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Without a doubt, the best game I've ever played is XCOM:UFO Defense.

The best relatively recent game I've played is Uncommon Valor.

Close Combat 1
Dune II
IL2

Panzer general 2

Take Command 2nd Manassas
Panzer Command:Kharkov

Two best wargames ever and with good ai.

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Hello please write your favorite game

Spambot in Flames II...

I couldn't pick "one" game, but over the years have had several favourites:

X-Com UFO Defense
Aces over Europe
Civ II/IV
PG II
Fallout 1/2
JA2
CM BO/BB/AK
SH III
GC II

Funny, just realized I have bought a lot of Matrix published games but none of them stand the test of time for me. I still have a couple installed and every once in awhile I load one up but then immediately move on to something else, weird. I was really looking forward to Battlefields but that looks to be a dead fish.

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ORIGINAL: frontless

Hello please write your favorite game

Spambot in Flames II...

Click frontless' profile and look at his other post.Definitely not a spambot.

Fallout 1&2 .... and Fallout Tactics I reallly liked even though it wasn't fully cooked.

Favorite all-time game would have to be Starcraft. I admit that part of it is nostalgic, as this was the game that first made me a serious PC gaming fan. The game has great gameplay with three very different factions that are well-balanced. The scenarios are well-written and set within the context of very engaging campaigns. Starcraft also has one of the strongest stories and most memorable characters (Kerrigan: The Queen of Blades) I've ever seen in a game. Finally, the game at times has a truly warped sense of humor. Can't wait for SC2.

Also, I have to mention Elder Scrolls:Oblivion. This Tolkienesque tour-de-force puts all other role-playing adventure games to shame. It's big, deep, incredibly engaging, hundreds of quests, and very opened-ended gameplay that allows your character to pursue all kinds of different paths, not just fighting. It's a gaming world in which you can loose yourself for hours on end.

My favorite PC wargame is a toss up between Uncommon Valor and John Tiller's Dien Bien Phu. Uncommon Valor is a masterpiece in the art of long range planning, with great land-sea-air battles awaiting you as your plan comes to fruition. I held my breath every time the Japanese launched an attack on one of my carriers!!! Concerning Dien Bien Phu, well, I suppose I've written enough about that incredible game on this site. [;)]

Honorable mention:

Sid Meier's Civilization 2 - Should have gone down as the greatest gaming franchise ever. Unfortunately though as some of you have mentioned, Civ3 was bad and Civ4 worse. The lesson I learned from Civ2 though was that you can start off with the noblest of intentions, wanting to build a civilization of peace, art, learning, science, and low taxes! [:D] After a while though your neighbors start beating up on you, and before you know it, in defending yourself and exercising realpolitik you end up becoming the worst tyrant since the Fuhrer!!!!

Deus Ex - An early role-playing adventure game that's sort of Blade Runner meets James Bond meets the X-Files meets the Bionic Man. Vandenberg AFB, Paris, Hong Kong, Brooklyn Naval Yard, Area 51...great levels and fantastic story full of leftist politics. "The truth is out there man." lol Also, concerning the sequel (Deus Ex: Invisible War), the game play was even better but the story was not as strong.

I know many of you are going to wince at this, but I loved Red Alert 2. A delightfully over-the-top cheesy alternate history story and video cut scenes featuring plenty of eye candy for the guys tends to obscure the fact that the game play was really good, with very well-written and imaginative scenarios. For example, defending Key West against Russians in Cuba, with the Russians using.....you guessed it.....nukes!!! Or turning the Eiffel Tower into a giant Tesla coil to fry enemy tanks. [:D] Alas, concerning last year's sequel Red Alert 3, it has its moments, but doesn't quite capture the magic of RA2.

He likes rts games guys somebody shoot him. [:'(]

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ORIGINAL: frontless

Hello please write your favorite game

Spambot in Flames II...

Click frontless' profile and look at his other post.Definitely not a spambot.

I don't know if he is or is not a spammer, but a lot of companies are starting to use actual people to spread spam these days. They'll make a few innocent posts, THEN they start spamming...or they go back and edit their earlier posts and change them in to spam...or they suddenly change their sig in to a bunch of spam links. The spammers are getting crafty.

You can't really tell and that's almost a sure sign that it's a spambot or some other sort of troll.
 
I'll be the first to apologize to a real person who makes and innocent post.
 

ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

You can't really tell and that's almost a sure sign that it's a spambot or some other sort of troll.

I'll be the first to apologize to a real person who makes and innocent post.

I doubt that, in this case, there will be any need to apologize.

Argh, this is confusing.

Spambot/Spammer (which looks increasingly likely, have a look at that confidence-inspiring homepage link in the profile) or not, the topic works.

To add a few runner-ups to the favourite I started earlier:

- The Battle Grounds/The Battle Grounds 2
- Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
- Fallout/Fallout 2

ORIGINAL: jackx

Severance: Blade of Darkness

Seriously? I have that game and it is basically just an action 'hack 'n' slash' game. What am I missing? The installer on my copy creates about 20 blank entries in the add/remove programs section for some reason and don't know how that made it past testing. It has done it on any OS I have ever installed it on. I found it in the bargain bin one day and it is a version that is meant for the Euro market even though I bought it in Canada.

I don't have a single favourite game but I will throw in AoD as on of my all time favourites from when I first got into PC gaming. All subsims since AoD use the basic same design features even today.

You're probably not missing anything, it's just me who's liking the game a lot more than can be rationally explained. 

Pac man

Seeing as we're being silly....Pong. [:D]

Seriously though...I suppose I have to pick one of the handful of games I've actually finished in my life (or one that doesn't actually have a finish, like GTR2?)...so a game I've completed.... ... ... ... ...

Max Payne
Call of Duty 4
Half Life 2
Brothers in Arms Hells Highway
Mafia

Each of these games had great graphics...so is that what I'm attracted to? Yes. But that's not really why I completed them. They are all easy to pick up and play, so is that the reason? Yes...but again, that's not why I really carried on playing...they were the games I completed because they had absorbing storylines. That is what I like in a game and that is what makes it a great game imo...The storylines in these games were so good, I didn't find myself wanting to skip the movie sequences like I do in alot of games.

So using that as my personal benchmark, I'd go with Mafia. Brilliant story. Great graphics (for the day). Excellent ending. Control was great throughout. The story grabbed you right from the start.

Of course I understand that my own personal benchmark puts many wargames out of the running. So I would apply a different benchmark...like simply what keeps me coming back. And on that, I couldn't really say as I have nothing in the wargaming world that keeps me coming back. I have loads still on my hard drive...because they are good and I don't want to take them off...but getting "back into" a wargame isn't quite as simple as getting back into an FPS (same problem for flight sims).

Combat Mission Shock Force has an engaging storyline and I regularly fire that up...so I guess on a strategy gaming side, I'd probably go with that.

But then there's Forge of Freedom...Although I haven't picked it up in quite some time, I had the most fun with that as an American Civil War game and would always highly recommend it.

But, in the interests of simplicity, I'm sticking with Mafia a storyline and gameplay that has yet to be supreceded.

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For me the best game ever has to be Elite.

David Braben and Ian Bell redefined what a computer game could be, and even to this day I’m not sure that what they achieved, with their non-linear game play, has been bettered.

I know this is a stratergy/wargame forum, but even so, Elite deserves a mention.

Amen.