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  • #76
    Civ 2 Gold
    My Words Are Backed With Bad Attitude And VETERAN KNIGHTS!

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    • #77
      Without a doubt, the Diablo 2 Expansion Pack (Lord of Destruction). That thing has sucked waaay too many hours out of my studies . I'd vote for the original, but I , er, can't say I bought it...

      SMAC/X is a close second.
      The church is the only organisation that exists for the benefit of its non-members
      Buy your very own 4-dimensional, non-orientable, 1-sided, zero-edged, zero-volume, genus 1 manifold immersed in 3-space!
      All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
      "They offer us some, but we have no place to store a mullet." - Chegitz Guevara

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      • #78
        Yin, Grumbold, Feephi, aaglo: check out http://www.dmfallen.com/BT/files.shtml
        The church is the only organisation that exists for the benefit of its non-members
        Buy your very own 4-dimensional, non-orientable, 1-sided, zero-edged, zero-volume, genus 1 manifold immersed in 3-space!
        All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
        "They offer us some, but we have no place to store a mullet." - Chegitz Guevara

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        • #79
          Transport Tycoon Deluxe has stayed on my hard drive for a long time, and I still play it. Also Rollercoaster tycoon and Railroad tycoon 2 have sucked many hours away from me.

          Guess I just have something for "tycoon" games...

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          • #80
            XCom: UFO Defence

            Absolutely brilliant game!!
            I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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            • #81
              Originally posted by Grumbold
              You face [99 Berserkers],[99 Berserkers],[99 Berserkers],[99 Berserkers]

              Actions?


              1. Blow Fire Horn
              2. Set scroll rate to max
              3. Initiate combat round
              4. Go make a cup of coffee. This may take some time
              have a demon lord in the special slot, and have a mage cast MIBL, and another cast FLAN, to recover the damage they'll do to your monk in the first slot.

              that encounter gave the most experience of anywhere in the game. I used it to get absurd experience levels for my characters. it was on level 3 of the tower. level 2 was shielded. couldn't PHDO on the level, or APAR in or out. but I could APAR from level 1 to level 3, repeating those same 396 berzerkers over and over.
              Any man can be a Father, but it takes someone special to be a BEAST

              I was just about to point out that Horsie is simply making excuses in advance for why he will suck at Civ III...
              ...but Father Beast beat me to it! - Randomturn

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              • #82
                Here's my list:

                1. Civ III - Don't need any comments
                2. Civ - The first one, it got more gameplay than Civ II
                3. The Settlers II - The best Settlers game I have ever bought (Haven't bought S4, because it is in DANISH )
                4. The Settlers - The first one again, rts can't get much better
                5. RollerCoaster Tycoon - including all addons, the game is simply amazing, too bad it doesn't work with DX8
                6. Boulder Dash games - The ones to the Amiga, there exists that many of them so I can't deside which one deserves to be as number one, ok I didn't buy all of them, but many of them
                This space is empty... or is it?

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                • #83
                  The best computer game PURCHASE you say? I'll just say that I've played a lot of games through the years and quite a lot were purchases. Here's some of them


                  Mr Wimpy C64 (cheap Burgertime clone, hey, it was the first game I had. What can i say! )
                  Last Ninja 1 C64
                  Last Ninja 2 C64
                  Mega Apolcalypse C64 (blowing up planets with music and speech! In the background yeah!)
                  Alien Legacy PC (Joe Ybarra's keeps it interesting till the end)
                  Time and Magick trilogy Amiga (trilogy of the famous level9 text adventure series)
                  Bards Tale 2 Amiga
                  Sword of Aragon Amiga
                  Druid 2 Amiga
                  Dungeon Master Amiga (reason to get 512 Kb upgrade)
                  Laser Squad Amiga (X-com/UFO's predecessor)
                  Civ1 (of course!) PC
                  Civ2 + addons PC
                  Civ: ToT (budget title) PC
                  Wasteland PC
                  Neuromancer PC (Cyberpunk RPG/adventure)
                  Ultima 6 PC (it's a classic Ultima, what can i say)
                  Savage Empire PC (used the U6 engine, trivia note: Warren Spector (Deus Ex fame) appears in this game as one of the protagonists btw)
                  Martian Dreams PC (once again U6 engine brilliant steampunk story with famous characters from the 19th century)
                  Ultima 7 + Serpent Isle (last of the great Ultima's, things went quickly downhill after this
                  Wing Commander 1+2+data disks (after I saw Wing Commander I knew the writing was on the wall for the Amiga. I enjoyed 1 and 2 for the cartoony graphics, never liked WC3 because of that)
                  Strike Commander + data (fly as a mercenary with a F16 falcon, trying to scrounge up cash by flying missions to keep your planes in the air. Why origin never did a sequel for this is a mystery)
                  Entrepreneur+data (Bought this business game after having seen how Brad Wardell kept answering questions/problems about it on usenet. Sadly games have taken a backseat to windows blinds at the moment) Still, the support should serve as an example to all...
                  System Shock 1 and 2
                  Incubation (Blue Byte's unsung successor to X-com/UFO)
                  Links GS (the real McCoy, no wimpy Sid Golf for me!)
                  Resident Evil 1,2,3 (I like blasting zombies, what can i say! )

                  There's more (C64, Amiga, PC) but that's what I can remember from the top of my head now.
                  Last edited by CapTVK; February 17, 2002, 18:01.
                  Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.

                  Elie A. Shneour Skeptical Inquirer

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                  • #84
                    Civ 1 for reasons stated above
                    Civ 2 ditto
                    Sim city 3000
                    Half-Life - having a blast, too bad Im stuck
                    System shock 2
                    "Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us." --MLK Jr.

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                    • #85
                      SM's Alpha Centauri.
                      "BANANA POWAAAAH!!! (exclamation Zopperoni style)" - Mercator, in the OT 'What fruit are you?' thread
                      Join the Civ2 Democratic Game! We have a banana option in every poll just for you to vote for!
                      Many thanks to Zealot for wasting his time on the jobs section at Gamasutra - MarkG in the article SMAC2 IN FULL 3D? http://apolyton.net/misc/
                      Always thought settlers looked like Viking helmets. Took me a while to spot they were supposed to be wagons. - The pirate about Settlers in Civ 1

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                      • #86
                        EU!

                        Didn't buy EU2(Beta tester), so I guess it doesn't count.

                        Starcraft & Broodwar.

                        RA2.

                        Dunno why I fall for those two RTS', gameplay isn't THAT good, but awesome storyline in Starcraft, and RA2 was just pure fun bashing commie ass/yankee ass.
                        "If you are a young gangster on your first date, wouldn't it be awfully embarassing if someone tried to murder you?"
                        - Jack Handey

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                        • #87
                          Civ2, Fallout, Planescape:Torment.

                          I would have said EU2, but my game with England for what ever reason doesn't work anymore and crashes to desktop. And I was in 1734 too .
                          “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                          • #88
                            Tried posting your save file to Paradox? I'm sure those guys would be interested.
                            To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
                            H.Poincaré

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                            • #89
                              $14 for Imperialism II off of eBay last summer. This almost beats the $29.95 I paid for Civ2.

                              The worst purchase by far was the $54.95 I paid for EU.

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                              • #90
                                Originally posted by Grumbold
                                Tried posting your save file to Paradox? I'm sure those guys would be interested.
                                Well, I'm quite sure it is because I started playing the game in v1.02, and then patched my game to v1.03. They counseled against that on the forums.
                                “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                                - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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