion. One lost its independence due to greed and the other two found incredible competition in the native Great Houses. The Hlaalu are connected to the Cammona Tong criminal syndicate. The Cammona Tong are connected to the Fighters Guild. The Thieves Guild try to evade or disrupt the Cammona Tong. The Mages Guild tries to conduct its own independent research. The Telvanni spend their time trying to tip the balance of power on the island in their favor. And above it all, Dagoth Ur plots in Red Mountain, sending out the Blight storms to destroy the island and, eventually, the world.

Most importantly, Morrowind had a plot that blew me away once I discovered the meaning behind every event I had discovered. A great lie. a devious betrayal. The creation of demigods. A massive conspiracy. A descent into chaos. And then a prophecy fulfilled either by fate or necessity.

no, Morrowind doesn't look like much. no, it doesn't have the best combat. and no, I don't play it all the time. But when I do, I always enjoy it.

 

[Aeonxan]

Mass Effect, because it is the best game trilogy of all time.

 

[Austin Howe]

My favorite game? Final Fantasy VIII. If I had to pick the best game I've ever played, the first thing that comes to mind of Metal Gear Solid 4.

 

[MrOddThomas]

Nintendo
ExciteBike

 

[thanatos388]

The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask, Metal Gear Solid 3, Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, Journey.
Yeah 5 way tie.

 

[P.Tsunami]

Planescape: Torment.

It's the best game anyone will ever read.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday

 

[gamernerdtg2]

Ok, I'm old so here goes:

In the 80's there were too many games - Street Fighter 1, Double Dragon were my favorite arcade games.
Console games in the 80's, there were too many to pick one.

In the 90's, Street Fighter 2, hands down, arcade and console.

In 2005 my favorite game was Urban Reign for the PS2. I will keep saying this, but Urban Reign is one of the most under rated games in the history of gaming.

2009 - Tales of Vesperia. Love the characters, the story, and the gameplay.

2011 - Arkham City. I had to stop playing it b/c it's that good. Rarely do we see games get a 10 rating.

2012 - Dragon's Dogma. Currently scratching my old-school gamer itch. Gritty combat. Haters can suck on my fire arrow.

There's no way that I could pick the greatest game of all time. It's impossible for me b/c I've played way too many games.