No one can replace the old school MMO's like Dark Age of Camelot, Ultima Online, but I will take it much further and list some MUDs (Multi User Dungeons) even though they are not "PC games". How about, Dragon Realms (Still running), or Dragons Gate? And for you AOL lovers, how about the old school .99 cent an hour to play game Splatterball & Splatterball Plus!
LucasArts: Full Throttle,SW X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter, SW Dark Forces & The Dig
Blizzard: Diablo 2, WarCraft 2
Sierra Entertainment: Space Quest & Kings Quest Series and Phantasmagoria.
LOL, had to list more than one. =P
Wildstar (2013) & Elder Scroll Online (2013)
Playing: Diablo 3, WOW, Far Cry 3 & X-Com.
Enjoyed: WOW 5 1/2 yrs, LOTRO 3yrs, GW 1/2yr, DFO 1yr, EVE Online 3yrs, and Huxley (Beta).
Failed to impress: GW2 3months, Tera Online 6 months (best combat system in any MMO I've played) STO 1/4yr, Aion 1/2yr, AoC 1yr, CO, Fallen Earth, DDO, EQ2 1/2yr, WAR 1/2yr, Lineage 2 and FF XI 1/2yr, FF XIV.
My favorite game of all time: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.
A few of the most memorable games for me, pretty much in order:
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, The Longest Journey, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Half Life, Syberia I & II, Heart of Darkness, Black & White I & II, Populous, Homeworld.
Most recently i'd say Skyrim, Mass Effect I & II, Assassin's Creed (not all of them), Fallout III.
At the moment its probally Batlefield 3 really loving that game.
Fav of all time is such a hard question.. Ok a series of games it will ahve to be and thats the Star Wars Xwing/Tie Fighter series was just awesome and I spent many many hours playing those games..
I CANT BELIEVE NOBODY PICKED SOME OF MY FAVORITES!!!
FPS : HEAVY GEAR 2 ... simply awesome. best community ever and always had my heart pounding. NOTHING compared to it in its day. on several occasions i turned down sex to compete in Clan battles. 15th Iron Lions !!! to this very day i wake to the faint, lingering hope that some perceptive and brilliant studio will revive this series. unfortunately HG2 will not play in Vista or Win7
RTS : Rise of Nations (tie) Empire Earth 2 ... makes Age of Empires series look silly and childish. i still play Rise of Nations every week or two with friends.
MMO : Everquest
Adventure : MYST series (tie) Missing: Since January ... just pure magic (with a dash of frustration )
honorable mentions : Tribes 2, Rune, BF 1942, BF3, Bioshock, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Homeworld 1 and 2, Dark Messiah Might and Magic and currently DC Universe Online (yep i think its maybe the most underappreciated game of the past 5 years)
I like the most played and most loved some people put.
Most played: Quake 3 Arena - over 10 years and still play in a tournament every year. now Quake Live, same game basically just better player base nowadays.
Most loved: Planescape: Torment, Morrowind, Civ's, Baldur's Gate II, Ultima 7, Diablo's, Divine Divinity
Greatest most groundbreaking PC game of all time, without a doubt: Doom
And yes, I know Wolfenstein 3D was first (by same developers) but wasn't even close to how good Doom was. The developers of Wolfenstein 3D held back on Wolfensten and formed their own company to make Doom immediately after because they saw the potential. Here is what Doom popularized if not outright invented:
1) First Person Shooters (and texture mapping). At one time every FPS was called a "Doom Clone" just like many MMOs are called "WoW-clones" today
2) Online multiplayer. There were news stories almost weekly of business LANs being overrun by the geek admins running Doom deathmatch when they shouldnt have been
3) Mods. Their WAD files spurred a whole bunch of downloadable mods to the game. My favorite was the Simpsons mod
4) Shareware. For Doom they didn't even sell in stores originally. They gave away 1/3 of the game for free on the internet, and people had to send them a check to get the full game.
Now tell me THAT isn't influencing gaming...
GW2 "built from the ground up with microtransactions in mind" 1) Cash->Gems->Gold->Influence->WvWvWBoosts = PAY2WIN 2) Mystic Chests = Crass in-game cash shop advertisements
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No one can replace the old school MMO's like Dark Age of Camelot, Ultima Online, but I will take it much further and list some MUDs (Multi User Dungeons) even though they are not "PC games". How about, Dragon Realms (Still running), or Dragons Gate? And for you AOL lovers, how about the old school .99 cent an hour to play game Splatterball & Splatterball Plus!
Gaming Names -
Xboxlive - ThafinestX
PS3 - ThafinestX
LoL - DeeKno & ThaFinest
SW:TOR - DeeKno & ThaFinest
DAoC - Sebestian
TIE Fighter, CIv 2, Half-Life, StarCraft
LucasArts: Full Throttle,SW X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter, SW Dark Forces & The Dig
Blizzard: Diablo 2, WarCraft 2
Sierra Entertainment: Space Quest & Kings Quest Series and Phantasmagoria.
LOL, had to list more than one. =P
Wildstar (2013) & Elder Scroll Online (2013)
Playing: Diablo 3, WOW, Far Cry 3 & X-Com.
Enjoyed: WOW 5 1/2 yrs, LOTRO 3yrs, GW 1/2yr, DFO 1yr, EVE Online 3yrs, and Huxley (Beta).
Failed to impress: GW2 3months, Tera Online 6 months (best combat system in any MMO I've played) STO 1/4yr, Aion 1/2yr, AoC 1yr, CO, Fallen Earth, DDO, EQ2 1/2yr, WAR 1/2yr, Lineage 2 and FF XI 1/2yr, FF XIV.
My favorite game of all time: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.
A few of the most memorable games for me, pretty much in order:
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, The Longest Journey, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Half Life, Syberia I & II, Heart of Darkness, Black & White I & II, Populous, Homeworld.
Most recently i'd say Skyrim, Mass Effect I & II, Assassin's Creed (not all of them), Fallout III.
That's pretty much it. For MMO's WoW and AION.
Daggerfall, Diablo, CIV 4: BTS (with cavemen2cosmos mod), Heroes 3, Biowares Neverwinter nights, Guildwars, M59 and R6 Vegas 2.
They are all favorites, I can´t decide on a specific one of them.
Duke Nukem 3d, Civ series, Half-Life series, Mass Effect series, Counterstrike, unreal tournament, Planetside, portal, battlefield 2, myst, Diablo 2, and Doom.
These are all games that have had big impacts on me over the years. There are many others as well probably.
Shadow's Hand Guild
Open recruitment for
The Secret World - Dragons
Planetside 2 - Terran Republic
Tera - Dragonfall Server
http://www.shadowshand.com
guildwars 1!
All time: daoc or magic carpet
Tera Online (im a day by day kinda guy hehe)
ALL TIME: Morrowind
Hero Evermore
Guild Master of Dragonspine since 1982.
Playing Path of Exile and deeply in love with it.
My favorite would be Command and Conquer: Renegade(Multiplayer)
I spent countless hours on matches in this game, endless fun, FPS these days dont match it imo
Vietcong
Aliens vs Predator 2
Company of Heroes
Star Wars Galaxies
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Counter Strike: Source
Battlefield 2
Those are my favourites.
Of all time?
Diablo 2
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
EverQuest, CounterStrike 1.6, Old School Half Life on LAN..
All hail the Barn Owl! oh.. and the RED SQUIRREL!!!
Actually a very hard question..
At the moment its probally Batlefield 3 really loving that game.
Fav of all time is such a hard question.. Ok a series of games it will ahve to be and thats the Star Wars Xwing/Tie Fighter series was just awesome and I spent many many hours playing those games..
Guild Wars 1, Command and Conquer TIberium Sun, Red Faction 2, Morrowind, Tropico 1, and others.
My favorite of favorites: Tiberium Sun. First foray into strategy games and always liked them
Planescape: Torment
No doubt
World of Tanks....yah seriously I think this is the game ive been waiting for, for the last 25 years....though MWO also looks like a serious contender
No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up - Lily Tomlin
Outcast.
The best adventure game i ever played. And how can one forget the epic soundtrack?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHTNj_hSl0
FFVII is by far my favorite game of all time but was on PS1 when I was a youngen and this is PC games, so sticking to CS1.6/HL/EQ.
All hail the Barn Owl! oh.. and the RED SQUIRREL!!!
I CANT BELIEVE NOBODY PICKED SOME OF MY FAVORITES!!!
FPS : HEAVY GEAR 2 ... simply awesome. best community ever and always had my heart pounding. NOTHING compared to it in its day. on several occasions i turned down sex to compete in Clan battles. 15th Iron Lions !!! to this very day i wake to the faint, lingering hope that some perceptive and brilliant studio will revive this series. unfortunately HG2 will not play in Vista or Win7
RTS : Rise of Nations (tie) Empire Earth 2 ... makes Age of Empires series look silly and childish. i still play Rise of Nations every week or two with friends.
MMO : Everquest
Adventure : MYST series (tie) Missing: Since January ... just pure magic (with a dash of frustration
honorable mentions : Tribes 2, Rune, BF 1942, BF3, Bioshock, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Homeworld 1 and 2, Dark Messiah Might and Magic and currently DC Universe Online (yep i think its maybe the most underappreciated game of the past 5 years)
I like the most played and most loved some people put.
Most played: Quake 3 Arena - over 10 years and still play in a tournament every year. now Quake Live, same game basically just better player base nowadays.
Most loved: Planescape: Torment, Morrowind, Civ's, Baldur's Gate II, Ultima 7, Diablo's, Divine Divinity
MMOs I have loved: Guild Wars
wolfenstin 3d, commander keen, jill of the jungle, pong, AOE(s), AoM,ToA(s)...
the list goes on rofl..
Any Elder Scrolls
FFVII
Wizard's and Warriors
Greatest most groundbreaking PC game of all time, without a doubt: Doom
And yes, I know Wolfenstein 3D was first (by same developers) but wasn't even close to how good Doom was. The developers of Wolfenstein 3D held back on Wolfensten and formed their own company to make Doom immediately after because they saw the potential. Here is what Doom popularized if not outright invented:
1) First Person Shooters (and texture mapping). At one time every FPS was called a "Doom Clone" just like many MMOs are called "WoW-clones" today
2) Online multiplayer. There were news stories almost weekly of business LANs being overrun by the geek admins running Doom deathmatch when they shouldnt have been
3) Mods. Their WAD files spurred a whole bunch of downloadable mods to the game. My favorite was the Simpsons mod
4) Shareware. For Doom they didn't even sell in stores originally. They gave away 1/3 of the game for free on the internet, and people had to send them a check to get the full game.
Now tell me THAT isn't influencing gaming...
GW2 "built from the ground up with microtransactions in mind"
1) Cash->Gems->Gold->Influence->WvWvWBoosts = PAY2WIN
2) Mystic Chests = Crass in-game cash shop advertisements