Games I Miss- and would like to see again

[Qeldroma]

This thread is for those games I miss, apparently have no future, but I would like to see come back with new engines and graphics:

Jedi Knight (PC)
Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) (PC)

I personally think that Jedi Outcast and Academy were the first real FPS greats of multiplayer gaming and I sorely miss the rollicking action of saber-only and full force powers Capture-The-Flag. Chucking in weapons was fun too- if you didn’t mind being part of a huge body count. And I think that with today’s technology, physics, graphics, Wii-type interface, and hosting capabilities, a lot of the awkward game play could be vastly improved and this genre of game could once again gain a prominent stage.

Unfortunately, LucasArts is apparently wed-locked to the XBOX and doldrum consoles with their new title The Force Unleashed (http://www.lucasarts.com/games/theforceunleashed/#). For this reason I never got to play their Episode III game- and may likely not see this title either. Oh how I miss this old-timers favorite for the PC- even the single player! Oh yeah- and I have heard of a Wii remote interface for PC Linux (via my son).

KOTOR was probably THE best solo storyline game I’ve ever played. I don’t expect these to come around very often because of that, but I think with commensurate upgrades there is still a ready market for this type of adventure game again- should George Lucas permit such a story to go somewhere besides the big screen. Unfortunately, a search of KOTOR III with Google returns nearly 3-year dead threads.

LucasArts used to have some of the best titles with these two series, but somehow they never followed up on them and improved these Award-winning formulae. It was just a matter of time before newer games would overrun them. Sigh … I wished Ravensoft, Bioware or Obsidian could have carried the ball LA dropped, but … :( .

[Thrax]

1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR

[Qeldroma]

1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR
1) Quake 2
2) KOTOR


Haha- how ironic that Jedi Knight used the Quake 3 engine.

[Black Hawk]

Rainbow Six.

[Bone]

I am supporting quake 2, quake 2 is whole reason I am into pc gaming. I spent an entire summer playing the online with every mod every made for the game. *sigh* those were the days.

[RWB]

Mechwarrior

It's what got me into gaming, and no other games including Heavy Gear works for me, I love the storyline and everything that goes with Battletech.

[leishi85]

starcraft, it's what got me into gaming.

[primesuspect]

Alternate Reality :-/

[Winfrey]

x-wing vs tie fighter

the Fallout games (plz let 3 rule!)

old school cnc and red alert (not this new bullcrap)

I agree with leishi and rwb on starcraft and mechwarrior as well. Those games rocked the katzbah!

[CB]

Fantasy Empires

Master of Magic

These are my two favorite games ever, and I haven't been able to play either in years. :(

[lemonlime]

Quake, Quake 2, Jedi Knight 2, Diablo 2, Tie-Fighter are the first that come to mind..

[Your Amish Daddy]

Lo Wang as the Shadow Warrior, Hexxen, WOLF3d, The original Duke Nukems, Zork I,II,III, and ZORK - Grand Inquisitor...The list goes on. Lo Wang needs a remake because he made nuclear warheads public, and the five shot Heatseeker card that looked like a SB16, The quad barrel riot shotgun, punching a man of arms and a dummy to gain health back and up to 200...Shooting rabbits instead of rockets, Gas grenades, caltrops and a snide view to insult to injury.

[pseudonym]

Tie Fighter (Dear god do I ever struggle trying to get this on a computer at least ONCE a year)
Wing Commander 1 & 2
Quake 2
Dark Forces, Jedi Knight etc...

[primesuspect]

MDK

oh i loved that game. we need more games with humor and wit like that.

[Winfrey]

MDK

oh i loved that game. we need more games with humor and wit like that.

I definitely agree with that. A game I felt accomplished odd humor with interesting gameplay would have to be psychonauts.

[primesuspect]

As it happens, I agree (http://icrontic.com/articles/psychonauts) ;)

[SPIKE09]

Rugby played on grass with real people :scotflag::banned:

[Your Amish Daddy]

Yeah, psychonauts was a really good game. I've got a whole schpiel about it but it's not topical.

I tell you a game that needs to be remade now, and that is #GAME_NAME: (CONDITION < =10 Y) Alot of the classics are worthy. But see AVGN for a list that doesn't.

[Nightwolf]

Diablo 2

[fatcat]

the old sierra games...

quest for glory
space quest
leisure suit larry
police quest
king's quest
colonel's bequest
etc etc etc

[CB]

the old sierra games...

quest for glory
space quest
leisure suit larry
police quest
king's quest
colonel's bequest
etc etc etc

They did remake most of those... I was just playing a point and click remake of Space Quest a few months ago... Now where did I get that?:confused:

[fatcat]

They did remake most of those... I was just playing a point and click remake of Space Quest a few months ago... Now where did I get that?:confused:

yes I know they remade some... But I want dx10 1680x1050 space quest sweetness ;)
if u remember where u found it lemme know

[rolleggroll]

I agree that we need more Kotor games. Other games that I think we need to see more of is Shenmue, more shoot-em-ups like Ikaruga, 1942 styled games. More fallout series.

[Your Amish Daddy]

Diablo 2 wasn't all that good in my opinion. I liked 1 more.

[citrixmeta]

MotorCity Online!!

[Your Amish Daddy]

That got me thinking too..Clash at Demonhead.

[primesuspect]

omg i loved clash at demonhead! Tom Guycot! :D

[Weedo]

For action/adventure I miss the Tex Murphy series, Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive and Overseer. Especially TPD. KQ6 was awesome too.

[Jokke]

Definately Diablo 2. Hopefully they will get the Diablo 3 running, heard it was under production like, long ago. Also, I would like some of the old, classic Might&Magic games.

[IndigoRed]

Red Faction!!!

Especially the micro maps

Pure pwnage

[RWB]

Definately Diablo 2. Hopefully they will get the Diablo 3 running, heard it was under production like, long ago. Also, I would like some of the old, classic Might&Magic games.

I do miss me some Hero's of Might and Magic II

[Your Amish Daddy]

Clive Barker's Undying. Man that game was epic hard when it came to puzzles.

[Zuntar]

Quake, Hexen, warcraft II, starcraft. I can't remember the name but there was an incredibly disorienting 3d shooter game where you had this round ship and went through corridors and other robotic ships were your enemy's....... You had to use a joystick to really get into it........crap can't remember.


Edit: Ooo Ooo, Descent 3D!!

[Qeldroma]

Quake, Hexen, warcraft II, starcraft. I can't remember the name but there was an incredibly disorienting 3d shooter game where you had this round ship and went through corridors and other robotic ships were your enemy's....... You had to use a joystick to really get into it........crap can't remember.

Descent?

[Zuntar]

Google it, dare ya!!

linkage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(computer_game))

[deicist]

Herzog Zwei.... although I don't think it'd work very well, too many others jumped on the RTS bandwagon after it.

Unreal, the original single player game.

Syndicate.

[Your Amish Daddy]

The early Resident Evil games... I wanna play RE2 on my wii.

[leishi85]

leisure suit larry

i concur

[GnomeWizardd]

The Dig, Actually I just ordered it on amazon to do it all over again!

[floppybootstomp]

I loved these:

Undying
Nocturne
Shadow Man
Outlaws
Quake
Quake II

I still have them all, and with the exception of Nocturne, run fine on Win 98.

I think Quake II runs ok on XP actually, I'll have to try that.


Damn shame about Nocturne, that was the first game that made me jump out of my chair but I must admit the control system and views was rubbish.

Some more I can think of:

Lands Of Lore III
Carmageddon II
Carmageddon TDR 2000
Breakneck


And of course Half Life One and all the add-ons, the best of which were, imo, the three 'They Hunger' epsiodes.

But there again, HL1 + add-ons run ok in XP.

[primesuspect]

Floppy, you should get Steam. You can buy the entire back catalog from Valve and Id and play them on any windows system, even Vista.

[floppybootstomp]

Floppy, you should get Steam. You can buy the entire back catalog from Valve and Id and play them on any windows system, even Vista.


Well thankee for the heads up sah but I do have Steam :)

Have HL2; HL2 Episode 1 and Dark Messiah Of Mage & Magic installed on my main machine.

Bioshock too, I think that is allied to Steam as well, though not certain.

I have a machine with a front mounted internal hard disk caddy and five trays with disks.

So far I have Win XP; PC Linux OS 2007 and Win 98 on three of the disks.

It's only a recent install of Win 98 but I intend to load lots of old games onto it.

Made the machine from parts I had and a computer from a school I was working at, they were throwing out loads of old machines.

Brief specs: Aopen MX46 motherboard (circa 2003); 512Mb RAM; Celeron 1.7 CPU; 300W PSU; Lian Li PC61 case; Nvidia 6800 AGP 256Mb Graphics card; D-Link Ethernet card; Audigy 2 Sound card; Asus DVDRW and a floppy disk drive.

That's old enough to get on with Win 98, I found out the hard way that pci-e architecture and Win 98 do not mix ;)

[primesuspect]

well buy the orange box and play Team Fortress 2 (http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65620) with us :D

[pigflipper]

I want to see more of System Shock, Monkey Island, and I really want to get my hands on a copy of the original Sam and Max Hit the Road.

Also, hell, I just want more space sims, I first started playing on X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and Wing Commander.

[GHoosdum]

There was this game that I played as a kid that was basically a platforming puzzle game that involved settings much like you'd expect Indiana Jones or Lara Croft to be visiting. The key with this game was that, much like Carmen Sandiego, it taught history and art as you were playing.

I completely forget the name, but I loved playing it as a kid.

Also, the first time I encountered a pink demon in Doom 1 was a truly unforgettable experience. It had snuck up on me and taken a bite. As I turned to the left and met the roaring demon face-to-face, the hair on the back of my neck stood on end and all the blood drained from my face. This is an experience that has not been duplicated in intensity for me in modern gaming no matter how complex the graphics have become.

[primesuspect]

I had that same experience in Doom.... The first time I stared down a long, dark corridor and suddenly a pink demon was barreling down the corridor towards me - i literally yelled and it scared the living crap out of me.

[Thrax]

I was very young when Doom came out. I was 5 or 6. That game gave me some everloving nightmares -- and they kept me coming back for more. That game had great atmosphere.

[drasnor]

MechWarrior 2 and Mercenaries for awesome gameplay value and storyline. Updated with modern 3D but keep the full FASA Battletech ruleset. And the computer voice. And the metal soundtrack.

A new version of Descent that works well with mouse and keyboard would be great. Without the puzzle crap from Descent 3.

GHoosdum: I had a very similar experience playing Descent. I was in a mine on Venus when one of the green slicer robots came flying out of a hole in the ceiling, let out some kind of electronic squeal/scream, and came at my ship at high speed with its blood-soaked pincers raised to swipe.

http://www.msu.edu/~bonddenn/screenshots/descent1.jpg

-drasnor :fold:

P.S. I've thought of, on multiple occasions, pulling the mission start computer message from MechWarrior 2 and putting it on a little embedded voice chip I have and wiring it to my car's ignition.

[primesuspect]

Oh man another game I really miss in that same 2d/faux 3d shooter genre was Terminal Velocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Velocity_%28video_game%29). I loved that game.

[Your Amish Daddy]

Yeah I liked TV. I played it way back when I could see.

[GHoosdum]

That green mining claw robot gave me the same reaction the first time it hit me too. Descent was a really well-done game for its time.

[Winfrey]

MechWarrior 2 and Mercenaries for awesome gameplay value and storyline. Updated with modern 3D but keep the full FASA Battletech ruleset. And the computer voice. And the metal soundtrack.

omg MW2:Mercenaries rocked my world!:crazy:


P.S. I've thought of, on multiple occasions, pulling the mission start computer message from MechWarrior 2 and putting it on a little embedded voice chip I have and wiring it to my car's ignition.

Power..Online, Weapons...Online, Sensors...Online, All systems nominal

haha...DO IT!

[Your Amish Daddy]

Hell yeah. I'm gonna need something like that for a project.

[Zuntar]

...............

Also, the first time I encountered a pink demon in Doom 1 was a truly unforgettable experience. It had snuck up on me and taken a bite. As I turned to the left and met the roaring demon face-to-face, the hair on the back of my neck stood on end and all the blood drained from my face. This is an experience that has not been duplicated in intensity for me in modern gaming no matter how complex the graphics have become.


For me it was Hexen, there was a level where the music slowly intensified, nothing was to be seen for a little while I was going down a hallway, just at the peak of the music the goosebumps started and the friggin walls dropped all around me. I was surrounded:eek:, I yelled and open fired. When the dust settled I had a cold sweat goin on. Intensity I have not felt in any other game since I believe



Oh man another game I really miss in that same 2d/faux 3d shooter genre was Terminal Velocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Velocity_%28video_game%29). I loved that game.

OOOoooh yea, that was a blast too!! That was another one that just had to be played w/ a joystick.

[Enverex]

Syndicate would be nice redone with modern graphics and such, great game.

[GnomeWizardd]

MORE HALF LIFE!


I am playing episode 1 now and man It is one of the best sequal / expansions yet!

[Guyute]

Painkiller. The painkiller weapon is the weapon tied with the Gravity Gun from HL:2 DM for coolest weapon ever invented. Multiplayer was wild, but short-lived.

[primesuspect]

Painkiller is still around, still very modern, and still awesome. You can buy it on Steam cheap. It is definitely worth playing. The graphics are on par with modern games.

[Black Hawk]

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

;D

[Winfrey]

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

;D

Hell ya:thumbsup:

[Your Amish Daddy]

I got one. The first Silent Hill.