As far from Baldur's Gate as it gets
So, I was taking a look through my GOG library last night, and came to a few realizations.
1) I've spent a lot of money buying games I haven't even played yet.
2) I need to stop spending money on games and never playing them.
3) I have no self control.
4) I have a much wider array of games than I initially thought.
Of course, a large portion of my collection are along the lines of RPGs in fantasy settings, like Wizardry 8, or the HoMM series, but I came to notice that I've actually got a good few games that aren't anywhere near that genre.
For example, the Unreal series. I absolutely love Unreal and Unreal 2 for both the gameplay, and the nostalgia of playing them as a 7-year-old on my ancient computer.
Or the Rayman games, which I bought during a recent sale. I'm a big fan of platformers when they're done right, and Rayman definitely falls under that category.
So, I thought I'd make a little thread where we can discuss and appreciate some of the great games that don't necessarily have anything in common with BG, or fantasy in general. I mean, who doesn't love blasting aliens to pieces with a rocket launcher every now and then?
1) I've spent a lot of money buying games I haven't even played yet.
2) I need to stop spending money on games and never playing them.
3) I have no self control.
4) I have a much wider array of games than I initially thought.
Of course, a large portion of my collection are along the lines of RPGs in fantasy settings, like Wizardry 8, or the HoMM series, but I came to notice that I've actually got a good few games that aren't anywhere near that genre.
For example, the Unreal series. I absolutely love Unreal and Unreal 2 for both the gameplay, and the nostalgia of playing them as a 7-year-old on my ancient computer.
Or the Rayman games, which I bought during a recent sale. I'm a big fan of platformers when they're done right, and Rayman definitely falls under that category.
So, I thought I'd make a little thread where we can discuss and appreciate some of the great games that don't necessarily have anything in common with BG, or fantasy in general. I mean, who doesn't love blasting aliens to pieces with a rocket launcher every now and then?
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Best Metal game. Best music game. And on top of all, best roadie game!
I have pleased the metal gods!
I haven't hear of Faeria, but I do like a good card game here and there. Might have to check that one out.
As for Doom, it's been on my "to play" list for a while now. Classic shooters like that are always a fun way to waste away a couple hours.
I also have a terrible habit of buying computer games and not playing them. I mean there are many reasons for this, one of them being that hope springs eternal.
I also have a strange love for dark and weird adventure games. Games like Year walk, Fran Bow, The Cat Lady and I have no mouth and I must scream. Especially the last two got some really dark stuff but/and are well worth playing.
I do love to blast some aliens or zombies now and then too. But since I mostly play on console or my laptop fps games are really tricky.
I want to play them, but I just never have the time.
And I feel guilty for playing and not working..
But I sometimes play coop Paydyay2.
Every now and then something comes along to steal my interest, like when I found Trine 2 in a campaign. Excellent puzzle-action platform game, not at all my regular forte but so well made I played the entire game. Can highly recommend it.
The relaunch of the X-com series was one of the best game of the decade, if you ask me. It had so much of the original, so much of the feeling, and then added on even more. Too bad the second installment wasn't as good IMHO.
I've played a lot of Doom 2 in my day, mostly MP. Second only to CS (the orginal, not source or latter versions), I rank the MP games of Doom2 as the best MP frag sessions I have ever had. The speed might have been higher on Unreal Tournament, but the intensity of those session was immense. Not seldom we played for so long the frag numbers reset back to 00, just one-on-one using a cable between two old 486s PCs with 14' monitors, hehe..
Fallout games are close to my heart as well of course. They are both well worth a playthrough if you ask me. For a long time I even held FO2 higher than both BG1 and 2 (yeah, yeah.. heresy, I know
Another category of games I miss, but don't think I will ever play again, are; "point and click" games like monkey island etc. I loved those games, but I actually think I would think they are too slow now since my patience grows thinner in the same pace as my hair. Sam & Max and Full Throttle are other games that fall into (somewhat) the same category. Same with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis etc. Great games of their age. With all the EEs for Ipads etc I reckon there should be a market for these kind of games. I've seen new versions of Monkey Island but I don't know if these other games have had remakes or EEs for pads yet.
Now this got me thinking of something really old, playing Captain Keen at my friends house. If I recall correctly there is also an old easter egg in Doom 2 where you can shoot a Capt. Keen sprite.
Also, Ages of Empires 3, Age of Mythology, Majesty and Star Wars: Empire At War. Currently I only have SW:EaW installed since AoM doesn't even work anymore on 64 bits and my computer doesn't even have a dvd reader to install AoE3 lol.
I'm sorry gang.
Yep, Doom was pretty fun when it was first released. Nothing else lately. Got time for school n BG, thats about it.
I stopped playing computers much after the ol Amiga was to hard to keep up with technology and blew a gasket.
Back now, and on a PC of all things, after the Mac did not get the fastest updates(at the time)
I missed out on the Age of Empires games when they were new, but I have 2 and 3 now, and really need to make time for them.
And Age of Mythology, which I had owned before but never finished.
I recently started playing the Heroes Chronicles games, which are basically spinoffs of Heroes of Might & Magic III. Each game is just a campaign, no single scenarios, no map creation or anything like that, so they're fairly short. Although still pretty fantasy-ish, I'm really enjoying them. The difficulty is a little toned down compared to HoMM3, as far as I can tell, but still a really entertaining experience thus far.
Let's hope I can keep this trend going and play some of my other GOG games.
Korean military school probably makes Starcraft mandatory for their trainees.
I love grand strategy games and I just got into Europa Universalis IV and I'm hooked. Nothing against Civ, I love the franchise, but if you want to learn history in a game, this is the one to play. Finally finished my first ironman game. Started as Florence, formed Tuscany, unified Italy after relieving the Pope of Rome, and colonized South America. Then I dismembered France, "liberated" Hungary, and conquered the Ottoman Empire, leaving them isolated in Australia... Italy finally took its rightful place as the most dominant nation in the world!
Of relatively later releases, I very much like King's Bounty series (a must for any HoMM fan) and Sins of Solar Empire. The latter for some reason reminds me of Earth 2150, particularly when comparing Advent and Lunar Corporation races, respectively - there's a certain charm in playing a "feminine" faction with eerie soundtrack. A shame that House Ordos units in Emperor: Battle for Dune have male voices