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The entire Diablo series, original Starcraft, and Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES. Also old 2d fighters like Street Fighter 2 are still fun to play. I was so happy when the original Diablo went up on GOG so it finally made it easy to play on modern systems. No games play close to Diablo or Diablo II. I love everything about them from the instruction books, music, and it is one of the few games I always enjoyed listening to the NPCs.
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ToxicToast posted:The entire Diablo series, original Starcraft, and Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES. Also old 2d fighters like Street Fighter 2 are still fun to play. I was so happy when the original Diablo went up on GOG so it finally made it easy to play on modern systems. No games play close to Diablo or Diablo II. I love everything about them from the instruction books, music, and it is one of the few games I always enjoyed listening to the NPCs. The Tchernobog mod for Diablo adds all sorts of wondrous stuff but holy loving hell does the difficulty go right up: https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/download
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I always go back to A Link to the Past. I love the game. I know it's dated, but I can't seem to NOT ever enjoy it. I love the game to bits. I've been contemplating trying to mix it up and play the randomizer that seems to be popular. That or speedrun it. I haven't gone forward with trying either, yet.
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ZIO posted:I always go back to A Link to the Past. I love the game. I know it's dated, but I can't seem to NOT ever enjoy it. I love the game to bits. Randomizers are super fun; for anyone that has a favorite Zelda, Metroid, or similar type game, I highly recommend checking out the corresponding randomizer.
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Turtles in time.
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I've been playing the remastered Baldur's Gate 2. It's very good at pacing itself so there's several (but not **too** many) things going on. I also now realize that it understands its players very well, and is good at using that knowledge to throw interesting plot developments the player's way. For example, there's a quest that starts when one of your player characters gets a nasty curse thrown on them, but this curse happens when you walk into a inn that is positioned perfectly to be a rest stop after a long day of adventuring. I still don't have my party quite sorted. There are two characters I've never had in my party, but jaheria keep guilting me when I try to kick her out
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I left Jaheira and Minsc in the opening dungeon, which was the easiest way to deal with the guilt trips. Plus they are still available in Throne of Bhaal so clearly they do not die down there, win/win It does help to create your own party if you are going to do that, though, which I do not remember being an option in the non-enhanced version but I imagine it might have been (beyond a one-player multiplayer game anyway)
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This thread is full of recs I treasure
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You could create your own party, but it was a slight bit of work as you were essentially playing a multiplater mode single player. The Enhanced edition adds options to do this painlessly.
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If there is one retro game I come back to time and time again it's X-COM UFO Defense. With openxcom fixing most of it's bugs I absolutely love to play it and stream it for my friends. It thinks of so much poo poo that the modern XCOM games don't for some reason like skill training, fatal wounds, and even dumb poo poo like smoke inhalation. I also love that it lets you build a loadout from the ground up, you can run a dude in with just a pistol and a sack of grenades if you want to, you can run all rocketeers if you want and still wreck shop (no Exercise Restraint either, unless you literally grenade the poo poo while its on the ground). I love this game so much and I hope XCOM 3 gives you as much freedom this game gives you with it's map destruction and base building.
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Pretty much anything from the SNES. Earthbound, Zelda LTTP, F-Zero, and Super Metroid in particular. I will never forget the day I got an SNES for my birthday and then a bunch of games for it on christmas. Still one of my favorite game consoles of all time. For computer games it's classic FPS games like Doom, Quake, Duke3D, and Unreal Tournament. I pretty much install UT '99 and UT2004 on every new computer I acquire. Perfect wait for poo poo to download on my slow rear end internet games. I also replay Fallout New Vegas alot as well.
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Heather Papps posted:Turtles in time. I really liked the art style of this game. It was a very fun co-op title.
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I said come in! posted:I really liked the art style of this game. It was a very fun co-op title. It's a good, fun beat-em-up, and it gets a huge nostalgia boost because, more than any game I can think of, it absolutely feels like you are playing an episode of the cartoon. It looks like the show, it sounds like the show, and it's simple, stupid fun like the show.
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AppleDan posted:If there is one retro game I come back to time and time again it's X-COM UFO Defense. With openxcom fixing most of it's bugs I absolutely love to play it and stream it for my friends. It thinks of so much poo poo that the modern XCOM games don't for some reason like skill training, fatal wounds, and even dumb poo poo like smoke inhalation. I also love that it lets you build a loadout from the ground up, you can run a dude in with just a pistol and a sack of grenades if you want to, you can run all rocketeers if you want and still wreck shop (no Exercise Restraint either, unless you literally grenade the poo poo while its on the ground). I love this game so much and I hope XCOM 3 gives you as much freedom this game gives you with it's map destruction and base building.
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Payndz posted:I replayed the PS1 version on an emulator just last week, and even on the lowest difficulty, the very first mission saw half my team brutally murdered by aliens. Thaaaaaat's X-COM! How is the PS1 version, by the way?
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Payndz posted:I replayed the PS1 version on an emulator just last week, and even on the lowest difficulty, the very first mission saw half my team brutally murdered by aliens. Thaaaaaat's X-COM! I was just remembering on a 486 how long it took to save scum. You had to abandon the mission, which takes a while to go back to Geoscape, then reload which took forever.
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Every once in awhile I fire up Heroes of Might & Magic 3. I consider it timeless at this point considering how many polish people still play this thing and how Ubisoft can't make a better HOMM than 3DO/New World Computing.
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TheHoosier posted:How is the PS1 version, by the way? Looking forward to doing some proper save scumming - IIRC, it used an entire memory card to save one game!
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Payndz posted:IIRC, it used an entire memory card to save one game! And yeah, it was pretty comfy with a mouse.
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Payndz posted:A bit clunky if played with a controller, but it works okay once you get the hang of it. (I couldn't get the mouse option to work on my emulator.) There was a mouse for PlayStation released in Japan only.  and all but I may eventually pick it up since the list of compatible games is actually decent.
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Pierzak posted:Only during battles. A geoscape save took a mere 1 block I think. i bought a new PS mouse for like 10€ years and years ago and I don't have a single game that supports it  (I mean I'm not going to buy an X-Com or C&C game for the PS as I'm having enough fun playing them on a PC already. What else is there anyway? Discworld?) e: It wasn't Japan-only and there were/are 3rd-party ones anyway.
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TheHoosier posted:There was a mouse for PlayStation released in Japan only. (Note: PSX Transport Tycoon is poo poo)
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Pierzak posted:Wrong. I have a box with a PAL Transport Tycoon and a mouse sitting right next to me. My mistake, bad info.
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Fargin Icehole posted:Every once in awhile I fire up Heroes of Might & Magic 3. I consider it timeless at this point considering how many polish people still play this thing and how Ubisoft can't make a better HOMM than 3DO/New World Computing. i just reinstalled this!
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Kirby Super Star. It should be impossible for any game to be as much fun as this thing, I loving love it.
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Are all Kirby games so... easy? (At least in the beginning boards.) I think I've played two a bit and was surprised because I found myself having FUN with a Japanese side-scrolling action adventure computer video game, which just felt wrong somehow.
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Generally speaking they are pretty easy, but in a good way (i.e. they're not mind-numbingly easy to the point of being boring). They're just stupidly relaxing to have fun with.
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Kirby golf played against your brother is a high level competitive sport
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I always took Kirby games to be balanced difficulty wise towards the idea of never having a powerup even though you'd normally not play that way.
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Kirby games tend to be easy to beat but are harder to 100%. getting all the treasure in Great Cave Offensive for example
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Pierzak posted:Wrong. I have a box with a PAL Transport Tycoon and a mouse sitting right next to me. Yeah, I was going to say, if you played C&C on PS1 and didn't use a PS1 mouse.....what the gently caress? I believe there was an edition of the game released that actually came with a mouse, too. (if there wasn't then, well there should have been.)
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I always end up going back to SaGa Frontier. I've been playing it off and on forever. I've beaten all of the characters at some point in my life, but never all of them on the same save data. It's a mess of a game, and at best it's mostly finished (it was rushed out the door and some content was cut...) but it really gives you a ton of freedom. Every time I play it I still find new stuff I never noticed. I just started playing it again this last week. Thank god for shaders in RetroArch. It looks great with the right set up. It's a shame that most of the SaGa games that came later didn't have the same feel as Frontier did. Romancing SaGa wasn't that bad all considered though. Shortly behind this was PS1 Diablo.
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SaGa Frontier was a cool drat game and it had an amazing soundtrack. The whole thing just oozed style as well. Part of the charm for me was just how so weird / unfinished a lot of it was, which gave it a unique atmosphere.
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Same. I loved the hell out of SaGa Frontier 1 and 2.
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You know, SaGa Frontier 2 didn't "stick" for me. I dunno. I haven't gone back to it since it came out. "Part of the charm for me was just how so weird / unfinished a lot of it was" Yeah, it was part of it for sure. I love how odd it is. Nothing is really explained all that well, and you can just get straight wiped out if you aren't paying attention.
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Does Resident Evil 4 count as retro? Cause that's one I go back to once every couple of years, or once it gets a new port to the latest and greatest system, same with REmake. Other than that its probably Super Mario World.
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Dell_Zincht posted:Yeah, I was going to say, if you played C&C on PS1 and didn't use a PS1 mouse.....what the gently caress? gently caress, now I wanna go play C&C:RA. FanaticalMilk posted:Does Resident Evil 4 count as retro?
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Star Control 2 is it for me; it's easily my favorite game of all time. It's now available as open source freeware under the title "The Ur-Quan Masters" and has been ported to a ton of different OSes. I highly recommend checking it out! http://sc2.sourceforge.net
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...! posted:Star Control 2 is it for me; it's easily my favorite game of all time. I would like to add that what you probably want is the Ur-Quan Masters Megamod (http://megamod.serosis.net/Releases) It's the same thing as above, but comes with a bunch of sweet additional install options to let you tailor the experience how you like. Those options include a couple of (optional) voiceover mods (for the Syreen and Melnorme) that restore dialogue that was in the PC version but went missing from the normal Ur-Quan Masters release - dialogue that contains actual vital information that in one case you don't get anywhere else in-game and without which the game can only be finished either with random exploration or a guide. Full disclosure: I produced the voice mods, and recorded my own voice for the Melnorme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWt2wj7pFU8
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Dell_Zincht posted:Yeah, I was going to say, if you played C&C on PS1 and didn't use a PS1 mouse.....what the gently caress? I did, either plain C&C or Red Alert. It wasn't that bad, it had helpful shortcuts and everything. It still wasn't something you'd prefer to use if you had a mouse on hand.
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