The "Games That Got Me Tossin' & Turnin'" Thread - Page 5

I was about to mention this one. This looks like it will be the greatest RTS ever. Have you seen the video footage of the demonstration from E3? Holy crap, I nearly wet myself.

Yeah, it is. The whole synopsis is pretty interesting. They shouldn't have used "weaker sex", but it seems like all the women on the planet are mutating into a sort of collective and the art looks pretty nasty(in a good way). Kind of plays off on all man's innate mistrust and fear of all things vaginal.

p.s.-I didn't mean that as an anti women statement.

Well, it's not any harder to believe than a virus that turns living people into zombies or brings dead people to life and certainly not any funnier. (Half Life, Resident Evil, etc.) It's just a virus that happens to mutate the female DNA and not the male. Standard movie/tv/videogame plot stuff. But if you think it's hilarious, who am I to argue? I was merely thinking about how the developers seem to be, whether consciously or not, making a Freudian statment. Maybe a parody on the whole Freudian phenomenon.

Probably male. On another note, I like how all these European developers are popping up all over the place, and cranking out games by the dozen. They do quality work and they do it pretty quickly. Plus, the games they make usually tend to have less of a retail price than all the big name U.S. companies. There's a game called Hellforces I'm also keeping my eye on. Looks like a standard FPS blast fest versus demons and zombies., but I can't get enough of those.

Scorched Earth is the beast. Love it. Haven't gotten it to play right on any of my newer computers for years, tho' *pout*

And I 2nd the motion for Grim Fandango being a killer game. Hilarious stuf. Never did finish that one...

As for what I'm looking forward to... not much on my horizon, really. I'm not a FPS type guy, so Doom3 and HL2 haven't made my pulse rise at all.

I'm an Alpha tester for Guild Wars, so I don't have to wait for that game, really

Be interesting to see how Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 turn out, but unfortunately, neither one's even been announced. And I'm figuring they'll both go 3D, so that'll dampen my enthusiasm. I like 2D. Just a simple guy, I guess. Along that vein, I wish there were a Baldur's Gate 3 (in 2D). Currently playing NWN again, but it's just not the same.

ok, my two cents:

best games of the past (I've played and played and played and still do sometimes):

1) Mafia
2) COD
3) Homeworld
4) Grim fandango
5) oh sure.. this is really old: HALF LIFE!!!

Best games of the present:
Not sure.. there's not much out there... I would say:
1) Far Cry (for the graphics... but only played once in single... the multiplayer implementation is not fun)

Best games still to arrive:
1) Halflife 2
2) Doom3
3) STALKER
And any MMORPG big eough and interesting enough... I would love a Mafia 2 multiplayer...

Best Older games IMO top 10

#1 PAC-MAN (I have this on almost every electronic device I own)
#2 Tetris (No better way to kill time) note only for the easily amused
#3 Doom 1 and 2 :with improved Jdoom engine (used to play this direct dial with my friend all summer mom hated it because I would tie up the phone line for hours!)
#4 Half-life (all mods included I realy like the specialist!! currently )
#5 War Craft 2 (game from wich all modern RTS games where born!)
#6 Grim Fandango (Monkey island was good Full Throtle was decent but no game has made me laugh as much as GF)
#7 Quake 3 (first to start tournament based FPS)
#8 Unreal Tournament (first to revolutionize tournament based FPS)
#9 Gand Theft Auto ( Yes the very first grand theft auto the non 3-D top down version it was a great game in its day and with out it we would not have the iterations we have today.)
10# Diablo (Action RPG action at its finest!)

NEWER GAMES TOP 10 (ALSO IMO)

#1 Unreal 2k4 (a must have!! go buy it now what are you waiting on!)
#2 FarCry (Beautiful but lacking in the multiplayer area)
#3 Battle Field Vitenam (Now with new patch no more Super LAW run downs)
#4 Battle Field 1942 Desert Combat mod (Not so fond of regular game but this mod is the Bomb! Over Bagdad?)
#5 Knights of the Old Republic (If you like starwars go get this game now I liked it so much I have it for both PC and Xbox I play light side on one and dark side on the other)
#6 Painkiller ( Its Pretty good game if you like blowing stuff up for no real reason like me!!)
#7 Max Payne 2 :Cinema Mod (the mod gives it that Matrix edge and make is what Enter the Matrix should have been)
#8 War Craft 3 (just bought this one and am loving it more and more every day!)
#9 Halo (Liked it on Xbox love it on PC)
#10 Call of Duty (yhea its another WW2 shooter but this one is the best!)

Uh, oh COD is now a game of the past, and I haven't played it yet. Playing catchup since getting my laptop a month ago

I feel your pain I just bought WarCraft 3 and have been getting a taste of what I missed.

And for the really Old...the 5 1/4 list

1) Maniac Mansion
2) Harpoon (1)
3) Empire
4) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
5) Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
6) Tetris
7) Telengard (C-64, well this was a tape)
8) Manhunter
9) Pete Rose Pennant Fever
10) SSI Pool of Radiance

If you liked Maniac Mansion Check this out! You can download it here and its free!

http://people.freenet.de/lucasfangam.../games_eng.htm

Woah, the graphics are a tad bit better than I remember. I will be downloading this, COD will have to wait

Thanks

Star Wars Battlefront

Brain,
You are Satan, how am I going to explain to my wife that I got this brand new laptop, and the only thing I play on it now is the same game I played 16 years ago on my 8086???

my wife picks on me all the time for playing Pac man on mine.

Holy F****** S*** thank you braingoo!!!!!!!

anyone else have links to remade games like maniac mansion? Here is alink to a remake of kq1 and 2..and they are wrking on quest for glory 2

http://www.agdinteractive.com/

Thank you very much Sephiroth 209. That site links to quite a few others that are very useful. I didn't know that fans had taken up the cause to re-create or re-vitalize the Adventure gaming genre. I was begining to loose hope until I saw the Kings Quest Remakes.

Now, does anyone know or can recommend a good DOS emulator so I can re-play the oriiginals too? Link(s) would be of assistance. While I could do a Google search, I'd like to know what others have used successfully and prefer.