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Ive been diving headfirst into oldschool games recently, im not willing to play monthly for runsecape and WOW but if you guys have any recommendations for me i would love to follow up on it.
Been getting into really old games like Baulders Gate 1&2 recently, any more suggestions?
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Check out the old fallout games, they hold up really well.
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GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, Bible Black, FF7, Super Mario World, Silent Hill, Tetris, Aladdin, Kong, Pac Man, Metal Gear Solid, Pong, Doom, Trackmania.
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any 1 in particular that you reccomend?
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ik trackmania is still popular but im gonna have to get an emulator for some of these. I dont mind though part of the fun!
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Id recommend fallout 2 more than 1 because it has more content, no timer and some QOL though fallout 1 has a better story imo and the game is shorter.
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FEAR
dead space
classic doom
dead space
classic doom
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Old games?
You should try Wizardry.
They recently remade the first game, same mechanics and story but with modern graphics.
The sory is pretty simple, though, so don't expect much. The game is hard and unforgivinf since it features permadeath.
It inspired a lot of RPG in the years.
You should try Wizardry.
They recently remade the first game, same mechanics and story but with modern graphics.
The sory is pretty simple, though, so don't expect much. The game is hard and unforgivinf since it features permadeath.
It inspired a lot of RPG in the years.
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Planescape: Torment, it looks and plays like Baldur's Gate, and the writing is stellar. Combat encounters are generally worse than BG2, but there are some memorable highlights.
I have fond memories of Magic Carpet, you can get a version that will run with minimal fuss for super cheap off GOG. You're a wizard on a flying carpet zooming around, constructing a magic castle and collecting spells, fighting monsters to harvest their mana, and having aerial battles with bot wizards that behave like you.
Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines is an RPG with shooter elements that feels kind of clunky, but can't be beaten for dark horror vibes. There are fan patches, but a lot of them are buggy or do too much.
The original Thief: The Dark Project feels dated, but has a unique feel and experience, if you like FPS stealth/action games. System Shock 2 is a cyberpunk shooter/RPG that runs off the same engine and has the greatest and sexiest antagonist ever created in gaming. Splinter Cell is a more modern stealth game in a more modern setting, with an equally dry and acerbic protagonist.
Not really old, but have you ever played Deathloop? It's a shooter/stealth thing in a Dishonoured vein, where you are stuck in a Groundhog Day situation, broken up into four phases of a day spread over four possible locations. The only way to break out of the timeloop is to figure out and then set up a "perfect day" where just the right series of events come to pass in the right order. You are being relentlessly hunted by a woman who is also aware of the groundhog day mechanic, and the way that works is that once per phase, a "multiplayer mode" player (or bot if you're offline or on some levels) can show up and try to murder you. You have three lives and get them all back if you kill the hunter. The hunter only has one life and a more difficult unlock progression, but the level's inhabitants aren't hostile towards her, and she even has a power where she can swap skins with them and try to bluff herself off as a harmless NPC with the typical dopey stealth reaction mechanics.
I have fond memories of Magic Carpet, you can get a version that will run with minimal fuss for super cheap off GOG. You're a wizard on a flying carpet zooming around, constructing a magic castle and collecting spells, fighting monsters to harvest their mana, and having aerial battles with bot wizards that behave like you.
Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines is an RPG with shooter elements that feels kind of clunky, but can't be beaten for dark horror vibes. There are fan patches, but a lot of them are buggy or do too much.
The original Thief: The Dark Project feels dated, but has a unique feel and experience, if you like FPS stealth/action games. System Shock 2 is a cyberpunk shooter/RPG that runs off the same engine and has the greatest and sexiest antagonist ever created in gaming. Splinter Cell is a more modern stealth game in a more modern setting, with an equally dry and acerbic protagonist.
Not really old, but have you ever played Deathloop? It's a shooter/stealth thing in a Dishonoured vein, where you are stuck in a Groundhog Day situation, broken up into four phases of a day spread over four possible locations. The only way to break out of the timeloop is to figure out and then set up a "perfect day" where just the right series of events come to pass in the right order. You are being relentlessly hunted by a woman who is also aware of the groundhog day mechanic, and the way that works is that once per phase, a "multiplayer mode" player (or bot if you're offline or on some levels) can show up and try to murder you. You have three lives and get them all back if you kill the hunter. The hunter only has one life and a more difficult unlock progression, but the level's inhabitants aren't hostile towards her, and she even has a power where she can swap skins with them and try to bluff herself off as a harmless NPC with the typical dopey stealth reaction mechanics.
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One of these dont seem to fit the others... The Aladdin game(s) don't have enough of a playerbase to be on this list
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Fallout 2
Hitman: Codename 47
Deus Ex
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
These 5 are my favorite of all time
Also a lineage of FPS genre: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Half Life
I remember playing a demo version of Doom on ZX Spectrum when I was a child
Also would recommend UFO: Enemy Unknown and its sequel X-Com: Terror From the Deep
That's just off the top of my head. I could go on for a while
P.S. Man, that hit me with the nostalgia. BTW, none of these are guaranteed to be good, but they sure were great at the time and at that age, especially when access to internet was incredibly limited.
Hitman: Codename 47
Deus Ex
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
These 5 are my favorite of all time
Also a lineage of FPS genre: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Half Life
I remember playing a demo version of Doom on ZX Spectrum when I was a child
Also would recommend UFO: Enemy Unknown and its sequel X-Com: Terror From the Deep
That's just off the top of my head. I could go on for a while
P.S. Man, that hit me with the nostalgia. BTW, none of these are guaranteed to be good, but they sure were great at the time and at that age, especially when access to internet was incredibly limited.
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Planescape: Torment and Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura are similar to Baldur's Gate I believe. Some others that are not Old School but play somewhat similar are Divinity: Original Sin and Pathfinder Kingmaker, Wrath of the Righteous and Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (pretty much all OwlCat games do, I guess). There is also the less "fantasy" ones such as Fallout 1 and 2.
2 Years of Service
Castlevania, especially those starting from Symphony of the Night. Advance Wars, if you are into tactical strategies. Very obscure gem that is rarely mentioned nowadays is Space Rangers duology. If you are into old Fallout games, then definitely check out Underrail. It's not particularly old, but it has the same vibe to it.
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Play Star Control II. Only game from 1992 I know that's worth a play today. You can get it on steam for free under the name Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters due to licensing and what not. Also some of their most beloved music pieces needed to be cut due to to a composer retroactively retracting his work, that he burned and send in on a floppy disc back then. You want to add those back into the game for the full experience with also looking up the star map being important to note. The second one was by far the best with what came after trying to replicate it's magic. With Free Stars: Children of infinity supposedly coming out this year, 30 years later, to continue it's story. That's my one recommendation that will redefine how you look at 141 MB of storage. Judging by your request you might love it.
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