24-08-2005 02:37									#1
	Realistic games id like to see Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Carrier Pilot: Naval combat flight sim.

Approaching enemy ships! You are called to the ready room, to be briefed on enemy position. Wait! Now the higher ups have decided its too early too launch. Play cards, make small talk, while awaiting orders. Can go on for hours.


Logistics:Total War
A true look at the economic side of war. You run a supply depot, and have to place orders for new supplies, and dispense supplies to combat units. If you turn down a request, and a combat unit gets hurt as a result, you lose. If you fill all requests, and then youre out of a critical supply, and a combat unit gets hurt as a result, you lose.


Battlefield Civil war: A first person shooter based on the Civil War. You spend hours marching. You play cards, tell stories, and drink bad coffee. You are sent marching up a hill, and told to fire at the amorphous crowd of enemy soldiers. All you can see is smoke. If you dont get hit, you march back to camp, play cards, tell stories, and drink bad coffee. Then you die of an infectious disease.

	24-08-2005 02:40									#2
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Civilization TBS: your fledgling civilization dies out because of drought.

	24-08-2005 03:31									#3
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Realistic games.

	24-08-2005 08:11									#4
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Real-Time Civilization: now you can play the role of a peasant in real time! Plow the fields! Irrigate the land! Run away from floods and famines! And much, much, more!

	24-08-2005 09:34									#5
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Call of Duty special WW2 edition: The Other Side:
Japanese have just attacked Pearl Harbour. As an American, you are shocked, and enlist immediately. Since you are a female, you spend the whole war making grenades in a smog-filled factory.

	24-08-2005 18:04									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Real-Time Civilization: now you can play the role of a peasant in real time! Plow the fields! Irrigate the land! Run away from floods and famines! And much, much, more!

Harvest Moon isn't good enough?

	24-08-2005 19:26									#7
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Nuclear War

Everyone starts with five cities, 500 nukes, and 1 bunker.

Deflecting is not available, new cities cannot be built, and bunkers don't protect anything except themselves.

Roaches win on turn 1.

	24-08-2005 19:30									#8
	Full PM-box? Change here!

Super Snowboarder 2006 - Awesome snowboarding action until you mess up a jump and fly off a cliff, shattering most of the bones in your legs, thus swiftly ending your career.

	24-08-2005 23:55									#9
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Common Theft Auto

Spend half an hour trying to break into a Ford Escort to impress your mates, drink a litre of cider in the park and then set the car on fire before the police tell your parents.

	25-08-2005 01:55									#10
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The Sims: Go outside, see how boring people really are. Come back in.

	25-08-2005 02:40									#11
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Human evolution: Part three.

Take controll of the most powerfull nation in the world and see if you can use your influence to progress the journey of mankind:

1. head to the stars and found new colonies in our solar system

2. eradicate disease+poverty

3. Herald in a new dawn of peace and prosperity for all

4. Or go for greed and the destruction of our one good planet.

The choice is yours

	25-08-2005 03:11									#12
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quote: Originally posted by duke o' york The Sims: Go outside, see how boring people really are. Come back in.

Wait! I think someone already did that one.

	25-08-2005 06:29									#13
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NASA: Space Probe

from blast off to orbital turns... monitor a probe's 20 year journey to the edge of the solar system in real time

	25-08-2005 07:12									#14
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd Harvest Moon isn't good enough?

Never heard of it

	25-08-2005 16:12									#15
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It's the game of the Amish festival!

	26-08-2005 01:21									#16
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medeival role playing game.

you use your starting cash (from your father) to buy long swords and chainmail only to find out you aren't quick enough to kill rats to get better skilled. And then a bunch of thugs rob you and steal your armour and swords.

	26-08-2005 02:48									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Dis medeival role playing game. you use your starting cash (from your father) to buy long swords and chainmail only to find out you aren't quick enough to kill rats to get better skilled. And then a bunch of thugs rob you and steal your armour and swords.

Sword and Mount isn't good enough?

	26-08-2005 04:06									#18
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd Sword and Mount isn't good enough?

you must really play some obscure games.

and sword and mount sounds like a porno game.

	26-08-2005 17:47									#19
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Soon on a screen near you: Forest Tycoon. A RTS where the aim is to plant, nurture and grow a mighty oak forest.

Watch 'em trees grow millimeter by millimeter in real time. Fight tree deseases, sloppy campers forgetting to put out their barbeque fires and nasty insects...

Lobby politicians for increased subsidies on homegrown oak and/or tariffs on foreign one... Battle it out with other self-proclaimed oak tycoons on the Internet using chain saws, chopping machines and oak pesticides...

Don't miss the extremely limited special collectors' edition in a nice oak wood box, including Monty Python's The Lumberjack Song!

Carolus

	26-08-2005 17:51									#20
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That reminds me...

Have you ever played Puupeli or it's sequel (dl from "Siirry lataussivulle" link at the center), Carolus?

	26-08-2005 18:06									#21
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No, and since my finnish is, eh, rudimentary , what is it? (Don't tell me there exists a woodgrowing game)

Carolus

	26-08-2005 22:43									#22
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quote: quote: Originally posted by General Ludd: Harvest Moon isn't good enough?

quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger : Never heard of it

http://www.harvestmoon.com/ my gf loves it, and for the just over the year she was playing it, i used to find myself watching in a hypnotic daze while she rushed around planting and harvesting not sure if its my kind of game, but if i had kids its a game i'd be happy to let them play(and maybe steal some game time myself).

quote: Originally posted by General Ludd: Sword and Mount isn't good enough?

quote: Originally posted by Dis you must really play some obscure games. and sword and mount sounds like a porno game.

http://www.taleworlds.com/ a superb game, and not porno, just horses/armour and combat


But to get back OT:

Freetrade: an economic game of trade in the current era, learn just how the first world countries use money to keep the third world down. Grant huge loans, secure arms deals,embago trade goods; see what it really takes to rule as a major world power.

	27-08-2005 01:32									#23
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Free trade: A game that focuses on the reality of governments, globalization, and development of trade empires. You play a civil servant in the Ministy of Finance/Treasury department. You have been assigned to assist in negotiating the details of a free trade treaty. Your job will entail researching the technical specs of "widgets", meeting various NPC's (widget makers, unions, widget consumer groups) You will then attempt to negotiate the defininition of "widget" with your opposite number from the country you are negotiating with. You will then write up the results, and present them to your superior. Your budget will then be cut, forcing you to play the next round in less time.

(COT - do you have a better idea now of the idea behind "realistic" games )

	27-08-2005 01:40									#24
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quote: Originally posted by lord of the mark Free trade: A game that focuses on the reality of governments, globalization, and development of trade empires. You play a civil servant in the Ministy of Finance/Treasury department. You have been assigned to assist in negotiating the details of a free trade treaty. Your job will entail researching the technical specs of "widgets", meeting various NPC's (widget makers, unions, widget consumer groups) You will then attempt to negotiate the defininition of "widget" with your opposite number from the country you are negotiating with. You will then write up the results, and present them to your superior. Your budget will then be cut, forcing you to play the next round in less time.

Sounds familiar.

	27-08-2005 02:24									#25
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quote: Originally posted by lord of the mark Free trade: A game that focuses on the reality of governments, globalization, and development of trade empires. edit....... (COT - do you have a better idea now of the idea behind "realistic" games )

well i dont want to bog my players down too much(it should be fun?) - just give them the basic taste of what it involves.
Anyway your game sounds an awfull lot like my one, and as i made it first you could be infringeing my copyright, heck its even got the same name

	27-08-2005 03:15									#26
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You'd have to find the owners to the (C) or was it (TM)? There was a web game called FreeTrade a few years ago. Someone has already beaten both of you to the name, and then failed.

	27-08-2005 03:18									#27
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Patent Attorney:

Spend months researching patents to find prior art to allow you to invalidate another player's patent suits against you.

Spend months then researching patents for possible prior art for new clients. Then spend months getting your paperwork in order to file patent infringement claims against other players!

Features all 10 trillion patents ever filled in the world.

	27-08-2005 03:23									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Darkstar Features all 10 trillion patents ever filled in the world.

Even Dissident's Spamotron?

	27-08-2005 08:13									#29
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Poly Moderator:

Just like whackamole, except instead of moles, DLs of EvC, Thorn, and others pop up.

	27-08-2005 11:30									#30
	Tired of ads?

coT: you mean those are real games? I thought Osweld made them up.

Edit: bah, Harvest Moon is not a PC game.