Two decades of PC Gaming (1990-2010)

Seen a post on Reddit featuring the best games from each year from 1990-2010 (http://www.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/1bo5ng/wanted_to_share_this_useful_chart_of_some_of_the/) and looking through it I realised just how brilliant a lot of those games were, and also just how many of them I already owned but never completed or really enjoyed playing. 

So it got me thinking about a challenge to myself (gah! another on including my writing which is almost done for this fortnight). I'm tempted to start back at 1990, pick a game from each year that I either really enjoyed and completed (Baldurs Gate 2), already own but never finished (VVVVV) or one I've heard good things about but never played (BioShock). Work my way through the years consecutively and have fun playing!

So looking through them all I've discovered there's only two years there where none of the top games I had completed but I've got at least one from each year so that will help the finances anyway and there's a couple of them I want to pickup at some point anyway (Baldurs Gate Enhanced) so could  be fun. It's not a timed challenge, just a.. "Well give it a shot" sort of one, no rush or pressure on it :) I'll post about it if I remember and even start the challenge but in the meantime have a browse through the games and see how many years you've played.

Currently playing.... Civilization V

I recently bought Sid Meier's Civilization V and have been trying to sit down to give it a run through. I'm an avid Civ fan, I've bought every one since Civ1 on my Amiga where I spent far too long building up my little Roman empire all the way into 2200+ to finally get battleships.. Ok, I was rubbish on my first shot but it just clicked and I loved it. Being a keen history fan it was fascinating to play through, to go against other cultures and to reach the end.

So it was on Saturday and Sunday that I had my first game of Civ 5 which was a fun time, I picked the Egyptians and knowing about the new single stack and impassable mountains I found myself on a nice corner of a continent and just turtled up in there. No-one attacked me, I went through 6,050 years of peace barring the barbarians in the first thousand years which I wiped out and so I learnt the new civ quite peacefully. I ended up with a win in 2040 ish through culture which was satisfying, even on chieftain level and so I sat down to try something different.

Civ has the 'free' DLC of the Mongols and I just failed completely to get to grips with it and started again (I messed up wondering why I had horses but couldn't build horseman.... I needed a pasture). I then tried a Roman game and found myself feeling too militaristic.. It's odd that I've always played Civ passively, much preferring to win through science and culture but on the odd occasion I've gone for all out war.

There's just something not quite clicking with me though in Civ5.. I've not been able to recreate that sit down and "just one more turn" yet but from what I've read a lot of people are like that but persevere and you get there... So time for me to head down to the bank and do some shopping (yay for being on holiday this week) and then I'll sit down and start on a new game.. Unless Mount and Blade Warband peels me away.....