You get the idea. A thread for the purpose of video-game related posting. I'm sure we've done it a dozen times before a dozen different ways... but, well shit, here's another one.
So, I'll go first.
On my machine now...
CoH/V - I'm not an MMORPG kind of guy. I love the art of comic-books, I adore the medium and that alone drew me into the game. This is the first MMORPG I've ever played seriously. It's not great. It has alot of novelty, but very little in the way of staying power... or so I found. Had all sorts of fun with 'em, mind you, and they're still widely popular.
SWG - Well over a year now, since I've played Galaxies. It was glorious, and the Jedi Patch made it gay. It's still on my machine though, like some guilty reminder of what could have been.
ERT - Enigma: Rising Tide is a navay simulator that allows you to take command of one of a number of WWII-type warships and submarines. It takes place in a slightly atered Earth where-by cool weapons types are made available as are technologies that give the game a more free-flowing feel. The coolest parts are 1.) the designers had planned to scale it into a MMO-type naval simulator... and even though this idea tanked, it left alot of room for adaptability... ERT has many a patch and skin 2.) ERT features a voice interface second-to-none for it's time (2003) and enables the player to engage in the game hands free... your vessle responds to vocal commands.
SWBF2 - Do I really need to say why? Battlefront and Battlefront 2 are, IMO, the best Star Wars based First-Person games ever. Bar none.
DoD - Day of Defeat; Source. Another Source game. Kickass for the WWII type, like me. Move Out!
Homeworld 2 - Can't say much about this game. I've been enjoying it off and on but I haven't really devoted enough attention to fully explore the playability of this game.
SW: E@W - Empire At War. Good game. Not much of a fan when it comes to RTS style games, but this one has won me over. Take Cover!
I have Homeworld 2, Syberia, Starcraft Broodwar and Fallout 2 on my laptop. Only Syberia and Fallout are playable with a touchpad, and thus far I've been too cheap to purchase a mouse. I want to get back into Homeworld though, so there may be a mouse in my bag one of these days.
On my xbox I completed Chaos Theory last week. That was the most satisfying gaming experience I have had since I bought Max Payne 2 last year. After completing Chaos Theory I purchased Farcry Instincts and Deus Ex 2. FarCry is awesome; I think I'm about 2/3rds through the single player campeign. I primarly bought it as a substitute for Halo on my as-religious-as-church-sunday-night-xbox-parties, but I don't think it'll work as planned. FarCry is beatutiful as the xbox can be, but all that glow and shine makes it hard to see on a four-way split screen. It also lacks the ease of pick-up-and-play that Halo has, which is neccessary as most of the people who come over to play don't have a lot of experience.
I loved loved loved Deus Ex on the PC, I played it oodles of times and got all the endings. I avoided Deus Ex 2 because every PC mag I had said it suffered from consolitis. It was at gamestop for three dollars, so I snagged it. I'm in about ten minutes worht so far. I'll probably dive in again later this week.
My bro just bought Max Payne 1 for his xbox, so I'll probably be playing that through again. Maybe not. I played it to death the first five times through.
Starcraft: Old as hell, but still one of the funnest RTS' out there. My friend and I rented this for the Nintendo 64 like 5 years ago, and have been in love with it ever since. I hardly play it online anymore, but every once in awhile I run it and kick some Zerg ass.
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War/Winter Assault: DoW is honestly one of the best Real Time Strategies i've ever played. It essentially skips over all the "economy" part of the game, which some people enjoy I suppose, and allows you to get straight to the epic, bloody battles. If you have any interest in any kind of RTS', I highly reccomend this game and it's expansion.
Neverwinter Nights: Very, very good RPG. Allows for a ton of character creation and expansion, online play is great, and with the expansions, it really gives you the "epic world-saving adventure" that some games don't. It's pretty old, but you can pick up the "diamond edition" (all expansion packs, plus extra bonus material, mods, and other goodies) for about 30-40 American dollars.
Morrowind: Old game, but still a classic. I have it for Xbox & Computer, but the mods for the computer make it so much funner. Even though Oblivion is out, I still play Morrowind often.
Guild Wars: A nice, easy to pick up, yet hard to master, free MMORPG. I haven't played it lately, but it's expansion "Factions" is out, so I may start up again whenever I pick that up.
You sure weren't the only one. They mislead us, made us believe the "space" aspect of this RTS would be similar to the engine used by Homeworld 2, which is to say; three-dimensional and fully interactive. It's not. It sucks.
Your troops will always demand you spend forever and a day micromanaging their affairs, lest they should become confused and start doing things no reasonable AI would assign, such as standing in the open and being shot while on Agressive, or wandering off in seperate squadrons to get wiped out by a well organized enemy. I play it on Hard blah blah.
I'm totally bummed by it, the only reason it's still on my machine is because a.) my machine smokes and b.) its novelty - the same reason I have the entire X-Wing vs TiE-Fighter anthology on disk.
Homeworld 2, for what I want, is a billion times better. No ground.
i need to reinstall neverwinter nights :( its cool but after finishing the stories of all the expansions and orginals (i didnt have internet then) i got bored. but this game seriously lets you create your character almost to the dot.
guild wars is cool though, im definatly buying factions :)
The one thing that bothered me about Guild Wars is that it doesn't have the "Massively Multiplayer" feel that EQ and WoW do.
For those that don't know, it's set up differently than most MMORPG's. Instead of having different "Servers", it's all on one server, but there are only certain areas where all the people online can be seen. I.E-You go into a big town, and everyone in that town you can see, but when you go into a wilderness area where Monsters/Quests/Items are, it creates a copy especially for you and your party. So that means you won't be bothered by other Player Characters trying to do the same quest as you (Which is annoying as hell), but also you don't get as much of the "exploration" factor.
I still like it though, and it's a good starter MMORPG. Plus no monthly fees, and for people without credit cards, that's great. When I can scrounge up the cash, Im gettin Factions.
Hmmm... I have Neverwinter Nights platinum and I beat the original campaign.
I'm pretty sure that the only reason it's good is because it uses D&D mechanics. I've tryed a little multiplayer, but I can't find any good way to play. I joined one of those prescuduled thigns, but inevitably there is some fatal problem with the DM or module. Maybe one of you can help me.
Basically, it just makes me want to play actual D&D, which is never good because I should technically be getting work done >(.
My computer currently has World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Neverwinter Nights SoU and HotU, Morrowind and the Quest for Glory series on it.. also, the Sims. Er, not mine, I swear. I got a new computer a few months ago and haven't gotten a lot of games on it yet, just the ones I've played recently.
As far as consoles, I enjoy some, but never as much as pc games. I think the most recent thing I've played on my X-box is KOTOR I and II.
I got to play Dungeons and Dragons Online the other night. Unfortunately, I don't think I'd be able to get two games that have monthly fees. It was rather fun, but I'm not willing to trade WoW for it.
