What is your number 1 favorite game of all time? And has a game come close to dethroning it?

He had it coming. Dude is basically my stalker lol.

Crysis 1 or Skyrim for a more console like game.

Some old MMO if we're counting all platforms.

It's still A Link to the Past even though it has been surpassed by some of the later games and other games similar to it. Metroid Prime and FFIX also hold a special place in my collection. Still, there have been amazing games that have come out in the last 4 years.

I can’t choose between OOT or Chrono Trigger.

Don't know if I have a favorite game but what I do know is that the SNES is the greatest system of all time. Too many hit games to ignore that include Super Mario, Zelda LTTP, Actraiser, Super Castlevania IV, Street Fighter 2, Soulblazer, F-Zero, Contra 3 Alian Wars, I could go on and on really.

Wish I had one. There's just too many that get my love :D

How would you know, you haven't played anything other than Forza and that welfare souls game Remant.

So me & hardwenzen were trolling each other and YOU said something about me without provocation, and yet i'm the stalker LOL.

This is the question I can never answer. Not even sure I could do top 10's in most genres unless they were in no particular order and even then... yeah, no.. lol. There are so many games I love in so many different genres.

My favourite game had always been Half-Life 2, but then BioShock came along and I find them very hard to seperate. I love them both.

But now more recently, Super Mario Odyssey has joined the party and is up there with them. My answer changes between all 3 now depending on the day.

Half-Life 2 did not dethrone Half-Life 1 for me.

The first game was epic 3 way fight you had marines coming in you had aliens and monsters and they were all fighting each other with Gordon in the middle of it all going down.

HL2 was just a stupid gravity gun a little better graphics a motor boat and a buggie that was it literal trash compared to half-life 1 why are people listing over the classic 1st one.

Gordon pushes that experiment in he goes on a train cart to work into underground lab in half-life 1 its way more epic dude what are you doing.

Lol, nothing that came close to being number 1?

Freedom Fighters or Shadow of Rome.

For me it's a tie between Metroid Prime (GC) and Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64).

OOT made a huuuuge splash in the gaming industry when it got released. The gameplay, the setting, the world, the dungeons, the puzzles, the story, the soundtrack, etc everything in that game was a masterpiece. Zelda has never reached those heights again and even though TP, MM, WW, SS, BoTW are all great games, they didn't make the same impact (for me) as OOT. Even now, OOT is still as enjoyable and as good as recent masterpieces released on newer consoles.

Metroid Prime. Wow that game was a huge EPIC out of the blue kind of surprise that everyone was shocked when it first came out. All we knew about that game were small details and we saw little gameplay and I remember when it was released and GS scoring it a 9.7/10 everyone was like "WHAAAT?!". I do not think anyone was expecting a masterpiece from this game especially that it was developed by Retro Studios who most people didn't know what to think of. Game had everything that made Metroid iconic (Metroid is the Godfather of all Metrovanias we play and love now) turned into an EPIC 3D world that is out of our minds imaginations!! Atmosphere in that game is like no other, the music, the graphics, the gameplay, the bosses!!, the puzzles!! everything in that game was absolutely AMAZING.

Honorable mention: Metal Gear Solid 1. That game was and still is my favorite MGS game in the series.

Personally say Halflife 2 did improve over Halflife in a couple of regards. The AI is better, it removed some ill-thought out platforming sequences, theirs more variety to the gameplay and environments and it's final section doesn't suck ass.

It's episodes further improved upon it. Namely Halflife 2's weak combat sequences closer to the intensity of the original game.

Alyx especially, top notch gunplay leagues ahead of other entries, bogged down by a bizarre lack of interest in giving the player combat sequences and deliberately stupefied AI for VR newcomers.

Fails in others. The squad command system later in the game is very gimmicky compared to Halflife, like it presents itself as Rainbow 6 shit, but all you are really doing is just pressing "E". The gun-combat as mentioned comparatively boring with the AI, while actually better, feeling very milk and toast in practice.

While it also has more variety it also has a bad habit of repeating the same sequence over and over, namely gun-ships. It should have really only been relegated to A) and introduction fight and B) fighting 2 at the same time at Nova Prospekt.

They try to mix it up, but it is repetitive, especially on repeated playthroughs.

Halflife, 1 get helicopter twice. Doesn't blow it load. Makes the sequences more impactful.

Likewise the battle with the Hunter Chopper, big build up to a crescendo where getting chased by it for quarter of the game, leagues better than pew pew rocket 3-4 times, over and over.

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One thing Halflife really, really still excels at, is scripted story-telling.

We live in an age where we get fucking lazy, cinematic walking. Or scripted QTE thanks to Resident Evil 4 (an obviously much lesser game) and other nonsense.

Halflife 2 and sequent games have a bad habit of locking the door behind the player and forcing them to sit through dialogue. Compared to Halflife, it feels far more artificial.

To be one of the first FPS to extensively use scripted sequences and have it all feel so seamless and nature if incwedeebles. The first time play that shit in 1998 you can literally feel something has changed in gaming.

Not an easy choice. Between games like Super Castlevania 4, Streets of Rage 2, Halo CE, Mass Effect 1, The Witcher 3, etc, i have played hundreds of masterpieces through the last decades.

If ihad to pick just one, it would probably be Dreams. I already have thousands of hours on it. It's one of the most impressive and addicting pieces of software i have ever used.

Alright...upon careful consideration my FAVORITE game of all time is [drum roll please].................................Super Smash Bros. Melee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[And the crowd goes wild]

@uninspiredcup: in half-life 1 you went to the top of the underground facility into an office and 20 marines went up the stairs to kill you it had INSANE ai those marines were built to kill gordon how dare you say the ai wasn't good.

Super Mario Bros. 3 was my all-time favorite until Resident Evil 4 on GameCube in 2005.

Then Super Mario Galaxy 2 took the top spot in 2010.

Then Breath of the Wild became number one in 2017.

So my favorite game ever has only changed thrice.

It might be easier to go by genre, at least for me. These games haven't been topped in their category.

ARPG - Diablo 2

Arcade - Galaga

FPS Multiplayer - Halo CE (og, not pc)

RTS - Starcraft

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Agreed. I don't think there was a better feeling than playing FF7 in 1997. The graphics, cutscenes, new genre, open world map, plot twist, materia system. The game is so memorable in terms of characters and cities (show a fan a picture of cosmo canyon, midgar, rocket town, goldern saucer, or junon and they will immediately get instant flashbacks)

I've never seen a game 20+ years after release get talked about so much, I mean hell for almost a decade all we heard about where people begging for a remake.

Most people I've spoken to who say FFVII is the best in the series never really played VI. I played both a few months ago, to completion to see the differences looking back and I found VI to be much more replayable than VII. First thing, 2D graphics age a lot better than first gen 3D graphics do. But, I used a bunch of mods to greatly improve the graphics, high res textures, better more modern recordings of the audio and the game looked great, and played great, but the story is what actually dragged it down. Once you know the big secret of FFVII, the shock value is gone, and you just don't care about that event. And that's the foundation for the entire story after that point, which collapses once you know what happens.

Halflifes firefights are more engaging due to speed and damage output, but its AI definitely isn't as good as Halflife 2.

No most people I have encountered have played both. Your confusing which one you think is objectively better as the same as which one is your favorite which have no reflection on each other (Acura TL was nicer than my Accord but my favorite car was still the Accord).

The topic is which one is your personal favorite. IV being a better overall game/aging better has absolutely no reflection on which is your favorite. Favorite includes too many variables that don't show up on a review sheet or a breakdown

It depends on my mood really.

If I had to choose, i'd probably go with The Witcher 3. Just an amazing world with so many great characters, quests and moments.

before that, it was Mafia

RDR2 came close to dethroning W3 but I dont think it quite managed it since the firefights get pretty damn repetitive but its still such an impressive open world and one of the best stories in gaming.

Honourable mentions:

Deus Ex, Company of Heroes, Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl, Mass Effect 1, Shogun 2 Total War, Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, Half-Life 2

Yea, def be up there.

@eoten: I played both. I played FF7 in late 1997, and then played through FF 1-6 during 1998-1999 (via PC emulation). As much as I enjoyed FF6, I still didn't enjoy it as much as FF7. In terms of gameplay, the FF7 Materia system was deeper and allows a larger amount of customization, comparable to the deep FF5 Job system, than the relatively more limited FF6 Magicite system.

In terms of story, FF7 has a more focused smaller cast of characters, a more modern cyberpunk setting, themes involving climate change and psychological disorders, and more surprising plot twists. Not one big surprise (the Aerith one everyone knows about by now), but an even bigger surprise later on (the Zack one, which came two years before the Fight Club movie). While the FF6 Kefka twist was also a big surprise, the FF7 Zack twist had a bigger shock value for me. It made me play through FF7 again to see the plot unfold from a new angle.

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bf3 might finale dethrone log hours of my mw2 days.

It's been Resident Evil 4 for the longest time, and I don't know if that'll change. Several games that have come really close though.

1-Dark Ages of Temuair

2-Starcraft

3-Unreal Tournament

4-Starcraft 2

5-Diablo 2

Yakuza 0 for me amazing story. Kiwami 2 comes close.

When I see this question there's too many games that pop to mind, but if I were to ask myself, "What is the one game that I continually find myself installing and replaying, and have been for many years? What's earned a permanent spot on my desktop?".

I'd have to give that one to STALKER. Which probably wouldn't qualify as a legitimate answer to this question, as it's only with mods that I play these games (Anomaly + add-ons, to be specific), which is an amalgamation of various games in the franchise with various tweaks and not an official product. And no, nothing can beat it, I doubt even its upcoming long-awaited sequel will come close. It is a formula of systemic emergence that always provides and never fatigues, it is brilliant, and is a longstanding testament to a fundamental exemplary core game design philosophy that mods have only brought out to its fullest potential, but that has existed from the get-go.

If I had to choose a game released vanilla that's my favorite, eh....I'm pretty hard pressed to say. Perhaps Tetris DX or Galak-Z, two games I make a point of installing on my rig after I do a fresh OS reinstall. Not to say they're objectively the best (though I think an argument for Tetris in this respect isn't all that hard to make), but only those I've consistently enjoyed the most straight from a developer's vision to realization.