My favorite PC games, are ones that have the best replay value. If I play a game, that's fantastic from start to end, but I don't feel the need to go through it a 2nd time, then it doesn't really resonate with me long-term.
I had a 486 (Intel 80486 Microprocessor) when you pretty much needed a Pentium (mid-90s) to play any half-decent computer game. In '95, when it was scarce buying any newer PC games that could run on a 486, I was still able to play the (then) newly released
WarCraft II, and the game never lagged. It's not my favorite game (although it's up there historically), but I've always appreciated Blizzard for making such a great game, and making it in a way that it could run on an older system at a time where other gaming companies were too lazy to do the same. Even though that's 17-18 years ago now when it was originally designed, people in South Korea are still big on
StarCraft I, and it's the same game as WarCraft II!
I also played
Doom I &
II to death on that 486, and would get quite nauseous after 2 hours of playing them. And with '
Rise of the Triad' I'd be ready to vomit after about 15 minutes.
The game I've played the most in my life would be '
Axis & Allies'/'
Axis & Allies: Iron Blitz', and the only game I've enjoyed playing online. '
Triple A' is free online, which is basically the same game.
While I own and admire all of the '
Medal of Honor', '
Call of Duty', & '
Battlefield' series, they're all linear, and it's annoying after a while just following a forced path (
single player mode). I much prefer open world games, like a '
Far Cry II' where you go where you want, and stealth games, like the '
Splinter Cell' series where you actually feel like you're taking down people with precision. I love '
Battlefield 3', and '
COD Black Ops', but there's no real body count, I'm not sure if I really killed the guy or not, rather it feels like I'm just spraying bullets in a direction, and that I'm playing a minor role in a movie that's been already played through thousands of times.
Although most people I know can't stand anything from the '
Rainbow Six' series, of all of the gun games, '
Rainbow Six: Las Vegas II' is easily my favorite, and I find it has tons of replay value, which I can't say as much of the other great war/1st person shooters. Both '
Operation Flashpoint' games lean towards being tactical shooters, so I prefer them over those mentioned in the previous paragrah, though the graphics and parts of the gameplay, at times, leave a lot to be desired.
I easily prefer 1st person shooters that are WWII related. With so much focus being put into modern warfare, I'm tired of looking at so much sun, sand and dusty shops as diorama. Why not make a great WW1 game already?
I finally bought a PS3, but for 1st person shooters, I'm having a hard time adjusting, when I'll always prefer using a keyboard and mouse (which is far more precise anyway).
'
Herzog Zwei' and '
Star Control' were awesome games for the Sega Genesis that were vastly underrated/underappreciated, and ahead of their time. '
Dune II' (1992) is often called the first modern real-time strategy game, but Herzog Zwei's release in 1992 predates it, so tip your hat to this game, that helped pave the way for great games like WarCraft, Star Craft, etc. I also played '
Baseball', '
Tron: Deadly Disks', '
Utopia', and '
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain' the most from my library of Intellivision games, with the first costing my folks a good $60 CAD, and the other 3 costing me about $1.50 CAD each in a Woolco bargain bin a couple of years later.
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My favorite game, as of late, is 'NBA 2K12'. My most recent purchase, was 'Metal Gear Solid 4', which gets tons of accolades (roughly 94% approval rating from all of the major gaming reviewers), and I've enjoyed it to an extent, but I find that I'm drowned with far too much story/montages, that I just want to play the damn game already, and I'm tired of films/games/comics inserting as much anime/warrior nonsense into the storylines as they do.