OT: Games worth buying

[AgentZero]

Personally, my favourite game to date was The Longest Journey. Not sure how well a non-violent adventure game would fit in with Renegade's preference for action/strategy, but it's a bloody brilliant game. The sequel, Dreamfall is due out at some point. Website says Fall 2005, but that's come and gone...

Otherwise, my time's currently divided between the SE5 beta & World of Warcraft, with occasional bouts of AOE3 and Civ4 thrown in for good measure. Anyone know of a game similar to Star Control 2? Downloaded The Ur-Quon Masters and beat it in a couple hours. I played that game to death when it first came out, and can almost play it blindfolded.