I've discovered "Rise Of Nations" recently which is a good real time strategy game like Age of Kings.

I also occasionally play Unreal Tournament 2004 (online multiplayer futuristic first person perspectove shooting game) when I'm not downloading anything.

I'm looking for new ones to try so...
What are you guys playing? Can you also mention what kind of game it is please.

im palying AOE right now mickle ill d/l rise of nations and have a multi with ya

been playing through all the old Command and Conquer games just recently , starting with the first one , currently upto Red Alert 2 .

I've also got "X2-the threat" sitting here , but it's so deep and involved it's a little daunting , haven't really got started on it yet just played through the tutorials .

counter-strike ! funnest most addictive game of all time!!

Battlefied 1942's Desert Combat mod........brrrilliant! I just love flying those helicopters, but I need a little more practice.

Medieval : Total War - An absolute masterpiece, probably moved in to second place (behind the Civilization series - not the lamentably poor activision call to power ones though) as my most played strategy game. State Of Emergency - old skool frantic arcade action with fancy 3rd person graphics (and come one, you can blow a fed's head off with a shotgun then pick up the head & beat the rest of the cops to death with it ). Duke Nukem : Manhatten Project - why isn't anyone making side scrolling shooters any more ? Age of Wonders 2 - cos I like turn based strategy but have played virtually everything else to death. Temple of Elemental Evil - not really playing, just storing it on my HDD until I get a decent mobo & CPU, cos it runs like a one legged horse on my machine, but it's the best implementation of the D & D system in a game so far IMHO just cos of the turn based combat (real time combat in RPGs - who the fuck thought that would work ? it's got to be turn based, it is in the tabletop version). Fifa 2003 cos fifa 2004/PES definitely won't run on my bag of shite, and I've gotta get the swiss referee out of my system somehow (second thoughts, that's what state of emergency's for). Descent- Freespace2 - just downloaded it, not played it yet, ditto X-Com : Apocalypse.
Oh, and Jedi Knight.
And Serious Sam.
And Star Wars - Rogue Squadron.

Spent the week having a bit of an Emule party, I go through periods when I've got nothing installed, and periods when I DL every game I can think of. Roll on the end of August - should have the dollars for an upgrade Can't remember the last time I played a 'new' game.

still playin Unreal Tournament (the original), only game I can seem to get online & workin with my archaic PC

Return To Castle Wolfenstein too

I used to love playing RTCW online , I made a map for it once , it was basically a conversion of the CS map dust , but I named it snow cos it was set in a snowy environment . I wonder if anyone ever played it ......

Soldat! Midget army type blokes running wild!

Quality online game and free too...

BD

are any of you guys rampant cheaters at games? (non-multiplayer, of course) I play them normally for a bit, download a trainer and then run about murdering everybody for a couple of days.... gets boring very quickly, but I never learn

ive d/l 400megs of it mickle not long hopefullly

best game i have played for a while is ninja gaiden and UT 2004, both awesome imho
got thief 3 a while ago but wont run very slickly on my comp.

laters

Battlefield Vietnam
Delta Force Joint Operations

The suffering and manhunt.
If you like yours games nice and brutal

Ninja gaiden on the X-Box is the best at the moment. Also like Fight Night 2004 and Need for Speed Underground.

Viewtiful Joe on the Gamecube is very original, and I can't get tired with MarioKart.

currently playing FarCry (currently the best FPS on PC if your system can handle it), although given that Doom3 is out in the US in a month (and available on broadband shortly afterwards ), I am working on getting through Farcry before it comes out. Then there is Half Life 2 to look forward to

Downloaded Perimeter a couple of days ago. Not played any RTS games for ages, and its really good, but right rat bastard hard (took me over 8 hours to complete one of the levels - 7 or 8 I think AFTER I dropped the difficulty down to easy)

Hello all,

I am a computer game addict.

I am currently playing -
Far cry (first person shooter)
painkiller (first person shooter)
thief 3
Also waiting for half life 2 which should be out before end of summer.

All excellent games


Lestat

I find games boring.. Recently I downloaded:

Manhunt
Tony Hawk 4
Need for Speed
Gothic
Crazy Taxi

All boring!!!!!!! Manhunt is just stupid and so morally wrong.....

Give me Amidar, Pengo, Popeye, Jet Set Willy....

Are there any decent modern platform games?

Currently replaying FarCry on the hardest mode (finished it on standard)
Hitman 3 - not bad with some nice touches to it.
Thief 3 - gave up on it , it ran brilliantly but those Authentic Medieval American Accents annoyed the crap outa me!
Splinter Cell pandora , currently working my way through it , good fun , looks great
I still play Operation Flashpoint religiously , at least once a day.

Anyone know if you can played the copied version of Joint operations online?

Thief - probably the most overrated, overhyped game series ever. Thief 1 was shit, wow a game that introduces stealth - badly. Original ideas are worthless if they don't actually work, and the stealth in thief was atrocious - spend ages tiptoeing around, making sure all the torches are extinguished just for all the guards to home directly in on you hiding behind a barrel in a pitch dark room. Then a little later blithely wandering straight past them in a light room with no carpet & a corpse in your arms And the hand to hand combat
I can't really recall any stealth games that have actually worked, the metal gear solid series, now I come to think of it, pips thief to the most overrated & overhyped games series, take out the hours of appalingly cheezy dialogue & cut scenes & you're left with about ten minutes of gameplay. Make up your mind, do you want to make a game or a movie... I reckon the only game I ever played where the stealth came close to working was deus ex.

Ground Control 2 , has caught my eye just recently , I debating whether to buy it right now ..... it does look very pretty and it seems a little bit different to your average RTS , kind of intriguing .

Boojum: yes looking back thief does look crap but at the time there was nothing compared to it!!


Another great game is Kondor (knights of the old republic)
and of course GTA3 cool game


LEstat

The only game I play online is the iL2 Forgotten battles world war 11 combat flight sim. This game has been around for about 5 years. The developer 1C Maddox do it for Ubi and they always release new patches to update the game. It has a hardcore following and I'd say its the best flight sim out there. Even if you are a veteran combat flight sim person this game is hard because the flight models for the planes are amazing. Real high learning curve, very difficult to get good but very satisfying when you get it right.

Yeah I've been through the addiction to gaming phase, I cut my online gamers teeth in Half Life, Adrenaline Gamer mods and Death Match, I just loved the cross bow "thunk-puk", my fav.

Moved on to Counter Strike but never realy settled into it big style.

Now I'm a CoD Girl, Call of Duty. Specialist sniper, gimme a scoped Kar98 and maybe an Mpg for back up and I'm a happy camper . . .

I'm in hog heaven, reliving my student days. Just finished downloading U64emu & the roms for the arcade Killer Instinct 1 & 2. Runs way better than I'd anticipated on my poo system, appears to be a high & stable framerate on 640x480 fullscreen (yeah, shit resolution, but I realy have got an old PC). Killer Instinct & homemade hash, there goes Friday...





UUUUUUULTRA COMBOOOOOOOOO

Boojum how on earth do you play medieval on a old system?? I used to, but ended up tearing my hair out on the battle screens. Drove me insane, to the point of buying a new PC (and i'm a stingey bastard)

Worth it though

Medieval must be my most played game (with Viking pack too) but i'm eagerly awaiting ROME... now how good does that look.

Now looking at time commanders i thought the AI was much improved over Medieval. There sure are taking there time, hope they get it all right.

When you get your upgrade, try upping the troop sizes, the field looks awesome with the largest unit sizes. Although Royal Knights don't get any bigger (20) so i generally just use them for chasing down routing troops

Too addcitive

far too addictive. Dunno if I like the idea of bigger units but still only 19 royal knights, they're my favourite unit. Their speed plus their attack makes them lethal in wedge formation on the flanks (or if they aren't your generals unit, hidden in trees to charge the rear of the enemy as it passes) Kataphracts are good, to - hard as nails, am playing a campaign at the moment & losing ground to the byzantine cos of their bloody cataphracts - only way I've found to deal with them is to use a mix of kerns & mounted archers, draw them away from the main army, then surround them with missile troops, they're just too bloody hard in melee.

What's the point of dismounting before battle, do you know? I know some units (like teutonic knights) can do it if you press something on the army/reinforcement screen at the start of the battle, but I don't see the point - you wnat your cavalry to be on their horses, surely

Favourite unit has to be the grand inquisitor, though - France is aflame with roasting heretics, and I've just condemned the dauphin. Now if only my spy can discover something juicy about King Louis, he's far too pious
Although all that zeal makes a crusade via France first a tempting prospect.


Far too addictive.

Know what ya meant about them Kataphraktoi, just wait and see what the Egyptians and turkish got (Kwarzmiam cavalry) and the Golden Hordes Heavy cavalry will also give you grief. The high period is good if you can get swiss armoured pike, mash them heavy's up

As for dismounting, i have found this useful for defending bridges when i have no other spears in the province or sometimes on a hill, especially if your opponent has many spears. Also horses don't like the trees, so if you think your enemy might have his troops in the trees, it takes away this disadvantage.
To dismount you right click on the unit before you press start battle.

Don't you think it's rather annoying when you stay onside with the Pope only for him to take an invading armies side against you when you have done no wrong?
Basically i sent in a army to relieve a siege and i got excommunicated

Don't ya love it when they attack your big castles??? Get a load of my siege cannon towers
Just sitting there watching while their army gets mashed up.

I love the DELTA FORCE Games online they are great also MS Flight Simulator though not a game as such. But the graphics are fantastic.excuse me my LEAR JET Awaits.

This week, I have mostly been playing : Championship Manager

Dynamite stuff, and if you run it on an old PC, you can actually skin a doob between turns. Nice One.

If you like champ manager you should check out hattrick. It's a free online footy management game, matches played in realtime twice a week. Boojum's Reeferpool gained automatic promotion in their first season , managed to upgrade our stand (The Krop), but Boojum failed to notice that the promotion bonus was in euros, not pounds so I've had to spend all last week flogging off my best players. Now I'm joint bottom and my supporters are leaving the club in droves cos I've yet to win a match this season.

Fairly addictive game, I'd say

Oops, the dreaded double post.

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soldier of fortune 2-->still the best 1st person shooter, absolutely awesome, if you like that sort of thing...havent been playing many new games recently, pretty stuck on sof2, dont think there are many to match it

I'm playing ghost master at the mo. Looks like a cheezy "the sims do halloween", but it's actually a good RTS with some very original features (plus it's just plain fun driving a sorority house full of students insane before sending them running screaming into the night)

worms 3d on gamecube <-- very cool, many Monty Python references

GTA vice city <-- cool only on xbox where you can put your own radiostation in the game and play your favorite cds...but soon to be the GTA san andeas or whatever

and mechassault on xbox (currently not playing while i wait for the game to arrive in the mail) but very fun game

Still playing RTCW and enjoying...The new regeneration mod looks good, just hope it gets off the ground unlike he last attempt which was wolf tactics....

i like more calm games...
bild, design, economy...
that would be all boreing games for you guys...
like sims city4 & sims 8 in 1....

Hi

Top Game when ripped



need i say more it says it all

Bongme

I think some modder should come up with a sims herb grower mod. Build a stealth grow room in a closet, keep other sims from finding it, as your grow increases build a loft extension, different value plants like they value furniture items, and the differnet 'strains' either increase energy if they are sats, or increase happiness but also make you tired if indica. Course EA wouldn't be too happy.

Just got Driver 3 for my B-day, cool so far ....

Boojum

sims can have a garden already...
maybe when herb will be legal they will have that2...

Doom 3 - official US release date 2nd August

http://www.activision.com/en_US/news_artic...80bf6d134e.html


So should be on the net either shortly before or shortly afterwards.

Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!

Need to finish Far Cry first

Did you see the alpha release about 2 years ago?

even then, in its cut down, buggy as fuck form the graphics blew away anything I have ever seen and have still not been beaten. The physics engine was great, and the lighting and sound effects added to the atmosphere a huge amount

And more importantly - even in that state the game scared me so much that I was avoiding opening doors because I could hear nastiness behind them, and was hesitant as anything wandering into areas where it was dark, incase something jumped out at me

We shall all find out in a fortnight I reckon

Personally I can't wait. I bought my first PC for the sole purpose of playing the original Doom. ID have never fucked up yet really, and I still have faith in them