Puzzle Quest seems to be one of my favorite games seeing as I have it on DS, 360 and now iPad.  The sequels have all had their strong and week points but I always end up going back to the original.

Borderlands definitely one of my favorite games more recently 3 play-throughs and still finding it fun.

Oblivion definitely one of the best Fantasy RPG's of any generation though I've found I've tired of it now but that's over probably 150+ hrs of play.

Fallout is equal to Oblivion but slightly more polished in the story and general play.  Still a good game and the expansions extend it.  But after awhile (100+hrs) it's also lost it's charm.  Now I pass it up for the more crack like ADD experience that Borderlands offers - all the fun, less of the tedium.

Etrian Odyssey III for the DS.  Fantastic series all the way around but the III is just so much better then the last two pretty much every aspect.  I don't know how many hours I've spent chilling with this game.

Fallout (the originals)
Half-Life (series)
Mechwarrior 2
Persona 3/4
Blazblue
STALKER
Mario Kart Double Dash
Wolfenstein 3d
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (the only good spin-off of the original)
Team Fortress 2
Pokemon Red/Blue

There are a lot of other games I really, really like, but those are the games that left a big impression on me.

Armored Core Series.
Freedom Force Series
City of Heroes.

I fucking love armored core. love it. AC4 is amazing, I'm just sad I never found people online to play against.

Quote from: Cranewings;418894I fucking love armored core. love it. AC4 is amazing, I'm just sad I never found people online to play against.

They all stomp me, so I stopped looking. It's mostly a matter of not optimizing to win so much is playing the the things I like. (LASERS! Even if it isn't the Kuro..)

Quote from: Silverlion;418886Armored Core Series.
Freedom Force Series
City of Heroes.

I loved Freedom Force. Didn't like the sequal as much, but the original rocked.

Quote from: Silverlion;418966They all stomp me, so I stopped looking. It's mostly a matter of not optimizing to win so much is playing the the things I like. (LASERS! Even if it isn't the Kuro..)

Back in the old days of AC 2, I think it was more diverse and fair. There were a lot of different strategies. In the new one, I don't think there was much reason to make a smaller armor. The bigger ones were so agile and powerful. 2 was the best game.

I wish I could love AC4e it's such a great idea for a game but I find the difficulty level is just at the batshit insane level.   The Computer AI is to good and the player controls are ultimately always just a little to clunky.  Still though I love to love it.

Quote from: kryyst;419084I wish I could love AC4e it's such a great idea for a game but I find the difficulty level is just at the batshit insane level.   The Computer AI is to good and the player controls are ultimately always just a little to clunky.  Still though I love to love it.

I don't know why the basic controls are so bad. I haven't played the game in over a year, so I can't tell you the controls I used, but...

I swear there is a way to set up your controller so that you can fire all of your weapons without taking your fingers off of the flight controls. One of the big problems with the game was with the basic controls, to fire you have to stop turning. If you get your controls set up more like an FPS... look and fire on different fingers, the game is a whole lot easier.

Quote from: Technomancer;418359Civilization 2 is still the greatest game ever made.

Seconded. Not much love out there for turn-based strategy anymore, but Panzer General will always hold a special place in my heart as well.

Quote from: IMLegend;419532Seconded. Not much love out there for turn-based strategy anymore, but Panzer General will always hold a special place in my heart as well.

I loved all the SSI Five Star games, especially Fantasy General.  If I could have gotten it to work* on any of my computers for the last decade I would have tried get the setting info down for use with a D&D game.



*Don't anyone recommend DOSBox, I've never been able to make heads or tails of that thing, and even when I followed the instructions to the letter it never did shit for me.

I'm rather partial to Fallout 1 and 2 myself. I thought they were a lot of fun, and gave you decent options for such old games.

I loved AC2 (especially being on Mars.)

But I went nuts building a ton of mecha for each one. Its less common these days because the play changed. Maybe when AC5 comes out, anyone want to try it out.

Quote from: Silverlion;421560I loved AC2 (especially being on Mars.)

But I went nuts building a ton of mecha for each one. Its less common these days because the play changed. Maybe when AC5 comes out, anyone want to try it out.

I was the same. AC2 was by far the best. I liked AC4 but, there wasn't much of a reason to use different designs.

I'm really looking forward to 5... it sounds like they are changing a lot from 4, which is a good thing.

Its a toss up between Baldurs Gate II SoA/ToB & Knight of the Old Republic 2 tSL.