Games with Style

What just sticks with you?

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Over the years, some games just stick out from the crowd. Not because of a great story or innovative gameplay, but just because they have this certain style that nothing else does.  My question is this: Which games would you pick?

My choices:

The Legend of Zelda series: Dueling Skeletons, traveling underwater temples, or fighting from horseback, these games never cease to feel like an epic journey.

Okami: Unique art, gameplay, music and more, this game is one of the very few I was sad to finish simply because I wanted to keep going.

The first two Command and Conquer games: Oh, come on. These games have more style in their installation than most games in their entirety. From the FMV and CG cutscenes, to the in-game art, voices, and varied units, to the awesome soundtrack, everything just fits in these games. To a lesser extant, the next three also had great style.

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Daggerfall, Syndicate, Herizogzewi, Master(s)? of Magic (gonna have to play this again in run up to Elm), Fantasy Wars, Fallout 1-2, The Witcher, could go on I suppose.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

There's really so many. What's common about them is that extremely few of them come from the current era of gaming revolution. Before gaming went "corporate". Nostalgia or fact, it felt like it was a closed social club with games for gamers by other gamers.

I agree with the Zelda sentiment, even though I never played the later installments of the series. Pre-Red Alert 2 Command & Conquer games, before they seemed to become a competition between Escher and Dali on who could imagine the most flipped-out military unit.

Fallout 1/2/Tactics and the entire Baldur's Gate saga even though I consider BG2 a slump. The entire line of Elder Scrolls, except Oblivion. Duke Nukem 3D (omg, you can move the aim up and down and jump?!). The original Syndicate. Deus Ex.

And an very-often-forgotten Outcast. Man, that game never got the attention it deserved. I guess it just didn't lend itself to a cult following, but it was and is brilliant. Planescape: Torment, for it's absolutely thrilling storytelling and setting.

I'm going to say Fall from Heaven 2 aswell. It could be that I have just fallen in love with it. It's not been long enough to claim to be objective in any way or fashion, but I'll give it an honorable mention.

There are countless others, but this is just from the top of my head.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Over the years, some games just stick out from the crowd. Not because of a great story or innovative gameplay, but just because they have this certain style that nothing else does. My question is this: Which games would you pick?

i do agree on zelda, more specifically for me ocarina of time :D

final fantasy X

super smash bros. it wasnt amazing but very different to other games.

CoD4, only FPS i liked EVER.

Pokemon, as lame as it sounds everyone was into it at one stage.(trading them at primary school, god that brings back memories haha)

lastly i dont think i can skip dota though either.. :P

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Ah, Planescape, I'd love a new RPG like that, Witcher is closest imo.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting StAcK3D_ActR, reply 3

i do agree on zelda, more specifically for me ocarina of time

final fantasy X

super smash bros. it wasnt amazing but very different to other games.

CoD4, only FPS i liked EVER.

Pokemon, as lame as it sounds everyone was into it at one stage.(trading them at primary school, god that brings back memories haha)

lastly i dont think i can skip dota though either..

:p
I'm thinking.. 1993? 1992?

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Metroid Prime : this game was just perfect. Impressives boss, good story, still amazing graphics and such an atmosphere.

Rogue squadron II : rogue leader : destroying a star destroyer in a big dog fight with a lot of tie fighters is priceless.

Rise of Nations : best RTS game ever

FF IX : my first RPG. Great intricated story that makes yourself involved.

 

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

I'm thinking.. 1993? 1992?

im thinking, wat are you talking about :S

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

My list of most played/enjoyed games. All game which are flawless for the most part and who have plenty of style.

Homeworld: 1 and Cataclysm

Sins of a Solar Empire

Heroes of Might and Magic 2+3 

Total Annihilation 

Europa Universalis 2 (with MyMap + AGCEEP mod)

Mass Effect

Thief 1+2

Masters of Orion 1+2

The Elder Scrolls

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Defender of the Crown (back in the day ;))

 

 

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Team Fortress 2.

Fatal Fury Series

 

 

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Sins

Metal Gear Solid 4

Mercenaries (the original)

Super Mario Bros 3

and, *sigh* the Sly Cooper series

My least favorites:

Zelda series

Final Fantasy

and the worst:

:typo:  Kingdom Hearts:typo:

Reply #11 from Demigod Forums Top

Crusader: No Remorse: You look like a red Boba Fett or something. Total. Badass.

Deus Ex: Probably the best game I've ever played? I replay it once every couple of years. (Also TNM kicks ass!)

Fallout 1&2: Still the only game where you can pickpocket anyone and place timed explosives on them that I know of

Blizzard games made before WC3 and WoW.

eg.

Lost Vikings, Diablo 1&2, Warcraft 1&2, Starcraft

Going back further I really enjoyed Hyperspeed (sequel to lightspeed) and Master of Orion II.

I definately agree on the first command and conquer games. OOZING style! How cool did the chopper thingies look! (Orcas?) And obelisks of light!

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Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

Shadow of the Colossus on PS2.  Wow! You almost can't believe a PS2 is running it and it oozes style from every pore. Huge open environments. It could be basiclly described as a game with about 12 boss battles. I avoid games with boss battles like the plague because I hate them but SotC is way different. Each Colossus is enormus and to kill it you have to find a way to climb onto it and crawl over it's body to hit it's tatooed weak spots. Getting onto and crawling over the colossus is a puzzle. You have to find the right path to each weakness. The control is nothing short of amazing. You never feel like you lost because of the controls EVER. Great style my little post doesn't do it justice. Music, graphics, and design. It really needs to be seen and played not described. If you have a PS2, buy it!

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

RA3
Netstorm; Islands at War
Assasins Creed
Starcraft + broodwar [replaying through it all now]
UT3 + UT2k4
Plants Vs Zombies
Peggle
SupCom
Civilisation 3
Stronghold + Stronghold: Crusader [havent played 2 or legends...]
and DotA, which i was never good at, but still enjoyed playing

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Ah, Crusader, I forgot those- I heard some company is making a new one.

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

- Anything made by Square pre-N64
- Metal Slug series
- Last Blade / Last Blade II
- Street Fighter III [cmon, it was gorgeous]
- fl0wer
- Daggerfall
- Warcraft II [on kali FTW]
- Half-Life
- Myth: The Fallen Lords [pre-Bungie corporate buy out!]
- Metroid, I prefer Super, on the SNES, but the Prime series also has its own unique art style

Certainly doesn't cover all of them, just a nice selection of some I can think of off the top of my head.

-DrGonzo

Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top

How could I forget Metal Slug!?!

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting soasertsus, reply 16
How could I forget Metal Slug!?!

That's a really good question.

 

Dr.Gonzo

Reply #19 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting StAcK3D_ActR, reply 7
im thinking, wat are you talking about :S
Your birth year. :p
Quoting Annatar11, reply 18
Deus Ex.
Every day, before I go to sleep, I say a small prayer that Deus Ex will have a real remake and that the atrocity that was Invisible War will be deemed decidingly non-canon.

Amen.

Reply #20 from Demigod Forums Top

Every day, before I go to sleep, I say a small prayer that Deus Ex will have a real remake and that the atrocity that was Invisible War will be deemed decidingly non-canon.

Amen.

Well, they are supposed to be making Deus Ex 3 but it was announced ages ago and there've been no news about it since.

Alpha Protocol is also coming out soon, and while it's not Deus Ex, the  style is similar and hopefully it'll be fun.

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Reply #21 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 20
Well, they are supposed to be making Deus Ex 3 but it was announced ages ago and there've been no news about it since.

Alpha Protocol is also coming out soon, and while it's not Deus Ex, the  style is similar and hopefully it'll be fun.
I don't have that high hopes for Deus Ex 3, unless they suddently pull a 180 and agrees with me that Invisible War was a huge stinkin' wad of poop.

And Alpha Protocol.. blech. Console dumbing down was much of the reason Invisible War failed to begin with - much more so than the asinine plot and nonsensical storyline progression.

Reply #22 from Demigod Forums Top

Your birth year.

you think im that immature :(

1989 ftw ;)

 

Reply #23 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Homeworlds all, Deus Ex, Half Life all, Age of Empires II, Rise of Nations oh ya good times, Eve Online (PVP HECK YA!) and Team Fortress 2.

 

You can google Deus Ex 3 and get the website(my bookmark is gone) and you can get more info on it... Ya my gut feeling its will suck again.... god damn it...

Reply #24 from Elemental Forums Top

Actually Alpha Protocol SOUNDS good at the moment, but who knows..and D3 is SUPPOSED to be 180 degree turn from Invis War.  We can only hope.

Reply #25 from Demigod Forums Top

Mechwarrior 1 ,2 and 3

 

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