Classic video games that I'd replay

[Grog]

I never played Planescape: Torment, but I've heard so many good things about it that I'm tempted to play it now.

Play it. Absolutely. It's one of the best CRPGs of all time, and definitely has the best dialogue and storyline. In fact, I've been tempted to fire it up again myself recently - maybe I will....

 

[stonegod]

Play it. Absolutely. It's one of the best CRPGs of all time, and definitely has the best dialogue and storyline. In fact, I've been tempted to fire it up again myself recently - maybe I will....

QF Everloving T. Always near my top games...

Speaking of, one I haven't seen on this list is Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Also one of my tops. I loved my dimwit orc with an army of automata...

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

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.

Actually, neither the Eye of the Beholder games nor their Ravenloft derivatives were Gold Box games.

Only the older Tactics/RPGs (Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, Dark Queen of Krynn, Gateway to the Savage Frontier and Treasures of the Savage Frontier) and the Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures construction kit were actual Gold Box games.

The two Dark Sun games SSI put out were probably the closest thing to "post-Gold Box Gold Box games," since they were also isometric Tactics/RPGs.

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.

I can't see portables well enough to play them comfortably. Fortunately, I have a Game Boy Player for my Gamecube. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge only SF1 (which I have in a Sega Collection for the PC as well) got a Game Boy remake.

 

[Lewis526]

TIE Fighter came to my mind immediately. LucasArts really should return to that series.

How about the old NES games, like Duck Hunt, Tecmo Bowl, and Excitebike? Some of the most replayable games are the ones where you can be creative, as with the sports games. Not so much Duck Hunt, but it was fun to use the gun, and we all loved to hate that stupid dog. The thing I loved about Excitebike was that I got to create my own tracks and then race them.

 

[Nylanfs]

How about Sam & Max?

And no votes for Pong?

 

[Clefton Twain]

Combat.

Definitely Combat.



--CT

 

[Squire James]

Ah, I have many memories about Unlimited Adventures. I revved that thing up with desires of making my own "Gold Box" style games and distributing them through the Internet (money rarely entered my mind, and when it did I realized I couldn't sell them for a profit anyway). The pesky thing wouldn't even let me design my own wall sets! Or dungeon combat tiles! Or wilderness combat tiles! I felt stymied.

So I wrote tools that allowed someone to make a PCX graphics file and import those three things (and later PC combat icons), like the game had already allowed for picture displays and monster combat icons. I never released a single adventure online, but I released those tools. Wow. Other people sure used those tools and created adventures! I got more out of it than I ever imagined!

Too bad I can't get Unlimited Adventures to run on any of my computers since 1998... DosBox, eh?

 

[Blackrat]

I tend to play the old classics from time to time just for the kicks. Ones I have replayed this year:
Fallout I & II
Space Quest series.
Star Control II
Master of Orion II (This I played yesterday )
Commander Keen 4

 

[Shades of Green]

System Shock. Best horror shooter-adventure game ever; great plot and story elements; perfect techno-horror atmosphere.

Thief 1 and 2. Excellent first-person sneakers with the perfect mix of steampunk and fantasy and a well-detailed world.

Utima Underworld 1 and 2. Two great mega-dungeon first-person RPGs combining revolutionary gameplay, an interactive world, an interesting plot and an excellent atmosphere.

 

[Bront]

Star Control II!

Look up The Urquan Masters. It's a freeware coded version of Star Control II that plays on XP. They have some smoothing they do on the graphics too, so it looks a bit sharper.