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Non-RPGs you are extremely nostalgic about

Fargus

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Funny that you mentioned Bethesda because they destroyed Human Head first by fucking them over with Prey 2 after they refused to sell out and then by buying and disolving them years later. There is a crappy "sequel" to this game which is hot garbage survival slop that HH abandoned shortly after release right before finally getting bought out by bethesda.
 

gooseman

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Bethesda destroyed Human Head first by fucking them over with Prey 2
That game where you're a bounty hunter in space? God, I wanted that game so bad. It slipped my mind that bethesdoids were behind it being cancelled. Fuck those niggers.

One of the biggest losses for video gaming.
:negative:
 

rumSaint

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is.
Quake 3:



Tzar: Burden of the Crown - I played Age of Empires, but this game stuck in my head for some reason



Alien vs Predator 1&2 - First had this random enemy placement to keep you on your toes, second one multiplayer was hella fun.

 

gooseman

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Played this game over at my friend's house, it was fun. Buried and forgotten, unfortunately, but can still be played, it seems.
Something between ut2004 and tf2.
 
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gooseman

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Was it very popular though?
I never played it myself.
Dont know about that. There are some news articles claiming it was a top seller in UK and US at some point. It was well reviewed on PC, but the console versions were worse.
I think the reason the game died was because they lost the license for it and then the original license holder (zenimax) didn't do shit with it and then the servers shut down and it died, but now there are community made servers, so it's still playable, but you can't buy it.
 

luj1

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When Sacrifice came out there wasn't anything else like it. And now more than twenty years later there still isn't lol. That was a nice era with games such as Sacrifice, MDK 1-2, Giants Kabuto, Evolva, even Black & White.
 

Fargus

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My favorite bugman game because it's not made by bugmen


The only two city builders i always come back to

 

Valestein

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Assault Suits Valken/Cybernator, a 2D action mecha game with objectives that you can fail, and it involves fighting a space and terrestrial war against the European Union that ends with you burning down their capitol, what's not to like?

 

Blutwurstritter

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Lemmings 2, Moonstone, Chaos Engine and Lost Vikings. Played those as kid with my brothers on Amiga. I also remember the Batman Movie game from 1989; Its my only memory of my father trying a video game. He couldn't dodge anything and died, and started from this day on to call Batman a wimp who can't take a beating.
 

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System Shock 2
Deus Ex
Z
Grim Fandango
Monkey Island games
The first few C&C games from Westwood
Streets of Rage 1 & 2, which I must have played a million times with my brother
Dungeon Keeper
The original Sim City, one of the first PC games I played, RIP my old 486
Castle Quest on the BBC Micro
 

Dark Souls II

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Played this game over at my friend's house, it was fun. Buried and forgotten, unfortunately, but can still be played, it seems.
Something between ut2004 and tf2.

Castle Wolfenstein


Both of these reminded me of:



I was never more into a game than Wolf: ET. Playing until nobody was on the EU servers anymore than switching to the US servers and playing until I collapsed in the morning. In the true Quake 3 engine fashion, playing was 1/4 actually playing and 3/4 dabbling with the config file. I still think that if not for the the fact that WoW was released shortly after, this game could have turned into the next Counter Strike. Mechanically Wolf: ET was the peak of Q3 engine, crisp, fast, precise gameplay combined with tactical teamplay, variety of playstyles and impeccable crowd control tools. I was never able to find any joy in this genre afterwards, CoDs and Battlefields feel like a tremendeous decline compared to this.
 

gooseman

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Yeah, Quake wars was made by the same guys that made Wolf ET, only this time it wasn't freeware. They also worked on MP of a bunch of games. I quite liked the game, though, ironically, my friend had no internet connection at the time.

Their wiki article also says something weird about "over 150 TV shows based on Quake III Arena Capture the Flag". Has anyone any idea wtf it is talking about? There's no source.
 

anvi

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I always talk about the same games and this thread has most of my favourites. So here are some lesser known ones:

Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road - Used to play this with my friend huddled over the same keyboard. Really nice game.

Space Crusade (known as StarQuest in US) - Love it, most of these games I only think about replaying for nostalgia but this one I do replay sometimes, it's good.

Midwinter was probably the best game ever (until late 90s).
Elf was a really fun platform game.
Speedball 2.
Stunt Island (great and unique game).
Alley Cat (IBM 1983 ish, made by one very talented guy.)
Tiberian Sun - I mostly play BAR now but I think TS was overall the best RTS ever.
Mario 1-3

F19 Stealth Fighter -
I liked it because it wasn't a hardcore sim, it was more of an action game. And very exciting, I fly to the target and bomb an airbase or something and escape and then fighters are scrambled to chase me so I release a decoy and sneak away with stealth. Terrible sound effects. But immersive and great.

Wing Commander - I didn't really like it but I have nostalgia for it because I remember seeing it for the first time and it blew me away.

Monkey Island - Just the vibes and takes me back, and it has nice atmosphere. I'm rubber you are glue etc. Comfy.

Sam & Max Hit the Road / Fate of Atlantis - the only adventure games I really liked. I never really got into all the main ones.

SimCopter - Really nice game for a kid. Felt good to play too, not anxious, I was the hero that could deal with anything with my badass choppa.

Frontier Elite - Not as good as I hoped but it was a decent space game back in the olden days of gaming.

System Shock - I was so lucky to find this game as a kid, blew my mind. Creepy too. I love the atmosphere. The hydro level etc. Best era by miles. That reminds me.

Tera Nova - mechs!

Syndicate - "Select-ed" and the sound of the gauss gun etc. Masterpiece of a game.

Body Blows - There was a time when I couldn't any fighting games as a PC only kid and everyone was enjoying Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and stuff. This game was a godsend.

Mario Kart - Masterpiece. I didn't play many console games but I loved this.

Comanche - I liked the whole series but the first one was very exciting and had a new style of graphics that was kind of ugly but once I got used to it, felt miles ahead of other games. By Comanche 4 it was a good looking game I think. But the series wasn't as popular as it should have been.

Slipstream 5000 - maybe my favourite game ever.

Gunship 2000 - special flight sim which was more fun than any other. Still hasn't been beaten.
Moonstone - Someone else mentioned it but it's so good I have to dupe.
Atomic Bomberman
Test Drive 2
- Thread reminded me of this. I didn't play the original but that second one I was hooked. I even liked some of the next ones and Unlimited.
 
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anvi

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Yeah, Quake wars was made by the same guys that made Wolf ET, only this time it wasn't freeware. They also worked on MP of a bunch of games. I quite liked the game, though, ironically, my friend had no internet connection at the time.

Their wiki article also says something weird about "over 150 TV shows based on Quake III Arena Capture the Flag". Has anyone any idea wtf it is talking about? There's no source.
I played at a LAN gaming session in that guys house. The guy who made that game. Or one of them.
 

gooseman

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That's really cool.
So, about those quake shows. There's a Hong Kong TV subscription called Now TV and it had a show called Quake Republic where they... showed quake tournaments on tv. Not sure if this was a thing anywhere outside Asia.
According to a thread on quake3world, they even made custom maps for it.
 

anvi

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Lemmings 2, Moonstone, Chaos Engine and Lost Vikings. Played those as kid with my brothers on Amiga. I also remember the Batman Movie game from 1989; Its my only memory of my father trying a video game. He couldn't dodge anything and died, and started from this day on to call Batman a wimp who can't take a beating.
I love all those games, I played them a lot. Even in 1989 I knew that movie tie-ins were terrible, but someone gave me that game as a gift. Turns out, I quite liked it. Lemmings was a masterpeice but the original was a bit hard and frustrating for me. Lemmings 2 I really loved, it is so good. Moonstone is something I still replay, nostalgia off the charts but it's a damn fun game too and unique. We were spoilt. Lost Vikings damn, I was looking for that game... I have never played it but always wanted to and I forgot the name. There was another around that time called Fury of the Furries which I had, but I wanted Lost Vikings.
 

Gostak

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Thievery UT

A later version with more tools (playerbase mostly died down then already, HRTF spatial audio kind of ruined it and people moved on)


Deathball


Sound was also a big part of Infiltration UT


Before those fond memories of playing Weapons Factory UT online.

F-Zero X on the N64 (also still holds up today).

I know this says non-RPG but I just have to mention Super Mario RPG, it was an unbelievable game for the SNES and
being lucky to get to own one and play it in a PAL market back then was more than a little lucky in hindsight.
 

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