Been playing the first Witcher for a while now. Not without its flaws, but great game so far!

F2bnp wrote:

Been playing the first Witcher for a while now. Not without its flaws, but great game so far!

Yeah I loved the first one, although the running back and forth got me down after a while. Great atmosphere though and some memorable quests. I was really disappointed with the second one though, so I'll be interested to see what they can do with the third "open world" installment.

I finished Half-life the other night and it’s easy to see why this game is so well loved. The level design is a thing of beauty – so many memorable set pieces! I wouldn’t say that it was a difficult game but there was some challenge. I don’t usually enjoy jumping puzzles in a FPS but I did in this game for the most part. The weapons are fun, the gun-play exciting and generally speaking everything the devs tried was successful. I was interested to see the beginnings of ideas that Valve developed in HL2, Portal, etc. It truly is jam packed with ideas and must have been mind blowing on release. I didn’t enjoy the final couple of alien “XEN” levels as much I must admit, I thought it deserved a better ending.

Next up for me is another Sierra title, ‘Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards’. This game was legendary at my primary school in the late 80’s which is saying something - we’re talking a hillbilly backwater school with 30 students here. I don’t think I ever actually got to play it as a kid – we only had an Australian made Microbee which wasn’t IBM compatible - but I do remember catching the odd glimpse of it at other kid’s houses. That would have been the original ’87 CGA version, but I’ll be playing the ’91 VGA remake from this collection I picked up a while back:

I’m playing it on a 486SX33 with a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 + MT-32 for sound / music. It amazes me how big a difference this sound setup makes to the quality of the experience – the amazing part being that Sierra went to so much trouble, when on release hardly anyone would have had the hardware to enjoy it:

Beautiful! I think it was 2 days ago that I installed the GOG.com version of the Larry games on my 32GB CF card 😀

What games do I play at the moment? NONE. I'm stuck in my man cave catching up on projects and cutting videos. Maybe ONE DAY I will get to actually sit down and play a game...

Shenmue (DC)

d1stortion wrote:

Shenmue (DC)

Have you seen any sailors?

F2bnp wrote:

d1stortion wrote:

Shenmue (DC)

Have you seen any sailors?

You say sailors, but you don't mean just any sailor, do you?
🤣

F2bnp wrote:

d1stortion wrote:

Shenmue (DC)

Have you seen any sailors?

Yup.

I'm currently playing Counter-Strike GO, L.A. Noire (on hold), League of Legends and just finished installing PlanetSide 2. I also played some War Thunder but it didn't quite get my attention. Aces over Europe was a better game than this although the graphics are very nice 😁

Jane's Fighters Anthology on an old AMD Turion laptop, with CH Fighterstick, Pro Throttle, and Pro Pedals. 😀

I've mainly been playing CS: GO, along with a bit of Hotline Miami, Super Hexagon, and Castle Crashers.

Marathon:Resurrection for Unreal Tournament.

It's odd playing it because even though it IS marathon 1's campaign, alot of stuff had to be changed since Unreal had not alot of the odd features the marathon engine used. Also it uses Marathon Infinity's weapon design rather than the odd design Marathon 1 had.

Nobody said the thread was about only playing old games, so DayZ SA has been played on my computer since it came out. The game is really lame and really exciting at the same time. Lame because you know there is nothing to do beyond a certain point (which you can get to in 5 minutes theoretically) but also really exciting because of the survival aspect (and I dont mean food and water) and exploration (still haven't been to about 2/3 of the map locations)

Lately I played

Half Life
Half Life: Opposing Force
Half Life: Blue Shift
Half Life: Source
various Half Life mods
Half Life 2
Ultimate Doom
Quake

Currently Playing...

Borderlands 2
Black Mesa
Half Life 2 Episode 1 (and Episode 2 is next)
Shadow Warrior (new one)

Thinking about playing...

Mortyr 2093-1944
Gunman Chronicles
Half Life Decay (PC Mod version)
Project IGI
Serious Sam 3
Hard Reset

I'm currently playing XCOM and XCOM2 at Superhuman difficulty, and all I can say is this: Man, this is really hard 😮 !

The Sectoids and Aquatoids are seriously deadly, and if I'm not careful with my moves they'll wipe me out easily; on top of that, my finances are in shambles - if something really good doesn't happen in XCOM2 soon, I'll probably lose the game and will have to start over again 😵 .

Guess it's time to read some strategy guides.

Recently finished Lego Island and began Lego Island 2.

STX wrote:

Recently finished Lego Island and began Lego Island 2.

And you can change flowers!

Started playing Expendable since I can't get Incoming to work still... no thanks to AMD's incompetent driver programmers.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Jane's Fighters Anthology on an old AMD Turion laptop, with CH Fighterstick, Pro Throttle, and Pro Pedals. 😀

Usb versions im guessing?? If youre using gameport versions, how did you connect to your laptop?

I need help I cant remember some games I used to play a lot when I was a kid, they all ran on a 486 120 Mhz with 16 MB RAM I cant remember their names since I lost the CD with them.

-One was a racing game where you could race with all kinds of crazy vehicles, hovecrafts, boats, lunar buggys in the moon and the graphics were blocky, I would say game from 1993 to 1996.
- One was an point and click adventure game with a purple alien that looked like a sausage and crashed his ufo into a pig farm, then I just remember that the game has a part where you fight inside a human mouth with tongues? And a part where an elephant gets sick from sucking plastic balls in a kids park or something the game was hilarious!.
- One was a version of bomberman for windows 95 that supported multiplayer and had all kinds of crazy sounds, I remember you could kick bombs and throw them to blow up your opponents.
- The last one is a game that was remade and is called Tasty Static and I really like to play it even if its hard, but I remembered that there was an original version back in the 90´s with the same mechanics, you have to jump a ship trough various platforms in 3D, I cant remember the name of the game.

Some of the old games I really like and not many people know about them:

Strike Base: game looks like terminal velocity but with even better music altough it is very hard and you can control vehicles
Tempest 2000 (arcade game with great music altough gameplay gets boring after some time)
Z - The only old RTS game I played that is not a ripoff of C&C and actually innovates in the genre.
Terra Nova Strike force - Made by the same creators of system shock do I need to say more?
Archymedian Dynasty - game with good storyline where you drive an underwater vehicle, similar to AquaNox but better story

Marathon 2 + Rubicon X (I really dont understand why bungie didnt use the storyline for halo series instead of the crap one they created where the enemies talk like 5 year old children, the enemies in this game and the evil AI´s that help you are so much more badass and sarcastic than cortana, it is one of the reasons I hate xbox and halo)

Enemy Zero: horror sci fi game where the enemies are invisible and the only way you can know where they are is by sound, unfortunately it is one of those games loaded with FMV movies but the concept behind it is really good, I am sad that no game tried to implement such mechanics into an horror game because It would be so good specially with DirectSound3D + CMSS from X-Fi. I even tried to recreate the game for my final project in graphics programming with JOGL the invisible enemies were a good excuse to not have to draw them! But I lack the programming skills to turn it into an enjoyable game and to make it work with directsound.

-One Must Fall 2097 (I have yet to play a better fighter that this one, not even soul calibur beats it, it is really hard and requires so much skill, and other games lack the torunament mode of this one)

Righ now Im playing Shenmue since I never played it before, but the game takes so much time to complete and I dont have the free time for it.. Wish I had a dreamcast when I was a kid, but that console failed miserably in sales in europe...

valencio wrote:

- One was an point and click adventure game with a purple alien that looked like a sausage and crashed his ufo into a pig farm, then I just remember that the game has a part where you fight inside a human mouth with tongues? And a part where an elephant gets sick from sucking plastic balls in a kids park or something the game was hilarious!.

That would be SpaceKids.

valencio wrote:

- One was a version of bomberman for windows 95 that supported multiplayer and had all kinds of crazy sounds, I remember you could kick bombs and throw them to blow up your opponents.

Atomic Bomberman maybe? I think that was multiplayer (over IPX or TCP)