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[SmoothCriminal]

1) Deus Ex
2) Half life/HL 2
3) Mass Effect Franchise
4) Goldeneye
5) Total Annihilation
6) Battlefield 2/Bad Company 2
7) Alan Wake
8) Civ series
9) Dragon Age/Skyrim/Fallout
10) MWO

[Lostdragon]

1. Baldur's Gate series
2. Half Life seies
3. Doom (original)
4. Mario 3
5. Chrono Trigger
6. Mechwarrior 2
7. World of Warcraft
8. Command and Conquer
9. Deus Ex
10. Dragon Age

Edit, Honorable Mentions: Goldeneye, LoZ: Ocarina of Time and Link to the Past, Commandos, Starfox, Mortal Kombat I-III, Bionic Commando, Ninja Gaiden, Megaman 2, Street Fighter, Warcraft series, Dawn of War series, Skyrim, Fallout series, Bioshock, Civ V, Myst, Longest Journey

Edited by Lostdragon, 08 August 2016 - 07:40 AM.

[El Bandito]

Witcher 3 is better than any of the OP's list, in over all category.

I do love my Medieval 2: Total War, like no other.

Edited by El Bandito, 08 August 2016 - 05:37 AM.

[Steinar Bergstol]

People will, of course, never agree on lists like this. It's in the nature of the beast. However, I think perhaps many also confuse "Best (video) games ever made" with "most important games ever made" or something along those lines, particularly when people start including older games.

Let's take a game like Karate Champ from 1984. It pretty much is the game credited with inventing the 1 on 1 fighting game/beat-em-up genre and many might include that (or early refinements of it like Way of the Exploding Fist or International Karate +) on a best games list, but do they actually belong there or more on an "important games" list for pretty much creating and establishing a genre? Is Nethack, already mentioned by several, actually among the _best_ games compared to newer Roguelikes, or should it rather be considered "important"?

I'm afraid many of us old geezers who played our first "vidya games" on when we came across a Space Invaders arcade cabinet in our kiddie-years and grew up in the age of the Commodore 64 and the like tend to give old games more credit than they are due for being "good" when they should rather be considered "important" for what they did to help establish the video games industry and various genres within it.

And I say this as someone who looks at the C64 era With decidedly rose-tinted spectacles.

[BLOOD WOLF]

1.Legend of zelda Ocarina of time
2.total war medieval II
3. Grand Turismo 4
4.Mechwarrior online
5.Empire total war
6.starcraft+expansions
7. halo1
8.Far cry primal
9.Super mario brothers(SNES)
10.majoras mask

If nothing else majoras mask for the N64 is definitely a legend

El Bandito, on 08 August 2016 - 05:36 AM, said:

Witcher 3 is better than any of the OP's list, in over all category.

I do love my Medieval 2: Total War, like no other.

dude i am playing Crusaders with the stainless steel mod as of now.

My friends girlfriend plays the Witcher 3 and she loves the crap outta that game.

Edited by BLOOD WOLF, 08 August 2016 - 05:48 AM.

[jss78]

Ace Selin, on 08 August 2016 - 05:26 AM, said:

Speedball 2

Hell yes! Forgot this off my own list.

Also had the most bad*ss theme song of any Amiga game.

Spoiler

[Davegt27]

not a big time gamer but of note

1. Task Force 1942 (great game) (https://en.wikipedia...Task_Force_1942)
2. Ascendancy (https://en.wikipedia...ncy_(video_game)
3. MWO
4. Ghost Recon (https://en.wikipedia...27s_Ghost_Recon)
5. Command & Conquer : Generals/zero hour
6. Defender
7. Missile Command
8. Sid Meier's Civilization II (https://en.wikipedia...Civilization_II)
9. F15 Strike Eagle II
10. Company of Heroes (https://en.wikipedia...mpany_of_Heroes)

[El Bandito]

BLOOD WOLF, on 08 August 2016 - 05:48 AM, said:

dude i am playing Crusaders with the stainless steel mod as of now.

My friends girlfriend plays the Witcher 3 and she loves the crap outta that game.

If you like wacky stuff and hard challenges on M2:TW, try my Mongolphobia mod, something I made many years ago. Oh, and if you see the Papacy army has Seraphim unit, do be careful.

http://medieval2.hea....php?fileid=102

Edited by El Bandito, 08 August 2016 - 06:20 AM.

[Acehilator]

Impossible to make such a list.

Pretty disappointed that nobody mentioned:

- Syndicate
- System Shock 2
- Warcraft 2

yet. I guess most people can agree on The Witcher 3. But no way in hell MWO belongs on this list, neither as a shooter, nor a Battletech game.

Edited by Acehilator, 08 August 2016 - 06:20 AM.

[Luca M Pryde]

0. Mechwarrior 2, Mechwarrior Online
1. Phantasy Star 2, 3 and 4
2. Shining Force 1 and 2
3. Final Fantasy 8, 9, 10, 12
4. Command and Conquer, Generals, Red Alert 2
5. Dragon Force
6. Other Shining RPG games I forgot the name of
7. Sonic 1, 2, 3, and knuckles
8. various other RPGs
9. Fear 2 and 3
10. Streets of Rage 3
11 Wipeout 2047
12. Skitchin, Road Rash 3
13. Boogerman
14. Civilisation 5
15. Rome Total war 1, 2
16. Rocket Night Adventures, Sparkster
17. Super Baseball 2020
20. Earthworm Jim
21. Urban Strike
22. Modern warfare 2
23. Worms
24. Lemmings
25 Warcraft 3
26. Master Blaster 2
27. Shinobi 3
28. Bubsy
I have heaps of others but I forgot the name of...and these are in a really rough order depending on what I am feeling on the day...

Edited by Luca M Pryde, 08 August 2016 - 06:38 AM.

[Davers]

In no particular order:

1. Total War: Rome
2. Total War: Shogun 2
3. Mechcommander
4. Dawn of War (1&2)
5. Civilization 5
6. Counter Strike
7. League of Legends
8. MWO
9. Warcraft 3
10. Starcraft

Edited by Davers, 08 August 2016 - 06:40 AM.

[Yosharian]

Half-Life
Baldur's Gate 2
Doom (the original Doom)
Deus Ex
Chrono Trigger
Fallout
Portal
Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne
System Shock 2
Thief: The Dark Project

and there's a lot more I could name, narrowing it down to 10 is virtually impossible

Johnny Z, on 08 August 2016 - 03:41 AM, said:

Top Ten games ever made. Fun topic, add your Top 10 please.

1. Final Fantasy VII
2. Mount & Blade: Warband
3. Fallout 4
4. Mass Effect 2
5. Medieval Total War 2
6. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
7. Fallout 3
8. AC IV: Black Flag
9. MechWarrior Online
10. Kenshi

Lmao, what.

Sorry, but this is not a very good list.

[Green Mamba]

The 99% of the population of players who left this game would disagree with the OP

Most feel almost all the other MW titles are better than this one

Edited by Green Mamba, 08 August 2016 - 06:52 AM.

[Hotthedd]

My top 50, in order (Relevant parts only)

1. What MW:O could have been
...2.-49....
50. What MW:O is

[Dino Might]

1. Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries
2. System Shock 2
3. Digital Combat Simulator
4. Might and Magic II
5. F29 Retaliator
6. X-wing
7. Goldeneye (N64)
8. Syndicate
9. Starcraft
10. Ghost Recon (XBox)

I put the two console games in there because I never played the PC version of GR and I don't know if Goldeneye was ever ported over. I know there are some I missed, and the order on these isn't necessarily set, but these are the ten that came to mind.

ETA: To clarify, these are top ten video games for me. As for games in general...

These tabletop games beat any of the above:
1. Battletech
2. Axis and Allies
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Shadow Hunters

Edited by Dino Might, 08 August 2016 - 06:56 AM.

[Mawai]

Rhaythe, on 08 August 2016 - 04:26 AM, said:

If you're going to label your list "Ever Made", then you'd better damn well ensure that the list includes more iconic games from a wider breadth of history. Your list is more of a "top ten made in the past five or so years".

If you want a true top-ten EVER made, then I believe it would look more like this (In no particular order) (and I'll even keep it PC-only here):

• Nethack
  
• Half-Life 2
  
• Doom (no, not the 2016 remake. I mean DOOM)
  
• Counter-Strike
  
• Bioshock
  
• Starcraft
  
• Homeworld
  
• Portal 2
  
• Unreal Tournament 2004
  
• Quake

And that's just me shooting from the hip.

I think you should have System Shock there instead of Bioshock ... System shock was the first and in my opinion, the best, of the bunch.

I think everyone's list is biased towards the games they have played and the kinds of games they like to play. RPGs/FPS/RTS/Turn based ... and on

Here are some of my picks ...

- Rogue/Nethack
- DikuMUDs .. though there were lots of different flavours
- System Shock
- Everquest
- Mechwarrior 2,3,4
- Civilization franchise
- Warcraft franchise (not WOW) ... Starcraft grew out of it
- Baldurs Gate series
- Fallout 4: New Vegas (though most of the Fallout franchise are good)
- Witcher series though I have only recently started playing them
- DOOM/Quake
- COD/Battlefield
- probably some sports games I never play


MWO doesn't make my top ten list because there simply isn't enough GAME in my opinion for something in the Mechwarrior franchise. If it only ever aspired to be an FPS like multi-player DOOM in mechs then it has pretty much achieved that goal. If that is all this game will ever be then maybe it can squeak onto a top 10 of team based FPS PVP games if only because the list is relatively short to start with (though Doom/Quake/COD/Battlefield all do this genre better than MWO). ... but it would never make any sort of "overall" top 10 list.

However, my impression based on the comments from PGI over the years was that MWO was to be much more than it currently is, with more involved gameplay, role warfare,factions, and many other elements to make the basic mech combat gameplay more fun, interesting, involving, immersive and attractive. It hasn't achieved this goal. Maybe it never will.

[Wintersdark]

Steinar Bergstol, on 08 August 2016 - 05:38 AM, said:

People will, of course, never agree on lists like this. It's in the nature of the beast. However, I think perhaps many also confuse "Best (video) games ever made" with "most important games ever made" or something along those lines, particularly when people start including older games.

Let's take a game like Karate Champ from 1984. It pretty much is the game credited with inventing the 1 on 1 fighting game/beat-em-up genre and many might include that (or early refinements of it like Way of the Exploding Fist or International Karate +) on a best games list, but do they actually belong there or more on an "important games" list for pretty much creating and establishing a genre? Is Nethack, already mentioned by several, actually among the _best_ games compared to newer Roguelikes, or should it rather be considered "important"?

I'm afraid many of us old geezers who played our first "vidya games" on when we came across a Space Invaders arcade cabinet in our kiddie-years and grew up in the age of the Commodore 64 and the like tend to give old games more credit than they are due for being "good" when they should rather be considered "important" for what they did to help establish the video games industry and various genres within it.

And I say this as someone who looks at the C64 era With decidedly rose-tinted spectacles.

Influencial is as valid here as "the ones I like best" which is what basically every list is.

In Nethack's particular case, I stand firm. Not because it was influential - Rogue gets credit there.

Nethack is one of very few games ever to have that level of depth, interaction between objects. There's practically nothing else like it and that's a shame. Lots of great Roguelike games; even better in terms of purely roguelikes... But nothing else has come close to Nethack for depth.

[Wrathful Scythe]

• Diablo 2
  
• Unreal Tournament 2004
  
• Touhou EosD (and every other entry post Windows)
  
• Dark Souls
  
• TES: Morrowind
  
• Total War Shogun 2
  
• Starcraft 2
  
• Halo 2
  
• Monster Hunter freedom unite
  
• Disgaea 1

Everyones a masterpiece in my book. The top three are always installed and played regularly since their respective release. The rest are games I have played multiple times with each having a playtime far over 200 hours and could play them at any time without feeling bored.

edit: reading through this thread I see a lot of people with good taste in games.

Edited by Wrathful Scythe, 08 August 2016 - 07:16 AM.

[Satan n stuff]

In no particular order because I'll change my mind about it anyway:
Deus Ex
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Resident Evil 4
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Unreal
Super Mario World
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Dawn of War II
Final Fantasy VIII
Heroes of Might and Magic III

Quite a diverse list, notice which game isn't on it.
I'm hoping I can add Battletech, Dawn of War III and Star Citizen to the list at some point.

[draiocht]

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