Modded skyrim is dangerous
It is a tie between Warcraft III and Front Mission IV. I keep a PS2 just for Front Mission IV.
Warcraft III
I still whip out megaman X sometimes. My siblings and I play the original crash team racing every other Christmas too.
Commander Keen is my all time favorites.
Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2, Portal.
Does FreeDoom count? It’s as close to the original as I can get anymore.
Empires mod (free on Steam) reminds me of old Battlefield but you also have a comander for each team, so it has some base building aspects. Nice balance and no pay to win or comercial exploits.
Sadly the player count is low but every saturday and sunday servers fill upp.
EVE Online
Currently replaying A Link to the Past (1991). It’s not even that old.
1991 was only like 20 years ago. Right?
1991 was 34 years ago according to my birth certificate, so no :(
You are correct
I wonder if Lemmy is all Gen X
Highly recommend checking out the Link to the Past Randomizer if you haven’t. It shuffles all the chest contents while ensuring you can complete the game. It’s different each time and even gives you a cheat sheet if you get stuck.
Thank you for the recommendation. This is great. Here’s what I got on a quick first try lol
Yep, that’s the experience! 😂
Thats only an 8 year old game man. I think they meant something old like SpaceWar!
This was mine, my most replayed game of all time.
These.
This looks so much like my collection! Very cool
Nice tape collection
Thank you! I’ve fallen in love with physical media again… Fuck Netflix
Dang, how do you keep all those gameboy carts from toppling over every time you launch your controller at your TV?
Edit to finish my thought after accidentally sending prematurely.
3D printed cart holder I got from Etsy. Pretty nifty and very stable. Unfortunately the spacing is such that you can only read the GBA labels stacked. The GB/GBC carts obscure the one behind. The rumble carts hang nicely on top though!
I also do not throw geriatric technology. Would sooner rip my own arm off…
Tetris, the original GameBoy cart.
Yesssssss; still one of the best implementations of Tetris ever, imo.
Age of Empires 2
Isn’t that the wolololo game?
Technically No 1 is the Wololo game. Monks don’t Wololo in part 2.
Does DE count?
It’s crazy that new expansions are still dropping, and the ranked community is thriving.
I think it does. It’s pretty much the same game (including the engine) with just a new coat of paint on top.
I go back to play some nethack pretty regularly.
I’m not alone!
Never ascended once. Somewhere in the late midgame the inventory juggling becomes just too complicated and it feels like the last few turns of Civilization 4.
Tried fiqhack but it flakes on me a lot, can’t figure the reason, won’t find assets et c. I do dynahack now but it changes too much for my taste, and it doesn’t help the inventory problem when you have hundreds of items and try to make sense of it all.
And yet 30 years on something about it still tickles me pickle.
I sometimes play “Beneath Apple Manor” (1978) and similar-era games via Apple emulator. Believe it or not, it’s a “roguelike” that actually predated Epyx’ Rogue (1980) and NetHack (1987).
But I’m also thankful that Epyx’ Rogue happened to become used for the overall genre name. “BeneathAppleManorLike” is just too much of a mouthful!
Oh my god that game art! <3 <3 <3
I don’t know what it was about Apple II games, they just had an other-worldly quality to them.
The sound, too. It was like bird-chirping.
I loved it.
Is it worth getting into it now? Without rose tinted glasses I mean. Or are there better alternatives? (Shattered Pixel Dungeon for example). I have tried Shattered Pixel but found it too nonsensical, having to learn tons of mechanics that don’t seem to make sense other than trial and error and huge RNG (which I am not a fan of).
To be fair trial and error and RNG are just par for the course with classic roguelikes, but learning how to manage all that is part of the appeal. Nethack and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup are probably the two best-supported old classic roguelikes out there. Honorable mentions for Dwarf Fortress, which basically abandoned its roguelike mode in favor of a fortress simulator, and UnReal world, which is a weird outdoor primitive survival game that’s a testament to one man’s obsession.
There are also more modern offerings like Tales of Maj’Eyal, Caves of QUD, and Dungeons of Dredmor that are fully faithful roguelikes with either more modern graphics or QOL upgrades.
Yes. Its still awesome. And I never got to play it in the heyday.
Its just an engaging game for me.
Angband for me, high five my fellow older roguelike enjoyer
Hell yes!! And you can play it on the nethack site through terminal. So awesome. And watch others play it too
Every so often I’ll have another run at the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure from 1984.
You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can’t.
It is pitch black.
> _
> penis_
> turn on the light
> get out of bed
> open the curtain
As you part your curtains, you see that is a bright morning, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the meadows are blooming, and a large yellow bulldozer is advancing towards your home.
Must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of those.
Adams also wrote the game ‘Bureaucracy’, similarly rather difficult. And later ‘Starship Titanic’, which is a 3d adventure with textual conversations.
Heard of ST, but not Bureaucracy, will need to check that out, thanks! 👍
I slapped myself, and died.
Most satisfying death in a video game I can remember
Super Mario World every year or two. The soundtrack alone cheers me right up.
Would Tetris count if its always whatever new Tetris Ultimate Reloaded DX etc etc edition? I feel like it shouldn’t but its basically the same game just polished up.
Super Mario World is peak Nintendo. I still come back to it on occasion just to remember what games were like when things didn’t seem so corporate.
Super Mario World and Shadow of the Colossus are my timeless games! I will replay them every few years.
