Your Top 5 Video Games

[Josh B]

hey josh man, fuck nina...its all about christie. im not actually all that good, but i lay down some kickass combos with christie

OMG man, Christie is ALL Cheese. Yeah, she's hot and all but anyone can win with Christie. Try a more challenging character.

IM CALLIN OUT ANYONE WHO PLAYS TEKKEN (tag, 4, and 5)!!! and 5 my NINA will kill you, hands down. shes broke. dont even try

You're on. Lei's a beast with like 120+ moves and 8 different stances. Nuff said.

yea 1+2+3+4 is charge up, makes any hit a CH, and on some machines it does guard damage...its pretty useless for the most part.

DUDE at high level play christie is one of the harder characters to get good with. in T5 the cheese (broke) characters are nina, steve, and heihachi. T4 king of tekken brokeness was JIN with the JFLS hahaha what a joke that was. guaranteed half life bar + off of...what was it...15 (i think) frame mid NON CH! tekken tag was actually pretty balanced, but the mishimas/ogres still own.

id like to play josh wayborn because he sounds like he knows whats up. though owning arcade scores (unless its a respectable arcade) really means theres just a lot of scrubs lining up to get their asses handed to them.

Peter, Chris, and Chan..youre on my hit..err...challenge list!

oh yea, i forgot. this isnt a tekken thread...

[Chim-Chim]

Nina and Lei are the shit in Tekken Tag...

I sent many a korean[s] home cryin about how lame it was they couldn't beat me for hours ... One guy was so mad his friend had to keep him from getting in a real fight w/ me over it Said I was "looking at his keys" at the start of the game L O L O L

Edit: This was at a NICKEL arcade

[shredzilla]

Okay well my rule is if someone plays me with Christie, I get to use her as well. It's pretty hard to block her shit. Whatever, I had to suffer with neutered Lei in Tekken Tag. But in 5 he's back in full glory, with a bunch of new moves even! And cool outfits! And he's even got this like chinese wizard's hat. It's sick.

[crazydwarf]

I gotta say that i'm a suckah 4 old skool games...so addictive!!

1. Civilization 2( i told ya)
2. Perfect Dark (N64)
3. Medal of Honour-Allied Assault
4. Gta San Andreas
5. Battlefeild 1942

Um... maybe I'm wrong, but arn't those all pretty new games, they're all N64 and higher right... which older ones do you like? It's always helpful to know since i wasn't playing games when SNES and NES stuff or older was coming out so I kind of missed most of them.

[Josh B]

Nina and Lei are the shit in Tekken Tag...

I sent many a korean[s] home cryin about how lame it was they couldn't beat me for hours ... One guy was so mad his friend had to keep him from getting in a real fight w/ me over it Said I was "looking at his keys" at the start of the game L O L O L

Edit: This was at a NICKEL arcade

any respectable koreans? i took a match off MDJ at electric cancel haha (T4) and my man cyanide AAALmost beat mr. lime, or limes, whatever that other sick dudes name is.

[vanderwax]

top 5 games:
dusty diamonds all star softball (nes)
international superstar soccer 2000 (n64)
super mario 3 (nes)
soul calibur (gamecube version was best)
goldeneye (n64)

I like to stick with nintendo cause it kicks ass

close 6th: original mario kart for snes... That game was a TRIP! soooo hard to play now

[qphox]

1.Dungeon Keeper
2.Total Annihilation

Definitely two games of note. The Core Contingency (for no. 2 up there) is one of the best Expansion Packs ever made.



Now if I were to name...hmmm...I've never been much of a console gamer, I only ever had an NES. So I'll stick with best PC games of all time. I'll go "of all time" too...seems like everyone is looking back like 3 years. San Andreas is good...but come on, best?

1. Deus Ex
- Best of the best as far as storylines go. This game pulled you in and played like a movie the whole way through.
2. The Descent Series
- How about if we could move vertically too! Hello true 3d! This game paved the way for pretty much any present day first person shooter.
3. The Commander Keen Trilogy
- What needs to be said? If you are too young to have played this...I am very very sorry.
4. Total Annihilation
- Absolutely amazing soundtrack, groundbreaking multiplayer gameplay, outstanding single player campaigns...and a ridiculous degree of replayability. Don't even say Starcraft. This game MADE Starcraft.
5. Alone in the Dark
- The first 3d adventure game ever made. The game's 4 installation floppy disks are framed on the wall above my desk. Think Resident Evil, but with 95% less polygons.

...and the next 5...because there's so many in my head.

6. Doom
- Clearly.
7. King's Quest 1. Not 8.
- The first graphical adventure game. Wowee!
8. X-Com
- Sooooo many features, and not one too many. Crazy amount of replayability. Seriously, way ahead of its time.
9. Half-Life 1 and 2
- As far as an immersive storyline goe, this one ranks second only to Deus Ex.
10. Diablo
- Aside from its fantastic (and addictive!) gameplay, it revealed a market for brining the online gaming community together. At the time, battle.net was a very unique, and very incredible thing.


Other titles swimming around in my head that I wish I could add to the list...

System Shock 2
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
The Thief series
The Wing Commander Series
Everquest (Actually, I guess "The Realm" came before EQ. )
The Civilization Series
SimCity
Unreal
Quake
The Myst Series
Age of Empires/Age of Kings
The Neverhood
The Lemmings series
The Rayman Series
King's Quest 2 through 6, emphasis on 5 and 6
Hero's Quest, Hero's Quest 2, Quest for Glory 3, Shadows of Darkness and Dragon Fire. That's a series, by the way.
Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2
N
Worms
The Command and Conquer series

Ugh, so many.

[slapdash21]

mmm, good pick on mariokart. great game. also doom. anyone play killer instinct? it was like...the first violent fighting game i ever played. SO good. anyone ever play the recently released shrek party game? HORRIBLE. too long, and just pointless and irritating.
burnout 3 was a great game...played it for awhile, but it got boring. great graphics and lot of fun.

[Yellow Watchbagger]

i LOVE videogames playing them once in a while is just somthing i have to do..top 5 would be...:

1)Halo 2

2)Tonyhawks Underground

3)Comand And Conquer Yuris Revenge

4)World Of WorldCraft

5) forgot the name..sum game (i think made my blockbuster accualy) i picked up for X-Box one rainy day..it was awesome street soccer game..like freestlye street soccer somthing..had a nice campaign and the tricks u cud do were insane..lots and lots of footbag tricks like legovers and clippers etc..really intense and good gameplay..man im gunna go rent that again soon!...

[slapdash21]

oh jeez! how could i neglect tony hawk's underground?!? SO good.

[Muffinman]

I played, like, all of those games you listed, Kevin -- good memories!
THE NEVERHOOD WAS AWESOME!!!!! The only problem is I've had to wait forever to be able to forget the story so I can play again some time!! We played Descent ALL the time!! We had it on the school network in highschool and played all the time during class and stuff when we weren't supposed to. My brother had that Descent Freespace, or whatever, but it was so totally not the same.

Another game I LOOOVED was this really ghetto flight simulator called "STAR FIGHTER"....you flew around with, like, just the four arrow keys, plus excellerate and reverse and shoot. You could level ALL FORMS OF TERRAIN! You could shoot through mountains, or completely evaporate them. And when you blew up enemy ships and buildings they would explode in these crazy coloured shapes which would give you sweet upgrades in certain combinations. Did anybody play this game? I loved it soooo much, and I've never found a more fun fflight simulator!! I was sooo good, and I could fly and dodge anything at any speed, like, flying full speed under the giant pipes on the ground, or whatever.

Thief was also my favourite game for the longest time!! I tried to replay it a year ago or so and realize how bad it actually was compared to games now... It was such a rad concept, though!!! I love sniping with a bow from the shadows.

Wing Commander too, with Will Hammel!!

Hey, what was that game...all I remember is the first part of the game because we played the demo soooo much. It starts out with this pretty long cutscene, a guy drives up to his lab and it's all dark and there is lightning. Somehow he is teleported into another world...OH! "OUT OF THIS WORLD" I think... He's teleported to another world and you run around (side-scrolling action) avoiding these slimey worm things that fall from the ceiling. Then there is, like, a giant black monster that chases you, and you have to run from screens and screens until you get to this vine, where you swing across a cliff to the other side...did anyone play this one? There are so many great old games!

[sampotter]

Deus Ex is one of the most underrated games! Right on, Kevin. Good list.

[shredzilla]

Okay, I guess since people keep remeniscin' about old games I gotta throw some out there...

Classics:

SMB- Did anyone beat the arcade version? World 6-3 was Ubertough!!
SMB3
Zelda
Kid Icarus
Metroid
Tecmo Bowl
Mike Tyson's Punchout!
Contra
Section Z
Dragon Warrior
Mario Kart
Excitebike -1st Course Editor ever...What?
Castlevania
Ninja Gaiden
Rygar
Mario Bros- Arcade was the best version, but hard to find

A couple of good PC games:

Wing Commander II
Karateca
Prince of Persia
Marathon- Awesome game

[Yellow Watchbagger]

kid icarus...great game!!..i have it on my old school gameboy pocket!..good times

[Troyson]

1)halo 2..greatest fucking game...its just soo fun to play
2)shenmue 1 & 2...really rare game idk if anyone ever heard of it..its a sick fucking game tho.
3)Mortal Kombat 3 and all of the other mortal kombat games...the first three are classics, and the rest of them are just insane. by far the best fighting games ever made.
4)doom
5)pocket tanks

[Blackend]

Ninja Gaiden, what!! I love that game. I think Tenchu: Return to Darkness is more fun, though.

[carl winslow]

1. Im gonna take the easy way out and just say the entire Legend of Zelda series. If i had to pick a favorite in the series it would be links awakeining (Gameboy) or wind waker (gamecube)

2. Earthbound -hillarious snes rpg

3. SMB3 classic nes best mario game so far

4. Paper Mario 2 the thousand year door- pretty funny game also.

5. NBA JAM snes SO GOOD!

[habitat]

wizardry was cool jon, now that is real OLD SKOOL! My dad loved it so I got into it.

I love Halo 2, I think its the greatest game ever because it continues to be explored EVERYDAY!!! Something new is found. By far the best game ever.

I played the Deus Ex demo and I've been looking for it for a couple years now. I just remembered taht I did find it for $5 at big lots.

I liked Age of Empires/Kings back in the day. It was a pretty sweet game and soo hard online. I was a n00b for sure.

FIFA 2003 is by far/*so far the best soccer game I've played. I have mastered the shit out of it.



BTW, playstation is not the best console in anyway possible. I can't think of anything other than the easier control setup how playstation is the best.

[Muffinman]

Yeah Troy, Shenmue was freaking awesome -- another really amazing free-roamer!! I only played #2, though...I don't know why we didn't have the first one. Wasn't it supposed to be, like, in 11-game installments????? Shenmue was awesome, and also had some really epic music... One of the songs sounds EXACTLY identical to the theme of Princess Mononoke!!!

Oh yeah, I think it's because we have it for XBox, and could never find the Dreamcast copies.


My brother played Deus Ex, but I think that was before I really played any computer games?... maybe I was playing Thief then...

[habitat]

Oh yeah, I think it's because we have it for XBox, and could never find the Dreamcast copies.
...

I could find it, did you know dreamcast is actualy the best concole, no modchip necessary!!!