In my opinion, some of the best game out there have sequels.
Kingdom Hearts series
Legend of Zelda series
Super Mario series
Final Fantasy series
Halo series
I'm going to get flamed for this one: DragonBall Z Budokai: Tenkaichi series
Need for speed series
Metroid prime series
Battlefield series
And a couple of others
But there are other games that don't have sequels that match up, examples:
Crysis (Awesome)
World of Warcraft (not really a game with a sequel)
Counter-Strike: Source

What are your opinions?

Command and Conquer from the beginning.
Medal of Honor.
Even AoE
Great.

Have to go with... in no particular order...
Zelda
Mario
Final Fantasy
Halo
and classic *winces* Tekken :P

And I have to mention, though it doesn't have a sequel that i'm aware of...
Bioshock

Totally stoked about Mass Effect too... come on money...

The best games are the ones that change the way games play.

Elite,
Doom,
Civilization II,
Ultima Online,
Battlefield 1942 (Desert Combat Mod),
Dawn Of War,
Portal.

Yep Bioshock definetly a great game. I like your game styles :D

They are re-making Final Fantasy VII on the PS3. Halo 3 is the best sequel.

@hax0rzd

Haha, <3 :D I remember the first time i played it and saw the big daddy walking in one of the tunnels next to me, haha *oh crap oh crap* ^.^

@lilyth

Lol :D I'm interested to know...which is your best zelda and final fantasy game?

@hax0rzd

at this point, I'd have to go with... for final fantasy, it's gotta be VII, though 10/10-2 isn't bad

Zelda...that one's tough, I have to give love to the first zelda game, because it's probably the first game i ever played...

Yea, same here VII rules, 10/10-2 is hard to compare, since its in another league of its own. Zelda games I think are great are
Nintendo 64: Ocarina of Time
Nintendo Wii: Twilight Princess
NDS: Phantom Hourglass

oh i forgot
Gamecube: Windwaker

haha, Windwaker was great, i haven't had a chance to play Twilight Princess yet though :(

It's awesome, with the creativeness of the Wii controller, you can't miss it.

^.^ it's definitely on my to do list

I like the old games
all time favorite Zork

@ygagnon1024
I can see why :D It was those classic retro games that fueled todays developers to create the wonders they do.

I had the massive honor of meeting Mathew Smith, the creator of Jet Set Willy last week. I love the random people I talk to at the pub.

@hax0rzd
Yeah alot of game developers grew up on the clasics alot like music, I still play my atari 2600 on a regular basis now how is that for a flash back

Any and ALL mario games
Same For Final Fantasy

Starcraft
Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
SIM City

Mario Bros.
Final Fantasy VII
Oblivion,The Elder Scrolls
Wipeout
most anything RPG

Duke Nukem, Doom3, Return to Wolfenstein, QuakeX (1-4).

And now to show my age though:
Zork 1-3. These made you think and use your imagination. Arguably not going to make much use of that water-cooled video card but then again, my imagination (and whatever controlled substances were available) made for one hell of a great game.

painkiller (beat doom 3 for game of the year), devil may cry, soul reaver, oblivion, resistance, half life 2

I have halo 3 aint a bad game but they over sell it!

well thats my opinion because the added new places and a couple of new vehicles and teak the graphics and apperences a bit. But a good game nonetheless.

I always been a fan of the PS2 adventure game Jak 1,2,3 and Jakx

And loves all the Battle Field Games.

Dont have a fav games because they keep toping it.

okay, i also have to give love to portal from the orange box... come on, how can you not love that computer... and who doesn't want cake? but,I miss companion cube *cries*... i'm done now :x

Ahh I just remembered another classic fav. Leisure Suit Larry!

@lilyth For the last few weeks Still Alive is one of my most played songs according to Last.fm

Truly cannot wait for the next one.

@uncertaingod

haha, that's fabulous! It's on my phone and goes off every time i get a text lol. You can always tell the fans, 'cause they'll all shout "cake!" or something similar ;)

The best games
Zelda
Super mario & Super mario bros
Runescape
ALl the Need For Speed Series
All the Fifa series
Age of Empires
Civilization
GTA Vice City and San Andreas :D

My best games are;
Resident Evil, God of war, Dinocrisis etc
resident evil is most faviroute i finished all the parts of it.

In no particular order.

Q3A
Dark age of Camelot
Guildwars
Magic Carpet
Descent
Whale's Voyage
Lands of Lore
Fallout
Icewind Dale
Monkey Island 1&2 (and tons of other point and click adventures like Sam 'n Max, Space Quest Maniac Mansion etc)
Archon: The Light and the Dark

and Pong!

it was an oldie but a googie ghost's and gobblins had me hooked

sorry about that should have been goodie

I haven't played many games in over a decade, so anything coming out after that is way past my knowledge. So with that caveat:

Super Mario Bros & Super Mario World.
Legend of Zelda
Tecmobowl (doesn't stand the test of time, but really kick started the genre)
Street Fighter series - classic fighting game, some will prefer Mortal Kombat.

The Street fighter games are my favorite of all time. I still play them on my Super nintendo emulator every once in a blue moon.

I noticed early on my propensity to get addicted to games (They are too good now) so I just stay away. You've got to know your weaknesses.

ooh, and I used to love to play netrek - first Internet game I played

Mega Man

PacMan.....Gauntlet....Legends of Norath....Mortal Kombat(s)....Rise Of Nations...Rise Of Ledgends...

I Love strategy games and I like those photo hunt games too!!!

Hate 1st person shooters..But love to watch them being played...lol...

The entire Morrowind series, I'm currently working on Elder scrolls

NeverWinter, just finished the first and working on the second.

Tekken 3 and Tag
Halo series
Guitar Hero series
Age Of Empires 3
The Godfother

@karmy
i heard about god father and havent played it since. Maybe ill have a look at that.

Anyone played Azada on the pc. Now thats a cool game. Hoping they bring out a 2nd one.

I love Dreamfall - hope there will be a sequel - and The Sims. ^^
Other games that had me hooked where Cultures (very funny strategy game) and Zanzarah, but I'm afraid, they are not bublished outside Germany... and they're a couble of years old.

pizza frenzy

lol

@juli

Zanzarah and Cultures were great! Both were published outside germany, but didn't do well.
Zanzarah was one of the most beautiful games I've ever played!

Any one here heard of Runescape

i am hoping to get YOU 2 stop spamming, oh starcraft and starcraft blood war

@ryan: Yes, it was. It's so sad that the company went bankrupt... I always dreamed of a sequel and never found anything that could keep me awake the night just like that.
Do you know any games comparable?

no starcraft fans here ?

For those who like zelda and mario, I recommend Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. In particular FF VII and all KH sequels. For PS3 owners you are in luck. FF VII came out on the PS1, but to my knowledge Square Enix are re-designing the game for the PS3. There are videos on youtube.

FFVII all the way, they made crisis core for pp which is being dubbed for 08 and is the 4th FFVII installment all in all, Square are vusy on the PS3 version as you say and hopefully it goes a lil furthen than the Zack, Nibleheim spin off too.

@jameshowson :Starcraft was amazing, all the westwood games too (C&C)

I WONDER IF ANYONE MANAGED TO DRESS CLOUD AS THE RIGHT KINDA WOMAN TO GET INTO DIO'S CLUB IN SECTOR 7G (DISC 1) I SAW A HOMO-EROTIC SCENE OF HIM WHERE HE GOT INTO A JACUZZI AND THE LIGHTS WENT OUT WHEN A BUNCH OF GUYS JOINED HIM IN THERE WITH LITTLE PINK THONGS ON, THIS IS NO WORD OF A LIE BUT I CAN FIND NO REFERENCE TO IT ANYWHERE. THIS WAS AGES AGO BUT IT'S THE BIT WHERE YOU HAVE TO PUT ON A WIG AND A DRESS AND WHEN YOU GET IN PICK 1 OF 10 DOORS, I PICKED DOOR 1 TO SEE THAT AND HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET IN SINCE, REPLAYING THIS ON MY PSP NOW AND IT'S AMAZING

THANK GOD FOR POPSLOADER

@jameshowson
I loved starcraft spent many an hour blowing up aliens

Metals slug arcade games and time crisis gum games, yes many others are there but i thought i will mention some i guess thats not on everybodys top list but it is on mine

Fallout and fallout 2 great humor in those

classics: another world on amiga500

halo crisis

I suppose most (if not all) above are computer games. I do not play computer games.

Board games - Monopoly and Risk. I also love playing Chess - perhaps the best game ever devised.

@mekon

Chess, the fine art of strategy

@NIP

With little gambit here and a little gambit there.

Yes 'tis a fine game.

Satrted on s.t.a.l.k.e.r. some days ago. great game. I like the 1stperson shooter with a story.

Have to agree with mekon and quark, as games go chess is the master.
I also enjoy cards with family and friends, euchre, 500, gin rummy etc even Texas Holdem at times.

As for computer games only one I have managed to really get into, is an oldie but a goodie, Caesar III

@paddedbag

I hope you mean Jash, Monele Stock = 44

or Yash, Bella, Stock = 70 7 for retained KQ

Yes?

@quark
I think the answer would be no cause I haven't got the foggiest idea what you are on about lol

wow pacman pong galaga all classics lol... i used to play falcon against my cousing with two computer linked flying head on no atari st now those where the days... hmmm no internet then lol...
and a game called lotus esprit in split screen mode with two players both using same keyboard now did that cause some arguments and some great fun when both are drunk....

R-TYPE
XENON 2 MEGABLAST

@prophet581

Sorry please do not shout it offends my Ferengi hearing.

Further shouting is now banned on the site. Thankyou.

@harryheck I remember Another World, though I never finished it. Do you remember Poing?

How about Dungeon Master (the original)
And the MYST series (MYST, Riven et al)

These days I don't play quite as much, and more games like Zuma Deluxe or Gold Miner. :)

@devaasha Ooh yeah poing, tried it again emulated on pc a couple of years ago.

Then there was Eye of the Beholder and of course Megalomania if anyone remember those.

The ones I've been playing lately:Blue Dragon,Two Worlds,
The Golden Compass,Fatal Inertia,Kameo,Overlord,Condemned Criminal Origins,Oblivion.

ooooh
Watching part two of John Adams I remembered another great oldie: Gold of America

@harryheck I saw it in emulation as well. Might even still have it on my computer (nope...sigh), but it was way too fast compared to the Amiga version and wound up being more frustrating than fun.

Do you remember Obliterater?

@devaasha

That's sometimes the trouble with older games the
makers never allowed for the massive increase in
computer speeds we have today and so many are now
unplayable.

While the label "best game of all time" would not apply, I am having a ball playing the Lost graphic adventure...so far the black mist has killed me more times than it killed anyone on the show..:|

W~~~

Another great game is Scrabble.
Card games - I enjoy Canasta and Cribbage
Backgammon is also very demanding and enjoyable.

I have for a couple of years now played and enjoyed an online game 'celebdaq' (its a celebrity stock exchange type game) run by the BBC.

@quark

hehe I've got the amiga500 somewhere. Just need to go trough all my old stuff in storage. And perhaps take out my soldering iron, there's a reason for putting it in storage.
Even got my old comodor64. Never had the hart to trow it away. lol

@devaasha
sorry don't think I played that one.

@harryheck

So you are like me.

Never throw anything out that might come in useful later.

I have a roomful of those kind of items.

Could be useful for ballast, or even an anchor for a tinny in an emergency.

Monopoly is the best game ever!

I have a Commodore Vic-20 in my loft. I used to write programmes, in Basic, and still have some on cassette tapes.

@curious - Yep, I also like Monopoly but Chess must be the best game ever.

@curiousandroid, I had a Monopoly game (on the Amiga) that cheated. It wouldn't allow you to make any "deals" with other players (real or computer) but it made deals between itself. Not fair!

Have an old Asteroids arcade platform.25cents to play.Bought it at an auction for 50 dollars.I've spun it up to 12 million points on one quarter.

For strategy I believe Chess is up there not that I rate as a player.

I like to play pool!

Board Games: Monopoly

Dice Games: Yatzee

I adore 'Scrabble' but never seem to get the time to play.

@android\fozzy

Ever played Monopoly with total strangers, that is fun. I allways think I've had a successful round if at least two other players hate me when we're done. IU play to win. lol

That U shouldn't be there: I

Ah a humaan after my own heart.lol.

Chess is without peer but backgammon is deceptively difficult.

@mekon

Backgammon is one of my favourites but you are right one bad move can seal your fate!

Chess 2nd that!

bar game: pool
card game: poker
classic C64 game: paperboy
recent gaming: conflict:desert storm II
PC game: minesweeper!

Have you ever heard of Solar Quest,a board game played much like monopoly.You travel around the Solar system buying up the moons and space docks around the planets.You also use fuel as you travel the board,so you have to keep this dynamic in mind lest ye be stranded.There are consequence cards should you roll doubles and you may attack other ships with your lasers.
Like in Monopoly you hope to own all the moons around any planet because the rent become higher.And if you improve your moon with a fueling station you can sell fuel to your opponents.The game came out in 1986,loads of fun.

also used to love operation wolf on my old commodore64.

My favorite C64 games were:
1. Any of the Zork series
2. Impossible Mission
3. Space Taxi
4. F15 Strike Eagle (to this day the only flight sim I can actually fly).
5. Lode Runner

W~~~

Star Wars:Knights of the old republic,
Star Wars:Knights of the old republic 2 The Sith lords,
and the Legacy of Kain series of games
also City of Heroes, and City of Villans

scrabble (the kids love it)

Monopoly Good for kids

At the moment i'am playing Call of Duty 4 and I think it Rocks

@Sam1980

re your Commodore64 if you still have it
(sorry for delay in posting this)

Remember the 175th Rule of Acquistion.

'If it works sell it; If it works well sell it for more;
If it doesn't work sell it for even more as an antique'

Baldur's Gate, and Baldur's GateII:Shadows of Amn

One I forgot to add to my list earlier, Diablo.

/me sit's patiently waiting for Diablo III.

I remember Diablo and Diablo II. They were two of the best on PC. I had a lot of fun playing them.

zelda,
mario bros team
final fantasy
ghost recon old
and many 2D tv-vediogames from the late 80s



Now Its Pro for Pc game....List are
Hit man blood money
need for speed underground and most wanted
Call of waruz (western cow boy Epic..one of the best up to date)
Ghost recon advance warfare
Bioshock
Resident evil Biohazard
medal of honour new
max payne 1and 2
strong hold series
age of empire series
call of duty
overload
warcraft series and online battles
takken series
commander and concourer

and the list goes on and on........name it all every latest games on the store we are up to it after the work on week end and weekdays we play 10 to 15 hrs a day like hell with friends some of them are animators some graphic disigners so they pretty much provide with the lattest hard ware and soft ware its FUN

Asteroids

Pac man

The sega mega drive (CD version) had an Aliens game(as in the film,Ripley etc) and it almost felt like being in the game & the film.

Super mario

(Metal slug) Was good

Final Fantasy 2, Super Mario World, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Lord of the Rings Online, Baldur's Gate, any of Kenta Cho's games :)

Final Fantasy 2 is good liked them all .

Having a lot of fun with nintendoDS,been playing Final Fantasy IV,and Brain Age2,my brain age is 39,sexy ahhhh.

scene it! is kind of fun :)

Dr.Mario kinda old I know but good.

life