Battle Isle 2200 (PC)

"Hot Seat, hot game."

Dungeon Keeper (PC)

"I still from time to time load up my finished Dungeon Keeper savegame to listen to the awesome mission briefings. :D"

Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines (PC)

"Very tactical, few but unique units, great gameplay and style."

Gothic (PC)

"Believable vivid world, great storytelling, rough "Ruhrpott" tone."

Gothic II: Night of the Raven (PC)

"One of the best RPG addons I've ever played. Fits nicely into the main story arc."

The Secret of Monkey Island [5.25" VGA Version] (PC)

"Best adventure ever."

Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia (PC)

"Best game of the HoMM series, imho."

Incubation: Time Is Running Out (PC)

"Turn-based strategy, small number of units, very tactical. Great game."

Worms (PC)

"After playing this, I could finally see a point in my mom and my grandma butchering slugs at the beginning of fall in the garden. :D"

Worms: Armageddon (PC)

"Using that baseball bat on other worms leads to some very silly homeruns... :p Still one of the best hotseat gameplay up to date."

Fable: The Lost Chapters (PC)

"Great gameplay. Awards continuous combat through health / mana refillers and exp multipliers dropped by killed / damaged enemies. Good vs. evil choices and according character morphing."

Battle Realms (PC)

"Great Japan style game, innovative unit training / progression. Awards early combat by Yin / Yang points used for unit improvements. Cool graphics style. Sadly, the races were unbalanced and this problem was not sufficiently adressed by patches."

Syndicate (PC)

"Eliminate target. Persuade and protect. Destroy vehicle."

The Curse of Monkey Island (PC)

"Use <banana> with <rope>. Use <banana on rope> with <deep abyss>. "Geesh, this banana smells really tasty..." *sigh* Use <banana trap> with <monkeys throwing coconuts at you>."

Grand Theft Auto IV (PC)

"Beautifully designed authentic characters. Delivers the American "dream" as is, not as suggested. Critical tone on the current Western industrialized society. Attention to detail. Very interactive and fun combat. Great game."

Tetris [iPod] (MOB)

"This one never gets old, I guess."

XIII (PC)

"This game is wonderful. Because of its art style, it feels like you play in a teenage comicbook."

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge [3.5" Disk] (PC)

"The Sequel to the "real" Monkey Island. "

Maniac Mansion (PC)

"Classic Adventure."

Left 4 Dead (PC)

"AAA B-Movie. :p"

Plants vs. Zombies (PC)

"Braiiiiins! Tower Defense in a very funny way."

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (PC)

"Squad combat tactical gameplay with strong RPG elements (equipment, leveling, squad customization,...). The campaign experience is excellent, actually one of the best RTS experiences I had thus far. Campaign coop just plain rocks."

Zeno Clash (PC)

"Great surreal art style. Intuitive and reactive melee combat. Intense "one vs. a few" battles. If it were multiplayer / coop, I'd immediately buy it. As it isn't, I am grateful for the fun demo experience while it lasted."

Braid (PC)

"Beautiful handcrafted graphic style. Super Mario like gameplay. Great game for kids / young players. Well thought-out puzzles."

World in Conflict (PC)

"A 1st step towards cooperative RTS. But lacks motivation for strong teamplay since the only rewards for it are medals / batches AFTER the match."

Diablo II (PC)

Vampire: The Masquerade -- Redemption (PC)

Jagged Alliance 2 (PC)

Silver (PC)

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (PC)

The Saga of Ryzom (PC)

Ultima Online (PC)

Battle Isle (PC)

Command & Conquer: Generals (PC)

Heroes of Might and Magic (PC)

Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars (PC)

Heroes of Might and Magic V (PC)

"Heroes III reloaded, with nicer graphics. AI still cheats on campaigns, though."

Battle for Wesnoth (PC)

"Great game! Free to play, turn-based strategy game. cooperative-competitive. Download and try it out for free at www.wesnoth.org"

Rome: Total War (PC)

"Imperium Romanum Tjuhlum. "

Sacrifice (PC)

"Very well done 3rd person view RTS game in a "please the Gods with the execution of their powers" setting. "

Savage: The Battle for Newerth (PC)

"Interesting RTS and FPS genre-mix. "Indie" game that's way better than many many "AAA" games out there."

Savage 2: A Tortured Soul (PC)

"Well done successor of Savage I. Fun interactive combat mechanics. I actually wanted to buy this game but couldn't due to available payment methods (not too many Germans use / have a credit card)."

Sid Meier's Civilization III (PC)

"Best of the Civ series."

StarCraft (PC)

"Diverse races, very balanced. Zerg are so cute!"

StarCraft Expansion Set: Brood War (PC)

"Great game feedback, fun gameplay, heterogenous races. "Endgame", that is multiplayer vs. others, as in all Blizzard games, gets too hectic / unrewarding, though."

Sudden Strike (PC)

"No resource gathering and base development. Classic real-time tactics game."

Sid Meier's Civilization (PC)

"Ave Caesar, I come in piece - and will bring a few catapults next decade, hmkey? This game taught me the valuable knowledge that democracy doesn't work. ;-)"

WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos (PC-MAC)

"Well thought-out hero classes, great storyboarding. High quality RTS game. Standard playstyle: build base, research, build and use army."

Half-Life 2 (PC)

"I liked the dystopian but still authentic "we control everything, minion!" setting and the overall story arch."

World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade (PC-MAC)

"maxlv +10, BC questing > WoW vanilla questing. Too many new spells, certain hybrids (e.g. melee shamans, moonkins,...) finally viable additions to groups and raids."

Warlords (PC)

"Turn-based strategy DOS game, 2D. 8 different races that have access to different unit types at game start. Your gameplay goal is world domination through units recruited within controlled towns. Hero units that can search shrines for loot, blessings"

Nox (PC)

"Very decent Diablo-like hack and slay game. Three very distinctive unique classes with slightly varying story arcs."

World of Warcraft (PC-MAC)

"Nice graphics, comic style. Well balanced. Very nice textures. Cool character classes and abilities. Endgame - that is running after a carrot on a stick, sucks, though."

Server: EU-EU-EU-Blackmoore

Guild: Inhume

Characters:

Hum, Level 29 Tauren Shaman — lv29 Enhancement Shaman

Tjuhl, Level 60 Troll Priest — Former main char. Holy priest. Likes dancing.

Wûtz, Level 70 Orc Shaman — Enhancement Shaman

Z (PC)

"At the time it was released I was so yound that my brain was not yet capable of beating the AI. ;/"

WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne (PC-MAC)

"Additional campaign and a few new units. Liked the story arc and the rexxar campaign, disliked the multi-race levels."

Dungeon Keeper 2/Dungeon Keeper (PC)

"A paladin being held in your torture chamber was convinced to join your cause. * a nearby bile demon farts loudly with approval *"

Gothic II (PC)

"Best game of the Gothic series so far. Believable and authentic main character personality. Overall rough tone."

Pirates of the Burning Sea (PC)

"Great combat system (back in beta)... Naval combat was okay. Had no "crew" though thus didn't play very long."

World of WarCraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC-MAC)

"maxlv+10. WotLK leveling > BC leveling > WoW vanilla leveling. Some very nice region-wide story archs / quest chains. Beautiful landscape design. Death Knight = cool, really enjoyed Unholy DK tanking."

Characters:

Drêad, — Death Knight Tank (Unholy)

Wûtz, — Enhancement Shaman, face-thundering since BC.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC)

"After I finished the dark brotherhood and the thieves' guild, I heard there's also a main story arch? Didn't really care when the first demons popped out of those portals. (booooring :o )"

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

"Camera is too close to the player and the camera angle doesn't feel right. The rest of the game is pure fun. :)"

Battlefield Heroes (PC)

"Personally, I like the stylized graphic and art style of this software piece a lot better than the ultra-realistic graphics of games like FarCry2, Crytek, KillZone, etc."

Escape From Monkey Island (PC)

4Story (PC)

"Free to play MMORPG. Nice comic style WoWish graphics. Gameplay is solid and pretty standard aka "kill 10 rats". Has a feature that greatly enhances group coordination and strategic movement."

Icewind Dale (PC)

Planescape: Torment (PC)

Baldur's Gate (PC)

Diablo (PC)

Sacred (PC)

Dark Messiah: Might and Magic (PC)

Black & White (PC)

Command & Conquer: Red Alert (PC)

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (PC)

Command & Conquer (PC)

Disciples II: Gold (PC)

SpellForce: The Order of Dawn (PC)

"RTS with strong RPG elements. Interesting campaign and side-quests."

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth (PC)

"I liked the way bases were build, that is just around the center building on fixed spaces (that you have to conquer). The variable campaign was nice in terms of replayability and taking over the units from the last battle to the next enhanced caring "

Syndicate Wars (PC)

"Personally, I liked the basic Syndicate better. Nicer graphics / colors, more intuitive UI, better overall gameplay."

WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness (PC)

"The naval combat was funny, and I think I liked the campaign pretty much."

WarCraft: Orcs & Humans (PC)

"Army of two-headed ogres inc!"

The Settlers (PC)

""A geologist has found iron in the nearby mountains." Yay."

The Settlers II (PC)

"As cute as the Sims but you don't try to have your roommates become lesbians. :o"

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes (PC)

"Liked the ability dependencies, introduction of offensive / defensive target, parley mini-game. Disliked the bugs, the quantity but quality approach, and the partly frustrating crafting system."

Neverwinter Nights (PC)

"I tried a free (mini-)MMO server, but patching the private shards caused major headaches (10 small changes --> please download the whole client = x GB)"

Titan Quest: Gold Edition (PC)

"Pretty decent Diablo2 clone, Greek style. The character individualization trees are nice, especially the feature that you can pimp your basic abilities with additional effects. Mouse-over feedback / hovering could be a little improved."

Bioshock (PC)

"Beautiful eerie underwater retro-look atmosphere. Still didn't "dive in" yet."

SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars (PC)

"Innovative ability activation, hero-centered RTS gameplay. No hero-centered multiplayer, though."

Dungeon Siege I (PC)

"Diablo clone. I was a little disappointed that you couldn't play the campaign cooperatively."

Runes of Magic (PC)

"Many very nice small features (quest mobs are shown on the minimap etc.). Better than some subscription fee games, e.g. WAR, Tabula Rasa, The Chronicles of Spellborn, or Vanguard: Saga of Heroes."

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (PC)

"Combat-oriented resource system, yay. Warhammer 40k world, yay. Units / tone very Warhammer-ish, yay. Still, like most RTS games, an arms race, reducing the importance of well-executed tactical and strategic play."

Fallout 3 (PC)

"While the overall idea of a post-nuclear scenario is nice, and the surroundings / world is beautifully designed, I didn't like (1) the overall trist grey / brown color tone and (2) the controls of the PC version (can I haz minimap please kktnxbye) an"

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (PC)

"Nice free / open world. Oblivion was better, though in terms of overall gameplay."

And Yet it Moves (PC)

"I like the art style. All that world flipping and turning, however, was rather confusing, especially in terms of orientation."

Metin2 (PC)

"Free to play MMORPG. Game art is mediocre at best: very few objects, blurry textures etc. Animations are nice, though. Compared to other F2P MMOs, I'd rather pick 4Story or Runes of Magic."

Runescape (PC)

Age of Empires II (PC)

Age of Empires (PC)

Empire: Total War (PC)

Heroes of Might and Magic IV (PC)

"Worst title of the HoMM series. HoMM I, II, III, and V are way superior in terms of graphics style and overall gameplay."

Magic: The Gathering (PC)

"Just like the normal card game, with the difference you don't have to pay hundreds of dollars / euros to get a nice deck together. UI very Windows-ish and unintuitive."

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (PC)

"Civ III > Civ I > mediocre rest"

Sid Meier's Civilization II (PC)

"Can't remember any significant improvement compared to the 1st part of the series."

Sid Meier's Colonization [DOS] (PC)

"I liked the original Civilization much better as overall gameplay was more intuitive and more interesting."

Stronghold (PC)

"I liked the overall concept of castle defense and castle building. Castle sieges were pretty fun. Castle / base development and resource gathering took a too large proportion of the overall gameplay, though."

Supreme Commander (PC)

"Within this game, you've got so many units that you don't really care about a single one of them."

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (PC)

"Esp. in PvP-oriented games, combat should be interesting and fun, reactive, tactical, meaningful,... which is imho not the case for WAR, sadly."

Server: EU Beta Server

Guild: out of Order

Tabula Rasa (PC)

"I was in the closed beta for a while. Back then it lacked motivation for teamplay and control in combat, esp. targeting. Mostly passive abilities = no meaningful in-combat choices."

Screen Names: Denkins

Gothic 3 (PC)

"Not nearly as good as Gothic I + II. Release version was a bug fest, thanks to JoWood / Piranha Bytes (probably both)."

Dark Age of Camelot (PC)

"... waiting for a mob to finally die ... ;o "

Flock! (PC)

"Demo was pretty boring. You're supposed to chase cattle into your UFO. Problem is, that the UFO reacts rather sluggish and UI feedback and camera angle are not really well-chosen."

Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded (PC)

"Action RPG sci-fi hack'n'slay shooter. Graphics are comparable to the Diablo2 graphics. UI and game feedback are a lot worse than D2. Kind of an achievement for a game that is a lot younger release-wise than D2..."

The Chronicles of Spellborn (PC)

"Targeting, dodging, and animations are awful = core gameplay not working = hm no thank you."

Archlord (PC)

"Downloading and reinstalling that game took about four times as much the time I played that game. It just felt... generic gameplay-wise."

Risen (PC)

Anno 1404 (PC)

"There is an Anno 1404 Closed Beta. I'm in it."

Warhammer 40K Online (PC)

"Dawn of War as an MMO? Sounds like sth. I'd like to play. :D"

Diablo III (PC)

"This place is thick with the stench of ghouls."

Aion: The Tower of Eternity (PC)

"Another MMO I wanna try out."