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Offline kmelew

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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2004, 10:13:00 pm »
Privateer

Wing Commander III

Freelancer
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2004, 08:03:40 pm »
Quote from: Scipio_66 on September 20, 2004, 10:19:36 am
I think I'd still play Red Baron and Sid Meir's Pirates! if I could, but my only copies are from my Mac days, so I have nothing to run them on now.

Can't help with Red Baron, though I did play that game once, but Pirates! has a lot in common with Age of Sail 2: Privateer's Bounty and Port Royale.

Privateer's Bounty is primarily a ship to ship game, with little economy or strategy outside the next battle, though it is as easily as complex as Orion Pirates is in its niche.  Port Royale is a supremely complicated Carribean Wooden ship age simulation, where one can try Piracy, Buccaneering, or even Honest Trading (including building your very own businesses), but you lose some tactical complication for it.  Remisicent of Uncharted Waters: New Horizions (if you play Super Nintendo Games).

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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2004, 08:21:14 pm »
Just pulled out my Atari 800..loaded M.U.L.E. and had a blast...then put in Alternate Reality...it's old, kinda hoaky, but still fun...it's not the graphics, it's the mission, the questions, the answers...

Too bad AR was never translated to the PC and all the adventures completed...

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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #23 on: September 23, 2004, 08:27:40 pm »
I should try to hook up my old 800 again...I'd love to play Colonial Conquest, Imperium Galacticum and Star Raiders again...  :)
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #24 on: September 24, 2004, 03:20:17 am »
Hmmm, lets see...

SFC 1 & 2 (I've never quite played a game as long as these two...fantastic)
Quake 3 & UT Classic (I was pretty good at 'em, actually won my GSA subscription playing Q3)
IL-2 Sturmovik (I don't play it often, but a damn fine simulation)
Transport Tycoon (I think it was the first strategy game I played...can't wait for Sawyer to release Locomotion)
Railroad Tycoon 2 & 3 (I love trains...one of the few games I've finished)
Classic Console Games (NES & SNES stuff...old school RPG's like FF3, and side scrollers)
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #25 on: September 25, 2004, 06:36:32 pm »
And Dont forget Donkey Kong for NES :)
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #26 on: September 25, 2004, 07:09:05 pm »
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Just pulled out my Atari 800..loaded M.U.L.E. and had a blast...

OMG  it's been years since I have played that :thumbsup:
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #27 on: September 25, 2004, 07:39:32 pm »
Past addictions in chronoligical order:

-Sim City 3000

-Need for Speed: Porche Unleashed

-SFC I

-SFC II: EAW

Current addictions:

-SFC: OP (for quite some time now)

-BF 1942

-EVE: The Second Genesis (EVE Online)
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #28 on: September 27, 2004, 11:52:25 am »
SFC's (of course)
Freelancer (When I'm not playing SFC this is usually where I am)
Morrowind
Birth of the Federation
X2 the threat
Gran Turismo 3
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #29 on: September 27, 2004, 01:35:55 pm »
the latest game thats got a grip on me is
warhammer 40k dawn of war
screenies here http://www.3dgamers.com/screenshots/games/wh40kdawnwar/
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #30 on: September 27, 2004, 09:58:01 pm »
Games I keep coming back to:

SFC OP
X-Wing
TIE Fighter
Dark Forces
Jedi Knight I & II
XWing Alliance
MoHAA
Sim City 3000
Civ II
Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire
Civ III

Games I'm currently locked into:
Star Wars Galaxies
Sim City 4
The Sims 2
Waiting impatiently for Rome: Total War

(there's a deffinite pattern here...)
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #31 on: September 27, 2004, 10:22:03 pm »
You seem to like Star Wars games and city building/civilization strategy games.  Well, overall, it doesn't explain Sims 2, but covers about everything else.

I have so many games that I like, but recently, unfortanately, because of work, I have a choice of coming here or playing games, and overall I've been here instead...
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« Reply #32 on: September 27, 2004, 10:23:19 pm »
My list:

Baldur's Gate 2
(I'd put BG 1 on my list if could get it work on XP SP2)
Railroad Tycoon 2
Civilization 2 Multiplayer Gold
SFC OP
Spaceward Ho!

And my number 1 time sink - Neverwinter Nights

Games that this thread have caused me to  contemplate:

Ice Wind Dale
Close Combat 2, 3 & 4
The World at War Series from Atomic Games
(Utah Beach, Gold Sword & Juno, Velikye Luki, Stalingrad, Market Garden, America Invades)
Hey, I could dust off one of my old Macs and play the D&D gold box games again.

Yes, I'll be well on my way to divorce soon.  Thanks a lot...
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« Reply #33 on: September 27, 2004, 10:36:06 pm »
Hmm, I have BG1 and it seems to work.  I have it with TotSC and with the latest patches...I also upgraded the comp I'm on with SP2 recently.  Tried it just now to see if it would work (all the way to playing a little in Candlekeep).  Not certain if any of that will help you to get it working or not though.

Make sure that if you updated your drivers via Microsoft, you go and get the actual drivers from the companies, MS seems to have some problems with the drivers they distribute for videocards in their SP2 from what I understand.

Hopefully you can get the grand game of BG to work again!
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« Reply #34 on: September 27, 2004, 10:46:56 pm »
Quote from: Dash Jones on September 27, 2004, 10:36:06 pm
Hmm, I have BG1 and it seems to work.  I have it with TotSC and with the latest patches...I also upgraded the comp I'm on with SP2 recently.  Tried it just now to see if it would work (all the way to playing a little in Candlekeep).  Not certain if any of that will help you to get it working or not though.

Make sure that if you updated your drivers via Microsoft, you go and get the actual drivers from the companies, MS seems to have some problems with the drivers they distribute for videocards in their SP2 from what I understand.

Hopefully you can get the grand game of BG to work again!

I haven't worked on it too seriously as yet.  I am replaying BG2 at the moment, so that will keep me busy for a while.
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« Reply #35 on: September 27, 2004, 10:48:50 pm »
Ah, yes, before I started working I was working on BG2...had made it to the point in ToB where I just defeated the Firegiant.  Tough battle that...his followers kept spawning in...lost 3 party members, but luckily Viconia survived...
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« Reply #36 on: September 27, 2004, 10:51:37 pm »
Hmm... lessee here...

Command and Conquer...all but Red Alert 2, I left those CDs back in michigan and the burned copies I had of them didnt work well...
Starcraft...not as much anymore...but when we have a LAN party Starcraft is the first game mentioned
Civ III...this is a big one for me...no matter how many times I cuss the computer out for cheating.."I had a fricking Elite Cavalry...your telling me that I cant kill a fricking Regular Warrior!"
Starfleet Command Orion Pirates, loved this game since I got it, and whats better...I dont have to change the CD to play it!
Starfleet Command III, got real good after the "Make It So" add on...no more need for the CD!

Of course Tecmo Super Bowl, Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, and Final Fantasy (NES), are great now that I got that ol thing working again.

Last but certainly not least...I seem to have a Paths of Glory (TableTopGame) itch over the last few days...I need someone to play that with here soon...

*Edit* nearly forgot X-wing vs TIE Fighter
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #37 on: September 28, 2004, 06:38:33 am »
Right now, at college, i've been playing...


Doome 3
Splinter Cell 2: Pandora Tomorrow
The Sims 2
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

I think thats about it, at least, until I bring my HOTAS throttle and stick here, then I'll be playing Comanche 4 and such.
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Re: addicting games / games youre still stuck with
« Reply #38 on: September 28, 2004, 09:30:45 am »
Quote from: Dash Jones on September 27, 2004, 10:22:03 pm
You seem to like Star Wars games and city building/civilization strategy games.  Well, overall, it doesn't explain Sims 2, but covers about everything else.

I have so many games that I like, but recently, unfortanately, because of work, I have a choice of coming here or playing games, and overall I've been here instead...

Well, The Sims 2 is a game my nephew and his girlfriend wanted, and I got stuck with the job of evaluating it. I've wasted a good 30 hours getting my sim some a..er, making sure he's getting everything he needs.... :D

Ahem... nephew is not getting this one...
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« Reply #39 on: September 29, 2004, 09:59:25 pm »
SFC:OP - single player mostly, dial up hurts when I try to play on the dynaverse, I get sick of hanging every third mission or so and having to bleeping re-boot. Great game when I first got it, still play it!  :thumbsup:

Madden 2005 - Just got it and I still love it. Madden is a love/hate relationship with the game.

Yu-Gi-Oh - The Power Of Chaos, both Joey and the Kaiba expansions but can't find the Yugi main program anywhere recently.

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