[QUOTE="Fiefdom"][QUOTE="super_police"]Starcraft - seriously how did this game get so popular? it is horrid alone and horrid online. The darkening out of the map is so annoying that you have to make a soldier stand in every quadrant of the map just so you can see what is happening.super_police

I dont want it as easy as possible, I just dont want game designers to use cheap tactics to make it difficult. Even if things are blacked out at first, once you scout an area it should no longer be blacked out because you know what is there. How about designers use topography or character types to make the difference. Also in most games of this type they dont give you enough time to develop and set up a nice society before someone is coming and trying to destroy it. Its much more fun building the world and growing your army than it is fighting other peoples armies. I'll admit I havent played many rts games, but it is a genre that I want to like. But I will say of the few I have played starcraft is definitely the worst.

Did you actually play the game? The reason I ask is, if you did, you would find out that once you explore part of the map, you know what was there when you were there. What you do not know is what about the area may have changed (other side deploying forces or developing bases) while you were gone. Kind of like it would be in a real battle. If you do not have someone actively watching a particualr area, you are not going to get real time updates on what is happening there.

Back to the topic, cannot stand the Madden games. ESPN2k5 was the best football game ever made. Madden is a joke compared to it.

Spiderman 2 is another game I really didn't get into. Did not like the controls, especially the camer control that worked backwards form what it should have. Seriously, that ticked me off. Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was much better. 

Hulk: Ultimate Destruction- You get to play as the Hulk, doing what he does best- destroying things. The first time I picked up a car, jumped into the air and threw it at a helicopter, I knew this game was going to be fun.

Fable: The Lost Chapters- Especially since you like Morrowind. Just make sure you get the Lost Chapters eddition. Has more content. 

Original Metroid: Loved most of the sequals, but was never a big fan of the original.

GTA: Not for me.

Half Life: I recognize the significance of the games, and I really enjoyed Team Fortress, but I could not get into the game itself. 

Starcraft. Hands down.

Great storyline, imaginative units, and the best ballaciing of thre completely different races I have ever seen. 

I can't believe that nobody mentioned Starcraft! Nothing against the games so far, I read the whole list and found ones that even I wouldn't have thought of but come on, Starcraft has one of the most epic stories in an RTS ever along with Command and Conquer of course.ebax7588

I can't believe this game wasn't mentioned until the fourth page of this thread. Mssive battles, engaging storylines, and more than a few jaw dropping moments make Starcraft one of the most Epic games I have ever played.

One I still can't believe hasn't been mentiond: Chrono Trigger.