For board games, I like Boggle, Monopoly, Sorry, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit
For PC games, I like the Monkey Island Series, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, the Kyrandia Series, and Noctropolis.
For online games, I like the Submachine series, The Mystery of Time and Space, Sakura's "Food room" series of Escape the Room Games, Minoto, Cubis 2, Bejeweled 2, and mostly Room Escapes.
Agreed, Nuts&Bolts is not a platform game, but a pimp-my-ride simulator. Too bad, I still remember the summer holidays when I bought the first B&K. My parents had probably never heard that much « can we go home now ? ».
Now, to my best game ever…
It’s Shenmue II. I’m a player since a long time, I was six when we first had the NES at home. So, I have a lot of very good games to remember, especially in the whole 16-bits period. But well… Shenmue II was for me an incredible experience. I was sixteen when I played it, and it changed a lot of things for me. For the first time, in a game, I was free. I was free to do, or not to do, I was free to be lost and to ask people to help me wherever, whenever. I was free to play, I was able to earn money and free to spend it in what I want, I was a stranger in a foreign country, I was lost and walking straight on was not a solution.
I’m a long time player of adventure games, and it was the first time I saw an arcade game, or at least a game looking like and feeling like an arcade game, right on my TV, letting me live a human adventure. For me, this was only possible with adventure games. Shenmue II proved me I was wrong. Really wrong.
And it has changed me. Adventure games already had some influence in me, that led me to be curious, interested in many things. But Shenmue pushed the switch definitely. At some point that I bought today plane tickets to go in Asia to learn chinese.
For those who have never played it, I, of course, recommend you to try. However, it’s an old game now, so it could look a lot less impressive than in 2001. I also recommend you the xbox version, better than the Dreamcast one, for just one reason : loadings. The Dreamcast version is insupportable because of this. GD-Roms are basically CDs, so it loads slowly. Xbox, thanks to DVD, is a lot quicker. And some people will say « yes, but the dreamcast one is in japanese, so it’s better ». Well. China is not Japan. It was true for Shenmue, but not for Shenmue II.
Anyway, just because of the epic story, of the beautiful backgrounds and landscapes, of the last chapter (where you learn to appreciate what nature is), of the chinese philosophy, and of the music, this game is something you should try if you can.
I'm gonna have to go with Shenmue I, my all time favorite, Why oh why did I sell my dreamcast and all it's games oh so many years ago, WHY! Now I have a working dreamcast for first time in forever and I can't find Shenmue, Woah is me!
Holy crap, BLOOD! I remember playing that game all the freakin' time. I played the shareware version (remember shareware?) for months before I actually got the full version. I loved it. It was too bad the sequel was a bit of a let down - it lost the charm of the original.
My favorite games...Prince of Persia:The Sands of Time, LeChuck's Revenge, CMI, Loom, Mass Effect, Counter-Strike, Half-Life 1 Deathmatch (fond LAN memories)...
Tough question...I'd say top game ever is TIE Fighter - which I can't run with Windows 7, I hope LEC re-releases the graphically improved version on Steam. But then again, I'd need a new joystick, too.
16 reasons to play videogames:
The Dig, Tetris, Ultima IX, Broken Sword, Half Life 2, Doom 3, GridWars 2, Dragon's Lair, The Bard's Tale, geoDefense, Bioshock, Cave Story, Braid, Portal (Activision), Torchlight and Machinarium.
The best game from TTG so far:
The Great Cow Race.
Crossing my fingers for:
DeathSpank, ELITE 4, Rage and Sam&Max S3.
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For participating, I'd like to try curling
For board games, I like Boggle, Monopoly, Sorry, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit
For PC games, I like the Monkey Island Series, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, the Kyrandia Series, and Noctropolis.
For online games, I like the Submachine series, The Mystery of Time and Space, Sakura's "Food room" series of Escape the Room Games, Minoto, Cubis 2, Bejeweled 2, and mostly Room Escapes.
Yes, I am a dork. Why do you ask?
I'm gonna have to go with Shenmue I, my all time favorite, Why oh why did I sell my dreamcast and all it's games oh so many years ago, WHY! Now I have a working dreamcast for first time in forever and I can't find Shenmue, Woah is me!
My favorite games...Prince of Persia:The Sands of Time, LeChuck's Revenge, CMI, Loom, Mass Effect, Counter-Strike, Half-Life 1 Deathmatch (fond LAN memories)...
Tough question...I'd say top game ever is TIE Fighter - which I can't run with Windows 7, I hope LEC re-releases the graphically improved version on Steam. But then again, I'd need a new joystick, too.
The Dig, Tetris, Ultima IX, Broken Sword, Half Life 2, Doom 3, GridWars 2, Dragon's Lair, The Bard's Tale, geoDefense, Bioshock, Cave Story, Braid, Portal (Activision), Torchlight and Machinarium.
The best game from TTG so far:
The Great Cow Race.
Crossing my fingers for:
DeathSpank, ELITE 4, Rage and Sam&Max S3.
-Heavy Rain
-Fallout 3
-Uncharted 2
-Half Life 2
-Gta iv