mine, currently, is Minecraft...

but, not much of a serious gamer, and more just build random stuff and similar, generally in single-player.

in the past, it was Quake 1 and 2.

with the source available, these gave a lot of room mostly for fiddling with stuff...

but, ultimately, the same maps with the same monsters got a bit empty-seeming.

and, they were preferable IMO to Quake 3 Arena, which lacked good single-player gameplay, and either running around empty maps (and shooting walls or similar) or running around being shot at by bots, wasn't particularly compelling (never really got big into multiplayer or deathmatch or similar, mostly because I tended to burn out over the course of a few minutes). though, Q3A largely overshadowed Quake 1 and 2 in terms of popularity.

I actually preferred Quake 1 over Quake 2, mostly as Q1 had more "atmosphere"/"personality" and found the QuakeC development slightly preferable to rebuilding the game DLL. eventually, I ended up with a state of using the Quake1 maps, with a modified Quake2 engine (with a lot of parts of the Quake1 and Quake3 engines glued on). this effort was later dropped, and my own engine was written, mostly to get rid of the GPL.

much of my architecture and technology was strongly influenced by these engines though, like, if not originally for QuakeC and the Q3A JIT, and a chance encounter with a web-development class, my BGBScript language would probably not exist.

well, and my current BTIC video codec and use of AVI video-textures ultimately owes part of its existence to the Id ROQ format (though, there are more subtle reasons I didn't just reuse ROQ). (well, and it doesn't help that I don't have much "original content" to use in them, so mostly it is a mix of random things like putting random videos off of YouTube onto textures, and/or using them mostly for utility things, like animated textures...).

other parts were influenced by Minecraft (such as the use of voxel terrain), and also things like Mozilla Firefox, various information about some Adobe products, ...

yeah...

but, ultimately, "the magic" hasn't really been captured, and no one cares, ...

so, I exist mostly isolated and alone, operating inside a void...

the rare few people who say anything basically just hate on my stuff, and there is little hope of anything worthwhile happening as a result.

and a lot of my custom DCC tools and similar suffer from "awful UI" issues, so have little hope of being relevant to anyone, ...

or such...

1. If I had to pick one series, the Descent series. Dizzying and disorienting, and I still play it from time to time. It takes a really long time to master. It has a similar 'feature' to quake where walking forward and strafing lets you move faster than just going forward. 1 unit forward + 1 unit sideways is sqrt(2) units of motion. Except Descent let you also 'strafe' up, so you can move sqrt(3) units of motion if you do all three at once. In Descent it actually makes sense; if you're firing thrusters in space, your 'up' thruster isn't automatically weak because you're also thrusting forward and to the right.

2. Portal is next on my list. It's just fun and silly. Nonviolent FPS. Well, if you don't count knocking over dumb turrets as violence.

3. Beyond Good and Evil: Going around taking pictures. Fun game, mostly non/minimally violent gameplay.

4. Ken's Labyrinth: This probably isn't on anyone else's list, but it was the 1st raycaster FPS I played back on my... 286. It's also a bit silly. This is the game that made me write a wireframe maze in qbasic and become interested in 3d graphics.

other classics I need to mention: Quake II, Tomb Raider (original), Prince of Persia (original)

The NES Ninja Gaiden series -- The integration and style of cinematics was really ahead of its time (especially on a console), the gameplay and control were really tight, and you get into a kind of 'flow' while playing. Also, Ninjas.

I like all the games that I can say "That is mine, I made it, have you looked at the credits, that's me!" Mostly because that is always fun. Of course, it takes a year or two before I can stand to actually PLAY them.

I'd say the video games that I have replayed the most times are Zelda:LttP and FF6. The opera scene is still highly emotional after all these years, and it is a fun challenge to make ALL the players master ALL the magecite. (All the FF7 master materia is also fun, it just takes FOREVER to get everybody hooked up with masters, so not as satisfying)

Of course, on a binge most of those can be played fully in about two weeks, very different from most modern similarly-styled games. Some of the new Final Fantasy games, two weeks is just enough to get to the title screen.

I also have a new favorite mobile game about every three weeks. This week Buttons and Scissors is taking too much time on those 7x7 levels.

I'm a Majora's Mask man myself. Although RE4 was very good too. Dark Souls is good but a tad difficult ;)

Of course, it takes a year or two before I can stand to actually PLAY them.

I always play my games for hours, even if they are awful .

I like all the games that I can say "That is mine, I made it, have you looked at the credits, that's me!" Mostly because that is always fun.

That basically describes the only TV I watch. “Look ma, it’s me!”

My favorite is Starsiege: Tribes. Can’t be replaced. But I love most Mario and Zelda games. Today’s games are just for graphics.


L. Spiro

Any Zelda game (particularly "A Link Between Worlds" for 3DS, that is an awesome game!).

My absolute favorite game, though, would have to be The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I love everything about it, from the colorful landscapes and townscapes (as opposed to Skyrim's plain-n-gray world), to the Mage's Guild questline, and everything in between.

Though come to think of it, I never did play the actual main quest in the game, I always just goofed off and went my own way - usually a path of darkness. :D

My absolute favorite game, though, would have to be The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I love everything about it, from the colorful landscapes and townscapes (as opposed to Skyrim's plain-n-gray world), to the Mage's Guild questline, and everything in between.

Though come to think of it, I never did play the actual main quest in the game, I always just goofed off and went my own way - usually a path of darkness.

I never finished the Mage's Guild questline. I always ended up killing a member on accident and never committed to bringing all the ingredients to excuse my crime. XD I'm considering buying it again to goof off (The duplication glitch was mandatory for me.) but I'm not sure.

I've never considered it, but Skyrim is rather grey. I do understand it though, being set in the snowy north, for the most part. But I do enjoy it more than I did Oblivion, unlike quite a few people.

My absolute favorite game, though, would have to be The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I love everything about it, from the colorful landscapes and townscapes (as opposed to Skyrim's plain-n-gray world), to the Mage's Guild questline, and everything in between.

Though come to think of it, I never did play the actual main quest in the game, I always just goofed off and went my own way - usually a path of darkness.

I never finished the Mage's Guild questline. I always ended up killing a member on accident and never committed to bringing all the ingredients to excuse my crime. XD I'm considering buying it again to goof off (The duplication glitch was mandatory for me.) but I'm not sure.

I've never considered it, but Skyrim is rather grey. I do understand it though, being set in the snowy north, for the most part. But I do enjoy it more than I did Oblivion, unlike quite a few people.

Skyrim and Oblivion are both excellent games. I really like Skyrim's Thieves Guild/Dark Brotherhood Quests, they were a bit more in-depth I think. Not to mention... dragons!

But seriously, you should complete the Mages Guild questline, because at the Arcane University you can manufacture your own spells and make very, very deadly combinations. My favorite was to combine shock/fire damage, health drain and magicka drain, so anytime I cast the spell, I would regain the target's magicka and be able to cast it again in about 3 seconds - very useful against enemies. :)