Quote from: Doctor Jest;613780Those were awesome. I also really loved the Wing Commander series back in the day. There's nothing that really does that genre well anymore. The X games come closest, but they're just not the same as screaming down with afterburners on a Kilrathi fighter while trying to get a missile lock.

True, the Wing Commander series had more of an adrenaline rush, I remember those dumbfire missiles were just tricky to smack it on the furballs, had to get in close. Man, those were good times.

The Infinity Engine games (Baldur's Gate, Ucewind Dale, etc...)
Fallout Series.
Knights of the Old Republic.
Civ.

The Infinity Engine provided me with the greater disappointment I had with an electronic rpg. I followed Baldurs Gate 2 development anxiously, raised hard-earned money to buy it, and then... it was more of a glorified tactical combat game than what I would consider a rpg. Strings and strings of boring tactical combats with some clichéd (and linear) story in-between. Not even Planescape Torment (a game I actually love) redeemed the Infinity Engine for me, after that.

But my all-time preferred isometric rpg is Arcanum: of Steamworks & Magicka Obscura. It has some big flaws (like combat) sure, but what it does good – the roleplaying and  the "choice & consequence" aspects – is simply superb! Also, its Victorian atmosphere and mood (with a violins soundtrack) is ridiculously cool.

DOTA 2 is my current game of choice. I've clocked so many hours with it in the past few months...

By the way, anyone playing Starcraft II - Heart of the Swarm ?

@Silva, I am...I've beat the campaign. Just getting back into multiplayer and checking out the arcade and stuffs.

And, as I imagine you will ask, I have weird feelings about the campaign.

Quote from: silva;640167The Infinity Engine provided me with the greater disappointment I had with an electronic rpg. I followed Baldurs Gate 2 development anxiously, raised hard-earned money to buy it, and then... it was more of a glorified tactical combat game than what I would consider a rpg. Strings and strings of boring tactical combats with some clichéd (and linear) story in-between. Not even Planescape Torment (a game I actually love) redeemed the Infinity Engine for me, after that.

I can see it.

I often feel like I'm quite alone in the opinion that BG2 is the weakest of the series. :/

The msot entertaining game experience was over the easter weekend I played and completed Jedi Outcast on the PC. Probably about a decade ago.

Kerbal Space Program

Quote from: KrakaJak;640570@Silva, I am...I've beat the campaign. Just getting back into multiplayer and checking out the arcade and stuffs.

And, as I imagine you will ask, I have weird feelings about the campaign.

Thats worrying news for me, since I waste my time more with the campaign than in multiplayer with these kinds of game.

Why do you have weird feelings ? Isnt it so good as the first one ?

Quote from: PiestrioI can see it.

I often feel like I'm quite alone in the opinion that BG2 is the weakest of the series. :/

Do you think the first one is better ? I remember (vaguely) playing the beginning of BG 1 and finding it somewhat cool. But then my PC at that time simply died. My disappointment with BG 2 made me ignore the first one.

Quote from: silva;640840Do you think the first one is better ? I remember (vaguely) playing the beginning of BG 1 and finding it somewhat cool. But then my PC at that time simply died. My disappointment with BG 2 made me ignore the first one.

I think so, yes.

BG2 suffered from the "More is better, right?" syndrome.

I haven't played through it in a long time (don't play a huge amount of computer games), but I think my all time favourite game is Ultima Underworld 2 (as evidenced by my signature)

Although it's not particularly original, my favourite game that I play often is Doom 2 (with the addition of Plutonia and some of the fan made WADS)  I even put some effort in to a Doom 2 deadworld for All Flesh Must Be Eaten.

Quote from: silva;640840Thats worrying news for me, since I waste my time more with the campaign than in multiplayer with these kinds of game.

Why do you have weird feelings ? Isnt it so good as the first one ?



Do you think the first one is better ? I remember (vaguely) playing the beginning of BG 1 and finding it somewhat cool. But then my PC at that time simply died. My disappointment with BG 2 made me ignore the first one.

I'll start off by saying that the campaign is incredibly fun. Each mission is a completely different beast, with unique points to all of them. The Zerg campaign army customization does it's very best to ruin the vanilla Zerg army of the multiplayer with it's dozen or so unique units. From a gameplay perspective, it's best in class for RTS.

It feels weird to me because it changes the entire feel of the Starcraft universe to something much closer to World of Warcraft/Warcraft 3. I always felt the "Heroes" of the Starcraft universe were lucky or resourceful, being only a bit better then the other fighters of their station. In the Zerg campaign, they're demigods whose personal squabbles are shaping the galaxy. So, from a story perspective I have mixed feelings, as I was a big fan of the darker and grittier feel of the previous Starcraft games.

Fallout 3