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Topic: The official Piss All Over Everyone's Top 20 Thread (Read 88592 times)
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Strazos
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Homeworld
No wait, this is the best single player RTS.
I put this on my list when I originally made my list. And I'm fairly sure I'm not the only one. |
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Hoax
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Yeah I felt bad leaving it off, but I never was good enough to enjoy multiplayer Homeworld...
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Strazos
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It had multiplayer?
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stray
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I think Homeworld is the best RTS too...
Thing is, an RTS could never make my top 20.
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« Last Edit: December 13, 2007, 02:16:45 AM by Stray »
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geldonyetich2
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There's one thing we agree on: RTS didn't make my top 20 either.
Don't get me wrong, they're serviceable enough games and when I'm playing one I'm often shocked to look up at the clock and see that hours have passed. However, I think the actual return for the time invested is just not worth it. (Come to think of it, that might be the reason why no MMORPG is on my list either.)
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Rasix
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I think Homeworld is the best RTS too...
Thing is, an RTS could never make my top 20.
I never did get into Homeworld. It never caught on past the first few missions. My roommate adored it, however. The second part I fully agree with. Otherwise, I would have put down Warcraft II, since it's pretty much introduced me to competitive gaming. I played the shit out of it, running up some pretty impressive phone bills. I just remember hating the single player experience. No RTS has been an earth moving experience for me, some of the better ones manage to be decent distractions for a while. Rome: Total War is something that came close to making the list also, but that game is a difficult beast to classify. Part turn based strategy, part RTS with pause, and definitely less of a Korean-reflexes-will-dominate game. |
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Wolf
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My list is mostly built around "titles that changed the way I feel about gaming". That's why I have both Dune 2 and Starcraft on there. Dune 2 - Wow, that whole Civilization thing can be actiony and stuff. I like it. Starcraft - I can actually jump online and pwn random people I never met? And I'm good at it. And they get all pissed when I tell them how much they suck in broken English?  |
As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
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schild
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Rise of Nations almost made my top 20 original long list.
Cannon Fodder won over every other RTS out though.
Has ANYONE here played Cannon Fodder? :( :(
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« Last Edit: December 13, 2007, 08:52:45 AM by schild »
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Rendakor
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Rise of Nations almost made my top 20 original long list.
Cannon Fodder won over every other RTS out though.
Has ANYONE here played Cannon Fodder? :( :(
I've never even heard of it... |
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bhodi
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I played it. Very entertaining.
I almost added crystalis but didn't make the cut.
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HaemishM
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I think Homeworld is the best RTS too...
Thing is, an RTS could never make my top 20.
The original C&C made mine, mainly because it was the first modem multiplayer game I ever got the chance to play. Playing with my crosstown buddy, even with disconnects and the like, was just fucking awesome. It's the same reason I put EQ1 on there, they both broke my cherry for a specific type of gaming. |
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schild
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"War, it's never been so much fun
War, it's never been so much fun
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Kill him with your gun
Leave him lying in his uniform
Dying in the sun!
War, it's never been so much fun
War, it's never been so much fun"
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stray
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Yes, Cannon Fodder was one of the first things I got for the family 486.
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DraconianOne
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Has ANYONE here played Cannon Fodder? :( :(
Oh yes, way back when on the Amiga. As you said, war has never been so much fun. It failed for me because of the KY-Jelly soaked cliff face rise in difficulty around level 8 and the levels that took 10 minutes trekking around the screen. Also, I had Syndicate to play. |
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Samwise
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So once we have all these top 20 lists, what happens to them? Are they being compiled into a giant F13 top 100 list ordered by how often each game appeared in each individual's lists, or what?
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schild
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Why would I post what I'm doing with them?
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Phildo
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Why would I post what I'm doing with them?
Plausible deniability? Edit: As an afterthought, I'm tempted to add minesweeper to my list. Seriously. |
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« Last Edit: December 13, 2007, 11:50:59 PM by Phildo »
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Samwise
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Why would I post what I'm doing with them?
So you don't know either, eh? |
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Signe
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I'm sure he'll use them to embarass us when we are grown.  |
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lamaros
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I'm sure he'll use them to embarass us when we are grown. I'm safe for 50 years then. |
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geldonyetich2
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Blackmail - I should have known!
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Ratman_tf
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He's a marketing shill, plundering our gaming habit data. Death's too good for 'im!
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Phildo
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He's a marketing shill, plundering our gaming habit data. Death's too good for 'im!
All this time, he's been a Schildbot? |
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schild
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Domo Arigato jerks, i got ur infoz.
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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As soon as you have all the kinks worked out, send instructions (in small words)!  If you can operate DOSBox then it's easy. I am not sure if the installer works in cmd.exe but you might try that. Else copy the CDROM to a dir somewhere and mount that up in DOSBox and install from there. If you can't operate DOSBox, I will have to use big words... or the dreaded utterance "Are Tee Eff Em". Because I don't remember exactly how to do it. It's easier than using the built-in Windows compatibility thingy with VDM Sound, though. |
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WayAbvPar
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Having never heard of DOSbox (and not having the game media), I am scrod. Proper-like.
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Yegolev
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Ah right... game media. That would be a stopper. I'll work on that. DOSBox is a must-have anyway, if you want to play something not made for NT. I want to try the new version (and my new hardware) with System Shock to see if the framerate is doubledigit, when I get some time. Works on OS X as well due to a frontend, from what I read. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Sky
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geldonyetich2
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Would have sworn I saw Alpha Centari on GameTap, but it's not there now. They phased a bunch of games out Dec 11th, that might have been one of them. Oh well - Civ IV, Disciples I and II, Heroes of Might and Magic IV, and Homeworld I and II, and Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic might help fill the void.
(Shit - I do spend too much time on these forums.)
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Yegolev
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Huh, well if GameTap removed the edutainment games, I'll possibly be cancelling. Or canceling.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Sky
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I will second the nod to Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, that was a fun game. Also the Disciples 2.
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Endie
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I didn't see it in time, so I'm going to piss over everyone else's list by posting the right one, although not hugely ordered: Elite (Acornsoft) Battlezone Flight Simulator (ZX81)F19 (Microprose) Championship Manager 2 Defender Civilisation 1 Hearts of Iron 2 Wing Commander Panzer General 2 Ultima Underworld 2 Eve Online World of Warcraft Starcraft Sims 1 Project Gotham Racing 2 Baldur's Gate Falcon 3 Populous Doom |
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eldaec
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Cannon Fodder won over every other RTS out though.
Has ANYONE here played Cannon Fodder? :( :(
Kind of suffered from being the same joke throughout, but yeah, fun. |
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schild
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Cannon Fodder won over every other RTS out though.
Has ANYONE here played Cannon Fodder? :( :(
Kind of suffered from being the same joke throughout, but yeah, fun. When you're very young, one joke can go a long way, you spoony bard. |
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Margalis
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I will second the nod to Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, that was a fun game. Also the Disciples 2.
I miss when the PC had games like that. They seem in short supply these days. |
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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