Oh, God, you don't want to get me started on video games. I have way too many for my own good (and age
). Why do you think my tag line is always "
Game on?"
However, since you narrowed it down to PC games, at first I would suggest the topic on this board I started called "
Other good puzzle games"
, because most of the ones listed are free. As for what I am playing...
My first love in terms of PC video gaming was the Ultima series of role-playing games. Thus, most of my favorite PC games after those are also RPGs. I am currently playing Morrowind (plus expansions) and Divine Divinity. Those take up more than enough time for me. Also, those are on my computer at home. My laptop has exclusively free games (mostly from
www.the-underdogs.org and
www.gamehippos.com), including DROD. Since this is my work computer, I only play a bit at lunch or when I have to come into the lab and babysit my experiment for a few hours. At home I mostly play my Playstation 2, Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, but not the PC so much, since my fiancee is hogging that right now with the aforementioned RPGs.
I liked Starcraft; I bought the battle chest and got up to the 7th Protoss mission before I realized that I just suck at real time strategy games, since I couldn't beat it even with the hint guide open right in front of me. I only tried it three times, but I guess I got sick of it. Warcraft 2 was the same way, I could only beat about half of each race's missions. I am much more fond of turn-based strategy games. I have always loved the Warlords series (the Warlords Battlecry series are real time), and Warlords 4 is coming out soon so I am stoked. I wish I had started playing the Heroes of Might and Magic series before #3, since I heard #2 was the best, but I got my money's worth out of #3 before I got tired of it. I also bought Age of Wonders for cheap but haven't yet devoted enough time to it to enjoy it, although I think I would. I guess I could have summed it all up by saying that Master of Magic was one of my favorite games; everything I listed except for Warlords is basically a derivation of that game.
I enjoyed first person shooters (FPSs) until around the time of Quake 2, when the graphics got so good that it gave me headaches. I can play the 3D platform games on the consoles without headaches, or 3D RPGs like Morrowind, but not the fast FPS games like Serious Sam (which I would love to play because it seems to harken back to the good old Doom days).
I could go on forever, but I will hold off until someone else mentions a game I liked and then I will not be able to hold back any more.
Game on,
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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an
unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder."
-- Tad Williams