Syndicate Wars. I honestly haven't seen anyone emulate that gameplay as well as SW did it since then.
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Quest for Glory series! Betrayal at Krondor
Yeeeeah! I haven’t played these in forever but Hero’s Quest was my first Sierra adventure and holy shit was it magic. And Krondor - Raymond freakin Feist writing games!!
Both absolutely epic! Although in my case we’d be playing fast and loose with the term “youth” this was stuff I played after college but still.
Love to hear it! I read and reread Feist’s whole series as a kid, I remember always being so excited when a new book came out. I cut my teeth learning to read novels on Magician in 3rd grade!
You’ll be interested to learn that Feist didn’t write anything for the game, he just licensed the world and the characters. Neal Hallford wrote the story and dialogue which were brilliant, and Feist later adapted the story into a novel.
I just replayed QfG 1-3 last week on a family vacation and the magic is still strong. Something about these games ignite mythic perspectives in me that nothing else seems to.
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I sunk hours into NetHack, and I still occasionally dive into the dungeons. I also have a NES emulator on my phone, but it's just not the same. I'll play Zelda or Metroid for the nostalgia, but it's not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.
not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.
That's the biggie that the young kids of today just will never experience!
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.
Major mix of eras and platforms, but here is my list.
AoE2
NFSU2
Halo MCC
Sim City 2000
Streets of Sim City
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Mario Kart 64
Perfect Dark
Goldeneye
Battlefield 3
Super Mario Bros Deluxe
Mario 64
Overwatch
Half Life 2 +eps
Gary's Mod
Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour
Fallout New Vegas
I forgot simcity 2000 - that is one hell of a classic! hl2 is good until you get to the part where you have to set the turrets up and you just die and die and die. I got it when it was free on the steam weekender a few months back but totally forgot about that part. I've just given up now as the fun has gone from it.
Solitaire.
Does chess count?
Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.
Rogue, Hack, Nethack. Basically nethack, but it built on those before it. Occaisonally Larn. Amiga Larn.
Angband was my jam for a while, and of course that parlayed directly into Dwarf Fortress
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."
HL2 still holds up after 10+ playthroughs.
Last time I played it was when the commentary track was added. Played 80% of the game in one sitting because I was so hooked.
I have replayed Baldur's Gate 2 more than any other narrative game, and will probably do another playthrough in the coming years. So it's most likely that. Oh, and Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven multiplayer on the PS2 whenever I am over at one specific friend's place. That was our go-to couch game growing up and it's still nostalgic.
I've been on a Doom kick for a bit, although it's modified to retain some more current gen flair. Just finished Going Down Turbo with Project Brutality. Is it faithful to the OG? Not quite, but it's truly amazing how far the the engine has come despite being heavily modified in its own right.
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
I have an old iBook which it still runs great on
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I still find Civil War Generals 2 to be a really fun and challenging game. The visuals are still perfectly readable and charming.
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.
I have been considering a second quest play lately. All these years I have never played the second quest.
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.
I still play some of my old school Pokemon games from time-to-time such as Red, Silver, Ruby, and Platinum.
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.
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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.
Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex. Original hardware, Muscle memory from childhood. Still a banger 27 years after my first time.