older games circlejerk thread

[ProbablyAlive]

I'm replaying the original Ratchet and Clank trilogy. I'd also have been meaning to try out Jak and Daxter and Sly Cooper; However I have had a rough time getting use to those early 2000 games

[woolydrool]

a lovely old game

2016
i'm dying so fast.. .. . ...

[Dragonfruit_Soda]

I played RuneScape as a kid back when they had those banner ads on flash games websites and was instantly hooked because it was the most interesting thing a kid with no way to spend money online for games.
Stopped for several years but got my old account back and have been playing more and more frequently since though now I'm almost exclusively on Old School. I could tell you the lore for about every quest in either game aside from the storylines after I quit RS3 since I was so invested.

[whispceon]

been playing civilization 5 again and having a fun time :>

... gosh cant believe that came out in 2010

[Lithex]

Papers, Please and Supreme Commander 2. Papers, Please was so successful at the time of its release, garnering so many to play, all the YouTubers at that time were into it. It has such a fun and challenging gameplay loop, tied into a lovely story which can be changed by your own action with so many endings. It's a great experience, for anyone. Supreme Commander 2 is a perfect mix between a casual and competitive top down strategy game, with enough complex mechanics and simple ones that anybody can get into it. SC2 is good to try if you're just getting into PC gaming, almost anything can run it. And it's unique and has a lot to explore, many layers. If you can get the game cheaply for your friends, it's fun as hell to play with lots of people. Highly recommend both titles, and I hope you check them out if you haven't already from my bias for both.

[Deleted User-0]

imo a lot of games these days are focusing too much on looking stupidly pretty and selling skins, i'm tired of every game having a battle pass, skins to buy, and a focus on competitive play/becoming an esport or something. i get that indie games are basically still doing the things that older games used to do, so it's not a dead practice to release a finished game, but i miss when high profile publishers actually released a finished product because they had to due to a lack of constant internet connections.

Definitely agreed wholeheartedly. I remember when horse armor was a big scandal, and that was 3 dollars IIRC. Now games are 70 dollars with a 20 dollar battle pass (that MAYBE refunds you in in-game currency if you finish it, which requires devoting 80 hours a week to it for a whole month coincidentally) and 15 dollar skin macrotransactions, if not more. It's atrocious.

I've been replaying a few things lately. Lotta games with 'dead' in the name, lmao. I snagged Dead Island 1 and Riptide on Steam for real cheap because the og Dead Island was my first big girl game right alongside Skyrim when it first came out on the Xbox 360. It has aged like milk, it is awful: sexist, racist, generally poorly designed, shit writing, bad gameplay, etc. literally just play Dying Light but I had some fun nostalgia with it for a few hours.

I also started playing the original Dead Space cause I don't have the remake and I've somehow never played the first even though the second is like... one of my favorite games ever? It's definitely very clunky, intentionally so IIRC, but also the PC port is just awful cause it was in the era of "just shove it onto microsoft devices its a xbox game" where there's xbox controller button prompts and everything even if you've never touched one much less have one plugged in. Fan patches have made it bearable and it's overall a fun time but I think I still prefer DS2.

[CookieSkoon]

I am not exaggerating.

I have played Chrono Trigger over 100 times, easily. Probably far more than that, it's a low estimate.

There are some other games I have played equally as obsessively since childhood, but CT stands out as champion because my experience has become the same every time- but I never get bored of it. Like an album you never get tired of hearing, or a movie you watch for years.

I can't put my finger on WHAT CT does right (exclusively), but when people call it the greatest JRPG ever made, it's not just nostalgia talking.

[FlaminFaux]

Speaking of, I just played some AOE2 with some friends the other day.