*WINNER ANNOUNCED* Xbox 360 & games bundle - MyGaming community competition

This week MyGaming is embarking on an epic journey along the road well-travelled; often remembered through the sepia-tinted goggles of nostalgia.

We are going to find out which classic games of yesteryear still have a special place in our gaming hearts.

To narrow down the list to 10 finalists we have been taking note of the most popular games mentioned in this discussion thread: MyGaming wants to know: what is your favourite game of all time?

MyGaming community members are asked to vote on their favourite game. The winner will be honoured in a special MyGaming feature article.

As if the happy gaming memories aren't reward enough, we also have a grand prize in store for one lucky MyGaming community member that casts their vote.

Prize

Xbox 360 250GB console + extra Xbox 360 wireless controller + Gears of War trilogy games bundle + MyGaming swag.

How to Enter

Simply cast your vote in the poll attached to this forum topic. Your vote is your entry into the competition.

You may converse in the thread about the competition and the games.

It might be a good idea to share memories of the game you chose; we may even be able to feature your thoughts in the winner announce article.

Rules

- Vote once on the poll attached to this thread. This is your entry into the competition.

- Make sure you are up to speed with the MyGaming Forum rules - especially the rules related to competitions.

- Minimum of 20 lifetime posts required to qualify by time of the draw.

- Spamming to get yourself to 20 posts will get you disqualified. Quality conversational on-topic posts is the way to approach this requirement.

- Reviving old threads and making pointless posts will not be tolerated and will be monitored. Fair warning.

- Attempts to create multiple accounts to vote on the poll will be monitored.

- Entrants must be a resident of and residing in South Africa.

- Entry into the competition closes at 11AM, Tuesday, 23 October 2012.

Winner announce

- On Tuesday, 23 October 2012, the winner will be chosen.

- The winner will be announced in this thread, as well as in a new thread in the MyGaming competition forum.

- Reminders will be sent out via the MyGaming twitter stream and MyGaming Facebook page.

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The competition starts now. Good luck and have fun!

Man I remember running into a room with a beholder and destroying my other 7 members of my party, some spell that made them leave my party and be perma gone biggest WTF moment in the game also only been able to beat the game once of my 9 play trough.

If I have to think of one game on this list, that I can just sit down and play any time and I'll be in the mood for it... Mass Effect 1, no contest.

I remember Shadows of Amn for its story. I played Shadows of Amn for months on end, doing everything there was to do.

And who can forget Minsk and his trusty hamster BOO. This stuff cracked me up back in the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozv1RcQJAHA

Best part for me of the game was going into the sewers beneath Amn, finding a giant red dragon there and talking my way out of the fight for almost 20 minutes until the dragon decided to let me go.

SWKOTOR! I lost days to that game.
edit: I know I don't have 20 posts, but had to vote for SWKOTOR.

While I enjoyed a lot of the games listed I have to say the one that made the biggest impression (something I'll never forget) is the original Half Life. It was just such an awesome experience and replaying the Black Mesa mod recently reminded me of how much I enjoyed the original experience. Also as far as some multiplayer experiences go we had so much fun in it (especially against others that couldn't use the long jump module lol) - anyone remember Killbox?

Although I voted Assasin's creed , my favourite game of all time has to be Metal Gear solid , I remember playing for the first time and saying man this games @#$^%%$ awesome .

Assassin's Creed! It's the only games I actually try to get 100% completion and 100% gamescore!

Planescape: Torment wasn't on the list, so I had to settle for my second favourite of all time: Baldur's Gate II.

Guild wars, it was once very good game...everyday after classes i go home and play GW and no matter how bad i am in GW i still enjoy it.

Mass effect 1 was my choice... i dropped so many hours into that game im almost ashamed of it.

The one thing i miss from mass effect 1 was the world exploration in the mako, the scanning thing they brought out in the sequels was cool and quick to learn, but a lot less fun than cruising around dodging threshers and bandits in the mako or finding "abandoned" outposts while actually hunting for minerals and such

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Man I remember running into a room with a beholder and destroying my other 7 members of my party, some spell that made them leave my party and be perma gone biggest WTF moment in the game also only been able to beat the game once of my 9 play trough.

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Those beholders absolutely destroying my party is exactly what I remember as well! I just walked through a door too fast, and with one shot I was decimated :( To this day, BG2 has the best written and executed story I've ever come across in a game. That's why it's my all time favourite.

WOW How can Metal Gear Solid not be on this list....???

I voted GTA3 because it was awesome driving around causing havok

From the list, I had to vote Half-Life. It made the biggest impression on me, played it when I was about 15/16 years old. It had all the elements of a great game, excellent story, good gameplay, graphics and sound for time and even some horror elements to it.

Rome Total war :D :D :D
My friend and i MONTHS playing this game, must have restarted it a million times trying to rule the world, but never managed. Cant wait for the new one

@ Xbox 360 comp picture: Isnt that the slim 4gb model :P?

BG2 for me :)

And when it was done and the explansion played...then there were all the mods that added extra NPC's, party members, items and all the rest.

Story was the best thing I've come accross to date...that and a damn great game mechanic...ahhh good times...good times.

Oh ya...First time walking in and reviving Kangaxx by mistake and being woefully ill equiped to deal with him...damn +5 weapons :) AWESOME!

Man, that was a hard choice, but I think I'll have to go with Mass Effect 1. What a game! ME1 was one of the very few games I played from start to finish without breaks or getting bored with it.

I picked Half Life 2 because I have fond memories of playing it at my friends house, making jokes about Dr.Breen and the combine. Those were some pretty great days :)

Playing Black Mesa now though, I realise how much I didn't understand when I first played HL 1 (because I was too young)

Assassins creed for me. Fell in love with the series since the first time I saw one of my friends playing it. It just had a unique feel compared to other games that I had played before it. Since then, they have made quite a lot of improvements to the graphics and gameplay and overall I am still very happy with the series.

I can't wait for the next one to come out. I think its going to provide me with quite a few hours of fun.

I had to go for Mass Effect. It's a shame that Diablo II or Fallout II or Planescape Torment or the Prince of Persia trilogy didn't make it. :) I will have to go read the other thread to see why not. Still some good games in the list and the Mass Effect games are some of the best games I've ever played.

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Although I voted Assasin's creed , my favourite game of all time has to be Metal Gear solid , I remember playing for the first time and saying man this games @#$^%%$ awesome .

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Same here, although I voted for SC2 (I mean c'mon, best game currently to play online and with new expansion coming.. :love: and still playing today!) my favorite game of all time must be Final Fantasy 7 on PS1! A (wealthy) friend of mine originally got the game when I was in St4/5 I think, I was so impressed with it that I just had to have it! Thus I resorted to using my life savings of R1000(which in 1996/7 region = millions for me, spent saving that for 13 years hehe) at the time, the rest of the R2500 (which was crazy expensive for gaming console at the time!!) borrowing money from my mother, brother and grandparents PLUS delivering newspapers just to get the console(bought game shop in Tygervalley near the food court, they chipped it for me as well!:D) like 3 months later, best decision every made :D

Following closely behind must be the original Halo, Halo 2 and Halo 3.. need I say more! "whistling:

Then the Assassin's Creed series..

Hands down Mass Effect 1 for me. The 1st time I played it, I was stunned by its level of visceral immersion, especially since I wasn't an RPG fan in the 1st place. Before Mass Effect: Highest amount of time spent on a single game = 10+ hours, After Mass Effect: Highest amount of time spent on a single game = 90+ hours... Saint Shepard, Dee Shepard, and Athena Shepard all saw to that:D

Mass Effect all the way! Only game I ever had the NEED to finish...

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Mass Effect all the way! Only game I ever had the NEED to finish...

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... More than once:D

Hands down Mass Effect.

Half Life - its was so orsome when you walked up to the scientists pressed a button and they would talk back to you, and seeing my 1st headcrab was scary as hell

For me, it has to be Half Life... That game alone got me into gaming... Such fond memories of playing that during school holidays...

StarCraft 2: Because it's awesome and it was worth waiting a decade for it :)

My favorite game was not on the list.

Splinter Cell love the game cannot wait for the new one coming out soon.

I have to agree with the guys about Planescape: Torment. On the list I have to say KOTOR. It is brilliant, the story, total immersion, the twist! Very few games come close to it.

What a tough choice, but I had to go with Half Life. This just brings back so many awesome memories of when I was young and care free and could sit up until 3 am killing head crabs with a crow bar. Ahhhhh the days.

Ooooo.....Knights of the Old Republic!! Voted! :D

Half Life is still the holy grail of gaming as far as I am concerned. I played it with my best mate in 1999, he would control movement and I would shoot and kill things, one of the best memories of my gaming life, replayed the game recently and its still epic, although the graphics aren't comparable to the current gen games, I still loved the game and atmosphere to pieces..just proving what an amazing game it was and still is to this very day.

The great gaming companies of today should all be forced to play Half Life and see what gaming was all about and bring that back.

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What a tough choice, but I had to go with Half Life. This just brings back so many awesome memories of when I was young and care free and could sit up until 3 am killing head crabs with a crow bar. Ahhhhh the days.

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It was! :( I too wanted to go Half-Life, but Knights at the time was awesome! :D

Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 were both legendary epic games. They set the bar a long time ago for what I expect from RPG's.

Half life 2... c'mon folks! :D:cool:

Mass Effect and GW are solid contenders (I've spent more hours in GW than any other game), but Baldur's Gate was my intro into the RPG genre, and Baldur's Gate II - when it came along, was a game I just couldn't put down. Straightforward controls, gripping story, character progression and romance - it was the franchise that ended up defining Bioware in a way :)

Out of the ten listed, Rome - Total War has a special place in my heart, I started playing that game when it came out and I still on occasion now fire it up for well an entire weekend :-)

MA of course!

But if you really want to talk classic (I had no grey in my beard!) I have to say the 1st C&C!

See there's a nice Ultimate Collection available now.

I chose Half Life 2 in the available choices