Are they the ‘epics’ of their time, or some things that are less well known?
I still find Civil War Generals 2 to be a really fun and challenging game. The visuals are still perfectly readable and charming.
What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today?
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setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The original Legend of Zelda. I still have it on cartridge and every once in a while I’ll just steamroll the entire game and whoop Ganon’s ass. I can usually do it in about 4 hours.
I don’t use any glitches or speedrun optimizations, I just know where everything is and what order to do things in.
AWizard_ATrueStar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have been considering a second quest play lately. All these years I have never played the second quest.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I started recently. I’m keen to finish it.
waggz@programming.dev 1 month ago
I had a small binder full of hand drawn maps of both overworlds and all the dungeons. I wish i still had that. It got pretty ragged from many friends borrowing it. What a great unlocked memory from my childhood.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nfs hot pursuit 2 holds up insanely well. Ahead of its time. Gt2, ff12, musashi, crash bandicoot. Lot of ps2. Still play all my 2600 and nes and n64 games too
EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Less Pokémon here than I thought there would be, though it does make a showing. I do gen 2 and 3 now and again. Gen 1, I think I’ve wrung out completely, and gen 4+ (DS and onward) just doesn’t emulate as cleanly in my experience.
And I guess I’m approaching my 2nd decade of still playing certain MUDs: Achaea/Aetolia, Discworld, Lost Souls.
I don’t really game much these days, though; certainly not like I used to.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m midway through Oblivion Remastered and holy shit is inner 20s me ever happy about this raytracing thing
So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Morrowind, Shenmue, Earthbound, all the the Mega Mans
Coelacanth@aggregatet.org 1 month ago
I’m interested in trying Shenmue after it was (to me rather surprisingly) awarded the “Most Influential Game of All Time” award by BAFTA.
How do you play it there’s days? Physical Dreamcast? Can you play it on PC? Emulator?
So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have my Dreamcast still so I could theoretically boot it up any time and get the “authentic” experience. However they released it digitally for playstation and I think Xbox, along with the sequel.
I will say, it might be less accessible if you haven’t played anything like it previously. Game design sensibilities were different back then and it was the first real attempt at an open world game, to say nothing of the awkward English voice acting. But the narrative is still fantastic and I can’t think of many games that have ever been so ambitious in their scope. It’s part Virtua Fighter, part RPG, and part narrative walking simulator. I discovered it by chance at a formative time in my life and those first awkward steps into it with no idea what I was about to experience are still a core memory from my teenage years.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I guess haha
dil@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Technically I played lightbike a variation of armagetron (that imo was honestly superior, it had jumping, boosting, maps that took advantage of that, skins back when they were cheap) but I still play armagettron on ocassion, agains the ai for the most part. Loved that ipod game. I wish it was still popular, think they got scared of licensing disputes with disney and a bit greedy with the microtransactions towards the end, started to effect gameplay through boosts.
I wish some of the changes like jumping and maps that were more than just one grid made it over to armagettron or another pc version but those stayed simple sadly.
I would eat up a modern cross platform tron lightbike game with maps like the ipodgame, jumping, boosts, etc. and cosmetics like rocketleague as long as they don’t give you a leg up. It would be all I play.
Toes@ani.social 1 month ago
Does chess count?
Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Rogue, Hack, Nethack. Basically nethack, but it built on those before it. Occaisonally Larn. Amiga Larn.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Angband was my jam for a while, and of course that parlayed directly into Dwarf Fortress
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They’re all well-known: Pac-Man (first game I ever played), Super Mario games, Metroid games. Anything past SNES I feel like I was too old to consider it my “youth.”
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Squarez Deluxe
foster@lemmy.hangdaan.com 1 month ago
I still play some of my old school Pokemon games from time-to-time such as Red, Silver, Ruby, and Platinum.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 month ago
Thunder force 4 or lightning force in my youth was a really fun game. Played it to death on the Genesis. It still holds up. I still play it from time to time.
mfbatz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m so happy to see this mentioned. It also has an incredible OST.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 month ago
The fan stuff is excellent as well:
Heavy Instrumental Metal:
charonn0@startrek.website 1 month ago
I’ve still got my Nintendo 64, and I sometimes boot up Goldeneye for old time’s sake.
Mesophar@pawb.social 1 month ago
Currently replaying the Sly Cooper series, it will always be a favorite of mine
razzazzika@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Every final fantasy game i seem to play over and over again on loop, bunch of different iterations. Played the nes ff1, then the ps1 remake, then the GBA remake, and then the pixel remaster. Currently playing thr pixel remaster of 2. GBA was the only other version I played of that.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
• Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Hate it or love it, I still think it’s an amazing game.
• Chuzzle Deluxe. Recently got back into it after purchasing it a few months ago.
• Zuma Deluxe. Same thing applies.
• Sonic Unleashed. Went from playing on PS2 to 360 to now Steam Deck. The 360/PS3 version is absolutely superior, though.
Any others I can think of are all things I started playing closer to when I was a teen, so I’m not counting them.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dungeon master and Dungeon master chaos strikes back
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Quite a bunch, but the ones I come more often to my mind (and that are not DS titles, if not it would be Jump Ultimate Stars, Metroid Prime Hunters or Mario Kart DS) are:
Jackie Chan Stutmaster and Toy Story 2, both PS1 games (among other PS1 titles).
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Still playing Call of Duty: United Offensive multiplayer on PC nearly every day
BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex. Original hardware, Muscle memory from childhood. Still a banger 27 years after my first time.
Wrdlbrmpfd@feddit.org 1 month ago
Hat-Trick Hockey, World Games etc.
pasdechance@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Quite a few, but the one that I’ve played the most is Super Metroid. I do like to play through the different Mega Man games too and a few others, but they are almost all well known games.
I have rediscovered other games that I totally overlooked because I thought they were too kiddy or too hard like The NewZealand Story, Gimmick and so many shmups.
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Most of them! Well, not regularly. But I love going back to the games and consoles of my earlier days.
My favourites are the 16-bit and early 32-bit eras
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
uhhh
Star citizen
AWizard_ATrueStar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Every so often I will fire up my copy of Mega Man 2 and run through it.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Mega man is SO hard. I struggle to get anywhere. But, that music. I LOVE it.
AWizard_ATrueStar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes the music in the Mega Man games is legendary
guy_threepwood@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I bloody loved Harry The Handsome Executive. It was an Ambrosia Software shareware game from the 90s and was surprisingly underrated. Will probably run on Infinite Mac but it never got an OS X port or anything
catty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
shareware gave rise to some truly original and awe-inspiring games, and then some like this: mattyongames.wordpress.com/2008/…/grandad-quest/
guy_threepwood@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes! And that’s amazingly similar to Harry (but also completely different) - Harry goes around the various offices on his swivel chair (backwards, because kicking off things is of course easier) and fires staples at malfunctioning robots