How many and what games do you keep on you hard drive

[budd]

I have changed my strategy on this. I used to have all my wargames all loaded up on my computer. I would basically jump from one to the next until the next shiny toy came out, never giving any one a fair chance. I'm a bit of a collector, even thou that isn't my intention. I've bought every new edition of TOAW but do i play it......nope, all those scenarios seems like a deal to me,bought the matrix edition for the boonie rat scenarios ....started... never played it out. AGEOD games look good, bought wars in america 2 but just couldn't get into it. Time is a factor for me. Just curious how many and what people keep on their hard drives. I play all my fps and rpg on the play station3.
I've limited my self to 4 games loaded at one time.
currently:

Battlefield academy and blitzkrieg France = quick to play and no matter how long your away it's a pick up and play. no manual required.

Advanced Tactics Gold= small learning curve to get started, love the random battles [played civ 2 to death]

Frozen synapse= picked it up on a whim, i usually don't play online, put i'm having loads of fun online with this one,[2 copies for $20 cant beat that with a stick] this and advanced tactics are my flavor of the month right now.

JT campaign series= it's my steel panthers of this decade [steel panthers was loaded up for around 15 years] i always go back to it, sooner or later. wish someone would tell me how to beat that screaming eagle campaign,battle 5 is as far as i get, to depleted to continue.

Just curious is all
budd


forgot 1 panzer command ostfront played the tutorial...it's on the to do list, guess thats 5.

[Josh]

[:)]
 
Learned my lesson many years ago, it's like having too many books cause you gotta read them all but you know you never will be able to do that. Same with games, too many and you never ever will really appreciate them. So I buy just a few games per year, 1-2 RPG, mostly Indy, 3-4 wargames, mostly small developers/ publishers. And yes they're all dear to me. [:D]
ATG, WitE, JTCS... all classics.
And Steel Panthers, would you believe I still remember the sound an enemy shell made when it bounced off my tanks...? (Phew, survived that one!) 15 years ago, blimey. I think my monitor had the size and shape of a small fishbowl LOL

[carnifex]

Currently installed:

World of Tanks
Red Orchestra
Fallout New Vegas
Half-Life 2
Total War Shogun
War In The East

[wodin]

Command Ops BftB
CMSF now it will be CMBN
Dwarf Fortress
Over Flanders Field phase 3
Red Orchestra (waiting on RO2)

Also always on my hardrive for my daughter....Mini Ninjas, Overlord 1 and 2, Sims 3 and now Terreria.

[ilovestrategy]

I used to have every game under the sun and play each for five minutes. Now I have about eight installed and play them on a regular basis. I play maybe two RPGs a year and play them thoroughly.

I play maybe two on my 360 at a time. Right now I'm playing Just Cause 2. God, I love that game.

[Peter Fisla]

There are a few war games that will pretty much never leave my hard drive:

1) Close Combat 1
2) Tigers on the Prowl 2 and Panthers in the Shadows (HPS)
3) John Tiller Campaign Series (EF/WF2/RS)
4) Planespace: Torment RPG
5) Knights of the Old Republic 1&2 RPGs
6) The Ardennes Offensive by SSG
7) War in the Pacific Admiral Edition 2by3 games
8) War in the East 2by3 games
9) VASL (Java client for playing ASL on-line)

The beauty is that none of these games require a lot of space...

[ilovestrategy]

CivII has been on my hard drive on every comp since 1995. Or is it 96? I can't remember anymore. I still play it believe it or not. Ultima 6 also, usually on the same evening as The Witcher 2.

[Hertston]

Erm...

ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Bulletstorm
Metro 2033
Portal 2
Pathologic
The Void
Still Life 2
Minecraft
Trackmania United Forever
Nation Red
Super Meat Boy
Cricket Revolution
Evochron Mercenary
Virtual Skipper 5
AI War - Fleet Command
Archon Classic
Armada 2526
Distant Worlds
Frozen Synapse
Dwarfs!
Sword of the Stars
Worms Reloaded
CM Shock Force
CM Afghanistan
CM Normandy (yeah... I folded.. )
HPS Midway
Advanced Tactics Gold
Battles from the Bulge
Combat Command
Field of Glory
War Between the States
Harpoon Ultimate (CE)
HistWar: Les Grognards
Panzer Command: Ostfront
Jutland (Storm Eagle)
Scourge of War: Gettysburg
Squad Battles: Vietnam
Storm over the Pacific
War in the East
War in the PAcific AE

I've tried the minimalist thing a couple of times, but so much of what I buy these days comes by download and not disk it's just easier to leave it installed until I'm sure I'm unlikely ever to play it again, otherwise I just end up redownloading something I suddenly have an urge to play again. That's especially true with those that come with DRM silly-b*ggers attached, like the CM games (Shock Force in particular has given me mucho grief), Jutland, SoW:Gettysburg etc.

[comte]

Here's whats currently on my hard drive

War in the Pacific Admirals Edition
The Operational Art of War III
Gary Grigsby's War in the East
Sid Meier's Colonization - The Original not the crappy remake
Birth of America 2: Wars in America
Fallout: New Vegas plus the two add on's Honest Hearts and Dead Money
Fallout 2
X-Com Terror from the Deep

[Yogi the Great]

Approximately 60

[Perturabo]

Armored Brigade
Fallout
Omega Syndrome
Baldur's Gate 2
Incursion Roguelike
Adom
Gunship
Darklands
X-Com 3: Apocalypse
iM1A2 Abrams
Falcon 4.0
Hind
TacOps 4.0
War in Russia
War Plan Orange
Alien Assault
SPWaW
SPMBT
Jagged Aliance 2
Laser Squad
Doom Roguelike
Exile 1/2/3
Temple of Elemental Evil
Wasteland
Airborne Assault
Operation Flashpoint
Firefight
Battles in Italy
Open Beats of Rage
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Boulder Rocks!
Cortex Command
Soldat
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Transcendence
Pool of Radiance
Project Stealth Fighter
Ultima V
Space Crusade
Fire-Brigade
Halls of Montezuma
Tens of C64 games
Syndicate
Space Hulk
Astromenace
OpenTyrian
Lincity
Ultima VII
Ufo:Alien Invasion
Abuse
Su-27 Flanker
Seal Team
Silent Service
Ufo: Enemy Unknown

[Fred98]

ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great

Approximately 60

Now you have to list them [:D]

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[Fred98]

I am currently playing – and thoroughly enjoying:
Combat Command – Matrix Edition

Operation Arrowhead + its companion Reinforcements. Both from the ARMA 11 series.


Games installed that I don’t play.
Computer War in Europe: The developers are constantly improving it which means you cannot play a game!

Battles from the Bulge: A game series with much potential but I don’t enjoy it.

SSG’s Kharkov and Across the Dneper 2: As wargames they are terrific but they are too big and feel I need to put in effort instead of having fun.

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[Chris Bisson]

Brigade E5
7.62 High Calibre
Age of Booty
Age of Wonders
Age of Wonders 2
Age of Wonders Shadow Magic
Ascension to the Throne
Battle Isle Andosia War
Blood Bowl
Buccaneer
Chicago 1930
Dawn of War - Dow Winter Assault - Dow Dark Crusade - Dow Soulstorm
Desert Law
Dragon Age Origins - D A Awakening
Dragon Age 2
Elemental
Elven Lagacy
Elven Legacy Magic
Elven Legacy Ranger
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
Fantasy Wars
Future Wars
Galactic Assault
Gangland
Helldorado
Hinterland
Hired Guns
Homeworld 2
Jugged farm
King's Bounty The Legend
Sid Meier's Railroads
Maelstrom
Mafia
Mafia 2
Master of Magic
Oblivion
Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl
Stalker Call of Pripyat
Sid Meier's Pirates
Sins of a Solar Empire - Entrenchment - Diplomacy
Star Trek Armada 2
Sword of the Stars
The Godfather
The Guild 2 - Guild 2 Pirates of European Seas - Venice
The Witcher
Torchlight
Tortuga Pirates of the New World
UFO Aftermath - Aftershock - Afterlight
UFO Extraterrestrials
UFO Alien Invasion
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2 - Chaos Rising - Retribution
Warhammer Mark of Chaos
World Empires Live
X2 The Threat
X3 Reunion
X3 Terran Conflict
X-Tension
X-Com UFO Defense
X-Com Terror From the deep
X-Com Appocalypse
Medieval Total War - Viking Invasion
Medieval 2 Total War - Britania - Crusades - Teutonic - Americas
Rome Total War - Barbarian Invasion
John Tillers Battleground Napoleonic Wars
John Tillers Battleground Civil War
Napoleon Total War
Empire Total War
Total War Shogun 2
XIII Century Blood of Europe
Birth of America
Ironclads High Seas
Ironclads American Civil War
Ironclads Antholgy - Schleswig War - Anglo-Russian War - Chincha Islands War
Mount and Blade - Warband - With Fire and Sword
Commander Napoleon at War
Rise of Flight
Crown of Glory Emperors Edition
Commander Conquest of the Americas
East India Company - Pirate Bay - Privateer - Battle of Trafalgar
Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Colonization
Sid Meier's Civilization 4 - Warlords - Beyond the Sword
Mosby's Confederacy
Red Baron 1
Red Baron 3d
Axis and Allies
Battlefield Accademy - Blitzkrieg France
Blitzkrieg - Rolling Thunder - Burning Horizon
Blitzkrieg 2 - Fall of the Reich - Liberation
John Tillers Campaign Series
Close Combat Wacht Am Rhein - Last Stand Arnhem - The Longest Day - Cross of Iron
Company of Heroes - Opposing Fronts
Combat Mission Beyond Overlord - Barbarossa to Berlin - Afrika Korps
Commander Europe at War Gold
D-Day
Decisive Campaigns Blitzkreig from Warsaw to Paris
Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps
Faces of war
Red Victory
Making History
Making History II
Men of War - Assault Squad - Red Tide
Mission Barbarossa
Officers
Operation Barbarossa the Struggle for Russia
Order of War
Pacific Storm
Panzer Command Operation Winter Storm - Kharkov - Ostfront
Panzerkreig
Panzers phase1
Panzers phase2
Panzers Cold War
Patton Drives East
Battlestations Pacific
Sudden Strike 2
Sudden Strike 3
War Leaders Clash of Nations
PT Boats
RUSE
Silent Heroes
Silent Hunter 3
Silent Hunter 4
Silent Storm - Sentinels
Soldiers Heroes of WWII
Stalingrad
Steel Panthers World at war Generals Edition
Storm Over The Pacific
Strategic Command II Blitzkreig
Strategic Command WWII Global Conflict
Theatre of War
Theatre of War 2 - Kursk - Battle for Caen
Theatre of War 3
WinSP WWII
WW2 Time of Wrath
Korea Forgotten Conflict
Warfare
Joint Task Force
Tom CLancy's End War
Cuban Missile Crisis - Ice Crusade
Shattered Union
Combat Mission Shock Force - Afganistan - Marines - Nato
World in Conflict
Armed Assault
Operation Flashpoint
Empires of Steel
Jagged Alliance
Jagged Alliance 2 -Unfinnished Buisness
Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
Arma II
PG Forever
 
These are what is installed on my hard drive currently....There are others on the shelf
 
 
 
 
 

[redcoat]

ORIGINAL: Platoon Crusher

Brigade E5
7.62 High Calibre
Age of Booty
Age of Wonders
Age of Wonders 2
Age of Wonders Shadow Magic
Ascension to the Throne
Battle Isle Andosia War
Blood Bowl
Buccaneer
Chicago 1930
Dawn of War - Dow Winter Assault - Dow Dark Crusade - Dow Soulstorm
Desert Law
Dragon Age Origins - D A Awakening
Dragon Age 2
Elemental
Elven Lagacy
Elven Legacy Magic
Elven Legacy Ranger
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
Fantasy Wars
Future Wars
Galactic Assault
Gangland
Helldorado
Hinterland
Hired Guns
Homeworld 2
Jugged farm
King's Bounty The Legend
Sid Meier's Railroads
Maelstrom
Mafia
Mafia 2
Master of Magic
Oblivion
Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl
Stalker Call of Pripyat
Sid Meier's Pirates
Sins of a Solar Empire - Entrenchment - Diplomacy
Star Trek Armada 2
Sword of the Stars
The Godfather
The Guild 2 - Guild 2 Pirates of European Seas - Venice
The Witcher
Torchlight
Tortuga Pirates of the New World
UFO Aftermath - Aftershock - Afterlight
UFO Extraterrestrials
UFO Alien Invasion
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2 - Chaos Rising - Retribution
Warhammer Mark of Chaos
World Empires Live
X2 The Threat
X3 Reunion
X3 Terran Conflict
X-Tension
X-Com UFO Defense
X-Com Terror From the deep
X-Com Appocalypse
Medieval Total War - Viking Invasion
Medieval 2 Total War - Britania - Crusades - Teutonic - Americas
Rome Total War - Barbarian Invasion
John Tillers Battleground Napoleonic Wars
John Tillers Battleground Civil War
Napoleon Total War
Empire Total War
Total War Shogun 2
XIII Century Blood of Europe
Birth of America
Ironclads High Seas
Ironclads American Civil War
Ironclads Antholgy - Schleswig War - Anglo-Russian War - Chincha Islands War
Mount and Blade - Warband - With Fire and Sword
Commander Napoleon at War
Rise of Flight
Crown of Glory Emperors Edition
Commander Conquest of the Americas
East India Company - Pirate Bay - Privateer - Battle of Trafalgar
Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Colonization
Sid Meier's Civilization 4 - Warlords - Beyond the Sword
Mosby's Confederacy
Red Baron 1
Red Baron 3d
Axis and Allies
Battlefield Accademy - Blitzkrieg France
Blitzkrieg - Rolling Thunder - Burning Horizon
Blitzkrieg 2 - Fall of the Reich - Liberation
John Tillers Campaign Series
Close Combat Wacht Am Rhein - Last Stand Arnhem - The Longest Day - Cross of Iron
Company of Heroes - Opposing Fronts
Combat Mission Beyond Overlord - Barbarossa to Berlin - Afrika Korps
Commander Europe at War Gold
D-Day
Decisive Campaigns Blitzkreig from Warsaw to Paris
Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps
Faces of war
Red Victory
Making History
Making History II
Men of War - Assault Squad - Red Tide
Mission Barbarossa
Officers
Operation Barbarossa the Struggle for Russia
Order of War
Pacific Storm
Panzer Command Operation Winter Storm - Kharkov - Ostfront
Panzerkreig
Panzers phase1
Panzers phase2
Panzers Cold War
Patton Drives East
Battlestations Pacific
Sudden Strike 2
Sudden Strike 3
War Leaders Clash of Nations
PT Boats
RUSE
Silent Heroes
Silent Hunter 3
Silent Hunter 4
Silent Storm - Sentinels
Soldiers Heroes of WWII
Stalingrad
Steel Panthers World at war Generals Edition
Storm Over The Pacific
Strategic Command II Blitzkreig
Strategic Command WWII Global Conflict
Theatre of War
Theatre of War 2 - Kursk - Battle for Caen
Theatre of War 3
WinSP WWII
WW2 Time of Wrath
Korea Forgotten Conflict
Warfare
Joint Task Force
Tom CLancy's End War
Cuban Missile Crisis - Ice Crusade
Shattered Union
Combat Mission Shock Force - Afganistan - Marines - Nato
World in Conflict
Armed Assault
Operation Flashpoint
Empires of Steel
Jagged Alliance
Jagged Alliance 2 -Unfinnished Buisness
Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
Arma II
PG Forever

These are what is installed on my hard drive currently....There are others on the shelf

LOL. I thought I had a lot on my hard drive.

[fmonster]

Man, I can't believe this topic came out now. Just this past week I was in a funk and couldn't decide what to play. I am at work now, but would guess my game totals to be 80 some odd games. So, I was wondering what to play and then I decided to leave it up to chance. It just so happens that I have a gaming directory broken into 6 sub-directories. They are

Casual
SciFi
RPG
Strategy
Sports
War

I love games in all those categories, just wanted to play something different for a day or two. At this point I assigned a number to each directory and rolled a die. First category to get rolled twice was the one I would play a game from.

Stupid I know, but it worked for me. Random gaming.

Ha, I laugh at myself as I type this,... I am a 48 yo weird-o! [:D]

[budd]

what'd you roll[:)] and which game did you pick.....as good a system as any to pick a game...as long as fun was had.
budd

[budd]

holy Sh*t, looking at some of those lists, damn, maybe i don't have a problem, i was talking about having 12-15 installed at one time. I used to have more games when pc games had more shelf space, i was always a sucker for the bargin bin. Including the PS3 i have around 35 total. Hell, i'm an amateur.
budd

[martok]

I currently have 28 games installed on my PC, which is roughly half the number I actually own. The others I only install *very* occasionally, and then only if I'm specifically in the mood to play them.

[rhondabrwn]

Too many to count and list.

I have massive storage on my computer (about 3 terrabytes plus about 7 more drives I can drop into an adapter and bring online. Mostly filled with movies, but room for every game I own.

As I go into retirement, I think I'll rebuild both computers and start fresh and be selective about what I actually install.

As someone mentioned, it can be such a chore to reinstall a game when it has multiple patches that need to be located and reinstalled as well. The ones with DRM like Jutland and Rise of Flight are really a pain to take off and reinstall and get working again. Currently neither are working for me, but I don't have the time to remove them again, re-download and reinstall to get by their latest DRM modifications. No more such games for me... I'm just going to work on all the ones I have already and actually try and master them!