What other games complement your Dominions 3?

[Klepto]

Neverwinter Nights (on the Three Towns server mostly)
Wolf ET
Savage 2
Morrowind (the only reason I have Wine installed)
The X Games
Transport Tycoon, Wesnoth, Freeciv, Darwinia, Warzone 2100, etc.

... and many many more. My avatar/nick comes from this game.

[HoneyBadger]

For the severely geriatric only: Has anyone here ever played Dungeons of Daggorath? Talk about creepy...Bit for bit, easily the single best game ever made-and by 'bit for bit' I mean that it was made with only 8 kilobites. My icon has just under that...Or possibly more, I'm not really sure. And those 8 kilobytes feature: Great sound, better (legitimately spooky) atmosphere, a first person "shooter" with right and left handed action, a multi-level dungeon, upgradeable weapons and equipment, a realistic lighting system, 3D mimicing graphics-very good, considering it was made in 1982-innovative monsters, and a fairly difficult puzzle game-within-a-game. Oh and instead of hitpoints, it keeps track of your life with a beating heart that speeds up and slows down as you move throughout the dungeon.

[chrispedersen]

I do remember the game, but it wasn't the best game ever bit for bit.

A loooooong time ago, there was a competition to make the shortest game ever.

The winning entry was a one line program that used self altering code. It was a screen racing game. It was only OK as games go, but as it was one line... it was cool.

Of course assembler or mc probably has that beat...

[Taqwus]

For explosive nostalgia, I recently installed Xscorch on my Gentoo set-up. It's one of many clones of Wendell Hicken's "Scorched Earth", one of the first and more well-known of the 'artillery' games.

[Dragar]

Scorched earth was awesome... although the guidance systems killed it a little, it was much more satisyfing to land your heavy napalm just thru angle and power.

For the Civ IV players out there, try the Fall from Heaven 2 user mod. That was my staple for months before finding Dom3. Still the same combat system, but it is a very rich fantasy setting, huge differentiation between civs and religions, plus lots of magic All while maintaing pretty decent balance. It is supported amazingly well by the development team.

[Linraen]

My favourites:

Fallout (1 & 2)
Planescape: Torment
Wizards & Warriors

Not a fan of newer games, but I've recently been playing Bioshock, and find it quite to my liking, it's simplier than System Shock 2, but with better graphics and the same atmosphere. And, The Witcher. That one has made a lot of noise here in Russia, and to my taste, is a very decent game.

Also, waiting and hoping for Fallout 3.

[HoneyBadger]

chrispederson: There's a lot of definitions for 'Best': How many of those games has a world-wide cult following 25 years later? Or inspired one of the most popular and long-lasting genres in the gaming industry (Dungeons of Daggorath is considered the grandfather of all first person 3D shooters, and for that matter, isn't very dissimilar to the original 'Doom' or 'Diablo'), or had so many innovations in sound, graphics, and atmosphere?

For that matter, how many of those games would I, personally, enjoy playing 25 years after they were made (I don't need the best graphics in the world to enjoy a game, but I have my limit as to what I can stand, and DoD doesn't trip that limit)-or having played them 25 years ago, had so many fond memories of?

And it's a game I can validly bring to these forums, in the expectation that others here might reasonably feel the same way about. It's impressive that your racing game was build with only 1 line of code, and I congratulate whoever built it on their success, but as you yourself say, it's just an average racing game.

8 kilobytes might actually be a lot, compared to however many it took to make that game, but it gives back a lot for those 8 kilobytes.

Yes, it's my 'personal opinion' that Dungeons of Daggorath is the best, but it's an educated opinion, and I'm a fanatic, so good luck convincing me otherwise

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

chrispederson: There's a lot of definitions for 'Best': How many of those games has a world-wide cult following 25 years later? Or inspired one of the most popular and long-lasting genres in the gaming industry (Dungeons of Daggorath is considered the grandfather of all first person 3D shooters, and for that matter, isn't very dissimilar to the original 'Doom' or 'Diablo'), or had so many innovations in sound, graphics, and atmosphere?

For that matter, how many of those games would I, personally, enjoy playing 25 years after they were made (I don't need the best graphics in the world to enjoy a game, but I have my limit as to what I can stand, and DoD doesn't trip that limit)-or having played them 25 years ago, had so many fond memories of?

And it's a game I can validly bring to these forums, in the expectation that others here might reasonably feel the same way about. It's impressive that your racing game was build with only 1 line of code, and I congratulate whoever built it on their success, but as you yourself say, it's just an average racing game.

8 kilobytes might actually be a lot, compared to however many it took to make that game, but it gives back a lot for those 8 kilobytes.

Yes, it's my 'personal opinion' that Dungeons of Daggorath is the best, but it's an educated opinion, and I'm a fanatic, so good luck convincing me otherwise

I have no problem whatsoever with saying DoD was a *much* better game. I agree with you .. of course.. I also remember when they added *color* to games. = P

Laughin' it was just when you said Kb for kb (or something similiar that I had to chime in.

If ya say the fun score of Dod was 100.. and the fun score of racer game was 20

100/8092 << 20/.25

[HoneyBadger]

Color hell, my first gaming platform (a generic version of Pong) came in a wooden box the size of a coffee table

[llamabeast]

100/8092 << 20/.25

You reckon that racing game was a quarter of a byte, i.e. two bits? That's some skilled programming then!