Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri + Alien Crossfire

Rather than copy paste Terraziel list plus a good chuck of console/handheld strategy games I'll just say that his list pretty much applies to me as well.

Personal favourites would included Dark Reign, Imperium Galactica 2, Red Alert and Civilization 2.

in order... and this dates me...

Warcraft
Command & Conquer Red Alert
Alpha Centauri
Age of Empires
Age of Empires 2 +expansion
Age of Mythology
Stronghold

then I got into MMORTS for a bit..
SimCountry
World War 2
Space

too much a time suck so then
Shogun
Gal Civ
Victoria - Empire under the sun
Europa Unversalis 2
Black and White 2
Crusader Kings
Hearts of Iron 2
Galactic Civilization 2
Sins of a Solar Empire
Rise of Nations - Rise of Legends
Age of Empires 3


Favorites had to have been Age of Empires 2, Stronghold, Victoria, Gal Civ 2, and Sins of a solar empire...

there are several others which i know i can not think of the names of Age of Sail

Archon: The Light and the Dark
Axis & Allies
Clash of Steel
Battleground: Ardennes
Battleground 2: Gettysburg
Battleground 3: Waterloo
Battleground 4: Shiloh
Battleground 5: Antietam
Battleground 6: Napoleon in Russia
Battleground 7: Bull Run
Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo
Battleground 9: Chickamauga
Battlestations: Midway
Battleship
Castles
Castles II: Siege and Conquest
Sid Meier's Civilization
Sid Meier's Civilization II
Civilization II: Test of Time
Sid Meier's Civilization III
Civilization III: Complete Edition
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Close Combat
Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far
Colonization
Command and Conquer: Tiberium Dawn
Conquest Earth
Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
Empire
Empire Deluxe
Fantasy Wars
Dungeon Keeper II
carriers at war
Gary Grigsby's Pacific War
Great Naval Battles 1
Gary Grigsby's War in Russia
Great Naval Battles 2
Great Naval Battles 3
Great Naval Battles 5
Fields of Glory
Fleet Command
Galactic Civilizations
Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
gazillionaire
Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Wake of Gods
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Heroes of Might and Magic IV: The Gathering Storm
Heroes of Might and Magic IV: The Winds of War
Heroes of Might and Magic V
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East
Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff
lost admiral
grandest fleet
Harpoon series
Harpoon
Harpoon II
Harpoon Classic
Harpoon III
Harpoon 3 Professional
Harpoon 3: Advanced Naval Warfare
Imperialism
Imperium
King's Bounty
Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm II
Master of Orion
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
Master of Orion III
Panzer General
Allied General
Pacific General
Panzer General II
Star General
Fantasy General
Sid Meier's Gettysburg!
Sid Meier's Antietam!
Space Hulk
Syndicate
Syndicate: American Revolt
Syndicate Wars Medieval: Total War: Viking Invasion
Rome: Total War
Powermonger
perfect general
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle
X-COM: Apocalypse
Pax Galaxia
Reach for the Stars
Scorched 3D
Scorched Earth
Warlords I-IV Worms
Worms
Steel Panthers
Silent Hunter
Worms 2
Worms Armageddon
Worms 3D
X-COM: Apocalypse

I on the other hand am a relatively new gamer

And since we are talking Strategy, I'll stick to my limited experience there.

Total Annihilation
My first ever RTS. I liked it, but I was young. I couldn't micro very well, and I lost alot online. Mainly played campaign.

Alpha Centauri
I bought this game thinking it was some kind of shooter. I dunno. I was young then, probably 14 or 15, and bought the first thing I saw when I saved up enough money to buy a new PC game. I loved it. I loved the diplomacy, etc.


Then I fell into FPS for a long while.
Flash forward to Christmas of 2006.


Sword of the Stars
My uncle gave me this game because he said I watch the SciFi channel alot. So I fired it up that night, and I was lost. I lol'd to myself and put it up for a few months. After finally giving it another chance, I actually enjoyed it.

Company of Heroes /w Expansion
Fun, but.. I just lost interest after awhile. Online was the bread & butter, and I was turned into butter everytime. Alot of micro, and am just not into micro-management so much.

C&C 3
Alot of hype. Bought it. Hated it. Campaign was so-so, but the Multiplayer is completely ridiculous. Let's see who can spam the most t1 tanks as fast as possible.

Fell back into FPS games, via BF2, TF2, CS:S (wow.. what a weird coincidence, these are all sequels heh. Anything original? lol)

Supreme Commander /w Expansion
A co-worker convinced me to get this. I like it. Once again, quite a bit of micro. Mainly all about rushing and spamming.

Sins of a Solar Empire
Same co-worker convinced me to buy this. He stopped playing it because he felt it was too deep, and went back to his xbox. I was the other way, I wanted more. The diplomacy felt shallow. The graphics were nice, but that's not what makes a game for me. I think the replayability is a bit low as well... Online seems to be quite a bit of spam spam spam. That's the problem imho with all of these online strategy games. It's all about spammy spam spam spammity spam spam spam. Sick of it.

I was sucked back into Space games. I launched Sword of the Stars and wanted more. More more more. And this is how I found the GC2 forums. **note. Just a funny side-note. It said a blend of 4X and RTS. I seriously asked myself "what the hell is a 4X game" and had to google it lol

Galactic Civilizations 2 /w Expansions
Will let you know Purchasing it now hehe. Played the demo for 2 days and love it.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire

Space empires 5 is great but sketchy if you don't like TBS.

I recommend star wars empire at war (great space battles) and and some total war games. Also, wait for dawn of war 2... and starcraft 2... and spore... and fable 2...

Age of Empires II- great game with a solid map creator
Civ 4- Very fun to play with the Fall From Heaven Mod
Star wars: Empire at War- Its just fun to be darth vader
Gal Civ- First Game i started modding
(Normally i like the old school rpgs if you do check out http://www.fantasyanime.com/index.htm )

I'm not going to list all my games... but...my first dive into RTS was command and conquer on the orginal PS1.
What really hooked me on RTS was the Civilization games, I love civ4 and all its expansions,also rise of nations is good, so is empire earth 2 & 3 I still play them, although I do enjoy soase.
I have a lot of games that are listed here, some I've played for hours, some I've just dabbled. I do think I need to try Galciv2

The list is too long so I will only the list the few that I play regularly in the last year:

Company of Heroes (vCOH)
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (COH:OF)
Sins of a Solar Empire

The Total War games (Medieval, Viking Invastion, Rome, Medieval 2, etc.) are good as well but you need the realism mod's to make them worthwhile strategy games. Otherwise they are too easy.

The Sid Meir Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire are great games that I reinstall every once in a while.

LOL for the guys who mentioned the original Populous!

And for something different, a great strategy board game that was reimplemented in Java is an old Avalon Hill classis called Titan. The open source, free, java clone is called Colossus and can be found here: http://colossus.sourceforge.net/ . Well worth the time to check it out.


Enjoy.

I don't have much of a list but here goes:

RTS: none

4X TBS:
Civ 2
Galciv 2

Other Non-4X TBS:
Master of Monsters (Sega Genesis)
SSI Allied General (Playstation)
SSI Panzer General (Playstation)

first strategy game i played when i was a young kid was DUNE 2
i played this game the longest besides warcraft 2 that game i really played to death
just liked the story and all.
ok here my list in order

dune2
warcraft2
c&c all games
kknd
homeworld [liked it very much played the camp twice]
conquest frontier wars[good game]
starcraft[liked it]
stronghold all games[still playing
star wars empire at war [foc][still playing]
act of war if you liked c&c generals try this game has a fun single player with campaign[with movies
lotr battle for middle earth
total war all games [looking forward to empire total war]

Let me see:

Dune 2 (first strategy game ever played)
Dune 2000
Emperor: Battle for Dune
Master of Magic 
Warcraft
Warcraft 2 & all expansions
Homeworld
Homeworld 2
Romance of the Three Kingdoms III
Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII
Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX
Romance of the Three Kingdoms X
Dynasty Warriors Tactics 1
Dynasty Warriors Tactics 2
Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires
Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires
Starcraft
Spellfire & all expansions
Spellfire 2
Heros of Might and Magic I
Heros of Might and Magic II & all expansions
Heros of Might and Magic III & all expansions
Heros of Might and Magic IV & All expansions
Heros of Might and Magic V
C&C Red Alert
C&C Generals & Zero Hour
C&C 3: Tiberium Wars
Settlers 2
Civilization I
Civilization II
Civilization III & all expansions
Civilization IV
Rise of Nations & 1st expansion
Populous 1
Populous 3
Imperium Galactica 1
Imperium Galactica 2
Imperium Galactica 3
Pax Imperia 1
Pax Imperia 2 Eminent Domain
Dungeon Keeper 1
Dungeon Keeper 2
Master of Orion 1
Master of Orion 3
Earth 2160
Lords of Magic
Mech Commander
Final Fantasy Tactics
Theme Hospital
Transport Typcoon
Simtower
Simcity
Simcity 2000
Simcity 3000 Unlimited
Simicty 4
Starwars Rebellion
Starwars Empire at War (demo)
Advance Wars
Advance Wars 2
Ogre Battle
Xcom 1
X
X3 Reunion
Galactic Civilization I
Galactic Civilization II & all expansions
Sins of a Solar Empire
Goblin Wars (I think this is the name for it, it was on PS2)
Black and White 1 (still not open the box)
Black and White 2 (still not open the box)
Wing Commander: Armada
Superpower 1
Superpower 2
Syndicate

Thanks to this post, I had to dig deep in my memory. There are stragglers but should be 95% complete (a few couldn't remember the game and some in foreign languages). Looking back though, I wasted a lot of time just on strategy games, nevermind all the other genres I played. Still, they were fond memories  

Games ive played in no order.

Command and Conquer
Command and Conquer Red Alert
Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
Command and Conquer Tiberium Sun
Command and Conquer Generals
Command and Conquer 3
Dawn of War
Dawn of war Winter Assault
Dawn of War Dark Crusade
Supreme Commander
Company of Heroes
Rise of Nations
Warcraft 3
Medieval Total War
Rome Total War
Medieval 2 Total war
Star Wars Empire at war
Age of Empires 2
Age of Empires 3
Nexus (it's kind of a strategy game)
Black & White 2

Wait, Terraziel, you played Disciples III and Majesty 2?

Can I use your time machine when you're done with it?!

;p

you missed dawn of war 2, and C&C red alert 3. Its what I get for not paying enough attention to the lists of sequels.

Though as an aside i have to say this list has made me wonder what peoples lists are like for other genres as well, because i could probably get a list like that for most genres (except sports games, the last sport game I played, and enjoyed, was Mutant League Football on the megadrive).

You're right--I did miss those.

Hm. Well, I have a pretty long list for RPGs (I've played most of the good ones going back to the days of Wasteland and the SSI Gold Box series), a smaller list of adventure games (a few of the old-school Sierra games), a still smaller list for simulations (although just as old--I played and loved MicroProse's adaptation of Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising and the original Elite), and an even smaller list of FPS games, which I actually think is probably a much younger genre than many of the others simply by virtue of its requirements for a somewhat sophisticated level of graphics technology.

My games!

Most fun ones:
Battle for Middle Earth (simple, fun, easy to learn and play game)
Sins of a Solar Empire (If I didn't like it, would I be here?)
Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne (Not the actual game, but the map-making community is quite helpful and nice) (Hate DOTA)

Others:
Battle for Middle Earth II (Never really captured my appeal)
Rise of Legends (Would not even work on my computer)
Medieval II, Total War (Worked slowly on my computer) (On a side note, 512 mb RAM with a Vista computer is not happy)
Rise of Nations (Meh, kind of fun)
Age of Mythology and expansion (Was rather fun for me, but xp ate up my ram)
Warcraft 3 (Did not at the time have the community the expansion does)

That's pretty much it. Quite fun games.

Oh, and one more. There was an old rts game for the ps2. It was called Aliens vs Predator: Extinction and was a somewhat fun game, but was burned because of no skirmish mode.

That's a bummer. I love RoL--it's the reason I'm putting off buying GCII:ToA. I wonder if the computer issues are the reason it got shafted by the gaming magazines' ratings.

No, the reasons it did poorly overall, was firstly the campaign and story were god-awful and actually a step back from the RoN campaign, the cuotl were grotesquely unbalanced, and the main one was major multiplayer issues which prevented it from 'getting off the ground' so to speak, but even then most of the reviews at the time were much more forgiving than I would have been.

Maybe the 512 mb ram on Vista was the reason... I might try it again. It should be somewhere in my closet... ever since I got my 2 gigs, I have been running my games much better. I even tried City of Villains and EVE, though EVE is hard.

My list is too long!

I started Strategy gaming in 1984 with Imperium Galactum (for the Atari, not the Commie 64).

Gah, I'm old.

Almost certainly, I'm amazed Anything ran with 512 on Vista, including Vista itself

I would say DoW is much better than C&C3,especially with the race mods + Soulstorm.Each race in that game is very different from each other.The gameplay is awesome too.

In terms of story line,it suxs but it truely shines in skirmish with the AI Mod.DoW's AI Mod has the best AI i ever seen.It makes Sins one feels like rubbish now.

Anyway,back to topic,my list.It follows chronologically.
-Dune 2(My first RTS,was an idiot that time.Completely clueless in that game)
-C&C(Second RTS,still an idiot.Still clueless)
-Warcraft 1(know how to play a bit)
-Warcraft 2 and it's expansion(didnt play much)
-Red Alert 1
-Starcraft(The first game that i actually play properly.Really enjoy that)
-KKND(love that spam fest game)
-C&C:Tiberium Sun(one of the best C&C,IMO)
-Red Alert 2(another great game in the C&C series)
-Dune 2000(utter crap)
-Emperor:Battle for Dune(pretty decent game)
-Battle Realms(one of the best game i ever played)
-Mech Commander(it rocks too)
-Warcraft 3(didnt really like it)
-C&C Generals(Ugh...)
-Perimeter(didnt play much too)
-Ground Control 2(decent game,crappy ai spoil the whole game)
-Dawn of War(the best game i ever play so far)
-Supreme Commander(rig cant take it,this game crashed my old rig)
-Company of Heroes(decent,due to lack of DoW's melee violence)
-C&C Tiberium Wars(Ugh...)
-World in Conflict(didnt like it)
-Universe of War(decent game but console interface and design spoil it)
-Sins of Solar Empire(one of the best and innovative game i ever play,need better ai)

These are the ones that I own and have either completed (if there was one central campaign) or played enough to be very familiar with them.

Age of Empires / Rise of Rome
Age of Empires 2 / The Conquerors
Age of Empires 3
Age of Mythology
Black & White
C&C
C&C 2 / Firestorm
C&C 3 / Kane's Wrath
C&C Red Alert / Counterstrike / Aftermath
C&C Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge
Civilization 2
Civilization 3
Civilization 4 / Warlords / Beyond the Sword
Colonization
Dune II
Dune 2000
Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Heroes of Might and Magic 4
Pikmin
Populous: The Beginning (3)
Settlers II
Sins of a Solar Empire
Star Wars: Force Commander
Star Wars: Rebellion
Starcraft / Brood Wars
Warcraft 2
Warcraft 3 / Frozen Throne

Probably a few more as well, but these are all I can think of at the moment.

Although many (but definitely not all) of these are fantastic games, my favourites are probably Red Alert, Civ2 and Age of Empires 2. I have also found myself playing a lot of Civ4 since it's release three years ago. The expansions were good as well. I guess I can count it among my favourite strategy games by now.

SoaSE is definitely a great game with potential to become a favourite, but it is too soon to say.

By the way, if we are including city building/management-sims to these lists (like some people have), I must add:

Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Sim City, Sim City 2000, Sim City 3000, Rollercoaster Tychoon, Rollercoaster Tychoon 3, Pizza Tychoon, Railroad Tychoon, Caesar 2, Sim Tower, Tropico, Afterlife... and probably a whole lot of games I have forgotten.
Out of these, my favourites are Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Sim City 2000 and Pizza Tychoon.

Good to know that i was not the only one spending insane amounts of time :LOL:

add the following games that i didnt see (or overlooked) here

-Imperium (Amiga)
-Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Amiga)
-Renegade Legion Interceptor (Amiga)
-The old Battle Isle games (1 + expansion , 2 + expansion, history line, 3 (shadow of empire) (Amiga+PC)
-Balance of power (Amiga)
-Command HQ (old PC)
-Supremacy (Amiga)
-Frontmission 3 (PS1)
-MAD / mutually assured destruction (PC)
-Spellcross (old PC - but winXP patch from devs are online !)
-Final Liberation (old PC)
-Shattered union (PC) <- Northamerican Civil War in modern times with EU and Russian invasion - easy game, nice graphics, good for beginners, multiplayer
-Strategic Command 1 (PC)

my alltime favorite is still Master of Orion 2