[Pegasus V]

I was just wondering what everyone's favourite feature is from each of the games they've played. What I mean is the thing in the game that made it so unique.

I've assemble a list of my own games here for example:

• Freelancer: Free Mobility (should be)
  
• Soldier of Fortune: First Person Point-of-View, Skeletal Hit Points
  
• Star Trek - Bridge Commander: Bridge Command, Capital Starship Combat
  
• Civilisation 3: Communications, In-Depth Records (from what I've heard)
  
• NBA Live 2k+: Player Creation, Dynamic News Screen (At A Glance), Realistic Skeletal Movement
  
• Age of Empires: Tech Tree
  
• Freespace: 3D Space Combat
  
• Freespace2: 3D Space Nebula Effect, Advanced Space Graphics
  
• The Sims: Personal Manangement, Career
  
• The Sims - Hot Date: Relationships
  
• Alpha Centauri: Diplomacy
  
• Homeworld: 3D Battlegroup Navigation in Space
  
• Wing Commander - Privateer: Personal Agenda
  
• Red Faction: GeoMod Walls
  
• Aliens Vs Predator 2: Atmospheric Tension
  
• SoF2 - Double Helix: Weather Effects (from what I've heard - can you add anything else?)
  
• Need For Speed 3 - Hot Pursuit: Metalic Shine (that's all really)
  
• Serious Sam: Lighting Effects
  
• StarFleet Academy: Capital Starship Management
  
• Star Trek Vogager - Elite Force: Team AI Co-op
  
• Return to Monkey Island: Humour
  
• Need For Speed - Porche 2k: Money Management
  
• SimGolf: Enless Chatter
  
• Ghost Recon: Realistic Player Wounding/Player Control
  
• Empire Earth: Static Object Animations
  
• Tribes 2: Teamplay Management, Team-Based Stratigic Organiser
  
• Asheron's Call: Player-Based Trade Dynamics
  
• Jedi Knight 2 - Jedi Outcast: Melee Combat, Special Powers Control
  
• Star Trek Armada 2: ? (Hmmm...)
  
• Morro Wind: Interactive Environment
  
• Star Wars Galaxies: Rich Environment Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Gameplay, Large worlds, etc (from what I've heard)
  
• Wing Commander 3: The Choice of What to Say (you know what I'm talking about?)
  

[Stryke 9]

Earth 2150: Active weather patterns, (TMP) The 50s B-movie plot
Nocturne: It ends
Outforce: Cutscenes. Aaaalll the preety cutscenes.
HWC: It's a strat that actually has all the features the manual claims
FreeSpace: Moddability (duh)
Dune: Tanks can run over people
DOW: near-complete control over unit properties
SimCity: Disasters
I-war II: Everything but the plot, characters, and missions
I-War: The first cutscene, 'cos that's all I can get.
StarCraft BW: The map editor controls
StarCraft: Pretty all around
Bureau 13: You've gotta be kidding me. Kicks arse all around.
Syndicate: (See above)
Master of Orion: The gameplay

[Kamikaze]

hmm... interesting

homeworld: fun
freespace 1/2: atmosphere is good
morrowind: uber-open-ended
starcraft: bad in many way but occasionally "fun" (well maybe a bit more than that...)
red alert 2: dorky, a kind of a light romp through war... lots of tank tops shots...
Emperor: Battle For Dune: sucky....
Earth 2150: plays well
Battlezone: fun and different
Sacrifice: The atmostphere was great and the game hard enough to be fun... sometimes actually gives you choices (unlike most rts games)
Empire Earth: err.... lots of units....
and others not significant enought to mention...

[an0n]

• Starcraft: Kicking someones ass with 10,000 marines
  
• Freespace: Best game-story ever  
  
• Homeworld: Controls are simple yet highly...err...controlling
  
• Earth And Beyond: Best MMPORPG ever
  
• Starfleet Command: Kick-ass ship-to-ship combat
  
• Monkey Island Series: Cool story, 3 had excellent controls and all have great humor
  
• Sim City 2000: Nothing beats playing God
  
• Creatures 3: See above
  
• Alpha Centauri: Nothing beats blowing the crap outta God with singularity missiles  
  
• Halo: Extremely innovative gameplay and kick-ass graphics
  
• Quake 3: Gore-fest  
  
• Age Of Empires 2: Great graphics and cool tech-tree
  
• Wing Commander: Highly original in every respect  
  
• Wing Commander: Privateer: Truly visionary concept
  
• Command And Conquer: The original and best for mission based armies
  
• Shogun: Total War: Breathtaking combat, makes heavy use of actual strategy and follows Sun Tzu remarkably well
  
• Metal Gear Solid: Original and best Sneak-'Em-Up, kick-ass graphics
  
• Super Monkey Ball: Monkeys kick-ass

[Stealth]

hey stryke, when you say "Dune", are you talking the original dune?  the one that came out in the early 1990's?  or Dune 2000
?

[Dark_4ce]

Hmm, this is a tough one...

Freespace: Oh come on... If it wasn't excelent in any respect I would'nt be here...
Imperium Galactica II: The scope of the gameplay, loved it.
Civilization 2: REALLY addictive.
Fallout 1&2: Even more addictive, and the story was perfect. Along with the fact that you can pritty much do anything.
Starcraft: Cant beat that swarming aspect.
Homeworld: Great story and great controls and action.
Monkey Island series: Funniest **** on the computer, still makes me laugh!
Sam and Max Hit the Road: Oh man this was a fun game.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Omaha Beach....
Soldier of Fortune: GORE!
Soul Reaver 1&2: great story, fun gameplay.
Half Life series: Great atmosphere, great action. creepy.
Max Payne: Innovation. Bullet time. Action.
Tribes 2: Good ol' online action. And nothing beats the Frisbees of death!

[Gortef]

Final Fantasy Series: Great stories... and awesome cutscenes
Chrono Trigger/Cross: -same as above-
Thief1&2: Kick ass atmosphere, great controls, good story
Half-Life: Atmosphere, story... and the life of the engine
Freespace: Do I need to repeat what the other have said
Flashpoint: Multiplayer
MGS: Awesome story, great characters and playability
Max Payne: Finland Bullet time, story

well... that's something

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
Tribes 2: Good ol' online action. And nothing beats the Frisbees of death!

Except for heavy plasma artillery, MDM mortars, EMP mortars, homing rockets, spreadfire plasma, laser turrets, rocket turrets, the Boom Stick, the Volter, and the Gravgun (on air maps).

Oh wait. You weren't talking about MODs, were you?

Shifter 6b (for Tribes 1) owns j00!!

[Redfang]

Well, hmm... a few what come to my mind...

• Freespace 2: Story, lots of ships, everything...
  
• Jedi Knight 2: Lightsaber, force powers.
  
• Battlezone: Different, innovation.
  
• Battlezone 2: Nice graphics, nice something.
  
• X-Com: Interceptor: Well, maybe it has something good..
  
• Serious Sam (1/2): Lots of monsters, good graphics, big outside areas.
  
• X-Com: Terror From The Deep: Research and characters which get better.
  
• X-Com: Ufo Defense/whatever was the other name: Same as above.
  
• Doom (I/II): When they came, they were both so much better than other FPS's in everything.
  
• C&C: When it came (the first one, others were good or not), it was so amazing in everything.
  
• Dune 2 & 2000: Both are good.
  
• Civilization: Lots of hours have I wasted to this game...
  
• Quake 3: Fast paced fragging.
  
• The Settlers series: Lots of thing to do.
  
• Diablo 1/2 (D2: LoD especially): Lots of stuff to collect, fun, though it depends.
  
• Baldur's Gate: Pretty good in lots of things.

I'm sure I forgot some good games... though all of above aren't that good, but most of them are at least good.

[CP5670]

Here is my list:

• Battlezone - great merger of action and RTS genres; different, yet fun, cool weapons
• Battlezone 2 - nice graphics; like its predecessor, this one had very innovative weapons
• Dune 2 - the game that started the whole RTS genre
• Command and Conquer - I spent as much time with this and RA as I did with Descent and FS; great units, story, movies, multiplayer, everything really
• Descent 1/2 - these are the titles that really got me interested in gaming; good AI and great movement system
• Descent 3 - great weapon balance and multiplayer modes
• Deus Ex - nonlinear gameplay, detailed and immersive storyline
• Doom - nothing needs to be said for this one ;)
• Freespace 1/2 - very realistic and detailed storyline, nicely designed missions, powerful moddability
• Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - just good old-fashioned fun :D
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - atmospheric single-player campaign, great weapon reports
• Mission Critical - like DX and FS2, plotline is very immersive, detailed and realistic
• Thief II: The Metal Age - very good stealth system; like BZ, different, but fun
• Total Annihilation - great RTS with tons of units and strategy, fully 3D
• Tribes 2 - probably the best multiplayer game I have seen (and yes, the frisbees rule; I can smash up others by the numbers with that thing )
• Unreal - this game is worth it just for the incredible level designs, and its graphics and AI were quite superior for its time
• Unreal Tournament - great AI compared to other games, awesome multiplayer, lots of mods out there

I have also seen some oter games that my brother plays a lot (Homeworld, Ground Control, etc.) but I have not really gotten a chance to try them out yet.

[Stargazer_2098]

Let's see....

These are the ones i play most for the time being:

Freespace: I agree with all that is written by other users; great story is one of the main features.

Half-Life: Same as written by other users.

Noctis: Why havn't this one been mentioned before?
Great atmosphere, over 70,000,000,000,000+ stars and planets to propsect and explore, free mobility; free to dream, impressive use of fractal-seed-engine, most addicting freeware-game in years.

Orbiter: Innoventive true-nevtonian-physics-engine, great add-on capability, great graphics (for a freeware game), great atmosphere, having the ability to explore all planets of Sol in real-time.

Countless others: Tough I like many other games as well, they are to many to list; and those listed here are those I play  most for the time being.



Stargazer.

[aldo_14]

Max Payne - Bullet time, movie atmosphere
Serious Sam - Stupid, relentless fun
Freespace 2 - Emphasis on action... big guns & bigger ships
Goldeneye (N64) - James bond
ISS (N64) / Pro Evo Soccer (PS2) - Close as possible to the beautiful game.... good graphicvs, great gameplay, lots of unique little touches
GTA 3 (PS2) - Total freedom ,massive gameplaying area.

[Stealth]

actually CP, i believe it was Dune 1, not Dune 2, that started the 'RTS genre'

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Civ 2 It's that time already?
Transport Tycoon Where'd my life go?
System Shock 2 Hey, this is like Event Horizon.
Deus ExSneaky, sneaky, sneak, sneak.
UTSnipey, Snipey, snipe, snipe.
Half Life Everything!

etc, etc.

[Unknown Target]

Freespace: The fun level.

Empire Earth: The ability to command modern tanks.

Homeworld: The pure fun of it.

Freespace 2: The fun level, amazing graphics, kewl storyline, and MODability.

IL-2 Sturmovik: The gritty realism, and the incredible Mplayer and graphics.

Combat Flight Simulator 2: Uhhhh...MODability, I guess.

Star Trek: Armada: The simple coolness of watching the game play. The campaigns weren't too fun, but if I was forced to play a game other than those listed above, I'd pick this one.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by CP5670

• Total Annihilation - great RTS with tons of units and strategy, fully 3D

[/B]

I was hoping someone would mention this game. Although it actually wasn't fully 3D - the terrain graphics engine wasn't, although it used fully 3D heightmaps and 3D units. The actual look of the terrain was completely 2D, made to look 3D, with the underlying heightmap designed so that units would go uphill where it looked graphically like there was a hill.

Anyway, I'd have to give a big mention to Total Annihilation for the 3D units, and even more importantly, the command-queuing. You could queue up so many diverse command for a single unit or group that the possibilities were just mind-boggling. My favorite was how easy it made setting up patrol routes for construction kbots/planes, how they would salvage metal while patrolling, repair damaged units, etc. Also cool was how easy it was to have a battle group follow a very specific path to attack a target from a certain angle. Dang, I loved that game.

[Thorn]

GTA 3 - Stealing a Hummer and going on a joyride through a busy city.. Who doesnt want to do that?

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Stealth
actually CP, i believe it was Dune 1, not Dune 2, that started the 'RTS genre'

I don't think so. As far as I know, there is no Dune 1. I don't know if Dune 2 was the first RTS game, but I think so and at least it was real good.

[Dark_4ce]

Ok.

DUNE 1 was an adventure game with a tad of strategy. But NOTHING resembling an RTS. Dune 2 is the one that pioneered and started the RTS games.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
Ok.

DUNE 1 was an adventure game with a tad of strategy. But NOTHING resembling an RTS. Dune 2 is the one that pioneered and started the RTS games.

What he said.