What are your favorite computer games
November 16, 2002 3:26 PM Subscribe
What are your favorite computer games? the post about Sierra Online brought back fond memories of playing those classic games. I know my favorites but what about you, what are your all time favorite games?
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I'm sorry if I offended you Stan. Is there any reason you not to share your favorite games?
posted by jdhodges at 3:33 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by jdhodges at 3:33 PM on November 16, 2002
This question sounds snarky however you put it so, anyway: Is there any reason you basically posted your comment from about 2 threads down on the front page?
posted by robself at 3:35 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by robself at 3:35 PM on November 16, 2002
Guidelines:
Posting a link to your homepage and asking for feedback is a bad post. Self-promotion isn't what this site is about. Self promotion can be "earned." If you consistently post thought-provoking comments or links on the site, people will click on your name to know you better. On the profile page, you can put your own URL and people can check that out. There are numerous cool pages done by the members of this site, click on a few people to explore.
Self-linking also appropriates the use of MetaFilter as your guestbook. If you just wrote a thought provoking piece and want to get feedback on it, try using ArsDigita's Loquacious system or BlogVoices to add community interaction to your own site.
posted by Stan Chin at 3:38 PM on November 16, 2002
Posting a link to your homepage and asking for feedback is a bad post. Self-promotion isn't what this site is about. Self promotion can be "earned." If you consistently post thought-provoking comments or links on the site, people will click on your name to know you better. On the profile page, you can put your own URL and people can check that out. There are numerous cool pages done by the members of this site, click on a few people to explore.
Self-linking also appropriates the use of MetaFilter as your guestbook. If you just wrote a thought provoking piece and want to get feedback on it, try using ArsDigita's Loquacious system or BlogVoices to add community interaction to your own site.
posted by Stan Chin at 3:38 PM on November 16, 2002
bitch bitch bitch. Why not just contribute to the thread while it lasts?
I was feeling a bout of nostalgia last night and found the old shareware version of Doom. Runs like shit on WinXP, apparently..
posted by Space Coyote at 3:41 PM on November 16, 2002
I was feeling a bout of nostalgia last night and found the old shareware version of Doom. Runs like shit on WinXP, apparently..
posted by Space Coyote at 3:41 PM on November 16, 2002
You're right Stan, I should have read closer. Sorry and my apologizes to the Metafilter community.
posted by jdhodges at 3:41 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by jdhodges at 3:41 PM on November 16, 2002
God forbid someone not buy a textad for their potentially interesting site when they could be posting newslinks.
posted by bunnytricks at 3:45 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by bunnytricks at 3:45 PM on November 16, 2002
Space Coyote, that sucks about Doom not working well on XP, did you try running it in "Windows 95 Compatibility mode" (right click on the executable to get to the properties, then go to the "compatibility" tab. At the school where I work we have to tweak XP for a lot of the kids educational games.
posted by jdhodges at 3:46 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by jdhodges at 3:46 PM on November 16, 2002
I took your advice Stan and bought a text ad (for my Global Futures class project.)
posted by jdhodges at 4:02 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by jdhodges at 4:02 PM on November 16, 2002
bitch bitch bitch. Why not just contribute to the thread while it lasts?
And why would you assume that the thread wouldn't last? Oh, yeah, because it violates the site guidelines. So, what was the point of contributing to the thread again?
posted by eyeballkid at 4:04 PM on November 16, 2002
And why would you assume that the thread wouldn't last? Oh, yeah, because it violates the site guidelines. So, what was the point of contributing to the thread again?
posted by eyeballkid at 4:04 PM on November 16, 2002
In no particular order:
The Operative: No One Lives Forever
Mafia
the Monkey Island series
Doom 2
MeFi Pro Snarker 2002
posted by GriffX at 4:05 PM on November 16, 2002
The Operative: No One Lives Forever
Mafia
the Monkey Island series
Doom 2
MeFi Pro Snarker 2002
posted by GriffX at 4:05 PM on November 16, 2002
Well done jdhodges, I for one (and I'm sure most of the community) appreciate your civility.
posted by Stan Chin at 4:05 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by Stan Chin at 4:05 PM on November 16, 2002
MeFi Pro Snarker 2002
This game is fun, but gets sort of repetitive after awhile.
Anyone remember "A Mind Forver Voyaging?"
posted by crunchland at 4:06 PM on November 16, 2002
This game is fun, but gets sort of repetitive after awhile.
Anyone remember "A Mind Forver Voyaging?"
posted by crunchland at 4:06 PM on November 16, 2002
This isn't as old as a lot of the other choices, but anyone with an Arkanoid/Breakout habit needs to check out Jardinains - fun and free, but Windows only (sorry).
posted by whatzit at 4:09 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by whatzit at 4:09 PM on November 16, 2002
Also, of course:
Deus Ex
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Wishbringer - until recently, I still had the magic glow-in-the-dark rock that came with that game. It's too bad games aren't as creatively packaged anymore. You're lucky if you get a manual on paper these days.
posted by GriffX at 4:11 PM on November 16, 2002
Deus Ex
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Wishbringer - until recently, I still had the magic glow-in-the-dark rock that came with that game. It's too bad games aren't as creatively packaged anymore. You're lucky if you get a manual on paper these days.
posted by GriffX at 4:11 PM on November 16, 2002
whatzit, Jardinains looks cool! My friend Mike got me hooked on PocketTanks (scroll down that page for the screenshots) which you might like too. The shareware (free) version just doesn't have as many weapons as the pay one. Thanks for your kind words Stan and your cool post about Sierra, they were always a cool company and I really liked them. They evem had their own online gaming system before the internet: TSN or "The Sierra Network" which I think they renamed to Imagination Network,
posted by jdhodges at 4:17 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by jdhodges at 4:17 PM on November 16, 2002
Oh my God, Stan Chin, you are a total prick.
posted by the fire you left me at 4:18 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by the fire you left me at 4:18 PM on November 16, 2002
no, he's not. he's just telling it as it is. we can't let everyone with a website, newbie or not, post links to their site and pretend it's A-ok.
posted by crunchland at 4:19 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by crunchland at 4:19 PM on November 16, 2002
In order:
Thief 1 & 2 (in that respective order)
Planescape: Torment (best CRPG ever)
Deus Ex
Morrowind
Ultima Online (88 hour non-stop session once)
Tie Fighter
Tribes 1
X-Com: UFO Defense
Quake 1 (Deathmatch only)
GTA3
Privateer
Jagged Alliance 2
Operation Flashpoint
Fallout 1 (not 2, sorry)
Doom
Age of Empires 2
Worms
That's probably the top 5% (I play rather a lot of games) or so.
posted by Ryvar at 4:27 PM on November 16, 2002
Thief 1 & 2 (in that respective order)
Planescape: Torment (best CRPG ever)
Deus Ex
Morrowind
Ultima Online (88 hour non-stop session once)
Tie Fighter
Tribes 1
X-Com: UFO Defense
Quake 1 (Deathmatch only)
GTA3
Privateer
Jagged Alliance 2
Operation Flashpoint
Fallout 1 (not 2, sorry)
Doom
Age of Empires 2
Worms
That's probably the top 5% (I play rather a lot of games) or so.
posted by Ryvar at 4:27 PM on November 16, 2002
Man, I was just thinking about this. I second Wishbringer. Man, that game was kick-ass. I still remember how to get up and down the mountain when it's enveloped with fog. I wish someone would port it to windows.
Also-- this goes back to the seriously olden days-- I was thinking about Ladder, which was an ASCII version of Donkey Kong that came with my old KayPro II.
Y'all remember the KayPro II, right? Early eighties? Greenscreen? Self-contained, required boot-disk?
Good times, man, good times.
I wish someone would port Ladder from CP/M. If anyone even has one of those old things anymore.
posted by keef at 4:35 PM on November 16, 2002
Also-- this goes back to the seriously olden days-- I was thinking about Ladder, which was an ASCII version of Donkey Kong that came with my old KayPro II.
Y'all remember the KayPro II, right? Early eighties? Greenscreen? Self-contained, required boot-disk?
Good times, man, good times.
I wish someone would port Ladder from CP/M. If anyone even has one of those old things anymore.
posted by keef at 4:35 PM on November 16, 2002
Leather Goddesses of Phobos and SUSPECT.
Not video games at all.. more like a text came infocom style, but it was great times nonetheless.
Also Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within and Phantasmagoria (horrid game, but it lingers with me still)
All the old Police Quest and King's Quest games. Dang.. Sierra used to be so good, what happened to them?
posted by lynda at 4:38 PM on November 16, 2002
Not video games at all.. more like a text came infocom style, but it was great times nonetheless.
Also Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within and Phantasmagoria (horrid game, but it lingers with me still)
All the old Police Quest and King's Quest games. Dang.. Sierra used to be so good, what happened to them?
posted by lynda at 4:38 PM on November 16, 2002
Space Coyote: some time ago Id released the Doom source code, and some strange but dedicated people have devoted themselves to keeping it up to date ever since. Look here. You'll need the .WAD files with all the levels etc from the original, which I expect you have already but if not, they're easy enough to get hold of.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 4:45 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by aeschenkarnos at 4:45 PM on November 16, 2002
DEFINITELY nethack. And I'm with Lynda on Leather Goddesses -- that was akin to finding a playboy (playgirl?) when I was 10...
posted by babylon at 4:46 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by babylon at 4:46 PM on November 16, 2002
For me, the three best games I've ever played are easily Master of Magic, Somesomething from LOTR/Infinite Worlds/Demise (game changed names a lot) and my all time classic for wasting way too many hours at the keyboard, CivII
posted by jmd82 at 4:51 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by jmd82 at 4:51 PM on November 16, 2002
In wishbringer, what is the magic word to lower the drawbridge?
posted by xammerboy at 4:59 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by xammerboy at 4:59 PM on November 16, 2002
My favorite --- the one with the screaming graphics, the odd blerp sound effects, where you had do move the knob to make it work right, and there were these peddles, that like you had to pump while the display screamed at you "Danger, danger" while your tower melted. Oh yeah that was the best and you had to stop the falling bombs using a large ball control.
-or-
Prop-Cycle.
posted by DBAPaul at 5:01 PM on November 16, 2002
-or-
Prop-Cycle.
posted by DBAPaul at 5:01 PM on November 16, 2002
How could no one have mentioned Half-Life by now? That's a true classic, if nothing else but for the mods!
posted by joedan at 5:14 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by joedan at 5:14 PM on November 16, 2002
now that we are on topic:
(this is a question about computer games, which nullifies
all guidelines imho)
lords of midnight
elite
3d deathchase
sabre wulf
doom
command and conquer
civ2
half-life
operation flashpoint
the ai in half life has never been bettered.
i dont know why people spend so much time on graphics
when they could be making ai to the half life standard.
i loved those little gi's...the way you could hear them on the radio before you entered a room and they could hear your footsteps and react accordingly.
i remember the sense of terror doom gave me when i heard that little snuffling monster sound in the dark....
i dont even have to explain elite really..
l-o-m for its believable world..even on a 48k speccy,
oh i nearly forgot to include tau-ceti which was very
atmospheric too....with fantastic combat and strategy.
posted by sgt.serenity at 5:22 PM on November 16, 2002
(this is a question about computer games, which nullifies
all guidelines imho)
lords of midnight
elite
3d deathchase
sabre wulf
doom
command and conquer
civ2
half-life
operation flashpoint
the ai in half life has never been bettered.
i dont know why people spend so much time on graphics
when they could be making ai to the half life standard.
i loved those little gi's...the way you could hear them on the radio before you entered a room and they could hear your footsteps and react accordingly.
i remember the sense of terror doom gave me when i heard that little snuffling monster sound in the dark....
i dont even have to explain elite really..
l-o-m for its believable world..even on a 48k speccy,
oh i nearly forgot to include tau-ceti which was very
atmospheric too....with fantastic combat and strategy.
posted by sgt.serenity at 5:22 PM on November 16, 2002
joedan, good call on Half-Life, that was one of the few rmodern games that really took things to a new level (most games are just the same thing rehashed.) Half-Life is a good call! I can't wait to see what Valve does next.
As for Wishbringer, I hadn't played it or even heard of it! But it is available here (scroll down) and the Winfrotz emulator that hades mentioned, is available here for direct download.
P.S. sgt.serenity, what is operation flashpoint like?
posted by jdhodges at 5:27 PM on November 16, 2002
As for Wishbringer, I hadn't played it or even heard of it! But it is available here (scroll down) and the Winfrotz emulator that hades mentioned, is available here for direct download.
P.S. sgt.serenity, what is operation flashpoint like?
posted by jdhodges at 5:27 PM on November 16, 2002
Honestly Half-Life was (and is) both extremely overrated and derivative as a stand-alone game. However the mods, you're right, make it worthy of significant recognition if not actual inclusion on a 'best games' list (or at least mine, tastes vary). I maintain my belief that the reason for the incredibly high popularity in this regard are the low system requirements and the software rendering. It was really the last major engine to have software rendering, and the major lagging-upgrade audience this briefly garnered it was sufficient to start the wide-audience snowball that has made it the standard platform for mod development it is today.
To say nothing of Valve's continuous hard work to support mod makers.
I wish the wildly improved Tribes 2 engine in the form of Torque - for which you get the actual base sourcecode from garagegames.com for only $100, would become the next one as there were a lot of very smart decisions made in the initial development. However the wide failure of Tribes 2 due to the angry departure of the core devteam 6 months prerelease may have doomed anything the project touched or will touch. A terrible waste if this proves true.
posted by Ryvar at 5:29 PM on November 16, 2002
To say nothing of Valve's continuous hard work to support mod makers.
I wish the wildly improved Tribes 2 engine in the form of Torque - for which you get the actual base sourcecode from garagegames.com for only $100, would become the next one as there were a lot of very smart decisions made in the initial development. However the wide failure of Tribes 2 due to the angry departure of the core devteam 6 months prerelease may have doomed anything the project touched or will touch. A terrible waste if this proves true.
posted by Ryvar at 5:29 PM on November 16, 2002
operation flashpoint is like sneaking into enemy territory
at night, mining 2 tanks on the road, crawling into the base,
setting 3 minute det packs under the assembled tanks,
stealing a helicopter then taking off under fire,being shot down and ejecting, parachuting safely down and sitting
on top of a nearby hill to watch your bombs detonate!
posted by sgt.serenity at 5:35 PM on November 16, 2002
at night, mining 2 tanks on the road, crawling into the base,
setting 3 minute det packs under the assembled tanks,
stealing a helicopter then taking off under fire,being shot down and ejecting, parachuting safely down and sitting
on top of a nearby hill to watch your bombs detonate!
posted by sgt.serenity at 5:35 PM on November 16, 2002
How could I forget? Master of Orion 2, Civ 2. I should be shot.
posted by Ryvar at 6:01 PM on November 16, 2002
posted by Ryvar at 6:01 PM on November 16, 2002
The Dig, a graphic adventure from LucasArts. I enjoyed the puzzles and loved the ambiance.
Unreal Tournament. Only game I've ever paid full retail price for, only game I've played for more than a half-hour, only game I've really loved playing.
Ultima Underworld. Graphical version of Ultima, really liked it.
And that, I'm afraid, is that. I've played other games, to be sure, but those are the only three I've really, really found addictive.
(Well, those and, back in ye misty mists of time, a few text adventures...)
posted by five fresh fish at 6:11 PM on November 16, 2002
Unreal Tournament. Only game I've ever paid full retail price for, only game I've played for more than a half-hour, only game I've really loved playing.
Ultima Underworld. Graphical version of Ultima, really liked it.
And that, I'm afraid, is that. I've played other games, to be sure, but those are the only three I've really, really found addictive.
(Well, those and, back in ye misty mists of time, a few text adventures...)
posted by five fresh fish at 6:11 PM on November 16, 2002
Oh, and I did play halflife through (bummed it from a friend a month or two ago). For the first quarter of the game it was extremely well-done: a good plotline, unexpected events, etc. Then it got really old, really fast. Almost couldn't be bothered finishing.
And a note on UT: only for Capture the Flag. I love the team spirit on that game, when one lucks out into a good server and players.
posted by five fresh fish at 6:13 PM on November 16, 2002
And a note on UT: only for Capture the Flag. I love the team spirit on that game, when one lucks out into a good server and players.
posted by five fresh fish at 6:13 PM on November 16, 2002
Jump 'n Bump - the best fun you can have with 4 players on one PC (Open source, all platforms).
Commercial games?
Monkey Island 1+2, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Broken Sword 1, GTA 1, Settlers 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Command & Conquer 1...
posted by c3o at 6:42 PM on November 16, 2002
Commercial games?
Monkey Island 1+2, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Broken Sword 1, GTA 1, Settlers 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Command & Conquer 1...
posted by c3o at 6:42 PM on November 16, 2002
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posted by Stan Chin at 3:28 PM on November 16, 2002