I used to, Command a Conquer and all that strategy stuff like Dungeon Keeper, Age Of Empires, Stronghold.

A fellow Dungeon Keeper fan! I LOVED that game! I resisted DKII for the longest time, then I decided to break down and actually play the game, and I have to say that I think I almost like it more than the original despite a few shortcomings. I wish I could take the best from DKI and DKII to make the ultimate Dungeon Keeper game. Too bad DKIII was canceled. :(

I've been into RPGs (Role Playing Games) more often lately, simply because I like that genre better. Games like Diablo and Diablo II. I also resisted WoW for the longest time until my friend finally convinced me to play it a year ago and I've been hooked ever since! :)

The one type of game that I just get real bored of playing are FPSs (First Person Shooters). Ever since enjoying games like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom/Doom II, they all seem the same to me; same idea of a weapon protruding from the screen, running around some virtual world killing enemies while trying to solve some stupid puzzle or collect "keys" to make it to the next section. Meh.

At least RPGs allow you to customize your game play by allowing you to distribute some sort of skill/attribute points to your character, letting you build the character the way you want.

The only problem is that it's too hard to find good games theses days, and they're too expensive to justify spending USD$50/60 on if you decide you don't like it.

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Command and Conquer.......Brilliant game..........those were the days

Yes, and it got better with Red Alert

Still won't run in a 64bit OS, EA doesn't support any 64bit OS still, I looked on their C&C website and I saw mention of Vista(In compatibility mode) and XP(Service Pack 2/3), But no mention of Win 7 or any 64 bit OS.
http://forums.commandandconquer.com/jforum/posts/list/596.page

Yeah, most older games don't support 64bit OSes. I was really surprised to learn that Hellgate: London actually came with a 64bit executable and could use up to 4GB of RAM or more! I actually don't mind seeing games use more RAM so long as they get really good performance out of it (I have 16GB), and Hellgate: London performed excellently.

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I also resisted WoW for the longest time until my friend finally convinced me to play it a year ago and I've been hooked ever since! :)

I played WoW for a couple years, got tired of it, and didn't have time to play it. Account has been inactive for about 6 months now, eventually I'll play it again, when I get time. It was my favorite game for quite a while.

Command and Conquer.......Brilliant game..........those were the days

Yes, and it got better with Red Alert

Still won't run in a 64bit OS, EA doesn't support any 64bit OS still, I looked on their C&C website and I saw mention of Vista(In compatibility mode) and XP(Service Pack 2/3), But no mention of Win 7 or any 64 bit OS.
http://forums.commandandconquer.com/jforum/posts/list/596.page

Yeah, most older games don't support 64bit OSes. I was really surprised to learn that Hellgate: London actually came with a 64bit executable and could use up to 4GB of RAM or more! I actually don't mind seeing games use more RAM so long as they get really good performance out of it (I have 16GB), and Hellgate: London performed excellently.

I'm not too much into role playing anymore, Not after conquering DOOM years ago. I like Strategy better, RPGs are more Tactical really. But It's nice to hear that, I was looking at C&C and EA still does not support 64 bit OSes(XP or Vista) in C&C3, I can't find anything about their latest of course.

More info can be found Here.

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I also resisted WoW for the longest time until my friend finally convinced me to play it a year ago and I've been hooked ever since! :)

I played WoW for a couple years, got tired of it, and didn't have time to play it. Account has been inactive for about 6 months now, eventually I'll play it again, when I get time. It was my favorite game for quite a while.

I just got my first level 80 about a month ago, which has opened up a whole new world of game play. I'm also excited about the upcoming 3.3.3 patch and the new expansion due out either this year or next called Cataclysm.

It's really the only game I play now. I have an somewhat older (circa 2002) game called Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines that has some beautiful graphics, but the installer is 16/32bit hybrid that won't run under 64bit OSes (no 16bit code will run under 64bit OSes, which is why Dungeon Keeper won't install on my system either) that I recently put onto one of my other systems, but I grew bored of it after three days of play (I've already beat the game before).

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I'm not too much into role playing anymore, Not after conquering DOOM years ago.

DOOM is an FPS, unless that's what you meant.

I like Strategy better, RPGs are more Tactical really.

Yeah, they can be. It depends on the game. Strategy games are only so fun, but I feel those too can be boring at times. Some of my favorite Strategy type games are Dungeon Keeper, Caesar (I through IV), Sim City (the first one was the best, the second one "2000" was really crappy, "3000" was good, "4" was good but tired). I played Black & White for a while, but I got really upset when I was making progress and the game decided it was going to destroy everything I had done. I think it was B&W that made me stray away from Strategy games.

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I'm not too much into role playing anymore, Not after conquering DOOM years ago.

DOOM is an FPS, unless that's what you meant.

I like Strategy better, RPGs are more Tactical really.

Yeah, they can be. It depends on the game. Strategy games are only so fun, but I feel those too can be boring at times. Some of my favorite Strategy type games are Dungeon Keeper, Caesar (I through IV), Sim City (the first one was the best, the second one "2000" was really crappy, "3000" was good, "4" was good but tired). I played Black & White for a while, but I got really upset when I was making progress and the game decided it was going to destroy everything I had done. I think it was B&W that made me stray away from Strategy games.

It was on DOOM, Great game for Its Day, I eventually played at the highest setting, But thats a long time back, Good Times though.

I might buy Civ5 eventually. :D

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

It was on DOOM, Great game for Its Day, I eventually played at the highest setting, But thats a long time back, Good Times though.

I might buy Civ5 eventually. :D

Yeah, DOOM and DOOM II were great games. Never made it to the "Nightmare" difficulty, but I played on the one right below it (I think it was called "Bring 'em on!"). Doom 3 looked beautiful at the beginning, then the rest of the game was too dark to play. I didn't like how you had to choose between using your flashlight and your gun, which made it really hard to be ready for a fight. I never made it far in Doom 3 before getting really annoyed with it.

Civ5? Never played the series before, but I've heard of it. Isn't it a Roman-era type game like Caesar?

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It was on DOOM, Great game for Its Day, I eventually played at the highest setting, But thats a long time back, Good Times though.

I might buy Civ5 eventually. :D

Yeah, DOOM and DOOM II were great games. Never made it to the "Nightmare" difficulty, but I played on the one right below it (I think it was called "Bring 'em on!"). Doom 3 looked beautiful at the beginning, then the rest of the game was too dark to play. I didn't like how you had to choose between using your flashlight and your gun, which made it really hard to be ready for a fight. I never made it far in Doom 3 before getting really annoyed with it.

Civ5? Never played the series before, but I've heard of it. Isn't it a Roman-era type game like Caesar?

No It's Civilization, It goes from Ancient times to the Future, So why limit oneself to just ROME? Of course You could do that too.

Civilization 4: Warlords
Here's a picture of Civ4 Warlords, I posted It as a link as It is 1280x1024 in size.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I play RPS'

Fallout 3
Borderlands

They are a shooter with elements of role playing.

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It was on DOOM, Great game for Its Day, I eventually played at the highest setting, But thats a long time back, Good Times though.

I might buy Civ5 eventually. :D

Yeah, DOOM and DOOM II were great games. Never made it to the "Nightmare" difficulty, but I played on the one right below it (I think it was called "Bring 'em on!"). Doom 3 looked beautiful at the beginning, then the rest of the game was too dark to play. I didn't like how you had to choose between using your flashlight and your gun, which made it really hard to be ready for a fight. I never made it far in Doom 3 before getting really annoyed with it.

Civ5? Never played the series before, but I've heard of it. Isn't it a Roman-era type game like Caesar?

No It's Civilization, It goes from Ancient times to the Future, So why limit oneself to just ROME? Of course You could do that too.

Civilization 4: Warlords
Here's a picture of Civ4 Warlords, I posted It as a link as It is 1280x1024 in size.

Can't stand Civ4, they almost got it right with Civ3 Conquests then blew it apart.

Still play Dungeon Keeper occasionally.

I used to, Command a Conquer and all that strategy stuff like Dungeon Keeper, Age Of Empires, Stronghold.

A fellow Dungeon Keeper fan! I LOVED that game! I resisted DKII for the longest time, then I decided to break down and actually play the game, and I have to say that I think I almost like it more than the original despite a few shortcomings. I wish I could take the best from DKI and DKII to make the ultimate Dungeon Keeper game. Too bad DKIII was canceled. :(

Oh yes, Dungeon Keeper was defititely one of my favorites. I think I never got into DKII because my PCs were so underpowered. Maybe I'll dig out the disc and see if it will run under my more current empowered kit.

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Oh yes, Dungeon Keeper was defititely one of my favorites. I think I never got into DKII because my PCs were so underpowered. Maybe I'll dig out the disc and see if it will run under my more current empowered kit.

When Dungeon Keeper first came out, I was still using my AMD AM5x86DX/5 133MHz (486 class equivalent of a Pentium 75MHz) with 18MB of RAM. My video card was very underpowered since I had no PCI or VLB slots, I had to use an ATi Mach64 2MB DRAM ISA card (not a good idea for gaming).

The crazy thing is that the save files were so large that if I attempted to save a game while using any disk cache (like DOS's SMARTDRV or Norton Utilities' NCache2), my entire system would lock up. Running under DOS was the only way I could make sure there was enough free RAM to play the game. Running under Windows 95 simply took up too much RAM so the entire game was being swapped to disk, causing performance nightmares. Unfortunately, 18MB was the maximum my machine could handle (the odd number was because there was 2MB soldiered onto the motherboard and I had 4 4MB 30pin SIMMs).

By the time Dungeon Keeper II rolled around, I was able to upgrade to a Pentium II 300MHz machine with 128MB of RAM (while most people were rocking 32MB) and an ATi All-in-wonder Pro 8MB AGP 2x video card. Needless to say at that time I had no problems with nearly any game I threw at it (it was a top-of-the-line system, the only chip faster was the PII 333MHz until a month and a half later when Intel released the PII 350MHz with the 100MHz FSB and the 440BX chipset).

Heh. Those were the days. I want to build myself another high-end gaming rig.

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Oh yes, Dungeon Keeper was defititely one of my favorites. I think I never got into DKII because my PCs were so underpowered. Maybe I'll dig out the disc and see if it will run under my more current empowered kit.

When Dungeon Keeper first came out, I was still using my AMD AM5x86DX/5 133MHz (486 class equivalent of a Pentium 75MHz) with 18MB of RAM. My video card was very underpowered since I had no PCI or VLB slots, I had to use an ATi Mach64 2MB DRAM ISA card (not a good idea for gaming).

The crazy thing is that the save files were so large that if I attempted to save a game while using any disk cache (like DOS's SMARTDRV or Norton Utilities' NCache2), my entire system would lock up. Running under DOS was the only way I could make sure there was enough free RAM to play the game. Running under Windows 95 simply took up too much RAM so the entire game was being swapped to disk, causing performance nightmares. Unfortunately, 18MB was the maximum my machine could handle (the odd number was because there was 2MB soldiered onto the motherboard and I had 4 4MB 30pin SIMMs).

By the time Dungeon Keeper II rolled around, I was able to upgrade to a Pentium II 300MHz machine with 128MB of RAM (while most people were rocking 32MB) and an ATi All-in-wonder Pro 8MB AGP 2x video card. Needless to say at that time I had no problems with nearly any game I threw at it (it was a top-of-the-line system, the only chip faster was the PII 333MHz until a month and a half later when Intel released the PII 350MHz with the 100MHz FSB and the 440BX chipset).

Heh. Those were the days. I want to build myself another high-end gaming rig.

This is too much of a memory jerker. I'm going to have to get the Deeeper Dungeons out and see if I can still slap those imps.

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I really liked Dungeon Keeper I couldn't really get into Dungeon Keeper II. I do however love to play Sims 2. :) Haven't had many problems with that game