EPTOn June 09 2012 00:49 wo1fwood wrote:
Finally got through both, and holy Nostalgia Bomb. God I wasted so many hours in SC2K just making the perfect map. Also Tie Fighter is so much the shit that I actually bought a flight stick about 2 years ago JUST to play it again. One of the few games that I love dearly but have never finished (though I have come danmed close many times).
I would kind of liked to see the C64 get more love, especially with some of the AD&D titles and especially the early Ultima series. I can also understand why Ringworld wasn't listed, but I had a lot of fun with that game, and it's gameplay style is somewhat of a precursor to MYST in ways. Also Eye of the Beholder better be in here somewhere
Finally got through both, and holy Nostalgia Bomb. God I wasted so many hours in SC2K just making the perfect map. Also Tie Fighter is so much the shit that I actually bought a flight stick about 2 years ago JUST to play it again. One of the few games that I love dearly but have never finished (though I have come danmed close many times).
I would kind of liked to see the C64 get more love, especially with some of the AD&D titles and especially the early Ultima series. I can also understand why Ringworld wasn't listed, but I had a lot of fun with that game, and it's gameplay style is somewhat of a precursor to MYST in ways. Also Eye of the Beholder better be in here somewhere
C64 games aren't technically "PC Games". While the term is used generically today, PC actually originally referred to an IMB running MS DOS. I realize there were some really exceptional early DOS games; Ultima, Bard's Tale, etc. etc. But I'm really focused on stuff from after 1991.
The point of this blog series isn't to feature every good PC game ever made (good god, we'd be here for the next 10 years), but rather to hightlight those games which are regonized as being truely great or having contributed to PC gaming in some way (admittedly with a few of my favorites mixed in). I want to tell the story of PC gaming's rise and fall, and how the industry has really changed. At some point I'd like to go back and do the early DOS years, I think there's a lot I could learn too. :D
Though I'm loving hearing about all these other games that people have such fond memories of, feel free to post more about them. Just because a game didn't hit blockbuster status or redefind a genre doesn't mean it's not a really fun game. I had (and still have) countless hours of fun with many of the Sim games from the early 90s. Despite being flops, Sim Ant and Sim Earth are terribly fun.
On June 09 2012 02:02 Synwave wrote:
Sweet jeebus this is one heck of a blog Toastie!
Memories man, so many memories.
You forgot that Mark Hamill was in wing commander, making an already epic series of games even more epic...er!
I was a bit surprised that system shock got only a mention as it basically defined modern story based first person shooters like bioshock, half life, and deus ex etc. which is still an active and widely played genre. I understand it wasn't widely popular at the time but despite that it caused many development houses to shift how they thought to tell stories for these types of games.
Definitely check out the HoMM series, I think the 3rd was probably the height of the series as 4 and 5 are basically just graphical reskins of the same game over and over. It is one of the few series that I fell in love with that I find myself bored with these days. Talk about no innovation
Regarding turn based strategy games have you ever checked out Masters of Magic? Pretty impressive stuff for its time and a lot of nerds got into it. Unfortunately despite its awesomeness the flash flood of rts clones basically drowned it out.
Finally...xcom. So many hours played. So many. I can play it on my modern pc through steam? Gosh...I need to go add some more hours to that game RIGHT NOW!
*vanishes yelling "Five of Five!!" over his shoulder*
Sweet jeebus this is one heck of a blog Toastie!
Memories man, so many memories.
You forgot that Mark Hamill was in wing commander, making an already epic series of games even more epic...er!
I was a bit surprised that system shock got only a mention as it basically defined modern story based first person shooters like bioshock, half life, and deus ex etc. which is still an active and widely played genre. I understand it wasn't widely popular at the time but despite that it caused many development houses to shift how they thought to tell stories for these types of games.
Definitely check out the HoMM series, I think the 3rd was probably the height of the series as 4 and 5 are basically just graphical reskins of the same game over and over. It is one of the few series that I fell in love with that I find myself bored with these days. Talk about no innovation
Regarding turn based strategy games have you ever checked out Masters of Magic? Pretty impressive stuff for its time and a lot of nerds got into it. Unfortunately despite its awesomeness the flash flood of rts clones basically drowned it out.
Finally...xcom. So many hours played. So many. I can play it on my modern pc through steam? Gosh...I need to go add some more hours to that game RIGHT NOW!
*vanishes yelling "Five of Five!!" over his shoulder*
Lol, your right, I did forget about Mark Hamil! Though in my defense, he didn't show up until Wing Commander 4 I think? Which was 1999 iirc.
I've not actually heard of Master of Magic. Damn, MicroProse put out so many damn good games it's hard to keep track of them. Looks pretty cool too. Seriously, you could write a whole blog series just on the HoMM style Turn Based/RPG style games.
And yup, X-Com is available on steam. Just beware, often times the older games that have been made available on steam usually aren't supported the greatest. But supposedly it works on 7/Vista.
On June 09 2012 01:52 DawN883 wrote:
The nostalgia from HoMM 3 hit me now. Imho the greatest turn-based strategy game ever
The nostalgia from HoMM 3 hit me now. Imho the greatest turn-based strategy game ever
Lol, you've just awoken the cranky civ fans
I've really got to go back and play some of the HoMM games. Like a number of the Ultima games on here, they really deserve more that what I've given them. These games had such a huge impact on PC gaming, hell one could write a small book about it.
