Those were the days. When dad bought our first computer (25 Mhz, 4 mb RAM and 40 mb hard drive, later with an external cd-drive which required its own CPU
) my grandma gave
Railroad tycoon to me and my siblings as christmas present. That's still a great game, if one can find a computer old enough to start it.
Civilization was the next game to hook me up. At this time I was about eleven years old and I was almost as bad in English as I am today, so there were plenty of menu options that I didn't understand. I never reached any success in those games, but I kept playing them anyway. That's what I call a good game; even when you lose again and again and again, you can't stay away from it.
When I think about it today, it feels like
Civilization 2 was
the only game I played for several years. Sid Meier - what a
genius.
A time after I finally started to get tired of civ2, I got my first rpg:
Planescape - Torment. I still haven't finished it due to corrupt save files and regular reformattings, but it made me want to play similar games. So I made my little brother buy (
)
Baldur's gate 2.
The games that I depend on today are
Civ3 and
Morrowind, the latter must be number two on the playtime list for me, only beaten by civ2. I discovered Morrowind rather late, sad to say. Some people think it's difficult to get into (and the first time you play it might be tough to even reach level two, I admit that) and monotonous, but that's their loss. I think it's a brilliant game with great environments and intriguing story that never becomes boring.
Now I wonder which will be my next favourite game.
