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Just a curiousity, what is your favorite game franchise

Madden

I like to play chess..... do you like to play chess?

Fallout 1 and 2, Europa Universalis 1 and 2

Monkey Island!!! Or any of the Worms series.

Final Fantasy

sim city, followed by C&C

Yay a fellow simcity and c&c fan =)

I still like Halo better though ;)

I'm a big fan of Devil May Cry, but only the first one ( i haven't played 3 yet). My fav series would have to be Final Fantasy.

I'm a fan of Warcraft and C&C, and I'm also quite enamoured of that Tribes series.

I've only played Final Fantasy VII and X, shoulda added it as a choice eh?

WHO MADE THIS POLL!?!? :sniper:
WHERE IS THE LEGEND OF ZELDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I vote for Legend of Zelda!

Age of Empires and Age of kings is the Greatest

Sim City. I have every single iteration sitting on this computer. Though some of them need to be re-installed.

Although the last few installment were not so great, I must say Final Fantasy.

Yay a fellow simcity and c&c fan =)

I still like Halo better though ;)
hehe halo does rock.
halo 2 is ok, but its just not as cool as the original ;)

Halo

Warcraft (from the Og up to WoW )

Maxis (from simcity to Sc4)

Half-Life/CS

Battlefield (1942, nam, etc.)

I'm a big halo fan. I liked Halo 2 a lot, but I prefer to play it on Live and I don't have anyone to play.

My current favorite series is Splinter Cell.

Chaos Theory is soooooo awesome.

Marathon

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Thief

major bumpage

Riven, Myst Exile, and Myst revelations

I have a few... and I don't believe many are on that poll....

Half life series.
Total war series.

These are the daddies, however. Nobody can dispute that and not have me laugh at their inferior taste.

The Hitman series. It's brilliant. Just keeps in getting better and better with each
new title. Ditto Thief and splinter cell, even if choas theory was slightly on the small side.
Fallout and Baldurs gate. Mostly for thier near adult themes. Two very enjoyable
series nevertheless.
KotoR. Who didn't ever wish to force-choke someone.
And finally an honourable mention to Delta force and Rainbow six for making me plan and think before bursting in with all guns blazing.

Civilization by far... Ever more if you get to include Alpha Centauri, Master of Magic, and Master of Orion which were pretty much variations of the same system.

The Monkey Island series.

Also, why in god's name isn't Final Fantasy up there?

The Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series of course! Philistines! ;)

I said C&C but i like WC alot to.
Age Of Empires,Civilization as well and NHL!

The Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series of course! Philistines! ;)
Ah Ha another that says Philistines!

Age of Empires / Age of Mythology

Madden

Ditto.

Homeworld all the way! Plus any Star Trek/Wars games.

Good Lord! You didn't have GTA on your poll!!! ;) That's my definite favourite.

Out of your list, I have to choose Maxis - I love The Sims 2 as well.

I also love Soul Caliber and Diablo (I voted for Civilization though) and the sims!

Maddennoob

Civilization or King's Quest.

Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 3. only available in Japan. if you ship it and use Freeloader in your gamecube, you can play it on an american gamecube. i suggest you all immediatly buy this game.

noob
the correct term is nub

How could you forget final fantasy?

the correct term is nubThe Ultra-correct term is n00b.

Doom I
Doom II
Doom III

Half-Life I
Half-Life II
Plus the expansions (Counter Strike et cetera)

NCAA Football (made by EA Sports). It nudges Madden just a bit, but why, you ask?

It's got the Pittsburgh Panthers.

Starcraft. Three expansions(only 1 major), plus ghost coming out, plus the N64 version, plus UMS maps.

If you dont count it, then BF series.

My absolute favorite, which I'm surprised nobody mentioned, is Mario. Especially the old NES/Super NES games. Then after that would have to be Starcraft and Warcraft. Starcraft UMS are awesome.

in no particular order: Halo, Civilization, Splinter Cell, Age of Empires

SimCity, Fallout... oh yeah....

Why the -hell- hasn't anyone mentioned Worms yet?

Final Fantasy

Generally speaking, I don't like game series. The longer they run, the more tired and unoriginal they get.

No one has yet mentioned the Elder Scrolls Series, but as I've only played Morrowind, I won't mention it either. However, I will say that Fallout is the best series ever made. GTA is excellent as well, but once Fallout 3 comes out, I'm certain it will blow our beloved GTA to shreds. Why? Because Bethesda, Morrowind's creators, are working on FO3.

*high fives whoever else voted for Tekken*

Seriously...only two votes for what is arguably the best fighting game series ever?

There must not be a lot of fighting game fans on this board. :(

Generally speaking, I don't like game series. The longer they run, the more tired and unoriginal they get.


Ah, that's not always true, but I note you said generally. Personally, I think that more game developers should be basically really constructing a universe for us to play about in, but not in the traditional term of the thing. What I mean is, a true world, with background fluff coming out of every orifice. Make it as original as possible, especially if it's sci-fi or fantasy. Then you widen the options. Get a team of professional novelists to design a sci-fi universe, and thinkabout it. Space naval warfare sim, city builder, squad based shooter, adventure, mmorpg, first person shooter... you expand it! and if they do a really good job in creating the world that you play in, it's so much more enjoyable. it just feels that it has so much more depth.

and for them, it's a complete win. With so much more depth, it's a cash cow they can milk for years and years, without it necessarily becoming tired and terrible.

EDIT 2: to clarify, I don't think that the game should necessarily allow you full freedom in this universe, it could be linear scripted... but as long as the background is there, you can do so much more with a series.

*high fives whoever else voted for Tekken*

Seriously...only two votes for what is arguably the best fighting game series ever?

There must not be a lot of fighting game fans on this board. :(

Super smash bros and the old streetfighter games kick its arse. old school beat-em-ups always destroy the ones like Tekken. Gimme OMF 2097 anyday, personally.

...with background fluff coming out of every orifice.

:eek:

need for speed. especially hot pursuit 2.

oh, and how can i forget mario? especially the old ones. classics!

Dynasty Warriors!

Its my favorite book (The Three Kingdoms), combined with my favorite pasttime (Sitting on my ass and killing people). I play it ENDLESSLY. I know just about EVERYTHING about the entire series.

I am a minor demi-god at that series. I can take on Lu Bu on Very Hard with an untouched Qiao Sister and have a better than 50% chance of winning. I beat 3 and 3x every single way possible, doing everything possible within the games.

I've forged a reunited empire within 15 turns in Dynasty Empires, I've beaten every scenerio in Dynasty Tactics, seen every movie and cutscene for myself. I've had an over 500,000 KO'd combo in Dynasty Tactics 2.

All of that, and I can still play those games and enjoy them. The thrill of battle, the enjoyment of history, the intriguing fighting styles. All of it, golden.

I'm partial to the Sim City series, and have spent countless hours building the perfect civilization in the Civ series...

Fallllout!

Fuck I feel sick... I think I have a fever. Ugh.

Hrm... Aside from Football...

I'd have to say Civilization. That, and... Hmm... Metroid. Metroid's a classic series.

Gimme OMF 2097 anyday, personally.

OMF was the greatest. I was a beast with the Shredder.

Final Fantasy would probably top my list, though a couple of them (especially the latest) weren't that great. Other than that Might and Magic rank high, and let's not forget Mortal Kombat.

Grand Theft Auto
Final Fantasy
Metal Gear Solid
Tony Hawk's
Gran Tourismo
WWF/WWE Smackdown series (Last one wasn't that great of an improvement though, more of a disappointment really)

Simulation/Strategy belongs to SimCity. One of the most interest and best strategy games out there, with an elegant design on the surface but a deep gameplay under the skin. With the "hard-core" simulations, Sub Command is on my top list (Dangerous Waters, made by the same company, is also nice but is online-ordered only), though I've heard that Silent Hunter III is quite nice as well. With flight sims, Jane's F-15 gave me a really realistic experience, while Lock On is good in general. Il-2 Sturmovik and its successor, Pacific Fighters, are also nice as well, though among other things the single player is rather shallow and dull.

With action/adventure games, Splinter Cell. Though I also play tactical and "squad" shooter games (aside from the occasional sci-fi and run-and-guns), it has a degree of replayability and has an unique stealth-based gameplay in general. I played both the first one and the Chaos Theory, and needlessly to say, the latter is arguably one of the best new games our there currently.

Lemmings! :D

But also the GTA, Cossacks and Civ series.

From those on the list, I picked Civilization.

The Baldur's Gate series (on PC, not the God-awul console crap) kicks huge amounts of arse, too.

I like to play chess..... do you like to play chess?
Later. Now I want to play 'thermonuclear war.'




eh? EH? Someone's gotta get that...

WHO MADE THIS POLL!?!? :sniper:
WHERE IS THE LEGEND OF ZELDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I vote for Legend of Zelda!
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Originally Posted by Niccolo Medici
Dynasty Warriors!

Its my favorite book (The Three Kingdoms), combined with my favorite pasttime (Sitting on my ass and killing people). I play it ENDLESSLY. I know just about EVERYTHING about the entire series.

I am a minor demi-god at that series. I can take on Lu Bu on Very Hard with an...
...All of that, and I can still play those games and enjoy them. The thrill of battle, the enjoyment of history, the intriguing fighting styles. All of it, golden.

Heck Yeah! Crystal Ireland and I play that almost every weekend. We've only played DW4 and DW4: Empires, though.

Originally Posted by Cannot think of a name
Later. Now I want to play 'thermonuclear war.'
Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Later. Now I want to play 'thermonuclear war.'


eh? EH? Someone's gotta get that...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

Right?

Edit: Damn, New Exodus beat me to it.

Heck Yeah! Crystal Ireland and I play that almost every weekend. We've only played DW4 and DW4: Empires, though.


I advise you to try out 3 and then 3x, they are significantly better than 4 in terms of gameplay. Slowdown and clipping are a bit worse, but the game is infinately more FUN in 3 and 3x...Mind the archers though, they can kill you real quick in the early games.

Dynasty Empires would be one of my absolute favorite games if it had a 2 player mode. Wouldn't it? Can't wait for DW5: Empires.

DW5 looks really good, I've only played it for about 20 hours though, so I can't say how it stands up to long-term playing. Unfortunately the 2 player mode suffers from extremely short draw-distance and some slowdown problems...which are absent in the single player mode.

W/o a doubt, Zelda

Just a curiousity, what is your favorite game franchiseBlizzard ...enuff said.

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I have a hard time with game series on a whole. They tend to lose even more whatever it was that made the first few games great with each new installment.

Of course, I'll opt for a couple. Final Fantasy has been surprisingly long-lasting, though it does have a hit-or-miss history. And the online installment was painful. Silent Hill was great in its first two iterations; the third one began showing signs of age and the fourth one is where it all unravelled.

I don't play much, but I liked the "Hidden&Dangerous" games alot.

another vote for fallout here:)

i also like the shareware exile/avernum series.

Fallout takes the cake. I must have finished Fallout 2 over 15 times (10 for Fallout 1) and I´m still not tired of it.

I even loved Fallout : Tactics for crying out loud.

Gimme OMF 2097 anyday, personally.

WOW!!! I thought I was the only person in the world to play this game! Go Pyros! Unfortunately, my version's bugged and crashes my computer...

Moving onto more recent series... Worms is great, GTA (San Andreas is actually kinda disappointing for me) is fantastic, but my vote goes to Gran Turismo. Go GT4, I just have 9% to go... unfortunately that's the bloody Driving Missions, urrgh...

WOW!!! I thought I was the only person in the world to play this game! Go Pyros! Unfortunately, my version's bugged and crashes my computer...



Pyros was cool, but I liked.... kronos... jaguar, and shadow. Nova was just a little bit uberpowered for my taste.

My favourite, whose name I forget *hangs head in shame* was the one with all the electrical moves. it was probably just called lightning or something similar. It had a great scrap move, anyway.

I'd play it, but the sound won't run correctly on my pc, and I need sound for my games or I weep.

my favourite is

Max Payne, and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

my favourite is

Max Payne, and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Great games. Absolute masterpieces. I approve your choice.

*wants to reinstall max payne 2 now*

Max Payne 2 is beautiful.

Great storyline, great gameplay, great everything.

Max Payne 2 is beautiful.

Great storyline, great gameplay, great everything.

Absolutely. And one of the first truly mature games that I've came across. And by mature I don't mean GTA "guns whores and violence" mature, I mean an intelligently told, written, and designed game for adults that isn't sickeningly patronising.

Easily the best thing out of Rockstars doors, ever. GTA is stinky, and manhunt is just... violent for the sake of shocking. Payne 2 actually has substance.

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the correct term is n00b

i voted halo coz i loved both games but i also really enjoyed KotOR seiries and Medieval/ Rome total war. oh and of course the Warcraft series. Other great titles i cant beleive you dont have are mario, wario, pokemon (comon you know you loved it) and Zelda

L.o.k.d

Pyros was cool, but I liked.... kronos... jaguar, and shadow. Nova was just a little bit uberpowered for my taste.

My favourite, whose name I forget *hangs head in shame* was the one with all the electrical moves. it was probably just called lightning or something similar. It had a great scrap move, anyway.

I'd play it, but the sound won't run correctly on my pc, and I need sound for my games or I weep.

I think you mean Elektra... The Story mode was awesome, I loved kicking ass with an upgraded Nova (it has grenades) but the only bot that I couldn't use properly was Flail... I really sucked with him... and then there's that guy in Story mode with his orange-and-blue Flail THAT I COULD NOT F***ING BEAT!!!

It's really quite sad that I remember so much about a game I was playing 5 years ago...