As there was some serious discussion in the spam thread of the same title, here's a new one for you to use.

Mount & Blade
D&D Online
For everything else it's xbox 360 or nDS.

To paraphrase Palin, "I reinstall all my games!"

Half-Life 2.  The first time I played that game the presentation totally wowed me.  I love the atmosphere and it's, IMO, one of the better looking FPS franchises out there, in terms of art-direction.

Freedom Force and Freedom Force Vs the Third Reich. Last time I had to re-purchase them because the disks gave me an error. But I got em from Steam for the cheap.


They're dated now, but the mods are awesome and the fun is mad, it got superheroes better than COH (I like COH don't get me wrong) but smashing buildings, throwing cars--that's part of superhero fights.

I'd like to see an MMO get that much right. (Heck the Xbox game Crackdown lets me pick up and throw bodies, cars, etc...)

Soldier of Fortune 2. Diablo 2. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. Railroad Tycoon 3.

Not sure why sequels seems to make the reinstall cut, tho.

I thought the FF games were better than CoH. Though it's not really a fair comparison.

I liked the CoH setting, found I could tolerate the stupid named characters, but the gameplay was really thin. After a few levels the powers just become copies of themselves, and largely unsuperheroic. The blaster had variations on damage vs cooldown for example. Combat at times was too chaotic for the format (especially if you're trying to heal people). I tried a variety of characters and the supervillain stuff wa much more interesting (though much the same ultimately). Some people on rpg.net thought it really deep, but i couldn't see the strategic depth even though the setting and the stories were well done. Consequently I just got bored, which is a shame (as I had the specs, and may still have, to run it!).

Oddly i've just started playing Star Wars Galaxies again on their fortnight free trial. I haven't played it in years, since before they changed it all. I braced myself for disappointment (even though the original model was a ridiculous grindfest, for all it's depth), it's actually not that bad at all. There are some issues - the targeting system is bizarre. But overall it's actually very playable even though they appear to have ditched their old model in favour of a warcraft levelling-get-abilites-get talent points (ie 'expertise') model. Not very original, but it works so why not. Seems like the best of both worlds!

I created a Sullustan Smuggler who has some funky abilities - he can search for special loot called contraband, summon a fellow smuggler npc who fights with him for a while and has some cool pistol abilities. I'm wondering, 7 years on and they are still supporting the game, quite why it still gets all the ire it did. Obviously it won't overtake Warcraft, but then nothing will. Perhaps there's a whole load of broken stuff that's just not readily apparent. I guess with all games YMMV. I used to play ccg's with people who were world champions, but they spent all their time breaking games in ways people who weren't so perceptive and clued up would never have; ignorance is bliss!

I do a yearly re-install of Starcraft. Also Angband and Escape Velocity.

Civ 4 and the expansions always get reinstalled for me. Warlords 2 and 3 also.

I need to dig up my copy of Mechwarrior III.  Mechwarrior IV was teh suck!!11! when Micro(soft/prose) picked it up.

Also, I found out there is a thriving community for SW Battlefront II modders, so I need to pick that one up.  Not a re-install, but an older game that I never installed in the first place.

Quote from: StormBringer;357250I need to dig up my copy of Mechwarrior III.  Mechwarrior IV was teh suck!!11! when Micro(soft/prose) picked it up.

Mech3 was definitely better than 4 in terms of sp campaign, but it was kind of underwhelming after the awesomeness of the Mech2 series (especially since it went from having one of the best soundtracks in gaming history to...two meh tracks on the disk).

Quote from: Peregrin;357251Mech3 was definitely better than 4 in terms of sp campaign, but it was kind of underwhelming after the awesomeness of the Mech2 series (especially since it went from having one of the best soundtracks in gaming history to...two meh tracks on the disk).

Even with the blocky-ish graphics, I wouldn't mind firing up MWII again, either.

MW4 just botched the whole thing, though.  I mean, limiting where I can put weapons?  WTF?  Tricking out your 'mech was 70% of the fun.  Almost as much as stripping down a 50 ton chassis and loading up with a med or small laser and the biggest engine available.  Nothing like zipping past your enemies at 200kph+ on a strafing run.  

Mechwarrior 5 is rumoured to be out soon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJU4iA4TWIs .. (unless they get sued out of existence by Harmony Gold)

Quote from: tellius;357255Mechwarrior 5 is rumoured to be out soon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJU4iA4TWIs .. (unless they get sued out of existence by Harmony Gold)

Holy balls, I forgot about that.  The first time I saw that trailer, I had to take a break before I shit myself and passed out from the massive boner.  

Quote from: StormBringer;357250Also, I found out there is a thriving community for SW Battlefront II modders, so I need to pick that one up.  Not a re-install, but an older game that I never installed in the first place.

Last time I was mucking about with SWBF2 mods, the coolest one I found was called, "Order 66," or something.  You could either play the clones offing Jedi or vice versa.  Brutal, quick action but Jedi AI could never quite cope with the concept of rocket launchers or explosives used as land mines.

Stupid, linear-thinking Jedi.