So what are your favourite systems?

[ashmie]

I used to spend hours filling school Math notebooks with lists of my favourite bands when I was in secondary school. When I was 12 or 13 my favourite bands list ran something like this.

Iron Maiden
Metallica
Faith No More
Slayer
Nirvana
Pantera
Sepultura.

What are your favourite game systems? What is your all time favourite list or if it's easier what are your favourites nowadays.
Here is my all time favourite game list. (Please include all games, rpg, wargame, skirmish, video games etc)

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (All editions). GW/FF.
Call of Cthulhu. Chaosium.
Black Powder. WARLORD.
Warhammer Fantasy Battle. GW
Talisman. GW.
Heroquest. GW/MB
Space Hulk. GW
Broken Sword the Shadow of the Templars. Revoloution.
Resident Evil 1 PS1. Capcom.
Beneath a Steel Sky. Revoloution.
Guillotine. Wizards of the Coast.
Ghost Castle. MB games.
Escape From Atlantis (Waddingtons)
40k, RT, 2nd or 4th edition. Tried most editions but quite like the Kill Zone rules or Kedama's Shogun 40k rules.
Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs (Waddingtons or MB I forget)
Total War series Napoleon/Shogun 2/Empire.
Dark Corners of the Earth (Hardest PC game ever!) Bethusda.
Golden Axe. Sega Master System 1.
Go for Broke. MB.
Screwball Scramble. TOMY
Star Trek Online. Criptic.

Have fun with this one.

[ashmie]

Thanks, some great lists here and some game I've never heard of. I'll have to check them out.

[me_in_japan]

it's cos folks are too busy painting their Naghammer painting competition entry, isn't it?

isn't it???


Hmmmn. Actually, I was going to reply quicker, but my list required a bit o thought. Anyway, thoughts have been thinked, so without further ado, here is my list o games that are great:

40k Rogue Trader - for changing my life (and also for having eldar in it)
Warmachine - for being a damn, damn well engineered gaming system
Escape from Atlantis - many a happy rainy holiday evening in the north of scotland was whiled away playing this game
Blood Bowl - for being the best game ever. Period.
Cluedo - for Professor Plum (gawd rest his soul. They found him in the library. I reckon the butler done it, with a lead pipe...)
Speedball 2 - for the music, and the stripped down, lightnig fast gameplay
Wipeout (any version, really. All the same game with shinier graphics, truth be told.)
Final Fantasy 7 - no other game actually made me say "f%&*!" out loud because of a plot twist.
Half Life - Mornin' Mr. Freeman. Running a little late today, aren't we?
Lemmings - dink.dinkdink. dinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdinkdink.dinkdinkdink.
Unreal - took "pretty" in computer games to a whole new level. Needs to be remade on the PS3, I say.
Unreal Tournament - for sheer, relentless blowing up of shit, no other game comes close.
Deus Ex - for plot and genuine options in problem solving
Metal Gear Solid - for innovation
Devil May Cry - for the scene where the giant daemon lava spider jumps through the stained glass window of the cathedral and says "DIIIIIEEEE SON OF SPARDA!" The whole game is like playing old school stuff like R-type or Turrican, where you wade through swarms of minions and then have to deal with a MEEEGGAAA HUUUUUGE BOOOOOOOSSSSSS at the end of each level. Exactly cheesy enough to be perfect.


That good enough for ya?

[Spevna]

The Spevna has been preoccupied with the visit of his parents. But once they have left, a list shall be forthcoming. So swears the Spevna!

[job]

Oouuuhhh... this is difiicult if you include video games, board games and tabletop games together. They are not quiet apples and oranges, but still they are a bit different.

Hmmm, to limit I'm going to limit to my top 10:

Flames of War
Total War series: (Shogun [1], Rome, Medieval)
(A Peurto Rico like empire building game- forgot the name)
Dominion
The Great Dalmuti
Cyclades
Talisman
Warhammer 40,000
NCAA Football 2k series
SimCity series


Well, that is the list as I can think of it now. I'm going to change it as I think of other things. Oddly I think I'd rate Warhammer 40k over Warhammer, because I've still got the fondest memories of great times with my old gaming buddies in Eugene. It is wonderful when you can kick back and just have fun playing big team battles.

[AndrewGPaul]

Right now, Infinity and Heavy Gear Blitz are where it's at. Tomorrow's War looks like it could be a winner too.

[Colonel Voss]

(A Peurto Rico like empire building game- forgot the name)

Tropico?

[ashmie]

Isn't it just called Peuto Rico? Is t a boardgame or a video game. Tropico is the video game of Peuto Rico? I'm not certain.

[job]

Sorry, guys, not either of those. It was a board game like Peurto Rico where you develop a global colonial empire with buildings that advance and level up, and trying to vie for possession of trade routes and continents with other players. It was a lot of fun. Lots of tactics and stratagems to playing the game.

The old board gaming group had a predilection for foreign board games, German and French ones, that they would translate, but I thought this one was a English-language version. Anyway, I spent an hour last night upon hours on other nights trying to recall the name.


Flames of War
Total War series: (Shogun [1], Rome, Medieval)
(A Peurto Rico like empire building game- forgot the name)
Dominion
The Great Dalmuti
Cyclades
Talisman
Warhammer 40,000
NCAA Football 2k series
Mechwarrior [2 and 4] - sorry SimCity, Andrew reminded me of Heavy Gear the video game which led me to think of this again.

[Primarch]

Settlers of Catan?