What were your favourite DOS games!?
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Space Hulk : VotBA was such a cool game. Is it me, or was that game dripping with atmosphere?Candidus said:
Either Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis or Kings Quest VI. I can't decide.
Oooh, I also loved Quake and Duke Nukem 3D
Oooh, I also loved Quake and Duke Nukem 3D
YES.subtlefuge said:
Civilization 2
Prince of Persia
Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Battlechess
Gryzor
Prince of Persia
Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Battlechess
Gryzor
Theme Hospital, Jazz Jackrabbit, Hugo's Haunted House of Horrors and its sequels, Captain Comic, Monkey Island, Space Quest, Elf Land, Sim City 2000. Shoot, now I have to go find some of these.
I thought these games were pretty cool from back then:
- Battle Chess
- Duke Nuke em
- Commander Keen
- Jazz Jackrabbit (i'm surprised anyone remembers this, it wasn't that well known)
- Doom 1 and 2 (Doom 2 was very balanced, even by todays standards)
- Any text game from Infocom like Infidel, Zork 1, Planetfall, etc.
- X-wing
- Ultima Online (I can't remember if this ran through Windows 3.1 or not. Windows was just a shell around this era though really.)
Edit: Rise of the Triad, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D also.
- Battle Chess
- Duke Nuke em
- Commander Keen
- Jazz Jackrabbit (i'm surprised anyone remembers this, it wasn't that well known)
- Doom 1 and 2 (Doom 2 was very balanced, even by todays standards)
- Any text game from Infocom like Infidel, Zork 1, Planetfall, etc.
- X-wing
- Ultima Online (I can't remember if this ran through Windows 3.1 or not. Windows was just a shell around this era though really.)
Edit: Rise of the Triad, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D also.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem 3D
Secret Agent
Scorched Earth
Commander Keen
Hocus Pocus (Actually been meaning to play this today)
Blakestone
Mega Man X
Warcraft II
(Not sure if it was a DOS game) MegaRace
(pulls out CDs of shareware games)
MVP Games Vol 2
Mega Games
Game Empire <- This cd had both full games and shareware games if I recall
And my all time favorite (so hard to choose from)
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem 3D
Secret Agent
Scorched Earth
Commander Keen
Hocus Pocus (Actually been meaning to play this today)
Blakestone
Mega Man X
Warcraft II
(Not sure if it was a DOS game) MegaRace
(pulls out CDs of shareware games)
MVP Games Vol 2
Mega Games
Game Empire <- This cd had both full games and shareware games if I recall
And my all time favorite (so hard to choose from)
Was Eye of the Beholder DOS based? I was a little kid back in those days, but that would probably be at the top of my list. Next? Hmm... Psycho Pinball? Anyone else play that one?
God Damn whippersnappers and your new fangled OSes...H30 said:
DOS was THE operating system. It was the Windows of it's day. All the best games were on it.
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
X-Wing
TIE Fighter
Doom
Duke Nuke'm
Was X-wing Vs TIE Fighter DOS or Windows? I thought it was Windows, but if not, that definitely gets a shout out for being a FANTASTIC multi-player game.
I'd probably say "Ultima" and the "Wizardry" series around the cosmic forge (Bane Of The Cosmic Forge, Crusaders Of The Dark Savant). Listing every game I liked from that era would be massive, but those are the ones (series) I probably logged he most hours with. "Might and Magic" probably deserves an honorable mention, but it never quite clicked for me the way the others did, despite a lot of strengths on it's own.
wing commander
Day of the tentacle
Utima 4
and I don't remember if the game
I have no mouth and I must scream by the dreamers guild was on DOS,
but maybe someone can rewise me on that
Day of the tentacle
Utima 4
and I don't remember if the game
I have no mouth and I must scream by the dreamers guild was on DOS,
but maybe someone can rewise me on that
I wish I could find it again. GoG only hosts no-brainers like BG, and shit games like Rayman and Spellforce. Abandonware isn't *allowed* to host VotBA, and it simply can't be bought anywhere! I haven't torrented it because I'm against doing so, but I'm tempted awfully whenever a forum makes me discuss it again...Udyrfrykte said:
I had trouble finding a good torrent for it. Or well, making it work on a newer windows was the biggest problem. Tell me if you ever find a legit copy, anwhere!Candidus said:
I'm actually going to try to recreate that game sooner or later. The mechanics are quite simple, and the number of different models in the original are quite few. I suspect that there are a good amount of people wanting to resurrect VotBA too (doing it alone would be time consuming).
I checked, and seemingly one can make fanmade, non-commercial games using GW IP.
Ah, I grew up watching my parents play the good old stuff. Quest for Glory series, King's Quest, Might and Magic, Heroes of Might and Magic, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, The Lost Vikings... Still...
Betrayal at Krondor.
I'm firmly in the "bestest RPG 4eva" camp. Dammit, that ending. The game should've come with a warning label: "Will horribly traumatise and scar seven-year-olds and kick them into obsessing over fantasy and RPGs forever". Here is a game with a real story - a story that doesn't shove itself down your throat but weaves around you subtly and lets you discover it, a story with all the linearity of a railway but all the feeling of freedom of an open sky, a story that's not about advancing your customised self-insert Mary Sue protagonist but about getting to know and coming to care for the people in that story. It is the ultimate "interactive novel"-style game done right. Despite its age, it doesn't need nostalgia-tinted rosy glasses to be enjoyed now. Unlike with many old games, the graphics are neither irritating nor do they get in the way or are difficult to decipher. They supply atmosphere and provide visual information. They do everything graphics are supposed to do. And the soundtrack! Anyone remember the bird chirping?
Contrary to common misconception, though, Feist did NOT write the story or the text of the game. Frankly, such sophistication isn't his style - and I'm saying that as someone for whom his books were the foray into fantasy fiction (after getting hooked on BaK) and grew up loving them, never mind that it's not exactly preteen-level reading. The story and the original characters were conceived by Neal Hallford and John Cutter, who wanted to explore the world and the dramatic potential Feist had been neglecting. Feist just novelised the story and adapted it into his series, cashing in on the success of the game despite botching much of the characterisation. Maybe that's why the game is so great. It's a labour of love as opposed to property. Can you believe Feist flat out forbids all fanfiction based on his books, despite being willing enough to cash in from somebody else's fanfiction in videogame form?
So yeah. Betrayal at Krondor is the bestest and my favouritest game of all time. Amazing game that will always hold a place in my heart, and I usually hate mushy talk like that. ^^ I'll stop now, or I could gush over it for another ten pages. (Starting with the characterisation. Lo and behold, an anti-hero with a dark and troubled past who *doesn't* spend every conversation and every waking moment angsting about it! Why can't everyone be as cool and have as much backbone as Gorath? Owyn, too, is an underrated character, given how much of a polar opposite he is and how perfectly he complements his darker and edgier companion. Okay, okay. Stopping now.)
Betrayal at Krondor.
I'm firmly in the "bestest RPG 4eva" camp. Dammit, that ending. The game should've come with a warning label: "Will horribly traumatise and scar seven-year-olds and kick them into obsessing over fantasy and RPGs forever". Here is a game with a real story - a story that doesn't shove itself down your throat but weaves around you subtly and lets you discover it, a story with all the linearity of a railway but all the feeling of freedom of an open sky, a story that's not about advancing your customised self-insert Mary Sue protagonist but about getting to know and coming to care for the people in that story. It is the ultimate "interactive novel"-style game done right. Despite its age, it doesn't need nostalgia-tinted rosy glasses to be enjoyed now. Unlike with many old games, the graphics are neither irritating nor do they get in the way or are difficult to decipher. They supply atmosphere and provide visual information. They do everything graphics are supposed to do. And the soundtrack! Anyone remember the bird chirping?
Contrary to common misconception, though, Feist did NOT write the story or the text of the game. Frankly, such sophistication isn't his style - and I'm saying that as someone for whom his books were the foray into fantasy fiction (after getting hooked on BaK) and grew up loving them, never mind that it's not exactly preteen-level reading. The story and the original characters were conceived by Neal Hallford and John Cutter, who wanted to explore the world and the dramatic potential Feist had been neglecting. Feist just novelised the story and adapted it into his series, cashing in on the success of the game despite botching much of the characterisation. Maybe that's why the game is so great. It's a labour of love as opposed to property. Can you believe Feist flat out forbids all fanfiction based on his books, despite being willing enough to cash in from somebody else's fanfiction in videogame form?
So yeah. Betrayal at Krondor is the bestest and my favouritest game of all time. Amazing game that will always hold a place in my heart, and I usually hate mushy talk like that. ^^ I'll stop now, or I could gush over it for another ten pages. (Starting with the characterisation. Lo and behold, an anti-hero with a dark and troubled past who *doesn't* spend every conversation and every waking moment angsting about it! Why can't everyone be as cool and have as much backbone as Gorath? Owyn, too, is an underrated character, given how much of a polar opposite he is and how perfectly he complements his darker and edgier companion. Okay, okay. Stopping now.)
Damn, you beat me to this. I love that game and, thanks to Dosbox, still fire it up and play in through every couple of years.Hekateras said:Ah, I grew up watching my parents play the good old stuff. Quest for Glory series, King's Quest, Might and Magic, Heroes of Might and Magic, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, The Lost Vikings... Still...
Betrayal at Krondor.
I'm firmly in the "bestest RPG 4eva" camp. Dammit, that ending. The game should've come with a warning label: "Will horribly traumatise and scar seven-year-olds and kick them into obsessing over fantasy and RPGs forever". Here is a game with a real story - a story that doesn't shove itself down your throat but weaves around you subtly and lets you discover it, a story with all the linearity of a railway but all the feeling of freedom of an open sky, a story that's not about advancing your customised self-insert Mary Sue protagonist but about getting to know and coming to care for the people in that story. It is the ultimate "interactive novel"-style game done right. Despite its age, it doesn't need nostalgia-tinted rosy glasses to be enjoyed now. Unlike with many old games, the graphics are neither irritating nor do they get in the way or are difficult to decipher. They supply atmosphere and provide visual information. They do everything graphics are supposed to do. And the soundtrack! Anyone remember the bird chirping?
Contrary to common misconception, though, Feist did NOT write the story or the text of the game. Frankly, such sophistication isn't his style. The story and the original characters were conceived by Neal Hallford and John Cutter, who wanted to explore the world and the dramatic potential Feist had been neglecting. Feist just novelised the story and adapted it into his series, cashing in on the success of the game despite botching much of the characterisation. Maybe that's why the game is so great. It's a labour of love as opposed to property. Can you believe Feist flat out forbids all fanfiction based on his books, despite being willing enough to cash in from somebody else's fanfiction in videogame form?
So yeah. Betrayal at Krondor is the bestest and my favouritest game of all time. Amazing game that will always hold a place in my heart, and I usually hate mushy talk like that. ^^ I'll stop now, or I could gush over it for another ten pages. (Starting with the characterisation. Lo and behold, an anti-hero with a dark and troubled past who *doesn't* spend every conversation and every waking moment angsting about it! Why can't everyone be as cool and have as much backbone as Gorath? Owyn, too, is an underrated character, given how much of a polar opposite he is and how perfectly he complements his darker and edgier companion. Okay, okay. Stopping now.)
Another great game from that era: Gabriel Knight; sins of the fathers. Its very fun and well-plotted. I think I still have my CD copy lying around somewhere...
The Quest for Glory Series;
Particularlly the first 4. Fantastic blend of puzzle adventure and rpg. I would love to see this series remade - perhaps bundle the first two games together as one game and do the same with the next two).
I particularly enjoyed Crystal Caves and Jill of the Jungle. I always competed with my sis on who got the highest score.
