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    Default Your favorite PC game ever.

    Simple: post what you consider your favorite PC game ever and list your reasons. If you have a hard time thinking something up, a good way to judge is how often did you play the game? Were you good at it? Did it challenge you? Did it have a satisfactory ending in its story line? Did you like the online community? Did it have good replay value?

    For me personally, I'd probably have to go with Empire Earth. The game is dated now, but out of all the games I've ever played it probably kept me occupied the longest amount of time, I played almost nothing but EE and its expansion for an entire year. In fact, I DIDN'T play anything but EE and its expansion for an entire year. In this game I feel I can honestly say I had a large amount of skill, in the last single player campaign the online community was hard-pressed to discover an easy way to beat it (especially the last level) and after playing multiplayer for a bit I beat the entire thing with relative ease. I won at the very least a 2:1 ratio online against a fairly small community, and I played it constantly. I have not yet had any such experience with any other game and I doubt I ever will again.

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    What I was best at and played the most was:

    Heroes of Might and Magic 3
    Grand Theft Auto (the first one)
    Quake
    Shogun: Total War (+MI)
    America's Army
    Enemy Engaged Comanche Vs Hokum
    Alien Vs Predator (I&II)
    Operation Flashpoint
    Morrowind (+expansions)


    All these games shared the factor that it didn't get old or boring. It always develops, whether it is in SP or MP. Obviously quake didnt change much in SP but in MP it was what I played most on LAN parties back in the day.
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    DOOM

    It was the first game i ever played and remember playing it for months when i first got it. It was even more fun when the PS version came out and I could play a link up game with a friend.

    Can't wait till my copy of DOOM3 comes out

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    I played star wars supremacy for ever when it came out. I think it really got me into strategy games. I was so dissapointed they never followed it up.

    And then Shogun came out....and the rest they say is history...
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    UFO Enemy Unknown (X-com) is my fave game ever! Good story, good guns, good aliens, good music, good FUN!!!

    does anyone know how to get it to run on XP?? is it even possible??
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    Default Re: Your favorite PC game ever.

    Sid Meier's Pirates!

    I played it forever on my Amiga 500 and then occasionally
    on other machines using emulators.
    Can't wait till it comes again for PC at the end of the year.
    The story/ gameplay is fantastic. You could sail the Caribbian for hours and days. Naval combat, fencing, governors daughters, the Silver Train, evil Spaniards hunting you. All the stuff from great pirate movies.

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    Default Re: Your favorite PC game ever.

    BG2 - definitely one of the best RPGs I ever played - epic story, memorable NPCs, polished D&D game system

    HOMM 3 - the epitome of the "one-more-turn" syndrome IMO - easy to learn game mechanics but still challenging with lots of replay value to do the variety of factions and lots of downloadable maps; great combination of strategic map and tactical battl ... too bad that HOMM 4 did not live up to it (I keep my fingers crossed for HOMM 5)

    Tie Fighter - excellent space combat game with great mission design, good variety of spacecrafts, very good Star Wars feeling ... I still play it from time to time (nothing beats flying Ties for the Empire)

    KOTOR - great RPG, fantastic use of the Star Wars license (better than the new movies)

    M:TW/S:TW - no praise necessary here - I just like to point out that this is the only game for which I actually joined a gaming forum (!)

    Some older games that I do not play anymore due to their age but which I played until my eyes turned red when they were up-to-date:
    - Bard's Tale
    - Dungeonmaster
    - Star Wars: Rebellion (although some potential had been wasted there)
    - Star Wars: Dark Forces
    - Doom
    - Eye of the Beholder
    - Fantasy General

    And of course I am sure I missed a couple of my favourites

    Edited to add some more details.
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    Quote Originally Posted by King Edward
    UFO Enemy Unknown (X-com) is my fave game ever! Good story, good guns, good aliens, good music, good FUN!!!

    does anyone know how to get it to run on XP?? is it even possible??
    Yeah, I got it to work. But you need a recent version, not the original - I downloaded one from the Gamer's Lounge; there's probably been a recent commercial release (eg in a compilation). IIRc, there were some other twists - a google search should throw them up; re-post if you oursue this & get stuck.

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    I don't have one yet. That's my reason.
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    The game that took over my life the most was gabriel knight 3
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    I really liked the idea of Rebellion, but the system is really convoluted. I wish I knew how to play well! I always sputter out of resources midway through. Being able to build Super Star Destroyers though...that was cool. Is anyone here good at Rebellion that could help me?
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    I too love Star Wars:Rebellion, although I always won battles thru superior forces, not tactics. Not very good at that in 3d space. Any tips would be appreciated. Defenately in my top 10. I also love the TWs(all for now), Deus Ex, and HoI. What difficulty did you play(for rebellion)? I never had resources problems, though that was on easy. I tended to use an agressive program of exploration and colonization in the outter rim. And base ur probes off starships that u move from sector to sector, but be sure to scout the planet you plan to orbit ur ship around b4 moving. Wouldn't want to have ur lone starship wander into the jaws of a powerful enemy force, would you?

    Edit:I once found a moder for it called RebEd. I used it to give the imps acess to the bulk freighter which really speeded up the colonization process. Another good tactic to do is to rush sabotage all the constrction yards yu have no plans for controlling.
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