What is Your Desert Island Game? 409
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?
Tetris DS (Score:5, Insightful)
Heck Yes (Score:1, Insightful)
Master of Orion II (Score:5, Insightful)
You don't need uber graphics to make a good game.
Definitely Oblivion (Score:3, Insightful)
Naturally I'm including Shivering Isles if I'm allowed. Great expansion, and tons of extra assets for the editor.
Any of the Civ Games (Score:5, Insightful)
gcc (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Come on, this one is easy. (Score:2, Insightful)
Empire (Score:3, Insightful)
4 hours later:
Re:Master of Orion II (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:NetHack (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Whatever game... (Score:3, Insightful)
Spy vs. Spy #2 (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Warhammer 40K: Dark Crusade (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Definitely Oblivion (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:gcc (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:NetHack (Score:3, Insightful)
Plus, the RNG can be cruel and really screw you from time to time. Falling down a pit that just happens to be exceptionally difficult to detect into a monster room is one of those things that can easily end an otherwise good run in about 1 turn.
Deus Ex (Score:2, Insightful)
SPORE (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:NetHack (Score:4, Insightful)
This answer is like the ultimate nerd wish (Score:1, Insightful)
Although technically acceptible, it misses the entire point.
Re:Trackmania (Score:2, Insightful)
Seems like a pretty big risk to take on a desert island...