Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Games

Well, since I quit playing EQ, here's the short list of what I've been playing (at least, what's sitting in my game CD rack) over the past 3 months:

SimCity4 - still good, but I'm waiting on the Rush Hour expansion pack to come out this fall to perk my interest again..

Medal of Honor : Allied Assault - still my favorite FPS so far, most missions worth playing twice.

MoH : Spearhead (expansion pack) - not as magical as MoH:AA, the missions that I've completed are too linear.

Myst3D - old favorite, best interface of the series (it's a redo of the original Myst).

Riven - finally finished up all of the puzzles.

Myst 3 Exile - 's okay, but the plant island is extremely confusing. One of these days I'll digitize the maps that I've made of the various ages and post them (the maps help a lot).

Grim Fandango - my reaction to this after completing it is that it's like being in a movie. Excellent cut scenes, good dialogue, puzzles that mostly make sense and fit the storyline (and don't feel like puzzles). In fact, I did a video capture of the entire game to burn off to DVD later.

Curse of Monkey Island - Very fun game. Great humor and the cartoon style works well.

Escape from Monkey Island - I'm about 1/2 way done, but CoMI was more enjoyable so I've set EfMI aside for a few weeks.

Master of Orion 2 - Came out in, what, 1995 and I'm still playing? I mostly play now on Impossible, Huge, 8 races, but I'll hot-seat 2 races so that the enemy AI doesn't just steamroll me out of the gate if I get a bad starting position.

Master of Orion 3 - First patch is done, but they introduced some bugs in the final revision of the patch and don't say that they're going to fix the new bugs or fix any more of the old bugs. (/rude IG/Atari) The game is pretty much DOA, but would have been a great game if the publisher (Atari) would have done things proper or patched it up proper. Frustrating for the players when you can feel a great game buried underneath all of the bugs that Atari refuses to fix. Bottom line? Don't buy IG/Atari games until they've been out for 3 months and the *real* reviews have come out.

Heavy Gear II - was an okay game, but trying to control the mech was very frustrating and the AI is weak. I've pretty much replaced playing it with playing MoH:AA when I want some FPS action. (HG2 is another oldie that I dig out from time to time.)

Unreal Tournament - MoH:AA blows this away for game play, so I think this will be relegated to the old game bin soon.

Roller Coaster Tycoon - I liked it the last time I played it a few years ago, so I have the CD out but haven't installed it again yet. I think I had too much fun picking up the patrons and dropping them in the lake.

posted by Wuphon's at 6:30 AM