DosFreak wrote on 2021-08-08, 15:57:

Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
Daggerfall
Starcraft

Play these and basically forget about everything else.

Oh, and it's Beneath a Steel Sky, not Beyond.

it's beyond 😀

The top 10 games from every year since the IBM PC to the end of the retro era (2006). That is what I am currently doing, and at one hour of gaming a day, it's going to take a while!

Until some years ago the pc games I wanted to finish (I never played many pc or console games anyway, only few interesting ones) but I always regretted I did not, were the old Thief 1 and Thief 2 games. Lately I bought the original first and I already had the second original one. Even if I began them on a slow and strange config (Atom dual core and SGX545 gpu) with low fps (15-25fps on T2, 25-40fps on T1 probably @ 1024x768), I finished them both and it was a great old style pc game experience. The latest game I finished on PC with a similar good experience it must have been probably Half Life 2 in its time.

robertmo wrote on 2021-08-08, 19:38:

it's beyond 😀

Oh, you mean this?

"From Charles Cecil, creator of the Broken Sword series, with art direction by Dave Gibbons, legendary comic book artist behind ‘Watchmen’, comes ‘Beyond A Steel Sky’, the long awaited sequel to the cult classic ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’."

I have a very short list of games I've actually finished. So list of games I have yet to finish, with a tiny percentage error* is www.mobygames.com 🤣

Finishing a level 😁 👍
Finishing a game 🙁 👎

Usually find the experience underwhelming and feel kind of annoyed that there's not another level or puzzle or mission or whatever.

*Probably not a whole lot larger error in it being a list of games I haven't played yet, considering there is so many and I'm not what you might call a voracious gamer.

Games I already have, but never got around to play.

Alice: Madness Returns - Just got it a couple of days ago for Xbox 360. It's really a forgotten game, no longer available on Steam and the used console retail versions are go for almost brand new price.
Borderlands - Steam freebie. I wasn't interested enough in the series to buy it, but curious because of the hype.
Dragon's Crown - I bought the japanese version 2 or 3 months ago... and it's in japanese. I'm in the middle of learning the language, but at least 1 year away to try and go through the game.
Fallout Tactics - I have it (gaming magazine freebie) for over 10 years, but never put it in a PC.
Gears of War 1 - My first X360 got RRoD right before I beat the last boss and never had the resolve to go through the game again.
Lolipop Chainsaw - Japanese version, but it has english language. I played about 1hr, and put it down because I was in the middle of something else. And my backlog is too long.
Motorstorm - Same as with Lilipop. Played 2 races after I bought and put it aside.
Mount & Blade - GoG freebie. I always found it intriguing, now I have it, I and I still didn't try it.
Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction - also a recent aquisition. I found it in a local shop for $8 and couldn't leave on the shelf.
Uncharted 3 - I didn't get into the series as much as I expected to. I enjoy it very much, but I think the PS fans overhype them.

I'm honest with myself. I know full well I'll probably never finish a lot of my games even though I do enjoy them alot every now and then Dos platformers as the worst for this (think Jill of the Jungle, Halloween Harry)
But top 5 games I feel I should complete but deep down know I never will.

-Wolf3D, I feel I should complete the graddaddy of 3D shooters but I grew up with Doom so its a step back and gets very repetitive.
-Dune2, Same as above, the Granddaddy of RTS but the game is so slow!!
-Prince of Persia, Great game in short doses but doubt I'll ever make it all the way though.
-Command and Conquer 2 and onwards, I'd like to finish the storyline but gameplay wise I prefer the earlier titles
-Red Alert 3 and onwards, same reason as above

Top 5 Games that have taken over 20 years to complete but will someday, it just may take another 10+ years.
Crystal Caves, made good progress on this 2 years ago. Haven't played since but know I will when I get the urge for an old Apogee title.
Duke3D, Finished shareware loads of times but was saving E2, E3 for a LAN that never happened.
Diablo 2, I lost interest after finishing the base game then lost my character so still haven't started LOD. So will have to play though again. I just need to stick with a character long enough to reach that point.
GTA San Andreas, Finished 3 and VC at least twice now so it's long overdue to complete the story of SA. I'm not bothered about 100% completion though.
NFS4 & Porsche career modes. I'm working of 4 now but wanting to race every car in every event slows things down alot.

chinny22 wrote on 2021-08-23, 08:46:

-Prince of Persia, Great game in short doses but doubt I'll ever make it all the way though.

How short are those doses? The game is around 45 mins long from start to finish. Or it's the 2008 reboot?

RandomStranger wrote on 2021-08-23, 11:22:

chinny22 wrote on 2021-08-23, 08:46:

-Prince of Persia, Great game in short doses but doubt I'll ever make it all the way though.

How short are those doses? The game is around 45 mins long from start to finish. Or it's the 2008 reboot?

15-30 min?
It's the original but I don't know where I'm going (and refuse to look it up) I end up exploring a fair bit.

When I was a kid I did not know you could save your progress in PoP, and kept playing until the time ran out (the "Linger" guard on level 8 was usually to blame). I discovered the save/load feature sometime in the early 2000s and was able to complete the game. I remember level 9 being especially confusing, but the game on the whole is built around the trial-and-error concept so it's fine.

Also finished the original Prince of Persia (well, the SDLPop source port actually) by using saves. Ok, I cheated a bit as I got to the last boss with only a few seconds left, cheated to add another 5 minutes to the game 😀
There are many games that I’d like to finish, but one that feels intimidating to me are the older Tomb Raider games. Only recently I managed to beat TR1 and 2 on the playstation and considering that TR3,4 and 5 are even longer games, I feel that I will not have the discipline required to finish them.
Another game that I never finished was Warcraft 2, I tried many times, but I always end up dropping it before finishing any of the campaigns.
Funny thing is that I finished the original Warcraft a couple times with both orc and human, was even able to finish Warcraft 3 back in the day when it was new (the vanilla one, not the frozen throne expansion).
NFS Most Wanted (2005) is another game I like but could never bring myself to finish…
Oh, and the Marathon trilogy, there are just too many 🙁.

I still haven't beat Skyrim. I got caught up in the modding scene early into my time playing the game and just spent a disproportionate amount of time tweaking mods rather than playing the game. Now with decent mod packs out there (Ultimate Skyrim is my go to) I just need to invest that time to play. I keep starting characters then getting distracted by other things, like putting together more retro PCs.

I know, first world problem.

Games I've played but not yet finished:
- C&C: Red Alert, the Allied campaign. I love the C&C series up to RA2 but I still haven't beaten the Allied campaign, I just find it less fun
- Battlezone, always liked the game but for some reason never finished it
- Hidden & Dangerous, same as Battlezone
- Baldur's Gate, charming game but I've always gotten bored of it before I've been able to beat it. Maybe one day
- Thief: The Dark Project, I did give this a try ages ago and liked it but wasn't really in the mood for a stealth game at the time and put it aside.

Games I haven't yet played at all but like to beat:
- Thief 2
- Operation Flashpoint
- Tomb Raider 4&5
- Morrowind

Sombrero wrote on 2021-10-23, 05:38:

- C&C: Red Alert, the Allied campaign. I love the C&C series up to RA2 but I still haven't beaten the Allied campaign, I just find it less fun

Long time since I did play the campaigns. I finished both.

A trick that is useful for the Allied campaing:
Cruisers, cruisers and more cruisers!
Even if there's just a small puddle of water, you should build a shipyard and use the cruisers as turrets. Their reach is just insane.

-Dune2, Same as above, the Granddaddy of RTS but the game is so slow!!

You can alter the game speed in the options, I always use "Very Fast".
Maybe it's because I grew up with it, but I never found Dune II to be slow. Well, units do move half speed when off screen, so if you keep them on screen as often as possible when sending them somewhere then it won't take them long to arrive.

Several off the top of my mind that aren't released ANYWHERE, AvP2 + the expansion, Alice, NOLF and NOLF 2.

I would like to beat...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Beneath a Steel Sky
Gabriel Knight 1 & 2
Toonstruck
Monkey Island 3