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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 01:01 PM
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Talking Your top 5 games...

that you've spent (or maybe wasted) literally hours, days and months of your life playing....

heres mine

Command and Conquer Generals - PC (should be re-classed as a drug)
Half Life - PC
Halo - 360
Duke Nukem - PC (obviously dated now, but lost many many hours on this in single player and multiplayer)
Syndicate - PC (1985 ish)

Other games I've wasted small parts of my life playing - Way of the Exploding Fist (C64), Elite (speccy) and C&C Red Alert multiplayer

Anyone else...


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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 01:48 PM
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GTR Series
GPL Before that
MS Flight Sim
Some UT (original with some of the mods is still my favourite)
Elite (BBC here)

and Chucky Egg
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 01:53 PM
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Broken Sword series, monkey island series, all lucasarts games, half life series, probably every available adventure game on ebay
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 02:02 PM
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Dawn of War - PC
Half Life 2 - PC
Gran Turismo - PS2
Speedball 2 - Amiga
Turrican 2 - Amiga
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 02:02 PM
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Not sure I can narrow it down to only 5

Oblivion (xbox 360)
GT Legends (pc)
Lucasrts adventures (Day of the Tentacle etc)
Any of the bitmap brothers games (Atari ST / Amiga), but especially Xenon, Gods and Cadaver
Total Eclipse (bit like Elite only better and on the Dragon 32 )
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 02:12 PM
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Deus Ex (Outstanding game)
C&C: Generals
Dungeon Siege
Morrowind
WoW (literally had no life whatsoever for 6months lol)

Oh, the lost days of my life
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 03:00 PM
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WoW (not quite at the "missing life" stage, but I can understand how it happens)
Half life / TFC
Doom
Command & Conquer series
Syndicate
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Originally Posted by Pedro_79
Deus Ex (Outstanding game)
C&C: Generals
Dungeon Siege
Morrowind
WoW (literally had no life whatsoever for 6months lol)

Oh, the lost days of my life
yeah, Deus Ex - forgot that one - what a cracking game! Hours and hours on that one
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 03:33 PM
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Oh, and Diablo 2... must've played through the entire game about 3 or 4 times
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 04:16 PM
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Medieval 2 Total War (PC) in fact the whole series
World of Warcraft (PC) still have my life but i can also see how others dont.
Need For Speed Most Wanted (XBOX360) Best driving game
Wings (Amiga) - Back in the day, ground breaking graphics and gameplay
Diablo 2 - Agreed with you, totally playable again and again....
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 04:58 PM
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Roughly in descending order of time spent:


Nethack
Diablo2
Morrowind
Dungeon Keeper
Unreal Tournament



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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 05:05 PM
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- Ultima VII (PC, spent 3 YEARS playing this!)
- Dungeon Master (Atari ST)
- Elite (ZX Speccy, took a month to work out the bloody LensLok!)
- Counter Strike (PC, v1.5 and v1.6 before it went kak)
- Pirates (Atari ST version)

The Bitmap Brothers - that brings back some memories of wasted youth! Xenon2 with the Bomb the Bass soundtrack?
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 05:44 PM
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Brian Cloughs Football Fortune on my old Acorn Electron and a few friends.

The rainy days on half term and summer hols used to be taken up with this, and some games did take days to complete.....and we even had to make up new denominations of money (million pound notes)
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 06:26 PM
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The Gran Turismo series, GTA San Andreas, and Spiro Year of the Dragon pretty much fulfil my games requirements
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 06:32 PM
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In time 'invested' order

Elite (bbc)
C&C series
Final Fantasy VII


Don't need any more than that thanks
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 06:38 PM
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grand thief auto vice city
gran tursmo
shadow of the beast 2
championship manager
xenon
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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 07:31 PM
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Final Fantasy VII - PS1
Zelda, Link to the past - Snes
Zelda, Links awakening - GB
Sega Rally - Saturn
Sonic - megadrive

I'm sure some more current titles would have made my list had they been around earlier, ie FF IX or X and the Zelda series

Current online fav is Lost Planet - 360
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 02:08 AM
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Final Fantasy VII - X-2 wow
Manic Miner/Jet Set ***** - Spectrum
Repton - BBC Micro
Counter Strike Source - PC
Guild wars series - PC -- 3000+hours since Beta,sold my rank 11 account eventually on ebay for £420
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Old Mar 22, 2007 | 02:42 AM
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Good thread! Although it brings home the amount of time I've spent playing computer games in my life - right from my first brown C64.

1. Champ. manager - I've played pretty much every incarnation of this and have now clocked up over 120hrs on FM2007 on the 360!
2. CoD2 PC - Played this for a solid year. 56-player online multiplayer was nothing short of awesome!
3. Oblivion - Played it on both PC and 360. Great game.
4. Halo Xbox
5. San Andreas PS2

Loads of older games too - Speedball 2, Alien Breed, Monkey Island, Boulder-dash etc. etc.

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Old Mar 22, 2007 | 07:27 AM
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Final Fantasy VII and IX
Tomb Raider II
Onimusha
GT4 (it has the Nurburgring you know!)

Currently playing Final Fantasy XII which is enormous - I even found a completely new area that wasn't even in the walkthrough - I have barely started and have already played for hours...
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Old Mar 22, 2007 | 09:15 AM
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Red Alert -
Various guises from the original, which was dos based and used to play this over the net using dial up! This was my first experience with online gaming and to this date it is still the best. Sometimes its a shame when technology moves on. PC

Counterstrike -
From the first gen to source, best fps on the market. PC

Harrier Attack -
First game I every played, loved it. Amstrad cpc464

WoW -
Much simpler version of EQ, got bored after 3 months. PC

Everquest -
this ******* game cost me a lot of social beer time. PC
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Old Mar 22, 2007 | 09:54 PM
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The Elite series - including Frontier
Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and Oblivion
Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix Games - 1, 2, 3, 4...
Ultima Underworlds 1 & 2
Team Yankee and Pacific Island tank games
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Old Mar 23, 2007 | 01:54 AM
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cs-condition zero mainly, not source ewww
Lineage 2
battle for middle earth
goldeneye from n64 has to be mentioned
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Old Mar 23, 2007 | 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Pumpkin
The Elite series - including Frontier
Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and Oblivion
Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix Games - 1, 2, 3, 4...
Ultima Underworlds 1 & 2
Team Yankee and Pacific Island tank games

Doh, completely forgot about the Ultima games... spent ages on Ultima 7 and Underworld 2.

Origin made some proper quality games
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Old Mar 23, 2007 | 06:32 PM
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IMO UU2 has only just been bettered by Oblivion. I forgot to include the dungeon master in my list.
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Old Mar 23, 2007 | 07:49 PM
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Colin McRae 2 - PS1
Gran Tourismo (all) - PS1/2
Sonic 1 - Megadrive
Chuckie Egg - Spectrum 48k
Jet Pac - Spectrum 48k
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Old Mar 23, 2007 | 09:40 PM
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Test Drive Unlimited
Gears of War
Saints Row
Fight night round 3
Crackdown
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Old Mar 23, 2007 | 09:42 PM
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Gears of War Xbox 360 - Awesome and totally addictive
Unreal Tournament Mac
Elite BBC - classic and sitll the most amazing experience when first played
Bomberman Amiga - Great multiplayer and hilarious
Labrynth BBC second best BBC game ever after Elite



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Old Mar 24, 2007 | 12:21 AM
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In no particular order of greatness

Defender - pure class even now, in top five for opening sound at start of game if nothing else

Uridium - Pure C64 genius (jeff minter I think?? Correct me if I am wrong Zapp 64 fans. Anybody remember Julian Rignall et all, mis-spent youth, etc)

Manic Miner - Spectrum simplicity, great sound track, addictive

Mortal Kombat (Arcade) - Ground breaking technology at the time, great finishing moves

Gears of War - Modern classic, shows 360 to full potential.
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