OT: Oldies but Goodies

[Suicide Junkie]

Wolfenstien was pretty good when it was fairly new, but in the Last few years it has made me physically sick when trying to turn. Five minutes is the most I can take before I have to go lie down. I don't think I have this anymore.

Doom/Doom2: Played it no more than a week ago.
A bit with the DM-ARMY mod (All the monsters look like multiplayer guys, and shoot the weapons you would expect from a multiplayer game)
Then a bunch with my own deadly mini-mod. (Blood spatters have a 30% chance of exploding like a rocket to represent critical hits. )

Duke Nukem 3D: Haven't played it since we misplaced our serial cable, but with a mod and custom map, still good fun
The mod we always use for challenge gives the basic enemies a 40% chance of spawning 2 more when they die, and a small chance of spawning one of the bigger baddies as well.
Firing rockets into a crowd of guys can actually make things worse
However, they always drop something decent when they die, and sometimes even drop powerful things too. As well, the player nearest to an enemy who dies gets +1 health.

The 4-dimensional map capability of this game is extremely cool!
You could have an open field, with a twilight-zone style door standing all alone in it. Walk through the door, and suddenly you find yourself in the same open field, but at night, and with monsters! Walk around the door instead, and its still daytime

Starcraft is pretty good. Beautiful graphics, and decent gameplay, but not terribly flexible.
I did manage a nice mod to choke off the "rushes" strategy using a custom map. The way "Small Squad Tactics" works is:
1) the minerals available on the map are slashed to a fraction of the original stashes.
2) Whenever you have more gas than minerals, they are traded at a 2:1 ratio.
Since gas vents merely get "depleted" and never run totally dry, you need to capture the vents in order to continue to expand.
With the thin minerals, you need to capture those vents and defend your base with as few units as will do the job. As well, you want to protect the lives of all your units. If you pull out when crippled instead of fighting to the death, you'll save immense amounts of money and time by either doing repairs, recharging shields or healing instead of building a whole new unit with your meager funds.

Going back to the BBS days, my favorite:
Land of Devastation!
Extremely moddable; there is even a programming language to add new stuff to the game!
I've added convenience devices that scan the ground as you walk, and automatically pick up items of value. I've put in all kinds of monsters from other games... Protoss Archons are especially sought after, often in vain attempts to steal their shields, which have the property of self-recharging over time (which I coded in myself )
In VGA mode on the local computer, it really looks good too.

[ZeroAdunn]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
Ah, you children make me laugh. Now I remember back to the days of the Commodore 64, playing games like Choplifter. Or playing the original Castle Wolfenstein (2d top-down maze Version) on primitive Apple computers (you remember, the ones with the green screens?) on the sly at the J.H.S. library.

Oh for the good old days...

OMG I never thought I would find anyone who still remembers the orginal Castle Wolfenstein. Now that was a complex game! I still have it, unfortunately a couple of important keys are missing from my APPLE IIe, I can still play it, but it is a pain in the ***. God, I used to love that game. I can still hear the gaurds asking, "Our Spice," what were they really saying again? Hall pass?

Then came the jump to windows (Ahh, how I remember it, buying that NEC computer, top of the line... now I have a low end laptop that blows it away ) Games like VGA trek, Civalization, X-com, Stars! And then of course, that led me to look for more games of the type, I found SEIII and have been adicted ever since....

[Aloofi]

Ah, Homeworld was mindblowing, though the sequel sucked big time. Ceasar III and Lords II were my first games, and Age of Kings, my first and Last RTS , with the exception of Anno 1602.

[Gryphin]

Empire Deluxe
Turn Based 4X, Strategy.
Less than 10 unit types.
wonderful game.
Fast Multi player.
Good map editor
Can't wait for Internet edition.

It will never replace SEIV.

[PvK]

Wolfenstien 3d
Never played it, just scoffed and thought it was funny that the Nintendo Version censored the pictures of Hitler by removing the moustache!!!

Original Wolfenstein I don't think I've played since about 1987. Cool game though. I'd rather play it than Wolf 3D.

I had fun with the Return to Wolf 3D demo multiplayer, but it didn't convince me to buy the game.

Doom
Hmm. I think probably the Last time I played this was 1995 or '96.

Heretic
Just played the demo, maybe in 1998.

I played Hexen though LAN with my wife ... maybe 1999.

Dark Forces
1996

Duke Nukem 3d
Never.

Rebellion
Never.

Quake
1999?

Quake II
2002

Myst
This isn't really a game; it's a puzzle adventure.

I prefer Rune for first-person hacking, but only when turned down to about 80% speed or less. Any faster and it is twitchy and network lag makes it annoying. Unfortunately, most MP hosts set it to 100 or faster, and/or use the Rune powers (yawn - pointless).

PvK

P.S. I think the guards were asking for your pass in Wolfenstein when they said "all spice", but I don't remember what the words were supposed to be.

[ May 01, 2003, 22:21: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Kamog]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
Ah, you children make me laugh. Now I remember back to the days of the Commodore 64, playing games like Choplifter. Or playing the original Castle Wolfenstein (2d top-down maze Version) on primitive Apple computers (you remember, the ones with the green screens?) on the sly at the J.H.S. library. Heck, I remember playing Pong on the old Panasonic game console, the one that preceded the Atari 2600.

But the one I miss the most, is the old Star Trek simulator. You know, the one where you traveled from sector to sector blowing up Klingons and the occasional cloaked Romulan? Where the "graphics" were just colored text, if you were lucky?

Oh for the good old days...

Yeah, I remember those good old days! I played the old 2-D Castle Wolfenstein on the Commodore 64. You start out with a gun with 10 bullets in it, in a room in the Castle and your mission is to find the plans for Operation Reinhold (or something) and escape with them. You eventually get stuff like grenades, a German uniform, and a bulletproof vest.

I also played the old Star Trek game on the Commodore 64. That game had a lot of nice features. The ship had long range sensors, phasers, shields, photon torpedos, damage control, self-destruct, etc. When you got hit by Klingons and your shields failed, your systems start to get damaged and won't work until they're fixed. You can dock at starbases to recharge and get repaired. It was a really fun game!

Also on the Commodore 64: Archon, Archon II, Black Hawk, Commando, Temple of Apshai, Mail Order Monsters, G.I. Joe, Impossible Mission, Omega Race, Wizard of War. Ah, the good old days. I remember staying up all night playing these games.

[TerranC]

Terminal Velocity; Boy, I loved that game...

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Ah, Homeworld was mindblowing, though the sequel sucked big time.

Aloofi, please tell me how the sequel to homeworld can suck when it hasn't even been released yet.

If you think that Homeworld Cataclysm was a sequel, then it's a clear sign that you did read what the box said.

Oh, and if you would like to know about the REAL sequel, go here, and find the link to the Homeworld 2 trailer.