UFO Gamers Show - Episode 100 - Top 100 games

Written by LorD

Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:26

Welcome to the 100th episode of the UFO Gamers Show. To celebrate the occasion, we're giving you our list of our top 100 games. See, genius isn't it! If you want to join in and let us know what you think is missing or shouldn't be in the list, or give us your own list, pop an email across to info [at] ufogamers.co.uk, or leave a comment on this post! We lurve to hear from you!

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Comments (4)

I'm surprised that Jedi Academy didn't get the number one spot, with it being the beginning of UFO as we know it. For all the old UFOians out there, do you not remember the many, many hours you spent disintegrating each other with laser-blasters? Can't you remember those custom lightsabers (that the best-looking UFO member made)? Or how fun it was to kill Catman constantly?

Hell, just thinking about the good ol' days makes me want to install the game one again go hunting Catman.

Then again, I've only played a handful of the games mentioned (and that's out of the whole 100+ mentioned).

Anyway, that lasted alot longer than I though it would, and now I'm too tired to think. Good night random people who may end up reading this...

Jedi Academy did spawn UFO, we all love and cherish the memories we have of it, but it's not really that 'strong' when compared to other titles in the top 10. It definitely deserves an honourable mention - after all, it is the game that started it all - but compared to Half-Life, Mass Effect and Halo it really doesn't hold a candle.

There's a lot of quality games missing from this list (Fallout and Civilisation, for example). It's a list compiled of the games that we've played, loved and love to play over and over again. I admit I'm biting my own tongue here as we've enjoyed Jedi Academy together for years, but it's not something I can come back to now when the community is gone. The online communities that people built around its multiplayer were what made the game stand out - they held the whole thing together and kept it going for as long as they could.

Just because it didn't make the #1 spot doesn't mean it's a bad game, much like Fallout not making the whole list doesn't make it utter dog turd.

Yes, I think that Jedi Academy certainly has its place for us UFOians in our own number one spot and I must admit to having just fired up the server and playing against bots in a non JAPlus server, which was odd, because you can't gripkick. But anyway, I digress. We each owe so much to JA and I was salivating at my gorgeous lightsabres that you made, Shadow; they were amazing and if I ever won the lottery, I'd have them die cast because they're just so beautiful and they're all mine!

While JA is undoubtedly an amazing game, as Saber says, it can't really compete for a place in the top ten against the others that appear in our list; the only reason it would would be because of our specific love for the game, and it's a niche we fit into together and it's why we're all still here. And so it deserves the most honourable of honourable mentions!

Every dog has his day, and JKA's day came and went. Just a shame that it had to go, I guess.

And yeah, those lightsabres were beautiful, probably my favorite of the bunch. Along with Brooky's, and the many that Shade managed to break. Good times...

Anyway, I'd also like to point out that, while Oblivion was (and still is) a great game, I tend to prefer Morrowind. Too many things were cut from Oblivion (Enchanting, teleporting, levitating, and those are just the magic stuff), Morrowind just seems to have more to it. Oblivion should be replaced with Morrowind on the list, in my opinion.