Do you still enjoy playing older games?

[FalseChristian]

I still enjoy old games like GLQuake and Unreal to name but a few. How about y'all?

 

[ramj70]

I still enjoy them, playing Master of Orion and Civilization right now

 

[Skurge]

Yeah, I still play AOE1 ad quake 2 whenever I get the chance to. Unfortunately AOE1 locks up my PC so I don't play that anymore.

 

[acheron]

Yeah, definitely.

Though admittedly there is a bit of nostalgia involved -- I often have trouble really getting into an older game if I didn't play it back when it was new.

 

[murphy55d]

With most of the garbage being released now you almost have to.

 

[motsm]

I almost exclusively play older games now. I pretty much despise most current games, and they seem to be doing nothing but getting worse.

Lucky for me, I missed quite a few old classics and haven't played some of my favorites in many years. So I've been buying, and re buying loads of old games lately.

 

[dpodblood]

Yeah, definitely.

Though admittedly there is a bit of nostalgia involved -- I often have trouble really getting into an older game if I didn't play it back when it was new.

This for me exactly. I have no problem going back and playing Super Mario 3, Goldeneye, or other games I played as a kid, but getting into old games I didn't play as a kid is near impossible. I have tried with Zelda, and Megaman a few times, and just can't get into it...

 

[Anubis]

With most of the garbage being released now you almost have to.

I agree, most of the older games i play are console games, ive either lost all my old PC games or they look like/run like shit on a modern computer that they aren't worth playing

 

[dud]

The newest game I play is 7 years old (Homeworld 2). I also play Empire Earth (9 yrs old) and Homeworld (11 yrs old). I have failed to find anything (new) to compare or provide the level of happiness I feel playing these older games.

 

[Keeper]

LOL To kill the crave for a new game... I just reloaded Starcraft 1..... Yes, I was one of the heathen that NEVER finished it.

Graphics are a bit dated, but it should buy me the time needed to have SC2 become a 30 dollar game.
No, I never buy for multiplayer. In RTS I SUCK........ Actually would have to improve to suck.


The first two missions brought me "back to the day". I cant believe how OLD that game is.
Hopefully, I can find the expansion packs. YEAH. I bought them. NO, never played them.
Well, I think I played a mission or two in each.

 

[aigomorla]

honestly depends on the game.

i think ive been a bit spoiled by graphics in the recient years, so old games are sometimes unbearable.

But there are ones which dont need to have great graphics to enjoy like civ series.

 

[ibex333]

Yes, I rescently played Darkstone, Dungeon Keeper, Total Annihilation and Baldur's Gate. Sadly I couldnt get through BG, it's just too long, and there is too much geek stuff one has to understand... For example, what the heck is 1d6? 2d4? I dont knwo and I dont want to know! I want to play the game, not STUDY it!

 

[acheron]

Yes, I rescently played Darkstone, Dungeon Keeper, Total Annihilation and Baldur's Gate. Sadly I couldnt get through BG, it's just too long, and there is too much geek stuff one has to understand... For example, what the heck is 1d6? 2d4? I dont knwo and I dont want to know! I want to play the game, not STUDY it!

Never played BG, but xdy is standard "dice notation". 1d6 is rolling a 6-sided die once, so you get a random number from 1-6 with each number equally likely. 2d4 is rolling a four sided dice twice and adding them, so you get a number from 2-8, with 2 and 8 being less likely than the others. And so on. I don't think they expect you to "study" it, they assume everyone knows this.

 

[Firsttime]

Hell yes. Star Wars Rebellion is too awesome to not still play.

 

[aigomorla]

what the heck is 1d6? 2d4? I dont knwo and I dont want to know! I want to play the game, not STUDY it!

God dayam ur making me feel hella old.

Am i the only one who still has his dice collection?

EVen tho i havent touched in a while, but i had a large cache of D20's D8's D6's D4's... ect... and they were all in colored crystal too.


Im still waiting for today's RPG to incorporate SDC and MDC damage traits..
I dont think we've gone there yet.

 

[Chriscross3234]

My all-time favorite older game to play is Heroes of Might and Magic III. No matter how many times I come back to it, it never feels old. I guess the random map generator might have something to do with that though.

 

[FalseChristian]

Do you think that 2 GeForce GTX 460 1GB GPUs are overkill for GLQuake and Quake II?

 

[Powermoloch]

Red Alert (I) :thumbsup:

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Just started playing call of duty united offensive again. Probably one of the best multiplyer FPS games ever made that no one played. This game is so damn good.

 

[simonizor]

LOL To kill the crave for a new game... I just reloaded Starcraft 1..... Yes, I was one of the heathen that NEVER finished it.

Graphics are a bit dated, but it should buy me the time needed to have SC2 become a 30 dollar game.
No, I never buy for multiplayer. In RTS I SUCK........ Actually would have to improve to suck.


The first two missions brought me "back to the day". I cant believe how OLD that game is.
Hopefully, I can find the expansion packs. YEAH. I bought them. NO, never played them.
Well, I think I played a mission or two in each.

Hate to break it to you, but SC2 isn't going to be less than $60 for at least 5 years. Blizzard has a history of not reducing the price of their games until they've been out for quite a few years.

The oldest game that I really play is Counter Strike Source which is 8 years old, IIRC.

 

[Fhistleb]

Planescape: Torment
Alone in the Dark
Doom

All fun games!

 

[ZzZGuy]

Last time I bought something from GOG.com I intended to spend $5, I ended up spending $55. My wishlist is growing again as well.

I'm still in the process of trying to find my StarCraft CDs and wondering if I should give Baldurs Gate II another go.

 

[Craig234]

One old game that is a lot of fun is "rogue".

http://www.play.vg/games/87-Rogue.html

 

[Gorthan]

God dayam ur making me feel hella old.

Am i the only one who still has his dice collection?

EVen tho i havent touched in a while, but i had a large cache of D20's D8's D6's D4's... ect... and they were all in colored crystal too.


Im still waiting for today's RPG to incorporate SDC and MDC damage traits..
I dont think we've gone there yet.

I still have mine somewhere, I think in the vain hope I might use them again one day. Rifts FTW! Although SDC and MDC were used in other Palladium games too weren't they? So long ago....

And yes, I enjoy playing older games alot. Especially older RPGs for some reason, I think because in the ones I do replay, there is much less linearity than we have in modern RPGs. I like to make my own story.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

An excellent online multiplayer game can be timeless. I still play the original Unreal Tournament (1999) and UT 2004. There are still populated servers and UT99 still has an active capture-the-flag 5v5 pug match community.