Choose your game - 1998 ed. [Poll]

• I'm not asking what game is the best.  I'm asking what game would you play first, be it for the first time, or just to revisit some old(better?) times?

  Games linked below with awesome words.
• Pinnacle of old tyme RTS
• Crazy futuristic Japanese story-telling
• Epona!
• Stabbystabby
• Chemistry in vidya games
• Tank Controls ftw!!
• Epic orgins
• Forgotten Realms
• A 2nd Fallout?!
• The last of the adventure games?

I can always play some Unreal.

HALF LIFE Without a doubt, that game was Amazing.

Always Half-Life...always. I still play through the game from time to time, although Metro 2033 may replace it as my "I'm bored, time to play a good 'ol narrative vidja-game" game.

You know, I never got the chance to play Grim Fandango, so that would be my choice.  Ditto for Baldur's Gate, and Thief, but Grim seems to ooze character, so I would roll with that.

Banjo Kazooie you fuck

Metal Gear Solid. Always.

Metal Gear Solid

Zelda and MGS.  Funny thing, I've never owned a sony console and I've played through MGS1 and MGS2.

I still play StarCraft... does that still count as revisiting? :3

Metal Gear Solid. Easily. 

For me it has to be half-life since its a game that I still play. Though ive played all of the other games on the list I havent played a lot of them.

Dungeon Keeper (1997 most places) but hey ho.Hey, no love for Thief?

I'm a huge MGS fan, but I have to go with Half Life. It was my first ever FPS game and it still plays brilliantly. 
 
Actually, I think I would choose the PSX version of Tekken 3 over all of those.

" Banjo Kazooie you fuck "

• Pokemon: Red and Blue
• Banjo Kazooie
• Xenogears
• Final Fantasy: Tactics - one of GregK's favourite games.
• Tekken 3

Thats pretty hard to choose but MGS, Resident Evil 2 from the list.

" @CoolDrMoney said:

" Banjo Kazooie you fuck "

I should've made that last option - other.  specify how I fucked up in comment. 
 
I knew I forgot a couple:  

• Pokemon: Red and Blue
• Banjo Kazooie
• Xenogears
• Final Fantasy: Tactics - one of GregK's favourite games.
• Tekken 3

"

Which would I choose to play today?  Grim Fandango.  It's probably the only one on that list that hasn't been improved upon in its genre.
 
Rainbow Six came out in '98 and that was incredible.  Somebody should bring back that Kit-Out / Plan / Execute structure - I loved that.  The end of ME2 kinda reminded me of that a little bit.

Pokemon, gotta catch 'em, gotta catch 'em all, POKEMON!!!!

man we all talk about how we are spoilt these days with quality releases, how we were spoilt back then, this was a super hard choice.

picked Falllout 2 because its the right thing to do...but i was playing Half Life, MGS and Unreal like everyone else

Half Life. I can still play it and have a great time.

Its a tough choice between MGS and Half life, very tough 

I have a current MGS save file on my PS3, I love it. 1998 was pretty awesome though.

i love re2, but gotta give it to OOT

Starcraft was my game back then and has become my favorite of all time, can't wait for 2.

You know what else came out in '98:

I'm gonna go for a game I loved as a 10 year old - Theif. Even though I loved OoT very much too.

" I'm gonna go for a game I loved as a 10 year old - Theif. Even though I loved OoT very much too. "

• Xenogears
• Pokemon Red Blue
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Banjo Kazooie
• Tekken 3
• Tribes
• And this little game called Super Mario 64 . . . maybe some of you have heard of it

Half life for sure. Gordon Freeman is the man

I can't believe you missed out both Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped AND Pokemon Red/Blue. Although I'm actually kinda glad you missed them out - now I can just click "Other" and be happy with my decision. Those are two of my favourite games of all time and I'd never be able to choose between the two.

I can't even vote at this point.  I have played and love all of them.  I would easily put MGS, Half Life, Ocarina, Starcraft and Resident Evil 2 in their without a doubt.

Zelda babay!!

Metal Gear for sure.

Pokemon

Pokémon for me.

MGS, half-life or unreal. I voted for Unreal because I knew it wouldn't have as many votes.

Half-Life. Don't get me wrong, Grim Fandango is amazing, Ocarina of Time is amazing, and I love Fallout 2 to death. But Half-Life is one of the best games ever. 

Half-Life and Pokemon Blue. I revisited HL not 2 years ago, I'd like to play some Blue again too.

Pokémon Red/Blue. I can still play those games today, which kind of speaks for their quality.

Only one of these games was dynamic enough to accomodate me as my gaming tastes matured and evolved.. Starcraft! From playing it as a 12 year old enjoying cheating against coms with nukes, to being a 20 year old freshman competing against Koreans on WGT (and failing for the most part), we've seen some great times together.

Wow, I forgot how many excellent games came out in 1998.   
Tough choice - also compared to what I played then and what I would choose now in 2011. 

Radiant Silvergun  also came out! (Now I haven't played it myself yet, but I hear people like it. Waiting patiently for the XBLA release! :)
 
Here's a somewhat full list from Wikipedia: 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1998_video_games

man, i miss playing grim fandango!
 
I wish LucasArts still made those types of point-and-click adventure games

I find the lack of MediEvil on that poll disturbing.

Half Life, Pokemon Blue, and Ocarina of Time where where it was at for me. '98 was a damn good year.