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Originally Posted by EVOLghost
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Every fighting game I ever play, this is always the move I try first. Such a staple.
GOG.com has a sale going on right now, everything half off. So for 18 bucks I picked up:
Master of Orion is a real treat. A real progenitor of the 4X strategy style of gameply. Considerably deeper than more generalized strategy games, the learning curve is pretty steep. I usually go several dozen turns before I realize I could've done this or that to really improve my economy and spread to other worlds quicker. I'm not really a fan of the ship design feature although I think it's a genius addition. But I always hate having to re-service my fleet everytime I come up with a new type of armor. The art is amazing and the races are extremely diverse and feel really unique.
This came bundled with the first MoO so that was nice. I haven't played a whole lot of it yet, but has pretty close to the same feel as the first one, though they add a little more character and variety to it with these alien experts that you can hire and assign that boost your stats in different ways. The art is even better here, and I have a feeling that given enough time I'll prefer it to the original. I have no idea what happened at Microprose, they have one of the most impressive publishing catalogs ever.
Alpha Centauri is probably objectively the best Civ game to ever come out of that whole line of Civ games, though I'm still extremely fond of Civilization I and II. This game has an amazingly broad vision and the most successful examination of all of the intricacies that populate a civilization. Religion, diplomacy, warfare, commerce, all handled extremely deftly. Like MoO, has a steep learning curve, but well worth it. I'm not a huge fan of the research system as you can only lean towards the direction you want to research in, as opposed to specifically researching x topic, but still pretty intuitive and fun.