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I'm back in my rut.

I usually have a rut, where I will play many different games, once, maybe a few more times, but never seem to have the inspiration to beat the game. There have been only few exceptions.

The latest exception was Kotor. Played it til the end, never got dull, and I always wanted to play to find out what happens next. But then the sadness comes. I actually beat the game. And now I am back in my rut of finding a game to keep me occupied.

games I've tried...

I later installed Majesty, but the later levels, especially the expansion ones, just got too difficult and frustrating for me to keep going on, so I gave that up.

I am off and on re-trying C&C Generals and Battle Realms, as I want to beat these games, but as with most RTS games, I get tired, and decide to give it a break, and it takes abit for me to get back into them.

I actually beat the China missions in Generals, I love them Overlord tanks, still got the other 2 campaigns though, and the expansion comes out soon. I only like to play this game for fun though, its one of those games I can just put in and blow stuff up.

as for Battle Realms, I enjoy the story of this game (dragon/serpent clans), Ive beat the Wolf campaign, however dull it was, but the other 2 campaigns have a story that got me intrigued, but reason I never could beat em was due to difficulty. I have a hard time with the later levels of RTS games as my reflexes isnt all that great.

I tried to play Lionheart, and all was going well, til BAM, cant play no more due to a bug, and I dont want to try to find a workaround, I dont wanna beta test this, I just wanna play. So I'm giving this up til its fixed.

This coming week looks like it will be a good week however. Tron 2.0 comes out, although its an FPS, hopefully it will be good. I generally dont like FPS games, like Half-Life, Quake, Unreal, they all dull me to death, although there are a few I do enjoy, the titles I do like are Giants Citizen Kabuto, and No One Lives Forever. But I never beat em yet.

also, I enjoy the fighting game genre, and a biggy comes out, Soul Calibur 2. That will keep me busy for abit.

But I wonder, if anyone has some considerations to give?

Do you enjoy hardcore, nonlinear RPGs? If so, try BG2, or my personal favorite, PS:T. Or check out Fallout 1 & 2, or Arcanum.

If you like strategy games, you could try Civilization III or Alpha Centauri.

Since each is turn based, they make great games to play for a while, then drop when something else catches your eye. And, they are easy to come back to.

I pretty much played all the BI/BW RPGs, Fallout1&2, PS:T, IWD1 (although still working on IWD2), BG1&2, NWN, etc.

how is Galactic Civilization? is that anything like civ3/AC? I've been wondering about this game, and how it is.

GalCiv is sort of a reduced MOO3. Excellent AI, but there are fewer options. I think they have a demo you can try out.

Have you looked at King of Dragon Pass, A-Sharp's website? I think it's a great RPG/strategy hybrid. Give it a try.

Try Fallout: Tactics.