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Everybody says Starcraft is so great... so I finally get it and, hey, it's not bad, but honestly, it looks like just another RTS to me... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif an RTS with an interesting storyline, for sure, but gameplaywise, there's nothing particularly novel... of course I say this as the game is around 5 years old, maybe it was novel then, but then I generally don't buy a lot of new games anyway...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's got to be one of my all time favourites too! I eargerly await Lords Of The Realsm III. It should be out this year. Latest rumour was august i think.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chronon,

Have you tried working with Paradox tech support about this? I had lockup issues, and tech support told me that the game can have this problem if installed on a fragmented HD. I did a defrag, ran the install again and never had another problem. The game is worth the effort, let me tell you. Very much so. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was not novel then. Starcraft, like all Blizzard games, is designed for people that are not gamers.

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When Star Craft came out, it was the first of its kind. Now the market has been swamped by look alikes.

Games that Dissapointed me:
Tribes 2 (At first, because of the bugs)
Moo3 (For all of the published reasons and then some)
SimCity 4 (Too difficult to early)
Unreal 2 (Bad design, horribly scripted game)
SOF 2 (The first was fun, the sequal was not)
DF 2 (Jedi Night was not fun to play as Dark Forces)
Armada II (Horrible graphics, not at all fun to play)
Dominion War (S&S game, what else need I say)

Games I have enjoyed right from the box:
Tribes
Tribes 2 (Although many of my friends could not play, I could)
BOTF
SEIV
SimCity 3
Freespace (awsome game)
Elite Force (Although a short game)
Armada (nice graphics and fun to play)

Tribes 1 and SEIV were by far the best out of the box games I have ever played. I love them both equally. Too bad I never really got into the PBW games. That I do honestly regret and will for a very long time.

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What I've been grossly disappointed by:

Fallout: Tactics totally un-true to the franchise!
Civ3 especially the slimeball tactic of their expansion pack!!
Pax Imperia 2 the DEMO was better! argh!
Anything that says "RTS" or "Real-Time Strategy" it's all a mad clickfest, where's the STRATEGY in that ... ?!?
Baldur's Gate 1 how many times am I supposed to die and still LIKE the damned game ... ?!?!?
X-COM Interceptor pure and utter ****e -- this garbage should never have been made!!

OTOH, games I have loved, typically right out of the box, and will GRIEVOUSLY HURT YOU if you refuse to try them:

Master of Magic I sitll go back to this one ...

Master of Orion

Civilisation 2 (MultiPlayer Gold)

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire (expansion for SMAC)

SE4 and SE4Gold

Thief 1 marred only by a storyline with not enough THIEVING nd too much "dodge the evil nasty thing that wants to kill you"

Fallout 1 and 2 classic, wonderful CRPGs, with some great tongue-in-cheek humor thrown in

X-Com: UFO Defense (the first X-COM title) great game, best in the series IMO; known as "UFO: Enemy Unknown" in the UK

A few of the games that I have liked, and would recommend, but don't consider to be must-play-them's:

Icewind Dale they appear to have gotten the hint WRT easy character deaths since BG1 ...

Emperor of the Fading Suns boring against the AI after a half-dozen turns, but against humans it MIGHT be GRAND ...

X-COM: Terror from the Deep not enough innovation; a sub-par sequel, but not grossly flawed

X-COM: Apocalypse not enough innovation, again. great eye-candy, but the story somehow falls flat

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Capitalism 2
Civ 1 , 2 ,2a and the other ones

Imperilism 2

Bob the Builder

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I guess my dissapointment has been more along the lines of games that have never been produced:
Empire Deluxe II
Battle Isle II, (had hex based movement)
Ballence of Power, (Cris Crawford). An outstanding simulation of Cold war. For those who know it I found a way to win every time.
Don't do Anything. You score will not be as high but the world will love you.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sachmo, I have to admit that I did not contact Paradox tech support about the problem with EU II. It does look like a good game, so you have convinced me to give it another try. Thanks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Total Ann. is still my all time fav. game.