Well, since some years I don't play regularly anymore - no time and other interests (hey, I could play some time per day, if I abandone this server with B4M, the boards and everything around... hmmm.... :twisted: kidding....).
My time as a computer player started after C64 & Co. on a Schneider CPC. Anyway, most enjoyable were or are:
DooM I + II - there is a greatly improved version of DooM II called Legacy DooM featuring looking up and down, multiplayer over up-to-date networks (not only Novell's IPX oder direct modem stuff, although playing all 30 levels of DooM II in cooperative mode with a friend of mine over modem for nights and nights REALLY ROCKED!)
Wolfenstein was prohibited, but that only improved its 'charm'.
And what was the name of that other one... errrm.... ROTT oder ROTH was the abbrevation... can't remember at the moment.
Duke Nukem 3D also rocked (his comments, of course - just quoted one, but erased it again, too rude for public
), I didn't like Quake in the beginning, but it's okay as well.
Then came the real time strategics like Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Warcraft III, Starcraft and minor others. We had night-long battles with those as well as Quake III, Unreal and of course the magnificient CounterStrike! Dude, those were some nights! Brutal and everlasting, tense as hell and with really sensational stunts and strategic moves at times. Everybody in the room calling commands to his team mates (up to 16 people fighting in CS and trying to figure out who the hell has the flag at the moment and where is our flag and ... damn, got shot again! hehehe), everybody staring on his screen and fighting his way through enemy lines. Ahhhh, yes, I miss those parties, but I wouldn't like to attend todays lan parties, because I am way out of training and don't have the needed hardware for recent games as well.
The last game I played from beginning to end was Mafia - veeeeery cool as well. Else.. hmmm, Diablo II is great still. Played it with my girlfriend over our little network often, we were really good. The Sims are good for some fun as well. I did not make it far in Baldur's Gate I + II, because of lacking time already, the same for Gothic II, C&C Generals, Red Alert II, Max Payne II and some others. *sigh*
Since we have a XBox, we played a lot of Dead or Alive III, I played Insight NBA (didn't do so for some months again :( ) and two or three other games we bought as well.
Hm, now this looks like I played a lot, doesn't it? And I even forgot the nice Black & White and of course stuff like The 7th Guest (first computer game with real videos!), The 11th Hour, Wing Commander (part 3 or 4 with Mark Hamill!), Decent 1-3, Terminal Velocity, Stonekeep, Commander Keen (whoohoo!!) and a bunch of others, I think.
Has anybody played Realms Of The Haunting? I bought that one, because it had such a mystic looking packaging, started it and was caught. It is not brilliant in graphics or other technical stuff, but it has the most dense atmosphere I ever experienced. It took looooooong to get through it - and I even don't remember if I ever really finished it. I sold it sometime, but later bought it again, because I remembered the fears and tense atmosphere I had had with it. Didn't get over the first rooms this time, but not because of lacking time in the first place, but simply because I couldn't solve it anymore, hahah!
okay, so far for now from me.
