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Aramis is offline Aramis
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Not where I was tomorrow, nor will be yesterday.
Dec 2002
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I wanted to put this on the Civ-General forum, but thought it might be inappropriate.

I've been playing Civ III since it came out, enjoyed the PtW expansion (other than the price), and think C3C is the epitome of what Civ could be (other than my, ahem own mods).
I eagerly await CivIV (sort of--I also fear it may be a 'dumbed down' version of Civ designed for a bigger audience).

In the mean time I've been playing a lot of other games and I'm curious as to what fellow Civers and fellow Polytubbies are playing. I'm always looking for a new game, desperately trying to recapture that initial Civ experience.

Myself, I've been heavily into Medieval: Total War. I wasn't impressed when I first bought it, but after it had gathered a little dust I dragged it back out and now I'm having a blast with it. The campaign game confused me, but now I've figured that out and I'm having a lot of fun with it. Eagerly await Rome: Total War with the anticipation I felt for C3C.

Command and Conquer: Generals was pretty cool but I've cooled on it. The only real challenge now is playing as the GLA, but I can't overcome a distateful feeling being them. The USA is the best to play, but China has some amazing units. I have issues with the interface, though, that frustrate me.

Rise of Nations, as most RTS games, grew tiresome to me. But with the T&P expansion my interest is renewed.

The Sims, and all its countless expansions, leaves me with one thought: "What would you need for a military alliance against the Sims?"

All the hype about Doom III almost got me interested, but I don't really care for first person shooters. Is this the game that will change my mind? Let me know.

I like some old games: Sid Meier's Civil War Collection, 1503, Caesar III, Pharoah . . .
What are you playing these days? What do you recommend?

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Oct 2001
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I am mostly playing games featured on the Other Games forum, and if you have a look around there then you'll easily find some like-minded souls.

Oh, and FG at the beginning of a thread title stands for forum game.

Kuciwalker is offline Kuciwalker
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Feb 2001
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Forum Games are good but I'm actually playing a lot of Halo nowadays.

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Aug 2001
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I've started playing Vice City again. Lots of fun and great to play if you only have a few minutes or a whole day. Either way works.

For the record, this should be in the Other Games forum, not the community forum.

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May 2001
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Seems like the question was directed to the entire Community, not just the subset that frequents Other Games.

I like playing Poker when not able to play Civ2.

Monk

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Feb 2001
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I've started playing Vice City again. Lots of fun and great to play if you only have a few minutes or a whole day. Either way works.


If you only have a few minutes, going on a rampage with the tank is fun

DrSpike is offline DrSpike
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Sep 2001
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City of Heroes, until the month runs out.

Ben Kenobi is offline Ben Kenobi
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Oct 2002
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HOMM2+3 and Diablo 2, once I get everything together.

Right now, I've been playing plenty of Risk.

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Feb 2001
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SimCity 4 + a bit of Need for Speed Underground.

C3C only for the pbems and Progressive Games™ at the Spanish Forum.

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Feb 2001
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Progressive Games?

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Jan 2002
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Aside from PtWDG1 and some light PtW PBEMing of my own, it's a bit of Diablo 2 now and then. But the poor civ soul in me just tends to micromanage all those gems, runes, juicy magical items and such ad nauseam... It's about 10 minutes of a furious clickfest and 10 minutes of desperate chest-shuffling.

Oh, btw, I hate Duriel. I am just no good in killing it with my paladin-sucker... took me about three hours last time... I think I lost 1,000,000+ gold just on resurrecting my archeress over and over... no fun...

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i play mostly card games and board games either at home watching TV or polying, or out at park or cafe these days.

some basketball. stickballs, softball maybe if we can get enough people to actually do something.... (my friends suck at planning and following thru)

As for video games, some UT2k4, doom3 although i havent really gotten into MP yet and SP is getting a bit repetitive. Some tekken tag and other random old school games once in awhile...

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Oh, btw, I hate Duriel. I am just no good in killing it with my paladin-sucker... took me about three hours last time... I think I lost 1,000,000+ gold just on resurrecting my archeress over and over... no fun...


Are you playing 1.10? Im not familiar with the latest patch, but if you invest some points in Holy shield, with pretty decent shield u shouldnt have a problem with any big nasty melee guys.


or..... you can give the gold to ur friend, open up 2 TP, activate thorn, take his TP to the boss and let him whack you.


Sadly thats how i beat few of the bosses in my earlier pathetic days in D2... but it works...

General Ludd is offline General Ludd
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Aug 2001
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I used to be playing alot of NWN, but once I got word of my favorite arena server being shut down at the end of the month I got kind of bummed out. Now I'm playing lots of WH40K: Dawn of War.

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Splinter Cell PT... and I did play Doom 3 for about 10 hours until I beat it, not much replay value with that one until some good mods come out.

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I've spent the summer playing through a series of classic SNES RPGs – Sword of Mana, Final Fantasy III/VI, Chrono Trigger, the game that's currently being guessed in Name that Game, and finally Seiken Densetsu 3. Of these I only finished Chrono Trigger – in all the others I reached points where I'd have had to spend an hour or more levelling up against weaker enemies before I could tackle the next section, a task which I consider a failing of game design and which bores me immensely.

Since I'm scrapping my computer in a couple of days' time, I'm currently finishing off some lighter fare in the form of B-level FOA-clone Flight of the Amazon Queen which is providing a pleasant diversion.

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I've started playing Freelancer again.

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quote:
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Are you playing 1.10? Im not familiar with the latest patch, but if you invest some points in Holy shield, with pretty decent shield u shouldnt have a problem with any big nasty melee guys.

or..... you can give the gold to ur friend, open up 2 TP, activate thorn, take his TP to the boss and let him whack you.

Sadly thats how i beat few of the bosses in my earlier pathetic days in D2... but it works...

Yes, the latest patch (1.10). It does feel a little bit more difficult... but that's not it. I have always sucked with Duriel - I hate the lack of manoeuvring space in that cell. Most likely, I haven't invested into the right skill - having just 1 point in Holy Shield ATM, I think... thanks for the tip! Will try it next time (that will be on the Hell level, if I ever get there).

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At the moment I am also playing Freecell. I have a (so far unbroken) string of 21 35 consecutive wins. W00t for me.

[edit] Skuciniwalcher sucks.

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Freecell sucks

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GSC's series of Cossacks and their various versions, EW, AOW and BTW, American Conquest. A full scale RTS I'm addicted to.

I don't like most wargames (don't like gore very much unlike some of you) unless they're tactical, glorious and reminds me of Sun Tzu and Chinese style intrigue. Hence why I like GSC's series and Cossacks.

I have ut2k4 but I dislike it. BF1942, I like that slightly more.

I have some other simulation games, Simcity, flight sims, the lot, but I play those less often as well.

Oh yes.

CHESS

WEIQI (also known as Go)

Glorious board games!

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WC 3: the Frozen Throne. I'm on the last mission for the Night Elves and I've been playing it for a while but it was placed on hold when I moved to my new place a month ago.

Am thinking of going back to it sometimes soon

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heroes of might and magic 2(homm2) it's addictive. are 3 and 4 any good?

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Nov 2001
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Tiger Woods 2004
Need for Speed Underground
Hearts of Iron
....and Doom3

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Aug 2001
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Dominions 2 and Metroid Prime (hard mode).

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heroes of might and magic 2(homm2) it's addictive. are 3 and 4 any good?


3 is more of the same, but 4 was not that well received by HoMM fans.

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Three is a blast, more eye candy and better scenarios.

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Civ3 and Smac. Along with Neverwinter Nights. I still play Diablo 2 occassionally. I have Fallout 1 and 2 and tactics on my hard drive, but I don't play them often. I also play KOTOR occasionally. And baldur's gate 1 and 2 occasionally.

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Edit: whoa, wrong thread. Nothing to see here.

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Many years ago I never finished either Riven nor Myst: Exile, and now I am!

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