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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Dwg115 on March 19, 2007, 08:27:20 AM
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Mine has to be the original Unreal. Singleplayer was the best. I can't remember playing a game that had me addicted to finishing it as much as Unreal did. I guess that was back in 1997 or 98 can't quite remember. I know i was running it on a P2 266 with 128MB ram and a voodoo2 card. Just for Craps and giggles i reinstalled that game about a month ago to see how well the graphics hold up and damn i must say they are pretty awefull compared to how i remember them.
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I'm going out on a ledge here but I wasn't able to do that much gaming. Mainly because I was stuck with a 486 comp for a good while until my parents upgraded to a amd athlon
Hugo's House of Horror ranks up there as a pretty close 2nd. I loved the old command line based games like that..The entire game was just a great puzzle. Plus the game music was great. Classic Screenshot..look at those graphics
(http://www.thehouseofgames.net/files/h/hugos_house_of_horrors/hugos_house_of_horrors-2.gif)
However I think that my all time favorites is The Island of Dr. Brain. It was such a great puzzle based game. I used to play that game for hours. It's a complete classic. Thinking about it now makes me wanna go try to find it (its around somewhere)
(http://www.abandonia.com/games/224/images/games/The%20Island%20of%20Dr.%20Brain1.png)
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Curse of Monkey Island FTW!!!
I AM a mighty pirate!
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The game that had me playing the most was Star Wars Battlefront. I remember waiting for the DSL to be hooked up so I wouldn't have to dial in to play that game anymore. Before that it would have to be MicroProse's smash hit Master of Magic. Still have a copy of that game and it works on XP except for sound.
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Without a doubt... Grim Fandango. :10:
You can't hide from the Grim Reaper. Especially when he's got a gun.
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Battlefield 1942
I bought a new motherboard and processor 3 weeks ago so I can finally use my 6800 properly (I can't afford the new stuff yet, still stuck with AGP). This is the first time I haven't installed it after a reformat since the game came out back in 2002. Goldeneye for the N64 takes a close second and when that comes out for the virtual console for the Wii I'll be grabbing that as fast as I can.
To put it in a graphical representation (and so I have an excuse to play with the table icons):
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Honestly... I would have to say it is Interstate 76... not sure how many of you might remember it or know of it, but it was fun blend of racing/demoderby/apocolyptic mad max road warriror kind of stuff. Not to mention driving muscle cars, suping them up and putting on flame throwers!!!!!
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PC: Planetside was my favorite for quite awhile. 1942 definately ranks up there for straight FPS.
Apple: Sid Miers Pirates
Original Nintendo: Mike Tysons Punch Out
Super Nintendo: Uncharted Waters/Sim City
PS: Madden
Xbox: Halo/Halo2
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One of my favorite games of all time was Starcraft. I was addicted to that for like 6 years that is all I ever played.
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Wow.. of all time?!
PC: C&C: Red Alert II. I still remember playing it for the first time in college when it first came out. 8 of us got together that night and played an intense 3 hour game. In fact, I defeated my roommate so fast, he began to cry and locked himself in the bathroom. Only when we promised to buy him some bread sticks from the local pizza shop did he come out. Many a nights were spent playing 8 player campaigns. Fun times indeed.
Non PC: Super Mario World for SNES.
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The game that really did it for me was FORSAKEN. It was the first Glide based game designed for 3Dfx Voodoo Cards! The fire, graphics, and everything else was simply amazing compared to DoomII and the like!
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I think I still have a copy of that game! i am going to have to dig it up.
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The game I found myself most anxious to get home and play to completion was Deus Ex. It had a good balance of action, strategy, and puzzle solving. If you want to get old school, there was game I played incessantly on my Commodore64/128 called Beam Rider (http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=674). It was so simplistic in its nature that you didn't get distracted with flashy graphics or over done sound production. It was simply addicting and all you cared about was the gameplay and killing that damn mother ship. I don't remember how far I got into it, but I know I wasn't anywhere near finishing all 99 levels of it, though I did get farther than my dad ever did and he played just as much as I did. If you have a C64 emulator you should definitely try it out.
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Hmm I don't know why Deus Ex never crossed my mind in considering a favorite. I only play it more than once a year! Friggin' kickass game. Great now I have the intro song stuck in my head.
Dummm da da dum dum daaa dummm da da dum dummmm....
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Descent was the one that got me started in gaming. I remember staying up all night playing it and not realizing it.
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Descent was the first 3d computer game i played. The 7 level Descent 1 demo in 1995. That boss at lvl 7 freaked the hell out of me.
Oh, the source code for descent 1/2 was released some years ago, and the people at http://www.descent2.de/ have made it support XP, as well as add some pretty major graphics engine upgrades.
I have a very strong history with descent in general; was on the team that had attempted to make a Descent 4, until Parallax shut us down. We even registered our company and got a 4-year contract from Interplay :P Ater that got shut down, we were able to release a mod called Olympia Gold Racing for Descent 3 before most of us lost all ambition. Oh, and the high-res pyro-gx model in the D2x-xl port from descent2.de was made by our team as well.
I still play descent1 from time to time; Get back to my roots.
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Gotta go with Tecmo Super Bowl!!!
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Gotta go with Tecmo Super Bowl!!!
OMG yes!. Christian Okoye and Bo Jackson were unstoppable!!! Or if you preferred passing, the Flea Flicker would almost always get you an 80 yard gain.
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The game that really did it for me was FORSAKEN. It was the first Glide based game designed for 3Dfx Voodoo Cards! The fire, graphics, and everything else was simply amazing compared to DoomII and the like!
Hell yes. forsaken was probably the first real 3D game I've ever played on the PC. I remember i was running it on a PII266 with 64megs of ram and an old riva 128 w/4mb of ram.
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STALKER, Nox, Crimsonland, Quake3, Master of Orion, One Must Fall 2097, Serious Sam, Super Metroid, Republic Commando, Half-Life2, Splinter Cell.
I can't pick just one to be my very favorite. They all can rank easily :)
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Quake 1 on a service called MPlayer any of you old heads remember that? Capture the Flag mode. Rocket jump FTW =)
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Yes i remember Mplayer and I hated that little piece of crapware that installed itself whether you clicked yes or no to the install. I didnt have a voodoo card to play quake when it came out it looked good but i waited till i got my voodoo2 and i bought quake2. which was a great game.
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hmm Mplayer. I had used that when playing MechWarrior 2. I remember it being very annoying.
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It was the 1st service that had live voice in rooms at the time. Used to talk to my brother in AZ and me being in PA cut the phone bills =)
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Yeah voice over IP was new at the time and that saved many people teh $$ even if they didn't want to play the game. Gah, I remember that was when I started looking into Linux/BSD and still it doesn't get the credit that it deserves. ;)
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I found an old copy of Carmageddon the other day! I remember spending hours playing that and carmageddon carpocalypse now
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Hmmm....of all time. I am defaintely going to have to seperate these into different systems.
Arcade: TRON: Deadly Discs - 'Nuff Said
Atari 2600: Yars Revenge
Colecovision: Wing War - one of the weirdest games with no music, no storyline, and pretty much no rhyme or reason except to collect eggs and jewels as a 4 bit fire breathing dragon.
Nintendo: Blaster Master - hands down one of my alltime favorites. Too bad there were no saves for the original systems. Thank gawd for emulators and state saves.
Sega Master System: 3d Missle Defense - One of the BEST 3D glasses systems EVER, and you played with a light gun!
Sega Genesis: Sonic (all of them except sonic and knuckles)
Super Nintendo: Super Metroid - The best in the series IMO
PS1: Vagrant Story - Best RPG...EVER
Ps2: GTA: San Andreas
N64: Goldeneye - I have stayed up countless hours playing 4 way DM's with my friends...and enemies
GC: None really, except RE:4 but the better version came out for PS2
Current gen consoles - I haven't decided yet.
I almost forgot!!!!
PC: There are so many! But I'll limit it to the top 5...
1: Quake - it's what got me into FPS's (well fully 3D fps's - let's not forget about Doom and Duke Nukem) and where I learned all about the wonders of the WASD
2: Carmageddon - Carpoclypse Now, theres nothing like slamming a fully damage modeled super car into a bunch of bloodied pedestrians and hearing them go squish. And then replaying it over and over and over.
3: Battlefield 1942 - the game that changed the face of online multiplayer FPS's
4: Sam and Max - One of the Funniest adventure games ever.
5: Maniac Mansion - see above
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TRIBES II
I played this game religously each night into the wee hours of the morning for like 3 years straight.. This is where my game name came about as I was unstoppable.
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Tribes!!!!!!!! how bloodshot were your eyes man... oldschool FTW!!