What ancient game are you still playing?

[JC]

Just finished Quake 2 again.....discovered some Duke Nukem 3D maps I made years ago, so I got the 20th Anniversary edition. Time to kick ass and chew bubble gum

 

[Hans Gruber]

CS:GO circa 2012. Kids today think it's a current new AAA title.

 

[TheELF]

CS:GO circa 2012. Kids today think it's a current new AAA title.

yipee-ki-yay...no they don't.
They can tell the huge difference in graphics between csgo and say fortnite.

 

[lxskllr]

I recently bought Star Trek Elite Force I. I played through the first couple levels, but it's kinda boring. I have no idea what I'm really doing, but the level design guides you. I'll pick it up again later, and see if I get into it. I have been having fun with the voicepacks though. I have Janeway and Seven of Nine announcing various events on my phone. That's worth the modest cost by itself :^D

 

[Tsinni Dave]

I played Tron 2.0 all the way through last winter. Great graphic style. I remember a review of the game when it released saying it made the reviewer's eyes want to smoke cigarettes. A third party patch added widescreen resolutions and it ran butter smooth on an old Thinkpad T61 through my desktop monitor. I highly recommend it.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Does it count if it's still under active development? If so, dwarf fortress.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I've had tons of fun playing the original Riddick on my 3rd gen Core i7 Thinkpad with some underpowered Quadro GPU. Back in the day, it wouldn't even do 20 fps with highest settings. Now it does 60+ fps with everything maxed out! But most importantly, the graphics haven't aged too badly at all. It's still a treat to ogle at.

 

[Pohemi]

Icewind Dale and Planescape (although they are the remasters). Also various games in the Sega Genesis Classics collection for the Switch, including Strider, Revenge of Shinobi, the original Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe, and a few others.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Also various games in the Sega Genesis Classics collection for the Switch, including Strider, Revenge of Shinobi, the original Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe, and a few others.

Are the graphics blocky or smoothed out?

 

[Pohemi]

Are the graphics blocky or smoothed out?

They're a bit pixel-y, but not bad..no worse than the originals were back in the day, IME. The Planescapes and Icewind Dale graphics aged worse imho.

Edit: Last year, I played through both the first and second Half Life games. That scratched my nostalgia itch for a while, haha.

CS:GO circa 2012. Kids today think it's a current new AAA title.

I played some CS:S last year when I played through the Half Life games again. I played a LOT of CS:S the first few years it was out. Then I got sucked into MMOs and CS was forgotten for years, heh.

 

[Amused]

Team Fortress Classic.

 

[pete6032]

Wordle

 

[brianmanahan]

i still beat deus ex every couple years

also i just restarted playing ff7 the other day

 

[Captante]

Dishonored 1 and Skyrim are the two ANCIENT games I still play most. (honorable mention for Quake II RTX)

Dishonored 2 which I also still play often is a vastly better game then 1 but was released in 2016 which in my interpretation just makes it "old".

 

[Stiff Clamp]

Postal 2 - there's something about being able to pee on people

Somehow thought this thread was going to be about ancient boardgames like Hnefatafl (Norse), or Mehen (Egyptian).

 

[Spydermag68]

Masters of Orion and ZORK.

 

[Charmonium]

I still love Myst and its sequels. I just follow the "cheat" walkthroughs so I can enjoy the eye candy and bkground music.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I still love Myst and its sequels.

That reminds me. Need to fire up RealMYST to see how it fares on current hardware.

 

[Ken g6]

I still play UT GOTY edition a lot. Also UT 2K4 occasionally, but only for the vehicles.

 

[Captante]

That reminds me. Need to fire up RealMYST to see how it fares on current hardware.

Never played this but out of curiosity looked on Steam ... unfortunately it's still going for $18 from a "legit" source.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I still play UT GOTY edition a lot. Also UT 2K4 occasionally, but only for the vehicles.

I loved playing UT and UT2003. UT2K4 felt different. Couldn't get into it.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Never played this but out of curiosity looked on Steam ... unfortunately it's still going for $18 from a "legit" source.

If you don't have the others, it might be worth it to get the whole collection at 50% off. Or wait for the year end sale.

Slightly cheaper on GoG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/real_myst_masterpiece_edition

 

[igor_kavinski]

By the way, anyone who hasn't played MDK2 hasn't seen one of the wackiest game worlds. It was pretty unique and funny.

MDK2 HD on Steam

Overhaul Games brings MDK2 back to the PC in incredible high definition, with enhanced graphics, sound, and gameplay. See the classic action platformer the way it was meant to be seen, heard, and played... on a PC!Kurt Hectic in his snazzy suit with ribbon chute is back to save the universe...

store.steampowered.com

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Oh you know what, I just remembered I did a System Shock 2 run through a few months back. You know what? It's not rose-tinted goggles. That's a good goddamned game, and it holds up just fine. Modern game devs could take some notes.

 

[brianmanahan]

I still love Myst and its sequels. I just follow the "cheat" walkthroughs so I can enjoy the eye candy and bkground music.

i got myst when i was 12 and couldn't figure it out

but i finally beat it 25 years later and felt so proud of myself lol