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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on July 06, 2002, 03:45:06 pm
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Any recommendations on what's out / around that's good?
I was thinking of Op:Flashoint, but it's too expensive (£35). Not sure what else, so I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations... I already decided against a 'traditional' FPS like wolfenstien, AVP2 or Soldier or Fortune... not sure what I want. Something fun, though... maybe an RTS with a skirmish mode?
Suggestions, anyone :)?
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Galatic Battlegrounds (Star Wars?)
i dunno ........ if u don't have Jedi Knight II, it's a must buy.
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Um, Operation Flashpoint...i think its amazing.
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IL-2 Sturmovik/Grand Theft Auto 3/Elder Scrolls III/AvP 2
Fun games, all.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Galatic Battlegrounds (Star Wars?)
i dunno ........ if u don't have Jedi Knight II, it's a must buy.
I thought of GB, but it's too expensive(£30) for a revamped Age of Empires engine... plus the Ep 2 and 3 stuff is obviously held back.
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You wont be able to get a good new game for under £30.
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Originally posted by Zeronet
You wont be able to get a good new game for under £30.
I got FS1 and FS2 in a pack together for £9.99 :lol:
Unless you mean new as in 'just released' and 'for the PC' then you're unfortunately correct.
Are you only considering PC games Aldo? Do you have a console/gameboy?
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New did imply newly released :)
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
I got FS1 and FS2 in a pack together for £9.99 :lol:
Unless you mean new as in 'just released' and 'for the PC' then you're unfortunately correct.
Are you only considering PC games Aldo? Do you have a console/gameboy?
No...any decent game :) Pref. after FS2 to be reasonably up-to-date... but I'm only willing to pay £20 or, under - maybe £30 at a pinch, assuming the games nice & moddable.
Um...I have a Gameboy Colour, which i never play, and my brother has a Ps2, but he'll probably move out... so Pc only, I guess.
On the same topin, is Echelon any good? Saw it for 15 quid, but the reviews I've seen have been a bit divided.
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Get AVP2 - it rocks!!!
Unless you're easily scared ;)
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- Jedi Knight II
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Warcraft III
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NWN.
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IL-2 Sturmovik. You want it. Now. Go get it.
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Wait for Unreal Tournament 2003 to come out. ;) Or if you want something now, get Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, which should be fairly cheap by now. (last I saw it was $30, but that was some months ago)
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the 158th version of fs2 when its released :D and best of all, it'll be free *gasp!* :p
ok, so it was a shameless pimp, but hey, what did you expect? in all seriousness, Tiberian Sun with or without the Firestorm expansion is one of the better RTS games around (the best of the C&C series if you ask me) and you might try Rogue Leader
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NWN
Morrowind or
JK2
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if you don't want to spend too much (eg=old games) and looking for rts', there is the myth serie...
3d environment, nice plot(fantasy), no collecting resources/building stuff, just military strategy, and a lot of em
i played at the first two, loving em, there is a third one, full 3d like warcraft3, when in the first two the units where 2d sprites,
the big problem of the first one was the bad ia, enhanced a lot in the second one
of the same genre there are also ground control, full 3d, nice but little annoying in my opinion, shogun: total war, very very nice as i've heard but not full 3d, and a Dune game (the title was emperor: battle for dune or something like that) that i don't know about
enjoy:)
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Wait for IG3 to come out, that'll be soooo kewl!
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AvP2
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warcraft3 or renegade :p
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Um...I have a Gameboy Colour, which i never play, and my brother has a Ps2, but he'll probably move out... so Pc only, I guess.
Well it's a shot in the dark but since you have a GBC you could get either 'Oracle of ages' or 'Oracle of seasons' the newest zelda games. I've played seasons and it's excellent, ages got an equally good review.
BTW on a related topic doesn't NWN require a high spec PC to run anywhere near properly?
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System Shock 2! ;7
You can get it for 10 bucks...
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
Well it's a shot in the dark but since you have a GBC you could get either 'Oracle of ages' or 'Oracle of seasons' the newest zelda games. I've played seasons and it's excellent, ages got an equally good review.
BTW on a related topic doesn't NWN require a high spec PC to run anywhere near properly?
I'm running NWN fine on mine.
P III 800 mHZ
256 ECC Ram
Herc Geforce 2 64 Meg DDR
SB X Gamer Live!
BUT I will warn you...hit up the BB on www.neverwinternights.com under the self help topic. There ARE a few issues. MOSTLY being the autopatch thing in the console sucks worse than a 2 dollar crack whore. I tried for a week and fianlly went to a manual patch.
Some ppl have issues with stuttering and lock ups. I've ONLY had a rare few lock ups...once I turned my EAX support off it's working alot better now though.
But I will suggest saving like mad,..I held off the game for a week when it crashed once and I lost 5 hours of game time because the autosave didn't kickin (Only at certan areas)
But it IS a kickass game...Biowares BEST D&D rpg yet
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Yeah but NWN is £40, but it is worth every penny :D. A Revolutionary game.
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If you're going for slightly older games (and me having absolutely no idea what you've already got) my suggestions are:
- Independence War 2 - Newtonian Physics, 3D Space Combat
- Deus Ex - 1st person RPG
- Homeworld - 3D RTS
- Homeworld Cataclysm - 3D RTS
- Age of Empires II - Sprite-based RTS
- Descent 3 - 3D indoor/outdoor action
- System Shock 2 - 1st person RPG, like DX but entirely different...; not played
- X-Wing Alliance - Star wars Flight sim
I-War2 is bloody easy to mod if you've got the patch. It actually has a dedicated screen off the main menu to control the active/inactive mods, and there are quite a few on the community web site. However, the game's a little tricky to get the knack of. I can't remember how many times I got fragged in my first skirmish with some Marauders...
Deus Ex...I think we've all got a pretty good idea of what became of it: a legendary game. Getting the SDK lets you make your own levels/missions, and there are plenty of user-made mods out there.
Homeworld and Cataclysm are easy to mod in terms of ship stat editing. There's a special texture index that keeps the texies all nice and purty for changing LODs, but makes modding damn near impossible if you want to change just a few ships about. Although the mods out there are impressive. If they'd just make new campaigns to go along with them...
Age of Empires II is easy to play, but a ***** to master. Building walls around your base doesn't work as it used to, and even then they put up Trebuchets and hit your base right across your walls! But fun nonetheless.
D3 I suppose we're also fairly familiar with.
XWA I'm also not going into too much detail. Can be modded, but it's harder than it first appears.
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New(ish) games:
- Star Trek Bridge Commander - 3D space combat with friggin' huge starships
- Jedi Knight II - FPS with a lightsaber
- Aliens vs. Predator 2 - FPS with a massive fear factor, not played
- Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds - AoE2 in Star Wars (or the other way around), not played
- Ghost Recon - Tactical FPS(?), not played
- Operation Flashpoint - Not played
- The Elder Scrolls III - not played
- Neverwinter Nights - also not played
Bridge Commander is, next to Elite Force, probably the best recent Trek game to be made. My only quibble is that there's no joystick support, and I've not yet gotten around to finishing the main campaign.
JK2 is based on the QuakeIII engine, so naturally it looks gorgeous on a top-notch machine. Although multiplayer mode always is a stutterfest on my comp even with graphics and audio quality at the bare minimums (and I've got a Geforce4 Ti4400!!!. But it's still fun to play.
Those that I have not played I'm not going to say anything about, simply because I know nothing about them.
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NWN and Morrowind could be good, though I haven't played them.
But Jedi Knight II is at least excellent. :D