Favorite games

[Endoperez]

- Dominions series

story games:
- Planescape: Torment
- Freespace 1 & 2. I bought a joystick for these beauties, but I'm not good at them yet. DragonStrike gets an honorary mention.
- LOOM, the adventure
- I completed Beyond Good & Evil, and it was nice, but not exceptional.
- Betrayal at Krondor (have had to format my hard drive THREE! times before reaching chapter 2! I'll complete you yet...)
timewasting games:
- various roguelikes, including ADOM (1 victory), Dungeon Crawl and DoomRL
- Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari) is good, I got to the secret level but haven't completed it yet.
- Master of Magic/Orion, Conquest of Elysiun, Dwarf Fortress



Those are games I have finished, or think I'll finish. Games I have tried, but for some reason didn't play through/left, and I'd like to pick up again one day if I have time to:
- King of Dragon Pass (cool ideas and imagery, but I didn't quite grasp the gameplay)
- X-Com 1, Ultima IV, Ringworld 1, The Ur-Quan Masters (cool, but I got distracted)
- Dungeon Keeper 1, Mount & Blade, Final Fantasy Tactics, Super Mario World (damn you, wizard turtle!), Prince of Persia (original, not the fancy new one), Wik the Fable of Souls - nice games, all, but I lost interest for a time, and haven't taken up yet.

[Torin]

Prince of persia, that was a good one, i finished it. And Out of this world!!(another world as alias) wich was too hard for me.
I will have to check some that are listed and I dont know of.

[vfb]

Games I have spent the most time on:

1) Dom3
2) Roguelikes (Nethack/Moria/Angband/TOME)
3) Master of Magic
4) Master of Orion
5) Civ II & AC
6) Thief
7) Deus Ex
8) Panzer/Allied/Fantasy General
9) Starcraft
10) Fallout
11) XCom
12) Kohan IS

I want to try Dwarf Fortress, but I'm still having too much fun with Dominions.

[lch]

Endoperez said:
- Freespace 1 & 2. I bought a joystick for these beauties, but I'm not good at them yet. DragonStrike gets an honorary mention.

I looked that DragonStrike thing up. LOL! Either you have started playing computer games from the cradle, or you're much older than I am. Roguelikes on the list might indicate the latter. On a related note, the original Red Baron game was awesome. Played it through once. Then tried to play it again as the other faction. But the planes and their controls grow on you: The later planes fly much smoother than the earlier designs. Jumping from the powerful planes at the end of the war to the machines at the beginning feels like a crippling lobotomy - I didn't manage to play again.

Torin said:
Prince of persia, that was a good one, i finished it.

I think I finished the original game, too, but I'm not sure. Maybe with cheats.

vfb said:
I want to try Dwarf Fortress, but I'm still having too much fun with Dominions.

There is no goal to the Dwarf Fortress game as of yet. Why don't you try some other hobby, like gardening, or knitting?

[Endoperez]

lch said:
I looked that DragonStrike thing up. LOL! Either you have started playing computer games from the cradle, or you're much older than I am. Roguelikes on the list might indicate the latter.

I first played it maybe 5 years ago, so I just find my games a bit later than others. Perhaps I'll start raving about StarCraft 2 in ten years or so.

[quantum_mechani]

Favorite games are a bit hard to list, so I'll go with the most-time-spent idea:

1.Dominions
2.Roguelikes (predominantly nethack)
3.Alpha Centauri
4.Civilization
5.Majesty

Games I liked a lot thought didn't spend that much time on, comparatively:

*Knights of the old republic
*King of dragon pass
*Master of magic
*Conquest of Elysium
*Star Control 2

[Stryke11]

Fun!

(Not in any particular order)

Dominions 3 of course.
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness (Best game music ever).
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (NWN isn't half as good).
Planescape: Torment.
Rome: Total War (largely due to mods).
Master of Magic.
Syberia (in large part to cool story and aesthetics)
Tie Fighter (MUCH better then later "X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter")
Crusader: No Remorse
Syndicate (needs a modern remake IMHO).

This may change as I think about it more.

[lch]

Stryke11 said:
Syndicate (needs a modern remake IMHO).

I suppose you're talking about the original Bullfrog game, not the Syndicate Wars one. I loved that game. It was awesome. I made the big mistake of trying to play it again about a year ago. Don't do that, you'll only risk shattering your sweet memories of this awesome game...

[VedalkenBear]

For those who listed Alpha Centauri, are you referring to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, or the Brian Cranford one? (If anyone not related to me even KNOWS what I'm talking about, I'd be willing to give them money.)

Most addicting games I've played, in rough order:

WoW
Diablo II
Dominions X (where X = 2+)
FF Tactics
MULE (and many other classics)
Star Control II must be named...

I'm sure I could come up with others...

[Lingchih]

In relative order of favoriteness:

Dominions (2 or 3)
Alpha Centauri
Civilization 2
Galactic Civilizations 2
Master of Orion 2
Morrowind
World of Warcraft (an addiction I have since cured myself from, but man did I have fun for 1 1/2 years)
Baldur's Gate
Knights of the Old Republic
Oblivion

I wish Brian Reynolds would buy the rights to Alpha Centauri, and come out with a sequel. Man that was a great game.