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What does it take before you call a video game great?

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djtidebuck;721284; said:
great? In my years of playing, I would consider NCAA football and Call of Duty at the top of the list?
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While I play the NCAA football games a ton (I can download rosters so I have the names which is awesome) those games are far from great. Theres always a rediculous amount of bugs, and stupid little quirks about the game. For instance, everything pertaining to the anouncing is bugged it seems. If you set a career/season record with a player, (I'm not sure if this happens all the time, but I've had it happen to me multiple times) every time that player gets another yd/TD or what ever in future games they give the same "Well I can not believe, how great this player has become. He has just broken the passing ydage in a season record!" every game. I play it a lot, but theres a lot of little bugs I wish they would fix.
 
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If a game keeps pulling me back to play it months after I bought it, that's a great game. Halo 2 on Xbox Live was the best game I played on the original Xbox and Oblivion has been the greatest on Xbox 360 so far, although I've been playing a lot of Call of Duty 3 on Xbox Live recently.
 
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Brewtus;721769; said:
If a game keeps pulling me back to play it months after I bought it, that's a great game. Halo 2 on Xbox Live was the best game I played on the original Xbox and Oblivion has been the greatest on Xbox 360 so far, although I've been playing a lot of Call of Duty 3 on Xbox Live recently.
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Yep, if it can make me come back and play it after it's been sitting on the shelf for awhile, then it's really good.

1) Halo 1 - Made my buy the xbox, what a game, way different than what was available at the time on any game console

2) Halo 2 - First real multiplayer online game I got into for more than a week. So addicting that hundreds of thousands still play it today.

3) Gears of War - Regular game is cool, but multiplayer is fun as hell(though just like Halo 2, I think I like it so much because I'm not that great at it and I hate to not be good at something).

4) Oblivion - I just got a copy from a friend, afraid to put it in because my wife would probably kill me for the amount of time I was told I would spend playing it....................sounds like a blast.
 
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justanotherbuck;722456; said:
3) Gears of War - Regular game is cool, but multiplayer is fun as hell(though just like Halo 2, I think I like it so much because I'm not that great at it and I hate to not be good at something).

4) Oblivion - I just got a copy from a friend, afraid to put it in because my wife would probably kill me for the amount of time I was told I would spend playing it....................sounds like a blast.
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I really enjoyed the single player of Gears of War, but am very frustrated with multiplayer. I find the controls awkward to get used to (I keep taking cover at every wall or pillar that I run near), I don't like the idea that you can't respawn when you get killed and most of all I get my assed kicked each and every time I've played it. I'm only a casual gamer so maybe CoD 3 and Battlefield 2 are more my style since I picked multiplayer up much quicker on those.

As for Oblivion, it's worse than crack. After I put about 80 hours into the game I just got completely fried out from it and had to sell it to keep my sanity. I couldn't go any longer on 4 hours of sleep a night and thinking about the game every moment I was awake. If it's possible for a game to be too addicting, too deep, too much to do and too fun, this is it. But it's still one of the best games I've ever played.
 
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I think one of the best chains of games would be Grand Theft Auto... I owned GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas for PS2 plus GTA 2 and the original for PS1 before I sold it all... I recently bought San Andreas for Xbox and I would have to agree with the fact that a great game is one you can play over and over. I'm having just as much fun now playing it as I did when I first bought it. Once I get my 360, hopefully this weekend!, I can't wait to see what Saints Row has to offer! I've played it once and the map is insane!
 
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1. The Halo Series XBOX
2. Gran Turismo PS
3. Grand Theft Auto III PS2
4. F.E.A.R. PC
5. Socom CA/Socom 1 [online]
6. Metal Gear Solid
7. Perfect Dark N64
8. Fall of Man PS3
9. DOOM PC
10. Super Mario 3

In my book at least
 
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I'm a big role playing fan and for the last year and a half I've been playing the hell out of Guild Wars. Online game with NO monthly fees. It has 3 stand alone games that you can choose from or load all 3 and play across them all.
 
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