Off topic List your top/favorite 5-10 comp games

[henk brouwer]

1: Star control II
2: se4
3: MAX I, turn based strategy game, great concept but the AI sucked, been playing it for years though (don't try MAX II it sucks)
4: Scorched Earth (small freeware game)
5: civ I


[This message has been edited by henk brouwer (edited 03 May 2001).]

[serpwidgets]

1- r0x0r
2- Elite
3- Mail Order Monsters
4- Doom2/Duke3d/UT Deathmatch
5- SeIV/BoTF/MOO2/Civ

[Instar]

Current Favorites:
Diablo II -- It just rocks
SEIV -- no need to explain
USAF -- Good fighter sim, I like it
AoE II -- good game
Somewhat good games
Sim3K -- SimCity 2000 was fun, and this is a good extension of it, but some parts are lacking, and are less then expected
Oldies but goodies:
Sim2K
Any of the X-COM series
Command and Conquer Red Alert
StarCraft -- its old, face it

[CaptSpoogy]

Captain Spoogy's Favourites...

1 Space Empires Series
2 Sim City Series
3 Empire Series
4 Masters of Orion 2
5 Earl Weaver Baseball

I have also enjoyed playing at some point or another; Deadlock, Transport/Rail Tycoon, NHL 2000, Homeworld, Outpost...

I seem to play different games in phases - it's just that the latest SE IV phase has Lasted a long time!

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[Sultan]

1. SE4
2. TFC
3. SFC2
4. FOF
5. SPWAW
6. SMAC
I dont play these anymore but used to alot.

7.AW3,2,AW
8.Duke3D
9.SFC
10. Red Barron II

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[Phoenix-D]

henk brouwer: If you like Scorched Earth, check out Worms. That game just rocks

For me:
MW series
SE series
Worms series (Armeggedon being the only one I've played, but the others- II and World Party- are similar)
Mechcommander
Fighter's Anthology- I *really* wanted to like USAF, but I could never get it running right, stick didn't want to work. Not only that, it had problems at low altitudes, and guess which plane I used. Yup, the A-10.
Freespace 2

Phoenix-D

[Erhardt]

If I could ever figure out how to get 'Master Of Magic' to work on WIn2k that would still be on my list:

Space Empires 4
Alpha Centuari
Hong Kong Mah Jhong

[dogscoff]

Hmm. Showing my age here... These are nearly all Amiga games from 1995 or earlier. They are all still as good to play now as ever though.

Best 5 (in order)

1> SEIV. Obviously. Not for what it is (an absorbing and challenging game) but for what it might yet be (an all- consuming substitute for real life)

2>Bullfrog God sims, ie Powermonger / populous: For the attention to detail and "real world" atmosphere. And that heartbeat that set your own pulse racing... Boomboom... boomboom.. boomboomboomboom... boomboomboomboom...

3> Llamatron 2112: Old (1990? 1991?) Amiga freeware game. With non-stop action, surreal sound effects and hypnotic strobing graphics to make you eyes bleed, playing this at night after a few beers is like some kind of mind altering drugs experience. Very addictive, especially in 2 plyr mode.

4>Speedball II, brutal deluxe. Just for the sheer style and quality of it. The ultra violence and the (literally) palm- blistering gamplay help as well=-) Doesn't matter how many times I complete it I still want to play again.

5>Wipeout 2097, For the speed, the music and the cool. It was historically groundbreaking in terms of changing attitudes towards gaming.

Further down the list would be

> Alien Breed series: Really atmospheric games- just like being in one of the aliens films, but without violating any of the copyrights=-)
>Elite/Frontier (For years these were unsurpassed in terms of absorbing the player)
>Worms (For those 4 people crowded around one monitor moments),
>Datastorm (little known defender clone on the amiga. One of the fastest games I've ever played.)
> Columns (you know that Tetris meets connect 4 thing - just for chilling out with, excellent thumb candy)
>Duke Nukem 3D (nostalgic reasons)
>and ooh... loads of others.


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[Puke]

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Originally posted by KiloOhm:
Wow! I loved Mail order monsters too! I can't believe someone else besides me remembers that game. What a bLast it was (although it's hard rememering much of it... )

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oh yea, MOM was one of the best games ever made, i used to play it on the c64. there are some modern console games that are cheap knock offs with spiffy graphics but no comparison on the content.

[Leoric]

My top 5

1) Bloodwitch (amiga), I think it was called. A rpg that you could play 2 players at one screen.

2) Ports of Call. You transported and sold cargo all over the world. Brilliant game. (amiga)

3) Diablo 1 & 2.

4) Space Empires 4.

5) Boulder dash (c64) A realy addictive game. One of the first computer games I played.

Games that didn´t make it to top 5:

Defender of the crown(c64),Eye of the beholder 1 & 2, command and conquer 1, civ, Homm 3 and imperialism 2(multiplayer only).

I have probably forgot to mention allot of good games.

Leoric