Rayman's saga Especially Rayman 3 and Rayman 2, I am so excited for the upcomming fan-remake Rayman 2: Redreamed
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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.
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?
Age of Empires
Fallout 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9, Elite
Does chess count?
Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.
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.
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Worms Armageddon
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
HOMM3 is like a warm blanket when you're sick and tired.
Worms Armageddon was a classic
Rogue, Hack, Nethack. Basically nethack, but it built on those before it. Occaisonally Larn. Amiga Larn.
Angband was my jam for a while, and of course that parlayed directly into Dwarf Fortress
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.
Quest for Glory series! Betrayal at Krondor
Yeeeeah! I haven’t played these in forever but Hero’s Quest was my first Sierra adventure and holy shit was it magic. And Krondor - Raymond freakin Feist writing games!!
Both absolutely epic! Although in my case we’d be playing fast and loose with the term “youth” this was stuff I played after college but still.
Love to hear it! I read and reread Feist’s whole series as a kid, I remember always being so excited when a new book came out. I cut my teeth learning to read novels on Magician in 3rd grade!
You’ll be interested to learn that Feist didn’t write anything for the game, he just licensed the world and the characters. Neal Hallford wrote the story and dialogue which were brilliant, and Feist later adapted the story into a novel.
I just replayed QfG 1-3 last week on a family vacation and the magic is still strong. Something about these games ignite mythic perspectives in me that nothing else seems to.
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.
They're all well-known: Pac-Man (first game I ever played), Super Mario games, Metroid games. Anything past SNES I feel like I was too old to consider it my "youth."
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.
Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex. Original hardware, Muscle memory from childhood. Still a banger 27 years after my first time.
I didn't have video games in my youth, so I'm just catching up now.
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
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.
I tried retail again last year in a similar way, they've actually built so much mechanics now to catch up. But it still felt like a massive task to catch up to actual active players. Private server is a good shout, I'll take a look next time I get the itch.
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.
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.
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.
Tales of Maj'Eyal; all the old scumm games, daggerfall, toejam & earl.
I'll still crack open any one of the Age of Empires series from time to time.
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Guild wars 1. I don't play it often but every once in a while I get the itch. It's honestly still really compelling.
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Solitaire.
Quake. Still hold up, modding community makes tons of maps to play so it stays fresh.
Dungeon Keeper - keeperfx is a modern update of the engine / bug fix that makes it easy to play on a modern system.
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.
Here goes:
pc:
- duke nukem 3d pc version
- blood
- redneck rampage (so funny!)
- cannon fodder
- day of the tentacle
megadrive:
- streets of rage 2
- road rash 2
- ea hockey 2
What's special about EA hockey 2?
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