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Are they the 'epics' of their time, or some things that are less well known?

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[–] Mesophar@pawb.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Currently replaying the Sly Cooper series, it will always be a favorite of mine

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Nfs hot pursuit 2 holds up insanely well. Ahead of its time. Gt2, ff12, musashi, crash bandicoot. Lot of ps2. Still play all my 2600 and nes and n64 games too

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Less Pokémon here than I thought there would be, though it does make a showing. I do gen 2 and 3 now and again. Gen 1, I think I've wrung out completely, and gen 4+ (DS and onward) just doesn't emulate as cleanly in my experience.

And I guess I'm approaching my 2nd decade of still playing certain MUDs: Achaea/Aetolia, Discworld, Lost Souls.

I don't really game much these days, though; certainly not like I used to.

[–] CaptainCancel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Every time Final Fantasy Tactics comes out again, I’m all over it.

[–] razzazzika@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Every final fantasy game i seem to play over and over again on loop, bunch of different iterations. Played the nes ff1, then the ps1 remake, then the GBA remake, and then the pixel remaster. Currently playing thr pixel remaster of 2. GBA was the only other version I played of that.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Final Fantasy 6 but, back in my day, it was called Final Fantasy 3.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

• Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Hate it or love it, I still think it's an amazing game.

• Chuzzle Deluxe. Recently got back into it after purchasing it a few months ago.

• Zuma Deluxe. Same thing applies.

• Sonic Unleashed. Went from playing on PS2 to 360 to now Steam Deck. The 360/PS3 version is absolutely superior, though.

Any others I can think of are all things I started playing closer to when I was a teen, so I'm not counting them.

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Dungeon master and Dungeon master chaos strikes back

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm midway through Oblivion Remastered and holy shit is inner 20s me ever happy about this raytracing thing

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

Quite a bunch, but the ones I come more often to my mind (and that are not DS titles, if not it would be Jump Ultimate Stars, Metroid Prime Hunters or Mario Kart DS) are:

Jackie Chan Stutmaster and Toy Story 2, both PS1 games (among other PS1 titles).

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Still playing Call of Duty: United Offensive multiplayer on PC nearly every day

[–] So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Morrowind, Shenmue, Earthbound, all the the Mega Mans, Starcraft

[–] Coelacanth@aggregatet.org 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm interested in trying Shenmue after it was (to me rather surprisingly) awarded the "Most Influential Game of All Time" award by BAFTA.

How do you play it there's days? Physical Dreamcast? Can you play it on PC? Emulator?

[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

Rayman's saga Especially Rayman 3 and Rayman 2, I am so excited for the upcomming fan-remake Rayman 2: Redreamed

[–] bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I still love all of the 90s FPS games like Doom and Quake.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Half-Life 1 was the peak of this genre for me

[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same. The rise of the boomer shooter was fun but you can't beat OG.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you tried playing on a lower difficulty level?

[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I’ll let my wife know that someone finally does!

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

Master of Orion.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Age of Mythology too <3

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HorseFD@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What do you think of the other Zeldas in the same style, like Link’s Awakening, the Oracle games or Minnish Cap?

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

All good to great games that build on the foundation set by ALttP. I'd gladly play any of them if you put it in front of me but nostalgia demands that I push the one I played when I was like 9 years old or whatever.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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.

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.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Fallout 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9, Elite

[–] GentlePulpy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Worms Armageddon

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

HOMM3 is like a warm blanket when you're sick and tired.

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Worms Armageddon was a classic

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I got back into doom in the last few years and there's a huge number of amazing maps people have made over the years you can play for free. I had no idea about the total conversion wads, where it doesn't even feel like doom because everything has been changed.

If anyone's looking for a good place to start you can check out the yearly cacoward winners

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Cacowards

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

My_House.wad has been making the rounds on YouTube semi-recently as an example of the sort of fuckery that has been made possible by the progression of doom modding.

If you're not familiar with it, do yourself a favor and go in blind for an hour or so and then only look up a video when you're stuck.

[–] makatwork@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tales of Maj'Eyal; all the old scumm games, daggerfall, toejam & earl.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 36 minutes ago

Ayyy ToME oldhead gang represent. Been playing since about 2014 myself.

The modding community is what really kept breathing life into that game for me for so long. I'm hoping once we finally see the next (final?) DLC expansion that the modders will pick the game back up again. It's been very stagnant for a couple of years now, presumably waiting for DG to release his expansion like a sudden kraken as is tradition. But it's been 2 years now since the last update (which was primarily a scaffolding update for the Lost Lands content to come) and I imagine everyone who would be otherwise interested is now hanging in a limbo of not wanting to start work on a project when DG might drop a major update at literally any time and invalidate a bunch of your work.

Even just the regular base game kept me playing for years and years though. Solid 10/10 freeware game. I used to bounce between ToME and DCSS (also freeware, also recommend, this one actually gets regular updates) pretty regularly and that kept me covered on dungeon crawling roguelikes for the better part of a decade. I still keep coming back to them on occasion though, I've played a bit of both of those games within the last 2 weeks.

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