Ah Nostalgia...

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 24 Oct 2006, 06:46

What game are you the most nostalgic for (in the 'Good Old Days' sense) The only game barred from this is TA, for obvious reasons.

The game I am nostalgic for is: Fallout 1. I'm nostalgic for it and I stopped playing it a few minuets ago after finally getting my hands on a double barreled shot gun. Its very good way to supplement my rifle, which is my long range weapon. So the enemy closes, I can either stick em with my combat knife, or blow their arm off with my shotgun. If an enemy is laying the beat down on you in close range, aim for the leg or groin...then run like hell. Oh and Jinxed is the best trait you can pick. Makes everyone have three times as many critical failures, including you. Guns explode, anvils fall onto feet and people punch themselves in the face by an accident.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 24 Oct 2006, 07:30

Civilization II. I spent many days of my life playing that game.

I'm also nostalgic for the days when StarCraft was a top-of-the-line next-generation game.

Basically I'm nostalgic for that brief period, from like 1996-1999, when gaming was good. Back then, you could pick up a good game from the store shelf easily. Now, it's like digging through a bucket of warm shit trying to find a penny.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 24 Oct 2006, 07:35

Its not that bad. Dark Crusade and Oblivion were really good, as were Call of Cthulu and Medevil 2 (when that comes out) and Dark Messhia of Might and Magic, which I belive IS out.

See there are many many many more games being made each day. Thats a lot of games, and thats a LOT of crap games. There are the same amount of good games, but there are even more crap games. So it just makes finding it harder. But I like rooting those games out...but thats just cause I'm a rambling psycopath.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 24 Oct 2006, 07:36

In talking about games, you must follow the First Rule of Finding Good Games: A game isn't good if it hasn't come out yet. Period. End of story. I don't care if Jesus came down from on high to help program the game, it's not good 'till it hits the shelves.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 24 Oct 2006, 07:43

What if it's finished production and I played the demo, read the reviews and know the developer insdie and out? How can it get worse if they've stopped making it? Will god somehow tamper with the disks before they hit shelves?

Deathblane · Post by **Deathblane** » 24 Oct 2006, 11:18

Freespace 1 & 2. Damn those games were awesome.

Kixxe · Post by **Kixxe** » 24 Oct 2006, 11:53

Ah.. i miss duke nukem 3d... so fun blowing up aliens and flying around with jetpack.

And Megaman. Godamnit the old series and the first X games rocked.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 24 Oct 2006, 12:35

Dune 2, MoO2 and Fallout 2. That's the three games I kept playing for more than a week...

pintle · Post by **pintle** » 24 Oct 2006, 12:59

Commander keen series was pretty awesome. Not as good as the mighty Interstate '76 thought, that game is still top of its bizzare sub-genre of muscle -cars-in-the-desert-with-guns-strapped-to-em-with-a-funk-soundtrack.
Sonic and Knuckles, combined with Sonic 3 was truly epic, and imo the sonic series just went downhill from there.

Fallout owns

Risasi · Post by **Risasi** » 24 Oct 2006, 14:44

Of course Civ (which was just a port of a board game)

Wing Commander (the original)

Rally Speedway

Gunship

The Art of War

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » 24 Oct 2006, 15:04

Jazz Jackrabbit, Tyrian, and Descent 1 were some of the first computer games I ever played, and the only ones that I remember the names of. That was a really long time ago.

Ooh, and there was also this game where you're a red hovercraft and you play capture the flag with blue hovercrafts... Don't remember what it's called... I played that almost as much as Descent... And it was lost when my grandparent's computer stopped working...

And then a lot later there were huge Starcraft games in the computer lab during lunch, and during school social events like dances. That was when I was introduced to the concept of a RTS.

Good times.

I'm not nostalgic about TA at all though, because I only found out about it like a year or two before Spring came out.

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 24 Oct 2006, 15:27

Halflife #1 of all time.
Gunmetal. playing splitscreen with your mates was the ownage :)
Commander Keen
Red Alert. The music, the replayability, the grenadesoldierhax.
Starcraft on lan with my mates wasnt that shabby either.

Kixxe · Post by **Kixxe** » 24 Oct 2006, 16:02

Comp1337 wrote: Gunmetal. playing splitscreen with your mates was the ownage :)

can you be nostalgic about a game released 4 years ago?

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 24 Oct 2006, 16:30

Ultima 7.

Still the best RPG i've ever played and if you disagree you havent played it

Bhaal · Post by **Bhaal** » 24 Oct 2006, 16:34

Z
from bitmap brothers was my first game^^ and i think its one of the best^^

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 24 Oct 2006, 16:37

I remember playing a demo of that.

The robots drink coffe when they're standing idle or something

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 24 Oct 2006, 16:43

And their (german) responses are very annoying, especially when they pick up stuff like grenades.

UFO XCOM and UFO TFTD are awesome too but I never got hooked on them until recently. Fixed and patched windows version ftw.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 24 Oct 2006, 16:45

Where do you get these versions? I have one of UFD but it's really buggy and I really want to try TFTD, as I remember it beeing really really friggen creepy, with all the underwater sound effects and things.

Crysalids are freaken scary beyond all possible imagining.

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 24 Oct 2006, 17:31

Hmm...Sonic and Knuckles collection (long time ago :D), Shining force, and Descent II come to mind.

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 24 Oct 2006, 18:16

Kixxe wrote:
Comp1337 wrote: Gunmetal. playing splitscreen with your mates was the ownage :)
can you be nostalgic about a game released 4 years ago?

Are we thinking of the same game? im not talking about http://www.gamestats.com/objects/016/016805/

Im takling about a tank game from round '96

Spring RTS Engine

Ah Nostalgia...

Ah Nostalgia...