Greatest Video Game... nominations first...

yeah, cool, just figured you'd get ripped on for it.

good choices though, FF7 is top 5 for me all time.

Perfect Dark.

[Blarg]

No, it's because Counterstrike isn't even close to being as revolutionary as the game that started it all.

it didnt start it all. I said that. It made it better, but it didnt start it all.

so if you wanna say that doom took the fps and brought it to a new level, thats exactly what CS did. It took the FPS, and brought an unheard of level of reality to it. Oh yeah, and it damn-near solely started the online revolution, and gave gamers complete control over how the game played.

[Blarg]

Yes it did start it all, for the reasons I noted. Wolfenstein wasn't nearly as immersive. Moving around in 3d is one thing, but that doesn't make it an immersive world.

If it did, we'd have to include things like SPECTRE.

You are wildly exaggerating CS's novelty. People were going online in droves long before CS. I did it all the time in Doom and Doom 2 and Descent and Warcraft 2 and Comand and Conquer ... hell, name it. Started the online revolution? What the hell?

You may love what CS did to bring FPS's to "a new level," but that level is a damn tiny leap compared to the difference between a game feeling like a game and a game feeling like a real world. Being happy for incremental changes is all well and good, but you can't compare that to fundamental changes.

[swede123]

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If you disagree, it is likely because either you're over-nostalgic about doom, or you haven't spent time on cs.

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I'd be the first to admit this is my reason for mentioning Doom in my post is nostalgia. I never spent much time with CS, nor with the Quake series of games. Doom will always have a special place in my heart. And personally I really liked Doom 3. I haven't yet tried HL2 out, but I really ought to, eh?

Swede

[TorpedoBreath]

Rescue at Rigel (Commodore PET)
Blades of Steel (NES) - where winning a fight puts the loser in the penalty box!
Time Pilot (Arcade)
Joust (Arcade)
Spy Hunter (Arcade)
Kung-Fu Master (Arcade)
Karate Champ (Arcade)
Ghosts'n'Goblins (Arcade)
Gauntlet (Arcade)

[whiskeytown]

For the PC

Myst
Civilization (either the series or whatever - I think you could make a case for the first for how it did, and the last for all the improvements, but really the whole series.
Tie Fighter - a Lucasfilm game that finally created an experience similar to the Star Wars dogfights that felt realistic. X-wing was pretty clunky, IMHO to be considered the best.

For the arcade

Battlezone
Pong
Donkey Kong

for Atari 2600...

Raiders of the Lost Ark - the first "quest" type game I ever played that was DIFFICULT - (similar to Myst, where you travel seeking the ark) - took me a MONTH to figure out how to beat it and sneak it's secrets out...
Combat
Poker Plus - (a 4 game cartridge that had 5 card stud, poker solitaire, and something else - that's where I learned how to read poker hands at 6 years old - [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

so it's the most important game I ever had....LOL

RB

[KKbluff]

Bionic Commando (NES)

[MikeSmith]

Easily the best 1st person shooters for their era
Doom2
Goldeneye for N64
Halo2


Other games have consumed me

Diablo
Starcraft
Simcity
Splinter Cell
Contra