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Are they the 'epics' of their time, or some things that are less well known?

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[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 1 points 40 minutes ago

Quite a bunch, but the ones I come more often to my mind (and that are not DS titles, if not it would be Jump Ultimate Stars, Metroid Prime Hunters or Mario Kart DS) are:

Jackie Chan Stutmaster and Toy Story 2, both PS1 games (among other PS1 titles).

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

Still playing Call of Duty: United Offensive multiplayer on PC nearly every day

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm midway through Oblivion Remastered and holy shit is inner 20s me ever happy about this raytracing thing

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Final Fantasy 6 but, back in my day, it was called Final Fantasy 3.

[–] So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Morrowind, Shenmue, Earthbound, all the the Mega Mans, Starcraft

[–] Coelacanth@aggregatet.org 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm interested in trying Shenmue after it was (to me rather surprisingly) awarded the "Most Influential Game of All Time" award by BAFTA.

How do you play it there's days? Physical Dreamcast? Can you play it on PC? Emulator?

[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

Rayman's saga Especially Rayman 3 and Rayman 2, I am so excited for the upcomming fan-remake Rayman 2: Redreamed

[–] bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml 15 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I still love all of the 90s FPS games like Doom and Quake.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

Half-Life 1 was the peak of this genre for me

[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Same. The rise of the boomer shooter was fun but you can't beat OG.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Have you tried playing on a lower difficulty level?

[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I love you.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Age of Mythology too <3

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Master of Orion.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I played lightbike a variation of armagetron (that imo was honestly superior, it had jumping, boosting, maps that took advantage of that, skins back when they were cheap) but I still play armagettron on ocassion, agains the ai for the most part. Loved that ipod game. I wish it was still popular, think they got scared of licensing disputes with disney and a bit greedy with the microtransactions towards the end, started to effect gameplay through boosts.

I wish some of the changes like jumping and maps that were more than just one grid made it over to armagettron or another pc version but those stayed simple sadly.

I would eat up a modern cross platform tron lightbike game with maps like the ipodgame, jumping, boosts, etc. and cosmetics like rocketleague as long as they don't give you a leg up. It would be all I play.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Half-Life 1 (and expansions)

SimCity 3000, SimCity 4

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

Deus Ex

Zoo Tycoon

Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail

Morrowind

Industry Giant 2

Fallout 1/2

Arcanum

SimTower

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[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Fallout 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9, Elite

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I still play through The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at least a couple times a year though it's usually with the randomizer these days. It is objectively the best video game ever made, which helps.

[–] HorseFD@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What do you think of the other Zeldas in the same style, like Link’s Awakening, the Oracle games or Minnish Cap?

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

All good to great games that build on the foundation set by ALttP. I'd gladly play any of them if you put it in front of me but nostalgia demands that I push the one I played when I was like 9 years old or whatever.

[–] GentlePulpy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Worms Armageddon

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

HOMM3 is like a warm blanket when you're sick and tired.

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Worms Armageddon was a classic

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Half-Life 1

One mod specifically (Sven-Coop). Been playing almost daily since 1999.

I still fire up Duke 3d and Quake mods from time to time as well. There are lifetimes of user-made content in some of these older games.

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 14 hours ago

Does chess count?

Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

The Pokemon games on all of Nintendo's handheld consoles emulate really cleanly on a smartphone.

I'm a sucker for the Gen 1 nostalgia every now and then.

[–] picnicolas@slrpnk.net 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Quest for Glory series! Betrayal at Krondor

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeeeeah! I haven’t played these in forever but Hero’s Quest was my first Sierra adventure and holy shit was it magic. And Krondor - Raymond freakin Feist writing games!!

Both absolutely epic! Although in my case we’d be playing fast and loose with the term “youth” this was stuff I played after college but still.

[–] picnicolas@slrpnk.net 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Love to hear it! I read and reread Feist’s whole series as a kid, I remember always being so excited when a new book came out. I cut my teeth learning to read novels on Magician in 3rd grade!

You’ll be interested to learn that Feist didn’t write anything for the game, he just licensed the world and the characters. Neal Hallford wrote the story and dialogue which were brilliant, and Feist later adapted the story into a novel.

I just replayed QfG 1-3 last week on a family vacation and the magic is still strong. Something about these games ignite mythic perspectives in me that nothing else seems to.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 29 minutes ago

Wow. Ok so regarding Feist I was only ever able to get through Magician Apprentice and Master. Reading issues, not important. But I didn’t know he was really not involved. Did be base Serpent War or Rift War saga on the game? Don’t remember what was what this many years later.

I have been thinking of getting my ass in gear and setting up a retro system. I have several units just waiting to be configured it’s just other stuff always taking priority.

So would a Pentium machine let’s say either with DOS/3.11 be good or maybe Win 95. I think maybe I’ll setup one of each since I have a few units available. This way I can play some things that need one and other stuff that is better with the other. I recall Crusader: No Remorse, and Crusader: No Regret won’t run on '95 but it will reboot into DOS mode for it lol. There are quite a few other games I’m eager to play again.

Oddly I’ve found that some stuff is ok under emulation but for whatever reasons - speculatively I’d say access to hardware via real-mode drivers that the abstraction layer in NT and forward prohibits - even the best systems like VMWare and VirtualBox seem to not handle more sophisticated game engines, only the simpler stuff. I imagine maybe it can be made to work better with tweaking and supplementary tools but after all the work that requires to get it to cooperate I think just having a real system with older hardware is probably just easier and more reliable.

I want to play the graphical Zork games again, Return to Zork, Zork: Nemesis and Zork: Grand Inquisitor. Those were so much fun. Nemesis was a huge departure from the Zorkverse it was probably a shelved project in need of an easily marketable title? I dunno but Activision et al did an awesome job with it. I tried it not long ago on my Linux laptop and even with tools like PlayOnLinux/WINE, the animation was far too fast and rendered it not controllable.

There’s so much more stuff I would love to dive into again. Lands of Lore, some more of the Sierra titles like King’s Quest, Space Quest, Gabriel Knight, just all their stuff. Between Sierra, Apogee, Activision, Interplay and a few others, the landscape of 1990s gaming is an absolute treasure!

Wow I have really rambled! If you made it all the way here thanks for patiently reading my verbosity.

[–] TheBluePillock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

If you like QfG, you might be interested in Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok on Steam. It was released for free and I imagine that hasn't changed. But I still ended up donating because I enjoyed it so much.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Rogue, Hack, Nethack. Basically nethack, but it built on those before it. Occaisonally Larn. Amiga Larn.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Angband was my jam for a while, and of course that parlayed directly into Dwarf Fortress

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

They're all well-known: Pac-Man (first game I ever played), Super Mario games, Metroid games. Anything past SNES I feel like I was too old to consider it my "youth."

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I didn't have video games in my youth, so I'm just catching up now.

[–] makatwork@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

Tales of Maj'Eyal; all the old scumm games, daggerfall, toejam & earl.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

If I could I'd still be playing wow but it's just not the same without the plentiful free time for it.

[–] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Ascension is the best. Look it up. Free to play and offers a better classic experience with a cool twist

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Private servers with boosted rates can scratch that itch while severely reducing the grind. Every couple years I'll poke my head into one, level to endgame in like a week, do some raids, do some PVP, then completely forget it exists. Couple years later, rinse and repeat.

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[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

DOOM.
The old game got way better when they open sourced it and Quake 3d code was backported to make zDOOM. Its one of the largest modding communities that has ever existed. If you want to see what it can do, try Brutal Doom. That same engine is behind a new release called Selaco.

Serious Sam.
The first one. The demo is fine. Start off with a pistol. Its pretty easy to die at first, even if you know the game. I think that's why I keep opening it, I know it really well, and it still catches me.

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