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CivII and III.
Computer games that influenced you?
- Thread starter Kyriakos
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jameson
Emperor
Two games that made me end in playing strategy games pretty much exclusively:
Historyline 1914-1918 ( from the makers of Battle Isle)
and of course, SSI's Panzer General
Historyline 1914-1918 ( from the makers of Battle Isle)
and of course, SSI's Panzer General
Gr3yL3gion
Voice of Madness
Blasphemous said:Heh, I recently ditched Ignus to make place for Modron. ^^
Ignus isn't all that useful after he's burned all your organs... And I can't say I loved getting into stupid fights with the nut.
Who cares??? After all no other character's in the gaming world that will attack it's own allies for no apparent reason....(at least not that I aware of). Now that's a character!!!
Modron's cute though, when it's set on fire
Yuri2356
Test Screening
Who could forget this Whackjob:
And, of course, this guy:
The C&C series really got me into the RTS genre, and eventually the TBS Genre as well.
And, My personal introduction to the Civ series:
God bless Emulation.
And, of course, this guy:
The C&C series really got me into the RTS genre, and eventually the TBS Genre as well.
And, My personal introduction to the Civ series:
God bless Emulation.
toh6wy
Emperor
I have fond memories of Beyond Dark Castle:
And especially of the original Alone in the Dark:
(I never really played the games myself, though - my sister and I would just enjoy watching our dad play them).
And especially of the original Alone in the Dark:
(I never really played the games myself, though - my sister and I would just enjoy watching our dad play them).
Oruc
Reactionary
Settlers - Greatest game i ever played, though i had to figure what all the buildings did by myself because i had no manual (twas a copy)
Flight of the Amazon queen - I think thats what its called, it was one of those game where you combined random objects to attempt to overcome a problem, I always remember that talking gorilla that got in your way, I was sad when i convinced him he didnt exist. cant forget all those 'prisoners' the amazons kept.
Warcraft 2 - i believe this was the first Realtime strategy game i played and then bought some time later (thou it was for the Playstation)
Total Annihilation - The best real time Strategy game in my opinion, building Huge Armies and sending them to thier deatsh is always fun.
Shogun Total War - This game was and is cool, course RTW looks better and MTW is set in a recognisable area, but they left out some of the niceties like the throne room
Flight of the Amazon queen - I think thats what its called, it was one of those game where you combined random objects to attempt to overcome a problem, I always remember that talking gorilla that got in your way, I was sad when i convinced him he didnt exist. cant forget all those 'prisoners' the amazons kept.
Warcraft 2 - i believe this was the first Realtime strategy game i played and then bought some time later (thou it was for the Playstation)
Total Annihilation - The best real time Strategy game in my opinion, building Huge Armies and sending them to thier deatsh is always fun.
Shogun Total War - This game was and is cool, course RTW looks better and MTW is set in a recognisable area, but they left out some of the niceties like the throne room
Not that I played that game a long time, but still very nice.
My first real game was:
and a bit later:
Evil Tyrant
Eccentric Dictator
Caesar II and Civilization III
SuperSloth
Warlord
madden 98 got me interested in playing and watching football in high school.
Fifty
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I played hours upon hours upon hours upon hours upon hours of Age of Empires II (to the tune of 6hrs+ daily, and when given the opportunity played for 15hrs at a time)
I was darn good though (beat 6 of my friends vs me).
I was darn good though (beat 6 of my friends vs me).
MjM
Deity
Starcraft and Warcraft I 
slip79
Princess
Rik Meleet said:and a bit later:
hehehe... my sister and i used to play this game when we were real little (like 10-11)... with a bit of help from our dad.
random i know..... (go larry!!!)paperboy, california games, winter games, summer games, commando on the ol' c-64.
then graduated to king's quest and space quest, lemmings and civ.
then pretty much stuck with civ!!! oh tho i did play aces of the pacific and knights of the sky religiously as well.
Shylock
Hey smiling strange
The first game I ever really played was Age of Empires, strategy is still my preference.
They had Civ 2 on the public library computers and I loved it. They removed it (it didnt really notice as I was more intrested in the books) and a couple years after that my friend burned me a copy of it. I still have the disk. During the summer I got a second-hand copy of Test of Time from a friend, I didnt much care for it.
I bought Civ 3 with both ex packs from a catalog provided by my sister's school for 20 bucks in April. I remember playing through my first conquest scenario, the Pacific one. I was talking to my girlfriend whilst playing it too (She broke up with me a month or so after I got it for reasons unrelated to the game. Apprently she cant understand the benifits of a real boyfriend over an internet boyfriend :shakehead). I bought Civ 4 a few days after it came out.
Morrowind taught me to save before doing anything risky... in real life. I had the impulse to save before checking my calculator manual during a test, as it might be thought of as cheating.
Half Life 2 taught me to say "Civil Protection" whenever security forces are about.
They had Civ 2 on the public library computers and I loved it. They removed it (it didnt really notice as I was more intrested in the books) and a couple years after that my friend burned me a copy of it. I still have the disk. During the summer I got a second-hand copy of Test of Time from a friend, I didnt much care for it.
I bought Civ 3 with both ex packs from a catalog provided by my sister's school for 20 bucks in April. I remember playing through my first conquest scenario, the Pacific one. I was talking to my girlfriend whilst playing it too (She broke up with me a month or so after I got it for reasons unrelated to the game. Apprently she cant understand the benifits of a real boyfriend over an internet boyfriend :shakehead). I bought Civ 4 a few days after it came out.
Morrowind taught me to save before doing anything risky... in real life. I had the impulse to save before checking my calculator manual during a test, as it might be thought of as cheating.
Half Life 2 taught me to say "Civil Protection" whenever security forces are about.
Ultima Dragoon
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
FF:1,2,7,8,9 Tactics advance, crystal chronicles
Loz: all
Morrowind
Civ 3 & 4
Loz: all
Morrowind
Civ 3 & 4
The thread has gone very off-topic though, since my question was not which games you liked playing, but which- if any- really influenced your thought/imagination 
For example i liked playing battle isle a lot, but it didnt really influence my imagination much, unlike another world. In one way or another, ofcourse, everything which we dedicate a lot of time to in turn influences us, but ussually in more obscure ways.
For example i liked playing battle isle a lot, but it didnt really influence my imagination much, unlike another world. In one way or another, ofcourse, everything which we dedicate a lot of time to in turn influences us, but ussually in more obscure ways.
Ultima Dragoon
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
varwnos said:really influenced your thought/imagination
Ohhhhh....
FF7 and FF9 win then.
My imaginatory system (how I imagine things) is almost completely based on FF7. I played that game 12 hours straight, once. I still believe I can cast Ultimas....
Hence the nickname.
Jawz II
Oh Dear
jameson said:and of course, SSI's Panzer General
hehey, another PG fan, i friggin loved that game, and PG2
i haved PG2 installed, too bad ive gone through all campaigns like 5 times, or i would play some more
i play alittle peoples general every now and again (modified with narayans super awesome equipment file)
sad thing is the PG AND PG2 (the 3rd one sucked moneky rectum IMHO) got me hooked on hex strategy games, but i cant find any other good ones...
ive been looking for a good one since like 1995
@yuri: the command and conquer villain was super cool, maybe thats where i stole my goatee, mustache and shaved head style from!
i also dig the soundtrack from red alert, i have that song called "hellmarsch" in my mp3 player, its friggin great
