Best/worst you've bought/best bargain/most disappointing/games youve bought

[Sarxis]

Best: Indepndence War2, Tribes2 minus bugs, SMAX, Space Empires IV, Anything in the Legacy of Kain Series, and some others
Worst: Dune 2000

Best Bargain: System Shock 2 ($10)
Biggest rip-off: CivIII Limited Edition

Most disappointing: CivIII Limited Edition
Most surprising: SMAC

Most overated game: CivIII Limited Edition
Most underated or unnoticed game: Space Empires IV

Most overated genre: RPG
Most underated or unnoticed genre: TBS

[Standup]

All-time Best: Lords of Midnight (if we're allowed non PC Games)
Best: Championship Manager or Railroad Tycoon 1 + 2

Worst: Wizards + Warriors (really annoying and full of bugs)
Best Bargain: Imperialism 2 - £4.99
Most Dissapointing: Civ 3 (not very original i know) or Tropico

Most surprising: Baldur's Gate
Most Overated Game: The Sims or Unreal
Most underated or unnoticed game: Imperialism 2

Most Overated Genre: RTS

[Mr. President]

I'm not sure about a lot of those categories, but the best purchase I ever made was WarCraft II. Seriously!

[Father Beast]

OK,

Best: Civ 3!
Worst: umm, Reader Rabbit
Best Bargain: Civ1, Colonization, MOO, and XCom in a pack for 20$ US!!!
Most Disappointing: moo2

Most overrated genre: even tie between 1st person shooters and RTS's
Most overrated game: the Sims
most underrated genre: TBS
most underrated game: probably Darkstone

[Adagio]

Best: The Settlers II and The Settlers IV (tie)
Worst: American Dream

Best Bargain: Blue Byte special CD, four classic BB games for $15
Biggest rip-off: American Dream

Most disappointing: American Dream
Most surprising: N/A

Most overated game: The Sims, Diablo 2, Counter-Strike and Black & White
Most underated game: The Settlers IV and Desperados

Most overated genre: RPG
Most underated genre: TBS

EDIT: Added a few games

[chronocrator]

Best: Command & Conquer, Colonization (who needs Civ1/2? I never played it )
Worst: C&C: Tiberian Sun

Best Bargain: HoMM3 for ~$10
Biggest rip-off: C&C: Tiberian Sun (I don't dare to remember how much it cost)

Most disappointing: again: C&C: Tiberian Sun, but lately I was disappointed by Commandos2, part 1 was much better IMO
Most surprising: Homeworld

Most overated game: The Sims, Counterstrike
Most underated game: Desperados

Most overated genre: FPS
Most underated genre: TBS

[St Leo]

Best: Europa Universalis II
Worst: Caesar III
Best Bargain: Total Annihilation
Most disappointing: Shadow Warrior

Also, some additional categories:
Most overrated: StarCraft
Most underrated: Minesweeper

Most overrated genre: Sports
Most underrated genre: Historical Simulation

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Best: Civ II MGE.
Worst: Geometry Blaster. Uninstalled and in the garbage three days after I installed (and completed) it.
Best bargain: Diablo I-- found it for only $10! That and King's Quest VI (came free with my old computer, for some odd reason).
Worst bargain: Can't think of any

Most overrated genre: RTS
Most overrated game: C&C Tiberian Sun (original and RA were pretty good, though)
Most underrated genre: TBS
Most underrated game: Chip's Challenge

[Tuberski]

Best: Master of Magic
Worst: Pax Imperia

Best Bargain: Fallout 1 & 2 box set for $9.99 or Ultima Underworld
Most Disappointing:Any of the various Sim games

Overrated: RTS (real time is 1 day = 1 day isn't it?)

EDIT: MULE is also one of the best games I ever played, along with Rogue.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Best: Civ II (runners up: SimCity 2000 and Roller Coaster Tycoon; for me best=replayability)

Worst: either SimAnts or New Adventures of the Time Machine (each of which, thankfully, I bought for < $10)

Best Bargain: Planescape Torment for $9.99

Most disappointing: no contest here -- Riven

[St Leo]

Most overrated game: C&C Tiberian Sun (original and RA were pretty good, though)

Who, exactly, overrated it? I don't recall seeing one favourable review, but maybe I spend too much time on Usenent.

[chronocrator]

While I said that Tiberian Sun was the most disappointing game I can see where the "overrated" comes from. All previews said only good things about the game and presented beautiful fake screenshots (good Photoshop job Westwood ) so the game was overrated even before it came out.

[tniem]

Best: The Original Civilization
Worst: SimEarth
Best Bargain: SpyCraft for $5
Most disappointing: Civilization III, CTP series

Most overrated: Civ III
Most underrated: SpyCraft
Most overrated genre: FPS

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


M.U.L.E. is one of the all time best games if not the best. Here is a website that is dedicated to the game.

M.U.L.E. stands for multple-use labour element, and the thing looks a bit like one of those big-arse walkers from The Empire Strikes Back. The game itself, however, is totally non-violent. Up to 4 human players can play the Atari version and 2 on the Commodore 64.

I will leave the exact description of the game out - I am sure you can find it on the website. The game itself is one of excellent design. All the elements are tightly woven. There is no surefire strategy to win. All apporaches work. Also, there is no clear winner most of the time, Flip flop can occur in one turn.

What is the most outstanding feature, however, is the players must cooperate to win. That's right, they have to compete yet cooporate at the time time. Cut-throat competition will cause everybody to lose.

This is the game I used to play almost every night during my undegrad years when school was in progress. The good thing is you can conclude the game in an hour.

I can't believe that anyone even remembers this game. It is my all time favorite as well (circa 1982). By the way, I had the commodore 64 version and 4 could play as well.

I'm still not believing that no one has done anything similar since then. It did have a steep learning curve. We never did too much cooperation and it usually took us more than an hour to complete. Any cool memory there.

R:PM

[chronocrator]

Originally posted by RPMisCOOL
I'm still not believing that no one has done anything similar since then.

Actually I've read somewhere that a remake of M.U.L.E. is going to be made.

*searches the web*

Here, it is called Space HoRSE:

http://shrapnelgames.com/gilligames/Space_HoRSE/

Couldn't they have at least improved the graphics?