25 best fantasy games ever
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (1992)
The venerable Ultima franchise got a 3D spit-and-polish for this innovative instalment, which saw the series' hero the Avatar banished to the depths of the Stygian Abyss to – you guessed it – rescue a princess.
The game's big innovation was its use of a first-person 3D perspective, complete with varying heights, the ability to look up and variable lighting – all long before Doom hit the scene. But the tech was only half the story, with eight gigantic levels of claustrophobic underground labyrinths to explore.
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soulsonic34
1 year ago
Great List ... Bought many of the games listed. Looking forward to Diablo III in 2012
Stranded87
1 year ago
Generally a good list, I'd argue that Baldurs Gate is a far lesser game than Baldurs Gate 2 and similarly Diablo is nothing on Diablo 2, so in both cases I think the sequels should have made the list instead.
Planescape Torment also should have featured as it's largely considered to have the best storyline in videogame history.
And personally I think Oblivion was a step down from Morrowind, but I'm well aware that many people disagree so I can understand its inclusion.
Otherwise though good job, you managed to feature games both old and new and from numerous formats.
foomandoo
1 year ago
Oh what a blast from the past - Ultima Underworld was soooo ahead of its time, apart from the great 3d graphics it had a brilliant rune based spell system which I think has yet to be equalled.
I actually bought a PC just so I could play it (DX2 66mhz with a whopping 80mb HD and 16mb of ram, lol). The follow-up was v good as well
Dungeon Master blew me away when I first saw it - I spent many an hour in the managers office playing this game when I should have been on the shop floor :)
oh and Zork (all the infocom games really) was by far the best text adventure ever written followed closely by the Scott Adam adventures :)
Argh showing my age now
Simon Osborne-Walker
1 year ago
No Times of Lore? No Silver? Only one Zelda game? Also, Dungeon Master was groundbreaking, but Eye of the Beholder and EotB 2 were far better.
annekingsy
1 year ago
What about Jewel Quest Solitaire? Can you please tell in which category does this game fit in? I would really appreciate your feedback. Thank you.