Are they the ‘epics’ of their time, or some things that are less well known?
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.
Every so often I will fire up my copy of Mega Man 2 and run through it.
Mega man is SO hard. I struggle to get anywhere. But, that music. I LOVE it.
Yes the music in the Mega Man games is legendary
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.
Fallout 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9, Elite
Master of Orion.
MOO2
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.
I have replayed Baldur’s Gate 2 more than any other narrative game, and will probably do another playthrough in the coming years. So it’s most likely that. Oh, and Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven multiplayer on the PS2 whenever I am over at one specific friend’s place. That was our go-to couch game growing up and it’s still nostalgic.
Squarez Deluxe
Thunder force 4 or lightning force in my youth was a really fun game. Played it to death on the Genesis. It still holds up. I still play it from time to time.
I’m so happy to see this mentioned. It also has an incredible OST.
The fan stuff is excellent as well: Heavy Instrumental Metal:
Into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnLAC5AJPuM
End: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvCs12UqWvU
Im looking forward to Eartheon !!
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).
Tales of Maj’Eyal; all the old scumm games, daggerfall, toejam & earl.
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.
The original Legend of Zelda. I still have it on cartridge and every once in a while I’ll just steamroll the entire game and whoop Ganon’s ass. I can usually do it in about 4 hours.
I don’t use any glitches or speedrun optimizations, I just know where everything is and what order to do things in.
I have been considering a second quest play lately. All these years I have never played the second quest.
I started recently. I’m keen to finish it.
I had a small binder full of hand drawn maps of both overworlds and all the dungeons. I wish i still had that. It got pretty ragged from many friends borrowing it. What a great unlocked memory from my childhood.
I still love all of the 90s FPS games like Doom and Quake.
Half-Life 1 was the peak of this genre for me
Same. The rise of the boomer shooter was fun but you can’t beat OG.
Have you tried playing on a lower difficulty level?
I love you.
I’ll let my wife know that someone finally does!
I sunk hours into NetHack, and I still occasionally dive into the dungeons. I also have a NES emulator on my phone, but it’s just not the same. I’ll play Zelda or Metroid for the nostalgia, but it’s not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.
not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.
That’s the biggie that the young kids of today just will never experience!
I still find Civil War Generals 2 to be a really fun and challenging game. The visuals are still perfectly readable and charming.
