deus ex (im currently playing it right now and loving every second of it)
fallout series (the third installment will be mainstream though)
wizardry 8
ultima vii
total annihilation
journey to silius
x-com ufo defense
aero blasters
rise of the triad...
same here.
the learning curve of other cs is bleh compared to a lot of other games. it doesnt come close to games like quake, tribes, qwtf, q2wf, hl1ag, tfc, wolfet, and etqw. not even close.
it is fun. has a bit of a learning curve but it is a really deep game. the only thing i dont like is that splash damage sort of failed at bringing up a big community. it's sort of niche right now.
i voted ETQW
all the other games are a "been there done that." ETQW has the deepest gameplay out of all of those titles. though tf2 and portal arent bad at all, they just arent great to me.
UT3 has very uninteresting/noobified gameplay. wake me up when quake zero arrives. afaik 1v1 tdm...
i just swapped my parts to a new case (cooler master cm 690 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119137&Tpk=cm%2b690) and installed a brand new power supply (enermax liberty 620w http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817194004). my old psu was a brandless...
shit, i dont remember but it couldve been from amazon but i just searched and they dont have anyone selling the cloth version. yea try ebay or froogle. it's the cloth version, not paper. i think i got it from ebay.
upgrades: unlike bf, the upgrades you get in QW are only for one specific game, they don't transfer over to different games or servers thus it makes playing one class throughout a game useful.
classes: no cookie cutter classes.
deployables: so much better than everything else...