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So, let's talk about your favourite "older" games

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Raduque said:
Unfortunately, my favorite older game isn't really available to buy anymore: Homeworld. It's amazing, epic, hauntingly beautiful, and still a gorgeous game despite the low resolution textures and low poly count models.
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Having recently been playing homeworld, I can tell you that you should stick to your memories. Its not gorgeous, its hideous and blocky and ugh..
 
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Serious Sam FE and SE
Eye of the Beholder series
Wolfenstein
Dragonlance series
SimCity
Civ I and III
 
c64:
katakis
pirates!
maniac mansion
zak mckracken
elite
oil imperium

amiga:
wings of fury
populous
north and south
railroad tycoon
ports of call
carrier command

pc:
civilization 2,3,4,alpha centauri
civilization call to power
age of empires
fallout 1,2
diablo 2

sega mega drive:
eternal champions

super nintendo:
micro machines
super street fighter 2
super mario cart
cannon fodder
carrier aces
f-zero

nintendo64:
mario cart 64
007 golden eye
killer instinct
wave race
1080°

ps1:
diablo (it had 2player shared screen mode on ps1, was super)
final fantasy 3,4,5,6,7,8,9
breath of fire 3

ps2:
final fantasy 10,12
suikoden 5
ring of red
devil summoner
persona 3
gt3

there´s more, have to think about it
love those memories
 
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I really miss this game, I've got it to run in Windows 7/8 but I just wish it was on Steam with the HD treatment Age of Empires got 🙁

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oh yes, star wars rebellion was super
i played it many times
i never got it running on win vista or 7 though
i still have an old pentium4 based celeron d pc for games like that
 
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By "old" I'm assuming before 2000.

MechWarrior 2 / Ghost Bear's Legacy / Mercenaries
Descent I & II
Master of Orion II
Civilization II
Allied General
StarCraft & Brood War
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Jedi Knight: DFII
Lords of the Realm II
Wing Commander III

Firsttime said:
I really miss this game, I've got it to run in Windows 7/8 but I just wish it was on Steam with the HD treatment Age of Empires got 🙁

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Ah, fond memories of playing this over dial-up. Best run was when I convinced my friend to pit his entire fleet against mine after finishing up the entire tech tree. I forget how much we had...about two Bulwarks, 60 support ships and ~120 fighter squadrons on my end. His fleet was bigger with three Super Star Destroyers but I had the fighter backbone and only lost a handful of ships. The processing lag was horrendous. 😛
 
syndicate amiga,lots of others, a great game that springs to mind atm.moonstone amiga also(a great intro and some nasty deaths😛).
 
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Old old
Lode Runner on the Apple II
Wizardry and Bard's Tale series
Almost anything from Infocom

Newer but still old:
Diablo
Fallout 1 and 2
Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale/Planescape Torment
 
No-one Lives Forever 1 and 2

I miss humour in games. Too many identikit soldier sims these days, it seems to me.

And, on the one hand, I really liked Morrowind, but on the other I feel bad that it was such a time-sink! I now think there's much to be said for avoiding sandbox games - better to have a beginning, middle, and, most of all, an end. Life's too short!
 
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I played the crap out of this game as well when I was a kid, even though it scared the hell out of me --

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I was such a Sierra fanboy... they were the first company where I'd buy any game they released at launch. whatever happened to them after the 90's?
 
loki8481 said:
I was such a Sierra fanboy... they were the first company where I'd buy any game they released at launch. whatever happened to them after the 90's?
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As I recall, they sold the company, and game design moved past their adventure type games, people stopped buying those. I remember their staff being laid off. They were in a nice area.
 
Atari ST
Infocom games:
Zork 1
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
Bureaucracy

FTL Games:
SunDog the Frozen Legacy
DungeonMaster

Misc:
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon
Populous

PC
Ultima 5-8
GTA Vice City and San Andreas
UO
EQ
 
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