Your 3 fondest PC games memories.
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Steve Echols wrote:
The keyboard doesn't quite cut it on some of those games where you need 2 joysticks,
Last time I talked to my little brother, they were having an argument over the control pad. I stepped in and suggested not to go overboard on the buttons like you see on some of the MAME cabinets out there.
That's a tough one, but I would think 2 joysticks, 4 buttons and a trackball per player would suffice for most games. Of course, I'm old school - those new fangled XBox/PS controllers just blow my mind! And then, having said that, my keyboard has 101 keys, so who knows...
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Always fun to play a little Joust, but don't kick your machine like you're in the arcade! :laugh:
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Metal Slug? Snow Bros? or the classic Altered Beast? :-D "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" - Ross Edbert Sydney, Australia
Haven't played any of those, but I'll check them out (during compiles of course :))
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1. Playing Elite on my Amstrad PC1512 - I spent hours playing this 2. Star Wars: Dark Forces - The level where you were wandering around Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer, so atmospheric you believed you could turn a corner and run into Vader. 3. Civilisation - The first time you play it properly and you lose the entire day and night to the game. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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That's a tough one, but I would think 2 joysticks, 4 buttons and a trackball per player would suffice for most games. Of course, I'm old school - those new fangled XBox/PS controllers just blow my mind! And then, having said that, my keyboard has 101 keys, so who knows...
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Steve Echols wrote:
That's a tough one, but I would think 2 joysticks, 4 buttons and a trackball per player would suffice for most games.
That is what I suggested to my brother and his friends. Awww hell, what do I know, I am so old school that when I first started playing PS2 games, I had to get used to all the buttons on the controller :laugh: :zzz:time :) Paul
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I know you said Age of anything, but are you only referring to the ES games, or do you like other stuff such as Age of Rifles as well? Cheers, Vikram.
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Here I'm taking "PC" to mean "Personal Computer" not "Wintel box" - I haven't really played many PC games recently, it's mostly consoles nowadays - far too expensive to keep up with the upgrades to play the latest games! Fish! by Magnetic scrolls - a great text adventure I spent hours playing back on the ZX spectrum, and again for more hours on the Amiga when I got a better version of the same game with extra graphical goodness The Secret of Monkey Island (Amiga again) - no intro needed, I think! Frontier (Amiga yet again) - somehow I managed to miss out on the buzz of Elite the first time round, but I ended up really hooked by Frontier, flying the universe with my tricked out Viper :) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
Final Fantasy VII. Best RPG ever. Heroes of Might and magic 2. AI for this game was great. Its better than most people. Starcraft.
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Yes! MAME is quite cool. My little brother and his friend have been building a MAME cabinet for the past couple months or so :-D
Do you have to buy game cartridge for the machine? I read somewhere it used to cost $200-$300 a game. And someone came up with a CD-version of MAME but I don't know whether it's publicly available or not. "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" - Ross Edbert Sydney, Australia
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I know you said Age of anything, but are you only referring to the ES games, or do you like other stuff such as Age of Rifles as well? Cheers, Vikram.
"I am not Jesus and will never be. The fact is I was a piece of cr*p till I found Him." - Paul Selormey.
I prefer ES , but Once I played a game called TZAR - The Burden of the crown It's not from ES but was excellent.What I played was a demo version :(.. Now I'm really not getting time to sit for games. Soon I'll free myself up and start collecting the games again. :cool:.. You know , I played very little campaigns in AOE3 and too little AOM.. they are cool, but something in AOE-II Conqueror attaracts me the most. I never get enough of it :). I love the spanish civilization.. and you? and you still play games at home?
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Final Fantasy VII. Best RPG ever. Heroes of Might and magic 2. AI for this game was great. Its better than most people. Starcraft.
Henry Petersen wrote:
Final Fantasy VII. Best RPG ever.
Eww X| ...those who think FF7 is the best RPG ever has never played classics such as ChronoTrigger (SNES, PS1), Star Ocean 2 (PS1), or even FF6. FF7 introduced a huge jump in graphics (moving from 2D to 3D), but gameplay-wise and storyline-wise you can find better games outh there. BTW, I'm a SquareSoft fan, so I love Final Fantasy (with Final Fantasy Tactics as my favourite of all). This is not flaming on FF. "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" - Ross Edbert Sydney, Australia
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
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Henry Petersen wrote:
Final Fantasy VII. Best RPG ever.
Eww X| ...those who think FF7 is the best RPG ever has never played classics such as ChronoTrigger (SNES, PS1), Star Ocean 2 (PS1), or even FF6. FF7 introduced a huge jump in graphics (moving from 2D to 3D), but gameplay-wise and storyline-wise you can find better games outh there. BTW, I'm a SquareSoft fan, so I love Final Fantasy (with Final Fantasy Tactics as my favourite of all). This is not flaming on FF. "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" - Ross Edbert Sydney, Australia
Edbert P wrote:
FF7 introduced a huge jump in graphics (moving from 2D to 3D), but gameplay-wise and storyline-wise you can find better games outh there.
Actually, the storyline/characters are probobly the main reason I like ff7 so much... The gameplay was also a strong-point; I thought the materia system worked well. ff7 does seem to be one of those games that has a fair bit of divided opinion over it though... ;P Suppose it's just a preference thing.
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No One Lives Forever (Best shooter ever made ;) ) Star Wars: Dark Forces II Jane's US Air Force (Too bad we don't get flight sims like that anymore) On the Xbox: Project Gotham Racing III Forca Motorsport Project Gotham Racing II - Anders My new photo website[^]
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
Sensible World Of Soccer (Amiga 1200) - I held onto my Amiga for years just to play this game. Quake - First decent game I bought for my PC Freespace 2 - bit old now, but I still like playing it occasionally. Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
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I'll give 5, in chronological order: The original Tetris. (It's still the best version!) Descent 3. (This was the first first person shooter that really really hooked me. For me, it was the first that showed what really was possible. This was also the first computer games my kids really started playing in earnest.) No One Lives Forever. (No game before or since has quite matched the pure joy of this game, though World of Warcraft comes close.) Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun. (The first strategy game that hooked me. My kids and I still occasionally play it to this day.) World of Warcraft. (I was skeptical, but my oldest son really wanted it. He saved some money, I built a faster computer and we bought it. I created a character and next thing you know I'm totally hooked. So hooked, I went from playing through a new game once a month, to playing through only three within the last fifteen months [Including Doom 3, which sucked, and Half Life 2, which was decent.]) [EDIT: I should add that my truly fondest memories aren't the games themselves, but how excited my kids would get, and still get, when I play them. My youngest son especially loves to sit next to me and just watch and help. We made a good team. I can't count the times I'd be standing in a virtual room scratching my head as to what to do next when my nine-year-old son would impatiently tell me the solution to the puzzle. Some fathers connect with their boys through baseball, I do so through computer games. So, anyone who mocks computer games can just go to hell as far as I'm concerned.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
No One Lives Forever. (No game before or since has quite matched the pure joy of this game, though World of Warcraft comes close.)
Yeah, I loved that game too :) Your post made me want to go home and install it again... I just did a quick check on NolfGirl.com and TheGlueFactory.com and people actually still play the original NOLF online... - Anders My new photo website[^]
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I prefer ES , but Once I played a game called TZAR - The Burden of the crown It's not from ES but was excellent.What I played was a demo version :(.. Now I'm really not getting time to sit for games. Soon I'll free myself up and start collecting the games again. :cool:.. You know , I played very little campaigns in AOE3 and too little AOM.. they are cool, but something in AOE-II Conqueror attaracts me the most. I never get enough of it :). I love the spanish civilization.. and you? and you still play games at home?
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VuNic wrote:
you still play games at home?
Only if I'm on support. ;P
VuNic wrote:
I love the spanish civilization
AoE 2 or 3? They're my 2nd fav in AoE2, Saracens being the best. I haven't explored AoE3 all that much, though I rather like the Germans. Cheers, Vikram.
"I am not Jesus and will never be. The fact is I was a piece of cr*p till I found Him." - Paul Selormey.
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Speedball 2 (well actually it was Amiga game but I had it for PC too) Syndicate (awesome game from Bullfrog) Counterstrike (still play sometimes)
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There's no ways I can squash my whole life into three choices. Ok here we go: Sopwith (CGA) Dig Dug (EGA) Battle of Britan (VGA) Big Red Racing The Horde Star Control 2 (Does NOBODY remember this game?!) All the "Quest" games (Kings quest etc) Command and Conquer 1 Warcraft 1 Starcraft Far Cry Final Fantasy 8 all the Tekken games (Arcade and PS2) Civilisation Some of the "Sim" games Quake I'll post more as they pop up in my head. I didn't get any sleep last night. I just bought Scrubs seasons 1 through 3 on DVD :D
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