Do you have any single, ONE, favorite game of all time? (Gaming Question of the Day 9-24-10)

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#2  Edited By astrotriforce

Very tough choice but . . . . I think I'd pick Super Metroid. Or Resident Evil Remake . . . but honestly I do think Super Metroid is the best game of all time and I can get 100% in an hour, so I voted yes. :P

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#3  Edited By Vodun

Nope, I feel that would be too limiting and there are too many variables involved. No game can fulfill every need.

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#4  Edited By TheUnsavedHero

I can't even begin to imagine having a top number one favorite. It would be just a large cluster of games. 

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#5  Edited By yinstarrunner

Metroid prime for me. I replay it religiously. It's like it was a game made specifically for me.

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#6  Edited By MysteriousBob

I can't make a top 10 order, but I do know that Streets of Rage 2 is a perfect game and no other satisfies me quite as much. Dynamite Headdy would probably be number 2.

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#7  Edited By LegalBagel

My favorite game would probably have to be some combination of Super Metroid, Zelda: LttP, Chrono Trigger, or Final Fantasy VI from my golden age of gaming, but I don't think I could pick one as my absolute favorite.  Played each tons of times and still love them, but they're so different it'd be impossible to choose. 
 
Modern games probably won't eclipse them as my favorite, but I'd probably pick a game from the last couple years as the "best" game I've played.

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#8  Edited By Atlas

Yes. There is no doubt in my mind that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is the greatest game I've ever played. No matter how much I like Half-Life 2, BioShock and Dragon Age: Origins, TESIV will always be the game that holds a special place in my heart. I was too much of an idiot and didn't play enough games from the earlier gaming eras to remember those games with any real fondness, despite my love of the N64 Zelda games, so I'd say that I'm currently in my Golden Age, and maybe in ten years or further, these will be the games I'll remember as fondly as others remember 8-bit and 16-bit games.

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#9  Edited By whacknasty

My all time favorite is FF VII for sure, no question.  I cant say it introduced me to rpg's (I had played Chrono Trigger quite a bit actually, even when none of my friends liked it ) but it hooked me more than any game has, and I've played as many games as I possibly could for at least 6yrs or so directly after that.  I still wish I could get my copy to work... I might just have to replace it...

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#10  Edited By MysteriousBob
@whacknasty said:
" My all time favorite is FF VII for sure, no question."
'sigh'
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#11  Edited By reddin

I really don't. I have favorites in genres I enjoy, but to condense it into one "greatest game of all time" is not doable for me. There is no one game that does it all for me.

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#12  Edited By mesklinite

I'd say chrono trigger if I had to pick? Lots of endings, great music, etc..
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#13  Edited By Raymayne
@Vodun said:
" Nope, I feel that would be too limiting and there are too many variables involved. No game can fulfill every need. "
How many needs to you want a game to fulfil? For me, it's purely based on enjoyment and there is a game that I always enjoy more than any other and can play for hours and hours at a time and that's FF7. 
 
I have so so so many other games I adore and always love to play but FF7 will always be my favourite for so many reasons.
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#14  Edited By Vodun
@Raymayne: Well, I guess I'm not that narrow in my view of enjoyment. I think there are too many ways and reasons to enjoy something to be able to pick a favouite.
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#15  Edited By X19
@Raymayne said:
" I have so so so many other games I adore and always love to play but FF7 will always be my favourite for so many reasons. "
Same for me.
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#16  Edited By CaptainObvious

Nope.

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#17  Edited By ComradeKritstov

Half-Life 2.

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#18  Edited By Romination

No, but I have some good ones. My list of games I can play forever is a pretty good example of ones that I love too much, but still, nothing pops up as #1

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MGS

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#20  Edited By management

Yes.
 
My favorite game of all time is Jak 3.
 
Weird right?

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#21  Edited By johnbon

metal gear solid for ps1 no contest... well maybe smb3

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#22  Edited By whacknasty
@MysteriousBob said:
" @whacknasty said:
" My all time favorite is FF VII for sure, no question."
'sigh' "
Lol. I know, it really shouldn't be, looking at how many games I've played overall. And it has not aged very well.  I guess I'm just an emo, buster sword lugging, giant bird ranch hand at heart... O_o.  I do have some close runners up though... 
 
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 
Chrono Trigger 
The Legend of Dragoon 
Persona 3 
Resident Evil 0 
Tekken 3  
Tetris 
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo 
Marvel vs Capcom 2
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#23  Edited By JoeyRavn

Can't say I have a particularly specific game I consider "best game ever", but... 
 
@whacknasty said:

"Tetris "
... this. I play it every day, in various editions, formats and consoles.
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#24  Edited By HandsomeDead

It was Mario 64 but the the Galaxy games have put me off the idea now so I'd probably say Shenmue II. Never had an experience like it.

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#25  Edited By whacknasty
@JoeyRavn said:
" Can't say I have a particularly specific game I consider "best game ever", but... 
 
@whacknasty said:
"Tetris "
... this. I play it every day, in various editions, formats and consoles. "
Thats awesome.  I can't get anyone around here into it as much as I am.  I remember buying my first Gameboy with only Tetris, and I played that thing non stop for about 3 years (I even went as far as to have a "strip Tetris" competition with an ex girlfriend back in the day.  She must have missed all of the time I spent on the Gameboy and actually accepted the challenge...lol)
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#27  Edited By JoRoNimo

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

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#28  Edited By Fontan

Grim Fandango.
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#29  Edited By guiseppe

I used to say Resident Evil 4, but since Mass Effect 2 came out, I think I'll have to say that instead. That is if we count Mass Effect the series as one thing.

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#30  Edited By HitmanAgent47

Yes, crysis on very high settings.

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#31  Edited By NathHaw
@whacknasty said:
" My all time favorite is FF VII "
That used to be my favorite as well.  I suppose my favorite game of all time is WoW.
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#32  Edited By Onigenko

Yup, Shadow of the Colossus.

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#33  Edited By FluxWaveZ

Yeah, Persona 3 FES.

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#34  Edited By whacknasty
@jorojoserojas said:
" Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time "
Ah, that is a great one too.  I think that is the only other game, besides the FF series, that I actually spent hundreds of hours on (just goofing around mostly)...
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#35  Edited By ajamafalous

Diablo II if I was forced to pick, I guess.

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#36  Edited By GunnBjorn

Funny thing is, it can never be a recent game, because there's always a nostalgia thing attached to it. Your age pretty much determines (to an extend) what game (in a particular time period of your life) is your absolute favorite. This is indeed hard. I'd say... it must at least be SNES game, since that system wowed me the most. Chrono Trigger comes to mind as well as DKC, Street Fighter II, Contra III, Final Fantasy III, Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past, Super Castlevania IV... Wait, yeah, there is a SNES game that totally is my favorite! The very first SNES game I saw! Legend of Mystical Ninja! I know, it's not the best game by any standards, but man, that game was sheer magic to me!
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#37  Edited By stonyman65

man thats hard...  There is a place in my heart for Super Mario World, because that is the game that I've played almost exclusively during my child hood.
 But one game that I truly love, and would be on my desert island list would be Fallout 2.
 Or Resident Evil 4
 
I CANT CHOOSE!!

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#38  Edited By TehFedro

I actually have no idea what my favourite game is. I can say a game I love and always will, Super Mario RPG. Speaking of which I haven't played that game in awhile, wish I could find that damn video wire...

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#39  Edited By gabha

Final Fantasy 7, no game will ever give me as same a feeling as it was when I played that.

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#40  Edited By doe3879

The 1st Devil May Cry, I kept my PS2 around just to play it and 3 once in a while...'shake fist at PS3 BC'
I cried a little when I first saw the "NEW" DmC picture/ trailer

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#41  Edited By mylifeforAiur

Yes! Grim Fandango. I'll fight to the death for this game ;)

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#42  Edited By ventilaator

The Lost Vikings.
 
I'm alone here.

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#43  Edited By BulletproofMonk

GTA: Vice City. 
 
That's a perfect game right there.

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#44  Edited By captain_awesome

The legend of Zelda OOT, Not just cause I love the game and want to make babies with it but also cause it is the game that got me into gaming in the first place.

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@Atlas said:
" Yes. There is no doubt in my mind that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is the greatest game I've ever played. No matter how much I like Half-Life 2, BioShock and Dragon Age: Origins, TESIV will always be the game that holds a special place in my heart. I was too much of an idiot and didn't play enough games from the earlier gaming eras to remember those games with any real fondness, despite my love of the N64 Zelda games, so I'd say that I'm currently in my Golden Age, and maybe in ten years or further, these will be the games I'll remember as fondly as others remember 8-bit and 16-bit games. "
duder, i love you. I feel the exact same way with what you said. 
 
Although I might've switched Dragon Age for Fallout 3, but still <3 I will now commence to follow you.
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#46  Edited By fjordson

I think so. Most likely Metal Gear Solid.

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#47  Edited By PrivateIronTFU
@Management said:

" Yes.  My favorite game of all time is Jak 3.  Weird right? "

Not at all. I love that game. It's not my favorite, however.  
 
Super Metroid would have to be my favorite game.
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#48  Edited By Chummy8

Very, very tough to narrow down an answer to just one game. 
 
I remember playing Fallout 2 for the first time quite vividly.   I guess that's my all time favorite. 

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#49  Edited By triple07

Yup Ocarina of Time.

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#50  Edited By Wildfire570

As crazy as this sounds, for me its Final Fantasy X.
 
It was the first JRPG that I enjoyed through and through, granted there were moments that were "Japanese" for the lack of a better word, it was the first game that really got me engaged  in a storyline. And I think that the turn-based game play still holds up well.