Game Time

Been going through my collection of old video games and reinstalling a bunch of them. Some of them I'd entirely forgotten about, like Sid Meier's Railroads which is a fun but not too taxing game. Also played quite a bit of Sims 3 last week, just because as cheesy and lightweight as the game is, it's still fun once in a while.

Last night I reinstalled Rome: Total War, which is my personal favorite of the Total War games. I don't have the Barbarian Horde (Invasion?) expansion for it, but it's still an awesome game. Played it way too late into the night last night, and if I hadn't had to get up this morning for work I could have easily kept going.

Today I'm reinstalling Civilization IV, and I do have all the expansions for it, although I may not install them because the base game is fun by itself, and I really didn't feel like the expansions were worth the money I paid for them in terms of adding to gameplay. Also thinking about reinstalling Sim City 4 plus the expansions, although that game gets a little tiring after a few hours of sitting and doing nothing while your funds replenish themselves.

I might, later in the week, reinstall Doom 3, F.E.A.R., and Unreal Tournament 2k4 for a little FPS fun, but I'm still a Day of Defeat fan at heart, since that's the game that I really got involved in online gaming with. I still play it once in a while, too. Was never a huge Counter-Strike fan, although I played it with friends once in a while for something different.

The one game I wish I could find that I've apparently lost is Battlefield: Vietnam, but are there any servers out there for it anymore? I'd seriously consider buying that game again if I knew there would be servers to play on. Battlefield 2 didn't quite cut it for me. It was fun for a while, but for some reason I got tired of it pretty quickly. Same with the other Battlefield games. Most of them felt like a big letdown.

The only other game I want to find and reinstall is Call of Duty. The original one, not the sequels, and especially not the most recent, modern ones. I loved the original WWII version of the game, and frankly the modern weapons based games really don't excite me.

But I suppose that's enough for now. Had to dump Flight Simulator 9 and X to make room for these games on my hard drive as it is, so I should probably get through this recent vintage gaming kick and uninstall them before searching for and reinstalling anything else.

Oh yeah, also gonna reinstall the old, old, old Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which I got free with the first Soundblaster card I ever bought, back in the pre-Audigy days :)