Classic video games that I'd replay

[Mrikendor]

I'll go very old school and say:

Zork I-III
Lurking Horror
Pool of Radiance (original Gold Box)
Dungeon Master
Ultima IV & V
TV Sports Basketball
Bard's Tale II
7 Cities of Gold
Phantasie III: Wrath of Nikademus

also:

Lords of the Realm II
Warcraft II
Baldur's Gate I & II and expansions

 

[Terraism]

I'd also recommend the little known Exile trilogy from SpiderWeb software.
http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/

Oh, man. I owned all of those, but is it sad that I don't even think of them as "all that old?" I've been gaming for too long. Great games, even if I didn't love the mechanics all that much. Similarly, Epic's Castle of the Winds games were grand fun.

Champions of Krynn
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Dark Queen of Krynn
Death Knights of Krynn
Eye of the Beholder
Eye of the Beholder 2
Gateway to the Savage Frontier
Secret of the Silver Blades

You know, of all the Gold Box games SSI put out, the only ones I ever really enjoyed were the two Ravenloft ones, Strahd's Possession and The Stone Prophet, though, and I think the engine had changed enough they weren't "true" Gold Boxers at that point, anyway.

Shining Force
Shining Force 2

If you're actually interested, they recently re-released these (two? or just one? I can't remember, and I can't check from here,) on the Gameboy Advance. Good fun, especially all portable-like.

 

[Thanee]

Pool of Radiance (original Gold Box)

I actually tried to play that on the PC (it's not that it doesn't work...), because I'm DMing the adventure game currently, but it's really hard to play a game that old. We are kinda spoiled there.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Gulla]

There was one called Sentinel, I think, that'd I'd kill to have back.

hmm, I'd better not give you my address, then A very fun game, even though the escort missions were very frustrating.

But I think most of the games here are far too young (or is it that I am too old ).

The first game I thought of was Paradroid, where you start out as a very small and weak robot and then must clean out the large multilevel spaceship by taking posession of (through a minigame) or killing (when you posess a powerful robot) all other (evil) robots. From the Commodore 64.

Also Wizardry and Fort Apocalypse for the '64 are lots of fun (I still have my '64 and it works.)

For the PC I think Moria (rouge like) is high on the list and for newer games, Phantasie III, Eye of the Beholder and Demon's Winter (I still have my hand-drawn map for that. It is huge)

Håkon

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

The quintessential "replay" games for me are:

XCOM1
XCOM2

Starflight I
Starflight II

Fallout I
Fallout II

I go back and play these games over, and over, and over.

Fallout III is coming soon! SO FRAKKIN STOKED.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Fallout III is coming soon! SO FRAKKIN STOKED.

Not me. Bethesda hasn't done a game I've liked in years. I find the Elder Scrolls stuff to be interminably boring. I refuse to get my hopes up for Fallout 3.

The only smirch on the Fallout series is how unbearably buggy Fallout 2 was when released. Other than that, they are paragons of the CRPG genre.

Starflight I played on a dual-floppy IBM sort-of-compatible back in '86 (I think). The game re-wrote the executables on the floppy as you played, and if it crashed, the files got corrupted and you had to start over. I remember stopping every half hour to make copies of the floppies just in case. The first weekend I had it, I played for 24 hours straight with only food and bathroom breaks. Ah, to be young again.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Not me. Bethesda hasn't done a game I've liked in years. I find the Elder Scrolls stuff to be interminably boring. I refuse to get my hopes up for Fallout 3.

You know, there's an important point to be made here.

There seems to be a curse of IIIs in computer game development. It's almost as if the wild successes of I and II in any genre somehow corrupt the developers into thinking, "We've had such success with the same format in I and II, imagine what we could do if we completely changed the game interface for III!"

 

[Piratecat]

Such a good game! I would so play that again. The booklet was hilarious too.

You can! Go google "Ur-quan Masters"... they re-wrote it for modern computers, although the graphics are old.

I'd love to see Monkey Island 1-3 re-done.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Starflight I played on a dual-floppy IBM sort-of-compatible back in '86 (I think).

No game since has managed to accomplish what Starflight did.

An entire galaxy, full of hundreds of planets, each with its own unique topography, climate, weather, mineral composition, biosphere, etc.

The coordinates for dozens of relics and clues, in exactly the same place, every time you played.

The entire galaxy was mapped to the smallest planetary detail...

On ONE 5.25" floppy disk.

The galaxy felt HUGE, and DANGEROUS, at at the same time both TEEMING with life and UNBEARABLY LONELY.

An absolutely amazing game. If you are into gameplay (as opposed to benchmarking the quality of a game by its demands on your graphics card) you would be hard pressed to find a better game.

I'd put Starflight up against Fallout, actually.

 

[Nifft]

There seems to be a curse of IIIs in computer game development.

Exception to the rule: Warcraft III.

I'd also gladly replay Alpha Centauri. Why oh why can't they make a SMAC II instead of another Civ game?

Maybe Beyond the Sword will have enough customization potential that someone will turn it into SMAC II. (A man can dream, can't he?)

Cheers, -- N