My list is based on my recollection of how good these games felt the first time around I played them. If I re-played them today the effect probably wouldn't be that great.

1) Steel Panthers. Played this with a bunch of buddies while enjoying some beers, very good fun although the hot seat - game option was a bit flawed (you could sort of see the other players troops).
2) Deus Ex. Very nice game but it probably wouldn't feel like that today.
3) Silent Hunter 3. A great game that has been given a long life by the user created goodies. :salute:
4) Rome Total War + Barbarian Invasion. Same as SH3, lots of good user created content for these.
5) Fallout 1+2.

No, never tried KA, but it sounds interesting.

You don't have to eat the food, do you? Gagh always gives me a tummy ache, especially the live ones. :o

1. medal of honor allied assault
2. Janes WWII fighters
3. Silent Hunter 3
4. Call of Duty
5. IL2

No Zayphod, you don't have to eat the Gagh, but its not bad once you get used to it. If you can get your hands on it - try it. I seem to recall there is a website where you can download the entire install package legally for free nowadays - but not sure. I could be wrong.

1:Aces of the Deep "Now at requested heading, sir"
2: Aces of the Pacific-just make sure you crack up your Wildcat a couple of weeks before Miday so you dont get tranfered to a torpedo bomber for the actual battle.
3: Red Baron-Hmm, think I'll paint my wings purple and the fuselage red....
4: Anything in the Total War series-esp. Rome with XGM-love those phalanxes! Quart Hadasht RULES!
5: Wolfenstein -my first FPS!

I really loved the later GTA series (Vice City, San Andreas) but I hit a brick wall in SA (flying is for the birds). The "sandpit" action was great, but then you were slotted into a mission that HAD to be done a certain way or you had to do it again, and again, and again....

Interesting thread:

IL2
CFS2
SH4
Janes WWII air combat(very first sim I purchased)
Call of Duty series/Medal of Honor series

Honorable mention: B-17 Flying Fortress. Mechwarrior 3

Seems to be a common theme here:hmmm:

1. Silent Hunter 3 + GWX 3 (Neverending joy)

2. Fahrenheit aka Indigo Prophecy (completed)

3. The Moment of Silence (completed)

4. Syberia 1&2 (completed)

5. Next Life (completed)

6. Secret Files: Tunguska (Completed)

:salute:

1.- Steel Panthers (and all its variants and succesors)
2.- Pirates!
3.- Rome Total War
4.- Civilization II
5.-Silent Hunter 1

1)Freelancer
2)Rome:Total War
3)Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic
4)Sims 2 (Hate to admit it though)
5)WoW (Another one I hate to admit to)

I kind of have a wide taste in pc games.

No particular order;

Tomb Raider 1 & anniversary (hmmm, nostalgia)
Fallout 3
Morrowind
Rome TW
Operation Flashpoint

Heck, I could go on and on...

My list isn't necessarially the best games ever, but the ones that have given me the most fun.

Counting down...

5. IL-2 Forgotten Battles/Pacific Fighters: WWII combat flight sims are my first love, and this one beats them all by a mile. The original Il-2 raised the bar by a mile in terms of graphics and realism, and Forgotten Battles just made it better. Add in the AEP and PF expansions, and you have the biggest and best combat flight sim ever made.

4. Rome: Total War: I didn't start playing it until recently, but I was instantly hooked. It's just so good in so many ways. Medieval 2 may be the better game, but Rome was just more fun. I had high hopes for Empire until I found that my computer probably can't run it.

3. Fleet Command: It's really the only game of its type that I've come across - a pure real-time, realistic modern combat strategy game. No resource gathering, no grand strategy, just fight the godd*mn battles. The incredible NWP project took it from a good game to a great game.

2. NHL 2004: The best hockey game ever made for the PC. It's sort of sad in a way, since NHL 2004 is old and was outdated in some ways even when it was new (the GUI looks like it's from the mid 90's). But no other hockey game since then has gotten the fundemental gameplay so right. Even after playing it for 5 years the AI still gives me a great game without making me feel like it's cheating. Every game is different - just like real hockey.

1. Sports Car GT: Nobody's ever heard of it, but this game was as fun as it gets. It was the little game that could. It started as project by a then-unknown studio called ISI. It bounced around between three publishers while it was in development, and the series it was meant to simulate went broke before the game came out. After all the delays the game was cobbled together and released as a low-budget game by EA. Nobody really paid any attention to it. It was a hodgepodge of random cars and tracks with outdated graphics and no clear market. It wasn't realistic enough to be a pure simulation, but it was too realistic to drive off the pure arcade crowd.

And it was absolutely brilliant. It was easy enough to sit down and drive a race without any preparation, but challenging enough to keep you interested. The AI was superb for its day - the AI cars felt like humans, since they could beat you but also make mistakes.

But the best part about SCGT was the mods. Anybody with a modicum of computer savvy and Notepad could edit the game. The SCGT community was small, but the modders were talented and prolific. They made hundreds of tracks and thousands of cars. If you could dream it, they probaby made it: 1000 mph dragsters, RV's, boats, blimps, F1 cars, anything. One SCGT mod ended up morphing (via a VERY long process) into a full retail game (the GTR series).

ISI didn't intend for SCGT to be modded, but they realized that it had turned their little unwanted game into a legend. When EA chose ISI to make their F1 games, ISI made sure to make the games mod-friendly. When ISI went independent again, they made rFactor, the ultimate mod-friendly racing sim. A lot of us like to think of it as Sports Car GT 2.

Hey, nice read about ISI, Max, I didnt know that.:up: The first screens from rFactor 2 have arrived, by the way. (virtualr.net)

Wow, hadn't even heard about an rF2! I've been sort of out of the sim racing loop since I didn't bring my racing wheel to school with me.

The history of ISI is pretty fascinating stuff, and I probably don't even know half of it. Intermixed with that is the history of Simbin and the GTR franchise, which is even crazier.

Haha Never hate to admit to, accept your weakness, your downfall your "I have no life" & playing WoW 24/7:rock: :DL

Yeah, I know the later stuff. Btw, to make it even more confusing, Simbin - who published the original GTR series, recently threatened to sue Blimey! - who made the games, because Blimey!(who by the way changed their name to Slightly Mad Studios:o) took ... well all the credit for those games in a online cv. Oh, and Simbin made the recent GTR Evolultion.