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What is your favorite old video game?

#121
Milk said:
Its a shame the ultima series kinda got forgotten as a franchise after Ultima Online.

Ultima VII is one of my favorite game of all time and it and the 6th are landmarks in western RPGs. Lots of things these games did that are now expected in today's games. For example how you can pick up almost anything in elder scrolls games. Ultima started that. I remember in ultima VII, since I was used that in games normally if you could pick it up, it was useful, i'd just pick up everything, candles, forks, knives, chairs....eventually I realized most of this was just junk. The game was also full of sidequests that were not in any way important to the main storyline. I don't think that type of thing was common then though i'm not sure if Ultima started it. that was before quest journals made it in game though so you had to write every single thing down. Quests weren't obvious. Someone had told you about someone in another town, you just figured that might be a quest. It didn't clearly tell you by appearing in a quest journal.

It's also one of the oldest RPG series of all time, the first is 1981 (and its spiritual predecessor, also by Richard Garriott, Akalabeth is 1979! It's insane to think they had computer rpgs that far back). It should still be around kicking newer rpg series in the groin...
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Ya know, I was just never a big fan of the Ultima games. I don't need a game to hold my hand and spoon feed me, but I always thought that the Ultima series games were a little too cryptic and weren't always very clear on what objective you should be meeting. I know Spoony did an exhaustive review of all them, and I really enjoyed it; but I never really enjoyed playing them.

One of my favorite games is Final Fantasy IV...except, we only knew it as Final Fantasy II back then. I liked a lot of the Square RPGs that sometimes got overshadowed by the FF series, though, like Breath of Fire, Secret of Mana, and Chrono Trigger. Xenogears is a master piece, IMO.

I played a ton of Doom and Doom II when I was younger. I even played some of the Doom levels created by the Columbine shooters (they were just deathmatch levels without actual enemies, IIRC)...kind of eerie playing them knowing who made them.

As far as World of Warcraft, I remember playing just plain old Warcraft, which was a strategy game from Blizzard.
 
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#123
Thomas Kievit said:
What's your favorite old video game?
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Spacewar:

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and the arcade version, Computer Space:

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#124
LiquidMidnight said:
As far as World of Warcraft, I remember playing just plain old Warcraft, which was a strategy game from Blizzard.
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I never understood why warcraft was so popular. I called it the fantasy Dune II ripoff. And it was a ripoff in the sense that Dune II was the first RTS of this type (and i enjoyed it a lot more than warcraft...though this would be the last RTs of this type id enjoy, to me that genre got old and boring right after Dune II) and this was the exact same game. I mean i guess that's the thing with the birth of a new genre, at first you just see other games like it as a ripoff, before it estbalishes itself as a genre. Like the first few FPS after WOlfenstein or Doom, i kinda screamed RIPOFF!!! at. Now it just seems silly....
 
#125
Milk said:
I never understood why warcraft was so popular. I called it the fantasy Dune II ripoff. And it was a ripoff in the sense that Dune II was the first RTS of this type (and i enjoyed it a lot more than warcraft...though this would be the last RTs of this type id enjoy, to me that genre got old and boring right after Dune II) and this was the exact same game. I mean i guess that's the thing with the birth of a new genre, at first you just see other games like it as a ripoff, before it estbalishes itself as a genre. Like the first few FPS after WOlfenstein or Doom, i kinda screamed RIPOFF!!! at. Now it just seems silly....
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The thing with the Warcraft games is I never found them to really be balanced in terms of difficulty. The first Warcraft was balls hard. The sequel was almost too easy. Of course, there was StarCraft too.

I remember playing Warzone 2100 for the first Playstation. It was an otherwise awesome game - kind of like an advanced version of Red Alert - but it had one thing that killed it for me: time limits. Putting time limits on campaigns just ruins strategy games, IMHO.
 
#129
Milk said:
No way there were like, people.

Video games are meant to be played alone in your room or basement because you are a socially inept nerd

At least that's how i like to do it.
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Didn't Billy Mitchell once make a statement that videogames are meant to be played in a public, competitive environment? Then again, Billy Mitchell is like the archetype of a douche, so take that for what it's worth. *lol*
 
#131
I used to be a huge gamer, but I find that games today have lost their way. That`s a rant for another day, but for now, here`s a list of games I love and still play today (thank you, emulators!). :)

- Dragon Quest/Warrior (the entire series!)
- Final Fantasy 4-6
- Secret of Mana
- Megan Man series
- Ninja Gaiden
- Earthbound (a.k.a. Mother 2)
- Pac-Man
- NHL '94
- Super Bomberman
- Tetris
- Dr Mario
- Street Fighter 2
- Punch-Out!
 
#135
madman4string said:
If your a RPG fan in today's market, for a console game, Kingdom's of Amular is a fantastic game. R.A. Salvatore and Todd McFarlane...

FPS...Battlefield 4 is incredible.

Just my .02 worth
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I played Amalur at the beginning of the year. Had skipped it when it came out. I loved it despite the claustrophobic map. I mean it's not that its not big enough, but its the way it's made, you never see that far ahead. Annoying. Other than that though, great RPG. 150 hours and I did every single quest and sidequest (well including the two expansions). In fact, my third favorite of all time behind Ultima VII and Oblivion. although I wouldnt' recommend crafting...you can break the game easy if you know what you're doing. I wasn't even trying that much and I could one shot pretty much everything by the end of the game even on hard. If you REALLY go crazy and exploit it, you can deal like millions of damage per hit. And one shot the last boss. I didn't but it was pretty damn quick. I think two or three spells is what it took.
 
#136
Milk said:
I played Amalur at the beginning of the year. Had skipped it when it came out. I loved it despite the claustrophobic map. I mean it's not that its not big enough, but its the way it's made, you never see that far ahead. Annoying. Other than that though, great RPG. 150 hours and I did every single quest and sidequest (well including the two expansions). In fact, my third favorite of all time behind Ultima VII and Oblivion. although I wouldnt' recommend crafting...you can break the game easy if you know what you're doing. I wasn't even trying that much and I could one shot pretty much everything by the end of the game even on hard. If you REALLY go crazy and exploit it, you can deal like millions of damage per hit. And one shot the last boss. I didn't but it was pretty damn quick. I think two or three spells is what it took.
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Spot on. I'm a RPG nerd I suppose. I actually made charts to make gear for any combination I chose. One of my favorite options is the reset button for your skills.
 
#137
Lots of good RPG mentions in this thread. I have to whole-heartedly agree with Secret of Mana; this was the first game I ever obsessed over and tried to max everything out on after beating it.

I'll also give some props to Breath of Fire III, which I think doesn't get enough notice as one of the best RPGs ever because FFVII got so much hype that it eclipsed other early ps1 rpgs. The earlier games in the series had some cool stuff, but III is a masterpiece IMO.
 
#138
LiquidMidnight said:
Didn't Billy Mitchell once make a statement that videogames are meant to be played in a public, competitive environment? Then again, Billy Mitchell is like the archetype of a douche, so take that for what it's worth. *lol*
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Well playing for high scores is different. That still didn't stop him from refusing to play live and then sending his latest high score taped in King of Kong. I mean he has again played publicly since but yeah.
 

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