I'm sure we've all got a handful of games that we just have to keep installed, regardless how old it is and how many times we've changed the 'puter, those games that make things like DOSBox and SCUMMV a necessity just between "drinking water" and "underwear".
Which ones are on your "DO NOT UNINSTALL" list?
Mine would be:
-The Settlers II: The Bluebyte classic about making tiny people build tiny houses to raise tiny pigs and then club enemies to death with porkchops.
-SimCity 4: The game that, in my view, perfected city-building.
-Masters of Magic: That marvelous crossbreed between Civilization and MTG. Casting Armaggedon just never gets old.
-Star Wars Rebellion: The much-maligned Star Wars strategy game from the late 90's, that for some reason I adore. I still play it on MP once in a while.
-Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: A slightly newer game, but one that I never manage to get bored of.
-Baldur's Gate II: I have finished it several times already and I just can't bring myself to not having installed. My favourite RPG of all times.
Alpha centauri
Portal
Neverwinter Nights (Though I haven't played in forever...)
Audiosurf
Cave Story
Portal
Team Fortress 2
Portal
And although it is not installed currently, I have the files waiting to reinstall:
Command And Conquer: Red Alert
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Baldur's Gate would always be reinstalled on each new build. Now I have the new updated release of the game which leads me to...
Icewind Dale - on my PC, on my laptop - classic hack'n slash at the Spine of the World
Same as Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (soaked and wild) - game always puts me in a better mood.
Blitzkrieg - Love those tiny Panzers! Also good for when I want to destroy some old European villages and towns
Fallout 3 - while not being as old ('08)I can see this one going onto rebuilds in the future. Mostly it's all the mods which allow for improved and repeat play. Plus - it's a Post Apocalypse game, I always have to GM Gamma World, now with this game I get to play in it (sort of).
~ Neverwinter Nights 2 (1 doesn't run on a machine as advanced as mine - for when I need a D&D fix)
~ MoO 2 (the best 4x game ever made - and one of the first games I ever mastered - needs DOSbox to run)
~ Risk (this one is MCGA graphics but it has the best AI of any Risk game I have seen and it still runs smoothly even on advanced machines)
~ Various Hoyle games (Hey they are buggy and simple, but I couldn't live without access to some nice casual games in my library)
Neverwinter Nights
Neverwinter Nights 2
Baldur's Gate 2
Civ V
Diablo 2
-Masters of Magic: That marvelous crossbreed between Civilization and MTG. Casting Armaggedon just never gets old.
I'd add Master of Orion as well. Nothing says "Hell yeah!" like turning your opponents' thriving homeworlds and their 5 billion inhabitants into a lifeless asteroid field.
Total War: Shogun, Shogun 2, Rome, Medieval, Medieval 2, Empire. And waiting eagerly for Rome 2
Everything else comes and goes. But I might say the Civ Games, or Sid Meiers Pirates, Mass Effect 1 - 3
not just yeah. F~+# yeah. Provided you can get them to f%+@ing WORK.
Also...
Mechwarrior 2 and up, vampire bloodlines, star wars x wing vs tie fighter.
Neverwinter Nights (Though I haven't played in forever...)
Audiosurf
Cave Story
Portal
Add to these, now that I'm home to look:
VVVVVV
Psychonauts
The Witcher 1 & 2, Assassin´s Creed Saga, Skyrim, Dreadout Demo, Megaman cross Street Fighter, KoF 13
A bridge too far
+1000 for Pirates!
+1000 for Baldur's Gate 2, too.
Also: Morrowind, Civ 4, NWN2, Icewind Dale 2, Oblivion.
Baldur's Gate (all of them)
Icewind Dale (all of them)
Torment
Neverwinter Nights (all of them)
Halo: Combat Evolved (1st game, not even the 10th anniversary version)
No particular reason why. Loved the game. Come back to it once in a while. Now it's just been there for so long that I can't remove it without second-guessing my intentions...
Jagged Alliance 2, with the v1.13 and AIMNAS mods. Blazing firefights with squad-based tactics; financial management and country-scale strategic planning; role-playing with a wide cast of quirky characters; and acres of intricately-detailed gun-porn for endless hours of accessorising. :D
Freedom Force
Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich
Both are installed on every new rig I build for myself.
Freespace.
Yes. Freespace 2 good, but despite the bigger units and larger stage I felt the original game's atmosphere was far superior. I'll never forget the first few times the Shivins warped in and obliterated everything, or the medals you get for destroying one while escorting the Avenger. Still the best space sim around.
-Star Wars Rebellion: The much-maligned Star Wars strategy game from the late 90's, that for some reason I adore. I still play it on MP once in a while.
Yes. Still the best Star Wars game in my opinion - though I got so tired of having to fill most of my planets up with paired refinerys and mines. Still, super ambitious and amazing. I'd love to see more games set up like this.
I'll add to the list...
Age of Empires II - Still one of the best RTS games ever made. The new fan made expansion - Forgotten Empires - is amazing, both for the AI updates and for the increased unit cap. Nothing quite like armies of hundreds.
Ace Combat 5 - PS2 game, but one of my favorites. Story was what made this game work. Later ones (Zero, 6) had better graphics and missions, but the story of AC5 was top notch for the genre.
Diablo II - Diablo III was terrible, but Diablo II remains one of my favorite adventure / rpg games. I still break it out every now and then. Nothing quite measures up to a fully geared Sorceress or amazon laying waste to Hell.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3- for some reason, i just cant throw that one out
Fallout 1 and 2 Have to reinstall those from time to time
Freespace is still IMO the best space fighting game
Baldur's gate 2 was great but i unfortunately dont have any more
Guilty pleasure Carmageddon 2 Just love ramming those cars
UFO: Enemy Unknown/X-COM: UFO Defence (Proudly sits next to XCOM: Enemy Unknown like a proud grandparent)
King's Bounty Series (The Legend, Armored Princess, Warriors of the North)
Baldur's Gate Trilogy
MechCommander Gold
Dragon Age Origins
Guilty Pleasure:
Ghostbusters - The Video Game (I occasionally fire up the Civil War Exhibit bust entirely for the intensely chaotic zap and trap.)
Master of Magic
Master of Orion II
Fallout Tactics
Alpha Centauri
Morrowind
And still consuming 25GB of disk space like an ex's phone number that for some reason can't bring yourself to delete although you never call... World of Warcraft.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3- for some reason, i just cant throw that one out
Good Heavens, yes! I forgot to add it to my list, perhaps because it's so stappled to my permanent selection that I took it for granted. HoMM3 was the pinnacle of the series, from gameplay to unit variety to the graphics.
Nothing better than steamrolling on everything with 5 stacks of hundreds upon hundreds of Archmages. I do love the Tower very, very much. I even used it as the backdrop for a D&D short adventure back in the day.
My only regret is that my friends never really got into it and I only managed to convince them to play it online once or twice.
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Total War: Shogun, Shogun 2, Rome, Medieval, Medieval 2, Empire. And waiting eagerly for Rome 2
Everything else comes and goes. But I might say the Civ Games, or Sid Meiers Pirates, Mass Effect 1 - 3
not just yeah. F!%~ yeah. Provided you can get them to f!+$ing WORK.
Also...
Mechwarrior 2 and up, vampire bloodlines, star wars x wing vs tie fighter.
Never had a problem getting them to work. Everyone of them has worked since release date for me. Though I cannot say the same for NNW2. Ran into a game ending bug and said screw it.
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~ Neverwinter Nights 2 (1 doesn't run on a machine as advanced as mine - for when I need a D&D fix)
~ MoO 2 (the best 4x game ever made - and one of the first games I ever mastered - needs DOSbox to run)
~ Risk (this one is MCGA graphics but it has the best AI of any Risk game I have seen and it still runs smoothly even on advanced machines)
~ Various Hoyle games (Hey they are buggy and simple, but I couldn't live without access to some nice casual games in my library)
You can buy neverwinter nights optimized for win7 and new hardware on Good old Games. It comes woth all expansion packs and premium modules. For like 7-9 bucks.
Let's see
Mass Effect 1-3
Baldur's gate 1 and 2
Icewind dale 1 (2 i don't like that much)
Planescape torment (gog version)
Deus Ex
Divine Divinity
System Shock 2
Blade of Darkness
Starcraft
Monkey island series
Grim Fandango
Never had a problem getting them to work. Everyone of them has worked since release date for me. Though I cannot say the same for NNW2. Ran into a game ending bug and said screw it.
Yeah... Obsidian does shoddy work, especially when updating someone else's game. But the OC bugs are such that you can reload a previous save and miss the bug the next time past the glitchy point. No such luck with SoZ's bugs but at least those ones don't halt your story progress. MotB works flawlessly though. Or you can download any number of well made fan made adventures that run just fine. Even make your own... if you have a lot of patience with the engine.
Thanks Hama I will look into that site.
- Mass Effect 1-3
- At least one Total War game
- Master of Orion II
- Space Rangers 2
- World of Warcraft
Civ V. (And on prior machines/hard drives, whatever version of Civ was out at that time.)
The Sims 3. Even if I stopped buying new expansions and related products after Origin came out they hadn't fixed some gamebreaking bugs after 2 years of their presence and they decided to disguise a Facebook app as an expansion pack... i.e., I've bought nothing new for it for 2-3 years but I keep the install I had up to that point and still back and play it.
I often have an install of Torment somewhere as well (currently on my laptop rather than my gaming desktop).
Mind as Avatar-1 notes my current machine has a decent enough hard drive that I probably won't uninstall something unless I just really decide I don't want it on the machine anymore for some reason.
I really don't know how to list games here, because I don't ever uninstall anything thanks to modern day large-size hard drives.
Do you?
List the games that you would not uninstall if your HD suddenly filled to the brim with unsavoury internet imagerie. Very unsavoury internet imagerie.
Space Marine - <3 me some Warhammer, FPS/TPS style
Dawn of War 2: Retribution - Ditto, RTS style
Titan Quest - Awesome game with a HUGE support base from the fans, given that Iron Lore went defunct shortly after the expansion. The fans have repeatedly patched the game.
Diablo 2 (haven't re-installed on current machine, but it's an old standby)
Civ V
Cthulu Saves The World
I really don't know how to list games here, because I don't ever uninstall anything thanks to modern day large-size hard drives.
Do you?
Same here though if I had to list some it would be
Half-Life 1 & 2 (with expansions)They Hunger (HL1 Mod)
Zombie Panic Source (Source Mod)
Unreal Tournament (GotY Edition)
and a few others, pending on the PC
Older PCs get
Mech warrior 2(all 3) or MechWarrior 3 (+ expansion)
MechCommander Gold
newer PCs get a few more
Many of the ones I would have claimed have been mentioned, but I would add:
Wing Commander Series
Fallout 1 (and maybe 2)
Warlords 1-3 (just the turn-based ones)
Bioshock 1 & 2
Sid Meier's Railroads (There's something about railroads that seems unique to me)
I really don't know how to list games here, because I don't ever uninstall anything thanks to modern day large-size hard drives.
Do you?
I was taking it as "things you automatically reinstall as soon as you get your new computer up and running".
Since it's basically the same thing, just with the more realistic application of moving from an old computer to a new one over filling up your hard drive.
The original STARCRAFT has continuously been on every PC I've had since it came out (May 1998). HALF-LIFE was as well, but BLACK MESA has since replaced it.
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These must be on any of my computers at all times!
Baldurs Gate & Tales of the Sword Coast.
Baldurs Gate 2 & and Throne of Bhaal
Icewind Dale & Heart of Winter
Icewind Dale 2 *favorite*
Planescape Torment.
Neverwinter Nights, Shadows of Undertide, Hordes of the Underdark
Neverwinter Nights 2, Mask of the Betrayer, Storm of Zehir *favorite*
The Temple of Elemental Evil
The Witcher
For emulated dos games:
Ravenloft:Strahds Possession & Stone Prohpet.
MMOs
Age of Conan
I don't often take the time to complete games, but when i do... i prefer RPGs.
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Keep rolling my friends. =)
Baldur's Gate (all of them)
Icewind Dale (all of them)
Torment
Neverwinter Nights (all of them)
A man/woman/golem/robot (what is that in your avatar?) after my own heart.
Edit: Forgot to include Fallout 1 & 2 are staples for me as well.
(what is that in your avatar?)
Warforged. Robot. =)
Many of the ones I would have claimed have been mentioned, but I would add:
Wing Commander Series
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That brought back a whole slew of nostalgic memories of blasting cats into space debris. I bought my first sound card (remember those things?) for the first Wing Commander. And nothing really trumps the gaming satisfaction of completing a desperate mission and landing your fighter on the Tiger's Claw all shot up.