What do YOU think is the best game of ALL TIME and why? - Page 2

I'd have to say either Hitman: Blood Money or Sim City 4 is the best game of all time.

Hitman: Blood Money, I have always loved because of the sandbox nature in which the levels are constructed; you can complete a mission any way that you want, which gives the game a lot of replayability. The levels of the game also seem so finely constructed; the levels are very large, and are designed to have hundreds of different paths you can take to complete the levels. I also loved the subtle comedy that they put into the game, as well as the not so subtle comedy they put into the easter eggs.

Sim City 4 is possibly the best game of all time as it is the most complex and well designed city building game. It still is the only city building game that I know of where you don't have to individualyl build the buildings, you have to create the infrastructure that the city is build upon, and then the buildings will be built by the citizens. The reason why this game is so great is that there is not a strategy that will allow you to build the perfect city with ease, as there was in previous sim city games; this game has a thousand strategies that will work, but none of them will create the perfect city, and because of this, this game has infinite replayability.

ArmA 2 had the potential to be the best game of all time for me, as it was an amazingly realistic game, but it is plagued with AI problems, poor graphics optimization, a control system with too much complexity, and just an overall broken feel of the game. Commanding troops has a massive learning curve, and it is made much worse by the awful control system, and the AI is painfully broken, which makes any mission that involves vehicle impossible. I am hoping that ArmA 3 will fix all of these issues.
Edited by Art Vanelay - 7/29/12 at 11:42am

+1

Diablo 2 LOD so many years of pure fun.

While BF2 got me into online FPS gaming, CoD4 is the winner for me. CoD4 had great graphics for its time and the gameplay was awesome. inb4haters, I'm too young to have played CoD2 so I don't know about that.
Edited by B!0HaZard - 7/29/12 at 11:41am

This man has the right of it.
Original Deus Ex for me as well.

BF2, had the most fun with that game and my friends in our teens, most fun gaming ive ever had.


@artvan Blood money is my favorite single player game, lets hope the new one lives up!

Age of Empires 2.

It's the game that pretty much introduced me to PC gaming and I have clocked countless hours playing it with friends. It's also still relevant and a really well working RTS game with top notch mechanics. I still play it with friends on LANs occasionally.

I will always remember that game for this:

Halo: CE by far.

Halo 2 is a joke comparatively. I was good at it too, btw. Lvl 39 in Team Hardcore, so I'm not just talking out of my ass.

Guild Wars.

 

Any game that can keep me playing for a good 6 years or so solid gets my vote.

 

The original Devil May Cry was pretty awesome, aswell as Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory too.

 

Lastly Unreal Tournament for being the most badass multiplayer shooter of all time. Throughout all of its iterations I have played them consistently in some form or another. Rainbow 6 Vegas 1 & 2 would come a close second. I played the hell out of those also.

 

Guild Wars gets my overall vote though. Get all the campaigns and a good group of people to play with and you'll have years of fun.