Favorite games

[Kamamura]

My all time hits:

All Silent Hill games (brilliant! Creepy, intelligent)
GTA San Andreas (clever humor, great cultural stereotypes parody)
Portal (the endgame song is hillarious)
Gothic 1 and 2
Fallout 2
Dominions 3 (single player AI is limited though and I was not still able to find a MP game)
Mount and Blade (but the development is slow)
Wesnoth (most polished open source game)
Legacy of Kain series (everything with Raziel and Kain :-) )
DreamWeb (yay!)
Perihellion (cyberpunk at its best)
Shadow of the Beast series

[lch]

Kamamura said:
Wesnoth (most polished open source game)

Most buggy open source game. I'd love it if you weren't some sort of beta tester all the time.

[B0rsuk]

lch said:

Most buggy open source game. I'd love it if you weren't some sort of beta tester all the time.

Could you elabore on the 'buggy' part ? I'm interested.

[Torin]

If anyone is intrested in Hamachi play Im on to:

Fallout tactics
Age of wonders SM
Age of empires conquerors
Master of Orion 2 (maybe needs something else instead of hamachi)
and of course Dominions 3 (blitz play)

[cupido2]

My favorites (I remember atm):

C64:
Raid over Moscow
Ultima IV + V
Bard's Tale III
Wasteland
Pool of Radiance
Gunship
Typhoon of Steel
Pirates
Maniac Mansion
Elite

Amiga:
Star Control 2
Populous
Warmonger
Starflight

SNES:
ChronoTrigger
Legend of Zelda: A link to the past

PS2
Panzer General I + II
X-com: Enemy unknown
Vandalhearts 2
Final Fantasy VII + IX
Shadow of the Collossus
Burnout 3
Civilizations 2

PC
Jagged Alliance 2
Baldur's Gate I + II
Fallout
TES 3: Morrowind
Combat Mission 1 + 2
Gothic 1 + 2
X-3 Reunion
Dominions 3
Dwarf Fortress
Space Rangers 2
Rome + Medieval Total War
Hearts of Iron 2
Battleground Europe (world war II online)

xbox360
there is no good game on the xbox360 *sigh* I was so disappointed by oblivion *double-sigh*

[lch]

B0rsuk said:
Could you elabore on the 'buggy' part ? I'm interested.

Oh, I don't want to pollute this thread more than I already done, but there have been a couple of bugs that already existed since the 1.2x version, which duplicated your units in the recall list whenever you saved+loaded the game when you played some of the scenarios. I reported it, first in the forum, then in the bug tracker. I was told more than once that the bug is fixed and I should replay the campaign, from the beginning, to this 9th or 10th mission. I did, at least three to four times, with each update, and the bug was still there. Then there's another bug which is probably tied to the save/loading mechanism and "outdated" WML code which corrupts the replays of your scenario. I don't think they ever managed to fix that. So, I waited half a year with active play testing, then still received notifications from the bug tracker for half a year even though I stopped caring, and it seems like either the whole WML thing has become too complicated that even the devs can't understand it anymore, or they are too lazy/busy to fix things - or maybe there are too many other bugs that they can't be assed to fix such a thing. For me, replaying the same campaign at least four times, just to find out that yep, it's still broken, wasn't any fun. I don't wanna be a beta-tester like that. If you want more info, then PM me about it...

[Kristoffer O]

Ah, Pool of Radiance!

Great old days. With a hand-outs booklet and a bizzare cardboard dial with runes and stuff for copy protection.

[Taqwus]

Hmmmmmmmm.

Waaaaaaay back:
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The Ancient Art of War
Incunabula (Avalon Hill oldie)
Archon


Slightly less way back:
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Much of the 'Gold Box' series from SSI
Netrek (bronco, and a little bit of chaos and hockey)
Neuromancer
Wasteland
Xconq
Bolo (The AppleTalk tank game, that is)
Strategic Conquest
Scorched Earth
Mechwarrior II


(subcategory: BBS door games )
Hack and Slash
Legend of the Red Dragon
Usurper
BRE/SRE
Mechwar



More recent
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Dominions III
Jagged Alliance II


Still evaluating
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Empires in Arms (Matrix adaptation; high potential, but currently very buggy)


Love-hate
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Combat Mission:BB
AOE II:AOK

[sector24]

I loved the Gold Box games. I still have Curse of the Azure Bonds -> Pools of Darkness, complete with crazy copy protection rune wheels, but I can't find Pool of Radiance.

[Ironhawk]

Kristoffer O said:
Ah, Pool of Radiance!

Great old days. With a hand-outs booklet and a bizzare cardboard dial with runes and stuff for copy protection.

Ah, yes the decoder wheel

Has anyone mentioned that there is a Pool of Radiance remake for NWN2, yet? Its quite well done, if a bit linear. A lot of the missions will be just what you remember - others will be just different enough to keep you interested. Worth a look

Pool of Radiance, Remastered