Oh heck yeah, that Strike Series was a blast!
FO3
System Shock 2. I’ve probably beaten it 5 times.
Guild Wars, no monthly fee, and I’ve enjoyed hundreds of hours
Alpha Centauri, still the best of the Civ games, and the only one I still play
Oblivion, never have I sworn off a game then reinstalled it so often
Soul Calibur, played all of them to death, and SC4 online winning against smack-talking D00DZorZ is the best after-work stress relief
Baldur’s Gate, I think I’m going to name one of my kids Imoen.
Wait Wait Wait.
I skimmed this before, and thought nothing of it, other than:
Oh yeah, that chess-like game with the frosted flake shape changer piece. Great game.
But, now, I see Archon Ultra, below it?
You mean to tell me, they made a Sequel to the Chess game with the corn flake shape shifter in it ?!
I just realized I forgot to include the Shin Megami Tensei games! Nocturne is my favorite, but Persona 3 and 4 are everything a JRPG should be. The older games in the series and the other PS2 ones are pretty fun, but just didn’t give me the same sense of, “I am a savvy consumer!”
ETA-I notice yet another reference to Alpha Centauri, and while its a great game, I don’t get how people can put it ahead of the Civs. Explanations?
Valves Orange Box is, quite easily, the best value ever. For one $50 price tag(now $30), you get:
Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1, Half Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal.
30-40 hours of one of the best FPSs ever made, One of the greatest multiplayer games ever, and a rather short but brilliant(as in, serious contender for best game ever) puzzle/logic/adventure fps.
Other good buys for me… Crysis, Homeworld 1&2, Tie Fighter, Independence war 2.
Oops! You are entirely correct; I should have said AD&D. :smack:
I actually wasn’t allowed to touch the boxed set (belonging to my sister) after I accidently damaged the box. I think I sat on it (I don’t remember; I was pretty small). She had an older yellowing (it was probably once white) manual with a unicorn on the cover, which I always thought was the *original *DMG. Was this part of the original box set?
All the Civ games (ALL of them, including Alpha Centauri, Colonisation, and those other two Civilisation Games that weren’t made by Sid Meier but were still pretty fun all the same), all three Fallout games, Jagged Alliance 2 (which I still play), Deus Ex, and Railroad Tycoon 3, I’d have to say- all excellent games that have given me thousands of hours of pleasure.
I just realized I never got around to playing HL2 Episode 2. How is that possible?
Jagged Alliance 2. I bought it when it first came out in '99 and I still play it every so often, and it’s still a blast.
I did the same thing and disliked it. The controls are stale and I don’t like the pacing.
Portal is much better.
I loved the main game and Episode 1, though.
To each their own. I disliked it and still haven’t finished it. Stupid Mudskipper.
Heh. I thought the pacing was perfect… just the right mix of unhurried exploration and blinding terror.
There are a few games which would compete – as Close Combat and Baldur’s Gate for the PC, Forza Motorsport for the XBox – if it wasn’t for the Civ series, which I played very much from 1995 to 2005 (Civ IV didn’t do it for me, and haven’t gone back to Civ since playing that version some.)
I got no blinding terror, but I haven’t finished it either.
I tend to get really “into” games, which makes intense games scary and scary games terrifying. It’s most pronounced with FPSs, but occasionally it happens with totally non-scary games- Icewind Dale, for example (go figure).
In general, HL2 isn’t really a horror game, but there are horrifying parts- Ravenholm and the part in Episode 1 where the lights go out while you’re underground, in particular.
Warcraft 3 (and the expansion, The Frozen Throne). I own a PS3 with nearly thirty games, but you’ll still find me playing WC3 custom maps for a few hours a week. It’s hard to believe that game is almost seven years old.
For me it is **Sid Meyer’s Pirates **for PC, followed by WOW and Battlefield 1942.
I also, have to give props to Privateer and **Star Wars Rebellion **even though I can not get them to run on my current PC.