Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games

[Greybriar]

Master of Magic
Civilization
Master of Orion II

Those were the first three that came to my mind, but I have many other favorites--mostly oldies like the Warlords series from SSG, Panzer General from SSI, History Line: 1914-1918 (known as The Great War: 1914 - 1918 in the U.S.) by BlueByte, X-COM: UFO Defense from MicroProse, and the WarCraft series from Blizzard. And that's just a start.

[martok]

It's easier for me to list just two games: Birth of the Federation and Medieval Total War/Viking Invasion.

The sheer amount of time I've spent playing those two over the years (easily over a thousand hours each) makes both those games a no-brainer for my "all-time" list.




Honorable mentions (in no particular order):

Armada 2526 Supernova
Shogun Total War: Warlord Edition (includes Mongol Invasion)
Distant Worlds: Legends
Lords of the Realm II
Klingon Academy
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Imperium Galactica 2: Alliances
Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Edition
Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition (includes Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor)

Taken in aggregate, these dozen PC titles (including BOTF & MTW/VI) probably account for ~80% of the time I've (thus far) spent in nearly 20 years of gaming.

[tcarusil]

1. Diamond Mind Baseball (The Tippett years)
2. The Operational Art of War
3. Kampfgruppe

TomC

[Max 86]

Puresim Baseball
SPWAW
Campaign Series
TOAW
Civ III
COG
Medieval2: TW

Sorry, couldn't list only three. These are the PC games I have played most over the last 20 yrs or so.

Ed. - can't believe I left off PG! OK so my list of three is now 8!

[Perturabo]

I just realised that I've spent over 1500 hours playing Armored Brigade.

[KG Erwin]

ORIGINAL: martok

It's easier for me to list just two games: Birth of the Federation and Medieval Total War/Viking Invasion.

MTW/VI is on my top ten list. I must ask, have you tried the XL Mod? It is a must-have for players of the game. It adds more playable factions, plus the Early Era starts in 1080, not 1087. There is also a new map (not included in the mod, it's a separate download) which looks much better than the vanilla version.

[martok]

In fact, I play the XL Mod almost exclusively. There's a few others I play around with from time to time, but when it comes to MTW/VI, XL remains my mod of choice. [:)]

[madflava13]

1. Railroad Tycoon
2. WITP:AE
3. Tie: SimCity, Civilization, Battle of Britain (old flight sim from the early 90s), Call of Duty Black Ops (I know, I know...)

I wish I had more time to play Witp:AE, but right now work's been killing me. I can't get a game going with my schedule, so instead I've spent all my time playing airwaysim (online, so I can play it from anywhere while I travel for work). If my schedule opens up a bit, I'm going to get sucked back into WITP:AE, although the new SimCity looks promising.

[SLAAKMAN]

Perturabo
I just realised that I've spent over 1500 hours playing Armored Brigade.

WOW THATS SOME BEAUTIFUL SLAAKERY THERE MR P!! ALMOST CATCHES THE NUMBER OF STARCRAFT ARMAGEDDON BATTLES IVE FOUGHT! [:D] [:'(]

[wodin]

madflav try BoB2 with the latest 2.12 patch superb sim.

[Raikkonen]

Is there a way to get PureSim to work on a Win7 machine? I have not had any luck getting the free download to work.

[ezzler]

airwaysim

I got the IL2 Battle of Britain, white cliffs, one. Looks great.
Crashes every 10 minutes mind, no matter what settings or system you try.
But looks great.

BOB2 still in the packet. Is that patch easy to install or are there 15 years of pre patches to hunt out ?

[SLAAKMAN]

I got the IL2 Battle of Britain, white cliffs, one. Looks great.
Crashes every 10 minutes mind, no matter what settings or system you try.
But looks great.

Whats your opsys?

[ezzler]

Vista and win 7. crashes on both . Can play a maximum of one mission before a crash.

[VPaulus]

Have you updated CoD, with the last patch?

Regarding BoB2:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/t ... OB2_v.html

[wodin]

ORIGINAL: ezz

airwaysim

I got the IL2 Battle of Britain, white cliffs, one. Looks great.
Crashes every 10 minutes mind, no matter what settings or system you try.
But looks great.

BOB2 still in the packet. Is that patch easy to install or are there 15 years of pre patches to hunt out ?

Dead easy to install mate..all in one job. Then you can download the mega skins aswell..and your away.

[ezzler]

I think so. I bought it after the latest patch was released in the hope it might work after all the slamming it got for being buggier than a spider's lunchbox.
Its on steam and says latest version, but it doesn't say anywhere what that version is.

Its CTD failure after 10-15 mins.

[Hertston]

Hmmm.. probably changes on a daily basis, but

1. Silent Hunter 3

2. STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

3. Age of Rifles


I'm currently losing vast chunks of my life to Rocksmith, but I'm not sure that really qualifies as a proper game as such.

[artuitus_slith]

Master of Orion 2, Privateer 2 The Darkening, Bombing the Reich. WIT:AE is 4th.

[jwilkerson]

Civ
PzC
WITP/AE

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Honorable mention:

Front Series (East, West, Pacific)
MOO2
TAOW
Combat Mission