[Texican Rude]

[alice]

Ignoring all your suggestions I went and dug up a copy of ultima IX from my pile of games I never ever played. I'm not sure why I'm picking this up. It has a bunch of mediocre reviews and seeing how it's an open ended 3d exploration game it's probably long as fuck. But I must! It comes in this really pretty box too. I <3 garage sales.

I tihnk I should give my french copy of dungeon siege a try as well. I should probably play this before ultima actually.

I also have these random CDs for "starship", "pray for death", and these two wonderful games called "riven" (actually 5 CDs) and "gizmos and gadgets".

But I think these will have to wait.

[Texican Rude]

I think I owned gizmos and gadgets at one point.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Sushi K]

Don't forget Sim City and Civilization.
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[capgamer]

Never has there been a better time to check out Dosbox and illegally download old games from back when PC gaming still had its soul (I kid! I kid!). Stuff like Street Rod 2, Commander Keens 1 and 4-6, the Jill of the Jungle series, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Duke Nukem 3d (though there's a program called Eduke32 that works better than Dosbox), and maybe even a little Oregon Trail Deluxe here and there.

I would link you to such things, but there is far more that a simple google search could tell you than I ever could. Plus, uh... some of it is quite illegal despite its old age and I am unfamiliar with the policy on such things on this website.

As for more legal things, why not check out the Incredible Machine series? More specifically, Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0oKN970wM
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[alice]

[smiley-oh!]

I love the Neverhood and all but it really really hates to run on Windows XP.
And even I don't own a legitimate copy of it anymore. <:(

But alice, maybe you should peruse some of the stuff on Gametap (if your computer can handle its massive resource-hogging interface running in the background). Most of them qualify as "old-ish", and I know for a fact Thief and Psychonauts are in the free rotation right now.

EDIT: whoa I was a page behind. this is embarrassing.

Riven fuck yeah.
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"sometimes i'm just so glad i married you!"

[Toptube]

shogo and septerra core are a pretty good 2 for 1 pack.

Anachronox.

Omikron: Nomad Soul.

Dungeon Siege.

UT2004.
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[Dracko]

[Rya.Reisender]

[parkbench]

[thatbox]

You'll find that Dungeon Siege is surprisingly competent. It's completely generic, but not unfun. As a bonus, DS2 doesn't look much better, graphically, so you can pretend you're playing a recent game!

American McGee's Alice is a good choice!

Oni might be worth your time if you try it and like it; you should be able to find a demo.

Command & Conquer is literally free now, so if you haven't played one of the most important RTSs ever, here's your chance!

Obviously, SimCity (2000 or 3000, your choice) and SimTower deserve some attention if you've any left to give.

[bleak]

Stonekeep.
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Okay!

[Max Cola]

[secondpillow]

Albion.

[parker]

[bleak]

[radish]

I'd recommend: Shogo, any of the Mech Warrior games, Myth 2, Duke 3d, Fury3, the Kings Quest games, Carmageddon, Red Alert, Dungeon Siege, any Lucas Arts adventure games.

I remember really enjoying Muppet's Treasure Island as a kid, I wonder if I'd still like it.

Checking this thread after work for more recommendations.

EDIT: forgot to mention Yoda Stories. Puzzle/adventure game where each game only lasted a couple hours, but every time you played was a random world with random puzzles. It saved the number of times you won, earning you stuff with more play-throughs. After a few games, you fought Vader and got to use his lightsaber in subsequent games. Think you could get the force that way too.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[bruin]

Has anyone said Warcraft II yet?

Because Warcraft II

Plus expansion
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[Rya.Reisender]

Someone mentioned Starcraft and Starcraft > Warcraft II in my opinion. Although I like both.
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Push Eject.

[parker]

[alice]

well I might, just might go back to dungeon siege. I've never played a open-world rpg before except maybe GTAVC and it's non numeric sequel so maybe I should say I've never played a non-urban open-world rpg. Semantics aside, the beginning of the game is worse than twilight princess and I still have yet to find my set of adventuring clothes. I should mention I played this game like 3 years ago when I got it before quitting because I had no idea what I was suppose to do (I guess I never realized the game came with the strategy guide). I also vaguely seem to remember finding the beginning of the game extremely interesting what with you in modern times being teleported to the fantasy world of Brittania. Playing it again now I have no idea what I was thinking because not only is being transported to another world/dimension/time completely overdone (secret of evermore, chrono trigger anyone?) but the game doesn't even try to hide the fact that the 'hero' has no idea of this other dimension. Right at the beginning of the game you have this disembodied voice giving you 'helpful' tips on how to play the god damn game. Moreover I swear it'll be at least another 2 hours before I actually get to Brittania and also seem to recall this annoying jumping puzzle right at the beginning. Ug.

So Dungeon Siege was fun for all of 5 hours and now I think the game is painstakingly repetitive with totally broken AI, a completely stupid and unbalanced class item and inventory system and a terrible UI. I remember why I hate video games now.

I kind of want to give relentless a try because I remember my friend ranting about it being a totally awesome game when I was a kid. I don't even know if i'm thinking of the same relentless here. Or maybe I should do Riven again. hmm

Yes I know I'm passing judgment far too fast on WaDF but I stopped playing WaDF because I didn't find it all that compelling to keep going. I've heard a lot of critical acclaim about it since and don't claim that the game doesn't have anymore to it than i saw out of those 3 minutes. Unfortunately, after my rather depressing 30 minutes with knytt, I feel even less compulsion to go back and try WaDF again. I should also say that I was not predisposed to dislike knytt as I am with certain things. I actually fell in love with the screenshots of knytt but was disappointed when the gameplay featured little more than a bunch of screenshots chained together.

[Texican Rude]

alice once again I forced myself through WaDF and I didn't really like it that much.
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[Clueless Gamer]

X-COM: Enemy Unknown
I know, we all know it, but the thread seems emty whitout mentioning it. Probably one of the best strategy games out there, if not the best.
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[capgamer]

[The Blueberry Hill]

Capture the Flag!
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MYSTERY ADVENTURE START..

[abeabe]

oh duh alien vs predator
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yo I heard this guy is gay

abe: NO

>: (

[Toptube]

Jagged Alliance 2.

SWAT 4.

SWAT 3 if you can't run 4, but you should be able to.
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