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Ok, lets try this out. What are 3 games that made you go \"WOW\" when you played them? I mean, not the ones that were the best in graphics etc, but the ones that made you sit back and go 'OMFG, that is the best?.

For me it would have to be these 3. You can include series (Half Life, Descent, SimCity etc)

Descent - Plain and simple one of the best gmaes ever made.

Diablo - Amazed me at how well this was. Loved every second of it.

Grand Prix - Had so many close races with friends and the expertise required and using a force feedback wheel just makes this more \"realistic\"

- Thief

- Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

- Legend of Zelda

Others:

- Ultima Underworld

- Doom

- Might & Magic: Dark Messiah

- Bioware's Neverwinter Nights (1, not 2)

Descent is on my top 10.

Descent - hands down best rush from a game i've ever played, Still get the urge, was playing a bit a couple months ago, but most of the games seem to happen a bit too late for me.

Diablo - Played the hell out of that game, waiting for diablo 3 to come out next year

World of Warcraft: Yeah i said it, been playing since just after it came out. Fills my gaming void just fine for now.

The entire series of the following in \"descending\" order:

System Shock

Descent

DOOM

Descent - \"wow, it's fully 3D! I can, like, move in 3D!\"

Left 4 Dead - the team/coop aspects of this game are remarkable.

Starcraft 2 - \"This is a nice cutscene. Uh, I can select that guy? This is the gameplay? Niiiiiice.\" And it took most of the little annoyances about the original and fixed them.

Super Mario Brothers - There's just something about that first video game, particularly if it's the first one you ever beat.

Descent - Back in '94, my brother and I got the demo, and jumped into the first level. Went left, and dropped down the shaft... oh yeah, we were hooked immediately by the freedom. Over fifteen years later, I'm still playing.

Crysis - I was finally able to upgrade my gaming rig and play this, and came up to the scene in the first level where the rising sun pops out through the trees overlooking the shore... loved that moment, and I've enjoyed the game every time I've gone back through.

These are based off the memories of how amazed I was when i first played them:
Super Metroid
Swat 4
Sopwith

There are alot of games I really liked playing, so this is hard. I've chosen the ones that were new experiences for me.


Descent - the first game I really got into. I had played it a couple times on a PS1, but I was fairly young and it was very hard. Around 2001, my dad picked up Descent 3 on sale - he hated it. Probably a year later I found it and tried it - my bro and I were addicted for a good 2-3 years.

WoW - I played from the Open Beta until just before Burning Crusade. I had never played any RPG's before, so it was a real treat.

I can't really come up with a third. Trackmania Forever, Diablo 2, NFS Porsche Unleashed, Half life 2, MW2, Super Mario Wii, Legend of Zelda, Jedi Academy. Those are all games I really liked.

Descent (series, though more 2, then three, then one)
Mechwarrior 3
Hmm... I'll get back to you folks...

Unreal Tournament - Monster Hunt multiplayer.

Unreal Tournament 2004 - Invasion multiplayer.

--Descent of course, though mostly Descent 1 and 3. I never really got into 2 for some reason. But 3s graphics blew me away and I still consider them good to this day.

--Halflife Series. I just love the story and feeling the games have given me. Also had a lot of good memories playing the rats levels in multiplayer with my Dad.

--Uncharted 2. This was a really fun game. I loved every minute of the single player and the multi was fun too. Too bad multiplayer is so limited though (as all console games are).

DOOM II
Descent
Descent II <- most loved and played
Quake 2
Half-Life + all official expansion packs
Half-Life 2 + Ep1 & Ep2
Portal

The first 3 Splinter Cell games in the series

Descent 1, 2(the best) and 3

Entire Half Life Series and add-ons

DOOM II

Thief Series, especially Deadly Shadows

Grand Theft Auto series

Bioshock I and II

Deus Ex series

Microsoft Flight Simulator FS9 and FSX

TrackMania and Descent are the only 2 series I can think of at the moment. Trackmania is still my favourite ever racing game because it effectively fixed the problem that most racing games have with extremely limited replay value.

Top 3:
1. Mechwarrior 2
2. Descent 2
3. Super Metroid

others:
-HalfLife 2 (I still need to get and play HL1 on steam)
-Portal
-Team Fortress 2
-StarCraft 2
-Transformers: War For Cybertron
-StarFox (Do A Barrel Roll!)
-Doom 1
-Left 4 Dead (Peelz here!)
-Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
-Super Smash Bros Brawl

Lets see,

Based on playtime:

Descent
Wow
DAOC


I think Deus Ex rated very highly in term of \"like\" but I never did multi, so I never dumped a ton of time into it.

SC2 is the current FOTM. Ranked 11 in my 4v4 diamond league last I checked.

If you asked me this on a different day, I would probably give different answers.

Descent (speaks for itself)
Halflife 2 + Episodes (spoiled me--haven't been able to play another FPS since, still waiting for episode 3...)
Braid... (this game is a work of art in every sense)
Wipeout HD (Zone 59 clear... \"Mach 1\")

Runners up:
Flower (another work of art, but I felt the playtime was lacking)
Diablo 2 (it was more addicting than it was fun)

Doom
Descent
Starcraft 2

I'm still trying to think of a video game that impressed me that much. ^_~

1. Descent
2. System Shock (Damn, i believe Shodan is still in my head )
3. Elite

Sorry, can't stop at just 3:

Descent 1-3
HL 2 etc... (replaying these now - love 'em!)
World of Goo - indie puzzle game. Simply brilliant art direction.
Metroid: Corruption
The original Doom
Space Invaders!!
Galaxian
Dragon Quest
Crysis
Portal!!

Good times to be had on all of 'em.

Portal is probably my third, actually.

DigiJo wrote:2. System Shock (Damn, i believe Shodan is still in my head)

Hooray! I'm not the only one left on the entire planet.

Well, either Murphy's law (whoever he was) is true, or video games aren't worth remembering after all.

Although pretty much any xbox game when xbox came out had the \"wow factor\" (I think :P)

Pong - When I first saw that on my Atari it blew my mind.

Lode Runner - I played it for hours and hours and hours on my C=64. In fact, I want to go play it now.

Descent 1 - The first time I saw my brother in law in a pyro across from me in that multiplayer level 1 with the volcano and realized that he was in Charlotte N.C. 500 miles from me and we could see each other flying and shoot at each other.....Katy bar the door...it was over for me....and 15 years later I'm still doing it.

I still say Pong is one of the best ever made.

I remember Lode Runner: TLR ... I could probably credit that game with getting me into level design actually. It was one of the many games I was playing shortly before Descent.

Now to answer the question... this is not going to be my three favourite games because I didn't always stick around, but, in chronological order:

Wolfenstein 3D - just seeing this was amazing. I was probably all of 6 or 7 years old at the time, but suffice it to say I hadn't seen a fluid 3D game any more, and it was so very, very different from its contemporaries at the time. If I had played UUW that might have been a different story, but...

Descent - first game to hook me in any big way I think... it took only the shareware version to show me that there was a lot to this game, and that was before I realised what the multiplayer was like.

Freespace 2 - as close to perfection as I'd seen a space sim get at that time. Pretty much everything about it was awesome - well, except the multiplayer, but it's easy to forget about that... nonetheless, it's still held in quite high regard over 10 years later.

1. Descent1/2/3
2. Tribes II
3. DoomII

Jeff250 wrote:Braid... (this game is a work of art in every sense)

I've played the demo for that game and rather liked it. I'm a bit cheap to shell out for the full version however.

I have a #3 now! Or rather a shared #3.
It is between Kobo and Starcraft.

I remember playing Kobo on an ancient version of Linux that my dad had for hours. I stumbled across it in my package manager a while back and ended up playing it for two hours before looking up.

Starcraft (the original, because I won't get burned buying a game new before the $10-20 price drop kicks on, though with my luck the expansion pack will have been released....). I haven't beat the single player yet, and I typically play humans vs. AI. It's fun to have a zerg to bezerk on a front door that has a dozen siege tanks in siege mode watching it.

Planescape: Torment

Knights of the Old Republic 2

Psychonauts

Descent 1
Descent 2
Descent 3




Descent 3
Metroid....uhhhh...all of them?
Toss up between Ace Combat and MechWarrior

1. Descent 1&2
2. Star Control 2
3. Syndicate & Syndicate Wars

All series of...

Call of Duty

Descent

FreeSpace

1. Descent I
2. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
3. Dragon Quest VII

Descent 1
Descent 3
Rise of Flight

Close for #3 (in no particular order):
Age of Empires: Age of Conquerors
Pirates (the remake)
Wing Commander 3 (back when stories mattered)
Red Baron 3D
Wings (amiga version)
Monkey Island 1
Sins of a Solar Empire
Dark Forces (star wars FPS...greatest ending of all time? [evil side of course])
Knights of the old Republic

If I had to pick just 3... My list would be:

- Descent (1, 2, and 3)

Couldn't stop playing Descent 1 Demo.

Just couldn't beat that damn level 7 boss Lost ALL 30+ lives on it.. ACK!

So out of frustration went and took one of the saved game then hacked the Saved Data to give Maximum of ALL Weapons and 65,535 Shields.

Once I knew it's weakness to the gauss / vauss... went back and replayed a non-hacked saved file to beat it \"fair and square\".

Would play all 7 levels then delete it ONLY to redownload load it over and over and over.

- Freespace (1 and 2)
This was and is still a great space simulation.

- Castle Wolfenstein
This was the first game that made me go WOW!

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One that really set the gaming world on the edge was the Original Unreal with all its' special lighting effects, etc.

Prey really took things up another rung or two... the Portals and the changing of the level from right side up to turning the level 90 degrees in the x, y, and z axis really was a major leap forward.

I remember beating the lvl 7 boss of the Demo with just flares
I heard it could be done and then set about trying to do it. Took me a while (about 2 hours if I recall), so it's definitely doable.
One of the best bosses of all time IMO!