OT - Favorite games

[Executor]

I've started making my own mod nation, so I looked for units beyond Dom III, and than I remembered some games I used to play earlier,
What are your top 5 games besides Dominion? Here's my list,

Heroes of might and magic I,II,III, Heroes IV and beyond are crap.
Might and Magic VI,VII,VIII
Orion II
Alpha Centauti
and maybe Lords of the Realms II or Age of Empires.

And the two most played would be Heroes III and Alpha Centauri.

P.S. If anyone has an image I could use for a Phoenix unit that would be nice, since I wanted to use the Phoenix from Heroes III and it can't be found on the forum for some reason.

[Trumanator]

Well, for favorite games overall I would go

Company of Heroes
Oblivion
Battlefield 1942
AoE 2
Total War games

As far as games you could actually use for a Dominions mod...

Warlords Battlecry 3
Warcraft 3
Age of Wonders
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms
LOTR Battle for Middle Earth

Edit: Oh, and I'll throw in Kohan 2 also

[Slobby]

the kohan series
the europa universalis series
the disciples series
arcanum
nobunaga's ambition lord of darkness

[GrudgeBringer]

I am not very computer savvy....

However I DO still have Heroes 3 and can load it if there is a way to get the image off there.

I agree Heroes 1,2,3 (after that they are very poor)

Orion2 (I used to play that on TEN at 19.95 a month) and Still have it and load er up once in a while.

Civil War Generals 2

Lord of the Realm 1,2 (three just didn't get it)

Fallout1 and 2 (havn't tried 3)

These where simple games, but brought hundreds of hours of enjoyment to me. I wish sometimes that maybe we didn't have so many graphics and 'real time' games, I guess I didn't mind how realistic they where.... I just adjusted to the game.

Just an opionion

[sansanjuan]

Originally Posted by Executor

I've started making my own mod nation, so I looked for units beyond Dom III, and than I remembered some games I used to play earlier,
What are your top 5 games besides Dominion? Here's my list,

Heroes of might and magic I,II,III, Heroes IV and beyond are crap.
Might and Magic VI,VII,VIII
Orion II
Alpha Centauti
and maybe Lords of the Realms II or Age of Empires.

And the two most played would be Heroes III and Alpha Centauri.

P.S. If anyone has an image I could use for a Phoenix unit that would be nice, since I wanted to use the Phoenix from Heroes III and it can't be found on the forum for some reason.

My kids are nuts about HOMM3. Over the past year they have played it far more than the newer glossier titles. Even more than the Wii or PS3 stuff. Gets trickier to load with each computer iteration.

MOO2 is also a mainstay at our house.

For LAN play Supreme Commander is a riot. Even the wife joins in with the 3 of us boys against
computer teams.

CIV4 gets played WAN with our "big" kids in other states. Another good allied game.

For War games I still fire up the old SSI games in dosbox. Mainly War in Russia and Clash of Steel. Occasionally Carrier Strike. Funny to see the kids hovering over my shoulder when the torpedoes start dropping. Sub-VGA, crappy sound, but they are RIVETTED...

-ssj

[Dragar]

If you haven't yet check out the Fall from Heaven 2 mod for Civ IV, a tonne of different races and units with excellent graphics there. It has a good downloadable manual so getting images shouldn't be too hard.

Light elves, dark elves, golems, dwarves, undead, demons, pirates, horse tribes, mystics, orcs, desert nomads, arctic types, arcane scholar types... you name it they got it

[Ballbarian]

1. Lord of the Realm 2 (All time favorite if excluding Dominions.)
2. Oblivion (modded to the hilt)
3. Total Annihilation:TCC / Supreme Commander (spiritual successor to TA)
4. Dungeon Keeper 1&2 (Imp slappin' goodness! )
5. Age of Empires series (including SWGB which used the same engine as AoK)

[RegnorVex]

I can't believe no one's mentioned some of my favorites:

1) XCom
2) Master of Magic
3) Imperialism II
4) Planescape: Torment
5) Betrayal at Krondor

[Executor]

Master of Magic Dungeon Keeper and Disciples, I forgot about those games, good games, Starcraft also.

Than it's not just me. Cause I can't think of a single new/newish game that's actually worth playing or mentioning, it's all about the graphics now, better graphic better game for some reason.

[Sombre]

That isn't true at all. There are hundreds of relatively recently released games that are superb. Definitely not so true in the tbs world though, especially fantasy tbs.