Your Top 5 Computer Games Ever.....

[RFUS]

Finally got my last achievement in Fallout 3. Nearly 70 hours of gameplay.

I might go back to F: NV now and get that last ending... but bar one brief foray on Plants vs Zombies and OoT on my 3DS, all I've played for the past 1 1/2 months and over 100 hours of gaming is Fallout games! Talk about getting sucked in!!

I'll probably tuck into Deadly Premonition now and/or the ultimate edition of Dragon Age: Origins. How about that for a productive summer?

 

[BlueLlama]

I never really got into gaming until the last few years so I'll have to go for ....

1- Far Cry 2 - awesome tactical FPS in an open African setting
2 -GTA Vice City - GTA went downhill when it went all serious
3 - Modern Warfare 2 - when I was housebound after an accident this saved my sanity - the best CoD by a mile.
4- Fallout 3 - only RPG I ever got into
5- Fight night 3 - best boxing game ever

 

[Tubey]

And another 5 year massive anticipation wait cycle will begin for a game I'd expect to be incredible. I know so many people who hardly play video games anymore or PC games, but they're still readying up for Diablo 3. I could imagine the same would happen if a 4th Warcraft came out. Does WoW attempt to continue where Frozen Throne left off? I hope not!

It pretty much does yes, and does a magnificent job of it. The second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, covers the entire story about what happened after Arthas killed his father and took up the mantle of the Lich King in Northrend. It really is a fantastic story.

Anyone who is a fan of Warcraft 3 and The Frozen Throne really should have give WoW a bash by now, it's truly an astonishing game.

It sort of transcends these sort of "best five games" lists because it's in a league of it's own and will go down as far and away the greatest game of all time when it ends.

 

[RFUS]

It pretty much does yes, and does a magnificent job of it. The second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, covers the entire story about what happened after Arthas killed his father and took up the mantle of the Lich King in Northrend. It really is a fantastic story.

Anyone who is a fan of Warcraft 3 and The Frozen Throne really should have give WoW a bash by now, it's truly an astonishing game.

It sort of transcends these sort of "best five games" lists because it's in a league of it's own and will go down as far and away the greatest game of all time when it ends.

Oh come off it, mate. Firstly there's no such thing, and secondly as you imply yourself, it's not really fit for comparison with other games because it's not a normal game. It's an MMO, and an especially massive one at that.

Personally I hate WoW and MMO games as a whole, so the notion that it could be regarded as the greatest game of all time makes me feel a bit queasy. I appreciate what it does and often how well it does it, though.

 

[TheFinnFan]

pocket-billiard

 

[Tubey]

Oh come off it, mate. Firstly there's no such thing, and secondly as you imply yourself, it's not really fit for comparison with other games because it's not a normal game. It's an MMO, and an especially massive one at that.

Personally I hate WoW and MMO games as a whole, so the notion that it could be regarded as the greatest game of all time makes me feel a bit queasy. I appreciate what it does and often how well it does it, though.

11.4 million subscribers who fork over £9 a month plus the costs of the games and expansions says it all. Of course the quality of a game is in the eye of the beholder, but if you're going to use a generic rule for judging the impact of a game, sales figures, critic scores and longevity are the tools to use.

Seven years of uninterrupted dominance, universally positive critic scores and still a growing game. Consider Call of Duty over the entire course of it's franchise has sold around 70m copies, whilst WoW generates that income in under a year.

World of Warcraft is pure quality - those who say it isn't have more than likely never played it, or only played it for an hour.

 

[RFUS]

11.4 million subscribers who fork over £9 a month plus the costs of the games and expansions says it all. Of course the quality of a game is in the eye of the beholder, but if you're going to use a generic rule for judging the impact of a game, sales figures, critic scores and longevity are the tools to use.

Seven years of uninterrupted dominance, universally positive critic scores and still a growing game. Consider Call of Duty over the entire course of it's franchise has sold around 70m copies, whilst WoW generates that income in under a year.

World of Warcraft is pure quality - those who say it isn't have more than likely never played it, or only played it for an hour.

I'm not dismissing Wow's sales.

But for Christ's sake, if you go by your scoring system, then MW2 or Black Ops or something must be the greatest console games of all time as they gets critically fapped over, have broken all the sales records and are consistently the top played games on the PSN and XBL.

But come on, they just aren't. In terms of MMOs WoW is unrivalled, but its income contrasted with that of regular games has no place in a discussion of quality.

Quality is subjective, so if it's your favourite game of all time then great, but I just object to you saying, with a matter-of-fact assurance, that's it's going to be the best game of all time.

 

[Silas]

Quality yes. Best game ever? Nah.

 

[Tubey]

I'm not dismissing Wow's sales.

But for Christ's sake, if you go by your scoring system, then MW2 or Black Ops or something must be the greatest console games of all time as they gets critically fapped over, have broken all the sales records and are consistently the top played games on the PSN and XBL.

But come on, they just aren't. In terms of MMOs WoW is unrivalled, but its income contrasted with that of regular games has no place in a discussion of quality.

Quality is subjective, so if it's your favourite game of all time then great, but I just object to you saying, with a matter-of-fact assurance, that's it's going to be the best game of all time.

Actually, it's not my favourite game of all time ^^ Hence why it's not in my top five actually! All I'm saying is that it'll go in the same category as Pong and Super Mario Bros. in that it is a completely unprecedented title in gaming history.

And I actually don't think it's the best either! I said greatest, meaning that in terms of pure accomplishment it has taken the baton and ran like hell with it. 10 years from now, people will look back on WoW and applaud the ambition of that project and it's pure success.

And actually, I would say Modern Warfare 2/Black Ops are two of the greatest titles of this generation, but again I wouldn't put them in a top five list as they rely on multiplayer to succeed. To be the best game, in my book, is to be a game that allows you to switch a console/PC on and get totally lost in a brilliantly designed game individually rather than rely on human interaction.

 

[RFUS]

Actually, it's not my favourite game of all time ^^ Hence why it's not in my top five actually! All I'm saying is that it'll go in the same category as Pong and Super Mario Bros. in that it is a completely unprecedented title in gaming history.

And I actually don't think it's the best either! I said greatest, meaning that in terms of pure accomplishment it has taken the baton and ran like hell with it. 10 years from now, people will look back on WoW and applaud the ambition of that project and it's pure success.

And actually, I would say Modern Warfare 2/Black Ops are two of the greatest titles of this generation, but again I wouldn't put them in a top five list as they rely on multiplayer to succeed. To be the best game, in my book, is to be a game that allows you to switch a console/PC on and get totally lost in a brilliantly designed game individually rather than rely on human interaction.

Yet again I'm not dismissing WoW's accomplishments, although I would attribute its longevity partly to it monopolising the MMO market quite early on and it being a nearly impossible task for anything else to topple it, as it has 7 years and a huge, loyal userbase on anything new.

I just object to you saying it will be the greatest game of all time. That's nonsense.

As for CoD, nah. The best games in the series are quality games, but they don't deserve to be anywhere near the top of any best of lists. Singleplayer they're really quite shallow (although I did love Black Op's, due to the 60s aesthetic) and MP they get away with quite a lot. Online they're poorly balanced, graphically sub-par and all of the iterations from the past 4 years or so are near identical. I can't praise such a lack of innovation. Especially when its market dominance rewards said lack of innovation, and drives other publishers to "do what CoD is doing" rather than something fresh.

But I digress. There's better games online than CoD and so many better games offline. As for WoW, it's its own entity. A mightily impressive one, but it's unfair to compare it to regular games for a multitude of reasons.

 

[Namdrater]

I've always had some months where I've played WoW, but usually on unofficial servers. By the time I get to level 50 I get bored of it. Then restart 6months later lol. It just seems to be the type of game you have to spend so much time on and whoever spends the most time on it, is the best. I'm sure that part of the reason WoW was so popular from the start was because of Warcraft itself and how many millions loved the series. It's the only MMO I've played and probably for that reason alone.

This is my second day playing COD4 and it is definitely the best of the series in terms of multiplayer. It's much more balanced, it seems like a game made with a lot more balance in mind than MW2 and BO and overall just feels a bit more challenging. On top of that, the mod support for the PC version has made that game last extremely long, because you can modify the game to suit more balanced needs and remove stupid things like tubes. And the graphics aren't much worse than MW2 or BO.

 

[Saliba]

WoW is one of a kind when it comes to gaming. I play WoW and i'm going to say it's definitely not the best game, but the concept and its mechanics are disputably miles ahead of any other game or MMO. The fact that WoW can sometimes be so god damn boring takes it away from my number 1 spot, it's in its own class though. For me nothing beats COD, Fifa and Football Manager, love them all as much as each other. Oh Civilization series is also excellent, spent so many hours playing Civ3+

 

[Goat]

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Aion craps all over WoW.

 

[Saliba]

I haven't played Aion, it is certainly graphically better. I don't know, i've played lotro, a bit of guild wars and they are both terrible compared to WoW. Plus im a Warcraft fanboy, so i supposed im biased.

 

[heatmeiser]

I installed all those DLCs recently and went straight to that Hicksville Island, only to get absolutely ****ted by a load of sentry robots.

Then I tried that snowy one and it bored me senseless - I was a bit hungover like.

Put me right off and I haven't been on it since.

I'm just addicted to Alchemy on my phone at the minute...