In no particular order...
HOMM2- I played the series from kings bounty through homm3. kings bounty was pretty good in it's time, homm3 tried to do too much I didn't like it at all K-I-S-S
AOE series- I was pretty content with AOE1 as a perfect RTS like civ2 was perfect TBS. I was wrong AOE2 and the expansion are that much better. Head and shoulders above the rest RTS.
Warlords III Darklords Rising- Another great strategy game, turn based but turns into RTS online. That's where the game really takes off -online. When you get the player created heroes, and units, put them together anyway you like, game within a game.
Unique for sure, a little buggy but well worth it.
Quake1 CTF- (capture the flag) Great mod that adds some strategy to the simple shot everyone basis. Love the way you can modify your cfg files, mine are heavily modified. GLquake made it even better, then there's the grappling hook...
I've wasted more time on these 4 games than I care to admit to.
Chess is my alltime favorite. Don't like playing it over the internet though, I always get the feeling that my opponent has chessmaster running in the backround giving him moves. Over the table is how I like to play it.
I noticed some people mentioned simcity and I have to stick my 2cents in. I think it was crap, there's absolutely no goal. Build a city and then what?
Also people mentioned D2 hmm. I used to love that game but it's gone straight down. Maybe a year ago when I used to play alot things were cool. you could find SOJ, +2skill high damage weapons, etc. I went afk for a few months and my characters and all their goodies were deleted. No problem, I started playing again. The drops are terrible- I've found 4 manald heal rings, 3 nokozarns, massive crappy greens, no +skill weapons. I've done my research too I have big magic find and know where to get the best drops.
Plus that's not even the half of it. Battle.net is a hackfest. Everyone trading their duplicated items is quite disheartening. SS, rune slippers, bitter turn ring Bliz goes and makes an announcement they're deleting all the items several times. I go check to see if it's true. BS there's still massive people trading these items.
thanks for listenening
