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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 8:53:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		I should also have added Moo2 and Master of magic and the newer one who's title I can't recall, Age of magic 2 or something.

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 9:03:52 PM   
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1. Civ II/IV
2. Rome Total War
3. Commander The Great War

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 9:12:03 PM   
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2. Korsun Pocket/Dneper
3. CC3

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 9:40:04 PM   
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John Tiller's Campaign Series.
World War Two - Road to Victory.
Armada 2526.

I know, four games, but I could not leave one off.

Chuck

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 9:52:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Based on time spent playing

1. Civ II 1 /IV 2.
2. Rome Total War 3
3. Commander The Great War 4






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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 10:02:16 PM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Based on time spent playing

1. Civ II 1 /IV 2.
2. Rome Total War 3
3. Commander The Great War 4





warspite1

Well spotted, what. In order to avoid you any further embarrassment, one decided it would be kind to adopt the Minnsoda method of numbery stuff and county things.

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 10:11:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Based on time spent playing

1. Civ II 1 /IV 2.
2. Rome Total War 3
3. Commander The Great War 4







AHAAHAHA, good catch Chickenboy. He deserves a swatting.

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 10:14:30 PM   
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Well spotted, what. In order to avoid you any further embarrassment, one decided it would be kind to adopt the Minnsoda method of numbery stuff and county things.
[/quote]

I once drank some Minn soda. It tasted awful.

1. Master of Orion 1/2
2. Civ 3 / 5
3. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
4. Empire

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 10:44:15 PM   
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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 11:04:58 PM   
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ORIGINAL: parusski


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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy


quote:

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Based on time spent playing

1. Civ II 1 /IV 2.
2. Rome Total War 3
3. Commander The Great War 4







AHAAHAHA, good catch Chickenboy. He deserves a swatting.
warspite1



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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/1/2013 11:39:48 PM   
bradfordkay

 

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Skyrim
tossup between Railroad Tycoon 3 and Tropico - I just can't decide!


serious contenders:
Balder's Gate
Steel Panthers
Red Baron II
Grand Prix Legends (I suck at it, but it's a loverly sim!)
Civ IV
Imperialism
Fallout III
Uncommon Valor
Links LS 1999
Age of Sail (too bad AOS2 sucked so badly, it was beautiful but unplayable)
Oblivion

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 12:26:11 AM   
rodney727


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1. Panzer general/Panzer corps. Been playing this game for at least 18 straight years. Top that.
2. Civ IV
3. Tie fighter/x-wing

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 12:28:20 AM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Based on time spent playing

1. Civ II/IV
2. Rome Total War
3. Commander The Great War



< Message edited by rogo727 -- 3/2/2013 12:31:05 AM >

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 12:35:16 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Titanwarrior89

Good question, I wonder my self. Wish they would make a major updated version.
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ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

What I find odd is that several of you join me in picking SPWaW as one of your all-time faves. Matrix Games has had several failed attempts at coming up with a successor to this game, but why is that? I honestly have no idea.

It would seem that a modernized tactical game with SPWaW's depth would be a natural choice, but so far they have come up empty. I have some suspicions as to why, but I won't speak of it any more. Let me leave this subject by stating that at one time many years ago, SPWaW was Matrix' flagship game. The ownership of the source code was bought up by Matrix, and the development of the game as it now stands was done by fans of it with assistance from Mike Wood, who was one of the original programmers. This is how the Enhanced Version came to be. It was a strange series of events, and I still don't understand what happened to this day why Matrix decided to wash its hands of it.







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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 12:54:07 AM   
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1. Panzer general/Panzer corps. Been playing this game for at least 18 straight years. Top that.


Well, I can't beat you but I can match you. I have also played PG/PC for 18 years.

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 2:30:03 AM   
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2. Elite
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Contenders:
ArmA II
Panzer Corps
Panzer General
Historyline 14-18
Baldur's Gate 2
No One Lives Forever
UFO:Enemy Unknown
CIV I
Dungeon Master
Dragon Age
Monkey Island
Pong

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 3:08:00 AM   
Chickenboy


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ORIGINAL: Zorch

warspite1

Well spotted, what. In order to avoid you any further embarrassment, one decided it would be kind to adopt the Minnsoda method of numbery stuff and county things.


I once drank some Minn soda. It tasted awful.

1. Master of Orion 1/2
2. Civ 3 / 5
3. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
4. Empire


Brilliant use of the quotes, what.

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 4:12:20 AM   
warspite1


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ORIGINAL: rogo727

What's your favorite civ to play? Is it perhaps the English ? to be honest it depends the mood I'm in. My favorites in no order are Germans the French and the English sometimes the Aztecs also.
quote:

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Based on time spent playing

1. Civ II/IV
2. Rome Total War
3. Commander The Great War


warspite1

For Civ II I can't really remember - other than after visiting Egypt I played them for ages. But for Civ IV, yes, I think the English are the most played civ - you gotta love the Cross of St George

I also like playing the Russians, the Romans and the Portuguese.

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 12:24:35 PM   
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Pong

Pac-Man



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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 1:31:24 PM   
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1. TOAW III

2. Baldurs Gate Trilogy

3. Dominions 3

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 3:00:53 PM   
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Fallout

Operation Flashpoint

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 3:39:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		I agree with pretty much everyones top games here. Some have jogged my memory aswell or I've kicked myself for missing them out. Dominions 3 for starters and UFO Enemy Unknown and X Wing vs Tie Fighter...and..I could more or less list everyones games here!! All I would say are classics in their own time and genre.

What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.

< Message edited by wodin -- 3/2/2013 3:41:06 PM >

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 5:55:22 PM   
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What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.

(No lack of wargaming here).

1). World in Flames Global Campaign (Vassal)

2). Starcraft-Broodwars Armageddon

3) Close Combat III/COI: The Russian Front

4) Duke Nukem, Colonization, Doom II, Medieval Total War, Age of Empires-AOK, IL2, Age of Mythology Titans


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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 5:58:18 PM   
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http://www.free80sarcade.com/defender.php

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 6:15:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wodin I couldn't have said it better! Simply put we put away our favorites to try new games but we always come bs to what we love.
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ORIGINAL: wodin

I agree with pretty much everyones top games here. Some have jogged my memory aswell or I've kicked myself for missing them out. Dominions 3 for starters and UFO Enemy Unknown and X Wing vs Tie Fighter...and..I could more or less list everyones games here!! All I would say are classics in their own time and genre.

What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.



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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 7:01:12 PM   
wodin


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ORIGINAL: rogo727

Wodin I couldn't have said it better! Simply put we put away our favorites to try new games but we always come bs to what we love.
quote:

ORIGINAL: wodin

I agree with pretty much everyones top games here. Some have jogged my memory aswell or I've kicked myself for missing them out. Dominions 3 for starters and UFO Enemy Unknown and X Wing vs Tie Fighter...and..I could more or less list everyones games here!! All I would say are classics in their own time and genre.

What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.





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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 7:02:05 PM   
parusski


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Wodin I couldn't have said it better! Simply put we put away our favorites to try new games but we always come bs to what we love.


That is spot on. I have tried, and enjoyed, pc/platform games of every genre, but I always return to war games.

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/2/2013 8:40:03 PM   
rodney727


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ORIGINAL: wodin

Hurrah..we finally meet on common ground..may it long continue
quote:

ORIGINAL: rogo727

Wodin I couldn't have said it better! Simply put we put away our favorites to try new games but we always come bs to what we love.
quote:

ORIGINAL: wodin

I agree with pretty much everyones top games here. Some have jogged my memory aswell or I've kicked myself for missing them out. Dominions 3 for starters and UFO Enemy Unknown and X Wing vs Tie Fighter...and..I could more or less list everyones games here!! All I would say are classics in their own time and genre.

What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.







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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/3/2013 12:59:08 AM   
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1 - War in Russia by SSI and I still have the original box with 3.5" disk right behind me.
2 - All the old SSG Battlefront games
3 - I love TOAW3 and of course SPWAW would be top two if the graphics issue was fixed to be more crisp

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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games - 3/3/2013 2:23:26 AM   
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1. Civilization (stayed up many nights playing this one)
2. MOO2
3. Baldur's Gate series

All fun games and sucked up a lot of my spare time.

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