i could find plenty of fun "modern"
games...they just get boring fast...WC3 is really annoying, it gets old really fast cause it hardly has any units to build...and there is a really small limit to how many you can build...Starcraft on the other hand might not have those big "Heroes" but has much more of an army, and you can build way more.
as for Civ 3...i tried to play it....it's just waaaay to complicated, i havent played Civ 1 though, so maybe i just don't know how
i wanna try MOH: AA...but i got no $$$
and i don't think i've ever heard of age of mythology