Ooo one of these threads. Incidently, I do AI for Total Annihilation - [url="http://www.planetannihilation.com/aicentral/"]http://www.planetannihilation.com/aicentral/[/url]
. There's still a thriving community. TAK sucked
BEST:
Terra Nova: The first real game with jump packs, it also had some sweet squad ordering, which hadn't been seen in such detail before. Good plot, some suprise missions, damn good fun. Was a flop.
System Shock series: Featuring the best baddie of all time, Shodan. These games are scary, about as close as you're going to get to having RPG in a FPS currently (pah to Deus Ex). Amazing games.
Monkey Island 2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle: The peak of Lucasarts point and click adventures, these are true classics. MI2 is funny, IJatFoA is deep, DotT is wacky.
Tribes series: Ultimate online game. A whole extra dimension to play with, with a great variety of ways to play. Working as a team is rewarded, and defence is actually fun! The original suffered from one man army syndrome.
Baldur's Gate II: By far the best RPG ever, great character interaction, a huge range of quests and characters that you can play.
Planescape Torment: Another great RPG, it's refreshing to be able to think your way through most of it, without lots and lots of fighting. Takes a little getting use to the new enviroment, this puts a lot of people off.
Shattered Steel: A mech game, but more in the arcarde vain than the sim. Big weapons, terrain which is modified by the damage it takes and large battles. This is a brilliant game, and started Bioware on the path to greatness
. Always wanted to play it coop. AI was dire
X-Com: Enemy Unknown: Called UFO Defence in the US. The best turn based squad game around. If you have a slow enough PC it's still great fun to play. The AI isn't bad, the game is well balanced, and the variety superb. If you're insane take on the sequel for better AI and more enviroments (and a difficulty curve like that of a cliff).
WORST
Tiberium Sun: Westwood proved, once and for all, that it was a one game company. It sold by the bucketload, loads of people hated it, then they still went and bought RA2. Boggles the mind.
Starcraft: Blizzard did a Westwood, they did Warcraft in space, but wait....it had 3 races! Ooooo. Vastly inferior in every way except missions, to TA, it of course sold on brand. If they ever do a SC2 it will also be a massive hit no doubt.
In 4 years RTS has gone no where.
Doom 2: A major let down. It was Doom...again...with one new weapon and a few new enemies. This is where ID started on their wretched two of each weapon system (Shotgun, Supershotgun, Nailgun, Supernailgun......)
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties: Recognised as being the worst game of all time. Game is really pushing it....
Myst: Started the wretched nice graphics, minimal gameplay, syndrome in the point and click genre.
Oh I'm sure there's more....