Name ONE game that made you say "HOLY POO" this game is awesome!!!!

[gizmopop]

Herzog Zwei... many didn't quite get this game, because it seemed(to them) like a real quirky shooter, but instead it was one of the first real time strategy games out there.


Along the skateboarding/extreme sports games you had Aggressive Inline, which had all the controllability of your Tony Hawk games, but introduced the open world style play to the genre, basically you played in a free skate style mode doing tricks all over place, doing specific level goals on your own timetable (before this game the THPS series had time limits for each level)

THPS quickly added this style of play while calling their original form of play.

[Jerry_HEAVEN]

I loved Herzog Zwei. Waaaaay ahead of it's time there.

[wolfsburgraz]

Pepsi Man!

It was the sort of game that made me go "Holy crap this is ****** up, but it's awesome and I love it!"

I've always loved quirky games that most people think are terrible.

[dashrendar]

Recent?
Crysis 2

past?
Starcraft
C&C
Half-Life 2

[Skeil]

Great thread question.

For me Tomb Raider 1 and 2
And not an actual game (actually the game too), but a trailer for Metal Gear Solid (ps1) that I got in the mail. It was in Japanese which made it more awesome for me.
Theres more but I'll leave it at that.

[VW4life]

Recent - dirt3. It's not stellar but just poo grinning fun.

Past - twisted metal. So much fun playing split screen against friends.

[SAPJetta]

Pepsi Man!

It was the sort of game that made me go "Holy crap this is ****** up, but it's awesome and I love it!"

I've always loved quirky games that most people think are terrible.

I'd imagine most people thought that was terrible for fairly obvious reasons

[Clean PG]

Past - twisted metal. So much fun playing split screen against friends.

definitely! playing that game on ps1 with my dad and lighting him up with the pink lincoln that shot flames out the front just never got old. i think theyre bringing it back for PS3 in 2012? i'm crossing my fingers a version comes out for the 360 too

[Skeil]

OMGosh, I forgot about Twisted Metal 2.
I had a buddy back in the day with that game, we would play that poo for hours

[SurferbobGolf]

[Clean PG]

^^ lmfao i remember pepsi man. idk why but i always had troubles timing the jump out of the window after running through the house

[Juiced6]

definitely! playing that game on ps1 with my dad and lighting him up with the pink lincoln that shot flames out the front just never got old. i think theyre bringing it back for PS3 in 2012? i'm crossing my fingers a version comes out for the 360 too

its a sony title - it will never see the light of day on the 360 unless sony stops making playstation devices

[Juiced6]

i really could not believe what i was playing when i rented this - such violence and yet sub par game play but i was addicted

[JettaGT8V80]

i have a few actually

Castlevania :SOTN
Gears of War
Ocarina of Time
Super Mario 64
and finally Tokyo Extreme Racer and the 3 games that followed (the dc ones 1 and 2 then the ps2 ones Zero and 3) until the Drift ones came out then i didnt care anymore

[Chapel]

Defender

Star control 2

X-wing

TIE Fighter

Mechwarrior 2

Dune 2

Moto Roader

[Clean PG]

Mechwarrior 2

i remember playing Mechwarrior on the first computer i ever got. it was a 200mhz toshiba with an 8gb hard drive

i feel somewhat obligated to post this game that has gotten more than enough of my time in the late-teen and early 20's years, Diablo 2 - Lord of Destruction:

[SAPJetta]

Ultima Underwold: The Stygian Abyss had me hooked a the time.

[Daskoupe]

Starcraft

halo

dead island

portal

[EricTheRad]

[redman43]

Final Fantasy 7

3 discs long. I had never seen a game where one of the MAIN characters you had been playing for so long actually dies in the storyline and doesn't come back later.

[Skeil]

So many awesome games I forgot about, bringing back memories.

3 discs long. I had never seen a game where one of the MAIN characters you had been playing for so long actually dies in the storyline and doesn't come back later.

Borrowed FF7 from a friend and only beat one disk of it. Wonder if he still has it...

A main character dying....when I found out about that.... In FF10, when me and my brother found out Titus was a something like a figment of their imagination.... WTH

FF8 had a happy ending though, I think

[wolfsburgraz]

I played FF7 so friggin' much. I remember grinding for days and days (maybe weeks) so I could actually beat the snake up near the beginning rather than running past it like you could.

FF8 I grinded without realizing the enemies scaled with you. Made for very difficult boss fights even on disc 1.

[Stupid-GTi]

RE4
Batman: Arkham Asylum
POP: Sands of time.

[Laser04]

Halo: CE/H2

[jetta'd]

Gears of War 3 - Such a massive improvement in graphics and gameplay over the previous 2 while keeping the story in line

Red Dead Redemption was awesome!

[Silly_me]

Herzog Zwei...

I love that game. I pulled out my genesis and played that with my daughter and she loved it. What other old game do you think a young HD generation gamer would enjoy? Just shows how ahead of its time it really was.

But for me, the first game that really grabbed me and pulled me into hours of gaming was:

[nevermas]

Since we're only naming one game, I'm going to go with Fallout 2.

Katamari and Rise of the Triad both came close, but Fallout 2 will forever be my holy crap this is an awesome game

[Ski-guru]

Interstate '76. Yeah, I'm old.

epic game!!!

[BRealistic]

I love that game. I pulled out my genesis and played that with my daughter and she loved it. What other old game do you think a young HD generation gamer would enjoy? Just shows how ahead of its time it really was.

But for me, the first game that really grabbed me and pulled me into hours of gaming was:

Bought it (for C64) .. played it ... and that was the first game that made me realize that I really don't like RPGs (tho it was a really cool game for the time).

[SOAR]

**** yeah dude!! This is one of the greatest games ever made. Eric Chahi is the man... Too bad Ubisoft ****ed up "From Dust" for him.

[Jesse]

World Class Track Meet + power pad.

[Clean PG]

World Class Track Meet + power pad.

isnt the "Gold" edition of that game worth hundreds/thousands of dollars? i think i remember seeing one on ebay and it was at like $500+ for just the game, was also mentioned on g4 tech tv once about the value of it.

[Silly_me]

Bought it (for C64) .. played it ... and that was the first game that made me realize that I really don't like RPGs (tho it was a really cool game for the time).

I think it was the first real RPG game I played, and it hooked me. Ultima, Baldur's gate, were my faollowup RPG addictions.

But another series I truly loved was Space Quest

[Jesse]

Rise of the Triad

exploding eyeballs in your face

[VdubChaos]

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