1. Age of Empires-so many sub games, so many different scenarios and styles
2. Warcraft III- so many sub games and custom maps, only real drawback seems to be the hosting and "auto kick"
3. Sim City- So basic, yet so many different niche ways to build and even a fair way to explain to children "you know when I work I have to pay taxes, this is how taxes work."
So what's your topic "you should play this game to get the greatest backing for your dollar?"
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The Orange Box contains a large amount of content for its price.
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is a decent game and contains an updated version of the prequel Escape from Butcher Bay (the better of the two in my opinion). You can probably find it for cheap now.
For me:
1. Flight Simulator 9 (2004), probably put close to 500 hours into that game doing all sorts of stuff. Look forward to eventually getting back into the pilots seat with FSX on a computer that can run it, but don't have the time.
2. Any Elder Scrolls game. 176 hours into Skyrim with similar hours in 3 and 4.
3. Sim City. Hell yah, awesome game, but probably not as much as the Elder Scrolls games as I always played in waves, and never really got a city past 150k citizens.
These are all games I'll certainty return to in the future, whereas most games in my collection are still collecting dust after one play through.
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I've wasted over 24 hours on Dawn of War Dark Crusade too
24 hours? Please. You want a game that will suck your life away? Play WoW. I have several months of game time in WoW. Sure it is $15 a month but for the amount of time people play that game, I am officially revising my answer to WoW.
So, if you want your existence to be centered around a video game, WoW seems to be the correct choice.
Alright, I shall expand on the Civilization series, then. For those that are not aware of what it is, you basically guide a civilization of people through time - from the Stone Age to the Space Age. You control just about everything - where and how your civilization expands, where your armies march, what technologies your scientists focus their research on, what religions (if any) you force your people to follow... There are usually many ways to win the game, whether it be winning a space race, dominating the world through military might, or taking over the world via your civilization's culture.
The gameplay is also addicting to the point of insanity. Many reviewers have coined the phrase "Just... One... More... Turn" in their reviews, for good reason. You start a game and the next few hours instantly pass, as if you had just experienced an alcohol-induced blackout. How many times have I come to at 4AM playing Civilization? I cannot recall.
Civilization also does a nice job of balancing easy to learn gameplay with deeper strategy. You can sit down, start building cities anywhere you please in seconds. But to truly understand the optimal way to place those cities, it can take a good bit of thinking and/or internet research.
Civilization also features randomly generated world maps, making each game rather unique. And you can tinker with these settings to get a world that you're after (i.e. mountainous, flat, or oceanic worlds, etc.). Some of the games even have map editors.
There is heavy mod support out there for the series as well. Civilization IV in particular has a host of amazing mods that will further expand the gameplay.
If you're looking at getting into the series, I'd give Civilization IV a whirl. If you dig through the Internet, you can often find complete Civ IV bundles for a decent price. The graphics are a bit dated, but not too terrible, and many laud it as the best of the series. Civilization V is the newest entry in the series. It attempted to streamline the game a little bit, and added a new level of tactical gameplay to combat. Although it was not as highly reviewed as some of its predecessors, I still greatly enjoyed it and sank upwards of 200+ hours into it.
The Orange Box contains a large amount of content for its price.
I would agree with this. I've played Half Life 2 a gazillion times over and still enjoy it.
There is this bizarre little game called Hostile Waters: Anteus Rising that I love and seem to replay once a year. It's a RTS that came out around the time Multiplayer games were starting to become popular... so it faded into the $5 bin at Gamespot when the trend left this little gem in the dust. You should be able to find it for DIRT cheap. Basically you have up to 9 units with specialties that you can tell what to do on a map. At any point though you can "jump into" the machine and drive it yourself, esp if the AI is not understanding you. It starts out as a cheesy looking typical RTS, but soon develops into the CRAZY horror subtheme full of some VERY challenging levels. I've played it a million times and I sometimes STILL have to look up hints on a walkthrough. I love it though, and anyone who enjoys RTS's should give it a shot.
Advance Wars series, especially if you know anyone else that does/is willing to play it. You just constantly make maps for yourself/friends/computers, and the War Room takes a pretty long time to get all S-Ranks with. Excellent investment, value-wise.
Sim City, Age of Empires, WC3 all excellent options as well.
The gameplay is also addicting to the point of insanity. Many reviewers have coined the phrase "Just... One... More... Turn" in their reviews, for good reason. You start a game and the next few hours instantly pass, as if you had just experienced an alcohol-induced blackout. How many times have I come to at 4AM playing Civilization? I cannot recall.
While Civilization sucked many hours from me over the years, the most replayability I got was out of Colonization which was originally a companion game to Civilization and was later re-released as a mod for Civ 4. Over the years it has been the go-to game for me whenever I am tired of whatever games are current at the time.
Advance Wars series, especially if you know anyone else that does/is willing to play it. You just constantly make maps for yourself/friends/computers, and the War Room takes a pretty long time to get all S-Ranks with. Excellent investment, value-wise.
I will second this, but talking about Advance Wars 2. I still play that game A LOT. Is one of the best buys you can do.
24 hours? Please. You want a game that will suck your life away? Play WoW. I have several months of game time in WoW. Sure it is $15 a month but for the amount of time people play that game, I am officially revising my answer to WoW.
So, if you want your existence to be centered around a video game, WoW seems to be the correct choice.
WoW didn't suck much of my time away, at least not as much as it did to other people I know who played it.
Most of my time in DoW: DC was over a few week period, that's why I said it.
I think I'm gonna add Mw1 and Black Ops to my list too, I've played a good amount of them, not nearly as much as other people I know who have played them though
24 hours? Please. You want a game that will suck your life away? Play WoW. I have several months of game time in WoW. Sure it is $15 a month but for the amount of time people play that game, I am officially revising my answer to WoW.
So, if you want your existence to be centered around a video game, WoW seems to be the correct choice.
The 15 dollar a month requirement kinda takes it out of the category for this thread. Just a few months of slow time during a busy point in your life and you're dollar to time investment starts to look bad. There are plenty of cheap games that offer hundreds of hours of enjoyment for much cheaper.
I know people who spent 1000 dollars on WoW. That's a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a video game.
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A lot of old multiplayer FPS games can be great if you have people that are willing to play them. Like Perfect Dark and Goldeneye, since they're cheap as hell now.
Same with original SSB and SSBM.
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Starcraft 2, because that's the game I keep playing tbh.
Fighters tend to be good too, like the Smash Bros series, Marvel, Blazblue, Guilty Gear, and Street Fighter. The only thing is that you absolutely need other people to play with, though.
Cave Story...for a free game, it took away like 10+ playthroughs of my life away.
The 15 dollar a month requirement kinda takes it out of the category for this thread. Just a few months of slow time during a busy point in your life and you're dollar to time investment starts to look bad. There are plenty of cheap games that offer hundreds of hours of enjoyment for much cheaper.
I know people who spent 1000 dollars on WoW. That's a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a video game.
that's another reason why I included dawn of War: Dark Crusade, 24 hours for a game that only cost me like $20 isn't too bad compared to how much time I've put into other games
Guild Wars - It lost a lot of it's replay value when people started leaving it for newer mmos, but it's still f2p and has a decent pvp scene.
Age of Empire 1,2, & 3 - Particularly number 3, because that was the first one I played competitively online.
League of Legends - obligatory comment and reasoning here
Roller Coaster Tycoon - This game sucked the life out of me for quite a while. It's still a great game too.
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1. Age of Empires-so many sub games, so many different scenarios and styles
2. Warcraft III- so many sub games and custom maps, only real drawback seems to be the hosting and "auto kick"
3. Sim City- So basic, yet so many different niche ways to build and even a fair way to explain to children "you know when I work I have to pay taxes, this is how taxes work."
So what's your topic "you should play this game to get the greatest backing for your dollar?"
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
But seriously, Roller Coaster Tycoon was always my favorite growing up. It never got old.
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is a decent game and contains an updated version of the prequel Escape from Butcher Bay (the better of the two in my opinion). You can probably find it for cheap now.
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1. Flight Simulator 9 (2004), probably put close to 500 hours into that game doing all sorts of stuff. Look forward to eventually getting back into the pilots seat with FSX on a computer that can run it, but don't have the time.
2. Any Elder Scrolls game. 176 hours into Skyrim with similar hours in 3 and 4.
3. Sim City. Hell yah, awesome game, but probably not as much as the Elder Scrolls games as I always played in waves, and never really got a city past 150k citizens.
These are all games I'll certainty return to in the future, whereas most games in my collection are still collecting dust after one play through.
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I have to agree with this.
I've wasted over 24 hours on Dawn of War Dark Crusade too
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24 hours? Please. You want a game that will suck your life away? Play WoW. I have several months of game time in WoW. Sure it is $15 a month but for the amount of time people play that game, I am officially revising my answer to WoW.
So, if you want your existence to be centered around a video game, WoW seems to be the correct choice.
The gameplay is also addicting to the point of insanity. Many reviewers have coined the phrase "Just... One... More... Turn" in their reviews, for good reason. You start a game and the next few hours instantly pass, as if you had just experienced an alcohol-induced blackout. How many times have I come to at 4AM playing Civilization? I cannot recall.
Civilization also does a nice job of balancing easy to learn gameplay with deeper strategy. You can sit down, start building cities anywhere you please in seconds. But to truly understand the optimal way to place those cities, it can take a good bit of thinking and/or internet research.
Civilization also features randomly generated world maps, making each game rather unique. And you can tinker with these settings to get a world that you're after (i.e. mountainous, flat, or oceanic worlds, etc.). Some of the games even have map editors.
There is heavy mod support out there for the series as well. Civilization IV in particular has a host of amazing mods that will further expand the gameplay.
If you're looking at getting into the series, I'd give Civilization IV a whirl. If you dig through the Internet, you can often find complete Civ IV bundles for a decent price. The graphics are a bit dated, but not too terrible, and many laud it as the best of the series. Civilization V is the newest entry in the series. It attempted to streamline the game a little bit, and added a new level of tactical gameplay to combat. Although it was not as highly reviewed as some of its predecessors, I still greatly enjoyed it and sank upwards of 200+ hours into it.
I would agree with this. I've played Half Life 2 a gazillion times over and still enjoy it.
There is this bizarre little game called Hostile Waters: Anteus Rising that I love and seem to replay once a year. It's a RTS that came out around the time Multiplayer games were starting to become popular... so it faded into the $5 bin at Gamespot when the trend left this little gem in the dust. You should be able to find it for DIRT cheap. Basically you have up to 9 units with specialties that you can tell what to do on a map. At any point though you can "jump into" the machine and drive it yourself, esp if the AI is not understanding you. It starts out as a cheesy looking typical RTS, but soon develops into the CRAZY horror subtheme full of some VERY challenging levels. I've played it a million times and I sometimes STILL have to look up hints on a walkthrough. I love it though, and anyone who enjoys RTS's should give it a shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y6DKyYhjPE&feature=related
This video doesn't really give it justice, but you can run like 9 different units at one time and control them all from a 3d map. Pretty fun stuff.
Sim City, Age of Empires, WC3 all excellent options as well.
While Civilization sucked many hours from me over the years, the most replayability I got was out of Colonization which was originally a companion game to Civilization and was later re-released as a mod for Civ 4. Over the years it has been the go-to game for me whenever I am tired of whatever games are current at the time.
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WoW didn't suck much of my time away, at least not as much as it did to other people I know who played it.
Most of my time in DoW: DC was over a few week period, that's why I said it.
I think I'm gonna add Mw1 and Black Ops to my list too, I've played a good amount of them, not nearly as much as other people I know who have played them though
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The 15 dollar a month requirement kinda takes it out of the category for this thread. Just a few months of slow time during a busy point in your life and you're dollar to time investment starts to look bad. There are plenty of cheap games that offer hundreds of hours of enjoyment for much cheaper.
I know people who spent 1000 dollars on WoW. That's a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a video game.
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Same with original SSB and SSBM.
Fighters tend to be good too, like the Smash Bros series, Marvel, Blazblue, Guilty Gear, and Street Fighter. The only thing is that you absolutely need other people to play with, though.
Cave Story...for a free game, it took away like 10+ playthroughs of my life away.
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that's another reason why I included dawn of War: Dark Crusade, 24 hours for a game that only cost me like $20 isn't too bad compared to how much time I've put into other games
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Guild Wars - It lost a lot of it's replay value when people started leaving it for newer mmos, but it's still f2p and has a decent pvp scene.
Age of Empire 1,2, & 3 - Particularly number 3, because that was the first one I played competitively online.
League of Legends - obligatory comment and reasoning here
Roller Coaster Tycoon - This game sucked the life out of me for quite a while. It's still a great game too.
Whether it's a comedy or a tragedy, if there is cheering, the story will continue on.
Just like the many lives.
For the us who are still in it and still in the journey, send warm blessings.
- We will continue to walk down this path until eternity.
I've spent so much time grinding my characters and having a great time, what a fantastic game.
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