On July 10 2010 15:48 orgolove wrote: I did try Dwarf fortress. It was fun - but once you re-create the emergency lava switch from Boatmurdered, you reach kind of an end, you know? Nothing can ever threaten you from land, and it becomes just text based management from there...
True that. But if you would like to try it once again, recently new "major" version improvement came out with a new army arc, medical care, and compleatly new underground with caves tunnels rivers and much more random Fun. (it's still somewheat buggy but is being worked on atm)
I would also strongly recommend FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2, the games are beyond awesome and i come back to them every once in a while. (if you would like to play them, there is a mod for FS2 to have whole FS1 campagin in its better engine)
Aaand on topic of space games, Homeworld an fully 3D RTS have an awesome and captivating campagin. Plus if you like it there is a squel too (i liked the first one better thou).
Personally I think you should try some rhythm games, if you haven't already done so. If you're into music (which pretty much everyone is), then they are pretty damn fun. If you're not, they will open you up to different genres and be insanely addicting, and simply fun to play over and over. You pretty much just do whatever to the beat of the music.
There are the western ones: guitar hero, rock band, dj hero, etc. that opened my ears to classic rock and some other tight music. Plus they are extremely easy to pick up and play with friends, which is always fun. Then there are the Japanese ones which get considerably more difficult, but are even more addicting imo: DDR of course, beatmania, pop'n music, jubeat, lumines, rhythm heaven (a lol game for DS), other bemani games etc. Usually it's mostly electronic music in these, but they can come from every genre and the songs are amazing, much better than I expected for purely music-game music.
I myself have been playing pop'n music like crazy these days, and I can safely say that at the highest difficulties it is the hardest game I have ever played (my gaming list is actually very similar to yours). So if you're into challenges..
I think you just aren't playing any of the games that seriously. I mean even AoE 3 can be a lot of fun if you really get into it. Theorycrafting can be a lot of fun, start by reading up on unit stats, then take a piece of paper or an excel spreadsheet and just make up some strategy.
Or maybe it's like sex with married couples. Try to keep yourself away from games for a month and then ride the withdrawl symptoms!
Well, I've been gaming for about 10-12 years myself, so heres my "top" list. Perhaps some of them will interest you?
- Quakelive - CS 1,6 - Legend of Zelda (all of them really..) - World of Warcraft (you wanted addiction, come get it) - Aion (it's fun for some weeks, but then I got bored shitless..) - If you can get a hold on a Nintendo 64/Gamecube a new world will arise. Mario/Zelda/Metro etc, a lot of good classics. - Guitar Hero/Stepmania - God of War 3 (ps3 tho) - Diablo 1/2/exp - HoN, LoL (lol)
Duuurg, just ranting out games now really. Perhaps your days in playing games are over T_T
On July 10 2010 14:47 Subversive wrote: Gaming is a great time filler. But most people stop playing as they get older, not because gaming is immature but because other things in life start to interest them or take up the spare time they used to devote to gaming - hi Mani
This.
Age and number of games played are generally inversely proportional. This is usually because as you get older, you 1) get far more interests as you're able to do more things and 2) because you're more capable of analyzing and criticizing games, which means you like fewer. It's normal and I'd say a healthy thing to do.
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