JinseiNGC224: To be honest...

I'm both!

I was raised on the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS, which I watched many times and probably nearly wore out the tape. It was taped off of cable TV (USA I think, but it's been a while). I also went to see all of the prequel trilogy opening day (or at midnight, in the case of Episode 2 and 3), as well as being a subscriber to the Star Wars Insider in the late 90's, wanting to soak in most star wars info

I salivated over merely renting Empire Strikes Back on the NES, and absolutely loved ALL of the Super Star Wars games on SNES. I also spent countless hours playing Shadows of the Empire, to the point I made it my daily game session to master some of the levels (specially the Hoth snow speeder level or the level where Dash Rendar has to fight off TIE fighters in the asteroid field). I also got Dark Forces II Jedi Knight, eventhough our IBM Apitva in '98 couldn't run it right. Since then all I've really got to play is some of the Rogue Squadrons on Gamecube, Empire at War on the PC, and Star Wars The Old Republic (i was in the beta and got the digital collectors...stopped playing after two months to focus on Rift and plan for Guild Wars 2).

These days I'm concerned about the series future in Disney's hands, as you know there will be Star Wars, Mickey, and other disney character mashups in the coming years and spin-offs. Also, having Abrams control both the future of the Star Trek franchises AND the Star Wars franchises isn't fair, because frankly, I really don't think he's THAT good, nor does it make sense in my eyes to give so much power to control the direction of two of just a handful of legendary sci-fi franchises (there really aren't that many left that have been around for over 30 years and have huge followings). George Lucas had made some errors in quality of the prequels and some releases of the original trilogy in their special edition forms (the blu ray box set still has a pretty low rating), but I suppose it will still have his influence in the new trilogy since he's still "working" in a way with Abrams for the new films, but I'm not sure on how deep that influence will go. These are just my concerns, that's it, coming from a guy who want's to see the future of any big sci-fi franchise succeed.

I'm also a diehard trekkie, whovian, and stargate fan. But I'll save my rants and raves about those for another post :)

So yes, I'm a geek indeed.

JinseiNGC224: To be honest...

I'm both!

LoboBlanco: No Babylon V, Martian Chronicles, Farscape, Excalibur? : )

tinyE: Ditto.
Saw Empire in it's original theatrical release four or five times in the theatre. I was only a little kid but you don't forget stuff like that.

This has nothing to do with this thread but I'm always looking for people like myself who sit around and think about this stuff all the time while other people go out and get lives. :P One day we'll go over all the crap we've collected over the years, but this thread really isn't the place for it.

With regard to the games on your list, I noticed no Galactic Battleground Saga. A lot of people call it AOE 2 with a Star Wars wrapper, I just call it fucking GREAT. I have played that damn thing beginning to end (less than stellar Clone Wars expansion included) dozens and dozens of times and it NEVER gets old.

tinyE: Ditto.
Saw Empire in it's original theatrical release four or five times in the theatre. I was only a little kid but you don't forget stuff like that.

This has nothing to do with this thread but I'm always looking for people like myself who sit around and think about this stuff all the time while other people go out and get lives. :P One day we'll go over all the crap we've collected over the years, but this thread really isn't the place for it.

With regard to the games on your list, I noticed no Galactic Battleground Saga. A lot of people call it AOE 2 with a Star Wars wrapper, I just call it fucking GREAT. I have played that damn thing beginning to end (less than stellar Clone Wars expansion included) dozens and dozens of times and it NEVER gets old.

LoboBlanco: And the awesome thing about that game is that it takes you through some of the most memorable battles, like the assault on Hoth with the AT-ATs, the battle of Endor among others. Even the advance of the droid army onto Naboo.
All with that awesome background soundtrack.

JinseiNGC224: To be honest...

I'm both!

I was raised on the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS, which I watched many times and probably nearly wore out the tape. It was taped off of cable TV (USA I think, but it's been a while). I also went to see all of the prequel trilogy opening day (or at midnight, in the case of Episode 2 and 3), as well as being a subscriber to the Star Wars Insider in the late 90's, wanting to soak in most star wars info

I salivated over merely renting Empire Strikes Back on the NES, and absolutely loved ALL of the Super Star Wars games on SNES. I also spent countless hours playing Shadows of the Empire, to the point I made it my daily game session to master some of the levels (specially the Hoth snow speeder level or the level where Dash Rendar has to fight off TIE fighters in the asteroid field). I also got Dark Forces II Jedi Knight, eventhough our IBM Apitva in '98 couldn't run it right. Since then all I've really got to play is some of the Rogue Squadrons on Gamecube, Empire at War on the PC, and Star Wars The Old Republic (i was in the beta and got the digital collectors...stopped playing after two months to focus on Rift and plan for Guild Wars 2).

These days I'm concerned about the series future in Disney's hands, as you know there will be Star Wars, Mickey, and other disney character mashups in the coming years and spin-offs. Also, having Abrams control both the future of the Star Trek franchises AND the Star Wars franchises isn't fair, because frankly, I really don't think he's THAT good, nor does it make sense in my eyes to give so much power to control the direction of two of just a handful of legendary sci-fi franchises (there really aren't that many left that have been around for over 30 years and have huge followings). George Lucas had made some errors in quality of the prequels and some releases of the original trilogy in their special edition forms (the blu ray box set still has a pretty low rating), but I suppose it will still have his influence in the new trilogy since he's still "working" in a way with Abrams for the new films, but I'm not sure on how deep that influence will go. These are just my concerns, that's it, coming from a guy who want's to see the future of any big sci-fi franchise succeed.

I'm also a diehard trekkie, whovian, and stargate fan. But I'll save my rants and raves about those for another post :)

So yes, I'm a geek indeed.

AFnord: From GOG:
One or two of the following:
Anvil of Dawn
Sword of the Stars The Pit
Evoland
Strike Commander
Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Hostile Waters
Driftmoon
Warlords Battlecry 2
Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Battle Isle Platinum

From other sites:
latest DLCs for Crusader Kings 2 (unless it was just released, paradox tends to put all DLC up for sale with the core game, even if the DLC is very recent)
Fallen Enchantress
Skyrim: Dragonborn
Impire
Leviathan: Warship
Monaco
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition
Codename Panzer: Cold War
Wargame AirLand Battle (if it goes on sale..)
Victoria 2: Heart of Darkness
Revolution under Siege (yea, fat chance of that one going on sale...)
Venetica