Games every gamer should be required to play at some point

Blorx · Post by **Blorx** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:53 am

Let's make a list of these. I wanna see what you guys come up with. I'll start with a few. Feel free to tell others if they don't think that a game should be part of this massive list.

Neverwinter Nights
Doom
Doukutsu Monogatari
Pong
Tetris
Metal Slug
Street Fighter
Final Fantasy
the Pokemon Gameboy adventure-type games (sorry, they're classics and everyone I know that's played em liked em, regardless of age)

Feel free to tell others if they don't think that a game should be part of this hoping-to-be-massive list.

Official Best of Games List

- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Marathon 2: Durandal
- Conker's Bad Fur Day
- Metal Slug Series
- Final Fantasy VI
- Final Fantasy VII
- Doukutsu Monogatari

invertin · Post by **invertin** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:11 am

Any of the Quake games (apart from 4)
Super mario 64
Command and conquer
Dark messiah: Of might and magic.

Thats all I can think of right now.

Ultimatum479 · Post by **Ultimatum479** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:02 pm

Oni.

Street Fighter Alpha 3. Marvel vs Capcom 2. Soul Calibur II.

Chrono Trigger. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Earthbound.

Twilight Princess. Link's Awakening. Ocarina of Time.

Super Metroid. Doukutsu Monogatari (already mentioned, I know).

That should cover the important genres.

EDITS: Fixed Marvel vs Capcom 2 and added Earthbound to the RPG list (how could I forget that?) due to wormguy's post.

wormguy · Post by **wormguy** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:47 pm

I believe you mean Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

Half-Life. Half-Life 2.

Starcraft.

Earthbound.

Crill3 · Post by **Crill3** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:03 pm

Minesweeper.

Grand Theft Auto (San Andreas).

Ultimatum479 · Post by **Ultimatum479** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 2:38 pm

wormguy wrote:I believe you mean Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

That I did, that I did. Fixing typo now.

Colicedus · Post by **Colicedus** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:22 pm

for immature mind I recommend GTA 2.
its no graphics gallery of a game, how ever, it is funny if you have the sense of humor. I think you can find it on the net for free.

Blorx · Post by **Blorx** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:44 pm

Colicedus wrote:for immature mind I recommend GTA 2.
its no graphics gallery of a game, how ever, it is funny if you have the sense of humor. I think you can find it on the net for free for windows.

Fixed it fer ya, Coli.

BunnyWithStick · Post by **BunnyWithStick** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:47 pm

Did someone say StarCraft? *drools on starcraft battle chest*

For the FPS oriented gamer, I recommend

Tremulous

Urban Terror (If you like CS-style games)

Halo (If you don't get major lag… For some reason, I can't start my own server, even with port forwarding…)

Garry's Mod (I can't play it 'cause I use a mac, but just having a look at it's screenshots 'n' stuff makes me drool…)

Cube & Sauerbraten (Especially if you lag heaps. It uses client-side collision detection… The fact that almost everything is client-side also lets you hack using just a memory editor however.)

A bunch of others:

StarCraft (Better if you're good at RTSes)

Battle for Wesnoth (If you prefer turn-based, this is a great choice)

N-Ball

Lightning's Shadow

And last but holy bajeezus not least, Lugaru.

Crill3 · Post by **Crill3** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:34 am

Counter-Strike for several hours straight.

You can get Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2 (and Wild Metal. What the hell is Wild Metal?) at http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/

Renegade_Turner · Post by **Renegade_Turner** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:01 am

Lugaru (lol)
Far Cry.
Age Of Empires.
Final Fantasy's 1-7.
Grandia. Suikoden 2. (These go together because they're the two best RPG's I've ever played)
Deus Ex.
Deus Ex : Invisible War.
Super Mario Tennis for the GBA.
Chrono Trigger.
Chrono Cross.
YOUR MOM. (sorry)
Resident Evil 4.
Streets of Rage.
Revenge Of Shinobi.
Runescape. (lollllll)
Jesus Christ RPG
Dungeon Keeper.
Escape From Monkey Island.
Another World/Out Of This World (same game, different title)
Rick Dangerous (funnest side-scroller ever)
Bomberman
Lost in Space (think that's what it was called)
Alien
Curse of Fantasia.

A lot of people left out Half Life and Half Life 2. This disappoints me.

P.S. Three of them were jokes. Guess which three. One was an allusion to something online.

Ultimatum479 · Post by **Ultimatum479** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:44 am

...You put Final Fantasy on the list.

This list is officially invalidated.

invertin · Post by **invertin** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:02 pm

Anyone who has played FF7 will kill you.

Seriously, run.

Renegade_Turner · Post by **Renegade_Turner** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:19 pm

Ultimatum479 wrote:...You put Final Fantasy on the list.

This list is officially invalidated.

Because it's hugely popular does not make it necessarily bad.

They were very good games.

Blorx · Post by **Blorx** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:12 pm

XII is annoyingly difficult...

I liked anything from VI and earlier