FREEDOM FORCE! (http://www.myfreedomforce.com/index_ff2.html) seriously can't recommend this enough, a (semi)real-time strategy superhero game, that. just. plain. rocks! and now it's like... 10 bucks at joints like EBgames. (the sequel should be out later this year)
Lords of Magic (can't find an official page, but search in any gamesite and you can snag screenshots and reviews)... not a bad game, and you should be able to still find the "special edition" for about 10 bucks in your local fred myer or kmart, etc... Good strategy turnbased/realtime combo game... very involved army management and unit-trading with any of 8 playable races. good game.
Age of Mythology... RTS classic. you probably already know about it ;)
Freelancer: not a super-awesome game... but a nice fluffy spacefighter-combat game... with smuggling, and pirates, IN SPACE! :D (should be reduced in price... but still cheaper if you've got a friend at M$)
Neverwinter Nights: needs a lot of RAM... so you may not be able to play. 128 should fly, but you'll be happier with more. Still though... the closest thing to Role Playing the video-game industry has managed so far. fucking RULES! seriously.
longterm fan of the Myst games, and the Tex Murphy series (which now that i think about it, may require you to still have Win95, cause i don't think they were ever updated)... uh... i kinda dug Dungeon Siege, even if it was basically a "tracked" diablo with better graphics (and the price has dropped significantly due to a recent expansion)... used to be a huge SIMs freak... but it's the ungodly amount of expansions that really make the game there; which means more sys-reqs that you may have/care for.
and of course... when in doubt... Z-MUD is so cheap it's free! (who needs these new-fangled MMOGs and there fancy shmancy graphics... why, back in my day, it was N., S., E. or Dennis!) lol
Consol games i'm not nearly as hip on... mainly because the nature of the console, means that i can't tweak or mod the game to my little geeky heart's content... and what i do know/like is mostly related to the X-RAWKS! however;
PS2 has the FFx games and FFonline which look pretty slick, Kingdom Hearts was a pretty freakn' cool game (dude, Jack Skellington is a playable character!), the GTA games aren't bad (especially Vice City). big Tekken series fan here, loved 4 and Tag. Medal of Honor: frontline was fucking great... and it's been out long enough that it should have dropped in price, i've heard the new Peal Harbor based game is good too (if you're into FPSs)... the last Silent Hill is something i've heard nothing but praise for. there's the D&D game, the last Buffy game had Spike as a playable character, freakn' LOVED the Spider-man games (neversoft rocks!), and there's a DareDevil game using the same engine due out soon. Ninja Gaiden is hard as all fuck, but pretty cool... by the same note the last Tenchu: stealth assassin looks great, haven't played it personally, but i was fucking addicted to the last Tenchu. the LotR games look pretty, and i hear they're fun for hack&slash... but not much else. not really into racing games... so don't know what to tell ya there. Soul Caliber, rules... a lot.
for Gamecube; the Resident Evil games are pretty slick (although Outbreak, and Zero are fucking GARBAGE!), i thought Super Smash Bros. Melee was a lot of fun... Eternal Darkness is a great horror game (nearly shit myself when my insanity level made the game act like my TV had shut off... seriously, you wouldn't believe some of the obnoxious things that game does... but really cool too!) that Rogue Squadron Gamecube game had my attention briefly as a decent flight-shooter. I hear Zelda: windwaker was great... but the cell shading was something i couldn't get past. Metroid, of course. the TMNT game for the gamecube has Casey Jones as a playable character, but overall... it's a cheesy button-smasher, so that may not float your boat. Game Cube's Soul Caliber has Link... and that's just plain rad.
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Date: 2004-05-04 08:30 pm (UTC)Lords of Magic (can't find an official page, but search in any gamesite and you can snag screenshots and reviews)... not a bad game, and you should be able to still find the "special edition" for about 10 bucks in your local fred myer or kmart, etc... Good strategy turnbased/realtime combo game... very involved army management and unit-trading with any of 8 playable races. good game.
Age of Mythology... RTS classic. you probably already know about it ;)
Freelancer: not a super-awesome game... but a nice fluffy spacefighter-combat game... with smuggling, and pirates, IN SPACE! :D (should be reduced in price... but still cheaper if you've got a friend at M$)
Neverwinter Nights: needs a lot of RAM... so you may not be able to play. 128 should fly, but you'll be happier with more. Still though... the closest thing to Role Playing the video-game industry has managed so far. fucking RULES! seriously.
longterm fan of the Myst games, and the Tex Murphy series (which now that i think about it, may require you to still have Win95, cause i don't think they were ever updated)... uh... i kinda dug Dungeon Siege, even if it was basically a "tracked" diablo with better graphics (and the price has dropped significantly due to a recent expansion)... used to be a huge SIMs freak... but it's the ungodly amount of expansions that really make the game there; which means more sys-reqs that you may have/care for.
and of course... when in doubt... Z-MUD is so cheap it's free! (who needs these new-fangled MMOGs and there fancy shmancy graphics... why, back in my day, it was N., S., E. or Dennis!) lol
Consol games i'm not nearly as hip on... mainly because the nature of the console, means that i can't tweak or mod the game to my little geeky heart's content... and what i do know/like is mostly related to the X-RAWKS! however;
PS2 has the FFx games and FFonline which look pretty slick, Kingdom Hearts was a pretty freakn' cool game (dude, Jack Skellington is a playable character!), the GTA games aren't bad (especially Vice City). big Tekken series fan here, loved 4 and Tag. Medal of Honor: frontline was fucking great... and it's been out long enough that it should have dropped in price, i've heard the new Peal Harbor based game is good too (if you're into FPSs)... the last Silent Hill is something i've heard nothing but praise for. there's the D&D game, the last Buffy game had Spike as a playable character, freakn' LOVED the Spider-man games (neversoft rocks!), and there's a DareDevil game using the same engine due out soon. Ninja Gaiden is hard as all fuck, but pretty cool... by the same note the last Tenchu: stealth assassin looks great, haven't played it personally, but i was fucking addicted to the last Tenchu. the LotR games look pretty, and i hear they're fun for hack&slash... but not much else. not really into racing games... so don't know what to tell ya there. Soul Caliber, rules... a lot.
for Gamecube; the Resident Evil games are pretty slick (although Outbreak, and Zero are fucking GARBAGE!), i thought Super Smash Bros. Melee was a lot of fun... Eternal Darkness is a great horror game (nearly shit myself when my insanity level made the game act like my TV had shut off... seriously, you wouldn't believe some of the obnoxious things that game does... but really cool too!) that Rogue Squadron Gamecube game had my attention briefly as a decent flight-shooter. I hear Zelda: windwaker was great... but the cell shading was something i couldn't get past. Metroid, of course. the TMNT game for the gamecube has Casey Jones as a playable character, but overall... it's a cheesy button-smasher, so that may not float your boat. Game Cube's Soul Caliber has Link... and that's just plain rad.