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Elysarian Minmatar dudetruck corp	Posted - 2009.03.17 21:14:00 - [31] Manic miner... I still to this day occasionally install a Spectrum emulator to play that... and Rebelstar II as well (if you don't know the latter - think the Aliens movie in a turn-based strategy mode). PC games - I still play Civ II and would love to see a remake of the Syndicate series (as long as it's not turned into a bloody Tom Clancy type affair, a-la Rainbow 6, I hate squad games like that). Am I the only one that thinks that the guys who made the "Commando" games played a lot of Syndicate and got it wrong a bit with a WW2-style tribute? ===================================== It smells of spoon! =====================================
laotse Gallente The Flying Dutchmen	Posted - 2009.03.17 22:19:00 - [32] sacrifice homeworld hegemonia freelancer and shogun totalwar played most of them for a long time
Kadavreski Caldari Caldari State Inc.	Posted - 2009.03.17 23:41:00 - [33] I play the old PC-98 games from the touhou project. Yeah, I'm a nerd.
Coruntun	Posted - 2009.03.18 09:23:00 - [34] Great topic. I've been an avid gamer for years now, and I totally have the same want to go back to old games that just captured me. My first few games: Civilization.. Yeah what can I say, earth domination goodness, a game that i still have a copy of and will fire up from time to time. I spent years of my childhood with this game. A game with infinite replay ability and super simple graphics. Warcraft.. My first true RTS and i still remember killing that bastard medhiv or whatever his name was, that game really captured my imagination. X-wing vs Tie Fighter.. One hell of a simulation, i played it for years and got pretty damn good at it, even online. I miss it now as nobody seems to play it, and my copy of the game seems to have long disappeared. Starcraft.. What can I say a timeless classic, was a fun b.net game too, beware of the zerg. To me a good game has depth, and evolution. Graphics can suck as long as the game grabs my imagination and keeps it going. I'm a big wargame and simulation fan. It seems games now have more fluff that true substance. I remember my first time playing a game called Shining Force for sega, now i was a kid mind you, but the story caught me up, and I could feel the genuine emotions from the characters, and my hair would stand on end everytime a character would become possessed by the uber bad guy. Another great old school RPG, Lunar.. anyone ever play that? Great storyline and alot of really good movies and such, hard game to find now. Another game was XenoGear for PS1, that game was alot of epic fun. What happened to uber epic bosses that you really feared. Games today don't seem to have it like they used to. I could remember no matter how good you were or how much you prepared, you were in for a heck of a fight. True there are bosses in alot of games, but for whatever reason, i don't feel like i really need to dispatch them, kinda like there is no emotional connection. When i finish a game, i want to feel something, good, bad, whatever have you. And want to feel a sense of I WON YOU B**CH! As games continue on and get more graphically intense, i hope the developers and such remember why I play a game. And why i will continue to play. And just because you polished a piece of poo, and it's pretty and shiny, doesnt mean it isnt a piece of poo anymore.
HankMurphy Minmatar Pelennor Enterprises	Posted - 2009.03.18 09:51:00 - [35] At least once a month (sometimes once a week) my friend and I get together to play a game of Master of Orion 2 in hotseat mode. /have been doing so for the past 13 years //i always win ///old games 4tw ---------- "This is Chopper Dave's made for TV movie, Blades Of Vengeance. See, he's a chopper pilot by day, but by night he fights crime as a werewolf... YEAH!"
RedClaws Amarr Dragon's Rage Ethereal Dawn	Posted - 2009.03.18 10:44:00 - [36] Edited by: RedClaws on 18/03/2009 10:45:02 I've seen many of my favorites got listed already. Freespace 1 & 2 : Fun and the storyline. Diablo 2 : Awesome replayability by classes and "omg a gold item!!" Alien Legacy: Old unknown game I like very much because the storyline differs slightly each time. I'm still planning to do a remake of this one sometime. Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (or the new 5) Imperium Galactica 2 or Galactic Civilizations : Replayability because of the randomness of games. I used to play Diablo 2 and Heroes of Might and Magic with my brother so it gives the game some extra depth for me.
Alpha Prime Destructive Influence KenZoku	Posted - 2009.03.18 11:22:00 - [37] Homeworld 1-2: Because they rock, simple as that. Big messy spacefleetcombat drool Baldur's gate: Probably the game RPG ever released. And those Bladespiders still gives me the chills. Icewind Dale2: Keep comming back to this game. Always a blast breaking the game with 4 instead of 6 in party. Imperium Galactica 2 - Alliances: Building huge fleets. Designing my own ships, conquer worlds... Oveur 2006: We're going to make blobwarfare less effective. Oveur 2008: We're installing better code so players can bring bigger blobs.
ls pos Amarr	Posted - 2009.03.18 12:18:00 - [38] Commander Keen!! Was so damn young when i played it, liked to story behind it. And just explore new things. Really liked the underwater stuff. Oh and Carmageddon series (1st was best though), just brainlessly kill, kick, demolish stuff and pixelated people. Damn i really wasted alot of time on this game. Racing around with the big dumptruck, or get bumped by it and fly through the whole level. Awesome and hilarious. Ah and Worms armageddon, play with friends, so much fun in seeing how far u can explode a worm away.
Reiisha Evolution KenZoku	Posted - 2009.03.18 12:41:00 - [39] Edited by: Reiisha on 18/03/2009 12:41:52 MDK Best game ever. Keep going back to it every time. "If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all"
Jack Thurner SPECTRE Ops Veritas Immortalis	Posted - 2009.03.18 16:36:00 - [40] Edited by: Jack Thurner on 18/03/2009 16:39:21 Why? The games are _original_ and fun to play.. There's love in that list =) Settlers 1 & 2 - Logistics be yummeh! Transport Tycoon - Beep! Beep! Pizza Tycoon - Pizza and "black ops" mob-war, whats more to say? :P Dune II and C&C Age of Empires 1-2 - Countless of hours on building farms Baldurs Gate 2 (Ok, its not that old) - Best RPG I've played Day of the Tentacle - This game.. no words can describe it, its awesome! Kings Quest I-VII - <3

Corwain	Posted - 2009.03.18 16:40:00 - [41] Originally by: Jake Silence http://www.thangorodrim.net/variants.html Angband and variants. ASCII game nostalgia. I spent way too much time playing about 5 variants a long time ago. Holy crap, someone else mentioned it before I did! I didn't know we had any other *banders playing EVE. I loved V back in the day, then went through a Z phase, but nowadays if I'm playing an Angband variant I'm doing ToME. -- Distortion\| Distortion 2 Preview
Elora Danzik Caldari Idiots In Spaceships	Posted - 2009.03.18 18:34:00 - [42] Civilization (currently 4) I tend just fall in love with the new one and not look back (too often) Anything Total War. KOTOR I and II NWN through Hoards. Why keep coming back? Cause. Why do you watch say Family Guy or South Park or god the Simpsons? You like it. You find it entertaining for 1 - infinty hours. In my case with Civ, every game is different. Sometimes I prepare for with a certain nation but never go through with it. Other times I don't and get my ass handed to me 100 years later. Sometimes you just conquer everyone. Never Trust and Aztec who is not a vassel. I learn the basics, then try out different things each time. Its different everythime.
billybobbiill	Posted - 2009.03.18 19:27:00 - [43] dungeon keeper and dungeon keeper 2 these 2 games where fantastic and even though its been years since they where released no other game is anything like it to bad that ea took over bullfrog and killed the sequal. orginal ideas is why we go back to old games they had character, all we get now is copy and paste garbage.
DuffmanPeter Perpetua Umbra The Last Brigade	Posted - 2009.03.19 00:55:00 - [44] Super Metroid Super Mario RPG Tales of Phantasia Megaman X,X2,X3,X4 Sword of Mana (Seiken Desetsu, not the GBA remake) Diablo 2 All great games. Never gets old playing them. Also Megaman series along with super Metroid both have amazing soundtracks. Tales of Phantasia is just all out fun running from side to side on the screen jump-stabbing things. Super Mario RPG is a great RPG and is actually really funny. Sword of Mana is another top RPG. They all have great stories and Megaman X series has megaman with armor so you cant go wrong. Imply or Implode? There are many Duffman, don't tell the children... It's disillusioning! Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem!
Menkaure Amarr Vanitas Corp.	Posted - 2009.03.19 02:07:00 - [45] Monkey Island! The day they release any of them (3 was the best, imo) on steam I'm sure I'll cream my pants. :)
MotherMoon Huang Yinglong	Posted - 2009.03.19 02:55:00 - [46] B.A.T. all the way baby. Got to love that PC speaker music :)
Sicardae Bad'ia	Posted - 2009.03.19 07:15:00 - [47] run *,8,1 nuff said
Vina Caldari Destructive Influence KenZoku	Posted - 2009.03.19 08:08:00 - [48] it's a shame I don't really have any real screenshots of the game anymore. -----------------------------------
Wrayeth Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.03.19 09:29:00 - [49] Old games I still play: Baldur's Gate I & II + expansions KOTOR I and II Diablo I and II Master of Orion II Master of Magic Starcraft Heroes of Might and Magic III and IV Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries Aliens vs. Predator II (no relation to the movie, for those who've never played it) Star Wars: Jedi Knight, Jedi Academy For the roleplaying games, the reason I still play them is simple: great story and/or great gameplay. In roleplaying games the essence of the game is pretty much universal; you could massively reduce the graphical quality of a modern RPG and it would still be enjoyable (assuming it was enjoyable in the first place, that is). The same goes for the strategy games I listed above; each of them has unique aspects that make them eminently playable despite their age. Mechwarrior 4 is there because the entire Mechwarrior franchise was absolutely awesome, with gameplay elements you don't really find anywhere else. (I still have my copies of Mechwarrior 2 and Mechwarrior 3 though I can't/don't play them anymore. Also, the original creator of the franchise got the rights back, so we may FINALLY see a new Mechwarrior game for the PC sometime in the future. \o/) As to the last two games on that list, they're something of an anomaly. When it comes to FPS games, the graphics are often a deciding factor to me. When you're in first person view in an action-oriented environment (as opposed to a story/interaction-based or strategy-based environment), the graphics quality really has an effect. It helps add immersion and draws you deeper into the game, heightening your awareness of your in-game surroundings. This leads to much more intense and fun gameplay. All of that said, AvP2 doesn't have the most uber graphics. In fact, they're extremely dated - a lot of the objects in the game are only modeled in 2-D. That said, it's what the design team DID with those limited graphics that was absolutely impressive. The graphics, combined with awesome sound, create the most tense, creepy game I've ever played. Add in a few other items, such as many pitch-black and low-lit areas, flickering lighting, limited charge on your flashlight, the sounds of dripping water, blowing wind, and creaking structures...oh, and ALIENS...and you end up with one of the most environmentally brilliant games in existence, with just about the most immersive atmosphere imaginable. Envision crawling along a pitch-black ventilation shaft with no sound but the hollow clank of metal from your own movements. Your flashlight battery is almost dead, and you're praying it will last until you get to a lighted area. No such luck; it caps out on you, and you stop, waiting for it to recharge sufficiently for use. Of course, it's at this very moment that you suddenly hear the pulsing chirp of your motion tracker (which, like everything else, sounds EXACTLY like it did in Aliens), which now has a tiny white dot...and the volume of your motion tracker quickly intensifies as it moves towards you in the darkness, making a hissing noise. Then there's the Jedi Knight games, which were simply fun, and the graphics aren't (yet) so dated as to be unenjoyable. There's another game I'd add to the list if it wasn't so old that the graphics would be massively pixellated: Hexen. As far as the truly old FPS games, it's most definitely my favorite. The atmosphere and the gothic art direction in the game made it eminently enjoyable for me, and I'd go out and buy it in a minute if they updated the graphics to be fully modern and uber. (I truly enjoy gothic-themed graphics in FPS games, for some reason. On a related note, I wish the newer Unreal Tournament games hadn't gone cartooney and had kept the gothic-looking graphics of many of the leves in the original Unreal Tournament.) -Wrayeth n00b Extraordinaire "Look, pa! I just contributed absolutely nothing to this thread!"
Math'ra Hiede Amarr Vigilia Valeria Expeditionary Forces	Posted - 2009.03.19 11:22:00 - [50] Ha, old games... hmm.. - EV:Nova (Great game, spent so long on that game.. even ended up making a small mod for it!) - Conquest: Frontier Wars (B'cos spaceships are kewl!) - Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (B'cos it was full of original win) Other than that my HD is full of modern rubbish like Quake 4, right through to Crysis Warhead and Assasins Creed. Fake Edit: Almost for the old NFS series! slaps himself Originally by:* CCP Greyscale :facepalm:

Dantes Revenge Caldari	Posted - 2009.03.19 15:24:00 - [51] Originally by: Wrayeth On a related note, I wish the newer Unreal Tournament games hadn't gone cartooney and had kept the gothic-looking graphics of many of the leves in the original Unreal Tournament.) The original Unreal was awesome. I loved using the sniper rifle and blowing the heads off those little guys across the bridge. Although a bit corny, I used to laugh when they put their hands up to look for their head and then fell over after they couldn't feel it where it should have been. I agree, the whole feel and ambience was a bit spooky in the original but that only added to the overall effect and made the game worth playing. -- Originally by: CCP Whisper No it is not an official statement. Not everything surrounded by blue bars is an official statement which can be quoted as fact until the end of time. Deal with it.
Askan Sprock Gallente Orias Fringe Enterprises OWN Alliance	Posted - 2009.03.19 15:32:00 - [52] Edited by: Askan Sprock on 19/03/2009 15:34:44 HoMM 1234 Civilization 4 (at least one full game per year) Ascendancy (the music, the inventions, the ship design: basically it's single player eve with the last 'crazy professor' world building part implemented.) Flashback! Cannon Fodder Diablo 2 Scorched Earth And of course: Transport Tycoon Deluxe and Pizza Tycoon (gotta love the pizze with 55 lobsters on it!) Formerly known as Cornucopian (yes... I'm back) 10mil SP to go to my old position.
Asuka Smith Gallente StarHunt	Posted - 2009.03.20 03:33:00 - [53] Edited by: Asuka Smith on 20/03/2009 03:32:46 Diablo 2 Mechwarrior 4 (Speaking of which, we ought to game on with that. I played with a few EVE players over Hamachi in the past and it was a blast!) Syndicate (epic game for sure, I cannot believe they never followed it up) HOM&M3 Armageddon's Blade specifically. and Homeworld 2.
Nefrin Maldoes Minmatar Outer Rim Survey and Salvage	Posted - 2009.03.20 22:57:00 - [54] the original Sierra Adventure Games: Kings Quest Space Quest Police Quest Leisure Suit Larry -I remember sitting at my Compaq 386/33 playing the original Space Quest with my dad. Ahhhh, the memories. Others: Simcity 2000 (before too much micromanagement was introduced) NetHack Not as old, but still worth going back to (Introversion is a brilliant game company): Uplink DEFCON Darwinia
Korodan	Posted - 2009.03.21 01:52:00 - [55] System Shock 2 Oh god, I still have nightmares about this game. The spiders and...the midwives, oh god the midwives. Silent Hill 2 Yet again, scary as hell, no matter how many times you play it, and it has a wonderful atmosphere. Freespace It's so simple - there are angry aliens, you shoot the angry aliens, you shoot the angry aliens before they turn Earth into a glow in the dark glass park. And flying a Hercules was just damn fun...six shots, more then enough to kill anything that moves. Which brings me to... Metal Gear Solid Oh Hideo, how corny your dialogue is. But in the end, that's what makes the game really memorable and fun to come back to. Planescape Torment Best story ever witnessed in a PC RPG, period. Fallout 2 I love the smell of plasma bolts in the morning, smells like victory.
Ruze Ahkor'Murkon Amarr No Applicable Corporation	Posted - 2009.03.21 02:05:00 - [56] Age of Empires. Originally by: 5pinDizzy Troll Score-o-Meter --------Failure----------\|\|\|-----------Succes------- 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1--0--1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Xan'sibal	Posted - 2009.03.21 07:40:00 - [57] The old games I play most are turn based strategy, which isn't a very popular genre anymore so nothing new comes out. Games like X-COM and Jagged Alliance 2.
Jason Marshall Gallente Hammer Of Light Libertas Fidelitas	Posted - 2009.03.21 07:50:00 - [58] Edited by: Jason Marshall on 21/03/2009 07:51:50 I still hold out hope that they will make a Free Lancer 2. =( I absolutely loved that game, was just the perfect amount of freedom and story telling. And C&C Red Alert was my first true PC game, i loved RA:2 the most, and constantly find myself trying to get people to lan with me. -_- Tacky Lensflares in sigs ftw
Dantes Revenge Caldari	Posted - 2009.03.21 09:25:00 - [59] Originally by: Asuka Smith Syndicate (epic game for sure, I cannot believe they never followed it up) There was a second Syndicate Wars which didn't have much more than the original in the way of weapons and upgrades but it was still just as much fun. I think there wasn't much in the way of advertising for it which is probably why it didn't sell so well. I only heard about it by way of a bargain bin at my local computer store. -- Originally by: CCP Whisper No it is not an official statement. Not everything surrounded by blue bars is an official statement which can be quoted as fact until the end of time. Deal with it.
Princess Jessica Minmatar Universal Assembler The Assembley	Posted - 2009.03.23 21:27:00 - [60] Edited by: Princess Jessica on 23/03/2009 21:29:03 Alien vs Predator 2 : Rumor has it a 3rd one is coming 2010 \/ Fragile Allegiance : Anyone know of any other games like it? Homeworld 2 : With mods this game is still awesome :) Settlers 2 : A classic which i played for hundreds of hours Black and White 1 : Very innovative, to bad they went to rts like with the second edition Dungeon Keeper 2 : Loved the crossing between rts/god(demon)/fps game /



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