# Gaming Dopers: What's Your Fix? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962 "2002-12-15T22:25:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/41 "2002-12-16T19:08:28Z")
In the past I’ve been hooked on Transport Tycoon, Caesar and (briefly) Theme Hospital; my current addiction is CivIII. Of course, I’ve got two boxes of older games that never even got loaded into the computer because I never had time to play them. ---
**Author:** ![Bullwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Bullwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/42 "2002-12-16T19:30:19Z")
Gotta’ love Doom2. I just got hooked on it again after a long hiatus. I’m trying to make it all the way through on the ‘Ultra Violence’ setting without using any cheats but I’m not having much success. Sometimes, when you’re facing a roomful of arachnotrons with a chainsaw, you just have to ‘IDDQD’. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/43 "2002-12-16T19:37:34Z")
Currently playing _Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura_ and will return to _Civ III_ when I’m done. I like RPGs and turn-based strategy games. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/44 "2002-12-16T19:52:54Z")
I play Neverwinter Nights, and when not online I play D&D (2nd ed.) I am in the middle of a large scale tabletop miniatures battle; my King is an ultroloth- my opponents are a cloud dragon, a titan, a marilith, and a deep dragon. Our next session is Friday. I’m still looking for NWN players for our online group; we have a private server, and 3 DMs so far. Email me if interested. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/45 "2002-12-16T20:08:29Z")
Currently playing **Shadowman 2 The Second Coming**. For the PS2 ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/46 "2002-12-16T20:10:34Z")
Um, Carcassone, Settlers of Catan, Magic: The Gathering… wait, not what you meant, right? D&D? oh… oh yeah, those… Final Fantasy, Rainbow 6/Rogue Spear/etc., starcraft, Oddworld… ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/47 "2002-12-16T20:11:32Z")
Civ III rules OK. _Championship Manager 2002_ is rather cool, also. But for my money nothing will ever beat the roguelikes. NetHack, Angband, Dungeon Crawl, ADoM…all killer, no filler. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/48 "2002-12-16T20:41:03Z")
I forgot to mention my 2 favorite games of all time: Homeworld and Homeworld:Cataclysm. HW2 is coming out soon I CAN’T WAIT!!! MY other fav games: Dune:Emporer, Total Annihilation (and expansions) and Tachyon:The Fringe. Has anyone out there played Earth and Beyond yet? I DLed teh demo and im going to check it out when I have time. (1.1 GB demo!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/49 "2002-12-16T20:59:02Z")
I also, from time to time, play Magic Online. I’m “Legomancer”. ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/50 "2002-12-16T21:48:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BraheSilver \* > \*\*… I’ll be running GTA3 with the Benny Hill theme playing for hours on end. 😃 \*\* Oh, gawd, that’s freaking hilarious! I never thought of putting comical songs in the MP3 directory. :smack: GTA3 and WarCraft III are my current favorites. ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/51 "2002-12-16T22:42:25Z")
I stick to Unreal Tournament, Close Combat 3 or 4 (yeah, I know it’s old) and I’ve been trying out OpenRPG to game online with some buddies from upstate NY. for face to face games, I like GURPS and Munchkin. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/52 "2002-12-16T23:05:34Z")
I’m not much of a computer gamer… though I do play my fair share of Heroes of Might and Magic IV and Civ III (and I want, oh so very badly, Age of Mythology for Christmas). I play in a couple of online RPGs though (one World of Darkness campaign, and 2 Amber campaigns at the moment, with a couple more Amber campaigns to come), and I have a monthly face to face RPG that I play (Aberrant). Given the choice of face to face, though, I’d play GURPS. If I could find anyone close enough by to run a GURPS game. (Since I have NO GM powers whatsoever.) ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/53 "2002-12-17T05:03:00Z")
LlamaPoet: Is AC2 any good? I’m thinking about it for Christmas. In the meantime, can anyone reccomend any good free online games with a web-shell interface… Kinda like Netropolis (you guys HAVE to try it). I’m not too sure the mods would like it if I posted links but it’s too much fun. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/54 "2002-12-17T09:13:18Z")
I play D2XP a good bit … okay, if there’s a day where I _don’t_ play at least two hours, then I’m either making a 7-hour drive or I’m home. My usual accounts are our\_specialchar, iampunhamfsorc, puhnazon (was very sleepy, I know, I misspelled it), iampunha and robpatbarbs. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962/55 "2002-12-17T15:22:19Z")
I like: Morrowind Medieval Total War, and the entire Rainbow Six series, try the Raven Shield demo, lots o’ fun. In fact, if anyone is interested in some online Raven Shielding, let me know when. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaming-dopers-whats-your-fix/142962.md?page=2)