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  • Half-Life 1 (and expansions)

    SimCity 3000, SimCity 4

    Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

    Deus Ex

    Zoo Tycoon

    Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail

    Morrowind

    Industry Giant 2

    Fallout 1/2

    Arcanum

    SimTower

    • Great list. I think I will replay about half your list at some point over the coming years. And might first time play Love For Sail as well.

  • Half-Life 1

    One mod specifically (Sven-Coop). Been playing almost daily since 1999.

    I still fire up Duke 3d and Quake mods from time to time as well. There are lifetimes of user-made content in some of these older games.

  • Tales of Maj'Eyal; all the old scumm games, daggerfall, toejam & earl.

    • Ayyy ToME oldhead gang represent. Been playing since about 2014 myself.

      The modding community is what really kept breathing life into that game for me for so long. I'm hoping once we finally see the next (final?) DLC expansion that the modders will pick the game back up again. It's been very stagnant for a couple of years now, presumably waiting for DG to release his expansion like a sudden kraken as is tradition. But it's been 2 years now since the last update (which was primarily a scaffolding update for the Lost Lands content to come) and I imagine everyone who would be otherwise interested is now hanging in a limbo of not wanting to start work on a project when DG might drop a major update at literally any time and invalidate a bunch of your work.

      Even just the regular base game kept me playing for years and years though. Solid 10/10 freeware game. I used to bounce between ToME and DCSS (also freeware, also recommend, this one actually gets regular updates) pretty regularly and that kept me covered on dungeon crawling roguelikes for the better part of a decade. I still keep coming back to them on occasion though, I've played a bit of both of those games within the last 2 weeks.

  • DOOM.
    The old game got way better when they open sourced it and Quake 3d code was backported to make zDOOM. Its one of the largest modding communities that has ever existed. If you want to see what it can do, try Brutal Doom. That same engine is behind a new release called Selaco.

    Serious Sam.
    The first one. The demo is fine. Start off with a pistol. Its pretty easy to die at first, even if you know the game. I think that's why I keep opening it, I know it really well, and it still catches me.

    • I got back into doom in the last few years and there's a huge number of amazing maps people have made over the years you can play for free. I had no idea about the total conversion wads, where it doesn't even feel like doom because everything has been changed.

      If anyone's looking for a good place to start you can check out the yearly cacoward winners

      https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Cacowards

      • My_House.wad has been making the rounds on YouTube semi-recently as an example of the sort of fuckery that has been made possible by the progression of doom modding.

        If you're not familiar with it, do yourself a favor and go in blind for an hour or so and then only look up a video when you're stuck.

      • Cool!

  • The Pokemon games on all of Nintendo's handheld consoles emulate really cleanly on a smartphone.

    I'm a sucker for the Gen 1 nostalgia every now and then.

  • Quake. Still hold up, modding community makes tons of maps to play so it stays fresh.

    Dungeon Keeper - keeperfx is a modern update of the engine / bug fix that makes it easy to play on a modern system.

  • Syndicate Wars. I honestly haven't seen anyone emulate that gameplay as well as SW did it since then.

  • If I could I'd still be playing wow but it's just not the same without the plentiful free time for it.

    • Private servers with boosted rates can scratch that itch while severely reducing the grind. Every couple years I'll poke my head into one, level to endgame in like a week, do some raids, do some PVP, then completely forget it exists. Couple years later, rinse and repeat.

      • I tried retail again last year in a similar way, they've actually built so much mechanics now to catch up. But it still felt like a massive task to catch up to actual active players. Private server is a good shout, I'll take a look next time I get the itch.

    • Ascension is the best. Look it up. Free to play and offers a better classic experience with a cool twist

      • My DnD DM talked about this constantly for like a year straight, so I haven't played it but I can vouch for it being a good time for old wowheads.

  • I've been on a Doom kick for a bit, although it's modified to retain some more current gen flair. Just finished Going Down Turbo with Project Brutality. Is it faithful to the OG? Not quite, but it's truly amazing how far the the engine has come despite being heavily modified in its own right.

  • I have replayed Baldur's Gate 2 more than any other narrative game, and will probably do another playthrough in the coming years. So it's most likely that. Oh, and Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven multiplayer on the PS2 whenever I am over at one specific friend's place. That was our go-to couch game growing up and it's still nostalgic.

  • Does chess count?

    Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.

  • I still find Civil War Generals 2 to be a really fun and challenging game. The visuals are still perfectly readable and charming.

  • Quite a few, but the one that I've played the most is Super Metroid. I do like to play through the different Mega Man games too and a few others, but they are almost all well known games.

    I have rediscovered other games that I totally overlooked because I thought they were too kiddy or too hard like The NewZealand Story, Gimmick and so many shmups.

  • They're all well-known: Pac-Man (first game I ever played), Super Mario games, Metroid games. Anything past SNES I feel like I was too old to consider it my "youth."

  • Quite a bunch, but the ones I come more often to my mind (and that are not DS titles, if not it would be Jump Ultimate Stars, Metroid Prime Hunters or Mario Kart DS) are:

    Jackie Chan Stutmaster and Toy Story 2, both PS1 games (among other PS1 titles).

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