2 Months of Service
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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3 Months of Service
Check out the old fallout games, they hold up really well.
2 Months of Service
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!
3 Months of Service
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.
2 Months of Service
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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.
1 Year of Service
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.
5 Months of Service
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
10 Months of Service
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.
5 Months of Service
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.
3 Months of Service
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.
1 Month of Service
Sounds like you're a big fan of CRPGs. Since you are a fan of the first two Baldur's Gate games, I would take a look at some of the other games developed by Black Isle Studios: the first two Fallout games, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment. Similar games that came out around the same time would be Neverwinter Nights and Arcanum.
Many of the devs who worked at Black Isle created their own studio after Interplay shut their doors: Obsidian Entertainment. Obsidian is probably best known for Fallout New Vegas, but they played a huge part in reviving the CRPG genre, creating brand-new CRPGs like the Pillars of Eternity series and Tyranny. I suspect that you'd love these newer games as they were made by many of the same folks who made the classics.
Many of the devs who worked at Black Isle created their own studio after Interplay shut their doors: Obsidian Entertainment. Obsidian is probably best known for Fallout New Vegas, but they played a huge part in reviving the CRPG genre, creating brand-new CRPGs like the Pillars of Eternity series and Tyranny. I suspect that you'd love these newer games as they were made by many of the same folks who made the classics.
2 Years of Service
Overlord it's 5 dollars on Steam last I checked and didn't get too much press and it's sort of in the point and click style. You play as the titular Overlord and command your minions to do stuff.
If we're just randomly recommending old games that have no association at all with Baldur's Gate which seems to be the consensus then Legend of Dragoon, the only issue is you'd have to dust off a Playstation and get a copy of the disc or emulate it. Considering this is a pirate site I figure the later wouldn't have some moral objections to doing so so that's the better route and you should be able to play it on PC that way since it's such an old Playstation game there are stable emulators for it.
If you want to purchase old(er) games from Steam then
- Gears 5, to promote E-Day which is coming out, but looks terrible they're having a sale on their older games so it is 85% off. The campaign isn't great and according to a friend who loves the series they "casualized" horde and removed the soul of the game where it's formulaic if you want to win, but you can still have fun with the horde mode as long as you self-impose not using cheese methods to win easily and avoid randoms. If you decide to pick it up he played it to death I'm sure he'd be willing to pick it up again if you want to play it out though horde is upto 5 players so it might be an uphill battle. Campaign is 1-2 players though and Escape Mode is 1-3 players and apparently quite completeable with just 2 players though it makes it hard to go for highscores if they still even still run the scoreboards for it. 85% off includes the Hivebuster DLC for 4.49 USD
- Witcher 3 is is 80% or 7.99 USD. Single player RPG and Witcher 4 is coming out eventually though it has potential issues depending on where you come out on the direction of gaming Witcher 3 predates that non-sense and is fairly lenghty. If you want a fantasy RPG that isn't Skyrim Witcher 3 should scratch that itch.
- Fallout: New Vegas is 50% off, but that's still only 4.99 due to the age of the game. Created by Obsidian when they were a worthwhile studio and generally considered to be the best Fallout game despite not being from Bethesda. Obsidian is back in charge working on the upcoming Fallout Game whenever it may be released, but it's a very different studio than the one that made New Vegas. Actual VATS instead of the time dilation legally distinct version that Outer Worlds their dupe before they came under the same Microsoft umbrella that Bethesda is sitting under as well (which is why Obsidian is getting Fallout again). Post apacolyptic RPG shooter, left for dead in the mojave desert outside of the titular New Vegas, it's not Hamlet, but it has RPG elements and shooting and really what else do you need? If you want a weird community challenge a popular one is trying to avoid Malcolm Holmes who approaches you if you pick up a Blue Star Bottle Cap like a post apacolyptic expositive It Follows that insists on telling you about them rather than killing you should it catch you.
- Dying Light is currently 4.99 on sale. The original parkour zombie game from a series that had such a poor sequel that they gave out Dying Light The Beast to players who bought the Deluxe Edition of Dying Light 2. The original Dying Light was well received with good movement mechanics though the combat is considerably less advanced than the chase sequences and kind of plays like Dead Island from a combat perspective.
- Resident Evil 5 is 4.99 currently on sale. Whilst Capcom has been remaking their games the games journalists have targetted Resident Evil 5 claiming it's "too racist" to make a remake of. Code Veronica is next on Capcoms list of remakes so Resident Evil 5 may or may not get a remake like 2,3 and 4 did. The partner AI can be annoying and it uses the old style Resident Evil 4 tank controls. Being coop generally it was less well recieved as it sacrifices horror elements and ammo is more plentiful than Resident Evil 4. I have a friend that's currently replaying it so if you pick it up and need a coop partner I can probably find you one to avoid playing with the AI. If you prefer to play alone the AI will burn through ammo you hand it pretty much as fast as you give it to them so give them a weapon that you don't want to use yourself. The benefit of the AI is they'll drop anything to try to save you like it's their life's mission though they'll frequently be too slow and won't really attack enemies to keep them from killing you so it's not amazingly helpful. They also tend to try to use the actions should you stagger your enemies especially if you don't give them a weapon or they run out of ammo though you may have to keep shouting at them to "Come On" to avoid them running ahead and dying. Still if you can ignore the poor coop AI generally people feel like it was an underrated Resident Evil title that got more hate than it deserved coming off Resident Evil 4s success, but atleast it's not Resident Evil 6 (which is also on sale if you're into masochism).
- Dishonored is 2.99 on sale. If you like stealth games at all and haven't played it, it's almost criminal to NOT pick it up for the price of less than a hamburger at your favorite greasy spoon fast food joint these days. Set in Dunwall a fictional plague-ridden industrial city modeled after London and Edinburgh between the late 1800s or early 1900s you get all the pleasantness of rat infestations, depression with guards you'd expect to have European accents, but don't. This is the original one if you want the 3 dollar price point so it's a 2012 release, but it's still "newer" than some of the games currently running on sale that are old(er), but still might be worth the buy instead of being shovelware.
If we're just randomly recommending old games that have no association at all with Baldur's Gate which seems to be the consensus then Legend of Dragoon, the only issue is you'd have to dust off a Playstation and get a copy of the disc or emulate it. Considering this is a pirate site I figure the later wouldn't have some moral objections to doing so so that's the better route and you should be able to play it on PC that way since it's such an old Playstation game there are stable emulators for it.
If you want to purchase old(er) games from Steam then
- Gears 5, to promote E-Day which is coming out, but looks terrible they're having a sale on their older games so it is 85% off. The campaign isn't great and according to a friend who loves the series they "casualized" horde and removed the soul of the game where it's formulaic if you want to win, but you can still have fun with the horde mode as long as you self-impose not using cheese methods to win easily and avoid randoms. If you decide to pick it up he played it to death I'm sure he'd be willing to pick it up again if you want to play it out though horde is upto 5 players so it might be an uphill battle. Campaign is 1-2 players though and Escape Mode is 1-3 players and apparently quite completeable with just 2 players though it makes it hard to go for highscores if they still even still run the scoreboards for it. 85% off includes the Hivebuster DLC for 4.49 USD
- Witcher 3 is is 80% or 7.99 USD. Single player RPG and Witcher 4 is coming out eventually though it has potential issues depending on where you come out on the direction of gaming Witcher 3 predates that non-sense and is fairly lenghty. If you want a fantasy RPG that isn't Skyrim Witcher 3 should scratch that itch.
- Fallout: New Vegas is 50% off, but that's still only 4.99 due to the age of the game. Created by Obsidian when they were a worthwhile studio and generally considered to be the best Fallout game despite not being from Bethesda. Obsidian is back in charge working on the upcoming Fallout Game whenever it may be released, but it's a very different studio than the one that made New Vegas. Actual VATS instead of the time dilation legally distinct version that Outer Worlds their dupe before they came under the same Microsoft umbrella that Bethesda is sitting under as well (which is why Obsidian is getting Fallout again). Post apacolyptic RPG shooter, left for dead in the mojave desert outside of the titular New Vegas, it's not Hamlet, but it has RPG elements and shooting and really what else do you need? If you want a weird community challenge a popular one is trying to avoid Malcolm Holmes who approaches you if you pick up a Blue Star Bottle Cap like a post apacolyptic expositive It Follows that insists on telling you about them rather than killing you should it catch you.
- Dying Light is currently 4.99 on sale. The original parkour zombie game from a series that had such a poor sequel that they gave out Dying Light The Beast to players who bought the Deluxe Edition of Dying Light 2. The original Dying Light was well received with good movement mechanics though the combat is considerably less advanced than the chase sequences and kind of plays like Dead Island from a combat perspective.
- Resident Evil 5 is 4.99 currently on sale. Whilst Capcom has been remaking their games the games journalists have targetted Resident Evil 5 claiming it's "too racist" to make a remake of. Code Veronica is next on Capcoms list of remakes so Resident Evil 5 may or may not get a remake like 2,3 and 4 did. The partner AI can be annoying and it uses the old style Resident Evil 4 tank controls. Being coop generally it was less well recieved as it sacrifices horror elements and ammo is more plentiful than Resident Evil 4. I have a friend that's currently replaying it so if you pick it up and need a coop partner I can probably find you one to avoid playing with the AI. If you prefer to play alone the AI will burn through ammo you hand it pretty much as fast as you give it to them so give them a weapon that you don't want to use yourself. The benefit of the AI is they'll drop anything to try to save you like it's their life's mission though they'll frequently be too slow and won't really attack enemies to keep them from killing you so it's not amazingly helpful. They also tend to try to use the actions should you stagger your enemies especially if you don't give them a weapon or they run out of ammo though you may have to keep shouting at them to "Come On" to avoid them running ahead and dying. Still if you can ignore the poor coop AI generally people feel like it was an underrated Resident Evil title that got more hate than it deserved coming off Resident Evil 4s success, but atleast it's not Resident Evil 6 (which is also on sale if you're into masochism).
- Dishonored is 2.99 on sale. If you like stealth games at all and haven't played it, it's almost criminal to NOT pick it up for the price of less than a hamburger at your favorite greasy spoon fast food joint these days. Set in Dunwall a fictional plague-ridden industrial city modeled after London and Edinburgh between the late 1800s or early 1900s you get all the pleasantness of rat infestations, depression with guards you'd expect to have European accents, but don't. This is the original one if you want the 3 dollar price point so it's a 2012 release, but it's still "newer" than some of the games currently running on sale that are old(er), but still might be worth the buy instead of being shovelware.
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