two rpg type games that you can check out first before buying this first one is more old school called "Eschalon book I" by Basilisk games web site here http://basiliskgames.com/ the second game can be played online multiplayer or single player off line is called "Minions of Mirth" by prairie games found here http://minions.prairiegames.com/trac/mom. If you like puzzle games here is one with a story line called" puzzle quest challenge of the warlords" by the publisher www.d3publisher.us PC version can be hard to find.AS of late for my stategy turn based gaming stardock has been getting my money

GalCiv 2 and Sins of a Solar Empire, of course!

Pretty much anything made by Valve as well. Portal is great, although a centralized place for custom map ratings is hard to find . I've also got all of the Command & Conquer games, as well as the entire Myst series, although Myst can be too much of a thinking game for some people.

Civ games also are high on my list, as well as Homeworld and Homeworld 2. I like strategy and puzzle games.

I'm back after enjoying my lazy long weekend!

I finished the campaign for Gallactic Assault which was brilliant. After that i tried the scinarios but I did not particularly like those.

The deathmatches are a bit 'live and let die'... as in there is no time or resources for playing around with strategy and experimentation - you just get to run over and kill them or be killed yourself. After a few rounds of that, i got bored with it.

Final Verdict - No customizable single player games in Gallactic Assault, so once your done with the campaign that is the end of it, the game is of no further use!


I have read through all the interesting posts, there is allot to consider! I will comment as i get time.

General Homsar -

So your a Galciv fan? Tried Sins of the Solar Empire yet? I got a spam email from Stardock on that game, i looked at it but it does not seem to give a very detailed run down on what the game is. So based on the limited information Stardock has released on it, i will be reluctant to buy it.

What is "Shadow of the Colossus" ?

Droom1 -

Probably not my thing. Although i never played Doom1. Is it anything like Quake1?

I am not really into shooting games because i already have Unreal Tournament, nothing further is needed!

It is easy to understand what adventure games i will like... there are just two things it needs;

1)team campaign. Going on an adventure with your freind (or in my case wife) at your side, makes the game 100x more fun. I won't bother with an adventure game that does not have this feature,,, possibly why i have never bothered playing Doom1?

2)Not having to buy the game twice to play it with my wife at home, PURE GENIOUS!

I will tip my hat to Quake1, Dungeonsiege 2 and Lionheart for quallifying on these two points!

Jythier -
I havn't heard of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'?

Lords of the Realm 2 i found to be quite addictive for a relatively primative game. I also bought Lords of the Realm 3 but i never played it, i just looked at it and thought "wtf is this??" uninstalled it and forgot about it.

I hate Sim City or any other such games that let you do all that work building an empire and then do not give you an army to go and kill stuff!!!

thelordofruins -

I am thinking of getting sins of the solar empire.

Also i had condidered getting supreme commander. I looked at it in the shop but for some reason i did not buy it. Perhaps because i was already occupied with another game at home, i dunno?

Can i ask, does Supreme commander allow a LAN game between two computers with the 1 game disk?

And you've been playing games for what, 4 years?

SIN? Are you serious? Even Portal is something of a joke. It was a good game, but it wasn't epic in any way, shape, or form. It was about as fulfilling as a really good flash game. Certainly praiseworthy, I suppose, but it has no business being considered one of the 'best games'.

That said, if you haven't played at least half of these games, you're pathetic and have no business calling yourself a gamer.

Oh yeah, and Dark Reign. Not Dark Reign 2 that was crap. Its an old RTS made by activision that seriously, if you ever played it, so much better than C&C, TA, or Age of Empires. The game had real story and atmosphere to it, and it was one of the few games that had a seriously awesome game manual they put alot of detail into. It didnt get to big because for some reason activision didnt put alot of advertisement money into it, but anyone I know that played it absolutely loved it. For the time of course. If you can find a copy I say get it just to have it. its a gem.


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http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/darkreign/index.html?tag=result;title;1

go there. look at screenshots. they're oozing with atmosphere! 9.2 review, great review too. too bad activision went down the shitter awhile ago and hasnt made any good games.

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I just realized Dark Reign laid the groundwork to some of your favorite RTS features, such as production queing and rally points. Bet ya didnt know that? Pay homeage to your ancestors and respect this little known game that advanced the series more than your know!!!

Gaaaah forgot all about that one. I KNEW it, because I was playing through it again recently, but I'll be damned if I could remember it (and I was too lazy to go grab my external hard drive and look). Fie on me.

Therefore, I give you V:TM:B, and another classic great. Sadly, it's not too playable, unless someone's finally fixed the massive engine bugs with XP in it.






And if it should be mentioned / asked, of the isometric RPG games (Baldur's Gate, Fallout), if you only have time to play one, play Planescape. It's by far and large the best of any of them, and I daresay it may be one of the best games ever made. Were I to chose the second best game, it'd be a close tie with Deus Ex. Both these games have an utterly, ridiculously, incomprehensibly awesome story driving them, with near-flawless presentation and gameplay.

One of my biggest pet-peeves is when people talk about the 'best games' and mention NEW games. Frankly, and I'll have to examine my list, I think no one has ANY business calling a game one of the best without letting it mature. There are certain games I think in the future may be amongst them, but there's too much 'newness' to them. People get starry-eyed by a game and call it great. Well great it may be, but it's the LASTING IMPRESSION of a game that determines its greatness. 8 years after Deus Ex, I still have it on my hard drive. Will I be playing The Witcher? That remains to be seen.

Then there's games like Starcraft, which I left absent from my lists. Why? Because Starcraft was, frankly, not a great game. Starcraft is POPULAR, but it is not GREAT. Likewise, rap music is popular, but great music it is NOT. Nobody I've ever met will argue that the talent (if you can call it that) behind Nelly is comparable at all to the talent behind Van Halen, or any other 'legendary' band. Starcraft was popular for a lot of reasons, a great many of which had nothing to do with the quality of the game itself. Custom Map Rules and Battle.Net alone contributed to most of its initial growth. Starcraft has reached a status similar to Super Mario Bros. - The game might be 'pretty good', but when people talk about it, there's external influences on it. Super Mario Bros. is considered a 'great game', because... why? Because for people of my generation, it was one of the first games they ever played. Does that make it a great game? No, it doesn't. Likewise, a great many people say Starcraft is great, and therefore people are more inclined to think so too. Starcraft did VERY LITTLE to improve the RTS genre. In fact, technologically and creatively, it was utterly outmatched both the year prior and after by Total Annihilation (for technology and innovation) and Homeworld (for story and gameplay) respectively.

uranium, i'd throw in a few others certainly.

full throttle, monkey island 1-3, severance: blade of darkness, anachronox, psychonauts, the longest journey, dreamfall, icewind dale 1 and 2 (iwd2 is my favourite infinity engine game after planescape. i loved the villains), startopia... well and a fuckload of others.

thief, thief, thief. garrett for the epic, unadulterated win.

hell, stuff like eye of the beholder, another world, flashback, chaos overlords, simon the sorcerer 1 and 2, whatever. hard to get a hold off, short of torrents, but so very worth it.

definitely quake 1. the music by nine inch nails is worth it on its own.

also, fuck you, portal rocks. a game is entertainment. portal is entertaining to the max. to the max, i say, whot whot.

also, team fortress 2.

Starcraft's campaign was mind-numbing to me. It was just "Huge AI base. Kill it" over and over. Build your base. Blow up zerg. Repeat.

Hell even Command and Conquer which came out like 4 years prior had creative missions, and damn that game was HARD. "Here's a commando, and engineer, and two rocket troops. Go steal nukes."

Nah, man, remember the infiltration missions? The freaking sweet science vessel Amerigo. The following cut scene was so badass for its time. There were plenty more. Besides the characters and the pretty neat storyline made the pitched battle missions bearable.

oh and combat mission - which i have not had a chance to play much yet