Miscellaneous Monday - Your favourite computer game of ALL TIME?
Easter is cancelled!
This week was supposed to be my turn for [Meg's] Miscellaneous Monday on Community and I well and truly f'd it up...
After spending most of the week last week planning for an awesome Easter related one 💐🐰🥚🐣 I ended up having SUCH an amazingly chilled out 3 day weekend that I completely forgot to log on and post it. LOLz 😅😂
So, here I am on Weds afternoon 14:00 CEST thinking "damn it.. that sucks... I shouldn't have spent so much time playing computer games with the kids" but then I realised:
1) That is what I luuuuuuuurv doing 💙🤖🎮, and
2) what a fantastically super-miscellaneous question for everyone on Community. So this week let's get some uber-debating going on the GOAT:
Computer game addiction is not a crime
Right now my daughter (5) is addicted to Super Mario Bros Wii, whilst my son (3, and who needs a lot of help) loves Rayman Raving Rabids. Both of them love Mariokart DS and Super Mario DS.
They are both equally addicted to but totally suck at Mario Odyssey. One day Animal Crossing will arrive and addiction levels are sure to skyrocket.
I myself am a massive Nintendo freak and plenty of GameWatch, Gameboy, DS, NES, SNES, GameCube, N64, Wii, WiiU and now Switch games have captivated my heart over the years but one game series in particular saw me rack up countless HOURS in playtime: Splintercell on the XBox, Wii and PSP!
That said; despite having owned and completed every edition possible of the Splintercell series (like seriously everything unlocked 100%), there is one outstanding game that i consider my absolute favourite, and despite being super old and running on an old console, it has to be House of the Dead: Overkill (and on the Wii!) To this day, not only have I probably racked up years in game time, not only do I still play it just for kicks because I love it sooooo much, but there is one challenge that I have STILL not unlocked.... hahahaha!!! Unbelievable.
[To unlock it requires a lot of failure and learning and then redoing the game over and over until the right strategy has been performed step-by-step (oooooh baby!], a strategy for which I have no patience!]
And I don't just have one copy... I have THREE! LOL. I also have two magnum handguns and two shotguns... all four a special limited edition version that go with the game. Ultra Addicted Uber Nerd!
So that's me and my family... now over to you:
What is your most favourite computer game of ALL TIME??
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When it comes to war-based games, I actually prefer the strategy side of things. On that my father and I played together a lot was:
These games are classics, I love them! Though Diablo II came out three years after I got born, I remember playing instead a lot of Nox when I was younger. Looks very similar to Diablo, but it was so much more fun in my opinion. Spawning wild animals to help you as a ranger, or being a wizard with crazy fire spells was so cool.
I haven't played something recently, but few games will always have a special place in my heart. Half-Life, Quake (mostly Quake III Arena) and the One-and-Only:
Too many games to think about... Looking at my Steam page:
I'm still super into Age of Empires II, an all time classic. It's so much fun, still today. Can you imagine that there are almost 30,000 players, each day, still playing this game?
Both Civilization V and VI are also very fun, I started playing the turn-based strategy games back with Lords of Magic.
Running around from zombies, or players, is also very tense and interesting with DayZ (not talking about the horrendous development of that game...) and Project Zomboid.
Playing Hide and Seek or Prop Hunt in Garry's Mod with friends is also very fun, especially now with the pandemic. Being able to call people and play games while you talk about your week is so much nicer then having a boring video call imo.
It's funny that my first real game that I played as a game called Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood. The gameplay was very interesting and all text was also spoken with a very British English voice. I learned a lot of English from that game when I was 8 years old. Another game I played, and still do, was Stronghold Crusader. Building your own castle, managing and economy and destroying other people's castles was a very nice twist of the RTS's.
Not much of a gamer and never have been. Fun for me is doing something like building the smallest static linux kernel I can for a given computer and have it still run. (Nothing like omitting the hard disk driver to make it fun to get things working again. :-P )
There's also nothing like having physical objects as the outcome of my time spent. :-)
Rebuilt the kitchen island to include a wine-rack. Winning the game was maxing out the capacity with at least some organization. :-D
I have had, though, a tremendous amount of fun with the original Wii Tank Battle game where two opponents face off against each other and the Wii console itself. I always played it teaming up with each of my daughters against "the evil computer guy". :-P
I felt this taught them the value of teamwork and more importantly kept it light because Dad didn't crush them every time - BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Ok it's friday, but as @Andy - PTC Redundant started on Wednesday such an awesome topic I have to join in... 🕹🎮
But wow the longer I think about the harder it gets. Starting in my childhood with Amiga 500 with Turrican
I came in my Nintendo obsession Game Boy, Game Boy Color, DS, NES, Super NES, Wii U, Switch.... Love all Super Mario Jump and Runs ❤️No Idea how many hours I spent together with my mum to get 100% percent in Super Mario World
Let's not forget the other consoles like PS, PSP, PS2, XBox where my wife and her brother played uncountable hours of racing games on - like in real life that's not where I'm bestie 😅My best thing was Burnout series where you had to create maximum crashes
During my apprenticeship when we had a really long day in the advertisement agency we played a LAN Party Unreal Tournament - this is where I found my love for Ego Shooters (but to be true, it's only working on PC)
I'm better with Mario Kart. We had a tournament at work last december where we had pizza, beer and 6 screens with different Mario Karts - it was awesome!
Also love fighting games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter which I started as a child with my cousin on Arcade (while my Dad and Uncle where playing Squash) 😇😝
As always - I'm unable to make a decision... I think it depends on your mood, what you wanna do at this moment, whom are you with and so on.
But as Andy said Computer game addiction is not a crime
Keep on gaming everyone!!!
We should probably start a Mario Kart challenge here in Community (cause we have no idea how long this all will take us) 🚗👑🏆🎖 N64 is the only Nintendo I never had - seems like something i have to look for. Played Goldeneye only as Single Player on Gamecube and I was really, really bad...
Street Fighter on Arcade - my love ❤❤
This swimming pool reminds me of the squash center and the pences it only costed back then. I wish there were more Arcade centers left 😪 (it feels there are only some of them in the Netherlands when you look for them in Europe).
Which one was your favorite player in Street Fighter II? (on SNES or next generation Arcade) Mine were Guile and Blanka because I was able doing their special moves and was able to defeat my cousin 😅
My favorite of all time has to be The Sims. I even used to have a Sims blog where I would chronicle the stories of the Sims. For example here is a screenshot of episode 12 in which my main Sim character, Moey, falls in love with Darth Vader.
Hey @Monique vdB,
The category you are looking for is "Turn-based RPG" yes Final Fantasy is the most popular in this category, and I love all of those games as well.
For the Nintendo Switch, once of my most recent favorites in this style (which is also made by the same people who did the Final Fantasy games) is Octopath Traveler, which is also available on Steam.
Epic list @Monique vdB ! I loved the Sims when it first came out. Seems like donkeys ages ago!
I remember how I used to get frustrated with the game play and just type rosebud hundreds of times for a million Simoleans 🤑💸💰
@Jimmy Seddon : never heard of Octopath Traveler... looks good! Found a really really nice and totally awesome review by IGN if others are interested!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkKmKy0YIJ0&t=68s
and check it out....! It's a GIF of SocialJimmy pushing QueenMo over the edge! 😉😉
Nice one @Danny ! We always need that person, so now we have you! 😃🌟
(Just like Nic said!)
I'm not Vegan but I enjoy a great plant-induced diet.
My favourite sources of protein are Chia Seeds, Oats/Oatmeal, Chickpeas, nuts and a mixed variety of veggies: broccoli, spinach, asparagus, artichokes, potatoes, sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts (mann! I love me some sprouts!)
I have played ALOT of of games that it would be too difficult to differentiate. FYI @Andy - PTC Redundant I would happily donate all my sprouts to you! :D
@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- the same can be said for me and meat-based protein. :D
Heroes® of Might & Magic® III
Unfortunately I cannot play it on MacBook :(
