What's your favourite game of all time??

[Lucem712]

So, Escapist, what is your favourite game(s)? Why?

To kick it off, mine would be a threesome between
[li]Red Dead Redemption [/li]
[li] Fallout 3 [/li]
[li] Metal Gear Solid 3 [/li]

HHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG

Fallout 3! *shakes fist*

OT: For me it's Fallout New Vegas, followed closely by Mass Effect 1, portal and Half Life 2.

Haha! I'm sorry, it has a special place in my heart! It was my first RPG that absolutely consumed my life

 

[DJ_DEnM]

For Xbox: Nier. Of all time: The World Ends With You

 

[Joshimodo]

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

So, Escapist, what is your favourite game(s)? Why?

Xenogears. With Xenosaga 1-3 for a prologue.

Because... just, really awesome story.

Xenogears also has a really fun combat system - one of the best in an old-school JRPG.

Xenosaga had an excellent story as well, but the combat wasn't as fun as the original Xenogears, so typically I prefer to simply watch Xenosaga 1-3 (with the cut-scene preorder DVD, You-Tube, and the "watch" feature in Xenosaga 3) and then play Xenogears.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

The original KOTOR, It's the only game I can replay and still enjoy as much as the first time I played it.

 

[SckizoBoy]

So, Escapist, what is your favourite game(s)? Why?

Too broad a question so I'll break it down as follows:

Fav strat - Rome: Total War, even vanilla this is an enjoyable game (if a little inaccurate, but I don't care when I've lined up one and a half thousand armoured hoplites and go Roman-bashing), but with mods, it's still among the best strategy games going.
Fav shooter - Deus Ex, graphix show its age, but the story won't get old for a long time yet and it caters to any mood of shooting gameply you want.
Fav RPG - KotOR, the first proper RPG I played and it retains a special place in my... heart... wherever it is...
Fav action-adventure - ACII, still the best of the series and probably will be when ACIII comes out, because none of the others captured the breadth of gameplay, story, setting and environment without being either ignorable or overwhelming.
For sheets and geegles - Portal, it's just fun, 'tis all...

Special mentions to - Napoleon: Total War, Fallout 3, Sniper Elite, Republic Commando & Mass Effect (I'd include ME2/3, but in my infinite laziness, I haven't played 'em yet...)

 

[lacktheknack]

MIRROR'S EDGE!

Although I suppose Myst: Online is a close second.

 

[Ljs1121]

I'm surprised more people haven't said Portal. From what I understand, Internet users generally hail it as a perfect gift miraculously bestowed upon all humanity by God Himself.

Anyways, I'd have to say either Assassin's Creed II or Viewtiful Joe. I had an incredibly fun time playing through both games.

 

[Lucem712]

I'm surprised more people haven't said Portal. From what I understand, Internet users generally hail it as a perfect gift miraculously bestowed upon all humanity by God Himself.

Anyways, I'd have to say either Assassin's Creed II or Viewtiful Joe. I had an incredibly fun time playing through both games.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a mention of Minecraft; just goes to show, people can surprise you!

 

[ABLb0y]

Grand Theft Auto 4. Most triumphant example of a game that's artistic, but also a game. And a damned good one at that.

(CAPTCHA: Patience, child. Ironic, isn't it? I don't have a lot of patience for most art games, like Every day the same dream or Dear Esther.)

 

[Hyper-space]

Oblivion, Mass Effect 2, Modern Warfare 2, SSX3.

TES IV has a special place in my heart.

 

[5-0]

Probably Deus Ex. To this day I still haven't had a story experience like it. The way the narrative twists and turns is amazing, I especially love how in the first few levels you feel like you're just doing your job, visiting HQ, getting debriefed and paid... and then suddenly everything turns on its head. And the feeling for the first time when you

Spoiler

break out of the MJ12 prison and discover it's part of UNATCO

is incredible.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Sid Meiers Alpha Centuri, I will destroy you with mindworms!

 

[SajuukKhar]

Probably the entire Elder scrolls series because of the lore writer Michael Kirkbride.

 

[Lunar Templar]

There is not, and never will be, a game that outdoes my love of The Legend of Dragoon.

It's just not possible.

this is why people reply with lists right here,

Dragoon was fucking awesome
but then
so was Parasite Eve and a couple dozen others i could max out a post with ....

 

[EHKOS]

When they release a Pokemon game that takes one hundred hours to beat the main game alone and then all over all the other regions afterwards, up the level cap to 200, include all the pokemon ever and get rid of trade evolutions that will be my favorite game. Until then, I'd have to say Uncharted 3. I just love the atmosphere of it all.

 

[Artful-dodgeR]

If I had to pick my top 5 of all time...

Grand Theft Auto: London
Grim Fandango
World of Warcraft
Counter-Strike (original)
Quake 3: Arena

 

[Postmortal]

Always a tough question... If it's to state a favorite GAME not GAMES, it would be Penumbra: Black Plague.

 

[hashtag]

Fallout: New Vegas. A mass improvement on Fallout 3, Obsidian, in my opinion, upstaged Bethesda at Fallout.

I really enjoyed Skyrim too. And lastly I would say Battlefield: 3 was my favourite multiplayer.

 

[strangemoose]

fallout (series)
Skyrim
TF2
warcraft 3
starcraft 1 and 2
WoW (havent played in 2 years but still best waste of 3 years of my life)
portal (series)
mirriors edge
saints row (series)
theres more but thats all that comes to mind