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Non-RPGs you are extremely nostalgic about

luj1

You're all shills
Vatnik
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Powerslave (Exhumed) (1996)



There is something about this game. Maybe it was the sense of isolation? I loved the first few levels where you only fight scorpions and try to find a way. . Level design was good, not Quake . Sound design was fricking excellent in this game. The sound of sliding stone doors, the sound of those hp blobs when you pick them up...

Red Alert: Retaliation (1998)



This was the expansion pack which introduced the Tesla Tank. Loved the music, intereface and gameplay. The battlefield was so readable, you immediately know what's going on. The building animations were sweet too.

Resident Evil 2 (1998)



Gorgeous environments, gorgeous atmosphere. Nice UI and I loved combining items. Also the puzzles were cool.

Alien Trilogy (1996)



Claustrophobic game.
 

Sweeper

Arcane
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Warcraft 3, Age of Empires 2, Age of Mythology, Max Payne, Hitman: Codename 47/Silent Assassin, CS 1.6
I don't really enjoy nostalgia though. The two times I tried revisiting nostalgic shit (Samurai Jack and Warcraft 3) it just wasn't as good as I remembered it, leading to a fairly unsatisfactory experience. Nostalgia is best left where it belongs, in the past.
That said I will often times listen to the OSTs of various games I'm nostalgic for.
 

JarlFrank

I like Thief THIS much
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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
The stuff I grew up with in the early 90s, of course. That's my childhood vibes.

Test Drive (1987)
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Vette (1989)
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Young Math (1985)
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Commander Keen (1990-1991)
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Jazz Jackrabbit (1994)
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Monkey Island 1 & 2 (1990-1991)
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James Pond 2: Codename Robocod (1991)
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Sam & Max (1993)
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Thalstarion

Educated
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Resident Evil 2. I've always liked the zombie genre, be it movies or video games...but there's something so distinct and nostalgic about hearing that hauntingly beautiful music after stepping foot into the police station for the first time.
 

Just Locus

Educated
Joined
Mar 11, 2022
Messages
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Location
Termina
TEKKEN 5, This game was extremely innovative in the fighting game genre and one of my favorite games of all time.

Story battle featuring 30 fighters with over 70+ moves in a creative open-ended combo system, with animated interludes, narrated prologues, and endings for each. The first game in the series to feature customization, and impressive graphics for the time, and some of the best BGM you'll hear in a fighting game. This is also not to mention that the game released with the not-so-fun "Devil Within mode" which was a beat-em-up that you needed to complete to unlock Devil Jin (and a 3D Galaxian-type game through a secret collectible), a response to people's criticism of TEKKEN 4's Jin which reworked 3's Jin moveset into something completely different. It also had the original trilogy of TEKKEN games (Arcade version) as well.

It also revolutionized the arcade cabinets at the time, with customizable player cards that not only allow you to save your player customization for the machine but also save your win/loss ratio and username. It also allows you to play them using the Dualshock controller

I used to stay up all night playing the Story battle for each character, playing through Survival trying to see how far I could beat my older brother's high score, trying to find out how to unlock Jinpachi, the game's final boss (It wasn't possible without cheats :() and trying to beat Arcade Mode on Ultra Hard difficulty (it took dozens of sleepless nights). Just a really really fun and feature-rich game that actually holds up well by modern standards.
 

Eldrin

Novice
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Triumph! War 2099 - Shooting and throwing grenades at bug aliens, while gathering blinking eagle icons to spawn meatfodder troops that help you in the battle.

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Capman - Pacman with Shotguns, Machine guns and Bombs.

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Both have a great Coop!
 

Lord_Potato

Arcane
Glory to Ukraine
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Location
Free City of Warsaw
Steel Empire (also know as Cyber Empires in other countries), first game for the Amiga 500 I got.

A turn-based strategy with economic, military and political layers (5 nations competing for control over a large continent), plus real time battles between hulking mechs you could even play with a friend on a split screen.

Excellent game. Introduced me to strategy games when I was 9 years old.
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Daedalos

Arcane
The Real Fanboy
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Denmark
I used to be massive RTS/FPS faggot so yeah.

Counterstrike 3.1 beta or whatever it was
Dark Colony
C&C and Red Alert
Dune 2
Starcraft 1 + Brood War
Warcraft 1+2+3
Syndicate and Syndicate Wars
Halflife 1+2
Crusader No Regret/No Remorse
Jungle Strike
Battlefield 1+2
Aliens vs Predator 1+2
Resident evil series
Most of the good old adventure games
Hitman 1+2
Die By The Sword
Doom1+2
Quake 1+2
 

gooseman

Educated
Joined
Sep 5, 2024
Messages
226
total annihilation
knights and merchants
konung legends of the north
stronghold
civ3
warcraft 3
swat 4
worms 2
soldat
cs 1.6
z.a.r. (russian 1997 3d fps game with a voxel engine allowing for destructible terrain, I only had a demo)
shaman king 2 on gameboy
 

Dark Souls II

Educated
Shitposter
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Nostalgia is a counterrevolutionary sentiment. But I do have fond memories of same games of my childhood, such as Settlers II, Lemmings, Doom, that's probably it.

A lof ot the games mentioned here already (Max Payne, Stronghold, Counter Strike 1.6 for example) I still play often, but it has nothing to do with nostalgia, these are simply still amazing games that have stood the test of time amazingly well.
 

otsego

Cipher
Joined
Aug 22, 2012
Messages
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<Hitman Codename 47>

The ending of C47 has always stuck with me, and despite the overall Jank of the first Hitman game, it's still my near-favourite (Nostalgia cannot beat Blood Money). The soundtrack from Jespyr Kid, the slowly forming Logo, the disturbing nature of killing all of your clone brothers and terminating the man who created you... love it.



Besides that, the non-rpg game I am most nostalgic about and wish I could relive again is Crusader. I play this several times a year and just wish there was more.
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God bless you Origin.
 

Beans00

Erudite
Shitposter
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I could say boring stuff like homm 1/2/3, or heretic or Unreal or aoe 1/2 or starcraft or mario world or mega man x. Instead I'll list flawed or forgotten games I enjoyed from my formative years.


^hard as fuck lol








^ The most underrated 90s boomer shooter. Only playthrough I could find without commentary. Almost put heretic but it's too well known



I was close to adding in war wind, and wages of war. I'll make a new post for 5 console games.
 

Beans00

Erudite
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Console games





The single player was whatever, but I loved halo 2 mp.



I feel like thats the definitive vice city song





Probably had like 1-1.5k hours on gran turismo on my ps1, lol.
 

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