Mansen wrote: Welp - There goes free speech and nostalgia on the forums. Guess I won't bother coming back again.
Thanks Steph - I thought your company was mature enough to let people speak their mind in a mature manner as long as they don't actively promote piracy.
See you in... never?
I have replied to your private message.
As a reminder, piracy (like any other "controversial" subjects) isn't a topic we allow our members to discuss. Please refer to the forum rules here.
I've always had a love for strategy games. One of the first games I played when I was but a wee lad was Age of Empires II, which came out two years after I was born.
A few more I think back on fondly, are the Starfox games, Halo CE, Metroid Prime, and Super Smash Bros. Melee.
On a slightly similar note - A big compendium of Amiga was just released in hard- and paperback. It was kickstarted a while back and the backers (myself included) have received the book (So I can actually vouch for its contents)
It's been released into retail as well though, so people can still get it - Thought a few of you might be interested.
The first game I played a lot of is also the first game I ever played in my life. It's Dune 2 I started playing it when I was 2 myself, so the title was fitting, lol. Got much better at it once I learned to read numbers and do the most basic math when I was ~3 haha
You should see my old save files. They're all titled "1", "01", "010", "0101", "01010" and so on... no, I have no idea what was going in my head back then and why I named my save files in such way lol
I still play Dune 2 to this day btw. Amazing game, I wish it had skirmish mode and multiplayer lol
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Awww I miss the Dune games. I miss Westwood. Another reason to hate EA >.>
My Nostalgia picks would be hard to choose from!
I suppose the first game I really remember playing into the ground is Zelda: Link to the Past on SNES. Castlevania and Metroid series come to mind. Megaman stuff too!
On PC there are so so so many!
Masters of Orion 2, Westwood's C&C series, Starcraft, Age of Empires II, Cid Mier's Alpha Centuari, Xcom, VtM: Bloodlines, City of Heroes, Bioware's Neverwinter Nights, and pretty much any Black Isle RPG (Fallout 1&2, Baldur's Gate I&II, Planescape:Torment, ect)
If I had to pick just one, probably Masters of Orion 2. I've had that one on every PC I've owned.
It has everything you want in a good 4X. It provides a nice immersive experience and has tons of replay value. You want to play as space bears from a high-gravity world and use your peoples tough bodies in combat? Then focusing on boarding technology and take your enemies ships from them! They'll have to resort to bombing to take your planets from you, their soldiers will just get slaughtered!
You don't want to deal with food? Go Lithovore, grats, your people are silicon-based rock eaters.
Maybe you want to play as a cybernetic race with tolerant bodies who have a wider selection of planets to choose from since you can adapt to extreme conditions?
So many ways to play. From espionage to diplomacy, it has it all.
It's was what introduced me to the genre, and still remains as my benchmark for comparison when a new 4x comes out.
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