[General Discussion] Games we remember being the best

The Ultimate DOOM Beating the fourth episode was painfully hard on Ultra Violence, but it was the most rewarding thing I have ever done on an fps (Episode 4 easily has the best level design of the DOOM games).
StarCraft I waited until 2004 to finally beat the three original campaigns, but it was very fun and surprisingly easy. Also I learned the Zerg is my favorite race.

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Originally Posted by BlueMikey

It is kind of sad that the quest/adventure game as kind of fallen by the wayside. They didn't just used to be good, it was basically the best genre of games. If we could have new versions of games like Monkey Island that were as good as the originals, I'd become a PC gamer again, I think. Everyone is working on MMOs, which is pretty frustrating for people like me who like games with a good story and good writing.

I haven't played many Adventure games, but I must say Soul Reaver (at least the first time around) was a great adventure game (though it was action heavy). So far I haven't really gotten into the Ultimas or the Fallout series.

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Originally Posted by Newbie1234

My all time favorite PC games are easily Heroes of Might and Magic 3, and StarCraft.

Playing back and forth between HoMM II and HoMM III, I have ome to the conclusion that HoMM II is better. While it lacks the number of features and beasts you can recruit, it has a better animation style (not necesarily higher quality though), better music and a better atmosphere. It was before 3DO started to meddle with the magic of best the turn based strategy RPG that I've ever played.

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The main reason that's so is beacause New World Computing was still not controlled by the now dead 3DO. Just adding features doesn't make a better sequel, how those features are applied is what does the job (Diablo II being an example of good improvements). HoMM III lacks a some of the heart NWC put into the 2nd game.

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Originally Posted by Newbie1234

Heroes 3 definitely takes a more serious tone, and it's clear from playing the beta that Nival is trying to bring back the tone of HoMM 2 into the latest game.

That's great news considering I heard every Might and Magic and HoMM game after HoMM 3 sucked.

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Originally Posted by Sweeper

Warcraft II was pretty awesome since it was the first stratedgy game i ever played... Then Red Alert C&C took the place of the best stratedgy game for its time.

WarCraft II: the reason I began to love PC games. That's when I became a console/PC gamer hybrid, the best of both worlds. WarCraft II for me was only eclipsed by StarCraft.

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Originally Posted by Echolyn

If console gamer are allowed too, i'd have to add FF7. Yes I know kinda cliched since so many people have that game as favorite but still I really like it, even after all these years and times i've completed the game.

Actually FFVII was made as PC game, but I've never tried that version before.

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Originally Posted by Echolyn

That's the version I'm still playing as my stupid ps2 doesn't like psx games (and most ps2 games) It's pretty good with the sound mod so you have the original sounds/music and it does have somewhat better graphics than the psx version still looks like shit compared to todays games.

As long as you disable fast disc loading on your PS2, you should have no problems playing FFVII (I never have, except enabling fast disc loading will freeze the game).

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Has anyone here tried Dugeo Keeper? It's a good combination between an RTS/RPG and an fps (for some levels). It's really unique and has a great sadistic style (you can tourture or slap your minions to death).

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I miss the days when RTS games were king (caused by the sucess of WarCraft II and Command & Conquer). Sure many of the releases were mediocre at best, but the stampede ensured that some RTS games were original and great.

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Originally Posted by neothe0ne

Wait, what's this PS2 "fast disc load" I'm hearing about? Can someone give me a full explanation of what happens with it on and off, and if any benefits towards the life of the console can be achieved from it?


Also, StarCraft (Brood War) is, as we've already determined, a great game. Since Blizzard has already lost too many original employees to be brave enough to make a sequel, I think they should port StarCraft: Brood War to the Revolution and integrate it into the Battle.net network (assuming Nintendo's voice-to-text software is going to be amazing, as a keyboard + RevMote combo might be a little awkward)

The fast disc load makes the PS1 CDs spin at 24x as opposed to the 2x? speeds the PS1 uses. While this can dramatically decrease load times, it also can lock games that require specific timings based on how long the original took to load a game.

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I'll give a shoutout to Liero here. It's a freeware game (so google it to get it) and is like a real time version of Worms. It's incredibly fun for a DOS game and has great action. If you run Windows 2000/XP, get LieroXtreme, same idea, with newer and better features.

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