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Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: aldo_14 on December 31, 2004, 04:16:36 am
Well, lets say your top 5 (cos we're all indecisve buggers here....or is that just me?) :D

My vote;


5/ Burnout 3 (PS2)
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4/ Half Life 2 (PC)
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3/ GTA: San Andreas (PS2)
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2/ Rome: Total War (PC)
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1/ Pro Evolution Soccer 3 (PS2)

(Honourable mention to Pirates!, cos I only got it yesterday and haven't made a final judgement yet :D)

NB: Incidentally, I only bought 3 PS2 games this year.........
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: NGTM-1R on December 31, 2004, 05:00:38 am
...scarily, I have bought very few games this year that were released in 2004. The vast majority are older then that. Of those that I did buy and were released this year, only Halflife 2 and Halo 2 deserve to be on any "Best" list.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: aldo_14 on December 31, 2004, 05:02:30 am
To be honest, I discovered that I've only bought about 6 or 7-ish of the games that were released this year.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Gloriano on December 31, 2004, 05:18:34 am
my vote goes to:

1/Knight of the old republic 2:Sith lords (Xbox)

2/World of warcraft (PC)

3/ Halo2 (Xbox)

4/ Pro evolution soccer 4 (PS2

5/ Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (PC

6/ Roman: Total war (PC

7/ GTA:SA (PS2


Honourable mention to  Meroid prime 2 & Pikmin 2

some of my favorites this year
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Ransom on December 31, 2004, 05:38:11 am
1: Silent Hill 4

2: Legacy of Kain: Defiance

3: Myst 4

4: Perimeter

5: Warrior Within

Although my favourite purchase this year would be Silent Hill 2.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Ashrak on December 31, 2004, 06:01:17 am
Nexus: the jupiter incident

HL2

NFS underground 2

Battle for middle earth
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Knight Templar on December 31, 2004, 06:05:15 am
World of Warcraft (Got it for christmas and I've probably already put in 48 hours)

Rome Total War

Halo 2
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Ghostavo on December 31, 2004, 06:24:31 am
3) Rome Total War

2) The Battle for Middle-earth

1) Sonic Heroes
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: BlackDove on December 31, 2004, 06:26:18 am
MGS3
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Knight Templar on December 31, 2004, 06:26:24 am
Hey, I got Battle for Middle-Earth for Christmas, but I haven't played it yet due to WoW. How good is it?
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Ghostavo on December 31, 2004, 06:28:48 am
It's f****** great... just don't play in skirmish as Gondor against 7 hard Isengard... :nervous:
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Gai Daigoji on December 31, 2004, 06:34:35 am
1. Rome: Total War (PC)
2. Halo 2 (X-Box)
3. Half-Life 2 (PC)


:eek: Thinking about it I've not bought many games this year....

*Edit* Hey I've just noticed I got my own custom title below my forum name. :D Gekigangar rules!
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: MicroPsycho on December 31, 2004, 11:00:08 am
I didn't get many new games this year. Doom 3 and Warrior Within were fun and Breed was a let down (I think that's 2004, I cant remember)
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: pyro-manic on December 31, 2004, 11:55:56 am
Hmmm. Doom 3 was a pile of crap, Half Life 2 irritated me because of the lack of progress, Far Cry was pretty good...

I'd have to say one of my favourites was Beyond Good and Evil. Great little adventure game from Ubisoft. I bought it for £10 about a month after it was released - it can't have sold many copies. Excellent game though... :yes:

Oh, and I can't forget Call of Duty. Fantastic game. :nod:
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Taristin on December 31, 2004, 12:07:28 pm
I didn't buy any PC games this year.  Nothing piqued my interest.

Only console game I bought was Halo2.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Unknown Target on December 31, 2004, 12:20:24 pm
Half Life 2
Doom III
Rome: Total War
Warhammer 40k

In that order, I'd say :)
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Night Hammer on December 31, 2004, 12:43:38 pm
1) Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
2) KOTOR 2
3) WoW
4) MGS 3
5) NCAA Football 2005
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Deepblue on December 31, 2004, 01:23:21 pm
1. Halo 2
2. Half-Life 2 (STEAM SUCKS!!!)
3. KOTOR 2
4. Burnout 3
5. Rallisport 2
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Knight Templar on December 31, 2004, 02:34:46 pm
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Originally posted by pyro-manic
Oh, and I can't forget Call of Duty. Fantastic game. :nod:


That was last year, unless you mean the Expansion pack.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Rictor on December 31, 2004, 04:25:48 pm
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Originally posted by pyro-manic


I'd have to say one of my favourites was Beyond Good and Evil. Great little adventure game from Ubisoft. I bought it for £10 about a month after it was released - it can't have sold many copies. Excellent game though... :yes:]


Agreed. Its a fantastic game, one of my all time favourites.

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Originally posted by pyro-manic
Oh, and I can't forget Call of Duty. Fantastic game. :nod:


Playing it now. I just reached the Russian missions, and boy are they hard. Bastard Russians, firing on their own people. I hates them precious, hatessss them.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: an0n on December 31, 2004, 04:30:54 pm
3. Dawn of War (PC)
2. Rome: Total War (PC)
1. Halo 2 (Xbox)
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on December 31, 2004, 04:45:59 pm
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Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Liberator on December 31, 2004, 05:09:33 pm
HL2 loses automatically because of the damn Steam issues.
Halo 2 will win simply because of Fanboi-ism and the fact that they have a lot of celebrities in their corner.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Knight Templar on December 31, 2004, 05:22:55 pm
There's a reason for that too.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Rictor on December 31, 2004, 05:26:33 pm
Half Life 2

uhm, that's about it. All the games which I have played in recent times have been from 2003 (Call of Duty, Prince of Persia etc.)
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Triple Ace on December 31, 2004, 06:14:11 pm
Doom 3 and GTA: San Andreas.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: pyro-manic on December 31, 2004, 08:51:00 pm
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Originally posted by Rictor


Agreed. Its a fantastic game, one of my all time favourites.



Playing it now. I just reached the Russian missions, and boy are they hard. Bastard Russians, firing on their own people. I hates them precious, hatessss them.


Someone else who's played it! At last! :D I'm gutted, because the ending left things wide open for a sequel, but there will never be one because it sold so poorly... :(

And try the Russian missions on the highest difficulty level. THAT is hard... ;)
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Rictor on December 31, 2004, 09:11:27 pm
Don't worry. When I become a millionare, a sequel is first up on my list, right after FS3.

Honestly, the world and characters made simply wandering around a joy. The art director for that game should get a medal. Seems I have a knack for falling in love with phenomenal, though commercially unsuccessful games (FS2, BG&E, Red Faction, System Shock 2 etc)
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: pyro-manic on December 31, 2004, 09:25:52 pm
Agreed. It wasn't overly complex, but it all fitted together so perfectly you got immersed in the whole place. I loved the species - felis sapiens, taurus sapiens etc. Sheer genius... :nod:

Did you ever play Ico on the PS2? That's my all-time favourite game for art direction and visuals. It was beautiful. I'll have to see if I can post some screenshots one of these days....
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Martinus on December 31, 2004, 09:43:41 pm
[color=66ff00]I just finished Homeworld 2 and then Homeworld Cataclysm.

Epic and utterly satisfying.

As for the games released this year:
Doom 3: Atmospheric, visually brilliant but dissapointing end boss and repetitive scenarios. (enter room, approach items, get jumped).
HalfLife 2: More dissapointing than the Phantom menace and the Matrix sequels combined into some kind of uber-dissapointment-causing-package-of-woe.
Steam: You suck.
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Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: spaceman spiff on December 31, 2004, 09:49:21 pm
in no particular order

halo 2
mechassault 2
ninja gaiden (when was this released? 2003?)
all for xbox

i can't buy pc games cuz my computer is crap
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: pyro-manic on December 31, 2004, 10:01:45 pm
I hated Doom 3's graphics. It didn't look half as good as HL2 IMO. And I just got bored of it. I played it up to the point where there's that sort of monorail-train thingy that you have to move around between 3 or so stations and do.... something. I just couldn't be arsed to play any more. Lucky I didn't buy it really...

(I didn't pirate it btw - I borrowed it off a friend to see what it was like, given the mixed reviews)

Half Life 2 on the other hand I really enjoyed. Yeah, the lack of plot and closure at the end was really annoying, and Steam is a pile of crap, but simply playing the game was great fun. Ravenholm, for example - fantastic. Better than anything Doom 3 offered me, and was good to play through. Also the airboat helicopter chase - brilliant. And the sound was soooo much better than that on D3....

I urge everyone to go out and buy Beyond Good and Evil. You'll probably find it for 5 quid in a bargain bin, and it'll be the best money you've spent in a long time. BRILLIANT game :yes2::nod::yes:
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Rictor on December 31, 2004, 10:05:58 pm
Why Maeg, why do you hate joy?

edit: no, I haven't played ICO, on account of not having a PS2. Maybe when they get cheap (I can get the Gamecube for a hundred bucks where I live) or when someone comes up with an emulator.

raa: just over $1.50 American I think.
quid= british pound
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: phreak on December 31, 2004, 10:06:43 pm
Of all the new games i've played that have come out in '04

FS2 3.6.5 (all right im a homer)
Homeworld 2
Half-Life 2 (steam=steamy pile of ****)
UT2K4
Halo 2
Dark Horizons: Lore (all right im a homer again)

lots of 2s...

edit: im a retard, as i forgot to put in UT2004.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Taristin on December 31, 2004, 10:06:58 pm
Pardon my Ignorance, being a merkin and all, but about how much is a quid?
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: pyro-manic on December 31, 2004, 10:25:33 pm
Raa: "Quid" is slang for a pound (£1), which is about $1.90 at the moment (according to xe.com). Basically, it'll be very cheap - the price of a budget game. :) Note that the plural is the same, i.e. you'd say "one/a quid" and "five quid" or "fifty quid", not "fifty quids"...

Rictor: I'll have to hook the puter up to the TV and grab some screenshots then. It's breathtaking (or at least I think so :D).
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: Liberator on January 01, 2005, 02:51:05 am
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Originally posted by pyro-manic
I urge everyone to go out and buy Beyond Good and Evil. You'll probably find it for 5 quid in a bargain bin, and it'll be the best money you've spent in a long time. BRILLIANT game :yes2::nod::yes:


I played the demo, and the ani-people kids are soooooo cute, B:G&E is at the very top of my list when I get a job.
Title: Best game of 2004?
Post by: FireCrack on January 01, 2005, 02:56:41 am
UT2k4


I havent tried alot of new games this year