What is your ONE favorite video game of all time?

[Zombra]

No top 5, no top 3, no favorite series. Pick ONE title that you love the best, by whatever criteria are important to you. Feel free to explain why it's your #1.

For the purposes of this thread, a "video game" is any game in which all visual feedback is transmitted to the player(s) via video display device, such as a TV or monitor. Thus, Mattel Classic Football counts as an (extremely low resolution) video game, but Avengers: Infinity Quest Pinball does not, despite the inclusion of a video screen which gives some visual feedback.

 

[Darth Roxor]

ELEX

 

[Ghulgothas]

Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising.

 

[ELEXmakesMeHard]

ELEXmakesMeHard

 

[Cunt Dickula!?]

Gothic 2 NotR

 

[Falksi]

X-Com '94

 

[Vlajdermen]

Serious Sam TSE

 

[Daedalos]

Starcraft 1 vs Fallout 1

 

[Naraya]

Can't pick ONE favourite game, same as I can't pick ONE favourite book. It just can't be done!

 

[Curratum]

This is a really difficult question to answer, even though I have my thoughts on it.

If I was asked what game I'd pick if I only have to play that game until the day I die and NOTHING ELSE, ever, I'd probably pick something that is multiplayer (duh!), so you can have endless iterations on something you generally enjoy, like Counter Strike GO maybe - something that is always densely populated and has a nearly unreachable skill ceiling and room for improvement over YEARS of play.

But that doesn't mean it's my ONE favorite video game. For that, I may have to flip a coin to pick between Doom 2 and Thief 2, assuming we factor in all the custom content for both of those.

 

[good fucking shit happen]

 

[Outlander]

Gothic 1.

 

[Strange Fellow]

I'm gonna be honest here for once.

Dark Souls.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Lemmings (1991) for the Commodore Amiga

 

[Beans00]

Fallout 1, maybe Fallout 2 depending on the day.

Offers by far the most player freedom in regards to completing objectives with the exception of Arcanum(which is in my top 5 but too flawed to be #1).

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

TIE Fighter.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Panic at Multiverse High.

 

[Alphard]

Deus Ex

 

[Mark Richard]

Stonekeep. It gave me a lot of firsts – the first time I recall refusing to do something in a computer game because it was too scary (open the sarcophagus), the first time a girl gave me funny feelings (Ice Queen), the first time I played a dungeon crawler with fully voiced companions, and the first time I followed a baking recipe. It was Tim Cain's chocolate chip pumpkin muffins from the credits. Guess the banana bread recipe's inclusion in the Arcanum manual was also his doing.

 

[Bad Sector]

Quake 1

I haven't played it much recently, but there was a time around 8-10 years ago when my morning procedure included doing a quick run of the first episode while drinking my morning coffee before leaving for work :-P

 

[TripJack]

doom 2

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

My opinion on this would have previously been Doom 2, because with custom content, you get a lot of mileage out of it.
But these days I think I would say Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. While it has less custom content, modifying the game yourself is considerably easier. Despite being a sandbox roguelike set in a zombie apocalypse, you can customize it in a lot of different ways. So if instead of a zombie apocalypse I want to be in endless wilderness, an empty world, an alien invasion, or even a Them! style apocalypse it could be done. Either by tinkering around or modifying the game to allow my stupid idea.

 

[Gregz]

Wasteland

 

[Dodo1610]

Beyond Good & Evil

 

[Ivan]

Donkey Kong Country