The best games ever.

[Swiss Mercenary]

Ah, yes. My list. Of course.

In no particular order.

Deus Ex - for all the reasons that have been stated above, and more.

It's funny that Bolty brought up Half-Life, as when I stopped to think about it, I can't find a single thing (Bunnyhopping bugs in multiplayer aside) wrong with the game. Everything's great.

Deus Ex managed to go the extra mile, above 'great'.

"I was never properly trained in its operation" always brings a smile to my face.



Thief 2 - And no matter what Angel says, I'm sticking to my guns. Fire arrows. Same difference.

Thief. Thief, Thief, Thief. What can I say?

Unique gameplay. Well, unique before everyone and their brother jumped on the stealth bandwagon. Didn't sell too badly, either. Didn't make a difference either way, with Eidos canning Looking Glass Studios, most probably to cut losses after the miserable failure (And cash syphon) that was Daikatana.

It's just... Hard for me to grasp what made the game so great for me. The difficulty played a role. The story was decent. The atmosphere... Was amazing. The City really felt like a real place, and travel by the rooftops to Angelwatch tower was by far my favourite experience in the game.



And don't ask me about the treebeasts. Just... Don't. :mellow:

It was probably the NPCs. Guards complaining about needing new boots. Mechanists humming along their patrol routes. Hammerite haunts stalking the crypts...

And, of course, in this day and age, the game still looks allright. Just... Allright.

Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri

I never really got into Civ 2, or Civ 3, but SMAC is everything I wanted from a turn-based strategy game, and a bit more.



My only woe from it is the overreliance on formers and crawlers, but hey, same could be said for Starcraft peons.

Starcraft

If I really have to explain what makes Starcraft great to anyone here... No, I don't. Good. Very good. No further comments necessary.

Warcraft 3 just can't compete with it.

Baldur's Gate 2

I'm sorry to say that I haven't played PS:T, or BG:ToSC. But in regards to BG 2, I simply can't complain about the little bugs in it. I just can't. It, in its entirety, is just great.

Angband and associated variants

99 dungeon levels. Chain-summoning demons, ridicilously powerful monsters, chain-summoning demons, brutal traps, and did I mention the chain-summoning demons?

I've mainly been playing http://www.T-O-M-E.net . Truly an excellent game.

Diablo

Forget Diablo 2, forget the Game That Plays Itself (Dungeon Siege), if you want a non-ASCII dungeon crawl... Diablo. But, hey, everyone here already knows that, no?

Chrono Trigger

I just can't get away with not listing it. And I'm sure that no justification is necessary.

Edit: Ah, hell, I knew I forgot something

System Shock 2

A pox upon Deebye, and his account of the game... Which prompted me to play it.

May you be consumed by rumblers, slowly.

Runner-up:

Guild Wars

I can't in all honesty put GW on the list, because I feel that it needs a bit more time to mature. Whatever the case, I'm quite satisfied with the current stae of the game, just like I was fairly satsifed with its state at release.