Games you love! (not necessarely linux games)

ats007spdou · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 97

Railroad tycoon. I've had the worst withdrawal symptom when I HAD to stop playing it :sigh: .

Shotpiece · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 248

how many hours of my life have been wasted playing civ2? starcraft? I think i lost a whole summer when neverwinter came out. Hitman2 had me hooked for a long time, but i dont think anything can truely compare to:

Rogue, The Dungeons of Doom

lagitus · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 17

Freespace 2
Battlezone 1
Transport Tycoon
Outcast
Starcraft
Warcraft III
Dune 2

karr · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

Mordor Depths of Dejenol
X-com 1
Castle of the Winds 1+2
Fanal Fantasy 2+3 (4+6)
Baulders Gate 1

Classics mostly.

dmartin · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 5:14 am Post subject:

Best game of all time, so far ahead of its time -Starflight. Coming in a close second, the game I've logged over a year of actual playing time (no, really, a full 365+ days of clock time IN the game) - Everquest. Sad, I wish I could have that time back, but boy was it fun while it lasted.

After that, my list of best games over the past 25 years, in the order I remember them:
Bards Tale (so simple, yet so entertaining, true story-telling in a game)
Kings Quest (all of them - nothing like having a pixelated RGB witch come along in a crazy car and you still jump out of your seat)
Maniac Mansion (another seat jumper)
Test Drive (I and II)
X-Wing
Doom
Quake
Coimmand and Conquer
Civilization
Unreal Tournament

Neko Improbability Engine · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 11

I'm a major retro-gamer myself. My favourites:

Megaman (X3 and Rockman and Forte are my favourites)
Wing Commander (WC1 or WC2 mostly, but they're all excellent)
Legend of Zelda (pre-N64 ones, plus Oracles)
Diablo 2 (too damn addictive...remember the name Shadow Weaver, we'll give you something that will go even beyond it one day)
Final Fantasy (up to and including

Descent (2 rocked...why must they have killed 4?)
Ragnarok Online (if only there was such a thing as a GOOD, LARGE private server...I've long since quit due to that, and haven't played on Gravity's servers in years)
Various NES, SNES, and GBA RPGs

Sadly there is NOTHING new on that list, really. My favourite new games are the Megaman Zero and Megaman Battle Network series. I play a bit of UT 2004, but meh. I'm not big on shooters.

I'm looking for something good, free, and massively multiplayer, if such a thing exists. If not, I'll go start on that.

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ruyn · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 34

XBill

adam.skinner · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2004 Posts: 19

Games I've played seriously over the past 10 years or so:

mudding (addicted from 94-97)
Everquest (transferred addiction from mudding, burned out after dying in Sol A one day)
Dark Age of Camelot (Beta tested, name listed in the manual)
ZAngband (especially ZAngbandTK, now very scarce to find)
Unreal Tournament (perhaps the first FPS I got my wife to play and enjoy with me)
Global Operations (best gameplay ever, crappy netcode and now dead community)
Battlefield 1942 (played since day 1 of demo and only stopped when I killed XP on my box)

Games I play now:
Enemy Territory (I suck)
Americas Army (I suck)
[and when I get it working under Cedega properly] BF1942/BF:V (I kick ass)

e2k · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 44

SkyRoads, no question about it.

Sader · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Kazakhstan

System Shock2 RULES !
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jokr2thief · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 40 Location: New York

Archangel1 · Veteran Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 1212 Location: Work

Diablo 1 & 2, Divine Divinity, Lemmings, Warcraft 3, Star Control 2, One Must Fall, Star Saga, Raptor, Tyrian, Starcraft, Alpha Centauri, Freespace 2, X-Com series, Quest for Glory, Crusader, Syndicate, Doom (original), Dune 2, Deus Ex....

I'm interested that the average age of that list is about 1998. Personally I don't feel the gaming industry is advancing anywhere - there's so much less innovation. It's too dangerous, it's easier just to make a mediocre FPS (and most of them ARE mediocre, where Doom was transcendental).

Sader · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Kazakhstan

Agree with Archangel1.

In my opinion game should be interesting to play and this is not always just excellent graphic effects and stuff.

Fist person Game should have an idea, scenario(not just shoot everything you see around). It should make you realize that you're not just looking at the monitor at home or elswhere, but YOU are actually the person iside this GAME.
Recent FPS games are losing grip, you know.

Also like games where it is up to you what to do & where to go now, and that is actually the reason I'm playing Morrowind 3 now(although I actually bought it 3 years ago)....
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woodworker · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject:

StarTrek: Birth of the Federation
Simcity 1- 4
Settlers 2

these are my favorite games

Wi1d · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:06 am Post subject:

Civ{II,III,PTW,Conquest}, Totalwar series, and gnuchess/xboard

Lyonnais · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 1

spectrum : Elite, Lords of midnight

wdoze : Heroes of might and magic ( all ), Might and Magic VI, divine divinity, lands of lore
day of the tentacle, worms, tetris clones,
and a really really good freeware :
Vertrix 2 ( http://clusters.cjb.net/ ). One of the best arcade game to play against a friend. Awesome graphics, music and gameplay. It's a drug

Linux :
Mah-jong, LMarbles,Pachi, Njam, XScrabble, liquidWar, enigma, foobillard, vegastrike,....
Lots of good little games in portage tree.

jkbullfrog · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Seattle Area

My favs:

Under Dos & Doze
Birth of the Federation
Cyberstorm 2 Corporate Wars
Sim City 2 (Had stable city with 7% taxes, then aliens destroyed my nuclear power plant

)
The original Axis and Allies from Hasbro
Starcraft and Broodwar
Warcraft 3 and Frozen Thrown
Descent 2 (god I miss playing online with this one)
Rogue
Zeliard

Under Linux
Sokoban (text version I played @ UofW in 1995)
Rogue
Tux Racer

PS2
Medal of Honor Frontline
Medal of Honor Rising Sun
Tenchu Wrath of Heaven
James Bond Nightfire
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 (and 3 except for Suberbia level)
Sphinx

NES (Still have one)
Mario
Mario 3
Legend of Zelda Beat it again last year

)

SNES (Wish I still had it)
Mario World
NHL Hocky
Donky Kong Country

Sader · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Kazakhstan

Well, I'm not an up to date player...cause I may discover game after 5 years it has been released.
I'm playing Neverwinter Nights now...and it is AMAZING !

Also looks like today many programmers or game publishers keep on forgetting to include appropriate Scenario in the game, apart from Amazing graphix or else....

Cheers !
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MdaG · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:47 am Post subject:

kerikb · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Posts: 37 Location: Norway

Amiga:
Wings
Megalomania
Zak McKracken
Monkey Island Series

PC:
Neverwinter Nights
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Enemy Territory
Populous
Operation Flashpoint

Loved all of these games, and I spent an unhealthy amount of time playing them.

Darkael · Veteran Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 1321 Location: France

Too many games, it's so hard to choose my favorite ones...

Random favorite list:
Monkey Island 1 & 2, Morrowind, Ultima VII, Ultima Online, Final Fantasy 6, System Shock 1&2, Day of the tentacle, Enemy Territory, ...

LordBug · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 88

Oh where to begin?

Lessee.... Bard's Tale 1-3, Fallout, Dungeon Keeper, Super Mario 1-World, Castlevania - Symphony of the Night, Zelda - Link to the Past, Tetris, Doom 1-3, Wing Commander 1-4, Metroid, Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, World of Warcraft, all LucasArts adventure games, Roadkill (Amiga), Dragon's Lair (Amiga version), Nuclear War (Amiga), Heavy Barrel (arcade), Metal Slug (arcade), everything from Blizzard, and others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

elvis_a_presley · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:15 am Post subject:

I'm currently trying to get through Super Mario World (aka "Mario 4") on SNES again. That game still rocks. So far I'm at 68 of 99 levels completed. The special zone is so much harder than I remember!

Also on SNES was "Legend of Gaia". Possibly the only RPG I could ever get the hang of, and enjoyed thoroughly.

And then of course there's my MAME cabinet....

pmatos · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:35 pm Post subject:

I miss Sonics under Sega Mega Drive...

But I thing the game I played the most was C&C Red Alert or Sega Mega Drive Desert Strike!

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DaGr8Gatzby · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 40

ShadowRun for genesis is one of my favorites.
Friday the 13th. It's kinda masochistic. I still can't beat it and yet, it's stragely addictive in it's difficulty.

Under Linux I prefer Quake 3 Arena, Cube. Ah well...I'm kinda boring. Still lookin g for a linux tribes 2 CD.