sorry, the comment about pokemon was ment to be take lightly

also i would remind you that the original post said:

so you dont have to agree with what i like

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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. It was and old PC game from the 90s. It was extremely dificult and I found myself stuck too many times on puzzles and finding where to go next. It is just what you would expect from Indy, adventure, action, and that little bit of humor. The only thing I dont like about this game is that it wont work on any computer in my house except the old one packed away in a box

In no particular order:

Beneath a Steel Sky.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Monkey Island 1-2.
Full Throttle.
Sam & Max Hit the Road.
Day of the Tentacle.
And as a honorable mention, The Dig.

You should be able to play all of them on DOSBox.

Homeworld: amazing graphics, 3D movement, great musical score, great story, great artwork,...

Relic did a masterpiece there

I forgot about that game

Ohhh ya the Mechwarrior games... man those were fun... really need to bring em back...

http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/

Some games I forgot in my original post:

Shadow of the Colossus. How could I forget this?

The old Tribes games. Played it long enough ago that I don't even remember which one I played.

World in Conflict. Ehh... but the fact that it's the only RTS/RTT I've seen that rewards tactics beyond 'move blob here' makes me pretty fond of it. Plus it does have the best explosions yet.

Honorable Mention:

MechWarrior series. Barely played it an hour, but I've been trying to find it ever since. Any good similar, newer games?

Mirror's Edge. Say what you want, but comboing several moves at that speed is cool.

Homeworld 2. Yeah yeah, but playing it only recently, it just doesn't have the same impact on me.

Not really There was a mech combat game for the Xbox (Mech Assault AFAIK) which is a Battletech game but it's a bit more arcade-ish, not really a simulation.

There have been other Mech-like games: Chromehounds got sorta meh reviews, and there's also the Armored Core series, also for the 360. But really I haven't found a single mech game that had the same charm as the MW series.

Yeah, that's why I only liked the first half of it. Hopping around on rooftops and such was crazy fun. If they kept it like that for the second half of the game, it would've been amazing. But the game wasn't built for ease of gunplay, and to throw you repeatedly into close quarters with guys and their M60s.. re-loading 20 times starts getting on your nerves.

Also, there's a Mirror's Edge 2 in development. Let's hope they learn!

Team Fortress 2 !!!

Ultima IV
Starflight
Pirates
Elite
Wing Commander
X-Wing
Civilization
Master of Orion
Star Control 2
Doom
Master of Magic
Warcraft 2
Master of Orion 2
Quake
Starcraft
Total Annihilation
Everquest
Shogun Total War
Medieval Total War
World of Warcraft
EVE Online
Sins of a Solar Empire

I probably forgot something .....

Lemmings

SMAC

Portal

This is almost an "how old are you?" thread.

Betrayal at Krondor - - - The first really immersive pc game I ever encountered was Betrayal at Krondor.  Its quality partly derived from the fact that the author of the Rift War series (Feist) helped a lot in game development, making the game play like a new novelette in his story-verse, even to using the cities, cultures, characters, etc. correctly right out of his books.  Many games have come along later that use some of the same stuff, even WoW, but i think the one that pioneered it was Betrayal at Krondor.

Wing Commander --- One of the things that the initial Star Wars (1977) movie did was to make all the settings looked lived in.  If one looks back at earlier sci-fi flicks, everything is new and polished.  Well, after all, they had just made the sets so they WOULD be new.  That trick also has been used again and again since then.  Consider Blade Runner (1982) and even the more recent Fifth Element (1997) and how they benefited from the same approach.  Non-sci-fi flicks had frequently been gritty, but they often used real world settings, etc.  The Wing Commander games brought that same lived-in look to sci-fi games.  MechWarrior 2 - Mercenaries used this well, as one scrimped and plotted to upgrade and survive.  Note that WC3 may have been one of the first games both to use full motion video (FMV) sequences and also to have multiple endings that depended on earlier player choices, like the superlative Deus Ex would do so well so many years later (1994 versus 2000, IIRC)

Privateer --- One of the early open-ended universe games that worked to the point of being so immersive that one was tempted to jump off the plot line and simply go play and explore. 

I agree with a lot of people before me, so I'm just going to list the games that I feel have been missed.

Riven - The most atmospheric game I've ever played. The environments in the game are made with so much love and attention to detail that you feel like you could live on the islands. Everything machine and location had a purpose and a design that was so well fitted int the world that you might mistake it for reality. Riven also features a magnificient story, told almost exclusively by the world and what you find in it (a lot of journals).

The Longest Journey - This adventure game is relatively unknown, but it has such an awesome story and a beatifully crafted world that it deserves more attention than it gets. The gameplay might leave a bit to be desired, but the pure style of the game more than makes up for it. An honorablr mention also goes out to the sequel, Dreamfall, that also was quite good, but lacked some of the style of the first game.

Then I have to mention Ōkami again, simply because of its awesomeness.

Hmm...so many games i can think of.

Some of my earlier experiences include Wasteland, Bard's Tale 3, Mars Saga, Mail Order Monsters, Impossible Mission, Summer Games, Red Storm Rising, Gunship, and Legacy of the Ancients. Ironically, these were the days that Electronic Arts (NOT EA) actually had a soul and made good games. It was also an era that required games to be fun and play well cause that's all you really had to go on...graphics were pretty bad.

Once I got into consoles some of the more memerable ones include FF3 (US) 6 (Jpn), Zelda, Metriod, Kid Icarus (even though it was an ungodly hard game) and especially Ninja Gaiden.

metroid prime series
zelda series
 and goldeneye for N64- the multiplayer was awesome  

Turrican

Turrican II - Final Fight

Populous II

Wing Commander

Star Wars - Rebel Assault

Deus Ex

...

Just a few i can recall.