Favorite games

[Zeldor]

Oh man, some people like really ugly and bad games.

[Twan]

I know it's strange but I love Crusader Kings.

[vfb]

I'm surprised to not see Netrek. I never got into it, but bunch of years ago an ex-coworker of mine pretty much just played Netrek all day long everyday.

And thanks Zeldor, if you hadn't mentioned ugly I would have forgotten to add:

13) Helherron

Classic!

[Meglobob]

1. Dom3
2. GC2
3. Civ2
4. Diablo 2
5. Master of Orion 2
6. Out of the Shadows
7. Elite
8. Lords of Midnight
9. Doomdarks Revenge
10. Lords of Chaos

[Foodstamp]

Cerlin said:
Gah these lists are always the hardest...but Ill try.

Most time spent for me was :

Dark Age of Camelot, more than a year of my life to that thing.
Dominions 3, also a year but i play less frequently.
Civilization 2, this changed my gaming world.

Just awesome:

Fallout 2, I know the first one is good but this one was amazing to replay for many years at many different times.
Baldors gate 2 and Planescape torment, I love the old Black Isle games.
Command and Conquer Red Alert. I enjoyed this more than any other version since.
Oblivion, because it is like the most beaufitul game ever.
X Beyond the Frontier, this ignited my love in space sims.
X 3 - Because it took empirebuilding to a new level.
Galactic Civilization, great space game i suck so bad at. I never won a game ever.


And when it comes to dwarf fort, watch out for that game. it is dangerous. You can lose a day to it without noticing and you really start to like your little dwarfs...then you get mauled haha.

Cerlin,

What server/realm did you play DAOC on? . I had a Battlebard (Hibernia) on Kay named Tales.

[Kristoffer O]

Hmm ...

Perhaps ...

In time spent (educated guess):
Guild Wars
Nethack and other roguelikes
Civ1
Starcraft
Masters of Orion

I liked MoM, but never played it much (didn't have a computer that could manage it at the time, and I had to reinstall or do something in DOS every time I wanted to play it).

[Foodstamp]

You had to change the extended memory. I remember doing that . I just used a boot disk when I wanted to play MoM on ye ole 486.

[B0rsuk]

Kristoffer O said:
Nethack and other roguelikes

Do you know Stone Soup variant of Dungeon Crawl ? It has lots and lots of interface and display improvements including interlevel travel, balance tweaks (missile weapons better now etc), new item brands like axes of returning, removed redundant and boring races like mountain dwarves and ordinary elves... Lugonu - god of Abyss; changes to existing gods to make them more diverse and and interesting. Removal of stupid, ugly metagame annoyances like amnesia traps. Lots of new tricks for Xom ! New character/class combos like kobold venom mages, ogre gladiators etc. Shields are significantly improved and worthwile now. Heavy armour got heavier and it's a bit harder to cast in it. Curare, basically irresistible poison for darts to make them useful past early game. Sling bullets. Throwing nets. Special vaults for Crypt:5. Smoke and steam that obscures vision. Vehumet nerf (still a very good choice for conjurers). Beogh, god of orcs (you become an orc priest and lead other followers). Lots of handcrafted minivaults scattered around the levels. Additional Snake:5 layouts. New spell: Chain Lightning. Kobolds now recover quickly from disease. Most of innate racial abilities now mentioned on 'A' screen. Some new mutations. And there's even a server running that game so you can connect, spectate other players, brag about your highscores, battle other players' ghosts...

http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net

telnet crawl.akrasiac.org

I liked MoM, but never played it much (didn't have a computer that could manage it at the time, and I had to reinstall or do something in DOS every time I wanted to play it).

Huh ? MOM works perfectly fine in Dosbox. Just adjust your CPU cycles and frameskip settings.

If you're on Debian or Ubuntu, just
apt-get install dosbox

otherwise:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

And you can download MOM itself from the underdogs.

[Kristoffer O]

It was probably over a year since I played Crawl. New version sounds interesting.

I haven't tried MoM for 15 years or so. Might be interesting.

[lch]

Foodstamp said:
You had to change the extended memory. I remember doing that . I just used a boot disk when I wanted to play MoM on ye ole 486.

QEMM took care of that.

B0rsuk said:
Huh ? MOM works perfectly fine in Dosbox. Just adjust your CPU cycles and frameskip settings.

Exactly, this fine-tuning of cycles and frameskip settings doesn't make it that easy, unfortunately. If you're on Windows, the VDMSound project is an easier way to get the game running for you.