List of worthwhile DOS games

[Ninja Destroyer]

Battle Arena Toshinden (1995) vs One must Fall (94)

One Must Fall 2097 was interesting due to the career mode and excellent music. BAT was always in the shadow of Tekken, Virtua Fighter and a couple of other fighting games.

Anyway, Crusader: No Regret is way better than No Remorse. I tried to replay it, but the level design was so bland and I missed the extra stuff from the sequel.

 

[OndrejSc]

 

[Ol' Willy]

Ironic thing is that DOS version of Panzer General is superior to its Windows based version and all Windows based games using the same engine. I mean, compare DOS PG to Allied General or Pacific General with their more clunky interfaces. There is even a port of Pacific General to DOS based version

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Not strictly native DOS games but I've recently tested DOS port Callus (CPS1 emulator) on PCEM to verify how low can you go with system specs.

386DX 40Mhz was too slow for it but on 486 100MHz you can run Cadillacs and Dinosaurs at full speed! I've been playing on Win'95 Callus for more than 20 years but lowest setup I've tried so far was Pentium 200 MMX, I didn't realize that Callus was optimized so well.

 

[Hag]

Elite 2 is still kind of impressive to this day. So much content for a few kb.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

While an older thread, I noticed this YouTube channel and subbed. It has some interesting lists: link

 

[OndrejSc]

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Duke3D was the pinnacle, The King, of my DOS gaming days for me. Challenge me on this and I'm Going To Rip Off Your Head and Shit Down Your Neck and Let God Sort You Out.

 

[OndrejSc]

Terminator: Future Shock is far better in my book.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I liked both but Duke had many many mods and add-ons. Skynet was your only relief for Future Shock (which I never found).

 

[OndrejSc]

Skynet was half-arsed mission-wise and brought SVGA which, for some reason, looked worse than Future Shock VGA.

 

[octavius]

Duke3D was the pinnacle, The King, of my DOS gaming days for me. Challenge me on this and I'm Going To Rip Off Your Head and Shit Down Your Neck and Let God Sort You Out.

I was gonna Kick Your Ass, but I'm All Out of Bubble Gum.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I wish the Bethesda Terminator games got their own optimized source ports like Doom and Duke3D. Could never stomach them in standard VGA (admittedly I attempted to play them many years after I played DOS Duke in standard VGA but by then I was used to at least 800x600 SVGA). Using DOSBox in SVGA with Future Shock on even the most powerful rigs ran like total shit once you entered a building (usually it's the opposite in games and outside areas start the framerate drops). If it gets a proper source port someday the games could be worth playing for me.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Duke3D was the pinnacle, The King, of my DOS gaming days for me. Challenge me on this and I'm Going To Rip Off Your Head and Shit Down Your Neck and Let God Sort You Out.

I was gonna Kick Your Ass, but I'm All Out of Bubble Gum.

I forgot to mention System Shock as a favorite pure DOS game for me back then. However, I was stumped about 3/4 of the way through and had to give up. It was a crying shame too because I really loved the game at the time. I had to progress and you needed to use the eyeball scanner with one of the station's employees' eyeballs (all dead and gone) to get through the security door. How the fuck was I - an outsider - suppose to do that? If you didn't find the severed head under a pile of rubbish you were screwed. I never found it, so, like The Daleks when they needed to get up one or two steps to chase after the heroes, I was screwed.

 

[octavius]

I loved System Shock. So fun exploring the space station. So educational having to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys, and making a boot disk.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I believe Future Shock & Skynet still had a shitload of bugs. I did finish Future Shock. Later I got abandonware Skynet but never finished it. And yeah, WMV I was annoyed with. Tbh, I didn’t care for it in Crusader either. I wanted to kill everyone after that sequence. But kid Conner or was it kid Reese fuck if I know …. WTF!!!


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