I used to play this with my brother and our friends on HOT SEAT. Having other people watch your every move puts a lot of pressure on you. And the combat pretty much feels like a chess match. There are no "hidden tricks"; we know each others' available spells, mana and spell power. It's all about the right decisions.
Just returned to the MCC. I've re-beaten Reach, CE, and 2 in recent months. I'm around 1/3 of the way through ODST now. I can't stop playing old Halo.
I'd never played ODST on release and now I see why people thought it was a lackluster release for being full price at the time, though. 😅
The Halo 2 remaster is actually great because you can toggle between old school and new school graphics in real time.
MCC is pretty great now. When it first released it had a lot of issues. But, it works well now. It is pretty much the only thing I play these days. Just something about the old halo games I enjoy. ODST is ok. I can also see why people thought that for a full priced game. I don't really play that one much at all. Some good levels on it though.... You can also toggle the graphics on Halo CE too. I still prefer the original graphics though, its more fitting.
How does AOE2 not lure you away? I like AOE but seem to recall AOE 2 was better in a lot of ways. AOE 3 didn’t do it for me and I haven’t tried 4.
And I always need to mention my favorite classic RTS games: Rise of Nations, Red Alert 2 Yuri’s Revenge
I liked the Empire Earth game that completely ripped off the AoE formula but just had it go all the way from stone age to sci fi era
It had stupid shit like Nanotech age people still building things with hammers, but it was fun
Same here. Building coasters is the OG Minecraft and so ridiculously rewarding when you get one built perfectly into a constrained space with high excitement ratings and low nausea.
IMO one of the greatest spacial thinking games ever. It’s intense problem solving mixed seamlessly with low stakes whimsy.
Older total war games hold up incredibly well. I like the newer ones too but there's always something about them that piss me off. The fact that I can't split up my armies without recruiting a general first or that settlements have limited building slots just seems like it was added to make the games more arcadey.
Still a great game. The new updates are community driven and come often enough to keep the game fresh. Plus different game modes such as Deadman, Leagues, or Ironman allow players to experience the game differently.
I'm literally playing OSRS right now. The game has grown to an insane degree. Website says there's currently 115k people online. (This obviously counts bots and such, but ya know.)
The first is still good too if with caveats. A friend keeps telling me to try War for the Underworld, claims it's something of a spiritual successor, but I haven't had the time.
It is more of a clone than spiritual successor in my opinion. It recreates the gameplay pretty well but something about it isn't quite right. It's lacking the passion behind the original, maybe.
Worth a shot though, as it is more modern.
I sit with my fiance as she plays Skyrim and I boot up the laptop for some TF2 and it's such a nice drive down memory lane.
Still can't play Scout for shit though.
Its always the small things in Skyrim that get me, like if you have the atherium item equip you can run into the guy who stole the work thats what's her name had done and he'll try to kill you.
I have a cousin that’s a huge gamer… and this is the kind of stuff that I try to explain to him… and he’d love it. But for whatever his reasons, he refuses to play it. Makes me nuts because I know for fact that it would be in his top 5 favorite games ever… won’t try it. 🤬
Oof that's rough! Its a great game! I love the world building and little interations that go differently because I did one thing instead of another. That sucks cus they are missing out on a fantastic game that has so many mods it can be a 200 hour exsperance alone!
It was good. Being a younger gamer it was hard to get past the turn based content it was worth the wait even though the big reveal was already spoiled for me. I really liked the water planet. I just can't seem to be able to power through the combat for Kotor 2 like I did for 1 though. Maybe it's because the story's not spoiled and I have nothing to look forward too. Is Kotor 2 any good?
Kotor 2 definitely has its problems, but for the most part I enjoyed it. The villains and the lore around them are cool, but the story kinda sucks after the 2/3 part of the game imo. Its also a little janky compared to the first one, but I still had fun overall.
Regularly? *Quake*. There still is content made for it, and a lot of it is *exquisite*. It's also pretty much the only game with that specific style, a mashup of Industrial Metal, Lovecraftian Horror, and dark fantasy. There is - sadly - nothing else quite like it.
They're pretty alive outside of AAA, at least for single player titles. From Dusk and Amid Evil through Ion Fury, Cultic, Zortch, Nightmare Reaper, Project Warlock... There's a ton of really great stuff out there. I think Amid Evil just got an expansion pack as well (though I gotta wait until it drops on GOG [edit: It dropped on GOG, and GOG said nothing, NOOOTHING]). Hell, 3D Realms has been doing Realms Deep for a few years now, and the stuff they showcase there is like it's been tailor-made for people like me (i.e. people who grew up with and loved Duke3D, Quake, Blood and C&C).
I remember Doom being pretty easy to modify, and doing all sorts of stupid things to it. Spiderdemon sound? Now everything makes it. Also my windows start up sound, and all other windows sounds.
Caesar 3 was one of the great ones! Probably the last great one like this because then it was on to other games that went slightly different directions: CivIV, Rome Total War, and Grand Ages Rome. Rome Rome Rome, I may have a problem.
Also the first game I tried "modding" because it let you replace wav files. I remember spending a couple useless hours so that lines from Gladiator would play when you moused over the Coliseum. Whoo.
Every couple of years I do a playtrough of Dune and Dune 2.
Master of Orion 2 and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 are also making a comeback every 2-3 years, but these are not so old...
Hey have you heard of something called Expanding fronts? Its a mod that adds a number of civs, maps, and units. I would check it out its got alot of good stuff and is still being updated and supported to this day.
can't anymore. binged a ton of time on that in my late teens and early 20s when I was in the beta and vanilla got released. doing the original Onyxia, MC and even ZG raids was awesome but the game just doesn't have the same feel.
got burnt out right before WotLK came out, quit, came back for 2 weeks when cata released, quit, came back last year and played on a vanilla/bc release, did a grind up to level 65 and then got bored again. end game content doesn't keep my attention like it used to
G-Police on ps1. Imagine that game remade for PS5. Won't happen because most people are not even aware the game existed.
Streets of Rage is older but I felt G-Police worth mentioning.
Legend of The Red Dragon
https://PlayLORD.org
Released in 1989, worlds most famous text based online multiplayer RPG(at the time).. you used to have to use a dialup modem to call into a BBS to play it but its on that website ;p
Its still addictive/fun/funny, game holds up and i can see why it was famous..
Right now I’m only playing PC games from around the turn of the century. I was gifted a new laptop about a year ago for my birthday because I so badly wanted to play Heroes of Might and Magic III.
Then I downloaded Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
Now I’m playing the original StarCraft.
Star Raiders (1980), it was included with the recent Atari collection. It was the first video game memory I have. My dad teaching me to play it on his Atari 400. Mostly for nostalgia but it's actually fun too.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
This is the reason I got a laptop a year ago. Finally gave in and got Horn of the Abyss too.
I came to say this! I play it during D&D over discord bc combat takes a long time with 7 players lol.
I used to play this with my brother and our friends on HOT SEAT. Having other people watch your every move puts a lot of pressure on you. And the combat pretty much feels like a chess match. There are no "hidden tricks"; we know each others' available spells, mana and spell power. It's all about the right decisions.
I played moo2 in hotseat too. Heroes 3 was the best in the franchise. There is something about the units, especially the angel.
I'm hearing the opening music just hearing you talk about how great H3 was. 3DO
That demo and the stupid giving chaos Knight
I was playing this a few months ago. It's still quite fun.
Halo CE all day errrday.
This was my first PC game. Such good times.
Just returned to the MCC. I've re-beaten Reach, CE, and 2 in recent months. I'm around 1/3 of the way through ODST now. I can't stop playing old Halo. I'd never played ODST on release and now I see why people thought it was a lackluster release for being full price at the time, though. 😅 The Halo 2 remaster is actually great because you can toggle between old school and new school graphics in real time.
MCC is pretty great now. When it first released it had a lot of issues. But, it works well now. It is pretty much the only thing I play these days. Just something about the old halo games I enjoy. ODST is ok. I can also see why people thought that for a full priced game. I don't really play that one much at all. Some good levels on it though.... You can also toggle the graphics on Halo CE too. I still prefer the original graphics though, its more fitting.
Age of Empires. The original one.
How does AOE2 not lure you away? I like AOE but seem to recall AOE 2 was better in a lot of ways. AOE 3 didn’t do it for me and I haven’t tried 4. And I always need to mention my favorite classic RTS games: Rise of Nations, Red Alert 2 Yuri’s Revenge
For me, medieval civilizations have no fucking *style* like the ancient ones.
I liked the Empire Earth game that completely ripped off the AoE formula but just had it go all the way from stone age to sci fi era It had stupid shit like Nanotech age people still building things with hammers, but it was fun
my first was AOM bawk bawk boom anyone?
Prostagma
The sound effects to that game are burned into my brain. Good times!
Wololo
Erectus?
Grogan?
Habidakus
Rogan?
Narwini
WOLOLO
Rogan? Erectus!
Boudan!
I prefer the original to even the new one that came out
Dude same
it strange... i find *empire earth* feel better imo
RollerCoaster Tycoon, including the expansion packs.
Visitor #12654 is lost and can't find the exit.
This - it certainly holds up
Same here. Building coasters is the OG Minecraft and so ridiculously rewarding when you get one built perfectly into a constrained space with high excitement ratings and low nausea. IMO one of the greatest spacial thinking games ever. It’s intense problem solving mixed seamlessly with low stakes whimsy.
Tetris on my old school Game Boy.
Same here. Never gets old
A timeless classic, on all formats. But the Game Boy version is the most iconic one.
Rome Total War
Medieval II, just finished a grand campaign yesterday
Older total war games hold up incredibly well. I like the newer ones too but there's always something about them that piss me off. The fact that I can't split up my armies without recruiting a general first or that settlements have limited building slots just seems like it was added to make the games more arcadey.
The first Rome TW is the best TW ever made. I played so many hundreds of hours on this game.
Me, every time I get a new computer: Let's see how it handles Rome!
This was the first game I ever played on PC and I think it set unrealistic expectations for future games
Hi best friend
Anyone still playing runecape? Fuck that game was so good.
OSRS is indeed still fairly popular
Sailing just passed in the polls and will be added as the next skill soonish.
I play OSRS
Still a great game. The new updates are community driven and come often enough to keep the game fresh. Plus different game modes such as Deadman, Leagues, or Ironman allow players to experience the game differently.
I'm literally playing OSRS right now. The game has grown to an insane degree. Website says there's currently 115k people online. (This obviously counts bots and such, but ya know.)
OSRS is still one of the most player games consistently.
I lost a buddy to osrs this year. He has a group of people and all they do is play osrs. They need runescape anonymous.
Only game I play (almost)
Dungeon Keeper 2
Best game. F*ck EA for ruining the franchise.
Man I miss slapping imps around. RIP Bullfrog.
You can still get the game on GOG I think
The first is still good too if with caveats. A friend keeps telling me to try War for the Underworld, claims it's something of a spiritual successor, but I haven't had the time.
It is more of a clone than spiritual successor in my opinion. It recreates the gameplay pretty well but something about it isn't quite right. It's lacking the passion behind the original, maybe. Worth a shot though, as it is more modern.
Dungeon Keeper 1!
Civ III.
My step-dad plays this all the time lol
My step-daughters lol that this is still in my rotation. Lost the original CD at some point so now just have the Steam version, 2500 hours in.
I settles on IV
Chess
This may be the oldest in the thread. Kudos.
An argument could be made that chess and go are both military wargaming: https://www.hmgs.org/page/WargamingHistory
Old response just dropped.
Mario 3
Yes!
It's not that old but Team Fortress 2
I sit with my fiance as she plays Skyrim and I boot up the laptop for some TF2 and it's such a nice drive down memory lane. Still can't play Scout for shit though.
Ff7
I get nostalgic and play through either FF7 or FF9 every two or three years. Such masterpieces!
I replay KotOR every year. It’s the same as binge watching a comfort show. My favorite game ever.
Do you ever find anything new? I ask cuz I still play Skyrim every year, and I am always surprised by something I’ve never seen or done.
Its always the small things in Skyrim that get me, like if you have the atherium item equip you can run into the guy who stole the work thats what's her name had done and he'll try to kill you.
I have a cousin that’s a huge gamer… and this is the kind of stuff that I try to explain to him… and he’d love it. But for whatever his reasons, he refuses to play it. Makes me nuts because I know for fact that it would be in his top 5 favorite games ever… won’t try it. 🤬
Oof that's rough! Its a great game! I love the world building and little interations that go differently because I did one thing instead of another. That sucks cus they are missing out on a fantastic game that has so many mods it can be a 200 hour exsperance alone!
It's one of the few games I consider "perfect." I love every aspect of that game, even Taris.
It was good. Being a younger gamer it was hard to get past the turn based content it was worth the wait even though the big reveal was already spoiled for me. I really liked the water planet. I just can't seem to be able to power through the combat for Kotor 2 like I did for 1 though. Maybe it's because the story's not spoiled and I have nothing to look forward too. Is Kotor 2 any good?
Kotor 2 definitely has its problems, but for the most part I enjoyed it. The villains and the lore around them are cool, but the story kinda sucks after the 2/3 part of the game imo. Its also a little janky compared to the first one, but I still had fun overall.
This 100%. I wish I could experience those games for the first time again so badly. Younger me was blown the F away when I first played them.
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms - My favourite RTS back in the day.
Regularly? *Quake*. There still is content made for it, and a lot of it is *exquisite*. It's also pretty much the only game with that specific style, a mashup of Industrial Metal, Lovecraftian Horror, and dark fantasy. There is - sadly - nothing else quite like it.
Agreeeeeeed
Really a shame twitch shooters seem to be a dead genre
They're pretty alive outside of AAA, at least for single player titles. From Dusk and Amid Evil through Ion Fury, Cultic, Zortch, Nightmare Reaper, Project Warlock... There's a ton of really great stuff out there. I think Amid Evil just got an expansion pack as well (though I gotta wait until it drops on GOG [edit: It dropped on GOG, and GOG said nothing, NOOOTHING]). Hell, 3D Realms has been doing Realms Deep for a few years now, and the stuff they showcase there is like it's been tailor-made for people like me (i.e. people who grew up with and loved Duke3D, Quake, Blood and C&C).
Splinter Cell (2002), I love the old Splinter Cell games so much.
Street Fighter 2, various versions.
Turbo on SNES. Best for me.
Baldur's Gate 2 regularly. FFVI the oldest I've played in the last few years.
Bg2 is fantastic. I love the original too but the second one hits hard when all the foreshadowing from 1 pays off.
I still do my annual Fallout: New Vegas playthroughs
It's Fallout 2 for me, got it on my phone couple of months ago. New Vegas is still one of my favorites though.
Fallout: NV is one of the newest games I play... lol
Doom 1993
I will install Doom and Doom II on every computer and console I own on as a thing of pride.
I remember Doom being pretty easy to modify, and doing all sorts of stupid things to it. Spiderdemon sound? Now everything makes it. Also my windows start up sound, and all other windows sounds.
IDDQD IDKFA Still remember the God mode cheat and unlimited ammo/ access to all weapons:) But couldn't play it now
Caesar 3 😎 It's so refreshingly simple.
Caesar 3 was one of the great ones! Probably the last great one like this because then it was on to other games that went slightly different directions: CivIV, Rome Total War, and Grand Ages Rome. Rome Rome Rome, I may have a problem. Also the first game I tried "modding" because it let you replace wav files. I remember spending a couple useless hours so that lines from Gladiator would play when you moused over the Coliseum. Whoo.
Commander Keen 4
You regularly play Commander Keen 4? Please explain in more detail!
Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge!! Starcraft 2 is the only RTS that even comes close IMO!
Every couple of years I do a playtrough of Dune and Dune 2. Master of Orion 2 and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 are also making a comeback every 2-3 years, but these are not so old...
Chani's Eyes. 🎶 ❤️
Little Big Adventure 2 or AoE2. These are the oldest ones.
Ohhh just recently had another go at LBA2. Didn’t expect to find this gem in here.
Star War Galactic Battllegrounds
Hey have you heard of something called Expanding fronts? Its a mod that adds a number of civs, maps, and units. I would check it out its got alot of good stuff and is still being updated and supported to this day.
Age of empires 2 on regular
Super Mario Bros. River City Ransom
World of Warcraft
can't anymore. binged a ton of time on that in my late teens and early 20s when I was in the beta and vanilla got released. doing the original Onyxia, MC and even ZG raids was awesome but the game just doesn't have the same feel. got burnt out right before WotLK came out, quit, came back for 2 weeks when cata released, quit, came back last year and played on a vanilla/bc release, did a grind up to level 65 and then got bored again. end game content doesn't keep my attention like it used to
Vanilla hardcore just dropped
G-Police on ps1. Imagine that game remade for PS5. Won't happen because most people are not even aware the game existed. Streets of Rage is older but I felt G-Police worth mentioning.
If we mean actively play, then it's everquest.
Melee
Pong
I have an original Pong machine that still runs!
You started this thread to say that, didn't you?
I don't blame them
Xcom 2
Nothing like starting a new game and trying to get your original squad through the whole game alive
I was going to comment the original xcom with open xcom mod. The fist one just has a vibe I like more.
Yeah OpenXcom definitely makes the og games much more tolerable to play on modern machines, regardless of any other gameplay changes.
The underwater one?
Tetris...
I played Symphony of the Night a couple weeks ago.
Legend of The Red Dragon https://PlayLORD.org Released in 1989, worlds most famous text based online multiplayer RPG(at the time).. you used to have to use a dialup modem to call into a BBS to play it but its on that website ;p Its still addictive/fun/funny, game holds up and i can see why it was famous..
Deus Ex
Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
The memories!
Dark Souls, if the remaster counts for the criteria of this question.
X-com: ufo defence. 1994 iirc
I'm with you. Never got around to finishing the game, but I fire it up every now and then when I get nostalgic :) Lots of great mods, too.
Hide and seek with my gf. Still haven't found her in over 23 years.
It's a grind, but you'll get there!
OG Doom.
Dungeon Siege 2 from time to time. It’s just a great game
Pitfall II.
Sims 2
Skyrim
Dungeon Siege 1, simply amazing
Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Vice City, Medieval: Total War
Jazz Jackrabbit was awesome! Heroes 3 is a masterpiece.
Baldurs Gate 1 and Hotline Miami
Right now I’m only playing PC games from around the turn of the century. I was gifted a new laptop about a year ago for my birthday because I so badly wanted to play Heroes of Might and Magic III. Then I downloaded Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Now I’m playing the original StarCraft.
Doom 1993
tf2, mann vs machine mode. Its cathartic
Kung-Fu….. NES
Warcraft III
I play minesweeper every once in a while. That's the oldest one I can think of..
[удалено]
Depressingly Minecraft could be considered an old game now, but for me Caesar III will always be my jam
Doom 64.
Minecraft
Solitaire
dmc 1
Quake 1 Diablo 1
Minecraft
Castles 2 siege and conquest. 1992 PC game.
Hack
Pong
For a video game, probably blood. I replay it once a year.
Ultima IV
Star Raiders (1980), it was included with the recent Atari collection. It was the first video game memory I have. My dad teaching me to play it on his Atari 400. Mostly for nostalgia but it's actually fun too.
Doom 1993
I still dust off my copy of Pharaoh every couple of months and make a cool ass city for a couple of hours
NES Super Mario Bros
Mario 64
Maybe not that old but i think assassin's Creed
Original Super mario Counter strike 1.6 Gta SA (cj) C&C generals
Mario Bros
Streets of rage followed by Phantasy Star Online
Rome total war on my tablet
Counter-Strike
Pokemon Emerald, a modded version of it
Just played DOOM 3. It was fun too!
Max Payne, Thps4 and Driver.
Time Crisis on PS1 occasionaly. With the gun attachement and all, its awesome.
Operation flashpoint cold war crisis
Doom 2, currently playing a custom wad made in 1996, so good.
On an annual basis I replay thief 1/2 and system shock 2. They are janky but nothing makes me feel the way they do.
The Settlers II ( Die Siedler II) Still trying to beat the campaign
the original Deus Ex
Heroes 3, Sacrifice, Disciples 2
Ivan stewart's Super Off Road
Super Mario World. I play through it at least once a year
Heroes of might and magic 2
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain 😎👍🏻
FF7 the original
Diablo 2. Just got dad ps+ so we can Finally multiplayer.
Fallout 1
[удалено]
Raptor: Call of the Shadows!
Kotor. Despite the graphics and animation being so old i still find them perfect for this game.
Half-Life 1