OT: What other games are people playing??

[nakomus]

I’ve been playing Orbiter a free (closed source) realistic physics space flight simulator lately.

It is kind of relaxing to not be playing against anything, even the A.I.

[magnate]

My list is distressingly similar to Cainehill's - Dom2, Diablo2, (S)Angband. I even have Anacreon (is there a newer Version?? Mine is ancient).

I've just got SEIV and think it's great. Spending most of my time on that at the moment.

I have Far Cry installed for a very occasional FPS fix.

I have Warlords Battlecry III installed in case I fancy some RTS. I've also just installed Kohan (Ahriman's Gift) but haven't played it yet. Ditto Patrician III, which someone gave me to see if I like.

So many games, so little time.

CC

[Cainehill]

magnate said:
My list is distressingly similar to Cainehill's - Dom2, Diablo2, (S)Angband. I even have Anacreon (is there a newer Version?? Mine is ancient).

Yep - after being dead for, mmm, about a decade, Anacreon is in production once more. The latest Version was put out on 17 August this year, and can be found here : Anacreon Website .

It now runs under Windows and has graphics, instead of the text based interface.

[Aku]

Magic the Gathering was a great card game until Wizards of the Coast ruined it. I quit when they bought it and started making it like Pokemon by changing the rules, throwing foil cards in, and made it that you had to have a certain deck type to win and being a good player didn't matter anymore. I even tried going back to it a year later and EVERYBODY had the same exact deck and I asked why and they said it is the only good deck you can make right now. Oh and it happened to be with the most expensive cards also. Wizards of the Coast did the same thing with AD&D. I am still a 2nd edition player.

[Lex]

hehe, i actually went to a few local Magic tournaments. never won though. What I remember from those days is you had to have a "millstone" deck (make your opponent run out of cards) and "moxy" deck (achieve the ultimate by winning on the first turn by having the rarest cards all in the same hand on the first turn). there where others, but those two where the only ones that really stuck to memory

Edit: I of course always played a fire deck.. favorite card of all time: the Shivan Dragon. totaly sucks in the game, was only worth $16 at the time, but the artwork for Magic cards where really cool!!

[condors]

championship manager
nhl eastside hockey manager
front office football
Sick as a parot

(i like my sports text sims)

I still fire up medieval total war sometimes on the weekend when i have a good amount of time

still play dom2 as well (its a much needed change from my normal gaming)

[Arryn]

Lex said:
What I remember from those days is you had to have a "millstone" deck (make your opponent run out of cards) and "moxy" deck (achieve the ultimate by winning on the first turn by having the rarest cards all in the same hand on the first turn). there where others, but those two where the only ones that really stuck to memory

Millstones were easily countered by several different strategies. Speaking of countering, there were/are purpose-designed "counter" decks (blue, can be frustrating to play against), and "protection" decks / white weeny-creature decks (my favorite), colorless (all-artifact) decks, and the list goes on and on (and on and on ...). MtG, the game that gave us the memorable term "fork you".

[Borg]

PC Games I enjoy very much :

Dom2
Civ3 conquests
Heroes of Might and Magic4

[JaydedOne]

Aku said:
Magic the Gathering was a great card game until Wizards of the Coast ruined it. I quit when they bought it and started making it like Pokemon by changing the rules, throwing foil cards in, and made it that you had to have a certain deck type to win and being a good player didn't matter anymore. I even tried going back to it a year later and EVERYBODY had the same exact deck and I asked why and they said it is the only good deck you can make right now. Oh and it happened to be with the most expensive cards also. Wizards of the Coast did the same thing with AD&D. I am still a 2nd edition player.

Heh. As a former WotC employee, I might be considered biased. However, the facts are the facts.

Wizards of the Coast never "bought" Magic: the Gathering. They invented/developed it long before they ever got around to developing Pokemon. As a Magic player from the beginning, it's always been a fact that the Rare/Expensive cards tended to be the game-breakers, although I'd argue that they've moved away from that element rather than towards it in recent years.

Oh, and to stay relatively on-topic, what I'm playing right now is Dom2, HoMMIV (which I'm rapidly giving up on), Madden 2005, and awaiting with horrid anticipation the US release of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.

[Aku]

Well yeah the bs stuff in the beginning of magic like channel and a black lotus and a fireball you die first round stuff got Banned etc from tournaments.

I think Magic was perfect when the deck minimum was 60 cards not when it used to be 40.

Maybe Magic is balanced again I have no clue. I basically lost track of it when it did the 6th edition classic.