Graphics vs ideas; the tide has turned

[Edi]

I got myself a brand spanking new machine about a year ago, to replace the 500 MHz Celeron rig from 1999/2000 that crashed and burned. I've been enjoying a lot of games that I could not run on the old machine, but I still come back to Dominions.

I've always loved the HoMM series, which ran on the old one apart from Heroes V, but a lot of other stuff did. I enjoy the hell out of the kickass graphics in the games I do play, yet it is the classics AoW1 and Dominions 1-3, HoMM 2-5, Freespace SCP and the Thief series that I most come back to.

It depends on what you like, but I'm fairly brutal about what games I accept and what I don't. New games do not very often hold my interest.