Favorite games in no particular order:
1.Red Orchestra: Ostfront
2.Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (and Resistance expansion and Red Hammer mission pack)
3. Freespace 1 and 2
4. Battlezone 1 and 2 (people who say the second one sucked are just... wrong, story was epic just like the first, and I didn't think the new orange color scheme looked gay... just industrial,
also there was a chick with a hot Russian accent in it)
5. IL-2: Sturmovik 1946 (multiplayer, never play singleplayer, AI's too easy/retarded)
6. Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin and Afrika Korps (multiplayer only, the definition of epic, especially CMBB)
7. Thief Series (yes even the third I liked a lot, though the levels could definitely have been way bigger
)
8. L4D1/2 (oh how I wish they would port all the maps from L4D1 to L4D2 for owners of the former
)
9. Starcraft 1 and 2
10. Tribes 1 and 2
11. Hidden & Dangerous 1 and 2 (2 more though, 1 was a major pain at times, though it had great missions)
12. Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear and Raven Shield (never actually played the original, never played past Raven Shield cause of what I heard =P)
13. Star Wars: Tie Fighter (yessssssss the memories!)
14. Command and Conquer: Red Alert (the game that seriously "got me into gaming")
15. Company of Heroes (fantastic multiplayer, tied I'd say with SC1/2 for RTS games)
16. Mass Effect 1 and 2
17. Silent Storm (ya the PKs sucked but other then that had a blast with this game)
18. Halo: Combat Evolved (I don't care what anyone says, I loved the original, great combat settings and gameplay... I still remember that crazy mission where you attack with a bunch of regular grunts that Covenant ship landing site at night... pretty epic, great music too)
19. Talonsoft's West Front (from John Tiller's campaign series). I probably would have loved East Front 1 & 2 too but never got around to buying them.
Honorable Mentions:
1. Dungeon Keeper 2 (hilarious and innovative game, but felt the campaign was just too easy... I breezed my way through all the levels at the hardest difficulty except for one in the middle)
2. M1 Tank Platoon 2 (spent massive amounts of time with this game back in the day... I just wish you could have been able to control more than one platoon!!! Guess the title should have tipped me off
)
3. SWAT 4 (great but... I like to kill people
)
4. Civ 3 and 4 (great but not great enough to make the "favorite games eva" list)
I also really enjoyed the God of War games on the... PS2 I guess it was (played at a friend's house both 1 and 2 in one day basically lol), simply for the really intriguing storyline (helps that I'm already obsessed with Greco-Roman mythology). The gameplay was pretty cool too but it was the story/setting that sucked me in. Haven't played the third yet though, hope to sometime, though I'll never buy a console just cause not enough of the games interest me...
I wish I could say I loved Rome: Total War but the enemy tactical and strategic AI was just too freaking awful, to the point that it made it unplayable to me.
Also... to owners of Silent Hunter III, I bought it and wanted to get into it, but being the freak that I am I *insisted* on trying to learn how to actually launch and calculate torpedo trajectories, I didn't want any hand holding "BS" lol. Anyways, I just never got the hand of it and got frustrated (don't think I ever actually scored a hit on a ship without the gay "point and click" unrealistic settings---and I refuse to use that out of principle
). Anyone got any links to help me out with that? I wouldn't mind giving it another go. I read a guide and stuff too, guess it wasn't detailed enough though. The fact that I'm not exactly amazing at math might have something to do with my utter failure too (I'm not
terrible, I took calculus in high school, but just barely passed with a C+)