/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4469341
OP here, my favorite genres are FPS, point-and-click. and anything legit 3D. Also like card games and the like

>>4469349
Daggerfall is pretty good.
Eastern mind is a pretty good point and click game although its a bit of a hassle to install

>>4469341

https://archive.org/details/eXoDOS_Collection_v2.0

>>4469341
By the way you might want to check out this fork of dosbox: http://ykhwong.x-y.net/ it has some extra usability features

>>4469341
Jill of the Jungle, Commander Keen, and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure are good games to start out with if you like platformers. Anything by Epic of Apogee, really.

How come /vr/ loves DOS and is helpful when it comes to DOS.
But if it's any other computer from the /vr/ period, it gets automatically shitpost and hate?

Specially weird when considered DOS almost never had the definitive ports of any games.

Either use D-Fend Reloaded(front-end and auto-config utility for dosbox) or PCem. D-Fend makes setup a lot easier, and PCem is far more accurate and capable of playing games that crash under dosbox.

>>4469460
Bigger user pool I guess?

Carmageddon

>>4469481
Oh right. /vr/ is mostly kiddies who had old DOS machines in the early 2000's.

>>4469378
That list is highly questionable and a number of games especially 80s stuff like Wasteland and Alter Ego are much superior on the C64 or Amiga. It also has several meme games like Commander Keen.

>>4469531
>reccomend C64 and Amiga
>thinks Commander Keen is a meme game
First time I see a person like you, anon.

>>4469460
I haven't seen anyone shit on old PCs outside of stupid US vs EU shitposting.
>>4469517
>I know, I'll insult them until they agree with me!
Has that ever worked?

>>4469696
>insult them
>they'll agree
I was just stating the facts.
Can't care more if the 90% of kids of /vr/ agree with me or not.

>>4469378
>Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Why would you recommend kiddie eduware with outdated trivia questions?

>>4469341
https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee
guy's done dozens of reviews of DOS games from the launch of the PC up to when DOS stopped being part of Windows

>>4469794
Hi, LGR. I'm already aware of your silly channel, there's no need to advertise it here.

>>4469808
I doubt Clint would actually advertise here, he's got it going on popular social media already.

>>4469460
>Specially weird when considered DOS almost never had the definitive ports of any games.

DOS has a ton of exclusives.

>>4469783
Why would you recommend using DOS at all? But here we are.

>>4469341
Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em

>>4469460
>But if it's any other computer from the /vr/ period

Most other retro computer platforms have no games that are worth playing now; they were too primitive. PC compatible/DOS games from the 90s (that is to say by the point where decent sound, graphics, and game mechanics were available) are the only retro computer ones worth bothering with.

There isn't a single game on an Apple II you need to bother without outside of nostalgia.

>>4469341
>I asked this on /v/ and one of them linked to this board
So you tell them to fuck right off because retro games are allowed on that board too, oh also kiddo FUCK OFF BACK TO /V/!

>>4469394
eXoDOS is the best answer. Just download the !dos folder with the screenshots, unzip it and note the games that look interesting. You can then download them individually from theeye. There's a lot of shovelware or large FMV games that you might not be interested in.

Personally, I really enjoy those boring management and spreadsheet simulators and the occasional silly FMV.

>>4469808
I'm not him, I just really like the way he presents his videos

Here's a preliminary list of recommended retro PC games. This covers the 80s, I will do a 90s chart later.

>>4470102
Good list.

>>4470102
Don't forget Dune II in the 90s list

>>4469460
Because it is an enthusiast's game platform.

I recommend taking a look at the sort of thing that made PC gaming unique. Here's US Navy Fighters, one of the games I was playing in 1995 on DOS. It isn't "better" than console games, but you couldn't really play anything like it on console.

>>4469914

>>4470302
I think I just found my new waifu.

>>4470289
Hell yeah, loved US Navy Fighters. Now that I think of it, the Jane's games from that period don't have any real equivalent these days. Flight games are either Ace Combat style arcade action games or hyper realistic "learn to fly the real thing or die" stuff like Falcon 4.0 or DCS. The Jane's games were a good inbetween, with sim elements but a simple flight model that let you fly a bunch of varied planes. Also liked HIND and Apache Longbow for their light sim feel. Those are worth checking out for OP if he could get into that sort of thing.

One of my favorite DOS games to check out is Lands of Lore. Dungeon Master style game done by the guys that did Eye of the Beholder, but this one is more of an adventure game with simpler RPG elements. Has really crisp graphics and lots of voice acting on the CD version that I feel was decent for the time (not close to winning any awards though). Great music too, especially if you emulate the right sound hardware. Other than that, I'd say Crusader: No Remorse/Regret. If you only play one play Regret because it improves on the gameplay a tad. Rad game, but lots of people seem to hate the controls. I actually found them to be kind of elegant when I got good at them, and I only played it for the first time two years ago.

>>4470289
>Because it is an enthusiast's game platform.
Are you retarded? DOS was shit until DooM came out, even then it took years for it to catch up to other platforms.
It (PC) had the worst graphics and media capabilities of any microcomputer system for the first 13 years of its life. Sure is an "enthusiast" platform LOL.

>Consoles
>He thinks only consoles existed outside of DOS and PC gaming

>>4470324
as a german pron game dev I gotta say I hate lula (also a german game). Fucking cock tease. Fucking shit game never gehts serious... I hate funny xxx games... fucking trash

>>4470302
Not a DOS game

>>4471025

>>4471019
I think you've got it backwards, I think he was saying that it's for enthusiasts because you'd have to be an enthusiast to want to play it over other things

>>4471025
I'm not so fond of that sort of thing either but it has its audience, and the prevailing attitude is "why play a sex game when I could just watch porn and have my hands free?"
games like that usually are either free American Flash games or niche Japanese games

>>4469341
Doom
Doom II
Final Doom
Wolfenstein 3-D
Spear of Destiny
Heretic
Hexen
Strife
Duke Nukem 3D
Blood
Shadow Warrior
Redneck Rampage
Redneck Rampage - Suckin' Grits On Route 66
Redneck Rampage Rides Again
Rise of the Triad
SimCity 2000
Ultima VI (with Nuvie source port)
The Complete Ultima VII (with Exult source port) [install the music pack as well]
Ultima Underworld
Ultima Underworld II
System Shock
The Last Eichhof
Raptor - Call of the Shadows
Tyrian 2000

Ultima VI
Ultima VII
Civilization
Colonization
X-COM UFO Defense
X-COM Terror From The Deep
Simcity 2000
Sierra and LucasArts adventures
Pirates Gold!
The Incredible Machine (Windows 3.x version is better but obviously DOSBox can't run that)