Old games you should *ahem* acquire
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Old games you should *ahem* acquire
I've just *ahem* acquired Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and it's rather ace. (I owned the original anyway.)
If anyone else would like to *ahem* acquire it and play me at it, they're welcome.
Anyone else got any suggestions for old games?
If anyone else would like to *ahem* acquire it and play me at it, they're welcome.
Anyone else got any suggestions for old games?
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I wasn't big enough to punch my screen in when I originally played them. Now I am.Roman_Totale wrote:Manic Miner and Jetpac for the ZX Spectrum. Officially two of the greatest games ever made.
Despite the frustration I actually rather enjoyed them at the time, but don't have the patience now.
I was going to say Valhalla, Atic Atac, Wizardry or one of the other more advertury ones but I bet they would annoy me now. I just tried Quo Vadis, but it's not the game I was thinking of.
I don't know if there are *any* old games I would play again seriously, even games like Doom, Diablo and Baldur's Gate annoy me with their "old-ness" - I see all the interface improvements made in later incarnations and become frustrated by the obstacles preventing me from actually "just playing".
Maybe Carmageddon.
Edit: Meerkat. Cool!
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this. also, i have alpha centuri also. wasnt there talk at some point of a play by email thing being done? if not, why not.Anhamgrimmar wrote:Not really old, but you MUST play hostile waters at least once.
As far as old games go, if you want a good (if old) rpg, try the fallout series. any game where you can get forced in to a shotgun wedding, pimp your wife for cash and become a world renound porn star all in the setting of a mad max style post-apocalpse is worth playing, if you ask me.
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game that comes to head first is.......landstalker by sega i think it was on the megadrive so not exactly old
also something that aint old but still very good, final fantasy VII on the playstation 1
also something that aint old but still very good, final fantasy VII on the playstation 1
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UFO.
Got to be the Original X-Com UFO...(Enemy Within I think it was called... was a long time ago)... lost many, many hours playing that game on the old Amiga and then again on the PC. Also used to play Syndicate... Ace game.
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Re: UFO.
oooh, yes, this. Played the new pv version that came out a while back, cant remember what it was called. It was shite in comparison. I fail to understand how they can re-make a game and then include waaaaay less features than the original. it made me sad.TheJockGit wrote:Got to be the Original X-Com UFO...(Enemy Within I think it was called... was a long time ago)... lost many, many hours playing that game on the old Amiga and then again on the PC.
Re: UFO.
Joose wrote:oooh, yes, this. Played the new pv version that came out a while back, cant remember what it was called. It was shite in comparison. I fail to understand how they can re-make a game and then include waaaaay less features than the original. it made me sad.TheJockGit wrote:Got to be the Original X-Com UFO...(Enemy Within I think it was called... was a long time ago)... lost many, many hours playing that game on the old Amiga and then again on the PC.
This too. I played the new version. It was okay, but not a patch on the original. Every now and again I'll pick up UFO or X-Com again and it still causes me sleepless nights. Not bad going for a game that's probably 11 years old.
It's a shame that people who have never played it before will probably be put off by how old it looks.
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Re: UFO.
So very true... I have even just re-installed the original Unreal Tournament on my PC... maybe not as shiny as FarCry or Doom 3 but by god it's a kick ass game for playability...Dog Pants wrote:
It's a shame that people who have never played it before will probably be put off by how old it looks.
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And in singleplayer Unreal>Unreal2 ? I liked the latter, and weapons seemed to come just when you wanted them, but too many yellow spiders. Unreal wins. Especially when played with the UT engine.Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:Yep, still the best UT game there is by far.
UT2003/4 are too quick/uber/l33z
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