Favourite Games: Part I
1 of 3, first up: Multi-platform games. What are your favourites?Published 23/10/2008 at 8:37 by stefhutch20
This is the first in a trilogy of posts where I will share my thoughts about some of my favourite PS3 games of this generation so far, to see whether anyone agrees with me, or thinks I’ve got it completely wrong. In this first post I intend to discuss some of the best multi-platform games that have graced our fair console in the last two years. Remember this is just my opinion, so if I’ve missed out your favourite multi-platform game, then post a comment and tell me what’s so great about it. But do bear in mind, just because certain games aren’t included, it doesn’t mean I don’t like them. I deliberately only chose three games for each post, because otherwise I could probably go on writing about them for about a year.
So firstly, for anyone who knows me, it’ll be no surprise to find that I’ve chosen ‘The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’ as my favourite multi-platform game overall. I actually got this game a few months after its release, because a friend of mine said I should try it out. Needless to say I was utterly mesmerised by it. Anyone who’s played it (and I’m guessing most of you have) will know just how much there is to do. It completely raised the bar in terms of content and the gameplay was so varied that at times it seems like you’re playing more than one game. I’m normally not a fan of RPGs, but when it comes to Oblivion, I’m completely converted.
The customisation is so extensive that you can almost make it any game you want it to be. Getting bored with the epic main quest? Then ignore it and do some side quests (my personal favourite quest line being the Dark Brotherhood). If you so wish, it’s even possible to not do any quests and still get hours of compelling gameplay out of it. Adding my various game saves up I must have played this game for 250 hours easily, and I’m still going strong. This is not only my favourite game of this generation: it may even be my favourite game of all time. If you haven’t already picked it up, and there probably aren’t many of you, then do so. Right now. Well actually, on second thought, finish reading the article and then pick it up.
Another multi-platform game which I love is ‘Burnout Paradise’. Being a complete reinvention for the series, I wasn’t sure if I would get on with it or not, but my doubts soon vanished when I actually played the game. Again, the amount of content is amazing. Sure, it gets a bit repetitive (especially if you’re insane enough to go for all of the online Freeburn challenges), but what I like about it is that it’s easy to dip in and out of. It’s the type of game you can spend hours on at a time, or if you don’t have that much free time, you can just go on it for ten minutes and still feel like you’ve achieved something. And of course, the recent trophy patch can only add to this (and it remains my only platinum trophy). Without a doubt, it’s the best racer on the console.
Finally, the last multi-platform game I’ve chosen is ‘Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock’. This was actually the first Guitar Hero game I ever played, so whereas some people were disappointed with its same old gameplay, I had no such thoughts and spent hour after hour on it. I ummed and ahhed over whether I should get it for ages, but then decided to buy it and could not have been happier. Despite not having heard of half of the songs, the soundtrack is absolutely stellar, with even a few of the bonus songs being worth a look. With ‘Guitar Hero: World Tour’ on the horizon, I could not be more excited, and I may even have to save up and get the full instrument version. God help my neighbours.
Anyway, I’ve had my say, but what are everyone else’s favourite multi-platform PS3 games? By the way, remember that I’m only talking about multi-platform games in this article (PS3 exclusives and PSN games to come in future posts), so to avoid confusion, please only discuss multi-platform games in your comments. Cheers.
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nofi | 23/10/2008 08:38
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I’m with you on all three – Oblivion was brilliant, Paradise still is and GHIII was my first GH game, too. There are others: Virtua Tennis, Devil May Cry 4, Bioshock etc but I’ll let others voice their opinions first.
piekat | 23/10/2008 08:47
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Battlefield Bad Company is still my favorite multi, COD4 2nd place
crow-sama | 23/10/2008 20:20
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BF:BC is just marvelous! 1st! Fry Cry 2 2nd!
fredrikpedersen | 27/10/2008 14:05
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“Fry Cry 2″
I laughed hard. Thx.
Diver68 | 23/10/2008 08:56
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I’ll support you with [b]Oblivion[/b], but find myself saying that [b]COD4[/b]somehow hits high on my list of “gud’uns”.
Then – although I’ve not got too far into it – [b]Bioshock[/b] seems to be surprising me A LOT!
Maybe next year Oblivion will be knocked off position 1 with [b]MGS5[/b]….? Who know?
cc_star | 23/10/2008 09:56
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change b, for em
cc_star | 23/10/2008 10:12
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online4ntagonist | 23/10/2008 09:06
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Ah man, I really love Oblivion. I have up to 280 hrs of play and I still need to finish the Shivering Isles Expansion. The feeling this game gave me was a unique experience of unending freedom. The thing that worried and excited me in the beginning was the idea of one able to pick up almost anything, any object. In the beginning the game is completely overwhelming, when playing for a while and building up strength and knowledge, the game only gets better and better. I’ve also good hopes for Fallout 3, coming from Bethesda and all. I’ll just ignore the new rumour about graphics being less on the ps3, probably created by some ms spindoctor.
Anyway, other multilpatform games that have destroyed my social life concerning people who don’t know what a console is are: Call of Duty 4, in my opinion a revolution in the FPS genre (let’s get this straight I don’t think of Half-Life as an FPS but as the best game ever, that’s a completely different genre). And to keep it at three games to mention, I’ll put in Racedriver GRID, in my humble opinion one of the best racing games ever to come to the consoles (yet).
A friend borrowed COD4 and Oblivion so to pass the time while waiting for Fallout, Dead Space and LBP I’m playing Ghost Recon 2 for the third time. Note to all oblivion fans out there, I’d like to recommend Fallout 1 and 2, there really great and one can see where Bethesda learnt a thing or two for Oblivion and for obvious reasons wanted to make the new Falout.
Dafro1989 | 23/10/2008 09:28
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Bioshock – very impressive title, really glad it got a port to the PS3. It’s pretty, it’s fun, and the story line isn’t half bad either!
CoD4 – what hasn’t been said about this title? It’s the standard an FPS game pretty much has to match now.
Burnout Paradise – I love this game too. I’ve played through it quite a bit AGAIN after having to delete a save game in order to get the trophies (I had 100% on cars and 101% with bikes =[).
nineself | 23/10/2008 09:56
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COD4 has to be the best multi platform game for me. Even though I suck at FPS on consoles (played too long on PC’s, still can’t adjust to thumbsticks) it sucked me in like an exceptionally talented strumpet and refused to let me go until my social life had been drained completely.
Fortunately all my friends play it too, so we could while away the hours discussing the finer points of kill streaks and teabagging noobs.
cc_star | 23/10/2008 09:57
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Fifa for me I’m afraid
BrendanCalls | 23/10/2008 10:13
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc - YOHIMBÉ!!!
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Top game for me is COD4 too,
Any shooter which doesn’t reach the levels this reached will fall by the wayside pretty swiftly I feel. The interaction i have with my mates on this game has surpassed anything I had imagined.
If someone said to me 2 years ago i would be playing Call of Duty online w/headset talking across the world, I would have called them crazy but it converted me and i still play COD4 now, love it.
I have never played Oblivion but now that it is platinum I might invest in it.
Is it really as good as everyone says?
colossalblue | 23/10/2008 11:22
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My top three:
1. Portal – I know it’s part of a compendium but I think it’s the most original, well conceived and brilliantly executed game I’ve seen in a long time.
2. Grand Theft Auto IV – Just for the scale and what they tried to do with the series, Saints Row 2 might be more fun but GTAIV meant more to more people.
3. Oblivion – for all the reasons above, this was a life-stealing epic that I only managed to wean myself off when I got into Assassin’s Creed properly. I’m scared to put it back in my PS3 because there’s so much else coming out that I want to play and I know that Oblivion would take over again.
I played CoD4 on the PC and it was brilliant but I’ve never played the PS3 version. Guitar Hero is Parappa the Rappa with an awkward controller, I hate it and everything like it.
yogh_wayne | 23/10/2008 20:48
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I totally agree on Portal and Oblivion!
Portal is one of my absolute favourite games. It’s an innovative first-person puzzle game with clever ideas and great humor. Plus it features the coolest NPC of all times (he companies you through one of the levels
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And I just loved Oblivion. Also played it for over 200 hours and didn’t start the shivering isles expansion, yet. Just like you said Cb, I’m also a bit scared to put the disc back into the console because it will take a lot of time. And I wonder if it will be the same with Fallout 3.
Battlefield: Bad Company is nice. It’s not so serious like most FPS (at least in the single player story mode). You can destruct almost everything (Boom!) and it has a great surf-music soundtrack.
Michael | 23/10/2008 13:02
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1. GTA IV.
2. FIFA 09.
I think I’ve only played two then. Good grief, I am rubbish!
Michael | 23/10/2008 14:00
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Oh, oh, Burnout Paradise – I’ve played that too!
DoucheVader | 23/10/2008 13:40
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I played a little oblivion on 360. It didn’t grab me. I just immediately recognized it’s time sucking powers and made a subconscious decision NOT to like it. LOL
Burnout Paradise is beast. I do miss the crash events, showtime is lots of fun but not quite the same. I wouldn’t mind a teleportation feature.
I was the same way about GHIII. Never played it, picked it up on a whim since “everyone was doing it”.
pvwradtke | 23/10/2008 15:00
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My favourite multi-platform game is Burnout Paradise, hands down, followed by Soul Calibur IV. I’d give a third place to Devil May Cry 4 as it’s the last multi-platform game on my collection, but as I don’t like it, it won’t count. The rest are all exclusive games.
Pixl1983 | 23/10/2008 16:08
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I’d say COD4, GTA and Burnout.
All Great games. All look beautiful on both formats and for all of them, the real meat is in the gameplay.
I’m hoping these future titles don’t let me down.
Mirror’s edge, Edge of Twilight (looks very promising), Fallout 3 (I can cope with “slightly inferior” graphics), Skate 2, Bioshock 2, COD5 and POP.
But failing them there’s always the exclusives
SteveTheSkorie | 23/10/2008 16:39
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Rock Band is number 1 for me.
Best party game of all time!so much fun!
Im playing Bioshock right now, and thats really great!
Also, I loved Devil May Cry 4.
paxpacis | 23/10/2008 21:25
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Oblivion did also not catch me.. I still have it so I might pick it up when I have some more time to spent.
COD4 I borrowed.. and still looking for a copy but still at 69,99 euro (checked today again) is to much..
I could say RFoM because it will come on the psp
But I know what you mean.. So I have to say I like Burnout! But Platinum is a long way..away.. (funny thing my milage does not count with the current car.. is says 0.0 al the time)
Did not play any of the GH, RB games..
And still have to start GTAIV.. (will wait for the patch
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