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2017-03-21, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Star Control 2 - It's got a heavy plot despite its humor and the bizarre aliens. It's also free.
The Lunar series (specifically, PSX's Silver Star Story Complete and SegaCD's Eternal Blue).
Popful Mail, which was a technological marvel in its day, and still has gaming's best nigh-immortal shapeshifting madman.If it's not obvious, insert a after my post.
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2017-03-21, 03:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-03-21, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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There's one game I always find to be lacking from these threads/discussions.
World of Warcraft.
My first 'playthrough', levelling my tauren druid from 1-60 is without a doubt some of the best time I've ever invested in any game. And I am, after all, as ancient as the mountains and the sea. I played pacman - back when it was new.
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2017-03-21, 07:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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My Homebrew A Return to Exile, a homebrew campaign setting.
Under Construction: Skills revamp for the Campaign Setting. I need to make a new index thread.
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2017-03-22, 06:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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I regret WoW - or Blizzard - didn't have what it would have taken to maintain the quality of their original, vanilla content. It's been steadily declining since the very first expansion, and I got out after ... which one was it again?! Snow and ice? Um. Northrend.
It's also quite clear to me that I'd have had so much less fun playing alliance, or orc.
But it still ranks among the best games I ever played.
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2017-03-22, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Regarding WoW, interesting.
I first played WoW at age 19 or so, back in BC. I have fond memories of it. I've played off and off since then (currently on), and I can say I like the changes they've made. I don't really understand why people say the game is overall worse than it used to be, except maybe for nostalgia reasons.
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2017-03-22, 09:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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I used to love platformers, my favorites were Tomba 2 and Rayman 1 & 2.
"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door."
I want more Strong female characters.
"In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me, and despair!"
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2017-03-22, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Comparing EB to EB Complete: They removed the magic XP system (or, as most people would say, "fixed the save tax & The Lemina Bug"), turned the cool-but-useless* spells into boring practical ones, and refined the User Interface. It really showed that Eternal Blue was the first try at most of the systems that became the standard for the series.
But the dialog was better on the Sega CD, the music was better, and I liked the Magic XP system, damnit. The developers have mentioned changing the town before Pentagulia as "our biggest mistake". Plus, Jean's status dances worked, and most of Althena's Heroes were puzzle bosses.
*Ex: Blue Dragon Vigor: You spend a turn & 99 MP to gain extra attacks next turn. It's a tiny boost in damage output over just choosing to attack twice.Last edited by theMycon; 2017-03-22 at 10:22 AM.
If it's not obvious, insert a after my post.
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2017-03-22, 10:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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I agree that the exploration was fun, even if it didn't have any real rewards until later in the game's life. There were some things that just made the game feel huge and fantastic even if was actually scaled down to a representative theme park. Everquest and Ultima Online had nothing like trying to go from Darnassus to Goldshire the hard way while taking in all the sights.
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2017-03-22, 10:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Might and Magic VII.
I first played it when it was pretty new, found it alright. But then I've kept coming back to it over the years, which has had the result that I'm acutely aware of a lot of the serious flaws it has. But I still really enjoy it."'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2017-03-22, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2017-03-22, 04:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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There are many reasons. For one, there is no doubt it is targeted at a younger audience today than it was. That doesn't make it worse in a universal sense - but worse for an ancient person like me.
There is also creative fatigue. It quite simply isn't as inventive as it was. Hardly any of the new races are overall improvements to the game, for instance.
The bunny theme of Pandaria is frankly plain embarassing.
But lets not get into a discussion of those things. No accounting for taste, and to each their own, and so on =)
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2017-03-22, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-03-23, 01:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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I guess your WoW experience went better than mine, I started in TBC and I'd describe most of my WoW playtime as a Trauma conga line. My experience has been that if you want to raid, subjecting yourself to abuse is the only way to do it.
Discussing the exact details probably ought to go over to the WoW thread, but we probably agree about the content itself- Don't die in the Floor vomit mechanics excluded, I think fairly highly of older content. It's the antisocial mechanisms embedded in the game that encourage pure asshattery combined with all the little skinner box addictive mechanisms that really bug me. (And yet, it's those same skinner boxes that are cathartic when I lose control of life's circumstances and need something I can at least pretend to control. )
It will make more sense if you draw a line between things like Quality of Life, gameplay, and content changes. The QoL changes are significant- modern WoW's QoL improvements in Vanilla or TBC would conquer the market in any moment of history. It's the game content that most people kvetch about- it just doesn't hold a candle to it's past, and is usually overhammed to the point of not being able to respect the writing.My Homebrew A Return to Exile, a homebrew campaign setting.
Under Construction: Skills revamp for the Campaign Setting. I need to make a new index thread.
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2017-03-24, 07:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Morrowind. I have logged over a thousand hours in that game, and I dont regret a single moment of it.
Lost Kingdoms 1 and 2. Such a unique take on ccgs and Im sad it didnt catch on.
Darken Skye. If you remember the old skittles commercials from the mid 90s, they turned them into a game and it was a blast.
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2017-03-26, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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There are for sure too many to list, but if we are talking about something really special, I would say it was Snake on my old cell phone
It’s all about where you going no matter where you’ve been
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2017-03-26, 03:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Heroes of Might & Magic III
What got me hooked to TBS.
Unreal Tournament
When I think about my childhood FPS, the one i played the most.. its probably this
Starcraft and brood war: I just loved it so much. the cutscenes,the story,the thrill of tactics.
Diablo.
playing as a 5-6 year old kid, not really knowing english, being scared as heck going down to that crypt. finding the Butcher for the first time... the memories.
Age of empires: Anther RTS. also one that i remember playing when I was about 4 or so. good times.
thanks to thecrimsonmage for the awesome avatar... you rock, dude.
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2017-03-26, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Robert E Lees Civil War Adventures. This was a game back in the days of like, windows 3.1, so yeah, its a little old. But it was a great game. A hexagonal map where you moved units according to their type, like cavalry could cover huge distance each turn, while a cannon couldnt move very far. It was surprisingly complex for its time, doing things like giving advantages and disadvantages due to terrain, incorporating morale when deciding on troop losses and such, as well as determining if the troops would even attack, or actually flee the battlefield. You had to keep in mind supplies as it was possible to run out of ammo during the turn based combat, and victory was determined by measuring losses and resources gained or lost once you ran out of turns. Positioning was also huge. If you attacked from behind you were going to do huge damage, so if you had them partially surrounded, you could attack from one way to make them face that direction, then attack from the other side for extra damage and a morale drop, and keep doing that to maximize your damage.
It had a story mode that meant you carried over troop losses and such, but could also recruit more, upgrade to better rifles and cannons, things like that. But you were on a budget so you had to be very careful what you chose. You could also pick random single maps to run as well. It even had a fictional attack on washington if you played confederates and kept on winning. It covered a lot of the classic battles from the history books as well. Overall it was just a ton of fun and I regret not having it anymore. I spent months playing it over and over, learning the best way to achieve victory and how to exploit the game mechanics to my advantage. For example, the gettysburg battle. I spent the first "day" of the battle settling my troops into the big hills in the middle of the map and getting them dug in. Meanwhile I had my cavalry lead the enemy on a wild goose chase and managed to ambush their cannons a few times in the process. This wore them down morale wise, and gave me the ideal field position. It made the second day go really well because i would hit their tired and unhappy troops a few times until they broke and run, then moved on to the next group."Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2017-03-26, 07:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Have you taken a look at Ultimate General: Civil War?
It's pretty much exactly what you're describing, but in an RTS rather than hex-based.
Personally, it's not my cup of tea, as I find the way the game gives its information to be woefully inadequate, but allegedly a lot of other people enjoy it, and when it works, I can have quite a bit of fun with it, too.
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2017-03-26, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Nah, I have drifted away from army games in general (hur hur) but I just remember that game even today for how fun it was. I played a whole bunch of different war games, most by sid meyer and was never really drawn in like I was to that one. I guess im an old fogey at heart, which is why I still have a ps2 that i only use to play my ps1 games. :p These new fangled games are just not a darn tootin good time by crackey!
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2017-03-27, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Command and Conquer: Red Alert 1 and 2. Partly because they don't make simple fun games anymore, partly because nowadays I can't enjoy RTS without optimized build orders anymore (I am currently learning a Civ 5 opening to crush my roomate in a future game) and partly because this was our favortie game to play at my friend's house. Back when internet was pay by hour and having two computers capable of processing this was kind of rare. I loved our two hour long games often resulting in Mass Kirov airships, Mass Apocalypse tank 'rushes' or my favorite: Mass Prism Tank on Allied side. They chained together to almost oneshot buildings.
And more recently: Undertale. The game is mediocre at best but the characters and music are great.
I love you for mentioning a huge chunk of my favorite games. Starcraft was my entry into PC gaming (I had a Gameboy only so computer gaming was pretty flashy to me). AoE was too and UT as well as Diablo 2 were my two first games on my own computer.Last edited by Spore; 2017-03-27 at 05:20 AM.
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2017-03-27, 08:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Actually Spore, you reminded me of Red Alert, which was also one of my childhood RTS. I mean, who can forget the Tesla Coils zapping everyone?
so so simple, so much fun.
Metal Fatigue is anther one, if a bit more obscure. I mean, giant mechs in an RTS which you can costumize? Im still wondering how nobody tried doing a remake yet.
Edit: About diablo 2, I never really got into it. Ifelt that the eerie, stressful, and donright calstrophobic feeling of the first one were what mad eit so great.
the second one was more of a power fantasy, which is ok, but not wht i wanted from a sequeal (pobably the miniority on this one)Last edited by DemonicAngel; 2017-03-27 at 08:09 AM.
thanks to thecrimsonmage for the awesome avatar... you rock, dude.
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2017-03-27, 08:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh I remember this game!
And now I have the final boss music stuck in my head. >.<
As for MMOs, WoW is the one I'm glad I got out of (In the latter parts of Lich King).
But damn do I ever miss City of Heroes. There hasn't been a game since that did as good a job of making you feel powerful. There was nothing like getting together with your friends to fight Time Nazi Werewolves, and just raining unending flame and fist upon them."And if you don't, the consequences will be dire!"
"What? They'll have three extra hit dice and a rend attack?"
Factotum Variants!
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2017-03-27, 10:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Planescape - Torment ... best RPG I ever played on the PC. :D
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2017-03-27, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah I couldnt get into diablo 1. I just kept getting stuck and unable to move on. I agree the tone between 1 and 2 was very different, but it was the style of gameplay I like. I only like my challenge on my terms. Usually I like a relatively easy game because I play to relax, and hard mode games stress me the heck out. Yes it makes the highs much higher when you finally beat that absurd level thats killed you a dozen times so far, but man the rage sucks. And YES to starcraft and its expansion. I loved that game. Heck, I love starcraft 2 just as much. The thing I like most about 2 is just how much story you are given, but only if you want it. Every time you go back to the ship, if you want you can talk to a dozen people and they have new stuff to say, but if you just want to beat the game, you can ignore all that. I heard a rumor blizzard has remastered the original star craft and brood war game, is that true?
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2017-03-27, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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"And if you don't, the consequences will be dire!"
"What? They'll have three extra hit dice and a rend attack?"
Factotum Variants!
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2017-03-27, 06:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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As the gameplay, yes but then again I love some power fantasy stuff. I adore Pathfinder and D&D for that.
But what really sold the game where the cut scenes which are still very cool to watch today. I love Marius as the token "normal weak old man" to tell us of the horrors that aren't that horrible for [insert character here]. A miserable old man begging "Tyrael" to forgive him...
Regarding WoW: I started in early Cataclysm and could enjoy the expansion for what it was: The invasion of corrupted Deathwing. I wasn't disappointed by the DW fight(s). I couldn't compare it to WotLK. So the game was pretty fun all in all. Raiding was hard but doable, esp. later. And I am one of the few who LOVED Pandaria. The setting is gorgeous, the major conflict and message was pretty obvious (until Siege of Orgrimmar and Garrosh's corruption at least): Enjoy the world and don't fight against each other so much. The dailies were annoying and the game lacked content after a few months. But I had grown used to that, only to quit WoW mid-WoD and picking it up again for the Legion launch which was pretty fun.
WoW certainly has a weird but special place in my heart. But man, it will never reach the Nostalgia boner I have for pre-Renewal Ragnarok Online and my old WoE guild.
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2017-03-27, 08:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Everquest was my first mmorpg love. I got it by accident. My mom was looking for a birthday present, saw a game titled "Ruins of Kanark" and thought it looked neat. I install it only to learn its a pay by the month game thats played online. This was the game where I really started to get good at playing. I started out a hopeless moron who had to stop playing every time it became night in game because I had never even HEARD of gamma settings, let alone what they did. I thought it was normal to be barely able to see anything inside a cave even with a lightsource and heatvision. I loved the community. Everyone knew everyone else on the server. You built up real reputation with your fellow players, and if you did something really wrong, you paid for it because word got around and noone would group with you again. And unlike WoW, you NEEDED a group to do pretty much anything. Only a handful of classes could solo without massive twinking and even they tended to only get really good at certain level ranges. (Quad kiting druids rock) I played that game for years, then after I left, years later I picked up WoW, and the first server I joined I ran into players from my old Everquest server! Because they remembered me they let me join their raid guild and we had tons of fun playing for a few years before we fell apart and drifted away.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2017-03-27, 09:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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I reread the OP, and it doesn't actually specify videogames. That opens things up a bit, because when I was very young (6-9ish) I was way into choose your own adventure books. Then I found Quest: The War-torn Kingdoms. It was later released as Fabled Lands, as I found out when looking into the rest of the series and seeing the ridiculous price tags on the ones with the Quest name. It's one of those games responsible for getting me into RPGs, it has some seriously cool design, and I spent a fair amount of time with it as a kid.
I would really like to see a game made by Obryn, Kurald Galain, and Knaight from these forums.
I'm not joking one bit. I would buy the hell out of that. -- ChubbyRain
Current Design Project: Legacy, a game of masters and apprentices for two players and a GM.
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2017-03-28, 02:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh man, fabled lands. I waited for so long after tge fourth book, only to learn that the series got shelved.
So much wasted potential.
Edit: a quick google search,.it appears its still being written and there are already 6 books out, but In my own language only 4 were ever translated. NeatLast edited by DemonicAngel; 2017-03-28 at 02:17 AM.