Pick’s Nose
Causes Brain to hemorrhage
dies
You know what’s a good cure for death?
The local pub will make you the last drink you’ll ever need, it’s called Dragon’s Breath.
Gulp
Immolates in a wondrous display of pyrotechnics
Quest for Glory is funny.
How does this game compare to the Heroes of Might & Magic series? I love(d) those games.
System Shock 1 & 2. Yea they weren’t underrated then but a lot of the new generation haven’t played em and they really should. If you love Bioshock or Portal then check out the System Shock series.
Darklands is pretty awesome. I never know how leveled up my doods are though since you just have parameters for all your stats and I never know how strong I am compared to others, and I end up trying to take on something I shouldn’t and die. Just killing regulars thugs in town gets boring though. I haven’t ever completed a single actual mission, I just end up wandering around trying to raise my stats enough and make some coin, but never accomplish anything whenever I go back to playing. It’s still really fun though.
Goddamn, Heroes of Might & Magic is too hard. Fucking Microprose games. They always look great and I want to play them, but I can never get anywhere in them. Every time I play X-COM I do better than the last time, and I have more things researched and my team looks good, and I think I’m going somewhere but when I get to the part where you have to go into the first UFO I get slaughtered. D:<
I can’t beat the first scenario in M&M II, playing for the good heir. Some of these random parties are just way too much. I got a group together of like 4 Magi, 20/20 Halflings and then like 15/15 Boars and I was laying waste to everyone, after they tried to flee. Then I roll up on a party of Elves and I’m like ‘no problemo dood’ and they turn out to be all 10 groups of freakin Grand Elves. My entire party except for a couple of Boars dies. /rage Then some skank comes up to my castle with a ridiculous party of like 70 Goblins and fucking Ogre Lords and Wolves and I get my shit took. Come on son. How am I supposed to beat that?
Almost identical. Except MoM has random generated maps each time you play. No campaign.
That’s why I prefer it to HoM&M. I think it’s deeper too. Mainly due to picking your spell books/perks and race before the game starts.
Example
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I forgot about this…
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I remember playing this game called Uprising. You control a tank/hovercraft in first or third person and can build bases at specific locations on the map. You can also call down reinforcements such as infantries, tanks or fighter jets to blast your opponents to oblivion. Pretty fun & killer soundtrack, too! Too bad it’s ridiculously hard to find these days.
Another obscure game I can think of is called Stratosphere. You customize a piece of floating island with different weapons & production systems then fight other floating islands with it. It stuck in my mind cuz somehow it reminded me of Laputa: Castle in the Sky lol.
Sorry for the double post guys. Just thought of a couple other not very well known but very well rated games (and they deserved the high ratings, too).
Freespace 2. Best, space, shooter, ever. Nothing has ever come close to it since its inception in terms of production quality, scale, gameplay or hell, even graphics. Its hardcore fans have kept the engine semi modern via the excellent SCP project (Hard Light Productions). Despite what some might tell you, this game IS playable using mouse & keyboard. I finished the game with the good old mouse 10 years ago LOL. So take a look even if you don’t have a flight stick.
Grim Fandango. If you’re into humorous adventure games this is the game for you! Great writing, atmosphere and sound track. The puzzles are the traditional LucasArts “do the things that advance the plot” type so if you want logical puzzles like those in Myst or Braid then you should look else where. Nevertheless it’s a great ride.
Looks pretty much like civ. :tup:
Have there been any recent releases? I stopped playing at like, HoM&M 4 or something.
I need to buy Master of Magic on GOG and the XCOM games on Steam.
I find random shit happens in Darklands the longer you play and the stronger your party gets. Eventually you just start running into dragons and Satan worshipers and shit happens. Like I only beat it as I randomly stumbled across something that initiated the final quest.
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Nox I thought was rather underrated as a hack and slash, I’ve literally met no one that have played this but me. I was partial to Westwood titles at the time so it was something I enjoyed. This title, C&C, AoE2, and BG2 consumed me for a while pretty much.
Yup, looks very similar to Civ. But more more tactical combat, since you actually enter a battlefield and move your units to fight instead of just a Risk battle. Civ depends more on growing cities and prospering, MoM is more combat imo.
And HoMM6 is out in June. Looks pretty.
As much as I love the game and support it. I wouldn’t pay 6 bucks for a 10MB game.
It can easily be downloaded anywhere. Make sure you get the 1.31 patch too.
I remember Nox. I didn’t think much of it more than a Diablo clone. But I remember it having a certain charm to it. I will have to download it for sure.
Also… I remember this being the best site for abandonware aka most games in this thread.
FREE.
http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/
Well actually looks liek they removed their downloads.
Oh well. Games are still easy to find lol
Grand Prix Legends makes GT5 look like a cakewalk. It also laid the groundwork for iRacing, several years later.
[derail]By M&M II you mean HoM&M II", I assume.
The first thing you need is to be able to evaluate raw army strengths. Learn the quantities (few = 1-4, several = 5-9, pack = 10-19, lots = 20-49?) and the creature levels (there are lots of exceptions in H2, such as peasants or many high level units, but as a starting rule one creature is roughly worth two or three of the immediate level below).
Even though it?s subordinated to the army strength, the rock/paper/scissors rule is quite strong in H2, because shooters and flyers have unlimited range. Slow units beat quick/flyer units because they are stronger; quick/flyer units beat shooters because they can close the gap quickly; shooters beat slow units, shooting from a distance.
Another important thing is to try to maximize unit production for the beginning of each following week.
So, in the case of the first level of the good campaign in H2 (I just replayed it to check): For the first week, take the unguarded resources and only fight for the basic wood and ore mines and little else; by the end of the week, you should have built the statue, the well, the magic guild, and the dwellings for boars (this one on day 1), golems, rocs and magi (yep, that?s exactly 7 buildings). Buy your army and kick asses while you save for the cloud castle (never buy unupgraded giants, btw). Depending on the armies you have to face, you may leave the golems unpurchased (they?re going to be useless against archers; and your shooters should be able to mow down any slow melee troops; so only take the golems if you need to fight fast/flyer enemies). Also consider building the level 2 of the mage guild at the start of the second wek, but this is a gamble, since the spells you get are random.
If you have to face a strong army of shooters, send your boars and rocs to engage in melee. You?ll have to eat the first volley if the enemy speed is ?fast?, but you should have virtually no casualties beyond that. You may divide the rocs in two groups before the fight (with Caps key) so that you can block all the enemy stacks in Battle Turn 2. Boars grant you the first move, so you may fire some direct-damage spell, or if you have Haste you may make rocs ?very fast? and send them before elves get to shoot.[/derail]
Age of Wonders series is very similar to MoM as well. Might want to check it out 
On an unrelated note, I think Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is the epitome of the 4x Civ-like strategy games but that’s just me.
What?
I just googled this and wow. There isn’t really a lot of info about this, so I can’t see if it will be good or not, but now I am really excited. I still play HOMM3 all the time, at least one large game a week. 4 was terrible and 5 was better than 4 but not as good as 3. Damn this really made my day.
Oh and I also played septerra core and I really enjoyed it. I never finished it, but I think I got about 60% through. It was really good.
There are old D&D RPGs based in the world of Darksun that I really liked. I remember two of them in the 90s and they used the same engine. They would probably seem really antiquated today, but they were great then.
Oh I know about AoW, Disciples, Elemental, etc.
And to be perfectly honest… I always go back to MoM lol Just recently I finally bought the MoM Strategy Guide. 400+ pages of goodness and now I will know everything about the game, how the AI works, in depth battle system, etc. Only 10 bucks used. Better than 150 brand new.
I might give HoMM6 a shot, depending on how the reviews fare.
Oh man… that dude who dropped Syndicate. That game was FANTASTIC.
One that hasn’t been mentioned is Planescape: Torment. Totally available at GOG.com, too. Probably the best written RPG ever, in the history of ever. Real Talk. It had crazy mindfuckery and just totally cool art direction.
I only played Syndicate on SNES. And I can imagine how much better it was on PC.
Needs a remake for real.