I just got into Dragon Age: Origins because I was looking for an RPG to sink some hours into and I've seen it praised as one of the best RPGs of all time and I must say, I might agree.

What are some of your favorites that time forgot?

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago

Lechucks revenge

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Jesus fucking christ kids, i came here to say master of Orion. If its after the millennium it's not old. No?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Ancient and wonderful and terribly addictive

    https://www.nethack.org/

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    mostly nes or snes, a link to the past, super contra, double dragon, castlevania iv, street fighter...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Minecraft and FTL are probably the two games I most consistently keep coming back to, especially with mods.

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    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)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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:

    • Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War (+Winter Assault, +Dark Crusade)

    • Stronghold Crusader*

    • Sims 2 (with more or less every expansion)

    • BioShock

    • Arx Fatalis

    • The Longest Journey

    • The two Star Wars KOTOR games

    • Unreal Tournament 2004

    • Thief + Thief II

    • System Shock 2

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • 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!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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...

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    Gunstar Heroes and Zombies ate my Neighbors.

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  • Secret of Mana, and Chrono Trigger are two of the best games ever to come out of Squaresoft.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Still playing https://www.spiralknights.com/ . The player characters appear to be genderless btw.

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  • Island: A Game of Survival

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