Games you miss and want back

[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...

[Phatose]

Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries.

[Marshal Murat]

A better TIE:Fighter

[TevashSzat]

Civilization II

One of my first games and one of the best I have played. Too bad I can't find my CD of it anymore.....

[Whacker]

Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries.

Oh my god. Mechwarrior 3 also doesn't work worth a flip anymore. Damn Microsoft for destroying the Battletech games!

[Forward Observer]

I have three--all from about 1998 and 99

Red Baron 3D---classic WW I flight sim with a dynamic campaign engine that has yet to be equaled

European Air War---IMHO the best WW II flight sim ever made. For dynamic game play and massive epic air battles in skies filled with bombers and their fighter escorts, I would still rank it as superior to IL-2---even though the latter has much better graphics and probably more accurate physics.

Panzer Commander---one of only about 3 WW II tank sims ever made and my all time favorite

I kept my previous 1.7 gighz rig with Windows ME just to play such older games, but I have a problem with all three of these.

Since Red Baron D was optimized to run with the now defunct Voodoo brand of graphics cards which used glide technology, the only way to get decent graphics is with a glide emulator. Unfortunately, I cannot get any of these to work with Windows ME.

European Air War has also been passed by technology. I have a Radeon card in this rig and even though it is several years old at some point the ATI drivers did something that eliminated the horizon fog in this game, so now it looks like I am flying on a big square table top--you can actually see the corners.

The game also will not run at all with most NVidia cards and their drivers after the 5XXX series. I may try to get an old card on E-bay or something just to play it again because I miss it so.

As for Panzer Commander, I have played it on occasion but the blocky antiquated graphics simply hurt my eyes now.

Ahh, the good old days!

[Sjakihata]

Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries.

I hear you brother. I got that game as a present when I was 14 or something like that, played it 'till I was 18. Loved the game.

[Hepcat]

When our house got broken into back about 5 years ago, I lost some of my favourite games. The two I most want back are Need for Speed 2 and Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit, I used to always play those two games with my friends on split-screen. Though I don't know if I'd be able to stand playing those two games anymore.

[Nikpalj]

Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries.

Dinju pass, day 20...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciDrXkVl29g

Most orgasmic startup sequence ever. They did phenomenal job on the sound - every bleep, beep, deep, the engines, the gyro...

Critical hit: engine! Critical hit: leg! Heat sink - destroyed...

They just don't make games like this anymore. Qui aff?


Btw, there are a few great mods out for Red Baron 2, I've noticed that there are enthusiasts around here, so...


Funk music, muscle cars and automatic weapons... I was also a great fan of the coolness that was I76! I played through the t.r.i.p. several times but i've never managed to finish the mission near the end in wich you have to defend that gass station from creeper attack, had to cheat through that one.

The Champs:

Never Get Out of the Car?


Always and forever: "Funk... will even... the odds"! :)

[Nikpalj]

"It is not a happy place, between the dusk and the dawn... deep below the well-lit and open spaces." Sound familiar?
Auto vigilantes among you're gonna *love* this one... enjoy! :)
http://www.jeffwofford.com/i76_poems.html

[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...