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

[Juggler]

Best Game: Civ2 FW
Best Bargain: Age of Empires II (for free, heh heh)
Most Disappointing: Black & White
Biggest Rip-off: Civ3 "Limited" Edition
Best RPG: Baldur's Gate + Tales

(Civ3 & Dungeon Keeper 2 are both included in the "most disappointing" section)

Most anticipated (Yet to come): Duke Nukem Forever

I agree, although I've been "anticipating" it for 4 years now.

[Triped]

Best game: Starcraft takes the cake

Worst game: Dark Colony...oh God, it's awful

Best bargain: probably all my isos , picking up a legit AoK/Conqueror's for $10 is up there, though

Biggest ripoff: $50 for State of Emergency...thank God for ebay

Most disappointing: Streets of Sim City...sounded so much cooler than it was

Most surprising: Heroes of Might & Magic IV...especially after they iron out that goddamned memory leak

Most addictive: easily Diablo II

Most overrated: Final Fantasy VII-X...this is coming from an RPG fan, no less

Most underrated (and unheard of):

Strifeshadow

Good times

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by Osweld
Well, yes... I can be quite slow. I've got two games going with ~15 people in each one, and they are both moving at a rate of about one turn a day.


But with fewer people, and maybe a bit of organization, I hear it can go quite fast.

Hey Os,

Just curious, how long have you been playing and when do you expect to finish?

How does the game handle drop-outs?

Does combat resolution revert to tactical or strategic?

Do you know that the new gold version touts MP?

R:PM

[General Ludd]

I started the games last month... I don't know when it will finish but I've just started making first contact with people in the past couple of weeks.


I'm not sure how it handles drop-outs, but I believe that the AI will take over untill someone fills the spot (doesn't neccisarily have to be the same person)


Combat is always strategic, and the turns are usually played on simultaneous mode.


I'm playing the gold version.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Originally posted by Asher
Best: Toejam and Earl I (Sega Genesis)

And I thought I was the only one who played that game

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns

Worst: Deus Ex

Just wanted to ask why?
Deus Ex is on my 'best of' list.

I never got it to run with any decent resolution on my computer, arrow keys didn't seem to work, from memory it was very different to any other game I have ever played. After trying it I shudderd and went back to Duke Nukem 3D. I haven't tried it in a year, but I have been very mindful of the fact that it is the one game that I have had problems running on my P3 800 w/ 256RAM, GeForce 2 32MB etc etc.

I certainly didn't give it justice, but then again it wouldn't testify.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov
And I thought I was the only one who played that game

I absolutely loved it. I played it forever with my brother and friends. One of the very first worthwhile multiplayer experiences of my life.

ToeJam and Earl III has just been announced for Xbox, and it'll be based on TJ&E 1 and not 2. October 2002 it's due out. Can't wait.

[Unspeakable Horror]

Best: Civ2
Best Bargain: MOO2
Worst: Pax Imperia

Most surprising: Total Annihilation
Most disappointing: Civ3

[Paul Go Gain]

MULE!
That was a REAL classic, though it wasn't really cheap. Paid about 60$ for it in 1982.
I read an interesting article about it, but I forgot where that was ...

[dunk]

Best: Ultima VII: The Black Gate
Worst: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure & Hillsfar (both for C64)

Best Bargain: Age of Empires for $5.

Honorable Mention:
Archon
Defender of the Crown
Stunts... I saw someone post this and thought of all the fun times creating tracks and racing Skid Viscious
X-wing and Tie Fighter series
MULE... I love this game... still play it on my C64 emulator
Dr. Creep
Zork
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
Galactic Conquest... old C64 game
and of course... Civ I, II, and III

[Paul Go Gain]

Most dissappointing: Frontier

[loinburger]

Worst: OverLord. What a hunk of junk. "Defeat Kill-Or [or whatever], the ultimate Bad-Guy, in a galaxy consisting of 32 planets! Build up a massive trade empire between your various planets, which are conveniently located on a straight line! Oh yeah, and you're only allowed to possess 32 ships at a time because we have this odd obsession about the number 32, so when we say 'massive trade empire' we actually mean 'two planets, since that's the sum total of the number of planets you'll be able to populate with only 32 ships at your disposal.' And when we say that Kill-Or is the 'ultimate Bad-Guy,' we actually mean that he can only control 32 ships as well, but that he starts out with an army that is ten times larger than your maximum population. Weep at your defeat, pitiful human!"

[Sharpe]

Worst: OverLord. What a hunk of junk.

Oh man, I had almost forgotten about that truly awful game. The horror, the horror!

Hey Loinburger, do you also remember how the "Ultimate Bad Guy" always knew exactly what you were doing - when you first built your ships, armies, etc. and threatened you each time. And how the AI NEVER needed any food, minerals or energy for their planets and always got rid of your food, material and energy machines when they conquered any of your planets.

My list:

Best games: Civ 2 MGE
Honourable mentions: SMACX, MOO series, Diablo II, Age of Kings

Worst game: Overlord
Dishonourable mentions: Birth of the Federation and Emperor of the Fading Suns

Best Bargain(s): Civ 1 - $4 - I rented it from a gamestore and never removed it from my hard drive

Worst Bargains: Civ 3 Limited Edition ($60) (hopefully the expansion restores my faith) and Lords of the Realm 2 ($40)

Most surprising: Fallout series
Most disappointing: Railroad Tycoon II Gold

Worst Genre: Duck Hunting Games (thankfully I avoid them)

[MosesPresley]

Best: Tied: Dungeon Keeper 2/Civilization 3

Worst: Superpower, this one is just awful.

Best Bargain: X-COM: Apocalypse .99 cents

Most disappointing: Warrior Kings

Most overrated: Civ 2

Most surprising: Myth: The Fallen Lords

Most boring: Sword of Vermillion, though Dune 2000 did suck big time too.

Most unusual: The Residents Present: Bad Day on the Midway, if you can find it, it is the most original rpg ever.

[thinkingamer]

Biggest Rip-off: Civ 3
Most Disappointing: Civ3
Best PC Games of All time: Civ2, SMAC, homm3 and homm2.
Most overrated: FPS, RTS, and Civ3.