What Are the Best Games for Any Platform?

[Manuel_Silvio]

Hey, have you noticed how this talk is going on? I say, "WarCraft is awesome", you say, "No! WarCraft isn't! Red Alert is", then I say "No! WarCraft is awesome".

I don't think I'll be able to reason for what I intrinsically like, I don't think anyone would be able to do so. Perhaps I like WarCraft and StarCraft because I like dreaming but why am I so fond of dreaming? I don't know.

This won't do! WarCraft is good, Red Alert is good, all is good. Peace be upon Blizzard and Westwood to the same degree of likelihood!

And thanks for correcting me about Ner 'Zhul. I would've gone the wrong way all the time if I mistook Xel 'Naga and Ner 'Zhul

 

[Bubonic Plague]

Hey, have you noticed how this talk is going on? I say, "WarCraft is awesome", you say, "No! WarCraft isn't! Red Alert is", then I say "No! WarCraft is awesome".

Yeah. That's why i went fer the middle ground. Which is:

Let's just settle on this, Warcraft, C&C, Starcraft all complement each other. Warcraft deals with the past and our many myths and legends. C&C deals mostly with the present, and of our technological possibilites. Starcraft deals with the future, and with our speculations of what may be out there.

 

[Manuel_Silvio]

Blizzard vs Westwood, StarCraft vs Red Alert, settled down, case dismissed!

Have you played The Neverhood Chronilces? If yes, what do you think of it?

As you can see on my first post I think it is the best game ever made.

 

[Bubonic Plague]

Have you played The Neverhood Chronilces? If yes, what do you think of it?

Isn't it the 1 with a clayman walking around and you have to solve puzzles? If yes, then my answer will also be yes.

I agree, it was an Excellent game. The puzzles were damn hard though. But ultimately, i either won by luck or attrition. I never finished that game, my hard drive spoilt, and my friend had taken back his CD... I also could not find it anywhere in the game shops... Dang!

You remember there was a part where there are i think about 50+ walls filled with words, i had to like spend the whole afternoon just reading the Chronicles written on the walls, then move on to the next screen and continue reading the Chronicles.

The puzzles that i liked the most was the second one, where you have to use the monster plant to help you open the door, so you can exit the building, and the crab one, when you tried to move, the crab will like click it's claws making the matchstick drop.

 

[Manuel_Silvio]

Yes, the clayman game and the clayman's name is "Klaymeb" (so I remember).

You didn't have to read the walls to finish the game. You just had to walk past them to find that track for the video machine at the end of the passage. First time I finished the game I didn't read those walls but the next I read them and believed they contained too much wisdom to be in a PC game.

The story that Quatar (the Father's secretary) has carved on those walls corresponds to much of human history and human views. And you surely noticed its Biblical way of speech on the first scriptures and how it gets less pompous and more expressive as it goes on in the timeline.

I liked all the puzzles in Neverhood. One puzzle that I specially liked was mouse-and-tunnels puzzle (I don't think you got there or?)

Hope you can get the game if you like it.

 

[Bubonic Plague]

You didn't have to read the walls to finish the game. You just had to walk past them to find that track for the video machine at the end of the passage. First time I finished the game I didn't read those walls but the next I read them and believed they contained too much wisdom to be in a PC game.

Doh! I thought that i had to read the walls, 'cause some puzzle later on will be related to the Chronicles! Yeah, i remember it was rather biblical, but i just can't recall anything i had read from the wall.

One puzzle that I specially liked was mouse-and-tunnels puzzle (I don't think you got there or?)

Tunnels? I remember one part where you had to wind up some music box, then i remember something about some cart tracks.

 

[Manuel_Silvio]

These are the first steps in Neverhood. The mouse-and-tunnels puzzle comes way after this one. Anyway, Neverhood is worth playing...

 

[RageSk8]

Chrono Trigger
Perfect Dark
Halo
Splinter Cell

 

[FZ+]

Angband

THE most addictive game ever.

Ah... a fellow *bander..
I wonder how many others there are on this forum...

As to the Blizzard vs Westwood debate, I kinda feel that both are rather outdated and mundane. I mean, they are fun, but there are only so many permutations of "build a base, build lots of troops, swarm their base, win" you can have. I would lump AoE into this category as well. You play them for a while, but then you just get bored. The total war games (Shogun, Medieval) are for me much better games, simply in terms of complexity and versatillity. I bought shogun a couple of years ago and am still playing it. Then again, maybe I just don't have many games...

 

[The Grimmus]

Hey greg how about that sc/war 3 game soemtiem after the 17 when we are mostly free

 

[The Grimmus]

ofcourse eveyrone eles is welcome to play a round of sc or war3

 

[Pauly Man]

Day of Defeat was a cool game if you played with the right people. My friends and I used to play over a network and we had a great time, the Normandy Beach assault was pretty cool. But it was way to small, the game should have been larger!

 

[The Grimmus]

the old unreal was pretty cool with their normady...that is ofcourse untile everyoen hacked the pooh oput of it

 

[Nicool003]

Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds and Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast. unfortunately I haven't played outcast in months because my comp got erased and we lost our sound card.

 

[MSI]

hitman (1 & 2) S.O.F (1 & 2) all strategy games and metal gear and for RGB i play a lot FF versions

 

[The Grimmus]

dude chrono trigger is one of the best RPGs ever.

 

[redrogue]

Anything in the Myst series, currently URU.
Move over Everquest and Neverwinter Nights.


Cheers.