What games have people bought/acquired this year?

[TNapoleon]

1. Call to Power
2. Alpha Centauri
3. Alien Crossfire
4. Fifa 99
5. Birth of the Federation (sucks!)
6. Caesar III
7. SimCity 3000
8. Red Alert (a special offer)

I shall buy Age of Kings and Test of Time asap!

[JohnT]

This year I've laid good money on:

1. SMAC
2. CTP
3. MGE
4. HOMM3
5. RollerCoaster Tycoon
6. Office 2000 (not a game, but Publisher 2000 is fun, fun, fun.)
7. Railroad Tycoon
8. A collection of all the Might and Magic games from #1 to World of Xeen.
9. Caesar3

and this will sicken some, but just last night I finally got around to buying (and playing)

10. Quake 2.

I'll buy TBS God games and business sims at full price, but the price has got to come down hard for me to plunk down for a 3-d shooter or a RTS.

[Sith Knight]

Whoops! I almost forgot 2 other games!

Caesar 3
Starseige: Tribes(Returned it because it felt like a slideshow on MP. I cant believe my 4mb AGP card became obsolete in less than a year!)

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ANGER IS HAPPINESS
HATE IS LOVE
SUFFERING IS RELIEF

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[Monkey]

JohnT, starcraft is the best RTS money can buy. trust me you won't regret purchasing it, unless youre the type that absolutely can't stand RTS games.

Sith Knight, hell I still can't believe mine went out of date so quickly too. Now i spend my time avoiding 3d intensive games if I can. I got a Riva 128 what's yours?

[Sophanthro]

Let's See

Bought
Game Rating ( 0 - 10)
CTP 7.5 (great concepts to many bugs)
SMAC 7 (not into Sci-Fi)
Ultima IX 2 - Warning do not buy, the game has an insane number of bugs, and it's virtually linear, BTW one of the bugs is mission critical so I can't even finish the Game.
Game Rank
Half-Life 9 What can I say a truelly best shooter yet
Need For Speed 3 8 Fun, great car game
EverQuest - 5 (Never play)
Caesar 3 8 Good, can't play forever not enough versatility

Freely Downloaded
Tons of Old games from Abandoned Games sites.
FreeCiv - a lot of heart and it's free, plus opensource.- best acquisition of the year.

[Tree]

Games I bought last year (in order of liked the most)

1 Half Life and SMAC (tied)
2 Gettysburg
3 RR Tycoon II and Colonization (tied)
4 Tribes (got old after a while, TFC became more fun)

Thats about it. What I'm getting for Christmas:
Antietam, SMAC=X
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[Tree]

dbl post
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[Imran Siddiqui]

Reviews of the games I have (I disagree with Sophanthro on some)

Baldur's Gate - 9
SMAC - 8.5
Imperialism II - 6
Close Combat III - 7
Madden 2000 - 8
Starcraft - 3
Civ II: TOT - 5
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast - 8
SMACX - 9
Panzer General II - 8
Ultima IX: Ascension - 9.5 (after getting past the bugs, you have an excellent game).

[Sith Knight]

Sorry for the delay, Monkey. It's an obsolete STB Mpact. Due to my computer being very picky on hardware, I'm getting a Voodoo 3 3500 when I get the chance. Once again, I forgot to mention another game I bought recently:

Warhammer 40k: Final Liberation(Pretty good acting for a B-Movie, great gamplay and music also)

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FEAR IS COURAGE
ANGER IS HAPPINESS
HATE IS LOVE
SUFFERING IS RELIEF

SITH LORD IS WATCHING YOU

[Urban Ranger]

This year I have bought:

Civ: CtP (yikes!)
SMAC
Alien Crossfire
Warlords III: Dark Lords Rising
Starcraft (ugh!)

I happen to dislike Starcraft and RTS is a misnomer. There simply is no strategy to these games and all you do is to build the mostest fastest. Everything boils down to who wins by attrition.

[awckie]

Well since It's the end of the year and I don't think I'll be buying any games in then next 24 hours..

1) SMAC (Completley Addicted!)
2) MOOII (Never played the original.. I love this game)
3) CTP (Purchased the day it came out.. Should have saved my money)
4) SMACX (Crashes on my system.. Hoping the patch will fix that problem)
5) Thief (I enjoyed this game but never finished... Guess I should reinstall)
6) Space Quest 6 (I'm a sucker for those type of adventure games)
7) Populous - The Beginning (Nothing like the Nintendo game I remember it as.. Deleted after a few days)
8) Lighthouse (Enjoyed, but some of the puzzles got on my nerves)
9) Zork Nemesis (Forgot I owned it! Maybe I should see what it is!)
10) Transport Tycoon (keep crashing my system)
11)Ceaser II - (Hated it! Really bad interface that I couldn't resize to full screen - 1024x768)
12) Probably a couple more not worth mentioning...

-Leslie

[Ethnic Clenser]

SMAC good game too dark
CTP in the trash
BOTF ditto
Rise of Rome.. not bad but am not big on RTS
Caesar3.... great
TOT.... going going gone
Half life... soso... not into first person too much
Want Pharoah
and aoe 2

oh yeah smacx is great to
populous i bought dont' like it

[Genaciv]

This year i've purchased:

1. Civilization II: Multiplayer Gold Edition
2. StarCraft Battle Pack (the one with Brood Wars, and the Strategy Guides...)
3. Half-Life (MIGHT get Opposing Force.. can't decide)
4. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
5. Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire
6. Heavy Gear II (bad game, in my opinion...)

I've spent the most time with smac(x)
starcraft and half-life have taken a whole lot of my time too, but nothing compared to smac...
i played like one day's worth of heavy gear 2 and promptly took it off my hard drive.... too bad i wasted my money.

I also enjoyed playing the Quake III demo, and lots of emulated nes/genesis/snes games for old times' sake..

Question for Sophanthro or anyone else who knows the answer...

What is FreeCiv?? where can i get it?
Is it basically the first one ? (with the source code set to be viewable???)

- Genaciv the Clueless (GtC)

[John-SJ]

Genaciv,

From the FreeCiv website: "Freeciv is a multiplayer strategy game, released under the GNU General Public License.
It is generally comparable with Civilization II®, published by Microprose®."

For more info, see www.freeciv.org

John-SJ

[Joad]

1. Tiberian Sun
2. AOE 2
3. Alpha Centauri
4. NHL 2000
5. Caesar III
6. SimCity 3000
7. Heroes of Might & Magic III

In no particular order, all of 'em were worth buying (most of them for a couple of bucks of course...).
[This message has been edited by Joad (edited January 09, 2000).]