OT - your fav games

[Smauler]

Ok, I'll probably go for games that I have spent most time on, and have come back to again and again.

4X:
Civilization I (Amiga) - I got so bad GCSEs because of this game.
Civilization III (PC) - Didn't like II, not sure why, just thought it was a little repetative. III I like, but only really play it with mods (esp. DyP).
Master of Orion I (PC) - Absolute classic. I think I got more angry at this game than any other. "What?!? A 100 ship fleet on my doorstep in turn 5". I guess the AI wasn't up to much, it got _huge_ bonuses.

RTS:
Dune (PC) - Not much of a RTS fan, but liked this.

RPG:
Angband, Zangband, TOME (PC) - I always come back to these, predominantely Zangband. There is just so much variety.
Betrayal at Krondor (PC) - I remember playing this with a friend, we never finished it, but it was classic fun.
Baldur's Gate II (PC) - Still going through this, it's massive and enjoyable all the way.

Driving:
Gran Turismo series (PS1 and PS2) - Can't be beat.
V-Rally I (PS1) - Sheer driving 1v1 fun. I used to play this all the time at university.
Demolition Derby I (PS1) - An oldie, simple, but a goodie.
Supercars I & II (Amiga) - Great little arcade racers. Homing missiles were ace.

FPS:
DOOM I and II (PC) - These introduced me to multiplayer gaming. We had a 4 computers network at home, and we had day long parties which were intended to be DOOM during the day, other stuff in the evening. DOOM took over all.
Counterstrike (PC) - I actually got pretty good at this, and it was amazingly great Online. Hacks killed it a bit in some cases, but mostly it was great fun.
Quake III (PC): Great fun Online, railgun fanatics of the world unite.

Sports:
Sensible Soccer (Amiga & PC) - I just loved this game, but the computer wasn't much of a challenge, and none of my mates would play me because I just whipped them. It was silly fun though.
Tracksuit Manager (C64) - No idea why I got hooked on this, but I did. It was crap, but I did win the world cup once.
Speedball II (Amiga) - So much fun. I spent about 6 hours playing this a couple of nights ago, with an emulator.
Decathlon (C64) - Nothing like a frenzy of joystick waggling to get the adrenaline up. I think I got over 11000 points once.
Tony Hawkes Pro Skating II & III(PS1 & PS2) - I am generally a pretty good gamer, but these I am _so_ bad at. I enjoy them lots though.
SSX (PS2) - Fun game, I wasn't too bad at it either, unlike the previous.

Space:
X2 - The Threat (PC) - The game I'm currently playing most at the moment, especially now the 1.4 patch is out. Immense scope, great game. Storyline sucks though, but that's not the point to the game.
Frontier (Amiga) - Liked, but didn't love this game. Too many glitches, it was pretty huge and limitless though, and kept me playing for hours and hours.

Other:
Pirates! (Amiga) - I never did find my sister, but did just about everything else. I basically owned that Carribean by the end.
Railroad Tycoon I (Amiga) - I played this game so much. II and III didn't capture my imagination as much, but I still played them both pretty much (III still). III's landscaping is so annoying though.
Grand Theft Auto Series (Amiga & PC) - The original 2 were a bLast, I loved unnecessary killing even back then . III made it prettier, and kept all the fun elements.
Worms (PS1) - So much time went on this game. If Civ I killed my GCSEs, this game killed my degree. So many times I was doing work, and a friend came round and asked "Fancy a game of Worms?". By the end, we had played literally thousands of games, each best of 3 rounds. The scoreboard was all screwed up, because we'd played it so much.

I've been playing with Morrowind a bit recently too, but can't seem to find any love for it. Managing stats is a bit of a pain, and there are huge numbers of exploits (Alchemy = Immediate level 10 rich character). Anyway, that's about me done, I think. I'm sure I'll think of some more later .

[Blitz]

Civilization III (PC) - Didn't like II, not sure why, just thought it was a little repetative. III I like, but only really play it with mods (esp. DyP).

I never got why people hated Civ 3. So many excellent advances. Workers instead of settlers, the whole culture thing was done well. UU's were pretty nice. I can't really see where the game lacks when compared to Civ2. Some complained about the corruption system, but once you knew what you were doing that wasn't hard to manage.

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Originally posted by Blitz:

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Civilization III (PC) - Didn't like II, not sure why, just thought it was a little repetative. III I like, but only really play it with mods (esp. DyP).

I never got why people hated Civ 3. So many excellent advances. Workers instead of settlers, the whole culture thing was done well. UU's were pretty nice. I can't really see where the game lacks when compared to Civ2. Some complained about the corruption system, but once you knew what you were doing that wasn't hard to manage.

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I like Civ III, but I think Alpha Centauri was better in many ways. Civ III has a good AI, and that helps a lot. But Alpha Centauri had atmosphere; it had terraforming, 3D landscape, nukes that made a difference, custom units, sea cities and potentially huge cities. Also, it had the best quotes

So all in all, I think perhaps Alpha Centauri may have been the best non-free game I have ever played.

Another fond memory is Worms I + II (after which they lost it.) and scorched earth. Wizardry 8, Might and Magic 6+7, and recently, UT2004. The Longest Journey, Siberia, Broken Sword 3 and other adventure games.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
Another fond memory is ... Siberia ...

I've been considering Syberia. What can you tell me about it?

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
Another fond memory is ... Siberia ...

I've been considering Syberia. What can you tell me about it?

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buy it )

Seriously, it is a atmospheric and extremely beautiful game. It is of the point-and-click puzzle solving Category. I found the puzzle diffuculty mostly satsfying, though there are a few I found more bothersome than interesting. The storyline is very good and engaging. It is not completely unlike The Longest Journey.

[Boron]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Morrowind is *older* than Gothic 2 (and perhaps Gothic). It's graphics were cutting-edge when the game came out, and are not shabby even by today's standards, almost 3 years later. Stop to consider that Diablo 2 had woefully-obsolete graphics when *it* was released, and huge numbers of players still play the game today. Ditto JA2.

hm i always thought that gothic 1 is older than morrowind and gothic 2 came out only about 1/2 year after morrowind .
ihmo gothic 1 had already an almost as good graphic as morrowind and the gothic 2 graphic is much better .

ja 2 is one of my alltime favourites too .
another one is starcraft .
both have crappy graphics but graphics but graphics don't play a major role for me .
but in first person 3d games like morrowind and gothic they matter .
unfortunately i played gothic 2 before morrowind and then i was disappointed .
i don't know why but i don't like the morrowind graphic. i still play counterstrike which has a worse graphic than morrowind but there i don't care .
it is just a personal disliking for morrowind don't know why .

[tinkthank]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Morrowind I didnt like nearly as well as Daggerfall. I was very dissapointed

Why? People keep saying they disliked the game, but they decline to say *what* it is about the game they didn't like (besides the graphics load on a computer, which is a non-issue with today's Boards).

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Sorry.
It seemed to me, like NWN, to be a world done without love. (This angered me even more in NWN, the makers of which having had really impressed me elsewhere.)
Despite being full of *things*, it seemed empty and hollow. (Think Heidegger's Zuhandenheit vs. Vorhandenheit here.)
This feeling was exacerbated in my eyes by an incredibly high degree of means-ends-functionality: almost nothing was there for its own sake, either as a pleasure or a joke or whatever. The NPCs seemed to me to be mere vessels to be robbed, killed, persuaded or from whom one could receive a quest (depending on your char type). The lack of feeling of immersion annoyed me so much that I had to stop somewhere in the middle of that big city whose name escapes me. Small things bothered me: I hated being greeted everywhere as "Outlander", even when disguised with that special helmet you got from one of those quests somewhere else.

I really liked the good system (nice classlessness, nicely open-ended); all in all, it was a good idea which was also implemented halfway decently, but one which completely lacked magic and feeling for me.