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Soul Reaver posted:Master of Magic remains my favorite Master of Magic clone.  MoM is installed on every computer I own. It helps that it runs on basically any hardware. Also, I frequently replay wing commander: privateer. It's as close as I'll ever get to the
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Quake, and Painkiller (now that PK is over 15 years old I suppose it counts, right?)
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weed cat posted:Quake, and Painkiller (now that PK is over 15 years old I suppose it counts, right?) Painkiller definitely counts and is up there for me too. I love Painkiller (there's a gun that fires shuriken and lightning, what's not to love)
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If you were able to buy the game at a CompUSA it qualifies as retro. I already responded in the thread, but I was thinking about how I always go back to the original Sonic the Hedgehog every year or 2 to try and beat it for real, then always give up part of the way through. Last time I think I gave up on the Robotnik boss where you're chasing him as the level filled up with water. Then I watched a speedrun and realized you just need to make your way through the passage and then the actual fight starts. I was so concerned with killing him in the first section I never thought about just chasing him.
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FanaticalMilk posted:Last time I think I gave up on the Robotnik boss where you're chasing him as the level filled up with water. Then I watched a speedrun and realized you just need to make your way through the passage and then the actual fight starts. I was so concerned with killing him in the first section I never thought about just chasing him. Oh god that loving boss  My last revisit to Sonic 1 I actually cleared it without getting my feet wet and I'm still smug about it years later. I haven't replayed it since and it might be because I don't want to tarnish the memory of finally crushing the sequence flat.
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Going through Donkey Kong Country on the SNES. Still a good game after all these years, even if the sprites and hitbox sizes don't match up all the time. Also dabbling with some Super Mario Advance 2 simply because it lets you play as Luigi (complete with floaty SMB2-style jumps), instead of what is literally just a green Mario.FanaticalMilk posted:If you were able to buy the game at a CompUSA it qualifies as retro. ManxomeBromide posted:Oh god that loving boss  That boss is a POS though, if it can even be called a boss.
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River City Ransom, it's stood alone as my favorite game for basically my entire life.
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Zerilan posted:River City Ransom, it's stood alone as my favorite game for basically my entire life. I can understand that "they are clowns, but they are very strong"
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Zerilan posted:River City Ransom, it's stood alone as my favorite game for basically my entire life. BARF!
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Dodonpachi will always be near and dear to me. Favourite shmup since 1995. That scoring system is so addictive.
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System Shock. I love the world, the feel of the environments, the weird physics, the soundtrack, I'm even one of those freaks that plays with the original '94 controls AND I like the cyberspace sections. It's remained insanely engrossing and fun to me for 20 years now. It's just perfectly paced and I know it so well that playing casually I can beat it in about 2 hours and 45 minutes, so it's like sitting back and rewatching a nonexistent cyberpunk Die Hard.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:System Shock. I love the world, the feel of the environments, the weird physics, the soundtrack, I'm even one of those freaks that plays with the original '94 controls AND I like the cyberspace sections. It's remained insanely engrossing and fun to me for 20 years now. It's just perfectly paced and I know it so well that playing casually I can beat it in about 2 hours and 45 minutes, so it's like sitting back and rewatching a nonexistent cyberpunk Die Hard.
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I really hope that that System Shock remake actually gets released. Even back in the day, the controls kept me from getting into the game. I really want to play a version with good controls; SS2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Since then I've had to make do with spiritual sequels like Dead Space and Prey. Both are excellent games (Prey became another one of my favorite games; I need to play it again soon.) but it's just not the same.
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...! posted:I really hope that that System Shock remake actually gets released. Even back in the day, the controls kept me from getting into the game. I really want to play a version with good controls; SS2 is one of my favorite games of all time. You think dead space is a spiritual sequel? Maybe to ss2 and dos doom both
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...! posted:I really hope that that System Shock remake actually gets released. Even back in the day, the controls kept me from getting into the game. I really want to play a version with good controls; SS2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Please tell me you've played Deus Ex. If you haven't you should, it's probably THE spiritual successor to System Shock 2. Also BioShock.
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Is there a sound card on which the System Shock music tracks don't sound so darn goofy?
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I'm always drawn back to old RTS stuff, by which I mean C&C:TD, C&C:RA and AoE II. By far and away co-op is more enjoyable to me, because you can just fool around and try stupid poo poo freely while getting more and more drunk as the night goes on, and battles last more than 10 minutes. Sadly TD doesn't have a true skirmish mode, and the AI is pretty easy to exploit in multiplayer (always targeting the northernmost enemy units) meaning that even a "No Bases" match turns into a game of simply slapping a few of our own infantry into a north corner and arranging our tanks into a corridor setup, then just obliterating the dumb AI units as they slowly approach in what is almost a single-file formation. Oh well. At least there are several hundred custom SP missions to screw around with. Red Alert is my go-to when it comes to RTS. It's fast, it's brutal, and it's loving addictive. The AI is incredibly basic but can (and will) overwhelm by sheer weight of numbers if the mapsize and ingame resources allow it, thanks to just throwing out units from each individual production structure (which human players can't do; we just get some piddling build speed bonus per additional structure). I've never been a fan (in fact I outright hate) the online PvP meta/rules where it's just some lovely infinite money map and uncapped build speed, so it's usually me and a couple of mates against 5 AI with the Aftermath ruleset. For a game approaching it's 25th anniversary, the AI with these settings can still put up quite a fight on the larger maps (or at least it can until it does something monumentally loving stupid with the base building logic and boxes itself in). If anyone here feels like seeing what the fuss is about (or just wants some nostalgia), then both games are free to download here along with CnCNet to play online. As for AoE II, I'll be the first to admit that I'm pretty loving terrible at this but then I've always played comp-stomps with equally-terrible buddies, and the sad truth is that unlike RA we've actually managed to get even worse as time's moved on; the addition of a treaty period in AoE II HD (and by extension the recently-released Definitive Edition) has caused us all to get laughably complacent and lazy in the early game, because there's no immediate threat to our lovely villages. On the other hand, it has also allowed for some magnificent fights once everything actually kicks off and everyone has ~200 military units, all going at it the moment the treaty expires.
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i've put so many hours into the recent AoE2 expansions. i am not big on multiplayer either but dig the campaigns. some of the new ones are pretty rough but it makes for a nice challenge trying to get through them as an unoptimal player
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In addition to many games already posted itt I still replay Master of Orion 2 occasionally
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Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield - ubisoft shut down the multiplayer servers, but there is still an active (but small) community. Also a very chill community, that mostly plays humans vs computer coop. Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix - it's not a great game, but it's still pretty fun and I keep playing it over and over. Lugaru - martial arts game where you're a rabbit - if the gameplay weren't so fun I would probably not go to bat for something furries probably love.
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The Mass Effect series. The suicide mission is one of the best sequences in gaming
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Julius CSAR posted:The Mass Effect series. The suicide mission is one of the best sequences in gaming I love the first two, even with the janky combat and byzantine inventory management of the first one. For the third one, the multiplayer was so good that I never bothered getting more than 20% into the campaign. I think I gave up on it when I ran into that Mary Sue anime ninja villain.
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Filthy Hans posted:I love the first two, even with the janky combat and byzantine inventory management of the first one. For the third one, the multiplayer was so good that I never bothered getting more than 20% into the campaign. I think I gave up on it when I ran into that Mary Sue anime ninja villain. Yeah, I played the hell out of the multiplayer. Last year I discovered the mod community for Mass Effect, and ended up playing through the series again....until around about when I murdered said Mary Sue anime ninja (multiplayer note: holy poo poo dude, you were a vanguard slayer and you still suck this much?!?) , then the sheer badness of the main campaign made me quit. The second game especially is still awesome, about the most satisfying end I've seen in a game. I also still really like the first one's exploring dynamic. Makes me wish the game had done more with properly alien environments. e: I've been watching the new Star Treks, first Discovery and now Picard. Both have Mass Effect influences (right down to a scene at the end of Discovery where it's like the protagonist did all the character side quests and is getting the happy ending) but Picard is perhaps the more obvious and surprising one. I won't spoil it but you remember the messed up reaper warning message from the first ME? There's a plot element that uses that, right down to the same visual presentation. Picard is making much more intelligent use of it and AFAIK robot space squid are not involved, but still. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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the first Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon game has been entertaining me off and on for like, 16 years at this point. The AI is frustratingly good; they can whip around and dome you from nearly beyond the draw distance - but it's still fun. I'm excited to try a mod called Heroes Unleashed that's been one guy's labor of love for like 15 years and recently got out of beta into v 1.00
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I have a hankering to replay Streets of Rage 2, but it's on my PS3 which I gave to my sister so she could stream Netflix goddammit
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Without fail, every year at some point I get the craving for some Tony Hawk games. I'll play 2, 3, 4 or THUG. A few weeks ago the craving hit and I had to run through THSP3 a few times as well as THUG since I haven't really replayed that one as much as the others. Dreaming of a day when we get a proper new THPS game again
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I went and played Freespace 1 + 2 again. This time I have a joystick with a giant throttle lever and feel bad rear end.
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K-Flow posted:Without fail, every year at some point I get the craving for some Tony Hawk games. I'll play 2, 3, 4 or THUG. A few weeks ago the craving hit and I had to run through THSP3 a few times as well as THUG since I haven't really replayed that one as much as the others. Dreaming of a day when we get a proper new THPS game again So did any of the Tony Hawk games get some sort of nod to injury? Because when I was living with some people in university the dreamcast version made us laugh uproariously every time somebody fell 40-50 ft onto solid concrete
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Nebakenezzer posted:So did any of the Tony Hawk games get some sort of nod to injury? There was a simulation mode in, I wanna say the second game, where gravity works as normal and you can't do crazy tricks or combos, in fact a simple kickflip is hard enough to pull off. There was also a blood cheat/option, both of those made the game pretty realistic.
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It would be seriously cool if there was a conflation of the Tony Hawk games and Burnout 3: Takedown where one of your spectacular bails would rack up a medical bill like crash mode. They did this in Saint’s Row, but it would’ve been awesome in the Tony Hawk series.
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:It would be seriously cool if there was a conflation of the Tony Hawk games and Burnout 3: Takedown where one of your spectacular bails would rack up a medical bill like crash mode. A Tony Hawk game where repeated medical bills affecting your career cash total would be a pretty interesting concept. A bit like Road Rash where wrecking your bike would take a serious chunk of your money.
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Dell_Zincht posted:A Tony Hawk game where repeated medical bills affecting your career cash total would be a pretty interesting concept. The start of the game would be pretty heckin brutal as you grind for sponsorships to pay for your insurance.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So did any of the Tony Hawk games get some sort of nod to injury? Just imagining a Tony Hawk game where like 80% of failed stunts end with a Dark Souls "You Died" fade-to-black.
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Super Monkey Ball, Pocky and Rocky, Super Metroid, Super Mario 64, Panel de Pon.
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I replay Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger every two years or so. I still think FF6's plot is one of the best stories video games has told -- it has its duff moments, but I've not really played anything - bar FF7 - that really captured the vibe of being a desperate resistance fighter but still had a decent air of hope and optimism. And the fakeout at the ending of the World of Balance, and the translation from following a pre-planned plot to freely wandering a ruined world and trying to get the band back together, is one of my all-time favourite moments in gaming.
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Whybird posted:I replay Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger every two years or so. I still think FF6's plot is one of the best stories video games has told -- it has its duff moments, but I've not really played anything - bar FF7 - that really captured the vibe of being a desperate resistance fighter but still had a decent air of hope and optimism. And the fakeout at the ending of the World of Balance, and the translation from following a pre-planned plot to freely wandering a ruined world and trying to get the band back together, is one of my all-time favourite moments in gaming. Getting the airship in the WoR is probably one of the biggest turning-point moments in gaming plots. You go into the dungeon with the regular bleak end of the world music with finally a full party, but things still aren't so great. And then after the dungeon, Searching for Friends starts up and replaces the world theme, as the Falcon crests from the water and enters the sky. The first optimistic thing that happens since the world gets ruined.
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i replay gta san andreas' story every year or two. i've 100%ed it twice and probably never will again, but the main story missions are packed with variety and it has the most fun map to screw around in of the whole series. it's also the last mainline gta game where the story wasn't just hours and hours of mind-numbing misanthropic bullshit about men yelling at their wives
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Weedle posted:i replay gta san andreas' story every year or two. i've 100%ed it twice and probably never will again, but the main story missions are packed with variety and it has the most fun map to screw around in of the whole series. it's also the last mainline gta game where the story wasn't just hours and hours of mind-numbing misanthropic bullshit about men yelling at their wives Reminds me of when I was playing Grand Theft Auto San Andreas at a friend's place and I impressed everyone by managing to find The Most Boring Place in the game. I can't remember where it was but it was just a huge-rear end stretch of Nothing.
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