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Like most people, I've been playing games on PC since... well... forever. Ok, I've been playing games on my computers for ever, since I started way before anything like a PC was easily available. The "good old days" of the Amiga are far behind me, but there is something that I really miss about those days.

Todays machines are blazing fast compared to what we had back then. My trusty Amiga 500 had 512k of RAM, and my current "work" PC has 8 gigabytes. As for the CPU, well... It isn't even a high-end CPU (trusty i5 quad-core), but it is still waaaaay faster. But what surprises me the most are the advances made to graphics cards. I can still remember my first "3D" card; a Matrox Mystique, playing MechWarrior 2. Everything changes.

Games have changed, too. My favorites were Rainbox Islands, Damocles, Populous, Powermonger... Come to think about it, just about anything from Bullfrog. Then came the PC era. Games were more and more realistic, more advanced. Wow, we even had videos here and there! First playing in 320x200, then 640... But things really change when you start playing in 1024x768! I still haven't changed my screens yet, so they aren't full HD; "only" 1680x1050 each, but still. However, I really feel like we have lost something. The games are more realistic, but less fun? Is it only me, or have things really changed? Triple A games are graphically stunning, but the story just seems a little plain right now. Granted, Rainbox Islands wasn't exactly a text-book example of a great story, but still, the characters were fun, and everything about it was just, well, fun. Today, I've given in on quite a few games, and the ones I still play are almost considered Golden Oldies. Out with World of Warcraft, out with Eve Online, Unreal Tournament I just gave in on, and a few others. However, I still play Neverwinter Nights, a few Gothic titles too, and I've even tried the Baldur's Gate series again. A few of the "modern" games that I still like are the Fallout 3 series (still trying to finish Fallout New Vegas) and Sins of a Solar Empire.

This all brings me to this - Indie games. I've just bought the Humble Indie Bundle 2, and I really, really regret not buying the first one. A great bundle of Indie games, and they are all fun! What really started me up, though, was Minecraft. It isn't a triple A, far from it, but it was fun, and was designed around being fun. It isn't perfect (especially graphically, people still mahe fun of me for that), but I don't care. It really is fun, and you can really get into the game. Yes, I'll admit, I've jumped in my seat when a creeper just suddenly appeared whilst mining. I'll have to look at the stats to see exactly how long I've been playing, but I'm sure it would make me pale. So, todays games are Minecraft, Osmos, Frozen Synapse, Warzone 2100, OpenTTD and a few others. Most of them even run on my netbook. These are games made on a very low budget by people who love creating them, and I would love to become one. Very seriously thinking about that...

New resolution, finish all the games I've never finished. Baldur's Gate, because that really annoyed me. Gothic 3, because I loved the story and I really got into that more than I thought I would. A few others here and there. What games do you love? Which ones would you like to play again to finish?