I am bored at work and felt like making a list
It might be useful to the devs to know what games other than SC2 the SC2 fans like, so it isn't entirely a fluff thread.
Mine are...
Computer games
1. Star Control 2
2. Civilization
3. Sierra's Front Page Sports Football
4. X-Com
5. Team Fortress
Board Games
1. Star Fleet Battles
2. Mega Supremacy
3. Avalon Hill's Acquire
4. Federation & Empire
5. Avalon Hill's Blitzkrieg
Video games.
1. Galactic civilizations 2 and 3
2. Fantasy star 3 or 4
3. Civilization 4
4. Call to power
5. Tetris
Board games
1. Chess
2. Dungeon and Dragons
3. Monopoly
4.. Life
5. Risk
1. Mass Effect
2. Deus Ex
3. Fallout
4. Civilization
5. Star Control 2 / Heroes of Might & Magic 2 / Hearthstone
There are only a handful of computer games that I've replayed (or in the case of PS:T, reread the source material)...
In no order...
X-Com 1 and 2
Master of Orion 1 and 2
Master of Magic
Planescape: Torment
Star Control / Ur-Quan Masters SuperMelee
Ohh... I played Master of Magic way back when, that was a really great game.
Most people don't know this, but Master of Orion is an unlicensed Star Fleet Universe computer game. It is the combination of Steve Cole's Star Fleet Universe (Star Fleet Battles and Federation & Empire) into a single game, within the framework of a Civilization like game. It's a long story how that happened, but Master of Orion is essentially a Star Fleet Universe game that was made with no licensing or permission from ADB/TFG. How and why that happened is too long of a story to tell here.
video games
1)Star Control 2
2)Tecmo Bowl
3)Gain Ground
4)Command & Conquer (ps1 addition)
5)Street Fighter
I'm and old fogie, but this is my list. At least the ones I never got bored of playing.
Monopoly
Axis and Allies
Strategoo It wont let me spell it right. Lol...always replaces the o with a "y". Lol
Chess
Warlords: Battlecry series
Counter-strike, pre beta 6
Homeworld
Sins of a Solar Empire
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
I mainlined Counter-strike for about 17 hours a day at one point, but they kept trashing the system with random spray and made only a couple guns actually accurate even with the first shot. Sins would be the second most played, but only because I sank a few thousand hours into modding it. The top of my list is actually third most played, even between all three parts, but only for lack of a player base.
The WBC series is some epic stuff for a friendly multi-player game, 2 being the best. It's only good for friendly multi-player though. If you're going to be cutthroat and abuse the poor balance(17 unique sides with persistent RPG heroes on a small budget is guaranteed to have horrifying balance problems) and mechanical exploits, you wont get anywhere near the enjoyment from the game. It's far and away the greatest RTS out there in the right environment, the sheer variation gives it more replay than even heavily modded games like Sins can afford.
I'd say:
1) Star Control II
2) The Fallouts (1,2,3,NV,4)
3) Tie between Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind and
3) Mount and Blade: Warband (single player only)
4) Any Infinity Engine RPG (Baldur's Gates, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment)
5) Multiple Open World Games (only the good ones) like Dying Light, Shadow of Mordor, etc. (not Assassin's Creed or the Arkham games)
6) Space Pirates and Zombies!
7) Civilization 2, 3, 4 and 5 and Alpha Centauri (too bad Beyond Earth was garbage)
8) Oh my God, I'm missing so many and I've already listed like 20... ummm...
9) The old HOMM games
10) Deus Ex 1 - everything after that has been a drag
11) Still waiting for a good Warhammer 40k game, which will go here *crosses fingers*
12) Wait, how many were we supposed to list?!
1) Star Control 2
2) Shattered Galaxy
3) Civilization Series
4) X-com Series
5) C&C Red Alert / Lineage 2 / MoO2
Console Games
1. Final Fantasy Tactics
2. Mike Tyson's Punch Out
3. Ico
4. Red Dead Redemption
5. Intelligent Qube
PC Games
1. MechCommander
2. Age of Empires II
3. Star Control II
4. MechWarrior II
5. Medieval: Total War
Video games:
1) Gal Civ III and II
2) Call to Power
3) Everquest
4) Xcom
5) Half Life
Board games:
Seriously there is only one game, the best game of all time:
Advanced Squad Leader...nothing compares. (nearly $2,000 in modules, equipment and maps)
You are a 1%er of hardcore gaming. Only two games qualify you for that, Star Fleet Battles and Advanced Squad Leader
I know you said five, but dang it I'm going to do ten!
(in no particular order)
1. Star Control II/The Ur-Quan Masters - 1993
2. X-COM: UFO Defense (especially with OpenXcom mods on top of it!) - 1994
3. X-COM: Apocalypse - 1997
4. Civilization V - 2011?
5. Zork I - 1983
6. Wargame: European Escalation - 2013
7. Undertale - 2015
8. Space Engineers - 2013
9. Arma III - 2013
10. X-COM: Enemy Within w/ Long War mod - 2012
I am certain that I am forgetting some, but these are the ones I can remember.
1. Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters
2. Star Control II: Supermelee
3. Star Control II: Planet Lander
4. Star Control II: Find the Rainbow Planets
5. Star Control I Master of Orion
Shouldn't Rainbow planet finder be your number 2? That was easily one of the most exciting moments of the game!
3. Heroes of Might & Magic 2
4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles
5. Neverwinter Nights
In no particular order:
X-Com
Master of Orion
Civilization 2
Star Control 2
City of Heroes
Serious contenders: SimCity 2000, Fallout 3/4, Baldur's Gate 1/2
In no order:
CaveStory
Starcontrol 2
Undertale
The Binding of Isaac
The Legend of Zelda original, and Majora's Mask
1. M.U.L.E.
2. Master of Orion 2
3. UFO - Enemy Unknown
4. World of Warcraft
5. Civilization V
Other Favorites:
Eye of Beholder Series, Might and Magic Series, X, X2, Jumpman, Diablo 1-3, GalCiv3
Video Games:
RL Games
I might edit this post later if I can think of anything else that was really influential, but I think that this pretty much nails it down... More than anything, though - what I think that this post is getting at as to what my formative experiences were that defined how I view games and life today - I would have to say was simply being smart; being smart is the one thing that has paid dividends over and over in life and is the one thing that I wouldn't have been able to compensate for if this were not the case - choice in entertainment I think simply reflects this. Not just for me, but probably everyone who is serious about quality games and reads forums such as this.. Life is just a game, a fucked up game, but a game nonetheless...
gal civ
civ
starcraft
star control
command & conquer
These games I still hold at my computer.
Shadow of the Colossus
Mass Effect 1
Gothic 1, 2, & 3
Dark Souls
ARMA 3
Leaving out SC2, kind of a given.
Top 5
1. Starflight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight
- Size of the game just seemed huge at the time. Spent a good bit of time going to every system, just to see what there was to find. After the final, you could pretty much keep on going till you PC died. Races seem'd Alien, and the mystery of how we (humans) got here was a gem to find.
2. Herzog Zwei
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_Zwei
- The Grand dad of the RTS. No base building, but all the fortifying and capturing you can have. Stupidly fun in versus mode. AI wasn't the best at that the time.
3. Ground Control
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Control_(video_game)
- First RTS that felt immersive with a very good story. Unit selection was balanced well, and just challenging enough to keep you intrested.
4. Mechwarrior 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MechWarrior_2:_31st_Century_Combat
- Not the most realistic sim ever, but insanely fun to play.
5. Master of Orion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Orion
- East way to kill hours upon hours being the first one to find orion and spread out then in, to get the biggest foothold you can.
Runner's up.
Rise of Nations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_Nations
Spaz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pirates_and_Zombies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeworld
World in Conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_in_Conflict
Adventure
1. Quest for Glory
2. Space Quest
3. Full Throttle
4. Grim Fandango
5. Beneath a Steel Sky
RTS
1. Command & Conquer (C&C was meant to be Dune 3)
2. Dune 2
3. Warzone 2100
4. Homeworld
5. Starcraft 2
Simulation/Builder
1. Reunion
2. Evil Genius
3. Sim City
4. Dungeon Keeper
5. XCom/Breach 2
RPG
2. Freelancer
3. Out of this world
4. The Witcher
5. Mass Effect
FPS
1. Terminator Future shock
2. Deus-Ex
3. Half-Life
4. Call of Duty
5. Gears of War
Breach... Few people know that's where X-Com came from, most think X-Com was some totally original thing that came out of nowhere
Star Control 2 (3DO version)
Serious Sam Series
C&C
Mass Effect 2
Diablo 2
Close Contenders…
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout 3
Battlesport
Twisted (with a group of inebriated friends)
Streets of Rage
Gladius (xbox version)
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