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I downloaded the demo for this one. I can't say that I hate it as it's not that bad a game (I haven't played the predecessors either), but it's not really hard to win against the AI in this game, is it? That makes playing SP games rather pointless to me. It does seem a little over-simplified. If you liked this game, then I'll recommend Armageddon Empires to you.

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I like Warlords 1 and 2, and none of the others in the franchise. Warlords 2 was just the original with a random map generator and some upgraded features. Everything after it was a complete departure.

I can't find the original, but Warlords 2 is abandonware and available on the net.

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How could I have forgotten that one? This setting was absolutely AWESOME, and could easily support multiple games of multiple genre's (much like the many Warhammer and Warhammer:40,000 franchises).

This is a game that NEEDS to be remade. There was a pretty active web community and two popular user made mods that fixed a lot of the bugs and added units, but sadly recently the website housing them has gone down. EDIT: Strike that, it appears to be back up. http://www.kborek.cz/forum/phpBB2/ is the web address if anyone is interested in learning about this awesome game. The wikipedia page is informative, too.

I can still remember the thrill of drop shipping my legions and tanks, led by my noble swordmasters, into Holy Terra in retribution for the church destroying some of my labs. Go House Hawkwood!

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What was the software from ID: Castle Frankenstein..

How about the original: Hack, Rogue, StarTrek.

Also Darklands - which was incredible, Fallout, Insane Asylum, Populus (The almost original God Game).

Sentinel - which seems faded in retrospect. Civilization.
Beta tested Evercrack. Quit it at 7th Level.

Sanctum:Digital Addiction. www.nioga.net.
Chron-x

Neverwinter.

Panzer General.
Spaceward Ho!
Rails West on commodore 64

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And, for the old-time Mac users out there, who can forget Marathon, the progenitor of Halo? Many a good night wasted playing MP Marathon at the office.

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you really didn't have to play to SS1 for enjoying the second, just read a summary of the story.

I forgot Deux Ex 1 and SS2 too (... and Fantasy General, and Genesia, Star Wars: TIE Fighter, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Dune 1, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Syndicate, Thief II: The Metal Age, Ultima VII: The Black Gate, Arx Fatalis, Rainbow Six)

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Forgot my first loves...
Lords of Midnight/Doomdark's Revenge (ZX Spectrum)
The Hobbit (ZX Spectrum)
Football Manager (ancestor of the modern CM/FM on ZX Spectrum)
Jeanne d'Arc (TO7/70)
Ogre (Apple II)
Archon (Apple II)
Revolution/Insurrection/Freedom something ? (Apple II, not sure for the name, a game where you fighted a dictator in south america and had many ways to win, with options like drug traffic to fund your army or being more honest and trying to get international popularity or US/USSR support making the other your ennemy)
Wizardry I-III (Apple II)
Ultima II-IV (Apple II)
Bard's Tale (Apple II, the recent PC game using the name is Diablolike crap)
Colonial Conquest (Atari ST)
Defender of the Crown (Atari ST)
Dungeon Master I-II (Atari ST)
Populous I-II (Atari ST)

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My all time hits:

All Silent Hill games (brilliant! Creepy, intelligent)
GTA San Andreas (clever humor, great cultural stereotypes parody)
Portal (the endgame song is hillarious)
Gothic 1 and 2
Fallout 2
Dominions 3 (single player AI is limited though and I was not still able to find a MP game)
Mount and Blade (but the development is slow)
Wesnoth (most polished open source game)
Legacy of Kain series (everything with Raziel and Kain :-) )
DreamWeb (yay!)
Perihellion (cyberpunk at its best)
Shadow of the Beast series

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Most buggy open source game. I'd love it if you weren't some sort of beta tester all the time.

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Could you elabore on the 'buggy' part ? I'm interested.