Also, this.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
A winner is you!
Elite on my old Amiga 500.
Played that for ages and never got my rating beyond “Mostly Harmless”.
Oolite is fun but just doesn’t seem to capture the feel.
That was from Pro Wrestling. Big Rigs was “You’re winner!”
I have this and still break it out from time to time to appreciate it all over again. ‘The Room’ is a FAR better movie than Big Rigs is a game.
Some great games mentioned here. For me it will always be Tetris.
Tetris for me too.
I love that game! The squad with the two machine gunners, the two rocket launchers and the grenade chucker is unstoppable. I could play that game all day (and have, as a matter of fact). I thought I was the only one that remembered that game.
I will never, ever get tired of Age of Empires II. It was so well-made, and with the campaigns and expansion the variation is endless. Plus, the cheats. Who plays that and doesn’t occasionally summon the machine-gunning 427 Cobra or Furious the Monkey Boy? And the taunts are legendary. I still occasionally say “All Hail, King of the Losers!” to people when I’m beating them at any game, not just AOEII.
I have other games that I like more in the abstract, but AOEII provides the best long-term replay value I’ve ever seen in a game so it gets my vote.
Yes and no - that’s my problem with Ubi on this one. *Brotherhood *is the one with the great story/characters/enemies and the awesome gameplay tweaks, but crummy art and a “half-done” feeling. *Revelations *is the onewith the 90% filler story and re-hashed samey gameplay re-treads (the bombs don’t really add much besides making an easy game easier, and the tower defence is best left unmentioned) but killer art and characterization of the main actors (besides Desmond, who as someone on another forum said, manages to still be an empty vessel without a voice of his own after 5 or 6 levels of straight monologuing. That’s not an easy feat).
Basically what I’m saying is that they could have made one mind-blowing game, but instead opted to make two (relatively) mediocre cash-in ones. That ain’t right. It’s profitable and I’ll still buy AC3 because I’m a mindless drone who craves sweet sweet parkour murder, but it ain’t right.
Honestly it would be Resident Evil 4. I played the hell out of that game, which is remarkable for a game with zero character customization. That game was almost exactly the same every time I played it through and I still loved it.
Super Mario World. I’ve played it multiple times on every format that I have it on (SNES, Wii, DS, Wiz). Still the best Mario game as far as I’m concerned.
Rock Band. I still play all the time, and have about $300 in songs for it.
Forza. It gets more fun over time.
Desert Bus
Ooh! Can I play with you? I’ll be the intermittent left button!
Transport Tycoon. It’s a really fun transportation company simulator. There’s now a totally free open source version of the game you can download here: http://www.openttd.org.
Mass Effect 2
I could go ahead and say “the Mass Effect Series” but I don’t have an xbox and don’t PC game, so I haven’t ever played one. But I’ve played through two about half a dozen times and played through three two and a half times.
I just love it. The characters, the banter, the decisions…It’s always a different game.
Civ IV: I’ve been playing Civ games since the first one, and always come back to them every year or so and get super obsessed again. Civ IV is the best one of the series, IMO, particularly with the Beyond The Sword expansion. So replayable.
Crap, now I want to play Civ IV.
Mount and Blade: Warband. I’ve sunk almost 300 hours into this thing, 250 of which are in single-player, and I STILL haven’t beaten it. It’s the best open-world game ever made.
(For the uninitiated - you ‘beat’ MB:W by forming your own country and conquering the whole map.)
I was about to post this.
Anyway, other games, I played C&C Generals scurmish a lot.