Lately, I've found myself in a restrospective mood--playing PS2, Gamecube, or Xbox games instead of current-gen, looking through the virtual console, XBLA, and Steam for older games, ect. I didn't play a lot of PC growing up (a little warcraft and starcraft), so I figured this would be a good place to ask.
Could you please recomend some classic PC games? It'd be nice if they were available on steam, but I'll go through amazon if I have to.
Not to sound like an advertiser, but GOG.com is a great place to start and a great source of numerous fantastic older games for cheap prices and configured to run on modern PC with no trouble.
That's about the best it gets seeing as often older PC games can be a pain in the ass to get working and just as often a pain in the ass to find if you don't already own em as well.
That said, which kinda games are you into? I'd be more than happy to throw some suggestions seeing as I'm a classic PC game junkie.
Lately, I've found myself in a restrospective mood--playing PS2, Gamecube, or Xbox games instead of current-gen, looking through the virtual console, XBLA, and Steam for older games, ect. I didn't play a lot of PC growing up (a little warcraft and starcraft), so I figured this would be a good place to ask.
Could you please recomend some classic PC games? It'd be nice if they were available on steam, but I'll go through amazon if I have to.
As others have said, go to GoG for all your older gaming needs. All games are $10 USD or under, no DRM, and all are configured to run on current operating systems. They're totally awesome.
What games are you into? I'd love to recommend some.
I have no idea what's available on Steam, but here's what I'd recommend:
Civilization II (still far and away the best version of Civ to have been made)
SimCity 3000 (or SimCity 2000 if 3000 isn't "classic" enough)
Theme Park & Theme Hospital
Rollercoaster Tycoon & Transport Tycoon
What kind of games do you enjoy? How far do you want to go back?
Just a few off the top of my head.
Deus Ex-FPS/RPG
No One Lives Forever-FPS, good story and voice acting, great sense of style and funny.
Interstate '76-Car RPG, funky music and good story.
Grim Fandango-A wonderful adventure game, terrific writing, and top notch voice acting.
Sanitarium-An adventure game, great creepy story.
I could suggest more but I think Deus Ex is the only one available from Steam or GoG that
will play on a modern computer.
Not to sound like an advertiser, but GOG.com is a great place to start and a great source of numerous fantastic older games for cheap prices and configured to run on modern PC with no trouble.
That's about the best it gets seeing as often older PC games can be a pain in the ass to get working and just as often a pain in the ass to find if you don't already own em as well.
That said, which kinda games are you into? I'd be more than happy to throw some suggestions seeing as I'm a classic PC game junkie.
As others have said, go to GoG for all your older gaming needs. All games are $10 USD or under, no DRM, and all are configured to run on current operating systems. They're totally awesome.
What games are you into? I'd love to recommend some.
Planescape Torment
Neverwinter Nights
Icewind Dale 1+2
Baldur's Gate 1+2
Fallout 1+2
Elder Scrolls Arena [http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?title=Arena_:_ArenaSetup_EN]
Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall [http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?title=Daggerfall_:_DaggerfallSetup_EN]
^The last 2 aren't on GoG, they're the first 2 Elder Scrolls games. Bethesda made them freeware some time ago, but they're a pain to get running. The above links link to versions where you just need to download, install, and play. Everything is configured for you. And since the games themselves are free, these are free!
Adventure:
Beyond Good and Evil
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
The Longest Journey
Psychonauts
Shooters(both third and first person):
MDK 1+2
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition
Far Cry
Unreal Gold
Unreal Tournament GOTY
Unreal Tournament 2004
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Second Sight
And yeah, thats what I recommend. All those games(except for the elder scrolls ones) can be found on GoG for $10 USD or less.
Well if you're into everything, guess I'll just recommend my personal favourites from the gog site.
First of all, I consider this series pretty much mandatory for any rpg fan: Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2. In my mind Biowares finest work to date and the pinaccle of what an rpg should strive to be. Solid narrative, great characters, surprisingly vibrant 2D artwork even today, entertaining tactical combat, absolutely massive open world... I seriously can't think of any real major flaws in the series. It's absolutely brilliant. And then when you consider there are mods out there which combine BG1 and 2 into one cohesive game as well as improve and tweak the experience towards perfection, then really you just can't get any better. Though other rpg try such as...
Planescape: Torment. You might've heard of this game, hell, there's another active topic about it in these forums right now. Bluntly put this game has by far the best fantasy story and one of the most unique styles and setting in any game, regardless of genre, ever. It's not disputable, it's fact. In terms of story, setting and character Planescape: Torment is one of the most in-depth and provocative games ever made. If only the combat and the basic gameplay mechanics were more solid it'd probably be my number 1 pick for rpg ever. But as it is it comes a close second, which considering how many rpg I've played, is still damned impressive methinks.
Stepping a bit away from pure rpg we've got the absolutely spectacular Heroes of Might and Magic 3. It's a hard game to describe to someone that might not be familiar with this sort of game, so I'll just say it's brilliant and that everything this game does, it does exceptionally well. This is another of those 'I can't think of any real flaws' sort of games, so much so that despite being well over ten years old, I've introduced this game to kids who hadn't even been born when it came out and seen them enjoy it! Now that's the sign of a solid, long lasting experience!
If you wanna give the old Point & Click classic PC adventure games a try, my personal favourite is The Longest Journey. Despite all the gushy mushy love I just gave to Planescape above, this is the game which in terms of story and character really stole my heart. Planescape is deeper, more in-depth and covers a number of more touchy subject but The Longest Journey... well, it's got soul. The main protagonist is my favourite of any game and her journey throughout the games length is enthralling. It's like a really, really nice book for me that I like to re-read every once and awhile for that fuzzy warm feeling of nostalgic happiness. Even nostalgia wont blind me to the shit puzzles and gameplay, but screw that, use a walkthrough if you have to. The story is worth it in my mind!
And as a final suggestion for something more actiony if that's you're thing: Freespace 2. The space sim that was so good it killed the genre... or at least I like to think so. Simply put the story is solid but the gameplay so awesomely intense that you'll be suffering from shellshock and probably need to have your fingers pried from the joystick (I bought a force-feedback joystick exclusively for this game. So worth it!) with a pair of pliers when it's done. Not only that, but of all the games I just listed, this is probably the easiest to get into since a couple of years ago the developers released the games source code online, and as a result the community has been improving the engine ever since to such an extent that it still looks fantastic today. This game is so good at what it does it's become an entire genre unto itself, with so many mods and even total conversion that buying this game is like buying the last ten years worth of amazing space sims all in one. I kid you not!
And there you go! Between those five games (Technically 6 since there's 2 BG games!) that's enough PC gaming goodness to keep a normal human occupied for... hell, well over a year especially if they take the time to play the games fully and explore the communities which have sprung up around each game.
Mmm... spent some time on this reply. Think I'll save it for the next time someone asks for PC game suggestions.
Planescape Torment
Neverwinter Nights
Icewind Dale 1+2
Baldur's Gate 1+2
Fallout 1+2
Elder Scrolls Arena [http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?title=Arena_:_ArenaSetup_EN]
Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall [http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?title=Daggerfall_:_DaggerfallSetup_EN]
^The last 2 aren't on GoG, they're the first 2 Elder Scrolls games. Bethesda made them freeware some time ago, but they're a pain to get running. The above links link to versions where you just need to download, install, and play. Everything is configured for you. And since the games themselves are free, these are free!
Adventure:
Beyond Good and Evil
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
The Longest Journey
Psychonauts
Shooters(both third and first person):
MDK 1+2
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition
Far Cry
Unreal Gold
Unreal Tournament GOTY
Unreal Tournament 2004
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Second Sight
And yeah, thats what I recommend. All those games(except for the elder scrolls ones) can be found on GoG for $10 USD or less.
I've been looking for a chance to try out Baldur's Gate and early Fallout. Needless to say, going to GoG and seeing those for $10 was a great suprise
It seems we have very similar taste in adventure games. I've already got Prince of Persia and Beyond Good and Evil on the PS2, and Psychonauts downloaded on the 360. Thanks for this list...I've got a lot of games to look into now
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