Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
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RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition
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
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
fair winds,
Brad
Brad
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
My top three..
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
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
"I thank God that I was warring on the gridirons of the midwest and not the battlefields of Europe"
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
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.
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Based on time spent playing
1. Civ II/IV
2. Rome Total War
3. Commander The Great War
"I thank God that I was warring on the gridirons of the midwest and not the battlefields of Europe"
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
It seems to me a game like this would be a good port to tablets. While tank battles 1944 is not SPWaW it reminds me of it very much.
ORIGINAL: Titanwarrior89
Good question, I wonder my self. Wish they would make a major updated version.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.
"I thank God that I was warring on the gridirons of the midwest and not the battlefields of Europe"
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
rogo727 tries to be special
Well, I can't beat you but I can match you. I have also played PG/PC for 18 years.
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.
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."- W.T. Sherman
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
1. Operation Flashpoint: CWR
2. Elite
3.(Ex aequo) Deus Ex and Over Flanders Field
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
2. Elite
3.(Ex aequo) Deus Ex and Over Flanders Field
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
warspite1ORIGINAL: Zorch
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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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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Brilliant use of the quotes, what. [:'(]

RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
warspite1ORIGINAL: 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.ORIGINAL: warspite1
Based on time spent playing
1. Civ II/IV
2. Rome Total War
3. Commander The Great War
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
Lemonade Stand
Pong
Pac-Man
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Pong
Pac-Man
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Hooked Since AH Gettysburg
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
Easy.
1. TOAW III
2. Baldurs Gate Trilogy
3. Dominions 3
Best wishes,
Steve
1. TOAW III
2. Baldurs Gate Trilogy
3. Dominions 3
Best wishes,
Steve
I love the smell of TOAW in the morning...
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
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.
What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.
(No lack of wargaming here). [:D]
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

Germany's unforgivable crime before the Second World War was her attempt to extricate her economy from the world's trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity to profit.
— Winston Churchill
— Winston Churchill
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
Germany's unforgivable crime before the Second World War was her attempt to extricate her economy from the world's trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity to profit.
— Winston Churchill
— Winston Churchill
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
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.
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.
"I thank God that I was warring on the gridirons of the midwest and not the battlefields of Europe"
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
Hurrah..we finally meet on common ground..may it long continue
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.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.
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
rogo727 gets it right
That is spot on. I have tried, and enjoyed, pc/platform games of every genre, but I always return to war games.
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.
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."- W.T. Sherman
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
Thanks wodin for not pointing out my on going battle with auto correct. I meant back and not bs.
ORIGINAL: wodin
Hurrah..we finally meet on common ground..may it long continueORIGINAL: 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.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.
"I thank God that I was warring on the gridirons of the midwest and not the battlefields of Europe"
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
Nile Kinnick 1918-1943
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
I would choose
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
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
RE: Your Three All-Time Favorite PC Games
My choices would be:
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.
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.









