OT - your fav games

[littlemute]

Is this just for computer games?

RPG: Morrowind (it has it's flaws though)

TBS: Jagged Alliance 2, Dominions 2, Master of Orion, Emperor of the Fading Suns

Wargames: Close Combat Series is simply the best, and really changed the way I thought about combat in general.

RTS: Warcraft 3, TA gets an honorable mention but I'd rather play Close Combat then wade through 16-20 hours for one game on a metal world because my flash tank rush didn't work. And the sea battles? Yeeech!

FPS: Quake 3. Still the best for straight up Deathmatch. I love UT200* as well, but...

Management games: Patrician 3, King of Dragon Pass

Fighting Games: Guilty Gear XX:reload, Last Blade 2 (still the best), Tobal 2, King of Fighters 2003.

MMORPG: What a waste of time.

[littlemute]

Originally posted by Arryn:

The above 3 books, plus of course Dune, are IMO his best works. I pretty much have all his books (I've been reading Herbert and other classic SF/fantasy authors since the early 70s) but these are the ones I most enjoyed.

I liked the Jesus Incident, but could barely plod through Hellstrom's Hive. It was just so cheesy like a very bad Xfiles show (were there any good ones that weren't totaly derivative?). Some of the other Dune books were of questionable merit, though good fun all 'round.

One thing you MUST read in sci fi is "Roadside Picnic." I think it could be the best sci fi story I've ever read and it follows the law of sci fi that the better it is the more difficult it is to find in print...

[Arryn]

Originally posted by littlemute:
I liked the Jesus Incident, but could barely plod through Hellstrom's Hive. It was just so cheesy like a very bad Xfiles show (were there any good ones that weren't totaly derivative?). Some of the other Dune books were of questionable merit, though good fun all 'round.

You'll find in reading old SF/fantasy books (from 30+ years ago) that many of them will appear "cheesy" in light of our "more sophisticated" modern viewpoint, just as you would watching TV shows from the same decades. Also, there are very few authors (Feist immediately comes to mind) whose every book is a masterpiece.

BTW, you'll note that I did not mention Hive when I listed my recommendations. heh

[Graeme Dice]

RPG: BG2, Betrayal at Krondor, Fallout 1&2, Planescape Torment

RTS: Freedom Force, Myth 2

TBS: Dom 2, XCOM:UFO, VGA-Planets

FPS: Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

MMO: Ultima Online used to be the best

[Vicious Love]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Utter piece of crap.

Also originally posted by Arryn:
I could never even complete the first level.

No comment.

Update: Besides which, the multiplayer was the best bit. Though SP still kicked a great deal of imported ***.

[ July 23, 2004, 05:52: Message edited by: Vicious Love ]

[numskully]

what about Silent Storm? that was a great game (only flaw was no mp).