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What are some of your must play classic games?

Bartski

Bartski

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Another World (1991) gaming watershed moment.

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LMJ

LMJ

Member
My top 10 favorite games of all time in no Particular order

Psychonauts the OG quirky Psychic game made by Doublefine

Wild Arms 2 - A jrpg classic that rewarded thinking and had a wonderfully unique cast

Brutal Legends - Ironically not a fan of tower defense, but everything in this game screams the love of metal

Megaman Legends a phenomenal 3rd person take on the Blue Bomber we all know and love

Postal 2 - A down and dirty asshole simulator with a wacky sense of politically incorrect humor that rewards "pissing" (get it) around ;)

Fear Effect - Making lesbian badasses cool...before they were cool (the sequel is great to)

Tails Concerto - An awesome anthropomorphic take on a world with futuristic mech suits...a furry game...but a good one

Duke Nukem 3D - It's how I fell in love with first person shooters baby

Tronne Bonnes Follies - A fantastic spinoff of Megaman Legends featuring the cutest villain ever Tronne Bonne

and last but certainly not least

WonderBoy 3 a Dragon's Trap - I had a master system and ironically THIS was my first Metroid-vania title, the OG was great, but this stepped it up to the Nth degree
The remake allows you to play it OG or with newer art style, and while we're at it check out MonsterBoy and the Cursed Kingdom its actually better the Wonderboy, but it doesn't have the Nostalgia...a wonderful love letter to Dragons Trap through and through!
 
FromDuskTillGameOver

FromDuskTillGameOver

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  • Tetris
  • SMBW
  • Half Life
  • C&C 2
  • Sim City 2000
  • Zelda OoT
  • Zelda ALttP
  • Anno1602
  • Deus Ex
  • Thief 2
  • THPS2
  • Quake
  • Doom 2
  • Soul Calibur
  • MGS
  • Monkey Island 1-3
  • Civ2
  • SM64
  • Gran Tourismo 2
  • Starcraft
  • Diablo 2
  • Castlevania SotN
  • RE2
  • Advance Wars
  • Sonic 2
  • Unreal Tournament
  • FF7
  • Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
  • Super Metriod
  • Tmnt Turtles in Time
  • Baldurs Gate 2
  • Tomb Raider 2
  • SW Jedi Knight
  • Dungeon Keeper 2
  • Star Fox 64
  • Sacrifice
  • Fallout 2
  • Tekken 3
  • Max Payne
  • Duke Nukem 3D
 
Soodanim

Soodanim

Member
coffinbirth said:
You may be fully aware of this, but I HIGHLY recommend checking out the rom hack titled "Ultimate Directors Cut".
It inserts the original soundtrack back from “Resident Evil” in “Resident Evil: Director’s Cut”, meaning you get the DualShock features without the DualShock soundtrack.
The original, uncut, full-color FMVs(I'm sure you're aware of this debacle) have been inserted. They’re higher quality than the original black and white ones, too.
There is also a second disc that replicates "Battle Mode" from the Sega Saturn port!
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I didn’t know about UDC, I’ll look into that.

Since you brought it up, someone is recreating Battle Mode as a mod for the PC version of 1, too
 
S

Star-Lord

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There’s a little-known gem of a game on PSOne called Overblood 2. It’s an action-adventure set in 2115 in Japan, and…well, try and play it for yourself. You will not forget it.
 
Banjo64

Banjo64

cumsessed
Stronghold and Stronghold Crusaders
Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask
Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie
Super Mario 64
A Link to the Past
The Minish Cap
Pokémon Emerald

Some might think I have basic bitch taste, but I replay all of these every year or so.
 
coffinbirth

coffinbirth

Member
Soodanim said:
I didn’t know about UDC, I’ll look into that.

Since you brought it up, someone is recreating Battle Mode as a mod for the PC version of 1, too
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It should be pretty easy to find.

I had not heard about that, pretty awesome!
To be honest, I've never played RE on pc. Is that the original game or the REmake? I assume the latter.
 
Fools idol

Fools idol

Banned
took me a while to think about this.

Super Metroid (genre defining, pivotal moment in nintendo history)
Castlevania SOTN (if games ever deserve a 10/10 this is a fine example. I can not fault a single aspect about it)

Final Fantasy VI (many will say chrono trigger here but I personally disagree -- FF6 was the pinnacle of JRPG storytelling in this era imo, a hallmark)
Earthbound (magical and unique game)

Baldurs gate 2 (terrific, even to this day)
Fallout 2 (as above)

Deus Ex (unfortunately hasn't held up all that well)
Half LIife 1 (the true 'generational leap' (imo the most significant overall)

Starcraft & expansion broodwar
Age of empires
Counter strike (to this day, the greatest multiplayer FPS ever created imo. CSGO isnt quite as good as 1.3-1.6 ever was but its the best you can get actively)

The next few are arguable since they are not necessarily 'classics', but in a few more years, they will be seen as landmarks in game development because of their impact. I expect in 10 years time this thread will contain these by default.

Demons souls / Dark souls 1. (Genre defining and unique experience when they launched. Near perfect combat systems, world design and multiplayer mechanics)
Divinity original sin 2 (Modernised cRPG heaven. High quality systems, world, and overall polish benchmark for the genre it's in).
 
Paasei

Paasei

Member
Looks like I'm too late. All the classics I wanted to mention, have been mentioned already.
Thief 2
Diablo 2
Deus Ex
System Shock
SW KotoR
Fallout and Fallout 2

The list goes on and on. Pretty much the pioneers of their genre or just ahead of their time.
 
Soodanim

Soodanim

Member
coffinbirth said:
It should be pretty easy to find.

I had not heard about that, pretty awesome!
To be honest, I've never played RE on pc. Is that the original game or the REmake? I assume the latter.
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The original verison. http://aydanwatkins.x10host.com/



People are still working on the original PC ports of 1/2/3, most notably someone named Gemini who makes the Classic Rebirth series of mods. There are too many fixes and improvements to list, so the website is here: https://appleofeden.de-doc.com/index.php/downloads/resident-evil-classic-rebirth/. He's still porting RE1 to DirectX9, and a tweet from Aydan said Gemini is going to make a Director's Cut version when he's finished with what he's doing. Eventually the PC ports will support texture replacement, which means they will be compatible with the HD upscale projects that exist. And because they're old games, they run on anything remotely modern. PM me if you want to know more
 
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fart town usa

fart town usa

Gold Member
coffinbirth said:
You may be fully aware of this, but I HIGHLY recommend checking out the rom hack titled "Ultimate Directors Cut".
It inserts the original soundtrack back from “Resident Evil” in “Resident Evil: Director’s Cut”, meaning you get the DualShock features without the DualShock soundtrack.
The original, uncut, full-color FMVs(I'm sure you're aware of this debacle) have been inserted. They’re higher quality than the original black and white ones, too.
There is also a second disc that replicates "Battle Mode" from the Sega Saturn port!
Click to expand...
Yea, I have it on my modded PSPgo, it's really cool. I'm pretty sure the 2nd disc has a texture swap that gives Jill and Chris their REmake outfits. It's a really cool fanmod for sure.
 
IKSTUGA

IKSTUGA

Member
Super Mario Bros. 3
Donkey Kong Country 2
Super Metroid
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Final Fantasy VII
Pokemon Red/Blue
 
Zug

Zug

Member
Personal list of games that will never get old :

Platforming : Sonic 3 & Knuckles / Earthworm Jim
RTS : Starcraft / Total Annihilation
FPS : Doom / Duke 3D
BTA : Streets of Rage 1+2 / Golden Axe 1+2
Vs Fighting : The Last Blade 2 / Tekken 3
Racing : Wipeout 2097
Strategy : HoMM3
Adventure : Grim Fandango
Action/adventure : Legend of Thor / Tomb Raider 2
CRPG : Fallout 1+2 / Baldur's Gate 1+2 / Planescape Torment
 
coffinbirth

coffinbirth

Member
Soodanim said:
The original verison. http://aydanwatkins.x10host.com/



People are still working on the original PC ports of 1/2/3, most notably someone named Gemini who makes the Classic Rebirth series of mods. There are too many fixes and improvements to list, so the website is here: https://appleofeden.de-doc.com/index.php/downloads/resident-evil-classic-rebirth/. He's still porting RE1 to DirectX9, and a tweet from Aydan said Gemini is going to make a Director's Cut version when he's finished with what he's doing. Eventually the PC ports will support texture replacement, which means they will be compatible with the HD upscale projects that exist. And because they're old games, they run on anything remotely modern. PM me if you want to know more
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Oh...OHHHHHHHHH, WOW! I had no idea! That's very, very cool.
I will certainly be digging into this.
 
Vagswarm

Vagswarm

Member
Chrono Trigger and Planescape: Torment still hold up surprisingly well. I just played them for the first time last year (on Steam) and they were both great. Although PS was the enhanced version.

The original Half-Life also was very impressive considering how old it was. Had no problems playing it all the way through without getting bored.
 
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Magnific0giganticus

Magnific0giganticus

Banned
Super Mario NES games
Mega Man NES games (especially 2-4)
Castlevania NES games
The Legend of Zelda NES
Punch Out! NES

Phantasy Star Sega Master System
Sonic The Hedgehog all Genesis(MegaDrive) games
Streets of Rage 2
Shinobi games
Gunstar Heroes

Maniac Mansion PC
Monkey Island 1-2
Day of The Tentacle

If you love gaming you owed it to yourself to know its history and experience it. Try some of the genre defining games of old. Try the original Double Dragon, try Pac-Man, Burger Time, try Defender and Space Invaders. If you love RPGs find some of the very old and great ones, and so on and so forth.
 
BigBooper

BigBooper

Member
Oh a game I want to add, that is unfortunately impossible to buy legally right now is Freelancer. I always loved being a space merchant more than a mercenary.
 
spawn

spawn

Member
I really like Roller coaster Tycoon. I like building things. Even today I get nostalgia to build a theme park
 
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dave_d

Member
Magnific0giganticus said:
Super Mario NES games
Mega Man NES games (especially 2-4)
Castlevania NES games
The Legend of Zelda NES
Punch Out! NES

Phantasy Star Sega Master System
Sonic The Hedgehog all Genesis(MegaDrive) games
Streets of Rage 2
Shinobi games
Gunstar Heroes

Maniac Mansion PC
Monkey Island 1-2
Day of The Tentacle

If you love gaming you owed it to yourself to know its history and experience it. Try some of the genre defining games of old. Try the original Double Dragon, try Pac-Man, Burger Time, try Defender and Space Invaders. If you love RPGs find some of the very old and great ones, and so on and so forth.
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Got to second Gunstar and Shinobi. (Either Revenge of Shinobi or Shinobi 3.)
 
StreetsofBeige

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
For any of you who never played them, find an SNES emulator, put the game on Hard mode and play these. Do not play these on Easy/Normal which makes the game too easy if you got half decent skills. There's more enemies and boss attacks on Hard

For Contra, you only get the true ending if you beat it on Hard anyway. Make sure to use a gamepad with shoulder buttons because some maps have L and R rotation which make it easier. Not sure how youd do this proper playing with a keyboard.

The best ending on Axelay is on Hardest (I think thats what it's called) after you beat Hard. After you beat Hard, it wraps to level one Hardest. Beat this and get the true ending.

Axelay Hardest mode is much harder than Contra III.

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_Ex_

_Ex_

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I've been playing video games for nearly forty years at this point, and Thief remains the very best one I've played. And no, I'm not some old grognard that only plays retro stuff. I do keep up with, and play, modern games. None of them are as well defined and perfected as this masterpiece.
 
zaanan

zaanan

Banned
Nemesis Prime said:
If I play Myst for th efirst time, is it fine to play the new version that came out recently on gamepass or should I try and play the original. Sometimes I prefer not playing a remaster for the first time unless it's true to the original
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Don’t have gamepass, so not sure which version they have, but you can’t go wrong with Myst.
 
Tschumi

Tschumi

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Nobody is going to read this..

Rise of Legends. If was a sequel/reframing of Rise of Nations, the great 00s RTS. It had a strong sci-fi setting, with great, varied enemies, music, gameplay, city building, graphics, exploration and story. Great fun.
 
ThatStupidLion

ThatStupidLion

Member
personally whether because they are fantastic games or just plain old nostalgia talking...

Quest for Glory Series - hybrid adventure pnc & rpg genre
Kings Quest series - adventure pnc
Monkey Island 1/2/3 - adventure pnc
Legend of Kyrandia 1/2 (2 is the best) - adventure pnc, some really neat mechanics and gameplay. 1 can be incredibly frustrating, but still very neat world and story.
Stronghold (dnd brand) - imo granddaddy of RTS / sim genre
Heroes of Might and Magic 1/2/3 ( 3 is the best) - best tbs / tactics genre
Sam and Max hit the road
Day of the tentacle
Full throttle
Ecoquest 1 & 2 ( more for the younger crowd, but still lovely)
Diablo 1/2
The Dig (not the best adventure title, but lovely atmosphere and environment)
Inherit the Earth ( again not the best adventure title, but lovely world building/environment/characters - was supposed to be a trilogy iirc, but got cancelled after 1 game)

I'll stop there...

most if not all these games hold up today.
 
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BigBooper

BigBooper

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Tschumi said:
Nobody is going to read this..

Rise of Legends. If was a sequel/reframing of Rise of Nations, the great 00s RTS. It had a strong sci-fi setting, with great, varied enemies, music, gameplay, city building, graphics, exploration and story. Great fun.
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I've never heard of that, but Rise of Nations was a great game. I expected it would be expensive, but there's a lot on Ebay for $15ish. That's surprising because I sold my old copy of Rise of Nations for about $70 2 or 3 years ago.
 
dano1

dano1

A Sheep
Bakkus said:
None. There are absolutley no games I would say is a must play for any gamer since I respect the fact that we all have very different preferences.
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Must work in politics…. It’s just a opinion. I would like to know
 
ThatStupidLion

ThatStupidLion

Member
Nox is pretty dope Diablo clone. it does enough to be separate itself from Diablo though. and imo actually surpasses diablo in a lot of ways.
 
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dave_d

Member
StreetsofBeige said:
For any of you who never played them, find an SNES emulator, put the game on Hard mode and play these. Do not play these on Easy/Normal which makes the game too easy if you got half decent skills. There's more enemies and boss attacks on Hard

For Contra, you only get the true ending if you beat it on Hard anyway. Make sure to use a gamepad with shoulder buttons because some maps have L and R rotation which make it easier. Not sure how youd do this proper playing with a keyboard.

The best ending on Axelay is on Hardest (I think thats what it's called) after you beat Hard. After you beat Hard, it wraps to level one Hardest. Beat this and get the true ending.

Axelay Hardest mode is much harder than Contra III.

2210256-box_contra3.png


maxresdefault+%2826%29.jpg
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Damn, I've beaten Control III on hardest and I thought that was tough. (I was only able to beat it by abusing some of the game mechanics.) Axelay is even tougher than that?
 
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