Since we haven't had too many gaming threads lately i thought i'd ask people to post some of their most enjoyable single player gaming experiences.

I just finally finished Ninja Gaiden on the xbox and holy gronks that was one of the best if not best 33 hours i ever wasted.

Go.

deus ex, any final fantasy, civ

tetris

fifa, nba live

Half life 1 & 2. Gotta get episode one some day

deus ex, half-life 1, thief 1, 2 and 3.

oh and Fear.

call of duty 1,2. Painkiller.

farcry and burnout 3 on xbox
hl 1 and 2 get an honorable mention

oblivion

too hard to call


I would have to say Galaga tho for the amount of stolen 20c pieces and man hours.

last edited by SCOGGEX at 08:28:19 26/Jun/06

Deus Ex and HL1.

playing through doom 3 atm and LOVING it. everyone who said it was s*** was so wrong.

doom 3 is amatuer s***e.

deus ex, hexen, morrowind, oblivion, hl/2, doom/2, f19 stealth fighter, civ2, wolf3d, alone in the dark, grand prix 2, project gotham/2/3 and many more.

Single player gaming > multiplayer gaming.

definitely call of duty 2

anyone who says sp > mp is a newb

half-life
freespace 2
warcraft 3
transport tycoon deluxe

Mega Drive

- Landstalker
- Dune 2

SNES

- Young Merlin
- Desert Strike

PSX

- Doom
- Dark Forces
- Warcraft

PC

- Half Life
- Far Cry
- Quake 1&2
- WoW

does wow have a single player?

It does if you're solo'ing alot of the time which I do. It's only instances that I team up in.

8-)

Any Zelda game
Resident evil

nfsu:2

PC
Deus Ex
System Shock 2
Stacraft
Half-Life 1 & 2

CONSOLES
Zelda :OOT
Resident Evil 4
Final Fantasy X

Doom II.

'nuff said.

Half-Life 1 & 2
Diablo II
Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

Mafia

Final Fantasy 7, the first two Oddworld games and Morrowind.

Grand Theft Auto 3

Oh yeah baby!

oh yeah!

GTA
GTA: London
GTA 2
GTA III
GTA Vice City
GTA San Andreas

GTA: San Andreas would have to be the best game i've played in the last 5 years.

Any Zelda game
Resident evil

100% agree.

PC
- Doom II
- Quake
- Half Life II
- Painkiller (original & expansion)
- Serious Sam: The First Encounter

Console
- Double Dragon II
- Super Ghouls & Ghosts
- Zelda: OoT
- Burnout 3

playing through doom 3 atm and LOVING it. everyone who said it was s*** was so wrong.

Doom 3 was about 5+ years behind the times with regard for game-play, narrative, plot, suspension and enjoy-ability, within an FPS environment. Outside FPS it is a decade behind the times.

It just isn't that good of a game. There are a couple of awesome moments in it, but not enough to say it was a great game.

those are both nice opinions. but the topic wasn't 'what constitutes a great game'... it's 'most enjoyable sp'. & i know heeeeps of people that loved the doom3 experience. i really enjoyed doom3 & doom3:resurrection of evil even moreso. i would have said doom3/d3:roe for my most enjoyable single player experience as well... but then there was oblivion.

I use to really love the old adventure games like sam and max, grim fandango, full throttle. Also for some queer reason I loved anachronox.

Mega Drive

Streets of Rage
Sonic

SNES

Super mario bros
Donkey kong

PC

Old School Pitfall
Half Life 2
Mortal Kombat (on mega drive as well i believe)
Doom 2

metroid series
zelda series
super mario 64
goldeneye
half life series
call of duty (1 not 2)
unreal (1 not 2)
mafia

hmm. theres lots.

Ya mum was a good single player experince, but she might also be a good multiplayer experince. I'll get back to you on that. :P

Just going for s*** that hasn't been mentioned yet:

All the Splinter Cells (raaar 4 please)
Tales of Phantasia/Tales of Eternia (jRPG fans must play these)
The Incredible Machine
Devil May Cry 3 (fantastic combat system, beats God of War in every single regard and rivals Ninja Gaiden at every step)
Bauldur's Gate 1+2 & Planescape Torment
Yoshi's Island
Mario RPG series
Shadow of the Colossus
MGS 1-3

I use to really love the old adventure games like sam and max, grim fandango, full throttle. Also for some queer reason I loved anachronox.

Seconded. Also there's no reason not to like anachronox.

Also ff7 is ftl

last edited by Hashy at 15:58:10 26/Jun/06

The best streets of rage was number 2.

Also donkey kong counrty 2.

Karateka (Apple IIe)
Kings Quest's
Space Quest's
Police Quest's
Max Payne's
HL's 1 and 2

Thief

Max Payne's

Max payne's what?

WHAT?

THE WORLD MUST KNOW

yeah no yeah doom 3 is scary and fun.

splinter cell series
hl1 and 2
max payne
GTA3 and GTA:SA (i guess vice city as well)
the first MGS

plenty of other old pc/console games but cbf'd mentioning them, someone else has probably mentioned them anyway.

i know heeeeps of people that loved the doom3 experience. i really enjoyed doom3 & doom3:resurrection of evil even moreso. i would have said doom3/d3:roe for my most enjoyable single player experience as well

Sir, I question your sexuality!

I actually quite enjoyed halo (once it came to PC) single player. I guess, it's not my favourite, as duke nukem 3d would have to be my fav over all.

next ones on the list would be Max Payne, Halflife 1 & 2, Quake 1 and GTA:III.

Daikatana is awesome

last edited by Zen Apathy at 18:53:09 26/Jun/06

favorate games of all time has to be Wolf 3d, Doom 1 and 2

others are Halflife 2, Quake 3 on the PS, Max Payne 1 and 2(although 2 was kinda short..) GTA 3 Medel of Honor all versions ( Pacific Assualt prolly has the most mayhem out of all of them..)Doom 3

For a single player game to be good, you have to be able to go back in to it and enjoy it over again or it has to have immensely long playing time or 'starting again' must have positives.

Titles from the past that i'd list as best single player experience (excluding games that had good single player but the most fun was had split-screen or multiplayer):

Amok (v20)
Bruce Lee (c64)
Pitfall 2 (c64)
Raid Over Bungling Bay (c64)
The Last Ninja (c64)
Questron 2 (c64)
Great Giana Sisters (c64)
Ultima 5 (c64)
Eye of the Beholder (PC)
Ultima 7 (pc)
Civilization (pc)
Wolf 3D (pc)
GTA 1 & 2

Going forward from there most games i've liked have been multiplayer or the single player component didn't last more than a few weeks.

For well over six months now i've been addicted to Civilization 4. Every month it gets renewed interest when civfanatics.com release the "Game Of The Month" and i get back in to it, discussing strategies with guys at work. GoTM's are a save game start point, that everyone plays and you can discuss strategies since everyone has the same starting point. I believe the next Gotm is out this weekend, if anyone is interested.

Edit: added in GTA 1&2. I notice lots of comments on doom/duke etc, but these i played predominantly multiplayer so aren't in my best single player list.

last edited by natslovR at 19:27:45 26/Jun/06

DOOM II, enough said, no game before or after it, truely was designed to kick your arse... I played it through in like 4-5 days. Straight days mind, back in the day when little things like an education would be put on hold to save the earth from hell spawn.

I can still remember thinking to myself as yet more s*** spawned after I'd just spent 30 minutes laying waste to everything, there can't be any more surely, then more s*** would spawn, hundreds of the buggers...

Truely a classic single player experience.

Half life series
Unreal 1
Mechwarrior 2

1. Thief 1&2. Definately the most immersive and nail-baiting game I've ever played.

2. Doom II. For the reasons mentioned above.

3. AvP Gold. Crappy renders, but man... that game really laid the smaq down.

4. Half-Life 1. duh

5. Serious Sam 1st & 2nd Encounter. Great fun, silly game, doom stylez.

6. Starcraft. rly

7. Dungeon Keeper 2. Lotsa fun.

8. System Shock2. This really was an under-rated classic.

9. Max Payne. Da Pillz kept me playin'

10. Deus ex. Non-Linear ++

come to think of it my brother gave me neverwinter nights and it was the only game i fuond myself skipping work to play. i have sworn never to play wow for that reason

Hrm, tis odd that people interpret that idea of 'Best single player experiance' as the title of a game and instead of an experiance..

My fav moment was playing Doom 1 map 1. Hearing the voices/sounds of various monsters nearby, plus the lighting and split levels. OMG that was excelent.

Also taking on the world in CIV during the later game, wear I had tanks, carriers and advanced transports and the rest of the world had triemes. Ooo the good times.

O also playing Golden Axe with a good friend. Kicking those little theiving gnome things heehheh...

last edited by Tollaz0r! at 23:29:06 26/Jun/06

Sir, I question your sexuality!

this is qgl & the subject is gaming... i expect no less! ;D

gotta larf at the people that list wolf3d as thier 'most enjoyable single player experience'... do you guys not remember the tedious running up against a wall mashing the space bar?!? the near endless rooms of brown shirts, blue shirts & white shirts... yawn. sure the game was an fps classic... but if that what ya call 'most enjoyable' you have a far greater attention span than me!

Football Manager
Championship Manager
Civilization
Half-Life
System Shock
...there are really too many to mention.

old arcade and consoles aside:


-Loderunner
-Stunts
-Quake 1 singleplayer with Requiem mod
-Theif series
-GTA series
-Sim City 1
-Monkey Island series
-Lemmings
-Ultima series
-Fury 3.. damn I wish they'd remake that
-Decent series

I'm going to delete this thread if no one is going to agree with me on Ninja Gaiden being the best 3rd person action game on any console.

GoW's better.


i really enjoyed all of the ff games, hl1 & 2, ds2, quake 1 & 2 & 4, oblivion, kotor2, rtcw and many more

kotor 1 rocked my socks. also, splinter cell. i used to finish work at 9pm, be home at 930, sit on the couch with the lights off and the sound up and creep through the darkness knocking bitches out and sniping lights and then look at my watch and realise i had to be at work in 3 hours.

Planescape torment
Baldur's gate 2
Operation flashpoint
all the lucasart adventure games

I find with games, it's usually not a single moment or a short period of time that really makes the game great - it's the entire experience. That being said here are some of the cool moments I remember

STARCRAFT
- When Kerrigan gets swarmed over by the Zerg
- When Kerrigan hatches out of her Zerg egg thingo

PLANESCAPE TORMENT
- When some lady offers to pay you money to let her kill you, and you accept :)

ZELDA:OCARINA OF TIME
- When you leave the village at the start of the game, and truly see how huge the world actually is, walking across the field to the castle.
- When time has "stopped" in the castle, and everything is black and white

RESIDENT EVIL 4
- Home alone, at night, in the dark, playing RE4. I was fighting the monsters that you need to target with your sniper rifle using infrared vision and then shoot the "soft points". I was just about to shoot the last one and his freakin arms stretched out across the room, grab me and pulled me into his body then out of his body all these SPIKES JABBED OUT! I screamed like a little girl, and turned my Gamecube off, then I put all the lights on.

Rofl @ RE4

Grim Fandango
GTA:Vice City
Morrowind

Baldur's Gate 1 + 2 + Throne of Bhaal
Fallout 1 + 2 (I don't think anyone's mentioned them yet!!!)
Deus Ex
Theif 1 + 2
System Shock 2
GTA:Vice City
Resident Evil 1
Doom 2
Final Fantasy VII
Quake 1
Serious Sam 1
Metal Gear Solid 1
Every Splinter Cell game

Resident Evil 1 was the s*** wasn't it, seriously

best atmosphere out of any of the res evil games

Oh yeah definately Metal Gear Solid 1 on the playstation. Man when i got up real far and ended up getting caught and tortured by Revolver while telling me "if you die there are no more conintues after this, you are going to die forever" or something and i was seriously treating it like a life or death situation aha.

Oh and switching the controller on the 2nd port so that weird seedy mask dude couldn't read your mind.

Oh and spilling the tomatoe sauce in the jail cell to make snake look like he's dead then doing a pow pow on the guard coming through.

Oh and using the stinger to target Metal Gear at the end.

Oh and the one on one sniping against sniper wolf.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... so many good memories.


last edited by Booyah at 15:29:15 27/Jun/06

Hrm, tis odd that people interpret that idea of 'Best single player experiance' as the title of a game and instead of an experiance..

oh look, even the thread starter seemed to get it wrong :boggle:

f*** I forgot all those little cool bits in MGS. yeah extra points for MGS.

Makaveli - erm how

ah of course, how could I forget civ3?
Also, elite and elite2: frontier rocked my world
and doom. and simcity.

doom
starcraft
Zelda : OOT
Metroid series
Mario bros 3
AvP
Resident Evil series

all those consoles games have nothing on gameplay compared to PC's.
Consoles are so shallow people geez!!
Don't get me started on that.

PC's ftw (storytelling)(fps)(strategy)(rpg)

Yeh I forgot Resident Evil ...

chrono trigger, sword of mana, basically any snes rpg.

any FF apart from 8.

golden sun 1 & 2 on GBA.

Halflife 1 but not 2.

Resident Evil 1 had many great and scary moments...the first time the giant spiders appeared in that hallway freaked the s*** outta me.

One of the things that sticks in my mind the most though was when we first got the game, I lived in a duplex and right next door there was a young family. Their little boy was about 3 or 4 years old and he would often toddle over and want to play the playstation. We fired up Resident Evil and the intro has (if you remember) a soldier looking back horrified as something is chasing him and the scene ends with a big splat of blood and a menacing voice booming "RESIDENT EVIIIIIL". The look on junior's face? priceless.

He wasn't too keen on playstation for a while after that and every time we would play we would make us promise not to put "the scary game".

For single player gaming experience, not a lot beats the good ol' snes RPG's. Secret of Mana/Evermore, Illusion of Time, Terranigma, BOF2 etc had me getting up at 4 in the morning so I could cram in a couple of hours before school. No game since the time of the SNES has made me do that. Nuff said.

Fallout 1 + 2 (I don't think anyone's mentioned them yet!!!)

I hear you mate - both were fantastic, but it was the soundtrack from the original that won me over. The feeling of invunerability the 1st time I put on a suit of powerarmour or found the alien blaster (easter egg) in Fallout 2...

Others from my list:
C&C (the original)
Quake I & II
Dues Ex
Operation Flashpoint
Halflife
Descent II
Rise of the Triad <--- remember the drunken rocket launcher & spinning blade/moving pillar traps? :)
Max Payne I
Commander Keen 4 <--- iD's most successful platformer?
Diablo I & II
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
...plus many more I can't think of right now!

Oh i almost forgot.. Bionic Commando on the NES.

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/nes/bionic_commando.gif

fcuk that noobie s*** booyah

HERO on atari 2600, now that was the money

Dude that s*** aint noobie. That's where i got all my military training from.

Max Payne was good fun!

So was Painkiller.

half-life series
most of splinter cell series
Battle toads (hover boards ftw)
first time round of prince of persia: sands of time, if only it wasn't so linear woulda been better

We Love Katamari!

xwing
tie fighter
wing commander series
descent freespace 1 and 2 :)

also

C&C original and red alert
Lands of Lore
Dune 2
Hand of Fate
Indiana Jones and the Temple
Starcraft
Diablo 1 and 2
And good old HL1 and counterstrike.

I remember playing one of the earliest versions of CS before it got popular. My bro downloaded it off some mod site. We played it for 14 hours at a lan of like 8 people...THEN we realised you could buy stuff lol!

spent that long just using the pistols etc. no extra ammo.

ahh the days.

single player counterstrike must raawwk! ;P~

hehe, cs.

Turtles in Time on the snes.

Metal Slug 1 on the arcades.

duke 3d & red alert, also contra?

tiger woods pga golf.

no s***, i loved that game.

Jumpman on C64
Kings Quests
Heros Quests
Space Quests (although they often crashed on my crappy clone IBM computer and made me cry IRL)
Supaplex
Dune 2
Doom (all of them)
Rise of the Triad
Wolf 3D
Duke 3D
Max Payne 1,2
Fable

But my all time favourite single player game is... /drumroll

Street Fighter 2

Mega Drive
- Shining Force
- Landstalker
- Wonderboy 3 & 4

SNES
- Zelda: Link to the Past

Playstation
- FF7
- Metal Gear Solid

PC
- FarCry
- Fallout
- Xcom: UFO Enemy Unknown
- Syndicate
- Ultima 8: Pagan
- Icewind Dale (all)
- Baldurs Gate (all)
- Stunts
- Tie Fighter

pagan was a good game. syndicate got frustrating.

Pong

Oh, I forgot to mention the KOTOR games & NWN, they were sweet.

sword of mana, crono trigger, seiken densetsu 2&3, basically any of the old rpgs on snes.

golden sun 1 & 2 on GBA

any final fantasy apart from 8

HL1 but not 2

Space Harrier, Stargoose on the Atari 1040 ST. Good old days.

morrowind and oblivion
halflife 1
quake & quake 2
duke nukem3d
fallout 1 & fallout 2
arcanum
baulders gate 1 & baulders gate 2

just to name a few of my fav games with the best moments in them

I would add more but I think all mine have been covered and then some ... so many great gaming memories and thanks to those who reminded me of games I havnt thought of in years. *goes to find their roms*

Sifn't Far Cry ftw.

sifnt 100th post.

Tekken 3 and Tenchu on PS, it f***ing rocked.


last edited by JigZie at 03:08:16 03/Jul/06

Yeah lots of hours was spent on tekken 3 trying to master all the moves in practice mode with most of the charatcers against a hard opponet.

Tenchu on the ps was good at the time, but just the other day i hired the latest tenchu on xbox and man that sucked.

i been playing alot of ninja gaiden on xbox and damn its fun but sooo hard

^ i cant beat that huge bionic guy on top of the blimp :(

Yeah first time i played him i thought he was mega hard but once you figure out his pattern of attacks he's easy, like any boss (eventually).

What you do is you circle around him dodging all his shots and once you get close throw a few slashes. You can tell when he's about to do his grab move with his delayed movement. As long as you're close to him he wont take shots at ya but he'll always try and grab ya. So just roll out the way of the grab then you'll have enough time to pound him.

Also before going up to meet him max out on any health potions from the shop and dont be afraid to use the wheels of fire ninpo when you're up close for extra damage.