So... I buy a mac partly so I won't play games...

And then I found Enigma:

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Games/Enigma.shtml

And now I've gone and found Freeciv:

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

I don't play online (out of some sort of compassion for respecting my free internet access for work)... But playing against the AI is pretty fun.

You can play freeciv on Windows too (if you really really want to).

Freeware... Unbelievable.

[(JD)]

I refuse to pay for any game for computer playing :rotfl;

What do you have against your playing games?

The biggest thing I have about computer games is that I get completely addicted to them and don't get any work done. Might and Magic sucked a couple months out of my life (just had to clear out that dungeon in order to buy that spell / armour / get that experience upgrade). And then that sewer and so on and so forth...

With my PC... When I got that angsty feeling... I'd wander into town and manage to pick up a game (several years out of date) for around $20. Just... Too easy to do. Or I could borrow computer games off my friends.

Whereas with a mac you don't really get cheap games. They all seem to cost around $70 or $80 and that is a much more significant investment. I don't know anyone who tries to play games on their mac, either.

I'm mostly addicted to the Might and Magic kind of role playing fantasy games. Temple of Elemental Evil was pretty good (actual D&D rules) and there was some Vampire series that I started... But Heroes was the thing... Can't remember which number it was... Hang on, let me find it. Probably cost under $20 these days...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_a...date_of_Heaven

Now that one really is old now. Later ones in the series have WAY improved graphics but... That one really hooked me with respect to game play and character development in a way that later ones didn't really (though they also got me for a month or so don't get me wrong). The latest one... Don't bother. Great graphics but the gameplay is sucky and the world is SMALL and the game is SHORT compared to that one.

Though... That was the first game of its genre that I had played and so it seemed very novel to me. (I love the turn based combat and my favourite thing in the world is a party of people who are different characters who I can develop with spells and armour and skill points...)

:-)

I tried to play Morrow Wind (which I'd heard great things about) and that is PRECISELY the genre I like only... I didn't like the real time combat (by the time I found the bird or the rat it had killed me) and the mouse control... I just couldn't get it working at a reasonable rate so I didn't get a headache from watching the screen zipping around while I was running around the country / shop or whatever.

I also used to have an x-box (in the attempt to stop junking up my system with games) and Fable was pretty good - but simply not as addictive as Heroes. The graphics were great (don't get me wrong) and the scenery and fight scenes in particular looked amazing... But there wasn't enough intricacy with respect to finding herbs and learning to make potions... Or enough cool armour... Or the spells got unweildy to use (because of the absence of turn based combat). Same goes for Baulders Gate (though that is a GREAT GAME in its own right, of course).

What freeware games do you like to play?