Top 5 Vintage Outdoor Games


1. Pétanque
2. Croquet
3. Rounders
4 Skittles5. Parlour Games
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Top 5 Modern games

Dragon Age
Never Winter Nights
Knights of the Old Republic
Civilization IV
Starcraft

I'll do mine by 5 favorite genre

4x: (tie) Master of Orion 2 / Master of Orion 3 modded with Pedxing Chocolate mod

RTS: Total Annihilation

MOBA: Demigod

RPG: Skyrim

Space Adventure: (tie) Star flight / Star Control 2

Ha, yes, that joystick was the tit's, I remember my friend had it it was fantastic for any kind of simulation including simulating driving Giant Robots!

Interesting. MOO3 was SUCH a disappointment. I have not tried this mod. Does it save MOO3 --- is it worth an evening trying out the mod?

Oooh boy.. I'll have to pare down this list. Best probably to stick to the ones that I'd only play again without batting an eye (the ones that survive nostalgia and are actually still fun to play despite graphics), or that took up so much of my life in the past.

Vintage (DOS, Console, no particular order):

Master of Magic
Master of Orion II
Final Fantasy Tactics
Tactics Ogre (Ogre Battle series) (You could turn a character into a LICH! I mean, c'mon!)
Thief Gold, plus the Thievery mod for the original Unreal engine (Gold was 1 & 2, but it was basically the same game continued, and Thievery was simply an amazing multiplayer experience).

Recent (no particular order):

Freelancer (not very recent, but windows based so not vintage) (The original game sucked me in, and the modding made this game still playable for me today).
Sins of a Solar Empire
Everquest 2 (see below)
Left4Dead 1 and then 2
Prototype

I list Everquest 2 even though I can never play it again. With 2 children now, I simply do not have time to invest properly in MMOs. But if you counted up all my played time amongst my many, many characters... it totaled over 3.5 years (that's in-game time!). It makes the list simply because of that, and because I still get the nostalgia and urge from time to time.

There's some honorable mentions out there: the Mechwarriors (incl. the very first DOS one! Loved the freedom of the game), the D&D RPG games (Menzoberranzan, Stone Prophet, the Baldur's Gate series including the console ones!, Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights), the Elder Scrolls series, the Sim Cities games, the various MMOs I've played (DDO, the original Everquest, and my brief stint in WoW), the various quest games (King's Quest, Police Quest, Day of the Tentacle, etc, etc), and the hundreds of NES games I played and bubble into my mind from time to time (Populous, Immortal, Final Fantasy series, etc).

Good lord, thinking back, I think I may have played way too much video games.

With that list of best seilling games one also has to remember when some of these games were released.

But sims.. really? No wonder they keep making them then, that always puzzled me

And I cannot believe you put Vanguard on your list. At least when I played it, as it was just released it was bugged insanely. Not even beta worthy. A bard running 3 times faster than a mounted charachter as soon as it picked up drums and off-handers displaying 7 digit crit numbers.. shudders... the map looked awesome though, I just couldnt get over all the bugs to warrant further play.

FAvourite games rated in each category from top down. first being best etc. :

Oldies:

Masters of Orion 2

 Warcraft 2

UFO Enemy Unknown

Baldurst Gate 1-2/Icewind Dale 1-2/Planescape: Torment

Magic the Gathering :  Shandalar

less Oldies:

Deus Ex - in my opinion, one of the best PC games of all times. Everything was friggin perfect. Music, voice acting, graphics (for its time), story, gameplay.. all of it simply brilliant.

Morrowind - the amount of time sunk into this game...

Monkey Island 3

Gothic 1 through 3 - number 4 is a disgrace

OpenTTD

New(er) titles:

Skyrim and oblivion

Sins of a Solar Empire

Galactic Civilizations 2

Civ V (I loved all from 2 to 5)

Mass Effect 1 (and a little 2)

MMOs:

EvE Online - My favourite MMO hands down. By far the best one out there now (and the hardest probably) and as soon as I set food on Danish soil subs will be reopened.

SWG - So I met some guys back in the days in EvE from fountain alliance and we started hanging out on their TS right.. one day, one of them says that hes into SWG.. and I am like.. alright good on you mate, so long as its conscentual. Later turned into be a MMO and it hooked me, it hooked me unlike anything ever did. Slept when servers hit maitanence at 5 am, got up again at 11 am resumed where I left off... half a year later I came to realize where I was headed. Quite scary.

Guild Wars - Also introduced through EvE and though quite adicting too with GvG and all.

Dark Ages of Camelot : They just dont make the third person fantasy mmo's like this anymore

WoW from Lich King and onward was pants, but I loved Burning Crusade, brilliant

Others.. serriously awesome games are too many to list.

Colonization? Nobody mentioned this?

Dungeon Keeper

Quake 1-3

Duke Nukem 3D - thumbs up for pixelated boobs.

Armada2526

Geez, another game that totally slipped my mind. This game sucked in I don't know how many hours. I was a big sucker for Caesar 3, then they came out with Pharaoh which was even better and I sank even more hours into. When this came out I thought, "Well, it will be nice for a change of venue but I don't know how they can make it better than Pharaoh." But wow, this is the best game in the Sierra citybuilder series... and still holds up today. They fixed every little niggling problem I had with Pharaoh and then some. Combine that awesome citybuilder gameplay with the extra-long campaign and great historical references, this one is a clear winner.

Other games that slipped my mind that other people put on their lists:

Dominions 3

Freelancer

Dungeon Keeper 2

In my opinion Need for Speed stopped being truly great after the third one, which was amazing

Can anyone tell me what EU3 has that EU2 didn't?

Sorry didn't see this until now

Enjoying Moo3 In a nutshell

Even regular moo3 is full of terribly bad bugs that need to be fixed before you can even try and get a feel for the way the game is meant to be played. Here is the site for that. Look at the "fixes" section... I mean, just wow. Entire game mechanics just do not even work.

The chocolate mod, in addition to adding the best 3rd party mods like the mentioned bug fixes and enhanced UI mods, adjusts the way Moo3 was meant to be played.

-It puts an emphasis on early expansion by migration (so you just do not power build colony ships for victory)
-It staggers the tech tree logically
-It reduces the constant need to micro manage DEAs with techs that reduce surplus into useful productivity.

This gives you a chance to explore game aspects of empire macromanagement without wanting to pull out your hair. (because moo3 does not allow you to do this properly the way the production techs work)

Gives you a chance to see how race attributes actually effect the game (because in regular Moo3, production races are best because Colony Ships basically manufacturer population out of thin air)

I like exploring the concept of "make the best of the hand you are dealt with" in games, and Moo3 with chocolate does an excellent job of this, in the framework of macromanaging a large empire. (if this not appealing to you, this may not change your opinion of moo3)

It will also greatly help if you understand the way the diplomacy AI works in normal Moo3, because you can do some truly fantastic things in this game that you can't in others. The way the diplomacy AI works was never really showcased or made to be understood, so you need to browse the forums to get it to work for you)

Hope that helps...

My Top 10 PC games:

1. KOTOR

2. Shogun 2

3. XWing Alliance

4. Mech Warrior 4

5. Aliens Vs Predator 2

6. Medieval 2 Total War

7. Age of Kings

8. Jedi Knight 2 Outcast

9. Janes Fighters Anthology 

10. Duke Nuken 3d

I still have the MoO3 disks buried in a pile of dust around here somewhere. I'm pretty sure I was one of the few who actually enjoyed the game... there was something neat about seeing those swarms of little fighters closing in on something. It did get boring somewhat quickly after I realized the AI was very very bad. Perhaps if I have some time I'll give the chocolate mod a try.