Great games you've been playing/played!

[Tnx]

I'm just wondering what games have drawn you in for awhile and that you would recommend to others..

I'm playing Dominions 3, Unreal World (Planning to buy the 3 dollar version)
A game I used to play that was pretty fun was Notrium, that was alot of good time spent.

[Silfir]

I just checked out the Dominions 3 demo... Seems like it could be called Fantasy: Total war instead. Pretty cool though.

I'd like to name a game series that I played a lot in my childhood (starting from 1993, I completed my first around 2002), kept playing throughout the years, and of which I only completed the last part last year (2007). It's a German 2D Action-Adventure series called "The Game of ROBOT", or just ROBOT. It consisted of the parts I to IV and the "ROBOT Junior" part, a freeware ROBOT game that was a lot shorter than the other parts and supposed to show off what ROBOT is all about. The first part was created 1988, with the last part being produced in 1992. The game was developed by only two, later three guys, making it an indie title by today's standards.

The "action" part of the game were the repeated battles with the robots that gave the game its name. They followed extremely simple walking patterns ("Move and kill") and would willingly walk into electric fences (a common object in the game that is lethal to anything that enters it) if you were behind it, which was your main way of defeating them until you found the slingshot and ammunition for it - though they could be killed in other ways, some of which required pretty enormous skill in controlling your "hero" (some guy representing you who did not receive a name until the last part). The "adventure" part was the exploration of the environment, the solving of puzzles and the wise use of the many, many items you found during the games - acid flasks that could destroy certain kinds of walls, magnets that could influence "arrow tiles", garlic to repel the various robots for a short time, blue overalls to push electric fences around, even letters to write out magic spells with...

The games were mostly entirely non-linear - you could explore the levels and the story (told mainly through the setting, Robot III and IV featured EXCELLENT settings, involving and mysterious) in any way you wanted, and subsequently spent HOURS just searching for clues how to advance, and then more hours solving the puzzles...

There was an english version once, but sadly I think it's been discontinued, and today's versions are fully German. Still, the Games of ROBOT deserve a mention, because these are extremly obscure, but also extremely well-done games I still love to play to this day even though I know them in and out.

[mdrew93]

I like Heroes of Might and Magic ii and iii. i haven't tried any of the newer ones yet. I also like Age of Empires. I have I and II but III wont run on my ancient computer.

[Silfir]

No loss. The third part sucks...

[Shadow_2014]

Heroes V is pretty much Heroes III with 3D graphics. I thuroughly enjoy it, but it won't run on my god(s) forsaken Dell.

[Subconscious]

Lately I have been playing mostly Chess, Heroes of M&M V, Adom and such.

Chess is wonderfull game if you get inside the all neat techniques in it, Im bit disapointed how people refer to chess as boring or nerdy. I play chess almost all the time. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

HoMM V is a game I play occassionally. Sometimes you feel like "omg gotta play HoMM asap!! asdasdasd" and all the rest time you feel you wouldnt touch it even with a stick. Its pretty addictive but you cant play it very long at the time.
BTW get Tribes of The East exp. - Gives lots of new tactical units etc.

Well Adom is Adom and Zlatan is Zlatan. Cant describe better but Adom is the perfect RPG at the moment.

[Sradac]

hellgate: london. it will never die!

and forza 3. I like cars. vrooom.


yeah im back, whoooo. and i've had beers again. its my birthday weekend i deserve it!

[Sadface]

For any pokemon fans...

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. What is it?

A spinoff game.
A deviation from the main series' playstyle.
A POKEMON ROGUELIKE. No shitting! Well, suffice to say it
shares a lot of qualities with roguelikes. Permanent death
is not one of them though

I'm not quite sure if I want to gush about how awesome
I think it is - it'll sound like I'm giving a review or something

[Orbic]

hellgate: london. it will never die!

and forza 3. I like cars. vrooom.


yeah im back, whoooo. and i've had beers again. its my birthday weekend i deserve it!

Happy birthday!
If you like cars, do give this a go (PC sim, one of the most realistic driving sims around):

www.lfs.net

3 developpers only , brilliant simulation and ongoing project for around 10 years.
Not free, but cheap. The demo is not time limited and gives you a good taste.

[Molach]

Civ. I II and III, but really, IV is the bomb. Especially playing MODs - its like 100 wholly new games in one. Do try out "Fall from heaven II" - mod. Fantasy units, spells. Wow.

Master of Orion. Both I and II, never played 3, heard it was bad.

X-Com. Both I and II. I got to be too easy after a lil while, but boy the suspense. Playing along, after midnight in a dark basement...got a few shocks going through doors and getting shot by aliens. Great. II was also good. Only problem was mind control - game got to be a lot less scary after that (used aliens as scouts - no real risk). III didn't have the same suspense, and once you got the anti-alien-(biotoxin?) guns you could just fire away all the time, no worry about friently fire. Which is not what I liked about I and II. There better guns meant more harm to my team when the "new guy" tried to take a snapshot at distant enemy.

MUDs. Oh. I've wasted too much time on that. Good thing about ADOM - just save and you're out. Multi-user dungeons - when you are deep in the lair of Tiamat, the multi-headed dragon, and you know that if your group of 20 can take her down, you will be able to touch the stone and advance to level 51 (which is a fair bit better than 50...new spells and stuff), then it is hard to just walk away. Also raiding the evil hometown, and getting hit by bodyslamming ogres, githyanki psionicists and some drow elf magi - you need to stay alert and fast to survive. So. Great fun, lot of time wasted.