2 Best game you ever played

[shaft]

quake2
quake3

[werldhed]

hm...these best game ever played threads always have people mentioning more than just than just one, which is maybe a little silly. here it's two, but same idea. its hard for me to pick two, so ill just pick one:

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

I've long debated whether I prefer Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time. They are both fantastic.

[nay0k]

OMG the hilarity of posting a subtitled picture of a guy that I've seen 100 times before.

Yes, I did say that. Your copy/pasting skills are great.

[DTS]

Gran Turismo 3
Speedball 2 (on the Amiga)

Both connected up to hi-fis.

[Geebs]

Morrowind + expansions
Mario 64

[saturn]

Quake 3 of course for MP
Star Craft for SP

[Dr_Watson]

Morrowind + expansions

my i request some justification?
my experience (and those of my RPG dork friends) was quite the opposite; and i'd go as far as saying morrowind was one of the worst games i've ever played.

[feedback]

Hard to narrow it down but...

Deus Ex
System Shock 2

[bitWISE]

Very hard question. Based on the amount of dedication I've given these two games over the last decade I have to go with:
WoW
Diablo 2

Others that come to mind:
System Shock 2
Penumbra: Overture
Resident Evil 4
Silent Hill 1
Quake 3 (inc mods)
Half-Life (inc mods)
Super Mario World
Guitar Hero 2

[LawL]

OMG the hilarity of posting a subtitled picture of a guy that I've seen 100 times before.

Yes, I did say that. Your copy/pasting skills are great.

gayc0k got the point.

[Deathshroud]

The Legend of Zelda
Doom

[Geebs]

Morrowind + expansions

my i request some justification?
my experience (and those of my RPG dork friends) was quite the opposite; and i'd go as far as saying morrowind was one of the worst games i've ever played.

if you get into it, it's horribly addictive. Good points include probably deepest open world environment in any game, very (IMHO) atmospheric graphics and environments, and actually-surprisingly-not-bad plot for an RPG. You really need one of the graphics mods for distant lands so you can see where the hell you're going though. Bad points include lousy animations and horrifically slow character movement at the start of the game.

[nay0k]

gayc0k got the point.

Me: 1
FaiL: 0

[Dr_Watson]

if you get into it, it's horribly addictive. Good points include probably deepest open world environment in any game, very (IMHO) atmospheric graphics and environments, and actually-surprisingly-not-bad plot for an RPG. You really need one of the graphics mods for distant lands so you can see where the hell you're going though. Bad points include lousy animations and horrifically slow character movement at the start of the game.

interesting...
I found the open world to be anything but deep, and the plot basically non-existent; comprising my major gripe with the game. That it was a fantastic engine driving a wasteland of a world with no story or driving force compelling the player to care about anything. It was such a grind where seemingly the only reason to keep playing it was to level up. It seemed like the game's sole purpose was to waste time, giving nothing back to the player. No sense of accomplishment, no "fantasy" or imagination, and above all, it had no life.
I'll explain the lack of depth, since you said that you thought the game had it; but that confuses me since I saw the opposite.
The world presented in the game was big, but it was like a vast lake that was never more than knee deep with water. You could travel everywhere, and investigate everything, but all the game ever gave back was a hole to crawl around in and some critters to kill. All the quests that sent you out into the world or through the cities were laborious errand-boy quests with no thinking or challenge. Just go here, get that, and bring it back. Nothing was really very adventurous, engrossing, or even entertaining.
The NPCs were also all very stale and mostly just someone to work for. They also had a creepy aspect of having no children. There isn't one child in the entire game.... like it was set in a "children of men" sort of age were everyone was dieing off. It just added to the general solitary feeling already created by being completely alone, with no party or diverse methods of doing things. The only creativity came in coming up with various ways of exploiting the engine (trading the same things endlessly with someone for profit, making super powerful artifacts by exploiting the infinite intelligence afforded from exploiting the potion making, etc...)
The expansion pack that was off on the winter island with the tribal people and it's right of passage quests was interesting... everything else just mindless solitary hack-n-slash gameplay repeated endlessly until I got so put off by it that I couldn't even continue trying to beat the main storyline but only wanted to erase the thing and forget it.

[Fury]

Chrono Trigger
System Shock 2
bioshock is up there as well

[Grudge]

MP: Q3 obviously, then BF1942

SP: Hmm, very hard to choose. If you look at hours spent then Oblivion would top the list. And from a number of playthroughs probably Quake II.

[Κracus]

I'd have to say Quake 3 and Tribed 2.

[LawL]

Me: AIDS victim
LawL: Legend

[MKJ]

[Ryoki]

MP: Tribes 2 made the biggest impression on me, i think. Played the shit out of that for at least a year. Close seconds are BF:2 and BF:V
SP: Rome Total War probably. Played through that a bunch of times.

[o'dium]

Final Fantasy VII
Quake 2 (Thanks to Action q2)

[nay0k]

Me: AIDS victim
LawL: Legend

Who's gayc0k? I'm nay0k. L2quotetherightperson.

[LawL]

Who's nay0k? I'm gayc0k. L2quotetherightperson.

[^misantropia^]

Out of This World

Though they called it 'Another World' in Europe. That game really changed my perspective of what games could and should be like.

Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle. I played that game way, way too much. And still do, actually.