fav game? [Archive]

and another thing....

01-17-2003, 23:25

Favourite rts = MTW. (What else comes close)

Favourite FPS - MOH (couldn`t understand the fuss about half life etc, and can relate more to WW2 that shooting aliens et al).

Favourite other: Champ Manager 01/02 (where do all the nights/weekends go - if only I got paid in real life what my talents obviously deserve when leading teams to complete triumph in this game)

Good question this http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

Knight_Yellow

01-17-2003, 23:31

yip its only been up for a little while and its alrdy raking in the posts

keep them cumming

Acronym

01-17-2003, 23:47

Don't have one fav, so here's my list...

MTW - no explanation needed

Delta Force Land Warrior - HUGE outdoor environments, graphics aren't good but loads of cool weapons and kick a$$ gameplay.

Ghost Recon - graphics, sound, realism, very hard, what's not to like.

Total Annihilation - probably the first RTS game to have HUGE armies, tons of diff unit and building types, 3d models, awsome graphics, best gameplay, etc. One of the most addicting games ever

Mr. Juice

01-17-2003, 23:52

Arrrr How could I forget about Xenogears, pre-Trammel UO, and Counter Strike???

To whoever said they liked DAoC, I guess we all can't have good tastes in videogames... =P

Knight_Yellow

01-17-2003, 23:54

well before the total war series my fav strat game was simply dark colony

the intro was exceptionaly well done.

the sounds of the marines firing and dying and cursing was simply insparational.

not to mention the graphics ahhh not great nowdays but back then it was my own rome total war.

The Great Dane

01-17-2003, 23:55

Yeah - nice with a question that brings back wonderful memories.

I´m 34 years and have been playing since ´83 when I started out on a Spectrum 16K http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif
Imagine fuc.... 16K and I thought it could not get any better http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

Well here´s my 20 all-time greatest i no specific order:

1) No one lives forever (PC)
2) Medal of honour (PC)
3) Carrier Command (Amiga) 1987
4) UFO Enemy unknown (PC) 1994
5) Close Combat 2 - 4 - 5 (PC)
6) Max Payne (PC)
7) Grand Theft Auto 3 (PC)
8) Total Annihilation (PC) (can´t spell the darn title)
9) Sherlock (Spectrum) 1985
10) Lords of Midnight (Spectrum) 1984
11) Gettisburg (PC) 1995. SHOGUNS source of inspiration
12) TW Medieval
13) Turbo Esprit (Spectrum)1985
14) Vulcan (Amiga) 1987
15) Mafia (pc)
16) Desert Rats (Spectrum)1986
17) Escape from Colditz Castle (Amiga)
18) Half Life (pc) 1998
19) Desert Strike (Amiga)
20) Roller Coaster Tycoon (PC)

Thanx to the designers who made it possible

Basileus

01-18-2003, 00:28

got a few..

Civ 1&2
Total War
Morrowind
Moto GP
Age of Epires
Warcraft 3

ive like dalot more but this ones ive played alot..:)

Knight_Yellow

01-18-2003, 00:36

realy i thought warcraft 3 was a big dissapointment its just warcraft 2 in 3d with a rpg heroe thing witch is gay cos if he dies u lose.

Marco

01-18-2003, 00:52

It has to be this, MTW. No game before has got me playing into the wee hours of the morning every night for the last 3 or 4 months.

Before then it was Civ 2 and EU 1 but these dont appeal to me anymore.

Gazza the Lionheart

01-18-2003, 01:05

I,ve got a few

-MTW
-Jedi Knight 2
-Mechwarrior 4 plus all the expansions
-Starlancer
-Diablo 2
-Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
-Star Wars Rebellion
-Starcraft
-Imperium Galactica 2
-Homeworld

Dr_Who

01-18-2003, 01:52

Mine is Outlaws.

Shahed

01-18-2003, 02:02

All time favorites:

*Ports of Call (Commodore AMIGA)
Awesome shipping/trading game

*Wings (Commodore AMIGA)
Great WW1 RPG

*Falcon series
Fantastic Flight Sim

*Red Storm Rising (Commodore 64/128)
Superb submarine sim

*Silent Service (Commodore 64/128)
Another great submarine sim

*Intruder (Commodore 64/128)
Flight Sim over Vietnam, VERY realistic

*MTW http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

*STW http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

*Soldier of Fortune 2
Great FUN FPS

*Sub Command
Surreal depth & realism

*Operation Flashpoint series
Very realistic FPS (except for the multi tasking abilities of soldiers who seem to know everything from driving a tank and flying planes)

*Tropico
one of the must fun games out there. Rule your own Caribbean Island, great gameplay and those salsa rythms keep you hooked just listening to the ingame music.

*Civ series

Probable future favorites:

Rome Total War
IL-2
WW2 RTS

Acronym

01-18-2003, 02:05

oops, forgot to mention...

Halo - if you've played it you know what I'm talking about

gettysburg - next best thing to total war series

Foreign Devil

01-18-2003, 03:28

Warcraft 3 was a mild disapointment to me, even though I've never played any of the others. I still say starcraft was far better.

As for my favorite game..... hmmm.... I'd have to say Rome: Total War http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Seriously, though, that intro clip and all the screen shots so far make me drool.....

Knight_Yellow

01-18-2003, 03:31

yeah i first saw starcraft at a mates house and was blown away by it.

Xicote

01-18-2003, 03:41

Quote[/b] ]Realy I thought warcraft 3 was a big dissapointment

Heh. I bought Warcraft just a couple of days ago and I absolutely love it. I've really been enjoying the Undead campaign, it's great.

A couple of people mentioned the Delta Force series. Gotta agree there. Especailly Land Warrior, played that for about a year.

Knight_Yellow

01-18-2003, 03:50

oh ok since every1 is now saying their top 10 heres mine in order:

1: max payne (graphics)
2: TW series (tactical)
3: sudden strike series (just damn cool)
4: operation flash point series (massive maps)
5: dark colony (sheer gameplay)
6: ut2003 (graphics)
7: gta 3 (i get to steal cars)
8: battlefield 1942 (i get to sniper ppl)
9: starcraft series (terran marines)
10: Age of empires series (played these for years)

there u go plus some of my main reasons for choosing them.

Gaius Julius

01-18-2003, 04:36

Here's some of my favs.:

- MTW
- GTA 3
- F1 2002
- Fifa'99, etc.
- World Superbike 2000
- Deus Ex
- Max Payne
- Sim City
- AOE

Acronym

01-18-2003, 04:57

Heh. I bought Warcraft just a couple of days ago and I absolutely love it. I've really been enjoying the Undead campaign, it's great.

Trust me you'll get over it within a month. The story is good, so are the campaigns, but once you beat that it's the same ol' crap over and over. An RTS game with a food cap of 90???? They needed way more role playing elements to make it good.

Efrem Da King

01-18-2003, 07:03

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time has got to be my all time fav. Even though I susk so bad i had to get someone else to get me into a nadult http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif and then got stuck immediatly afterwards http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif
Though I was 7 at the time so I got an excuse.
P.S I sincerly apologize to all 7 year olds who were offended by these comments. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Knight_Yellow

01-18-2003, 07:21

acronym about ur pic

im bettin bush is smart and hes just playin the dumbass cos the sheer ramifications of wat would happen if hes not r too scary to think about.......

*restocks the tuna in his bomb shelter*

Gregoshi

01-18-2003, 08:56

Good question. Here are some off the top of my head:

The Seven Cities of Gold (C64) Awesome exploration of the New World

Ultima III (C64) The first RPG/Adventure game I ever finished.

Kennedy Approach (C64) An air traffic controller game that makes you understand why it is such a high pressure job.

Olympic Games (C64) Spent many a night with friends going for the Gold

Elite (C64) Make your fortune in space as a pirate, trader, miner, bounty hunter, etc. Thousands of items across thousands of star systems.

Ports of Call (Amiga) Thanks SeljukSinan for reminding me of this one.

Railroad Tycoon (Amiga) Great railroad empire building. Like having a huge model railroad set.

Starcraft/Brood War (PC) Engrossing story line and different tactics needed for each race. MP was too much of a click-fest fraught with hacks and cheats.

NASCAR Racing 3 (PC) Hey, I love racing.

STW/MTW (PC) No explanation needed.

If the list is top heavy on C64 games it is only because I had much more time to play games back then. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

The Great Dane

01-18-2003, 11:59

Hey Gregoshi

Nice to see, that there are guys here who has been around the gameing block http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

I recon we´re not that many past 30 years, but it´s extremely funny to read that someone can actually remember Kennedy Approach and Ports of Call.
The last one was a classic of mine, which I had completely forgotten even thougt I was locked up in my room for several weeks fighting to create a surplus on shipping
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Shahed

01-18-2003, 16:30

Wow it's such a great feeling talking about those old games. I miss Ports of Call so badly. I loved when I had my shipping empire going. Those runs from Houston to Jebel Dhannah (or however it's written in English). Those runs from Vancouver to Karachi. I was living in Karachi at the time and once I started to play that game, I went down to the ports and man did I see things differently now. Having lived a stone's throw from the Arabian Sea, i could alwasy see those huge freighters sailing off to Vancouver. Gosh that was something. I still remember the sealine at night, silouhettes sailing ghostly into the darkness.

Greg thanks so much for reminding me of ELITE & KENNEDY APPROACH. WOW I loved those games too. ELITE was something else in it's simplicity and depth. The graphics were so basic yet the game still has so much to offer even today a lot of games fail to achieve any level of depth. Nostalgia stikes, and it feels kinda good.

OLYMPIC GAMES God i loved that game too. Thx for the reminder on that too. Spent hours enjoying the fun filled competition with mates. Again simple graphics but totally immersive gameplay. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

EDIT: Does anyone remember the game where you were a man exploring Africa and running into jungles, waterfalls, native tribes' villages and cities ? Was it .... gah don't remember the name of that great game.

Lord Of Storms

01-18-2003, 17:19

My faves are 1= Sierra Robert .E Lee Civil War 2= Caesar 2 ,Sim City 4 , and Medieval Total War one of the best RTS games out right now http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Tyrac

01-18-2003, 17:46

Everquest...i do not really like it...but I am horribly addicted http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif
TWM. Just stunningly good.
StarCraft..I got into online gaming a bit late and this was my First...also the birth of the persona Tyrac http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smokin.gif

theKyl

01-18-2003, 18:25

this is easy Medieval for sure. I am now addicted for let's say 3 and a half month.
I remember that i went to this SATURN Shop 4 times in a week; they'd first said that MTW was to be released on Tuesday i think and so i went there on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and on Saturday they finally had it.
Mafia was also great (but i dunno if it is called like that in English too)

David

01-18-2003, 18:36

My favs are:

Baldurs Gate II
MTW
HOMM 3/4
Age of wonders 2
Caesar III
Severance: BoD
MGS

Lord of the morning

01-19-2003, 00:45

The best games are clearly

MTW
CIV3 (And of cource Civ 1, 2 and CTP even if CTP isn sid meier)
EU2
Planscape Torment
BG2
Heroes 2
Alpha Centauri
Homeworld
Fallout 2
C&C (+ REd Alert. Not Tib sun that sucked)
Doom II
Wolfenstein 3d
Settlers 2

Major Robert Dump

01-19-2003, 00:55

Xcom, Xcom2, Xcom3
Starcraft and Broodwars
Moo and Moo2
Unreal Tournament
Total War (shogun still my fave)
Mechwarrior series
Rainbow Six series
And my all time favorite Homeworld

Haven't been gaming as long as most of u, got started a bit late http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

And right now I'm playing.....nothing http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

Gregoshi

01-19-2003, 08:34

SeljukSinan, the African game you are thinking of was call The Heart of Africa. The object was to find clues around Africa as to the location of the fabled gem called...The Heart of Africa. It was the sequel to The Seven Cities of Gold I had mentioned. THoA was fun but lacked the variety that TSCoG had.

As for Elite, it proves that a good game can overcome simple/poor graphics, but great graphics can't overcome a poor game.

Here's a quick story from my Olympic Games days: one of the events was the 100 metre dash. The faster you giggled the joystick (there is no non-lewd way to describe this http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/redface.gif ), the faster you ran. We had discovered that the best way to do this was to place the palm of your hand on top of the joystick and then move the joystick quickly in a circular motion (there is no non-lewd...). After one very fast race we noticed that awful smell of burning flesh. My friend looked down into the palm of his hand to discover a layer or two of missing skin. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

Quid

01-19-2003, 13:15

hmmm....yes, there were some great games around even 15 or so years ago...here's my top ten....not in order

1 Ports of call (Amiga)
2 Defender of the Crown (Amiga)...the only ones I still really remamber of the old times...
3 MoHAA and Expansion (Pc)
4 Operation Flashpoint (Pc)
5 All AoE (Pc)
6 Caesar III (Pc)
7 Imperialism (Pc)
8 Broken Sword I and II (Pc) (nothing better to do at uni)
9 Falcon 4.0 (Pc)
10 F-117 A Stealth Fighter 2.0 (Mac)

And yes, i do remember the times doing the thing with the joystick, Gregoshi....a lot a breaking too...lol.

Alrowan

01-19-2003, 15:20

gah... no game was ever the best

actually here is my top 3 series'

1)Heroes of Might and Magic
2)Mechwarrior
3)Total War

Mr. Juice

01-19-2003, 18:54

Anyone remember Sea Quest for Atari? A great game that was.

Morgoth

01-19-2003, 19:04

my top ten:

1. mtw
2. seven kingdoms I (by Trevor Chen)
3. x-com 1-3
4. avp
5. cs
6. eurofighter (DID)
7. sim city
8. earth 2150
9. the patrician (der patrizier)
10. nfs4: porsche

thats it

Tartychops

01-19-2003, 19:48

Here's my Top 10:

1. The Lords of Midnight - Mike Singleton, Beyond Software, Spectrum, 1984
2. Half Life - Valve Software, PC, 1998
3. Starquake - Steve Crow, Bubble Bus Software, Spectrum, 1985
4. Quake - id Software, PC, 1996
5. Speedball2 - Bitmap Brothers, Amiga, 1991
6. Lunar Jetman - Ultimate Play The Game, Spectrum, 1984
7. Civilization - Microprose, Amiga, 1991
8. Goal - Dino Dini, Amiga, 1993
9. Thief: The Dark Project - Looking Glass Studios, PC, 1998
10 Grand Theft Auto III - Rockstar Games, PC, 2002

and honourable mentions go to M:TW of course, and System Shock 2, Populous, Freespace2, Homeworld, Unreal Tournament... so many games http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

erm, hope I got all the dates right too.

rspete

01-20-2003, 00:00

Before I found the Total War series, there was Thief. The Thief series and Shogun (Medieval just does not live up to its predecessor)are my favorite games.

Knight_Yellow

01-20-2003, 00:26

Ok heres wat i gather so far i aint counted the votes and i wont but heres the impression i get:

1. MTW
2. Max payne
3. Elite
4. Civ series
5. Starcraft series

keep it up and in a week i will count em and then announce the org's fav game

PS. MTW cant be included in that since this is a total war forum.....

Basileus

01-20-2003, 01:36

Who wants to play ports of call http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

http://www.portsofcall.de/

Brutal DLX

01-20-2003, 12:09

Oh you heretics

Only Tartychops gets absolution.

Speedball 2. No doubt about it.

Efrem Da King

01-20-2003, 13:59

Quote[/b] (rspete @ Jan. 19 2003,17:00)]Before I found the Total War series, there was Thief. The Thief series and Shogun (Medieval just does not live up to its predecessor)are my favorite games.
Yeah shogun had more feeling and flavour.

ichi

01-20-2003, 22:57

Prior to MTW it was Shogun, the original then Warlord.

Also like Call to Power II (I know, everyone thinks its crummy)

I'd like to like Hearts of Iron, but what Max Payne (pun intended)

On PS2 its GTA3, and lately Kings Field. pretty typical maze game but well done

ichi