My favorite game question is, by far, "does it have achievements".

As for the games themselves, I'm still faithful to my old loves, like AvP (my first real fps, had terrified me - that said it had the better wall monitor actor), NOLF (coolest writing, level design and setting), Fallout1&2 (best post-ap universe ever, love its grit, humour and melancholy), and maybe Stalker for its atmosphere (guitar around the fire, etc).

But my desert island games would probably be Total War (maybe Medieval 2, but any would do), Men of War (again, who cares which one) and Master of Magic.

Since the Amiga, I used to consider Pirates and Elite as my top favorites, but maybe I managed to tire of them a bit, through the years. And Covert Action has fascinated me enough to deserve the mention too.

I usually like games that manage to be everything at once. Like Covert Action (and all its coherent minigames), Total War (strategy and tactic), Men of War (from battle-scale to unit scale), etc...

Dont click on it. Its spam. Wow.. Having to write this here makes me very sad. =( Things are changing.

SON OF A BITCH

3rd guy this week doing that.

I cannot seem to quit Mount & Blade. Despite having won the game several times I always have a bunch of playthroughs going on. Sure other games catch my interest for a while aaannd then it is back to M&B again and again and again. I need help. Other favourites in no particular order: Master of Orion 1 and 2,; The original Cossacks anthology; the X3 games (Reunion, Terran Conflict, Albion Prelude); Far Cry (it is getting hard to think of new ways to solve problems (read: kill the enemies and proceed) in it); Independence War 2 (aka I-War 2). Lots of other games I like but that list is special to me.

Despite playing for a hundred hours, I suspect I might never play Fallout 3 again but who knows. What a waste to have paid for those DLCs and never play them. Was there any of the DLCs that was extra nice that I just should reinstall for?

Recommended games? Any game in my first list naturally :-P; Swat 4, I played it a little, saw a good game that was not my thing and uninstalled it; Unreal Tournament 2004, it is easy against bots so even if you are not so good at shooters, that one should still be fun if you are into FPSs at all; FreeOrion is similar to Master of Orion 3 but better, especially with the latest 0.4.7.1 version (fixes some more severe problems with 0.4.7); Lemmings, one of the few puzzle games where I got anywhere. Sadly not available on GOG. I've Found Her, a free space shooter that is hard and not arcadish. I could go on and on but got to stop somewhere so STOP.

NOT recommended: RuneScape, sure there are some good parts to it but Pay to Win and too much of the game telling me when to do what and it not being friendly to someone who maybe does not want to play every single day are certainly off-putting. By the way, if you still want to play it, they will have a bonus xp weekend starting the 15th of September.

Games I hate? I guess old age has mellowed me as the only game I can think of is RuneScape and my hatred seems to have gone as cold as my former love for it.

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For Linux users: You will have to build FreeOrion yourselves as the available build is awfully old. :-(

What is your favorite games?
Deus Ex I,III
Marathon Trilogy
Myst I-IV
Black Mirror Trilogy
Soma
Dishonored (both actually but prefer I)
Bioshock Trilogy
Stalker Soc and CoP
Planescape Torment
Baldurs Gate II
Witcher I, III

What games did you love but probably never play again?
Baldurs Gate, Dragon Age Origins, maybe Witcher. Loved them but it took so long to play through and i don't really have the time for that. Its something else when i don't know the story yet but i prefer games in the 20-30hr region mostly.

What games would you tell friends to try out?
Hm most of my favs ;)

What games do / did you hate?
Maybe not hate but severely disappointing:
Skyrim: i wasn't a huge Bethesda fan before... i finished Oblivion but with Skyrim everything felt so bland and formulaic (again) that i stopped after 12 hours or something. Open world games aren't for me i think.
Dragon Age II: It could have been so simple: take Origins, make it more pretty and add some spells/skills/classes - done. But no, it suddenly had emo guys jumping 8m with huge swords and enemies respawning out of thin air, and all of it in the same 3 environments :P
I even liked the story, although it wasn't told especially well, in my opinion.
Shadow of Mordor: Not sure why i thought i might like it in the first place... i hated the non-canonic nonsense they made up, i thought the gameplay was really repetitive, dunno, not a fan :D

Is there a game you keep going back to play over again? Or one you refuse to give up on?
Hm not really, the only game i replayed several times is Deus Ex... actually just installed the GMDX mod for the first time yesterday, so maybe that will be another round ;)

A favourite games thread, and nobody mentioned Alpha Centauri?! What a shame…

So here you go:
My favourite game is Alpha Centauri, it actually takes by itself the 10 first ranks of my top 10 games of all times ;)
It’s my favourite strategy game, my favourite RPG, my favourite political sim…

Go play Alpha Centauri, now!
Then play it again!

Beware of the side effects: all Civilization games will seem really dull once you’ve tasted the greatness…

It is also my favourite Civ game but still not my favourite game by a long shot.