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Games you remember having a blast with

blurbo

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Off the top of your head, no particular order and without too much mnemonic effort. Thinking less of games that got you hooked for the writing/atmosphere, and more of satisfying mechanics/exploration. I'll start:

Silent Storm
Mass Effect 2
Deus Ex
F.E.A.R.

Thanks
 

Goromorg

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Fallout 1
Arcanum
VTM Bloodlines
Underrail
Legend of Grimrock
HOMM 3
Dark messiah
Diablo 2
Starcraft
 

Swigen

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Jagged Alliance: Rage!

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Gawd, what a game. They just don’t make ‘em like this anymore. That is right, if you cannot handle the king tactics of this gaem then you are a shit tier gamer! Full of tactical combat that puts to shame the non-commital combat of so called classics like Arcanum. Full blown tactical combat, full swagger! :obviously:

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passerby

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Alpha Centauri
Civilization 2

Planescape: Torment
Divine Divinity
Jagged Alliance 2

Gothic
Outcast
System Shock 2
Tron 2.0
Thief 1,2

Sacrifice
Original War
Starcraft
Company of Heroes

Quake
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Blood
Unreal
Half-Life

Honorable mentions from Amiga days:

Civilization
Dune 2
Frontier: Elite 2
Desert Strike
 
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Citizen

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Age of Wonders SM
UFO: Extraterrestrials
Worms Armageddon
Dominions 4
HoMM2-3
Prince of Persia: SoT
De Blob
Endless Legend
 

moleman

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Too many to list them all, but the first game I had an absolute blast with was Sid Meier's Pirates! on the C64.
All games I had played until then were about shooting shit for a highscore.
In Pirates! you could capture ships, conquer and plunder cities, trade, make friends and enemies and live a pirate's life. YARRRR!

It shaped my idea of what great games could achieve.
 

mondblut

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Er...isn't this basically just another "What's you favorite game?" thread?

Dunno, I treated it as "what was your favorite game before you grew to become a jaded, cynical, genre-savvy asshole" - keyword being "remember". I could name a number of games from the past 20 years as my "favorites", but I wasn't really "having a blast" with them.
 

Bigg Boss

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Random games that don't rely totally on story, so hardly any RPG's

Earthbound
Shadowrun
Link to the Past
Final Fantasy V
Fallout 2
Half-Life
Doom
Duke 3D
System Shock
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Rogue Trip
Twisted Metal Black
Tomb Raider 2
Legend of Mana (I am the only person to like this game)
Lemmings
Super Mario Bros 3
Ur Mother
Your face, your ass, whats the difference?
I'm here to ruin threads and snort coke and I'm all out of coke...
 

Tigranes

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To narrow it down a bit, there are indeed some games where the sheer basic gameplay loop just makes you think, within half an hour, holy shit there is something going on here. Probably the most striking examples for me were Wizardry 1, where within half an hour my party was half dead, fleeing the dungeon one fearful backstep at a time on floor 1.

But there are also games where the sheer style and atmosphere of it again makes you think, this is something special. Some games do this instantly within the opening five minutes. Fallout does it with the opening cinematic, though the game then takes a little while to get going. Disco Elysium and Torment for obvious reasons.
 

mastroego

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Tie Fighter
Eye of the Beholder
Master of Magic


Ok, several others too, but it's hard to beat the memory of the amazement felt while playing those games back then.
 
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  1. Quake
  2. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
  3. Half-Life series
  4. STALKER series
  5. Fallout 2
  6. Baldur's Gate II
  7. The Suffering
  8. Severance: Blade of Darkness
  9. Almost everything put out by Frictional Games: Amnesia - The Dark Descent, SOMA, Penumbra - Overture/Black Plague
  10. Shadow of the Colossus
  11. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
  12. World of Warcraft
  13. Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
  14. Titan Quest
  15. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
  16. Arx Fatalis
  17. God of War
  18. Mortal Kombat Trilogy
  19. Twisted Metal 2
  20. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
  21. Painkiller
  22. Mega Man series
  23. Resident Evil series
  24. Prince of Persia series
  25. Risen
  26. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
 

Dramart

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Super Mario Bros 3
Sonic 2
Pokemon Gold
Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
Mass Effect 1
Arcanum
Icewind Dale 2
Warsong
Crash Bandicoot 3
Skyrim
Dark Souls
Age of Empires II
Shining Force 2
 

Bigg Boss

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Random games that don't rely totally on story, so hardly any RPG's

You seem to imply there is a connection? Most misguided.

There is in my experience. Back in the great NES, SNES, Genesis, TurboGrafx days the only games with good story were RPG's. That carried over largely into the PSX era. Sure, Soul Reaver is one exception in that case. Resident Evil is cool. Silent Hill.
But RPG's always have more dialog/text so more story to work with. Unless you are talking about the old Wizardry clones like Might and Magic which are barely RPG's.
But then again...what is a role playing game? Metal Gear Solid is after all a type of role playing game.
Did I mention Metal Gear Solid? I should have.
 

Greenante

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Gonna say most of the RPGs we love
Starsector
Mount & Blade
Rimworld
 

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