Are they the ‘epics’ of their time, or some things that are less well known?

  • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    37 minutes ago

    I played lightbike a variation of armagetron (that imo was honestly superior, it had jumping, boosting, maps that took advantage of that, skins back when they were cheap) but I still play armagettron on ocassion, agains the ai for the most part. Loved that ipod game. I wish it was still popular, think they got scared of licensing disputes with disney and a bit greedy with the microtransactions towards the end, started to effect gameplay through boosts.

    I wish some of the changes like jumping and maps that were more than just one grid made it over to armagettron or another pc version but those stayed simple sadly.

    I would eat up a modern cross platform tron lightbike game with maps like the ipodgame, jumping, boosts, etc. and cosmetics like rocketleague as long as they don’t give you a leg up. It would be all I play.

  • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex. Original hardware, Muscle memory from childhood. Still a banger 27 years after my first time.

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    They’re all well-known: Pac-Man (first game I ever played), Super Mario games, Metroid games. Anything past SNES I feel like I was too old to consider it my “youth.”

  • villainy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    7 hours ago

    I still play through The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at least a couple times a year though it’s usually with the randomizer these days. It is objectively the best video game ever made, which helps.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    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.

  • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago

    Half-Life 1 (and expansions)

    SimCity 3000, SimCity 4

    Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

    Deus Ex

    Zoo Tycoon

    Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail

    Morrowind

    Industry Giant 2

    Fallout 1/2

    Arcanum

    SimTower

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 hours ago

    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.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Best way to play this these days? I have a disk from the early 2000s, but iirc the last time I tried to use it, it just prompted an update that led to a blizzard launcher… idr if it wanted me to buy a new digital copy or what, but I ultimately decided it was more work than it’s worth and gave up.

      …these days I don’t think I even have a CD drive lol.

      • Redkey@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Apparently the original game and Brood War expansion are free to install through the Battle.Net launcher these days.

        If you have the original discs, the later official patches added the ability to copy the “mpq” files from the CD into the game’s directory, so you no longer need the disc in the drive. Of course, you’re still going to need a drive for the initial installation. That should work for single player (it’s been a few years since I last did it) but I don’t know about online multiplayer.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Super Nintendo:

    • Megaman X. I was never a fan of classic Megaman, but the faster, more action-oriented sequel/spinoff X series rates amongst my favorites. It has tight controls, good music, varied stages, and memorable bosses and combat encounters. I must have beaten the first game dozens of times over the years.
    • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It and Link’s Awakening on the Game Boy were so close to perfect that decades later they’re still the basis of comparison for any new 2D Zelda-like.

    PC:

    • Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn. it was the game that introduced Bioware’s trademark party banter and focus on interesting and likeable characters. The systems are a little rough but it still mostly holds up. Though it’s been a while since my last playthrough, and I usually stop once I hit the Underdark and the open world structure constricts for a few hours.