I never thought I would see blade of darkness again. Thank you for sharing.
One of my favorite games. One time I was able to dismember a guy completely before his body hit the ground.
Igi, Deus ex, NASCAR 2, there’s a lot of milestone games there
If it’s on a cd, it ain’t old yet.
Your computer still has a CD drive. How retro
I didn’t know for like six months that mine has a cd/dvd drive. It’s practically hidden.
Okay grandpa
Not yet, but I am old enough… lol
Exactly.
Old games come in large cardboard boxes to accommodate the manual, with disks rattling around inside.
And in one case, a vacuum packed t-shirt too!
Ahhh the manuals… and the mail order hint guides. Those were the days.
Did anyone ever fill out those registration cards?
Agent 47 looks like he’s seen some shit.
Blade of Darkness was kickass
I should start collecting physical PC games
Omg, thanks for this. I was looking for the name of Gunman and Oni. Played them when I was younger and forgot what they were called.
Came here to leave the same comment! I have such distinct memories of Gunman, but could never remember the name of the game.
Neverhood was a fantastic experience. If you like puzzlers.
And that soundtrack was so good
Bandcamp link here - one of my all-time favourite VG soundtracks. Never heard anything like it before or since!
Whoa! it really is awesome!
I laughed so hard the first time I saw this.
Oni was a slapper. Would love to see it done justice. Not by Bungie though.
I absolutely loved Oni. I didn’t own a copy for a while but I’d play it round a friends house once a week… Those fighting mechanics just felt so tight (for the time) and the gun play was weighty and responsive.
Shame to hear about the fate of Oni 2 from here, I had no idea
Rockstar acquired Oni to get its proprietary engine and killed its sequel, Oni 2 because they got what they wanted
Boo rockstar. That game’s mechanics were some of the most fun I ever experienced. It was absolutely crying out for a sequel.
Or, Angel Studios became Rockstar San Diego and they made Red Dead Revolver instead.
But I admire your hate version.
Rockstar is pretty shitty to devs, but okay, the Midtown Madness devs did have a glow up because they were under new management
I just recenly learned about Oni 2s leaked prototype existence and I’m salty that they piecemealed that IP into oblivion… HOWEVER…Oni’s engine would become the RAGE engine that powers and gave life to GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption, GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 (…and perhaps GTA VI…?)
Oni still had better hand to hand combat gameplay than all of those games though 😅
That’s interesting, I didn’t know it was the basis for the Rage engine. Thanks.
The Never Hood is so good.
Bungie’s Oni was really good for the era. Right before halo and when they were still releasing games for Mac. Think I still have that disc in storage somewhere alongside my Mac copy of Halo CE.
It was one of the early games I got for the PS2.
I didn’t really like it tbh. Ammo was way too sparse. Don’t think I ever finished it.
One day I will pick that game up for the 8th time and actually finish it.
Can’t believe that woke garbage Wolfenstein is in there. /s
Wait, those games came on CD? I thought they came as ISOs with a nocd_patch.exe
Eidos, I know that name… Anyone remember commandos?
Loved commandos. They’re making a new commandos. There is a demo out. Probably launched next year.
There were quite a few games using the same formula (and improving on it), to the point where I feel Desperados would be my favorite in that genre, not Commandos itself.
I still remember having to reparation my drive and reinstall windows, upgrading from fat16, because commandos wouldn’t fit on either partition.
Going through Desperados 3 after wastelands myself. Shadow tactic up next.
For me Xcom mechanics is goat. For all my life I’d been into RTS, rise of nations kind.
Commandos remaster is on the way. Maybe I’ll pick it up to remind myself of childhood horrors
Alarm! Alarm!
Oni is so good.
I seriously don’t think this game gets enough credit. It basically invented the combat system used in a bunch of AAA titles today. Like the Batman games. Sure they have been refined and improved it, but it was revolutionary at the time.
