Best old games.
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<div class="IPBDescription">You know, the classics.</div><!--quoteo(post=1674949:date=Apr 3 2008, 09:48 AM:name=sherpa)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sherpa @ Apr 3 2008, 09:48 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1674949"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->IMO, Steam is all about digging up not-so-old-but-forgotten classics like Hitman 2 and The Longest Journey.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I figured this deserved it's own thread.
I had heard of The Longest Journey before, but I bought it on Steam, and I've lost quite a bit of time playing it. It's like a really good book, in game form, and I was up until 4am last night playing it. The last time I checked my watch before that was midnight, and I had to be at work by 9am today.
Anyhoo... That's my example game, thanks sherpa. But what other games from yesteryear stand out to you? You know, the classics, that are so fun to play, or have such an innovative playstyle, or just a great story, that you use them to measure the quality of other games?
The quote was abut games released on Steam, but they don't have to be on steam.
I figured this deserved it's own thread.
I had heard of The Longest Journey before, but I bought it on Steam, and I've lost quite a bit of time playing it. It's like a really good book, in game form, and I was up until 4am last night playing it. The last time I checked my watch before that was midnight, and I had to be at work by 9am today.
Anyhoo... That's my example game, thanks sherpa. But what other games from yesteryear stand out to you? You know, the classics, that are so fun to play, or have such an innovative playstyle, or just a great story, that you use them to measure the quality of other games?
The quote was abut games released on Steam, but they don't have to be on steam.
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And to add to the list already here:
Zelda from SNES and above
Chronotrigger
Pokemon >insert yewel here<
Mario kart/64/world/bros 1-3
Sonic games
old school mutliplayer FPS {Action Half-Life
Forgotten Hope}
Full Throttle
Cannon Fodder
Meh probably more, but I'm going away now <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
and quake series
also some system shock 2 coop is still fun today, we should get a game going this week.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
yea you cant forget gta2, its free now also so that makes it even better!
crono trigger
deus ex
baldurs gate series
grim fandango
EA, you ######. You buried Bull Frog, but give me Theme Hospital, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, and uh Magic Carpet.
Oh, and Heroes of Might and Magic II
Consoles:
All of Mickey's Magical Quest, with Minnie and Donald thing
Captain Commando
Chrono Trigger and FFVI remake is also long overdue (FFIX style please, all hail Vivi).
Paratrooper
<img src="http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/ptrooper.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Prince of persia 1 & 2
<img src="http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/wp-content/uploads/prince_of_persia.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
F-15 STRIKE EAGLE
<img src="http://www.migman.com/pics/simhis/F15_2.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Castle
<img src="http://forevergeek.com/images/abandonware-castle.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Test Drive II
<img src="http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/385/Test%20Drive%20-%20Triple%20Pack_2.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
<img src="http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/atlantis.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Good times, *sniff*
System Shock 2
and
Stunts
I remember playing Stunts and bugging out the cars to make them go flying in the air. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
I'd gotten to the temple of atlantis, ferrying around cups of that power goo, when my mum unplugged the computer because I had to go to school. I raged <b>so hard</b>.
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
--Scythe--
Zelda I, II, A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time
Contra III
Metal Slug 3
FFVII
TES: Morrowind
Doom I/II
Duke Nukem 3D
Metal Gear: Solid
Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario 64
Tomb Raider
Panzer Dragoon
NiGHTS into Dreams
Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3
Chrono Trigger [my name, lollerwoofle]
Jet Set Radio
Street Fighter II/Alpha/III/Darkstalkers/MVC2/what have you (also Samurai Shodown, Fatal Fury; Guilty Gear, blah blah blah)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Gran Turismo
Theif
Deus Ex
Pokemon
Donkey Kong
Another World/Out of this World
Quake
Starcraft
King's Quest
Descent
Terminal Velocity
Delta Force
Outrun
Spy Hunter
Missile Command
Defender
Gauntlet
Rayman 2
Soul Calibur
Heavy Gear II
Kingdom Hearts
Super Smash Bros.
And a slew of other games which I can't quite recall at the moment, I'm sure...
Frontier: Elite 2
It Came from the Desert
Populous 2
Midwinter
Mega Lo Mania
Syndicate
Flash Back
Alien Breed
Super Cars
K240
Gods
Moonstone
Venus The Fly Trap
Cannon Fodder
Guess my age and the system from these games <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Spot on with the Amiga 500+, occasionally 1200. You win 5p off some sprouts.
Speaking about old games.
I'm trying to find a list of games that are like R-Type. Trying to find one that started with a T (Try..Tyr..something) that was a top view scroller (like Vader) and trying to find another one that was on the Sega/Game Gear and maybe even the PS1 that was a futuristic side scroller like R-type, but with non-late 80/s graphics haha.
I'm not talking about the ones where you have to be japanese or emulate the game in slow mode to beat it when it's insane type of games.
Firstly, the main character, April, is absolutely revolting. The developers apparently tried to appeal to sex-crazed teenagers when creating her, finding too many opportunities to show her off in underwear. The only memorable things she says are only made so because they're really goddamn annoying; overly sarcastic 'I-got-the-last-word' snide remarks, that make me want to stab myself in the urethra.
Other characters are nothing special either. The tree thing in the beggining is overly cliched, in the 'ancient and all-knowing snob' kind of way, and whatever charisma few other characters happen to have is ruined by voice acting. None of the dialog is funny, interesting or memorable.
Moving on to the interface and puzzles, neither of which bring anything new to the table in terms of, well, anything. In the first chapters of the game you have to bring a time-sheet to your employer in order to get money to pay for a subway ticket. After searching everywhere and asking everyone as to where it might be, I log on to gamefaqs for some help. A walkthrough guides me to the very beggining of the game to Aprils room, where on a table lays her diary. I examine the diary while its on the table, and April mocks me with a sardonic voice. 'It's my diary' she claims. Gamefaqs walkthrough says that the timesheet is folded away inside the diary, something which the game developers thought very obvious, and decided to let the player figure out completely on himself with not a single hint. From anywhere or anyone. Obviously each item must be examined twice, always. So ok I grab the timesheet from the diary and head over to my boss' place. I tell him I have the timesheet, but apparently he doesn't believe a snide teenager, so what I actually have to do, is open my inventory with RMB, grab the timesheet, close the inventory, and use it on the assmonger. All of this took way too many clicks and keystrokes, and I honestly don't see why the developers didn't make all that automated on initiating conversation.
Didn't mean to make the rant so long, but yeah, if you liked the game, please tell me why.
Oh, it's not from the early nineties? Well, I don't know then.
I don't see why it can't be judged by modern standards, since it's on sale now. And yeah, it's not THAT old. (Like, only a decade, right?)
Speaking about old games.
I'm trying to find a list of games that are like R-Type. Trying to find one that started with a T (Try..Tyr..something) that was a top view scroller (like Vader) and trying to find another one that was on the Sega/Game Gear and maybe even the PS1 that was a futuristic side scroller like R-type, but with non-late 80/s graphics haha.
I'm not talking about the ones where you have to be japanese or emulate the game in slow mode to beat it when it's insane type of games.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Tyrian.
Other games of that era/style:
RAPTOR: Call of the Shadows
Zone 66
Ikaruga
Gradius
Silkworm