At the end of the school year I will be moving home for a few months until my new lease starts at my new school. Due to the dial up connection and that the family computer is in the middle of the living room, my Porn enjoyment is going to be severely limited this summer. Other than work I will need something to do.
Can anyone recommend a good, really involved computer game? I used to like playing Star Control 2 and Master of Orion. Civilization II was good, but III sucked. I need something that is mentally stimulating and can keep me going for about two months. I like quest type games, butget annoyed when one has to buy the book to use them.
Well, I myself am more into 3d shooter like Quake or Unreal but a college of mine is sort of "addicted" to Age of Mythology. Maybe you want to check this one out...
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DenverDon Benevolent
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Posted - Apr 1 2003 : 7:50AM
I always liked (and still do) Diablo II. Two is much better than one. I could spend hour (days) immersed in it.
Diablo II, Starcraft, Warcraft III, and Age of Mythology are all good choices if you like real time strategy games. Master of Orion III bites -- totally boring and nothing like the first MOO. I hear Splinter Cell for PC is pretty good.
I've spent many a day on Railroad Tycoon II... it's an older game by today's standards, but it's still being sold which speaks alot about it's worth. It's an extremely addictive game. I've also heard the Tropico is good, and it's by the same people, (Pop Top Software) but I haven't played it myself.
Besides, that, the ultimate in involved strategy on the computer is Space Empires IV Gold. It's not sold in retail stores, because the developer was never interested in spending the money on marketing. Regardless it is probably one of the most involved and addictive pure strategy games out there.
Many of the games already mentioned by others are more involved from an audiovisual standpoint than these are, but if you like strategy type games, these two are a couple of the most enjoyable I've played.
Oh--and I also hear that EverQuest is HORRIFICALLY addicting, but it involves getting a subscription to play with other people on the web, and it sounds like you're just interested in getting through the summer. I've never played it myself, but people I've talked to say you can't NOT play it if you're into the fantasy role playing type of game genre.
Speaking from a personal experience, I think Everquest is the most addictive game ever created so far. I have played that game from 99 to 02 like an addict, eg: work, play, eat, sleep, rinse and repeat. I finally got off this addiction about a year ago. Most of the EQ players refer to the game as Evercrack, because of the way this game is so appealing to them.
I still have friends that plays the game, last time I checked with one of them, he had a character with a play time of 450 days (Yep the game sums up all the hours you have put in the game since you started and he's at 450). He started playing the game at the same time as I did, 1999, and he has 450 days played... LOL
Thanks guys. I had had my heart set on Master of Orion 3 for months, then it comes and is all shitty. Something that take months is perfect. Two months to be specific.
I have a soft spot in my gaming heart for both volmes of No One Lives Forever. Great story, awesome humor, excellent gameplay, just all around good stuff. May be a bit too much first-person shooter looking at the list of stuff you've preferred in the past...
If you want to go *really* old-school, I might recommend getting ahold of some of the old Infocom games. :-)
One of the nice things about Infocom is that they released Zork I-III as freeware. Douglas Adams released Hitchhikers' adaptation as a freeware java applet as well...