Games you miss and want back

[Mikeus Caesar]

Just recently i got thinking about games that i wish were still around today. Why? I reinstalled my old favourite, Tribes 2. Tribes 2 was the first online game i ever played, and i played it obsessively for 3 years. My puberty consisted of 5 hours a night on Tribes 2. I got it in February 2002, and only uninstalled it and finally stopped playing about half a year ago. Then, this weekend, i thought i'd give it a go again. So, i installed, applied the patch and a fix to make it bypass the long-since broken Sierra update program, only to my horror to find a problem with the master server when i tried logging in.

Turns out that just a week or two beforehand on 18th August, the master servers had been finally killed, and Tribes 2 was no more. All i had left was the shoddy 'sequel', Tribes Vengeance, which many fans regard as the nail in the coffin of the series.

I wish that maybe some company would realise the greatness of T2 and remake it just as it was, only with today's graphics. No fancy additions to the game, no taking away from it, no adding to it so that it's 'the best experience ever', just the same old T2 but with nice graphics.

Sadly, i doubt this will ever happen. When it was released, T2 was never really that popular. It was ahead of its time, released in an era when people preferred the chaotic idiocy of Quake and Unreal Tournament, rather than the well planned games of Tribes. Games companies these days, being interested only in profit rather than innovation, would want nothing to do with a game that was supposedly a 'flop'.

Anyone else have any games they wish would be remade, but no they won't ever be, and are now lost in time?

[TinCow]

Castles (Interplay). Yeah, Stronghold kind of fills the same niche, but it just wasn't as good IMO.

Battle Isle series - Good old hex-based strategy gaming with futuristic units. Hex gaming is a dying genre, unless you want to play WW2 battles endlessly.

Monkey Island - We need more comedy games!

Dungeon Keeper - Being evil is fun. This name brand might be dead, but I suspect we'll see the idea reappear at some point though.

[Subedei]

[t]ra[i]ding games with a little bit of fighting [Pirates!, Elite, Privateer...]
Monkey Island-ish games for humor
A 3-D Version of Uridium!!!!!!! [or Katakis or Blue Max]
As al ready mentioned in another threat: those very intense X-Com games...for the spooky flavour!

So start developing

[macsen rufus]

FROGGER!!!!!

But I still have a soft spot for Warcraft 1 - that's the game that got me started on the long and frustrating road that ended in the final satisfaction of MTW, via Warcraft2, AoE, Homeworld, C&C, Praetorians etc etc.

[Ramses II CP]

Myth: The Fallen Lords from '98. My first MP game, other than MUDs. In some ways a precusor to the TW games, with a true 3D terrain engine, but far fewer units and each one controllable. Myth and Myth II are solid games if you see them in a bin somewhere, this is what Bungie did between Marathon and Halo.

I can't remember the name of it, but one of the early Earthsiege games where you moved your HERCs on a hex grid map. Probably better in memory than in actuality.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Quest For Glory Me missed alot!

[Fragony]

Rogue Spear, the best multiplayer shooter ever made. To be good at this game you have to be good, quite unlike wannabe's like American Army, Counter Strike etc etc. Oh the memory's of falling enemies,

Me and my M14 (yes, I actually learned how to master it) and silenced H&K .40 (HA you PDW NOOBS I PISTOLWHIP YOU) against the world.

sigh...

[Nikpalj]

I can't remember the name of it, but one of the early Earthsiege games where you moved your HERCs on a hex grid map. Probably better in memory than in actuality.

It was called Cyberstorm and I went nuts when I saw it's review in a long ago pc zone magazine, but have never actually got my hands on it until i ran into this baby:
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=3373

I loved the second game in the series, it can be played in turn based mode and has hundreds of weapons and systems you can build into your HERCs, it's a lot better then the reviews say, but don't expect *too* much...

I also miss the Earthsiege games, HERC's from earthsiege 2 were somehow a lot more realistic then mech's from mechwarrior 2 games (but mw2 has that fantastic world and the whole clan invasion story)... All the vehicles in the game even had different destructible systems (once you took out the armor) that really influenced how the HERC's and cybrids handled - it was quite a surprising level of detail for such an old game...

I tested this once on a cybrid diablo whom i, once he turned and started running away from me, slowly dissected with a single weakest laser on my heavy HERC, while monitoring the effects on the target's internal systems schematic display, lol...

[Catiline]

Discworld Noir

[Crazed Rabbit]

Lord of the Realm II.

From 1997, and a better campaign map than RTW, IMO.

Crazed Rabbit

[Drisos]

I haven't played any game in months I guess.. The one is miss most is (obviously) STW. In particular, MP. I will keep missing that for a long time, I'm afraid. There's some others though.. All SP.

Anno1602
Worms Armageddon
Age Of Empires II
Armymen 2
C&C - Red Alert

and most of all(after STW though): Unreal Tournament! (the original)

[Stig]

Ah Anno 1602

If you still have the disk, or if you're willing to buy it for the 5 euro's it costs nowadays:
http://www.shareware.de/Windows/Game...ler_17366.html

The XP installer (may look German but the game will be simply the language your game has).

[phred]

I wouldn't mind seeing some humorous games along the lines of the Space Quest series.

[Martok]

Spaceward Ho! IV (for the PC): A simple, yet fun, beer-and-pretzels space strategy game. A pity I mistakenly let my ex-fiance keep my copy when we split up.

Lord of the Realm II.

From 1997, and a better campaign map than RTW, IMO.

Crazed Rabbit

I still have that one! In fact, it's installed on my hard drive right now. (A pity my PC still isn't up and running, though. )

I haven't played any game in months I guess.. The one is miss most is (obviously) STW. In particular, MP. I will keep missing that for a long time, I'm afraid.

Why aren't you playing Shogun, anyway? Real life keeping you too busy?

[Ramses II CP]

Lords of the Realm II actually runs just fine under XP, and with the expansion pack it's a pretty awesome game with some very cool castles, but a very abusable AI. LotR III was a horrible, horrible game unfortunately, completely unfinished and unpolished. It'd be nice if someone decent took a shot at IV.

[FactionHeir]

Spaceward Ho! IV (for the PC): A simple, yet fun, beer-and-pretzels space strategy game. A pity I mistakenly let my ex-fiance keep my copy when we split up.

There actually were sequels for that game? I only played the very first one and had a lot of fun with it.

[Drisos]

Hi Martok

Yeah, it's the real-life stuff again. I'm in my first year of the uni now and it's extremely busy and tiring. And, I don't have a computer of my own yet. If I had one, and some time I'd be playing at least the SW mod for MTW:VI and STW SP now and then..

well.. one day..

[Quid]

Defender of the Crown

I loved that game as a teenager (1980s) and have not played it since.

I still remember trying desperately to fell the walls of opposing castles. I always got so annoyed when I couldn't do it. It was difficult because you had to be very (VERY) exact with the mouse.

Ah, those were the days...

Quid

[Martok]

There actually were sequels for that game? I only played the very first one and had a lot of fun with it.

Spaceward Ho! IV is unique in being the only version that was playable on the PC. All other versions of SH! were exclusive to the Mac.

I would love to see another sequel for the PC. I believe it would be the series' 6th installation were that to happen.

Hi Martok

Yeah, it's the real-life stuff again. I'm in my first year of the uni now and it's extremely busy and tiring. And, I don't have a computer of my own yet. If I had one, and some time I'd be playing at least the SW mod for MTW:VI and STW SP now and then..

well.. one day..

You have my sympathies, mate. I still can't get my PC to work, so I can identify only too well how you feel.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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• Port Royal the original. None of the sequels/side-quels (Tortuga 1-2, PR2...) matched the feel of it. Oh, and I want my fleet battles back! A new Patrician wouldn't be bad either.
• Historical city building sims a là Pharaoh and Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom. There are Children of the Nile and Caesar IV but they're completely new within the genre.
• Sea Dogs. No sequel of Akella (Pirates of the Caribbean, Age of Pirates) managed to catch the feel of my first love sea game. That said, Cutthroats. I want it badly.

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[I of the Storm]

The Thief Series... oh how I'd like to see a sequel!

The old Panzer General ... happy memories...

@anyone who misses the good old LucasArts adventures:
Try "Ankh": http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrank...eviewid=727733

It's a worthy successor in the best LA tradition, maybe just a bit lighter.

[seireikhaan]

Super Mario 64, 007 Goldeneye, and Crusader:Stronghold.

Especially Mario, that was a revolutionary game.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Super Mario 64, 007 Goldeneye, and Crusader:Stronghold.

Especially Mario, that was a revolutionary game.

If i recall correctly, Goldeneye has been remade as a mod for the source engine.

[Swiss Halberd Pike Landsknecht]

I used to play games a lot more years ago

Haven't got the discs for most anymore, but think you can still play a few

Some of my favourites were (ultimate) Doom, Doom II, Heretic (which on the old computer ran using zdoom which was really good). Blood, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Quake, Quake II (think the Quake games should be OK to run even though Quake 1 was DOS).

Red Baron 3D, (apparently can work on XP but is really difficult to do so)
Flying Corps (another WW1 air combat game, played the full version a few times at a friends house, and beforehand had the demo, although more limited than RB3D, it had a different feel, and in some areas was better, really enjoyed dogfighting)

Super Street Fighter II Champion Edition (never owned a console but used to love this game)

Carmageddon & Carmageddon II (I think at least Carmagedoon II could work on Xp, not sure if Carma 1 would), but both loved these games, very different to other games at the time.

Half Life 1, I know it can work on XP, want to get this again, with the expansions, I completed it and it was one of the best games I've played.

(the elder scrolls II) Daggerfall, loved this game, had full version, you're able to run on XP but you need to tweak dosbox I think, I currently have on this pc Morrowind which I also love.

Realms of the Haunting, had the demo on the 1st pc, (never played the full version) but it was awesome and scary, had fmvs (cut scenes with actors) to explain the story too

I'm not sure if Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit & NFS 4 High Stakes would work on XP, but I really enjoyed them

Interstate 76, great game, not sure if can run on Xp

Colin Mcrae Rally (the original), not sure if it can run on XP, also not sure of the difference of the newer games and other rally games, but really enjoyed it. And speaking of rally, I used to also really enjoy Network Q RAC Rally Championship (even though the game was more simple / arcady, i.e the roads weren't too wide, and you would bounce of the sides if you went far out).

Test Drive II: The Duel, really enjoyed this game, it was my favourite for some years in the early 90's (had the apple port version, even though it was released originally in '89), got it from my dad's friend on disk (with other games such as Simants), it also had the California Challenge scenery disk, but I always wanted to also have the European Challenge scenery disk, as well as the Supercars car disk & Musclecars car disk. In fact it was the first game I was wary of at the time that had expansions, as before I thought games were sold as they were and the only addition could be a sequel. I think you can get a port for it? I never played Test Drive 1, I played TD3, but didn't like it, got it later on an old pc laptop, but think there was a problem as the game just ran too fast.

Shufflepuck cafe (played on the old macs)

Luckily I can run Thief: The Dark Project, Thief II: The Metal Age (and the big unofficial fan mod Thief 2x: Shadows of the Metal Age) on the current pc (you just temporarily have to disable one of the processes, as it's to do with hyperthreading), also can run the newer Thief III: Deadly Shadows although that runs a bit slowly sometimes as it requires a good graphics card.

I'm sure there's quite a few other games, but can't remember them all.

[Motep]

final fantasy seven....I could probably find it online, but I dont have the money. (grrr) FF7, I love you, wherever you are...