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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Flower Man: [QB] My top 5 favorite sci-fi games, in no paticular order are......... Starcraft & Starcraft: Brood War: The cut scenes in this game are classic. Bottom line! Tie Fighter: I've played that game so much and to this day, I have never beat it. Primarily because, as PsyLiam has stated, Tie Fighter has a seemingly infinite number of missions in it. Many complain about the fact that games nowadays are too short. Tie Fighter had the opposite problem. It was [b]WAY[/b] too long. Everquest: This game is quite addictive. For whatever reason, I go through these phases where I wouldn't play it for 3 months, and just out of the blue it would be the only game I would play for the next 4 months. Wierd. :confused: The Journeyman Project 3: Live action scenes. Real actors playing the charactors. A decent plot. (As far as computer game standards go.) A touch of humor. And cool puzzles. What's not to like about this game!?!?!? The Tex Murphy trilogy: I admit to only playing two out of the three Tex murphy games, but the two I've played where pretty good. I've heard the one that I haven't played (The Pandora Directive) was, by far, the best in the trilogy. I'd damn near do anything to get my hands on a copy of The Pandora Directive. Anywho, like The Journeyman Project 3, it provided live action scenes, real actors portraying the charactors, good and challanging puzzles, and a nice touch of humor. The Tex Murphy trilogy is, by far, one of the best sci-fi games to have ever hit the market. My top 3 worst sci-fi games are..... Half-Life: For a simple shoot 'em up game, it is ok, but Half-life doesn't deliver when it comes to a plot or a story behind what the hell is going on. All I've managed to deduce from the game is that some kind of experimental thingamajig ([b]the game doesn't explain what the hell the thing is nor what it's supposed to do.[/b]) malfunctions and because of this, wierd monster-like things begin poping up out of no where. ([b]The game doesn't explain where the hell these things are from or why the malfunction is causing them to pop up in the Black Mesa facility. [/b]) While you are trying to escape you manage to get multiple glimpses of this guy in a business suit holding a briefcase walking around in the Black Mesa facility. ([b]The game doesn't explain who the f**k this guy is or what he was doing there.[/b] And to top it all off, when the military finally showes up, rather than rescue anyone, they kill everything in sight. Including the survivors of the accedent. ([b] Once again, the game doesn't explain why.[/b]) I'm sure you are begining to see my point at this point. I'll just move on. Dark Forces: What really burned my ass about this game was the absolutly f**ked up map designs in each level. In some of the levels, switches for doors or elevators were tucked away deep within a ventalation shaft or some other obscure area where you'd least be likely to find a switch for a door or something. Then, for whatever reason, finding a Gran packing thermal detonators in the middle of an Imperial facility or something like that wasn't that uncommon in this game. The control consoles you'd have to shoot at in order to operate doesn't help much either. Star Wars Podracing: I've played the demo of this game, and it is quite dull. I really have nothing more to say outside of that. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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