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Jesus fucking christ kids, i came here to say master of Orion. If its after the millennium it's not old. No?
Nothing with realtime 3D graphics qualifies as "old".
I think the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert still holds up really well. It has a good storyline, quality artwork and the gameplay is still fun 30 years later.

The first Deus Ex game. Really fun FPS with some RPG elements, branching paths with multiple endings, cool augmentations, and the GotY edition came with the SDK so there were always a bunch of cool custom multiplayer servers.
I used to make custom weapons, like a shotgun that shot chunks of meat, or an energy sword that dripped acid or flames. Really fond of it and I should probably play it again sometime soon
mostly nes or snes, a link to the past, super contra, double dragon, castlevania iv, street fighter...
Minecraft and FTL are probably the two games I most consistently keep coming back to, especially with mods.
Half Life 2 is strong!
source engine games have held up so well! they definitely look lower poly / lower texture detail compared to new games, but the lighting is almost entirely ray-traced. It's precomputed, which means nearly everything needs to be static. In the time since then, a lot of graphical advancement has been in the direction of replicating ray-traced lighting but in real time. So lights and the environment can't move much, but it looks fantastic even by modern standards and runs on a potato. Great tradeoff for that type of game imo. valve's art direction at the time was peak, too, and they made very good use of an incredibly limited lighting engine. so I think all those games will hold up for a long, long while.
Titanfall 2 (same engine!) still looks on par with shit coming out now, and it's not old old but it is almost a decade old. (sorry)
Me: "Dragon Age Origins isn't old, it was released when I was in high sch-ooooooh..."
Guess this means I can just give you a list of some of my favourite games (😞), in the order in which I can remember them:
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Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War (+Winter Assault, +Dark Crusade)
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Stronghold Crusader*
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Sims 2 (with more or less every expansion)
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BioShock
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Arx Fatalis
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The Longest Journey
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The two Star Wars KOTOR games
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Unreal Tournament 2004
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Thief + Thief II
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System Shock 2
Man, I never see praise for The Longest Journey. Did you play Dreamfall and Dreamfall Chapters? I love the world building in these later games.
I did play Dreamfall and I've been meaning to go through Chapters, too, but I need the proper headspace for these. The Longest Journey is one of my absolute favourite games/series, and I'm very invested in the story (still!), so I don't want to just rush through it, y'know?
And, agreed, they don't get nearly as much love and attention as they should, wonderful games!
Hexen! I have a kinda love/hate relationship with it: obscure puzzles, tanky enemies, less weapon variety than Doom/Heretic, devilish enemy placement...
But I still love it. Its' atmosphere is just special, the feeling of exploration, and Wraithverge...
The first stage (not the tutorial one) is shit though. I almost dropped the game during it but fortunately I managed to stick to Hexen. The second and third stages are peak. That swamp...
Secret of Mana, and Chrono Trigger are two of the best games ever to come out of Squaresoft.
Still playing https://www.spiralknights.com/ . The player characters appear to be genderless btw.
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