Heh. It's been such a long while since I ran emulators on my PC. I guess SNES and PS1 is where it's at though.

Ah, what the heck - it's summer, so I guess I can spend a weekend setting up some emulators and running the games you mentioned.

I hope they'll work for Vista 64bit. I don't understand how game developers screw up so badly nowadays - no matter how great the graphics are, if the story is shit, the game is shit, you know? Gameplay and story wise, old SNES games were so much better.

Also, too much FPS nowadays. literally 90% of the games being released these days are FPS or have FPS elements.

Nao

Poland166 Posts

July 10 2010 06:45 GMT

#22

Rougelikes seem to be out of your list, and altough graphics are mostly ASCII they can have huge worlds and deep stories, and first and foremopst, they have a HARD mode on all the time, step lerning curves and one life per game (will delete savegame after dying).

Personal best is ADOM, and others are Nethack, Dungeon crawl, Incursion, ToME and others.

there are also others more "action" like rougelikes like Doom RL , Berserk RL, or Aliens RL (by Kornel Kislewicz)

And tehre is also the biggest sandbox fortress bulding simulation ever "Dwarf Fortress" with really blody battles, child labour, never sober dwarves, gigant doomsday devices, and magma. (try searching an Boatmurdered - let's play, its awesome).

RandomAccount#49059

United States2140 Posts

July 10 2010 06:47 GMT

#23

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orgolove

Vatican City State1650 Posts

July 10 2010 06:48 GMT

#24

Oh yeah! I actually have a set of links of roguelikes that I had promised myself to play, but never got to it. Thanks for the reminder!

I did try Dwarf fortress. It was fun - but once you re-create the emergency lava switch from Boatmurdered, you reach kind of an end, you know? Nothing can ever threaten you from land, and it becomes just text based management from there...

orgolove

Vatican City State1650 Posts

July 10 2010 06:49 GMT

#25

Excellent, excellent. I knew there had to be something I was missing. So far it's SNES/PS emulator games and roguelikes. Great!

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

July 10 2010 06:55 GMT

#26

As far as RPGs go:

Fallout 1, 2
Baldur's Gate 1 (do it with a full play-through into 2)
Planescape Torment (bar-none best story-driven RPG of all time)
Mask of the Betrayer (first expansion for Neverwinter Nights 2--VASTLY superior to the default campaign)
TES: Morrowind

Other genres:
Company of Heroes (as much as this site derides RPGs that aren't Starcraft, this one's pretty good, and definitely some good fun at LANs)
System Shock 2

orgolove

Vatican City State1650 Posts

July 10 2010 07:04 GMT

#27

Oh, I tried Planescape Torment. It was pretty good.

Morrowind.. ehh. After spending so much energy on Oblivion, I'm afraid to go back into modding into that game. Maybe when I was younger, I had the passion to spend hours to 3D model and make the texture of a new sword into just the right color, size, and looks - but not anymore...

Baldur's Gate 1? I already played 2 - and I thought about it, but 1 is just a lower level cap version with an unrefined engine, as far as I can see.

Yeah, I already played all the expansions of both neverwinter nights. I agree Mask of the Betrayer was excellent.

Shiet, I did try company of heroes. It was in the same vein as Warhammer 20K though. Meh.

System shock, never looked at it before. A quick google search shows promise, but I don't know if it'll run in vista 64bit. Is it good enough that I should go through the trouble of reprogramming the exe or finding a compatibility patch for it?

duckett

United States589 Posts

July 10 2010 07:05 GMT

#28

theyango forgot the game he plays 100% the most these days...WoW!

you should join and sign up on our server. the fee really doesnt add up to much esp given the time periods that ppl often play the game in, and if you're a big game (and customization!) enthusiast with a bit of time it sounds like a great fit.

also lol james rpg's that aren't starcraft? interesting...

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

July 10 2010 07:11 GMT

#29

On July 10 2010 16:05 duckett wrote:
theyango forgot the game he plays 100% the most these days...WoW!

you should join and sign up on our server. the fee really doesnt add up to much esp given the time periods that ppl often play the game in, and if you're a big game (and customization!) enthusiast with a bit of time it sounds like a great fit.

also lol james rpg's that aren't starcraft? interesting...

Good job reading the thread. Someone recommended WoW on the first page, and orgolove respectfully declined.

On July 10 2010 16:04 orgolove wrote:
System shock, never looked at it before. A quick google search shows promise, but I don't know if it'll run in vista 64bit. Is it good enough that I should go through the trouble of reprogramming the exe or finding a compatibility patch for it?

That depends on how much you liked Bioshock. There will be a reasonable amount of familiarity of the other to someone who's played one. I think SS2 pulls off the experience a little better, but opinions vary.

duckett

United States589 Posts

July 10 2010 07:13 GMT

#30

I know, but no isnt a part of my vocabulary =(.

Btw the lord of the rings mmo is coming off paid subscription right? maybe try that if pay is the only issue

orgolove

Vatican City State1650 Posts

July 10 2010 07:17 GMT

#31

All right, another one to the to-do list. System Shock 1/2. I hope I'll be able to get it working. That's what I'm really worried about - I've been burned so much this past year, with the incompatibility issues between Vista 64 bit and many of the older games.

skindzer

Chile5114 Posts

July 10 2010 07:32 GMT

#32

You are missing A LOT of Snes games.

Try EVO search of EDEN . Not too know but pretty good.

LetMeLiveABit

Malaysia20 Posts

July 10 2010 08:12 GMT

#33

Braid. It is missing in your collection. You won't regret it:

After that, I dunno.
Guild Wars?
Not typically an MMORPG but the full package must be experienced at least once.

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

July 10 2010 08:16 GMT

#34

You cant miss out on half life 1 and fallout 2. Age of empires 1 and 2 are also awesome, Cossacks and all of the expansions can also be fun, and if you are looking for something a bit different, Sacrifice is a good game with a interesting playing system.
If you liked Fable, you might like Jade Empire, I know I did.
Also how was Neverwinter nights 2 ? I loved the first one and the expansions, but the second one looks different.

Scorch

Austria3371 Posts

July 10 2010 08:31 GMT

#35

As with many of these lists, you missed out on the classic gems Jagged Alliance 2 and the Gothic series. They are in my top5 games of all time, although, admittedly, they are getting a liiiittle outdated.

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

July 10 2010 09:26 GMT

#36

huh, how could I forget Gothic, I guess oblivion pushed them from my mind completely. Gothic 1 and 2 are awesome indeed, buggy like hell tho so watch out for that, and id just stay away from gothic 3 altogether.

SirJolt

the Dagon Knight4013 Posts

July 10 2010 11:32 GMT

#37

I remain all about Team Fortress for its somewhat zany approach to a multiplayer FPS and when it comes to consoles...

I play Wipeout HD as though it were going out of fashion. Always gets my heart racing.

Boblion

France8043 Posts

July 10 2010 11:33 GMT

#38

I completly understand your feelings.

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

July 10 2010 12:01 GMT

#39

You can't NOT play Half-Life 1. Old school but fuck what an amazing game.

Also going to 1-up for Braid. A good afternoon or two to get your brain going. Hehe.

arb

Noobville17922 Posts

July 10 2010 13:19 GMT

#40

On July 10 2010 15:17 eshlow wrote:
Lots of good RPGs you haven't played....

breath of fire 2
sword of mana
golden sun
castlevania series
earthbound/mother 2
legend of zelda games
etc.

I personally enjoyed the megaman battle network series (1-6) a lot as well...

Platformers you got some classics like donkey kong 1-3 (SNES), mario 64, SMW2 yoshi's island, etc. Lots of good stuff.

Looks like most of your list is PC games.... Lots of stuff on SNES/GBA/N64 if you really want to play some games. :p Emulators for a lot of these things are now pretty good too. PSX emulation is lagging a bit behind though so... yeah.

Megaman Starforce 1-3(so far) were graet games also