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WereKitten on 09 January 2011

Several games can aspire to the title. The Half Life series, ICO and SotC, Zelda:OoT, Mario64, FF XII. And I loved Dungeon Master, MGS3, SimCity, System Shock, Planescape: Torment, Grim Fandango, The Bard's tale, Ultima VI and VII and more or less the entirety of Infocom's and Magnetic Scrolls' production.

But in the end, if I have to keep it personal and focus on the experience more than the intrinsic value of the game itself, then it would be Elite, on my Amiga. That was a game that totally blew me away, showed me that there were self-sufficent worlds in mere hundreds of kilobytes. It got my undivided attention for a long while and my admiration forever.



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AussieGecko on 09 January 2011

I kinda misread the topic, Best single player experience was prob Zelda:OoT partly because I kept bumming around not wanting the game to finish. Mass Effect series did the same thing to me, I wanted to make sure I finished all quests before killing bad boss. FFIX was the only game in my entire experience (bar sonic 1 and altered beast) that makes me want to play it again and again and again and again.

FFIX is significant in that aspect for me because it is a single player game but there is sooo much to do before you can free reign and the fact that I was happy to do this time and time again shows what a great experience I had with it :)



 

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haxxiy on 09 January 2011

I'd say Resident Evil 4. Played it over 10 times.



 

 

 

 

 

hackles on 09 January 2011
Snesboy said:

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

 

Never has a game been so perfect.

Ditto. I couldn't say it any better. Just a perfect game in every way. I can't wait for its remake on 3DS



Rob-Ot on 09 January 2011

Nice to see many FF9 mentions, for me it was the last good Final Fantasy and one of the greatest RPG's ever.



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NotStan on 09 January 2011

Despite the probably upcoming disagreement, I thought that COD4:MW had a great story for a shooter anyway. Didn't care much for WaW, but kinda found MW2 semi-interesting. Halo: CE and Halo 2 were pretty awesome to me too, I kinda liked Reach,but thought it could have been so much more.   ME2, ACII, Fable : TLC, I kinda liked RDR story if it was a bit repetitive. You know, for the life of me I can't bring myself to think anything else, I haven't played 360 in a while now, and only really started gaming since the original Xbox, also had a PS1 and had like 50 games on it, but I can't seem to remember any that stood out to me, maybe cos it was so frigging long ago.

 

PS. I've NEVER played a Zelda/Final Fantasy or a Mario game.



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Fufinu on 09 January 2011

For me it was Valkyria Chronicles. The story is amazing, the visuals are charming and the characters are great in a JRPG sort of way.

I'd list as runners-up the old time Ultima 8, MGS4 and Uncharted 2.



SnesTea on 09 January 2011
haxxiy said:

I'd say Resident Evil 4. Played it over 10 times.

This is a close second for me. I've played the GameCube version through from start to finish 16 times, the PC and PS2 versions once and the Wii version twice. That's a lot of RE4.



Dinges on 09 January 2011

Fallout 3 was the best experience I had this gen. Amazing game. Graphics and animations could have been better, but the overall experience was so overwhelming that I didn't really care about that.



HughbertJass on 09 January 2011
morpheusx said:

I agree with pretty much everything that was mentioned above. One thing that I would like to note is that it is amazing how under appreciated the N64 was considering it has at least 5 games that come to mind that rank as some of the greatest games of all time and it didn't have anything even close on the competition during its generation. (mario 64, goldeneye, Ocarina, Banjo, Perfect Dark) 

If I limit it to this generation. The first year I had the 360 Gears of war 1 blew me away to where I couldn't put it down for months. The story was adequate, but the game play and level design was in a world of its own. Then the following year the first Bioshock game came out. The imagination and the originality of the storyline makes it one of the best games of all time. The first Assassins Creed game would also make my list. Its too bad the sequels of all three of those games were pretty much just lesser efforts clones of the originals that didn't add much of anything new.

Did you just claim Assassins Creed was better than its sequel. Assassin's Creed 2 is the superior game so says everyone.

My best single player experience probably Mass Effect 1 & 2. Which I am including as one game because i played the two very close to each other also decisions in the first game carry over to the second. Now why is it my best single player experience firstly because they are many different ways to do levels which is one of the best things about interactive storytelling. Also the gameplay in the 2nd one (the superior of the two games) is very good almost as good as other third person shooters such as Gears.