Best [and Worst] of the Past Decade

[Great Rumbler]

(I must admit I never really played Realms of the Haunting, I remember seeing screenshots of it and thinking "oh, just another FPS" and then ignoring it because I didn't like those games much... only later did I learn that I was wrong of course, but as I'm not a horror fan either, generally...)

It's one of those games that stuck with me over the years, even though I never actually played it myself [I watched my brother play it]. I remember that it had a lot of FMV cutscenes, but also it was a pretty cool FPS/survival-horror/adventure game hybrid on FIVE DISCS!

id is the only company anyone could say this about without lying through their teeth.

Yeah, id's pretty big on technology, although I've still enjoyed their games. Rage looks like it's going to be pretty awesome.

You didn't like Civilization Revolution? Got some pretty good reviews... it's quite simple of course, as console versions of PC games always are, but if you want a simple little empire-building game it's good, I guess. I'd rather play the real thing myself, and have the actual depth of the PC games...

I played Civ Rev. It was fun for a few rounds, but it just doesn't have much depth to it to keep my coming back unlike Civ 3 and 4. Civ 5 looks like it takes a few cues from Civ Rev while still retaining the depth of the other games in the series.

Puzzle games -- actually, PCs dominate the puzzle game genre today, perhaps even more so than they used to.

There's also a lot of indie puzzle games on Steam, including stuff like PopCap's games, Peggle, Crayon Physics, Cogs, Everyday Genius, Windosill, Quantz, Osmos, Zenerchi, Brainpipe, Droplitz, Raycatcher, And Yet It Moves, Magnetis, I-Fluid, and more.