Your desert island game (topic spam, only)

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun May 25, 2003 4:28 pm

That's right: you have to leave for a desert island! Fortunately, there's a power generator which will attend to all your electrical needs, all the time, while there. Unfortunately, you can only take one computer game with you when you go. And you can't access multiple MMORPGs on the Web to get around this restriction. Life really is tough.

So which one will you take? Remember, take more than one, and all will be removed. You'll be left with a box of romance novels, instead.

humanflyz · Post by **humanflyz** » Sun May 25, 2003 4:38 pm

Planescape Torment: 'nuff said.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sun May 25, 2003 4:38 pm

A very predictable response, but: BG2. Some games are longer, some have more dialog, some are more exciting, but none have more replay value single-player, as far as I'm concerned. If I was allowed ToB in the package (BG2 Gold anyone?

) it would just make for even more variation in character style. I've always wanted to try soloing a Sorceror...

EDIT - PS:T is probably the best RPG I've ever played, but the replayability is limited by the fixed character system, and once you've played it through thoroughly, the next time becomes less interesting...

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Sun May 25, 2003 4:47 pm

Civilization III

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sun May 25, 2003 5:19 pm

Has there been a Desert Island Discs thread?

I would take Red Alert. I could stockpile mammoth tanks till the conversion of the Jews

oki101 · Post by **oki101** » Sun May 25, 2003 5:25 pm

Wants to take the same as HighLordDave, but instead I think I`ll go for Colonization, for no other reason that the great background-music

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun May 25, 2003 5:41 pm

Can't be Civ III, for me: apply any of the patches, and the game's idiotic safedisk scheme kicks in, asking for the disk when it's already in the drive. You have to give Infogrames endless amounts of irrelevant information about your computer (which will probably benefit their marketing department more than their tech support) just to get a bug fix for their safedisk.

Maybe Chessmaster 8000? Hey, it has endless replayability, as well as an AI with close to 100 players rated from idiots to grandmasters. Or maybe BG2, or Planescape: Torment, as has been suggested.

oki101 · Post by **oki101** » Sun May 25, 2003 5:48 pm

@Fable. Is this something many people experience? Just asking because I have it and so does 7 mates of mine. None of us has had any technical problems with the game so far.
We all have applied every patch as soon as they were released.
Me and two others also has "Play The World" expansion and no problems with these either.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun May 25, 2003 6:26 pm

I've seen plenty of complaints on the boards, but it seems to vary from person to person. Quite a few people have no problems, but there have been plenty of complaints about the system, too. Enough for you to wonder why Infogrames doesn't remove safedisk altogether, unless it's in the contract with Meiers and Company.

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Sun May 25, 2003 7:20 pm

Funny, was thinking about this today.
Think I will have to go for Civilization3, or for Age of wonders 2.
But if I could delete all my memories of BG2, I would go for that,
but I've played it to much to often to the past years to choose that one now.

Pong would make a good choice, or tetris.

Now that I think about it, I would choose NeverWinterNights, I have that game here since it got released and I just can't get started with it, don't know why. On a desserted island I would HAVE to play it.

PS does the PC come with Windows+Freecell installed?

ObsidianReturns · Post by **ObsidianReturns** » Sun May 25, 2003 7:39 pm

Elder Scrolls of Morrowind III. Primarily for a truely massive world, with enough freedom to make it replayable beyond nausiuem.

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Sun May 25, 2003 7:41 pm

Probably Neverwinter Nights, to simply be able to play in Argyle all the time.

I could say Diablo II or the The Sims (endless replayability), but they get a bit boring after a while.

James Mason · Post by **James Mason** » Mon May 26, 2003 1:27 am

I have a question, can I have a game and then like expansions or add-ons? For example, could I take Half-Life, but then not only play that, but also Counter Strike and Day of Defeat? That was probably a stupid question though, because even if i could I would still probably go for GTA2. (NOT 3!, 2 is better!)
GTA2 is perhaps the only game that I have been able to sit and play for hours and hours and get totally and completely immersed in the game, even though there wasn't a story. For some reason I can just sit there and continually kill people, I never get tired of that game, there's just so much to do.

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Mon May 26, 2003 2:28 am

Madden 2003. Wanna kill time...

Mysteria · Post by **Mysteria** » Mon May 26, 2003 4:52 am

Currently, that would be Morrowind ...

Lots of things to do and lots of different possibilities, and ... I'm not through yet.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon May 26, 2003 7:26 am

Diablo 2 LoD, no question about it. It's the only game I've ever played which have had a lasting value over more than a few months.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Tue May 27, 2003 4:34 am

Solitare, enough time to get those high scores.

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Tue May 27, 2003 11:29 am

do games that come packaged with a level editor count?

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue May 27, 2003 1:01 pm

Originally posted by Robnark
do games that come packaged with a level editor count?

I don't see why not.

Zelgadis · Post by **Zelgadis** » Tue May 27, 2003 1:33 pm

Morrowind