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I've recently been playing The Secret of Monkey Island, Deus Ex, Final Fantasy IV and VI, Earthbound, Civilization III, System Shock 2, and I'm planning on buying Thief, Planescape Torment, Fallout 1 and 2, and Tim Schafer's adventure games after I buy a new computer (not that I need one for those games in particular).
 

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I'll go with something that probably wont be mentioned by anyone else. It's a really obscure old DOS game called Darklands and it's absolutely amazing. Set in medieval Germany with all the superstitions that they believed like Hellspawn and alchemy. The character creation it really really cool and hasn't been done by any other game I've played. You can explore the whole country, do quests, and generally ignore your main goal entirely. You can even become a felon (and seek sanctuary in a monastery) or have your part members age and retire and hire new ones (that you create). The combat is real time with pause (like Dragon Age), which is pretty damn impressive considering its age.
 

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Crazzee said:
Honestly, I hated Deus Ex when I finally got around to trying it. It wasn't the fact that it was overhyped or anything, but I just...wow, it was boring and it looked horrible and after playing about halfway through it I couldn't stand it anymore.

A couple days ago I started playing the original Fallout, though, and I am having a ton of fun with that. There are some people telling me I wasted my SPECIAL points and that I am doing things improperly, but I don't care. I'm having a blast.
The problem with Fallout 1 is that there is simply a hard limit on the amount of time you have to solve the problem inherent to the game. I don't recall such limits in Fallout 2, which is probably why I loved it more.
 

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Eclectic Dreck said:
Crazzee said:
Honestly, I hated Deus Ex when I finally got around to trying it. It wasn't the fact that it was overhyped or anything, but I just...wow, it was boring and it looked horrible and after playing about halfway through it I couldn't stand it anymore.

A couple days ago I started playing the original Fallout, though, and I am having a ton of fun with that. There are some people telling me I wasted my SPECIAL points and that I am doing things improperly, but I don't care. I'm having a blast.
The problem with Fallout 1 is that there is simply a hard limit on the amount of time you have to solve the problem inherent to the game. I don't recall such limits in Fallout 2, which is probably why I loved it more.
Well, after you finish the water chip quest(which doesn't take more than an hour or two, even when you don't know what you're doing) if you have the 1.1 update, there won't be any more time limits.

EDIT: According to The Vault wiki, at least.
 

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Hiphophippo said:
TsunamiWombat said:
Star Wars: Republic Commando
I've never played this, but I think might just finally have had enough of people telling me great it is. You're the last one sir/ma'am.

Sell it to me. I need something new to play.
Its a Star Wars shooter that rapes. Maybe its my nostalgia talking to me, but I found the squad A.I. better than half the shit out there. Imagine the awesomeness of what could have been in the prequel trilogy condensed into a game. That is my opinion though. xD
 

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Cleril said:
Zeromaeus said:
Careful with character creation if you're playing Fallout 1 and 2. Especially 2. It can make or break you.
Oh yes....the difficulty curve in 2 is so fucked up.

"Let's not give them a gun!"

"Err....okay! Then we'll throw 9 mole rats at them on Easy difficulty!"

"Yea!"

I'm planning to get Planescape: Torment and plenty of old games (Morrowind for example) are still better and not from a nostalgic viewpoint either.
I'm half way through Fallout 1 when I decided to give Fallout 2 a try. As I speak, I'm stuck in the beginning dungeon, specced as an sniper extraordinaire, with nothing but a spear, and slowly losing life due to fucking radscorpion venom. Yeah, nice difficulty curve Interplay.
 

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Blackality said:
Planescape:Torment >>> Really, you HAVE to buy this!

I'm playing Parasite Eve on my PSP and it is awesome (despite the horrific random battles)
Yeah, this one is definitely going in my "To play" pile. Is it has funny as people say it is?

Wuvlycuddles said:
Bleh, Morrowind isn't THAT old. I'm runnin my copy of Daggerfall through dosbox atm, now THAT is old and VERY awesome.... apart from the fact that all the gold you pick up actually counts towards your encumberance. Total pain in the backside if you try playin as a mage.
Dude, I tried running Daggerfall on my windows xp. I had the hardest freaking time with it. It just wouldn't run. Any tips?
 

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Cleril said:
Hannibal942 said:
Cleril said:
Zeromaeus said:
Careful with character creation if you're playing Fallout 1 and 2. Especially 2. It can make or break you.
Oh yes....the difficulty curve in 2 is so fucked up.

"Let's not give them a gun!"

"Err....okay! Then we'll throw 9 mole rats at them on Easy difficulty!"

"Yea!"

I'm planning to get Planescape: Torment and plenty of old games (Morrowind for example) are still better and not from a nostalgic viewpoint either.
I'm half way through Fallout 1 when I decided to give Fallout 2 a try. As I speak, I'm stuck in the beginning dungeon, specced as an sniper extraordinaire, with nothing but a spear, and slowly losing life due to fucking radscorpion venom. Yeah, nice difficulty curve Interplay.
Yeah, I'm having a lot of troubles with that damn dungeon. I can't even find my way out. Online strategy guides, away!!
 

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Hannibal942 said:
Dude, I tried running Daggerfall on my windows xp. I had the hardest freaking time with it. It just wouldn't run. Any tips?
http://www.dosbox.com/ <--- Hasn't failed me yet when it comes to win95 and dos games. Takes a bit of configuring sometimes however, so read the instructions!
 

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I love Deus Ex and will still play it every now and again. Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo is also a golden oldie along with Super Metroid, Super Mario and Zelda-A Link to the Past, all on the Snes.
 

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Planescape: Torment and Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (best title ever?) have both fulfilled my RPG needs better than any modern RPG ever even remotely could.

Deus Ex, however, I find quite frustrating and not as ungodly awesome as often advertised. It's like some mechanics, like stealth, are just broken, and headshots are sometimes insta-kills, sometimes not (even when shooting them in the back of the head). It's pretty annoying. Maybe it'll get better later in the game.

And I still enjoy Simcity 3000 a lot more than Simcity 4, and I'd love to get Rollercoaster Tycoon working again. I miss that game, big time. Of course we can't forget about Half Life, which is still better than quite a few modern shooters.
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doom , i love that game, also unreal tournament... me and my friends mod it and have so much fun with it
UT99 never ever gets old. To me it'll always be the King of Deathmatch. The new instalments in the series aren't even remotely as good as the original.
 

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Agree with UT99 being the best deathmatch shooter ever.

I fantasize regularly about a world where game companies copy the real classics over and over again instead of all the generic crap we have right now. Imagine graphics and interface updates for all the games in this thread. Gamer heaven.
 

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FieryTrainwreck said:
Agree with UT99 being the best deathmatch shooter ever.

I fantasize regularly about a world where game companies copy the real classics over and over again instead of all the generic crap we have right now. Imagine graphics and interface updates for all the games in this thread. Gamer heaven.
oh so agreed
last night i got on my laptop to find i had UT99 on it... i got 4 hours sleep and still managed to drag my self to school : )
time well spent
 

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FYI: For the next 24 hours you can actually buy Deus Ex and Invisible War together for less than the price of a value meal at Mcdonalds.

Deus Ex alones cost? 2 dollars and 50 cents. I'll just be blunt; You will never get a better deal in terms of cost and value unless someone gives something to you for free.
 

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I am old school, all that's new to you is old to me. You kids have my envy. The first time I played Deus Ex was when it came out, and I loved it too. I just remember thinging that it was odd the way JC spoke without really pausing.

If you've never tried it, Thief was a pretty great series too, and if you really want a genuinely old school experience, Ultima 7 and Serpent Isle were awesome, as was X-Com. Oh hell, here's a short list.
Drakan: Order of the Flame
Jagged alliance: Deadly Games
Indianan Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Full Throttle
Star Wars TIE Fighter
Planescape Torment
 

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"Day Of the Tentacle" and "Myst" contend for best adventure games EVAR.

It took me three years to finish DotT.