I agree 100%. I still play BF42 on private servers. Thereās only a couple with enough people, but they have decent admins.
Amusingly two of my favorite games, strife: quest for the sigil and system shock, ended up becoming commercial again after spending decades as abandonware.
Yes I bought both because while nightdive didnāt make either, theyāre rewarding fan efforts to keep the party going and are in th process of trying to do moreā¦ extensive facelift projects.
Beyond those two? Dungeon keeper (has a really good fan made launcher/wrapper for windows.)
Iāve heard Rossās game dungeon forums have ripped the map geometry from test drive 3.
Really wanna give quarintine a spin after watching that game dungeon. Even more wanting there to be an engine update to it to fix some of the more glaring bugs and annoyances.
Iām more partial to GZdoom myself (works with all the doom engine games: doom/2/expansions, hexen/heretic, strife, and a couple other projects that are standaloen but use the doom engine thatās come out since.
As it is the law I have commander keen on my computer and my phone.
Itās been forever since I played it, but I need to get out āBattleTech: The Crescent Hawkās Inceptionā again. Was it awesome, or do I just love it because I first played it when I was 12?
OMG did I love that game. Iām horrible at most games, and when playing through missed a very important, very easy to see thing, so my game lasted forever. Which I was happy about, because I love the turn based combat and trading. I recommended it to some classmates who bought and finished it in a few hours. They thought, and informed me, that I was an idiot.
There was a game around the same time that had similar gameplay, but was based in Martian colonies. Anyone know the name?
ETA: Thank you abandonware! Mars Saga (although it seems the version I had was Mines of Titan)
I got stuck at one point and managed to break the game by crossing from one city to another, in the way only a bored child can do, by relentless walking over the surface instead of accomplishing the mission and taking the vehicle that would have become available.
I didnāt have a lot of games but I loved the ones I had; looking at images of Mechwarrior and Gunship are bringing back some seriously good memories.
Loved the Keen games. I pull them out periodically.
Also old shooters like Blood, Heretic, Hexen, Shogo, Blood 2, etc.
And of course all them LucasArts and similar adventure games. Fate of Atlantis, Innocent Until Caught, Original Monkey Island (VGA/CD only for me thanks).
Yep tried the remastered day of the tentacle. Aparently my memory is working too well. I do this then this now this swap cronojohns do the other. Oh and the games finished. Well that was a good hour and a half.
Three words: Command & Conquer. Iām a huge fan of the series, even the really campy shit. Noā¦ especially the really campy shit.
I also enjoy playing MDK for the umpteenth time. That game was brilliant in all sorts of ways. I used to have a ritual where one of the very first things Iād do when I set up a new computer system, or wipe my hard drive and start fresh, was install MDK and play through.
Obviously: Doom and Hexen.
Quake II is underrated. Itās not as groundbreaking as Doom, but itās a solid game, and the engine spawned many classics, like the original Half-Life, which is also abandonware in my book.
If you donāt know whatās behind that door, I donāt know if we can be friends.
Of course, Iām also deeply in love with the old 2D Monkey Island series.
Finally, thereās this:
I wish the picture was bigger, but hellā¦ itās probably native resolution!
Sometimes I see myself playing a well-adjusted modern remake of this gameā¦ and then I wake up.
ETA: Mandatory after expressing my love of Half-Life.
Battle chess good choice.
Iām about 80% sure that I could walk someone through DotT in its entirety without ever needing to look at a screen. I think Iāve also played it on every phone Iāve had for the last 12 years, because the people who put their time into ScummVM are princes among men.
Remastered Full Throttle is out next month though, and thatās one Iāve never played more than an hour ofā¦so thatāll be good.
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