What is your Favorite Game?

[W.Barksdale]

Ultima Online mos def. I still remember my thief Seduction. She had to move around dungeons hidden since anyone who saw her already knew what I was up to. They immediately teleported out to save their magic weapons and reagents!

Good times!...

[Hobbes]

Just reading the first post again reminded me that Ultima IV was a game I had a lot of fun with. Back in the day I remember buying it from a small shop that specialised in computer games - any of those around now?

I didn't really know what I was buying but the cover looked good and I liked Dungeons and Dragons. I thought it was a great game, but didn't finish it for some reason and never bought another Ultima game. I think I must have found a woman or beer. I think it came with a felt map?



Cheers, Chris

[Nikel]

Thanks guys for the tips on Stars! I'll have to give it a go. Such a good game off the playing list because of technology advances. My computer is two years old in Feb 2010. I don't have a floppy disc drive!!! I'll go get one.

So the problem is that you have no floppy disk? The problem is not a 64 bits OS?


Is it not abandonware?


Some information to run it on several OS. It is supposed to work using dosbox

http://wiki.gible.net/index.php/Stars_vs_OS

http://wiki.gible.net/index.php/Downloads




It seems to work properly under dosbox running Win 3.1, as it is requesting a serial


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[tagwyn]

Yeah. Goes for me too. If Pocus likes it; its worth a try. apy:

[bigus]

Armed Assault 2! from Bohemia interactive......For FPS.

Second Manassas ............until Gettysburg comes out...

ACW till death do us part............ .....

[PANGI]

Armed Assault 2! from Bohemia interactive

Oh. I was playing Operation Flashpoint as a mad. Spent a lot of time with that game. Never finished campaign, but made whatever was possible or almost impossible in editor.

But play only demo of ArmA and ArmA2...

[Greybriar]

There are so many of my old favorite PC games mentioned in this thread that it truly is a trip down memory lane. I could have written a number of the posts myself.

I have to say that Master of Magic is my all-time favorite with the original Colonization being a close second. And a goodly number of other titles being close on their heels.

[Hobbes]

A few more I couldn't resist. Rebelstar Raiders and Laser Squad I played for ages. Laser Squad could be played as a two player game - must have been one of the first (I played with a friend in our lunch break - you could actually use sneaky tactics). Playing PC games at work seems to have died out The weird and annoying thing is that after this I missed out and never played X-COM.

Also a pic of one of the first wargames where the graphics were not too awful - SSI's Market Garden. And then the V for Victory series came along (but that was in my pub period).

There was also a great Star Trek game around this time but I can find no mention of it anywhere. A slightly older version of the Indiana Jones type adventure games. Anyone remember it?











Cheers, Chris

[Comtedemeighan]

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis an amazing game Hobbes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYkDgs3jqYk&feature=related

[Generalisimo]

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis an amazing game Hobbes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYkDgs3jqYk&feature=related

An awesome adventure... just like the Monkey Island 1 & 2...

[McNaughton]

The Star Trek Game was the 25th Anniversarry game, which was a really cool problem solving game (plus had a neat space battle aspect as well).

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/100

[Hobbes]

McNaughton thank you, that was it! It had a good Star Trek atmosphere as well I thought.

Chris

[luk3Z]

1. The Settlers I
2. SimCity I
3. Transport Tycoon Deluxe
4. Jagged Alliance DG
5. Europa Universalis II

[Taillebois]

Elite

[scott1964]

SC4
Master of Orion I and II
Capitalism and Capitalism Plus
Railroad Tycoon
Transport Tycoon and Deluxe
Darklands


EU 2

[Taillebois]

Well now that lots of people have owned up to playing games that were not historically accurate or even futuristically accurate, if such a thing exists, I'll get on to one of my rants about games.

AGEOD - Make a random scenario generator.

Sid Meier's Gettysburg had one.
Combat Mission had one.
Steel Panthers had one.

AACW and NCP are really attractive games but the limited number of scenarios cuts out part of your potential market.

I've been to Gettysburg, Waterloo, Flanders, Omaha, Bastogne, Cannae, Thermopylae, Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt, Dresden - and tried to imagine the HORROR.

But sometimes I just want to blow stuff up. For an hour or so.

So make it easy and fun.

[Hobbes]

I love Combat Mission and Steel Panthers. Also the Campaign Series. These tactical level games certainly benefit from random scenarios - but all they need is a random map and a balanced set of units. I'm surprised you would want to see this with the more strategic level games such as AGEOD produce.

You would certainly have to lose the more interesting events, even though you could still have the standard 'buy militia' type of thing.
No random map either. Not something I would care to play - but if there is a market for it I suppose it could be done.
In fact it would be pretty easy to do.

Cheers, Chris

[Taillebois]

Yes, I guess I'm in a minority of one so I'll stop.

I just bought another game called "Advanced Tactics" published by Matrix. It has a random generator but also a building production thing I don't like. So that's another fifty bucks gathering dust.

I actually gave up playing wargames over forty years ago (well pre computers) when the wargame clubs I went to as a 16 year old just seemed to be full of old men arguing about what was or was not "realistic". (Usually because their favourite tank got blown up). Now I am one of the old men so I'll shut up and fade away quietly.

[Hobbes]

Hi Taillebois, I read your reply and thought bloody hell - 40 years ago - before realising I at least started 35 years ago. Please don't fade away!

[Jim-NC]

That's why you have kids, so you can teach them to argue the finer points of some rules manual with a ton of loopholes. Then you don't have to worry about fading away. I have been playing wargames for over 20 years myself, and don't plan on fading anytime soon.

[Jorje Vidrio]

the Fallout series

and the original X-COM

[donaldbracy]

Video Game: COD: Modern Warfare/MW2
Board game: chess