Games We've Loved...

[Quemaqua]

This thread makes me happy like a maniac.  I'm going to have to mostly just second things here since everybody's posted great stuff.

Secret of Mana was huge for me.  The whole Seiken Densetsu series has been, in fact.  One of the first games I ever truly loved and I still play the games from the series regularly.  In fact, I'm going through Legend of Mana again right now on my PSP thanks to magically delicious evolutions in the community of late.  Oddly enough, I'm also going through the Ecco games again.  I have to agree with Krissy, those are still some of the most amazing games I've ever played.  And HARD AS HELL.  Man.  Without an emulator I still get slaughtered regularly playing those.  It's emotionally draining.  But I've still never played anything else even remotely like them, and they're so much fun and so beautiful.  Doom was huge for me too, of course, and Quake.

Here's one that I lived on:



Descent, baby!  Descent 2 I didn't get into quite as much, though I did play a pretty good bit of that online via Kali.



Descent 3 had some great stuff in it too, especially MP.  SP was a bit more of a mixed bag, but I still loved it.


And can't forget the Panzer Dragoon series!



I never got to play Saga.  =(  Been looking for a copy for years and years now, but I'll be damned if I can afford that kind of cash.

SYSTEM SHOCK!  I can't believe nobody's mentioned this one!

And System Shock 2, of course.



I can't wait for BioShock.  Going out of my head waiting for that one.

[Krissy]

System Shock was the most delicious game that no one ever played ever! I shall look into this Bioshock.

[Tom]

Man, lately I've only been able to play games in the last couple hours before bed so it excludes anything that tries to make you pee your pants. I haw system shock but I don't want to be all nerves when i lay down.

[Jenna]

Discworld/Discworld 2 were great and really funny. Excellent voice acting too.
I loved Sam and Max although it always made my computer crash.
I used to love Excitabike on my NES (mainly for the cool theme song) and Ducktails (also mainly for the cool songs).

Modern games, well I liked Final Fantasy 8 as it was the only FF game I could be bothered to complete.  I liked playing Halo with my housemates as well. Other than that i don't get nearly enough time to play games. 

[shinygerbil]

You know what I used to love?



Rescue On Fractalus! For my dad's Atari 800XL :P

Definitely one of the most scary games ever for me. Also, I used to play Alternate Reality (also for 800XL, I believe) which actually gave me nightmares. You gotta remember, I was young ;P

[Alec]

Modern games, well I liked Final Fantasy 8 as it was the only FF game I could be bothered to complete.

Great to see FF8 getting some love...

I've heard Discworld is entertaining, still haven't played that yet.

System Shock 2 was too scary for me. LoL.

[Xiagan]

I totally love(d) Little Big Adventure I & II. They rock! And I got them working under dosbox two weeks ago.

[Cobar]

How come no one has mentioned any of the monkey island's yet? Or might be that someone has, and i have missed it.

Guybrush Threepwood must be the most original character in gaming history.

[Xiagan]

He totally is!
But...which one?

[Cobar]

I would say the middle one is him  The other two are just...err... backups?

[Quemaqua]

Definitely good somebody mentioned those.  Those were great.  Grim Fandango and Sam and Max also for the adventure front.

And how the bloody hell could I forget the Elder Scrolls games?  I've wasted more hours of my life on those than any other gaming franchise in the history of the universe.  It's absolutely insane.  At least 1,000 hours between them all.  Talk about bang for your buck.

Arena was the first.  Not my favorite, but damn fun at the time.

Daggerfall destroyed my life for several months.

Morrowind ate me for breakfast.  I spent probably 500+ hours with that game and, to be perfectly honest, there's still an absolute ton of crap that I haven't done.  Like... beat either of the expansion packs.



Oblivion is still currently consuming all my free time.



And I'm sure the Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion will swallow my soul as well.

[Tom]

Gaghhh, I thought that woodland shot in oblivion was a photograph! 

[Cobar]

Yep, oblivion is pretty darn deceiving when you got everything maxed out. With a little modding, you can even have unlimited draw distance... which practically requires a super computer to run tho

[torrentpilot]

WoW is a current fave.  I'm a fan of the Chrono series, Mortal Kombat 3 was a great one, Starcraft was fantastic (especially a lot of the DBZ mods found on Battle.net), and FFX, to name a few.

(If you're a WoW player, I'm on Uther, Horde.  Brokehorn is the name, Tauren Warrior, Blacksmith/Miner.  I'm only lvl 50, but I'm working on it.  )

[SBKT]

When I get hooked on a single game, I get hooked on a WHOLE SERIES..

Here's one:

Castlevania: Symphony of the night had me liking Castlevania totally. I went and found other vampire filled medias and crossed their information to make a super vampire database in my head. This game was awesome, and I liked the curly haired Richter. Everyone mocks him for being girly.

Another game:

Megaman X5 was my first Megaman game ever. I became a Hardcore Megamanophile and went and cracked the code on the series chronologically. I even know where the misfit games fit in. Dude, it's awesome.

And yet another thing:

This is only recently, and I got Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers. Yes, I know it's a cheesy DS game but, it was still good, and this was the worst in the series? I GOT TO GET MORE. Too bad I don't have a ps2 *rattles mug*

The final SERIES I'm gonna go on is:

Metroid. I started with super Smash bros. I went and looked Samus up because she just kicked my ass every time I went against her when she was a CPU. I decided to check the pawn shop, and I found Metroid II: Return of Samus. I still maintain that game as the best in the series.

The last game I can remember at this second would be:

MISCHIEF MAKERS! This was awesome in a cartridge. Sure it looked like shit but it was fun, I got to say, nothing is more satisfying then taking your enemy, who might be about, say, 50 times larger than you and throw him at a WALL. That SHAKE SHAKE! Line is awesome. I have yet to beat it. If I beat it, Marina turns human and depending on the age I put in the beginning, I get different pictures and stuff.

Oh, and F-Zero GX was good too.