Games with Style

What just sticks with you?

By Kitkun on June 6, 2009 12:22:52 AM from

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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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.

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.

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..

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

Quoting StAcK3D_ActR,

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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..

I'm thinking.. 1993? 1992?

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.

I'm thinking.. 1993? 1992?

im thinking, wat are you talking about

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 )

Team Fortress 2.

Fatal Fury Series

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:

Kingdom Hearts

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!

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!

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

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

- 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

How could I forget Metal Slug!?!

Quoting soasertsus,

reply 16

How could I forget Metal Slug!?!

That's a really good question.

Dr.Gonzo

Deus Ex.

Quoting StAcK3D_ActR,

reply 7

im thinking, wat are you talking about

Your birth year.

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.

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.

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.

Your birth year.

you think im that immature

1989 ftw

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...

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.

Mechwarrior 1 ,2 and 3

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