I was reading some thread on TL, and a certain username struck me with memories. It literally came out of nowhere. We've had few of those "recommend me an old game" blogs on TL, yet I am certain I have not seen this game suggested once. In fact, I remembered about it for the first time in ~10 years.
It's called "The Horde". God, I remembered how happy I felt while playing it. It had probably one of the best atmospheres out of the hundreds of games that I've played. Game sound was fantastic, music and everything.
There's this trick that I love that they use in some movies/animes (for instance, samurai champloo) - the story belongs to middle ages but somehow one of the characters pulls out a stereo system and blasts some beats (or a mic and starts rapping). Upon finding this game I realized, that's where I've seen it first! I think the king had to answer the phone in one of those intros that the game is filled with. So hilarious.
There was another game that wasn't mentioned before, Battle bugs. Amazing strategy, was hard to beat back then.
Last but not least, Full Throttle. It deserves its own blog for sure, I didn't plan on making one so let me jam it in here with the rest while I have the chance. Full Throttle was one of the most Epic adventure games of all time. I wasn't living in the US back then, that's how I always imagined America LOL. I can promise you won't regret playing this if you haven't.
I must say, this post was made purely because of the Horde, I just couldn't keep it to myself. But. Battle Bugs and Full Throttle were absolutely great regardless.
Full Throttle, I enjoyed that game SO much. A friend lent it to me like a year ago, and I remembered everything I had to do, so the game lasted about 2 hours
On May 12 2010 15:02 ZeroCartin wrote: Have you played The Dig by Lucasarts?
I still have that here my god is that a hard puzzle game, the only big bits i remember are the turtle with acid and the coloured crystals/musical ones.
I always found the Myst's to easy.
I have a game here called lighthouse thats hard aswell (or i was just to dumb back then lol).
And the last one i got thats like these is Welcome to the future.
On May 12 2010 15:02 ZeroCartin wrote: Have you played The Dig by Lucasarts?
I still have that here my god is that a hard puzzle game, the only big bits i remember are the turtle with acid and the coloured crystals/musical ones.
I always found the Myst's to easy.
I have a game here called lighthouse thats hard aswell (or i was just to dumb back then lol).
And the last one i got thats like these is Welcome to the future.
Lighthouse was really hard :| I really enjoyed a game of the same kind called Zork Nemesis.
On May 12 2010 15:02 ZeroCartin wrote: Full Throttle, I enjoyed that game SO much. A friend lent it to me like a year ago, and I remembered everything I had to do, so the game lasted about 2 hours
Have you played The Dig by Lucasarts?
Yeah, it was not that hard as a quest, still took me a few days first time around. I remember I couldn't figure out something about fighting other bikers on a highway, can't remember what exactly. Going to download this tonight and play it through one more time.
I've never played The Dig, is it as epic? Adventure genre used to be so saturated back in a day, no surprise I missed this one.
Lol back then If you wanted something with really good graphics you had to buy games on 4 cds, i think 7th guest and 11th hour were huge.
On May 12 2010 16:25 Rambling. wrote: I have never played full throttle before, but it looks bad ass! Its just a pt an click game right? The story line looks intense hahaa
The story was the best, it really is captivating once you start kicking doors and hitting people with 2x4s. Game has some real-time action spots where you have to fight etc.
On May 12 2010 18:12 Squeegy wrote: Full Throttle is a legenday game indeed, but I have also played The Horde! To be honest, I don't remember much at all of it, but that I did like it!
Haha, I'm shocked someone played this. I literally haven't met a person that knew about it but even upon seeing it 4-5 years after it came out people begged me to borrow it. I don't think there were many games of this quality out there in 1994.
Wow... just watched pretty much that whole Full Throttle vid. Dunno if I am too young or what but I never played old school computer games like that. Oldest thing I've done is HOMM III and Oregon Trail.
On May 13 2010 07:38 Tenryu wrote: Cyberia and Descent were pretty sick games as well. Gobliins was a fun as DOS game as well.
It feels weird once you realize those were made almost 20 years ago.. I can't believe what kind of games they used to make with very little technology.. Like Magic Carpet came out in 1994?!? What happened?
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