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strategy games :
world conquest : mainly paradox games , i love all 3 i own : hoi , eu 2 and victoria
shogun total war + medival total war were fun too but not as good as hoi or eu 2 or victoria
rts : i still think starcraft broodwar is the best rts-game ever made
the sequel warcraft 3 is crap though ihmo .
turn based strategy games : of course dominions 2 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
panzer general was one of my first pc games i liked it at this time and the sequels too .
especially fantasy general and pazific admiral were nice
jagged alliance 2 is a really great game too i played it for a long time
my most liked tactical game at the moment is :
steel panthers WaW v.8.0
i can't believe that such a great game is for free .
the penetration system rocks
rpggames : baldurs gate 1 + 2 were great
neverwinter nights with both addition disks is reall great too
i played diablo 2 + lod excessevely over 1 year .
at the end i owned almost everything exept an old arcaines valor and other such great pre i think 1.08 uniques cause i started playing lod after this patch .
shooters : duke nukem 3d was awesome when i got it
my favourite shooter is counterstrike . i think there still exists no better one .
hopefully they convert it too the half life 2 engine soon cause the only thing that's a bit bad now are the graphics .
return to castle wolfenstein is great too.

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To add some good oldies to the list That I've also played: Blood Stone (amiga), Fantasy Empire (PC) Laser Squad (C64 + Amiga + PC) and ofcause Chaos.

And not to mention the Ultima series (I-VIII)

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RTS, Paradox serie, Victoria, EU2, HoI, not (yet) very deeply in CK, I'll wait until they finish it first http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

TBS -
Jagged Alliance 2
Steel Panthers,
Dom2.

FPS - a mod for orginal Unreal Tournament called Infiltration. Looks crappy, plays like a dream.

Also was interested long in a HL mod called Natural Selection, but it simply became too fast for my reflexes. I was actually the one who got the one of the worlds best NS clans to try the game first time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif (Fek'Lyrs, nowadays pretty much part of the Torment)

RPG - Nethack, ADOM.

4X - Stars! (hey, I still play that, also a shameless plug for a certain project called freestars on sf.net...)
Civ3, I never get why ppl say it's worse than 2. Also, would Alpha Centauri fall in the same Category?

RPG - Would WC- Privateer fall under this Category?

MMO - Jumpgate. The only MMO out there where the amount of XP farming and other idiotic things ppl do dont matter and the only thing that matters is how well you fly. Some of the ppl I introduced to it were quite shocked when they found out that they dont move around by just clicking targets but they actually gotta fly (and land) the spacecraft themselves http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif . Jumpgate is the incarnation of privateer, only in MMO. I strongly suggest everyone who was ever interested in Priv to try out the 10-day trial. At least in the european server you dont have to give your credit card number to try the trial. The game was launched 3 years ago and has changed contantly during that time, and there's always some active RP that players need to participate in.

[ July 18, 2004, 11:53: Message edited by: Tuna-Fish ]

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RTS: Kohan, and a heartfelt honorable mention to Warlords Battlecry I + II.

TBS: Warlords II+III, Dominions 1+2 and then comes Fantasy General.

RPG: Planescape: Torment, Anachronox (which I love for the wacky and sinister storyline), possibly Morrowind (because of all the time I spent playing it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

FPS: Hexen (NOT Hexen II), Blood

TPS: (third-person-shooter) BloodRayne

SIM: Terminus, King Of Dragonpass (both in no particular order http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

MOO: Rubies Of Eventide (now sadly defunct)

C64: Archon

[ July 18, 2004, 14:31: Message edited by: Karacan ]

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RTS: Dune (since it was the first then quickly got tired of others) Kohan (Introduced company based strategy with RTS)

TBS: Empire- university mainframe (since it is what started my addiction), SM Alpha Cenrauri (The philosophy alone is worth it),XCOM, MOM, MOO, I would possibly say DOM 2 but it is still to young.

RPG: Darklands (I love non linear games), Baldurs Gate II

Adventure: Pirates!!!!! Greatest Game of All Time Period!

FPS: never played one more than 5 minutes without getting bored

WAR: Steel Panthers, The Ardennes Offensive, Tigers on the Prowl, Close Combat

SIM: AH-64, Battle of Britain

MOO: Yet to play one

[ July 18, 2004, 15:10: Message edited by: Pirateiam ]

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Top 10 for me, in some kind of approximate order...

Sacrifice
Diablo2
MoM2
Planescape:Torment
X-com
Angband + variants
Halo
KOTOR
Kings of Dragon Pass
Half Life
Wizardy VII

Honorable mentions that I couldn't fit in there:
SMAC, MOO2, Disciples(and 2), Warlords, Civ games, Rainbow 6 2+3, Freedom Fighters

- Kel

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2 best games ever:

Counter-Strike (ive played this game constantly for 5 years without tiring of it)

Starcraft (really great game, no longer much fun because of the stupidity of the few people who still play it)

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Lets not link to abandoneware sites.

If you liked Wizards Crown you might like Dungeon Oddyssey which is available here at shrapnelgames.com

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To twist the topic a little, here's some of the games I have the fondest memories from:

Racing game: Lotus (Amiga)
Sports Game: Speedball 2 (Amiga)
Beer and pretzels: Ports of Call (Amiga)
Arcade: Spy Hunter, Bubble Bobble or Uridium (can't choose - all on the C64)
RPG: Angband (Unix)
Hard to classify: Pirates (Amiga)
Beat em Up: Tekken III (Playstation)
Shoot-em-up: Dogs of War (Amiga) (Not a particularly good game, really, but a lot of fun to play cooperatively with a friend)
Space: Elite (C64)
Arcade-adventure: Ico (Playstation 2)
Strategy: Alpha Centauri (Linux)

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My personal top three:

Dom 2
I cant remember the Last time i spent so many hours playing one game

Dungeon Master
The superior role playing game. Even though I did not play it myself, I remember my father sitting in front of the amiga, my mother sitting next to him drawing maps, and me hiding behind the chair :-)

Warhammer Dark Omen:
I like everything about it: the story, the sounds of men fighting and mortar shells exploding, the neat 3d, simply everything.

Others:
FF4/6
Ogre Battle
Total Annihilation (Especially the ask the commander section on their homepage)
Star Control 2
Ufo 1
Internation Karate +
Nearly every Bitmap Brothers game (especially Speedball 2)
And many many more I already have forgotten but had lots of fun with :-)

[ July 18, 2004, 19:09: Message edited by: PrinzMegaherz ]