Best Videogames Ever Created

So I went looking through about 7 or so page and didn't find an equivalent thread, so I'm posting this.

Here's a place for people to post what they think are the best games ever created. My list is going to include a fair number of older games, so I'm sure many will dispute them. I am not, atm, including exlusively online MMORPGs like WoW. In certain cases where titles are close enough in quality, I've grouped them together.

Please note that I have not ranked the following games, either because I think they're the most significant games I haven't played, or becuase it's too soon for me to place on my all timer list yet:

-Grand Theft Auto
-The Longest Journey
-Silent Hill
-Portal
-Batman: Arkham Asylum

Here we go, counting from lowest with highest at the bottom:

25. Space Quest II (yeah, I said it, bring it on)
24. Day of the Tentacle
23. KOTOR I
22. Baldur's Gate II
21. Homeworld
20. KOTOR I
19. Wolfenstein 3D
18. Gabriel Knight (I and III)
17. Ultima (all games)
16. Grim Fandango
15. Doom
14. Simcity (all games)
13. Tie Fighter
12. Civilization (all games)
11. Legend of Zelda (Orcana Of Time)
10. Street Fighter II
9. X-Com
8. Dune II
7. Final Fanatasy IV/VI
6. KOTOR II
5. Starcraft
4. Bioshock
3. Fallout (all games)
2. Planescape: Torment
1. Star Control II

 

Super Mario World

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Well, we had the Top 200 Video Games countdown last year.

 

Your 'top 25' contains KOTOR 1 twice nearly 50 games overall (there are at least 10 and perhaps 16 Ultima games, 5 SimCity games, 6 or 8 Civ games, etc...) I mean, really.

My top 20 is in a PM somewhere for that list above. P:T was right up there though, so I agree on that one.

 

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Your 'top 25' contains KOTOR 1 twice nearly 50 games overall (there are at least 10 and perhaps 16 Ultima games, 5 SimCity games, 6 or 8 Civ games, etc...) I mean, really.

Crap, there was a copy/paste issue in the final 10:

25. Space Quest II (yeah, I said it, bring it on)
24. Day of the Tentacle
23. Baldur's Gate II
22. Homeworld
21. KOTOR I
20. Wolfenstein 3D
19. Gabriel Knight (I and III)
18. Ultima (all games)
17. Grim Fandango
16. Super Mario Brothers (1, 2, 3)
15. Doom
14. Simcity (all games)
13. Tie Fighter
12. Civilization (all games)
11. Legend of Zelda (Orcana Of Time)
10. Street Fighter II
9. X-Com
8. Dune II
7. Final Fanatasy IV/VI
6. KOTOR II
5. Starcraft
4. Bioshock
3. Fallout (all games)
2. Planescape: Torment
1. Star Control II

However in my defense in a lot of cases I have "all games" where the quality of the games and its sequels was comparable enough. KOTOR II was, IMO, significantly better than KOTOR I, though it was already a great game.

The Civ games were all about equally good -- perhaps IV was a bit of a letdown but I was willing to split the difference, and the same with the SimCity games.

And those Ultima games might look dinky now but in thier day they were very impressive. But I wasn't going to sit down and compare the finer points of Ultima VI, V, and IV. They were all good for what they did -- becoming an Avatar, dealing with the Gargoyle race, etc... unless I thought the difference was signifcant enough (like KOTOR or say, Final Fantasy IV/VI and the other games of the series -- although I was seriously considering posting FF VII which was of course another standout) I left many of the series together as one.


As for the top 200 games... I refuse to recognize a list that leage that doesn't have SCII ANYWHERE on it.

 

TIE Fighter

 

TIE Fighter: Empire

 

Pac Man = Best. Game. EVER.
followed by Half Life 2, Portal, and TF2

 

That was the very first (computer) game I ever played. If fact, it was the first time I ever used a computer, come to think of it.

In retrospect, SQIV was probably my favorite, but I'll never forget SQII.

 

Was that the one you started in the junkyard? I always tried to pick up the metal plate and watched Roger die in a fountain of blood. Love you Sierra.

My first game was King's Quest III. Feeding the chickens death. Walking down the cliff death. Turned into a cat death. Eaten by bears death. Drowned death. Love you Sierra.

 

Was that the one you started in the junkyard? I always tried to pick up the metal plate and watched Roger die in a fountain of blood. Love you Sierra.

No, it was the one where you started out sweeping up the outside of a spacestation.

 

Some not mentioned:

Suikoden II (One of the best RPGs of all time, regarded as the best in the series by most)
Mega Man X (evolution of the Mega Man series)
Uncharted II (following the likes of Tomb Raider--it is one the best games in the adventure genre, thus far)

This is not, perhaps, one of the best videogames ever created, but it is, in my opinion, the ultimate samurai game (and the sequel isn't bad either)--

Way of the Samurai

 

Deus Ex 1 and 2. are the best i think.

also loved Vampire Masquerades Bloodlines, The Beast Within which is like 15 years old, Kotr 1 and 2- liked 2 better, Fallout 3, Bioshock, Civ 4, Metal gear 2, Zelda 2, GTA 3, Diablo, Empire At War, Madden 95, Warcraft 2, Heroes of might and magic 3 ( awesome awesome game)Willow on NES, Batman: Arkym Asylum.

 

For me it has to be The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and KoTOR.

 

My top 5

1)Final Fantasy VII
2)Zelda: A Link to the Past
3)Super Metroid
4)Galaga
5)Wolfenstein 3D

Honorable Mention

1)X-COM UFO Defense

 

You like III's. The junkyard was Space Quest III. For some reason it took me an inordinate amount of time to get out of there.


The Sierra "Quest" games were pretty good, come to think of it. Space Quest. King's Quest. Quest for Glory. Ecoquest. There were probably more... can't remember. Amazing what they could do with these old screen-by-screen adventure games. (Although, to be fair, King's Quest VIII was something of a FPS...)

 

Police Quest.

Quest for Glory was always my favourite. QfG III was the worst one though, breaking my streak.

 

Man, maybe I should have said PQ instead of SQII.

The original PQ was great in that it was long and had a lot of things going on. I think LS Larry II had similar strengths.

 

QFT (concerning 1, 2, and 3 of your top 5).

 

The best video game ever is undoubtedly Space Invaders. It recently enjoyed it's 30th anniversery (I think) and still enjoys numerous reissues to this very day. It's simple, addictive and just full of retro coolness. High profile video game events like Video Games Live sport the 8-bit design as their logo, you can even buy T-shirts with the sprites on and not look like a dork!

Everyone should love Space Invaders.

 

I love Space Invaders but I think Galaga took that concept and made it better.

 

My favorite game of all time is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

 

Mass Effect, KOTOR, Monster Hunter Freedom 2 Unite, Advent Rising

 

In my head there was for a very long time a division with gamers between those who favored computer games versus those who favored consoles. Plenty of crossover, of course, but for myself I had an Atari way, way back when I was 5 or 6, and then the NES. And then that was essentially the last console I had that was my own before getting my Xbox 360. So that sort of colors my choices, naturally. I'd thought for a long time that I could get, on the whole, a much better experience on my computer than a console.

Not that the console didn't have great games: just that I was a lot more interested in the sort of stuff that came on on computers. And plenty of people had a healthy dose of both.

I think that seperation's finally closed with the onset of the XBox and PSP. The difference has essentially merged at this point as the consoles have adopted more and more complex electronics. I mostly just use my computer for programming and surfing the internet now.