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I still love all of the 90s FPS games like Doom and Quake.
Same. The rise of the boomer shooter was fun but you can't beat OG.
Have you tried playing on a lower difficulty level?
I love you.
I’ll let my wife know that someone finally does!
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.
Master of Orion.
MOO2
Yoshis island
Super mario world
DKC 1, 2 & 3
Pokemon gen 1&2
Banjo kazooie & tooiee
TLoZ A link to the Past, Ocarina of time & Majoras mask
Warcraft 3 + frozen throne
Command & conquer 2 + yuris revenge
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.
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.
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.
I got back into doom in the last few years and there's a huge number of amazing maps people have made over the years you can play for free. I had no idea about the total conversion wads, where it doesn't even feel like doom because everything has been changed.
If anyone's looking for a good place to start you can check out the yearly cacoward winners
My_House.wad has been making the rounds on YouTube semi-recently as an example of the sort of fuckery that has been made possible by the progression of doom modding.
If you're not familiar with it, do yourself a favor and go in blind for an hour or so and then only look up a video when you're stuck.
I've played a bit but haven't had enough time to really get into it. Did you see Romero playing it when it first blew up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIl_TqFJNO8
I just checked for the vid I saw and looks like he's got another one playing it from a couple months ago as well.
Every time Final Fantasy Tactics comes out again, I’m all over it.
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.
Final Fantasy 6 but, back in my day, it was called Final Fantasy 3.
Age of Empires
Super Nintendo:
- Megaman X. I was never a fan of classic Megaman, but the faster, more action-oriented sequel/spinoff X series rates amongst my favorites. It has tight controls, good music, varied stages, and memorable bosses and combat encounters. I must have beaten the first game dozens of times over the years.
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It and Link's Awakening on the Game Boy were so close to perfect that decades later they're still the basis of comparison for any new 2D Zelda-like.
PC:
- Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. it was the game that introduced Bioware's trademark party banter and focus on interesting and likeable characters. The systems are a little rough but it still mostly holds up. Though it's been a while since my last playthrough, and I usually stop once I hit the Underdark and the open world structure constricts for a few hours.
The music in the SNES Megaman X series is magic.
There are a lot of great mods for BG2 as well to keep the game feeling fresh. Even moreso if you don't mind adding some fanfiction material, though I typically don't.
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
Great list. I think I will replay about half your list at some point over the coming years. And might first time play Love For Sail as well.
Fallout 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9, Elite
Syndicate Wars. I honestly haven't seen anyone emulate that gameplay as well as SW did it since then.
Rayman's saga Especially Rayman 3 and Rayman 2, I am so excited for the upcomming fan-remake Rayman 2: Redreamed
Currently replaying the Sly Cooper series, it will always be a favorite of mine
I sunk hours into NetHack, and I still occasionally dive into the dungeons. I also have a NES emulator on my phone, but it's just not the same. I'll play Zelda or Metroid for the nostalgia, but it's not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.
Less Pokémon here than I thought there would be, though it does make a showing. I do gen 2 and 3 now and again. Gen 1, I think I've wrung out completely, and gen 4+ (DS and onward) just doesn't emulate as cleanly in my experience.
And I guess I'm approaching my 2nd decade of still playing certain MUDs: Achaea/Aetolia, Discworld, Lost Souls.
I don't really game much these days, though; certainly not like I used to.
Does chess count?
Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.
If I could I'd still be playing wow but it's just not the same without the plentiful free time for it.
Ascension is the best. Look it up. Free to play and offers a better classic experience with a cool twist
My DnD DM talked about this constantly for like a year straight, so I haven't played it but I can vouch for it being a good time for old wowheads.
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.
The original Legend of Zelda. I still have it on cartridge and every once in a while I'll just steamroll the entire game and whoop Ganon's ass. I can usually do it in about 4 hours.
I don't use any glitches or speedrun optimizations, I just know where everything is and what order to do things in.
I had a small binder full of hand drawn maps of both overworlds and all the dungeons. I wish i still had that. It got pretty ragged from many friends borrowing it. What a great unlocked memory from my childhood.
Best way to play this these days? I have a disk from the early 2000s, but iirc the last time I tried to use it, it just prompted an update that led to a blizzard launcher... idr if it wanted me to buy a new digital copy or what, but I ultimately decided it was more work than it's worth and gave up.
...these days I don't think I even have a CD drive lol.
All their games launch through their "Battle.net Launcher" now. It's not the same as Battle.net was back then. I play on Linux via Lutris (add Battle.net launcher to Lutris).
I think if you have your cdkey on there you can sync up for a digital copy on their website. Same account needed for the launcher. It's all annoying, but that's how it works now. Plays flawlessly though.
Apparently the original game and Brood War expansion are free to install through the Battle.Net launcher these days.
If you have the original discs, the later official patches added the ability to copy the "mpq" files from the CD into the game's directory, so you no longer need the disc in the drive. Of course, you're still going to need a drive for the initial installation. That should work for single player (it's been a few years since I last did it) but I don't know about online multiplayer.
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