Here are my games that ate up alot of my time and made the most profound impression on me. The type of games that after years you will still get an itch to replay them in a vain attempt to recaputure the initiate rush you felt when you started playing them.
1) Baldur's gate 1 & 2 and related expansions - CRPG are my favorite genre and this remains as my favorite series I have played.
2) Master's of orion - This was one of my first 4-X games I played. Even though the sequel had more cool things the original made more of an impression on me.
3) Wing Commander III - Heart of the Tiger. Too think that space combat sim genre is totally dead now.
4) Civilization II - My Second 4-X and this game was highly additive for me. I played III and Alpha centauri but those games didn't hold my interest as long as Civ II did.
5) World of warcraft - Hate to admit this one, but this was my first MMORPG and it literally stole about two years of my life. Most addictive game I have ever experienced. I think the action/reward model would have made Ivan Pavlov proud.
If it were a top 10 I would have put the following next.
6) Harpoon - I would sit for hours on end watching the time compression tick off waiting to find and destroy that last Kilo sub to achieve total victory. Yes, I'm quite aware I have no life.
7) Aces of the Deep/Silent hunter 1, III, and IV. Basically I have always loved submarines and these games all feed my virtual passion to sneak around searching for unsuspecting prey. These games all have the same great mechanics that keep me coming back for more.
8) The Total war series, great marriage of real time tactical and turn strategic combat.
9) Deus Ex - Sure it had simple AI FPS opponents, but the storyline, characters, and atmoshpere is what made this game rock.
10) Red Baron - The first flight sim that had a career.
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