Posted April 18, 2018
Hard to pick one, but if pressed, I'd probably have to go with NWN. I spent more enjoyable hours on that game than any other and I still get the urge to just build a NWN character now and then.
TerriblePurpose
Kwisatz Haderach
Registered: Sep 2008
From Canada
Stevedog13
Bald &Overweight
Registered: Feb 2011
From United States
Posted April 18, 2018
I love big rpgs more than any other type of game. Sure, Doom II is damn near perfect, and sure I spent hundreds of hours in Civ IV, but as good as those games are, I don't love them as much as I love rpgs. I love creating characters, poring over stats to better understand the game mechanics so as to inform my choices. I love the thrill of entering a big save-the-world quest. I love the interplay of combat and dialogue and crafting and inventory management.
So, among big rpgs, for years I have said Arcanum, and I'm going to stick with that choice. I no longer play it. Maybe I will some day, but I spent so many hours playing it that I believe I have exhausted the HUGE amount of options for character creation. I have exhausted the different questlines and mutually exclusive choice-paths. I have played through as an idiot. I have finished the game as both a technologist and as a magician. I love the setting. I love the soundtrack. I love the Virgil storyline. I love the electric tophat. I love the jokes. I love the dialogue. I love that game.
DampSquib
Soup Dragon.
Registered: Nov 2010
From United Kingdom
Posted April 18, 2018
Don't really have one, as time and other circumstances have very much altered that.
Once it would of been Lock On, now, more than likely Close Combat 2 or X2: The Threat.
Once it would of been Lock On, now, more than likely Close Combat 2 or X2: The Threat.
Sam2014
Sams Max
Registered: May 2014
From United States
Posted April 18, 2018
Curse of Monkey Island.
The graphics and voices were fantastic for the time,
as most adventure games were Myst style slide shows.
The graphics and voices were fantastic for the time,
as most adventure games were Myst style slide shows.
dtgreene
vaccines work she/her
Registered: Jan 2010
From United States
Posted April 18, 2018
I prefer not to choose just one favorite game, as that would be excluding too many other good games.
One of my favorite games of all time is Final Fantasy 5, which I consider to be the best Final Fantasy by far (6 and 7 don't even come close, for example). That game has *so* much strategic depth, and so many interesting character set-ups, and so many viable combat options.
My one complaint with FF5 is the cutscenes, but they're still not as bad as later in the series (I can only think of 2 or 3 parts where they get really annoying), and the gameplay is still far better than the rest of the series.
One of my favorite games of all time is Final Fantasy 5, which I consider to be the best Final Fantasy by far (6 and 7 don't even come close, for example). That game has *so* much strategic depth, and so many interesting character set-ups, and so many viable combat options.
My one complaint with FF5 is the cutscenes, but they're still not as bad as later in the series (I can only think of 2 or 3 parts where they get really annoying), and the gameplay is still far better than the rest of the series.
HereForTheBeer
Positive Patty
Registered: Oct 2009
From United States
Posted April 18, 2018
Hide the Sausage, clearly.
After that, a toss-up between I-War 2, Mount and Blade: Warband (modded), and Operation: Flashpoint. O:FP I think takes the lead. Stalker games get an Honorable Mention.
After that, a toss-up between I-War 2, Mount and Blade: Warband (modded), and Operation: Flashpoint. O:FP I think takes the lead. Stalker games get an Honorable Mention.