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The Top 5 Games of All Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the easily-diablo2 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The guys over at trusted reviews have come up with lists of their top five games of all time. There are some obvious choices and some very obscure ones, but on the whole its interesting reading. See how their lists compare to yours."

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  1. Games every gamer should try by DrStrangeLug · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - Best Civ Game Ever , Dispite not being a true civ game.
    2. Halflife. Enough said.
    3. Deus Ex. This is how game storylines should work - smartly.
    4. Hostile Waters . You can pick this up now for less than a 10 and you'd be a fool not to.
    5. Spore - Hurry up and release the damn thing! And I WILL torrent it from the US while I wait for a UK release if they do that staggered release date crap.
  2. Re:29 trusted reviews later by Firehed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I cheated. Clicking on the drop-down and just reading the titles is so damned easy. Well, not for copying and pasting the list in here for karma whoring, but it was interesting to see DOTT make it in there. And Jedi Knight... I wish I still knew where my discs were for that.

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  3. Re:Not a single mention of nethack! by pthisis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously. It's been in constant development for decades now, game play (and balance) continues to improve, and it's the ultimate in learning curves--insanely difficuly but incredibly fun when you first start playing, excellent learning curve all the way through where you can get further and further with just exploration, and with time you can learn to win more than half the time and yet it's still fun.

    1. Nethack

    2. X-com UFO Defense

    3. Grand Theft Auto III

    4. Doom/Wolfenstein 3D (I'm undecided)

    5. Starflight

    Honorable mentions (unsorted): Contra, Archon, Hitman, Ultima IV, Counterstrike, Autoduel, Dune II, Tetris, Civilization, Bard's Tale, World of Warcraft, Simcity, Wing Commander

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  4. No Freespace, either? by Sage+Gaspar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think the space sim is a genre that hasn't seen much action in the last seven years because it's already been perfected by Freespace 2. Let's talk about a game where you have a little fighter flying amid literally miles-long capital ships firing giant beam weapons at each other. Where there's gameplay moments and mid-mission plot surprises that just bowl you over. Where you have complete control over three squads of wingmen and you can see (and target) every subsystem on every ship. Where you actually have to make targeted strikes on these subsystems using bombers and covering fire to take down big targets. Where you fly into the middle of really awesome nebulae that do crazy things to your ship's sensors.

    And most notably, where the devs were pimp enough to put a clause allowing completely free redistribution to friends and acquaintances in the EULA, and it's now legitly open-source. Leading to the creation of beautiful graphics packages that breathe new life into it. (video). Anyone who thinks they might enjoy this game and hasn't tried it yet, you owe it to yourself :P