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What is Your Desert Island Game?
1up has a feature today asking games industry heavyweights what their 'desert island game' would be. Games from the Civilization series are backed by the likes of Sony's Phil Harrison, David Jaffe, and Bethesda's Todd Howard, while Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has waiting-for-rescue fans among a number of the list respondents. Bioware CEO Ray Muzyka has an interesting answer to the question while talking about his pick: StarCraft. " It's an unusual choice for me in that I'd normally pick a role-playing game. But StarCraft has a strong campaign editor to make new content (including making either combat-oriented or story-based campaigns), plus you can play both the solid single-player campaign and against the A.I., and -- here's the trick -- you can play on a LAN or WAN (you said no Internet, but didn't mention local or wide area networks...my goal would be to build a WAN -- I'd explain how, but that would be telling -- connecting other folks similarly dropped onto nearby desert islands by other videogame online sites, who are equally eager to play some competitive multiplayer RTS or try out the campaigns I've created to kill time on the long days where there's nothing else to do but collect coconuts and build rafts." So, assuming that you have everything you need to play, what game would you want to take with you into seclusion?

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Sir Trev wrote:Bioware CEO Ray Muzyka has an interesting answer to the question while talking about his pick: StarCraft. " It's an unusual choice for me in that I'd normally pick a role-playing game. But StarCraft has a strong campaign editor to make new content (including making either combat-oriented or story-based campaigns)

Win!

I'd have chosen SC too.. Or spore if I happen to get stranded after its release date.

Anything where there is a reasonable amount of variety in repeated plays, and a decent editor. Oblivion or Morrowind would be my first choice, because they both come with detailed construction sets that it takes months just to learn properly! I'm trying to refrain from excitement about spore because I don't want to be hugely disappointed.

Lateralus wrote:Anything where there is a reasonable amount of variety in repeated plays, and a decent editor. Oblivion or Morrowind would be my first choice, because they both come with detailed construction sets that it takes months just to learn properly! I'm trying to refrain from excitement about spore because I don't want to be hugely disappointed.

I think I'd take Morrowind over Oblivion, to be honest. Other than that, this.

Me too to be honest. It grabbed me a whole lot more than Oblivion has ever managed to. I've not played enough of Oblivion to consider that I've explored it adequately, but the time I have played it for has meant that it now isn't novel enough for me to play it much more. Overall I feel a bit let down by it I suppose. I might actually reinstall Morrowind GoTY edition and give that another whirl, if I have enough spare gaming time.

I've sort of had this dilemma - 4 month detatchment to the Falklands, a laptop with limited hard drive space, no internet. I took Diablo 2, Combat Mission: Barabarossa to Berlin, Championship manager and Civ 2. All are games that sap away your time like nobody's business and will keep you going for ages on limited resources.

Anything that's customisable really. Freespace 2 and Op Flashpoint spring to mind. I could waste years creating new games with the engine.

I loved Civ 2 when I had it, and Civ 3 kept me entertained for hours and hours and hours, not played number 4 but I suspect it will be more time devouring than the previous ones so it would have to be that one

Probably a Championship/Football Manager game, it has good and bad times, but nothing too extreme. Oblivion crashes too much and overheats PCs (we're on a desert island, remember) - I never really got into Morrowind, it had some bits that were frustrating and I might become agitated and kick the PC into the sea.

Perhaps a gameboy game would be a better choice, as we'd only have a crab-powered treadmill to charge it up, but I couldn't see my interest staying there for too long, not with all these naked cannibal girls beckoning me ever closer...

Eve, I'd sit there poking my network cable into the sand and helplessly staring at the log on screen hoping for some connectivity so I could... just... change... my... skill!!!!!

Or not, Starcraft sounds like a sound choice.

Oblivion or Ocarina of Time, those two always eat my life like nobody's business.

eRabbit wrote:Eve, I'd sit there poking my network cable into the sand and helplessly staring at the log on screen hoping for some connectivity so I could... just... change... my... skill!!!!!

Pffffft

Call Of Duty : United Offensive (if there was a wireless router on the island )

Failing that it would have to be Tetris

Depends if I had a net connection or not. If my desert island came with interwebs, then Magic Online, as I could quite happily play it till the end of time, theres that much variety in it. Plus, new things are added on a regular basis.

If not...the Sims. Then I could both have an excuse for talking to imaginary friends, plus I could vicariously live a non island based life through the little electrical people.

Joose wrote:If not...the Sims. Then I could both have an excuse for talking to imaginary friends, plus I could make girls kiss.

Fix'd.



Oh come on, we've all done it.

My list

alone/no net/solar powered battery recharger - Tetris on a gameboy
two people/no net/old hardware - SNES with SF2/Mario Kart
2+ people/PC's/no net - Counter strike + Level editor and Starcraft
Decent PC + Net - Bumming in Space or faaabulous Fairyland (even though I don't play them I would if I had the time)

Dog Pants wrote:Oh come on, we've all done it.

I managed to make a man pregnant once, too.










and in the game.