OT - your fav games

[Leif_-]

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)

[PrinzMegaherz]

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 ]

[tinkthank]

1. What does 4X mean? Never heard of that

2. My favs:

a. Thief II
b. Planescape: Torment
c. Deux Ex 1
d. Baldur's Gate 2
e. Fallout I/II
f. Arcanum


3. What did you people like about Morrowind or NWN?? God I hated those

[Cheezeninja]

hmmm... in no particular order

Dune 2
MoM
Civilization
Total Annihilation
The Starcraft Map Editor (the player made games were better than the original IMO)
Ultima Online (when it first came out it was the shiznit, has since been ruined)
Populous
Diablo

[Taqwus]

Traditional map-based 4X:
Dominions II, although the second Master of Orion game deserves a very strong honorable mention.

TBS/RPG:
Jagged Alliance 2, love/hate. Love the detail, hate the assorted lack of realism (short ranges, incredible body armor/damage tolerance, etc) and inventory management pains, plus the need to search every room, and the inane endgame. Hated the "Deidranna Lives" mod.

Other TBS:
King of Dragon Pass; love/hate. Love the detail, hate the perverse randomness where you can be very badly hurt through unavoidable bad luck in an HQ or very early bad harvests.

RTS:
Ancient Art of War, the original one. Loved utterly. Would be great to see a modern Version with configurable squad limits, modability, multiplayer, ability to run on modern-speed CPUs without requiring a circulatory system filled with caffeine and meth.
Netrek, for multiplayer.

RPG:
Fallout/Fallout 2; loved the rich stories and nOnlinearity, hated the NPC 'ally' tactical stupidities and the poor FO2 endgame.

Wasteland; very fun, although combat was very basic and the endgame was cliched and annoying.

BBS DOOR:
Hack and Slash, Usurper: very fun, brutal and competitive RPG games.
BRE/SRE: empire resource management games, essentially multiplayer updates of Hammurabi/King. Very fun.

[Endoperez]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
1. What does 4X mean? Never heard of that

"eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate"

From Home of the Underdogs:

Divided into two factions: those 4x games happening in space and those played on earth, Master of Orion and Sid Meier's Civilization given as examples.
"Fog of war, research, and city/colony management are integral elements of this subgenre [of strategy]."

[Arryn]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
1. What does 4X mean? Never heard of that

eXplore
eXpand
eXploit
eXterminate

3. What did you people like about Morrowind or NWN?? God I hated those

What's wrong with either one? Especially such a great game as Morrowind, arguably one the finest fantasy RPGs ever made.

Morrowind has (not in any special order of importance):

* great graphics
* well-developed, and huge, world
* great backstory
* tons of quests
* the most flexible and detailed character creation system I've seen in a fantasy RPG
* awesome modding ability
* a developer that supports their game

There's not much more that you can ask of a game. What flaws I've seen have typically been modded away, if not fixed by the devs themselves.