On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 09:54:13PM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> I do not normally play games but I do like to watch other playing.
> 
> People always ask me which games I am playing since I like to
> talk about IT related topics during lunch time. I then tell them
> I do not like to play modern games since they are way too complicated
> for me. They will normally feel a bit surprised.
> 
> Which games are you playing? All the next-gen consoles (PS3, Xbox 360
> and Wii) seem to be quite nice. PSP and NDS are also nice. There are
> also a lot of online games. To me that is a waste of time and money...

I perfer free games myself... FreeCIV is a really good Civilization
clone, has a lot of features the original doesn't have. Also my brother
made the Canadian race... Well maintained too, the latest version was
released only a few weeks ago. It's genuinely free, even the artwork is
open source.

When I was younger I used to quite like Doom, although, it was making
levels for it, not playing it, that I enjoyed most. It's got a number of
good source ports for it that run on Linux and add a lot of features for
level designers that the original didn't have.

OpenTTD is another favorite of mine. It's a really good clone of
Transport Tycoon Deluxe running off the original's artwork. Again there
are a lot of features in it that the original doesn't have. I've
literally spent days playing it building massive train networks with all
sorts of complicated switching and what not. Very, VERY addictive, there
is a good reason it's not installed on any of my computers right now...
On the good side, it's inspired me to start work on a peice of art
representing a large train network, with little ball bearings scooting
around via magnets.

No consoles for me... I can't even afford to buy many games, let alone
some dedicated peice of electronics useless for anything else...

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