Favourite computer games ?

sixstringsupplies

Skyrim. I lost a few months of my life to that game. 

thumpingrug

Jet set Willy on the spectrum got me hooked on games, closely followed by the original Elite.

The first couple of Call of Duties set in WW11 were very good, as was the one with the sniper mission in Pirpyat, after that they got very same,
Dead Space - was very creepy - surprised it didn't get a sequel
Far Cry 3
Forza Horizon

Ive just given up with Red Dead as it was too big.  Been playing for months and seem to be stuck at 55%.  I like big and open world but there needs to be a balance.

schrodinger1612

Amiga - Giana Sisters, Impossible Mission
Commodore 64 - Bubble Bobble
Megadrive - Gunstar Heroes (seriously ahead of it’s time) 
N64 - WCW Revenge, Goldeneye
PC - Half Life, Duke Nukem 
PS4 - Fifa franchise 

brooom

anything by lucasarts, ex:

Keiko

I lost interest in video games in the early 90's, so I've probably forgotten some of my old favourites but maybe these:

Coin-op machines - Outrun, Operation Wolf

Spectrum - Dizzy (the original)

Amiga - Supercars 2 (in two player mode)

PC - Quake, Unreal Tournament (in multiplayer "deathmatch"), Severance - Blade of Darkness

Monkeybone

thumpingrug said:

Dead Space - was very creepy - surprised it didn't get a sequel

It did, two of them in fact. 

Monkeybone

brooom said:

anything by lucasarts, ex:

Awesome game. 

WiresDreamDisasters

brooom said:

anything by lucasarts, ex:

Ohhh yeah, all those old point and clicks. Amazing.

schrodinger1612

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Duke Nukem 3D multiplayer with my mates over dial up modem, just before MSN messenger and the internet in general took off....that's my most memorable gaming experience. You needed a degree in computer programming just to set everything up in MSDOS, but that made the experience more exciting, because of the effort it took to set everything up, and the fact that online multiplayer wasn't really popular back then, so to a 14 year old it was like being a part of some exclusive club.    Half Life multiplayer was great as well. 

LuttiS

Borderlands series
Portal 1 & 2
Dow 1
FFVII
Elder Scrolls

Fallout
Heroes of might & magic 2 & 5
Mass effect 1 - 3
Twisted Metal 2

littlegreenman

All the Tomb Raider series

Doom

Zelda (esp. Ocarina of Time)

MGS

GFA

But I think my all time favourite would be Tenchu - Silent Assassins.

digitalscream

Of all time? Elite (Archimedes version), Unreal Tournament, and Tekken 3.

Current? None, but the 2.0 version of Elite Dangerous from a couple of years back was basically as perfect a rendition of how that game could be as far as I'm concerned. Then they ruined it with Engineers (or, more specifically, the special effects for weapons), and every poor attempt at balancing they've done since then has been to counteract the problems caused by the previous balancing pass, all tracking back to those goddamned special weapon effects.

I'm gutted that I'll never be able to play that game again because it was fun, which is something severely lacking these days.

guitartango

IvanMC said:

Maniac Mansion
Leisure Suit Larry
Defender of the Crown
FIFA Road to World Cup 98
PES 09 (which I still play every now and again)

I loved Kikstart myself (loved to build my own tracks); I massively loved my C64.

Ken sent me

Loved all of the Sierra  and Lucasarts games. Still playing Wolfenstein 3D or Spear of destiny ... "Achtung!

joeyowen

Fallout 3 is top of my list
GTA San Andreas is a close second

I currently play hours of COD online with the guys from work, it's a great casual game

Grunfeld

The one game I got totally into was the original StarCraft/ BroodWar games.

And the YouTube comments are spot on for once:  anyone who knows music this will hear in their heads the sound of minerals being mined and "SCV good to go Sir!"

Endless hours playing this.  Not wasted.  Gawd, I've even got StarCraft sounds on my phone -- I'm alerted to texts by the sound of a Spider mine.

"Job finished."

Tenebrous

Always fun to watch.

LuttiS

Grunfeld said:

The one game I got totally into was the original StarCraft/ BroodWar games.

And the YouTube comments are spot on for once:  anyone who knows music this will hear in their heads the sound of minerals being mined and "SCV good to go Sir!"

Endless hours playing this.  Not wasted.  Gawd, I've even got StarCraft sounds on my phone -- I'm alerted to texts by the sound of a Spider mine.

"Job finished."

Gawd yeah...

That and Warcraft 2, Friday night battle net was the teenage place to be..

Hoof

Super Mario Bros 2
Gradius
Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time
F Zero X
Formula 1 World Championship (N64, 1998)
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Medal Of Honour: Frontline
Black
GTA: San Andreas
Gran Turismo 4
Manhunt
Ace Combat 4
Star Wars Battlefront
Star War Rogue Squadron
The Warriors
Bully
Toca Race Driver
Tourist Trophy
GTA V
Gran Turismo Sport

IvanMC

SpiritOfTheAge said:

Spy vs Spy (c64) - hours of hilarity with friends - really different and novel game
Way of the exploding Fist (c64) -
Doom II - This effected my dreams for years, the sounds!
Half Life - Nothing like it at the time, really blew me away.
BF1942 - Ground breaking game at the time for multi player, good good times.
Team Fortress 2 - I still play this from time to time 1718 hours on record (71 days of my life playing)

    Chapeau. Spy v Spy (and its 2nd part, on the island) was a majestic work of art. What a game! Underrated. Or unknown, maybe. What a game!

RedRabbit

Loads over the past 30 odd years of gaming. I'll try to limit it to one or two per platform I've had.

Spectrum - Dizzy
Amiga - Lemmings
NES - Super Mario 3, Mega Man 3
PlayStation - Final Fantasy 7, Resident Evil
PS2 - GTA 3, Tekken Tag Tournament
GameCube - Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
PS3 - Skyrim
PS4 - Fallout 4, Bloodborne
Switch - Breath of the Wild
PC - Dark Souls

Also had a Wii, WiiU and various handhelds over the years but I'm struggling to think of a single game on any of them that saw me lose anything like as many hours as any of the above did.