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>MDK

MY NIGGA

>>5859124
it was such a based game, albeit small. I feel like later levels were rushed but still an awesome experience.

>>5859084
Can i introduce you to a little indie game from 93 called DooM?

>>5859127
You and your pretentious indie shit as always.

>>5859127
For real. I would play Scorched Earth, Syndicate, Alien Breed, Incredible Machine, Stormlord. Impressive for different reasons than technically.

The problem with DOS is how many games were made again for Windows or were overshadowed and made obsolete by a game that came out only a short period later.

>>5859135
I forgot to add Chaos Engine. Pretty good 2 player game.

>>5859135
how bout System Shock?

>>5859143
That is one I left off that is good but I think the later port of it should be played. The Enhanced edition.

I can only be so damn patrician before I ask myself why I am commuting myself to a worse version of something.

>>5859161
makes sense

dungeon keeper
bioforge
frontier: elite 2
build engine games
fallout

>>5859138
Originally an amiga title

Crusader series

Darklands is pretty admirable in it's ambition.

Raptor is a fantastic game and you should go play it

>>5859138
Love Chaos Engine, I'm playing it with Roland emulation and it rocks.

>>5860280
Also one of my favorites.

The first GTA blew my mind back in the day. I was addicted. Amazing how the idea was already there but other developers only caught on after GTA 3

did dos have any limitations once there were ram extenders? Tomb raider in glide is good.

>>5860605
Lazy developers and shit sound middleware not taking advantage of hardware.

>>5860605
4 GB in 16 MB chunks, I think?!
I highly doubt that any DOS game ever used more than 64 MB..not sure.

Some professional software like Autodesk 3D Studio DOS could theoretically use a lot more, because when you ran out of memory the system began swapping to disk and the performance immediately tranked.

>>5860550

4 GB in 16 MB chunks, I think?!
I highly doubt that any DOS game ever used more than 64 MB..not sure.

Some professional software like Autodesk 3D Studio DOS could theoretically use a lot more, because when you ran out of memory the system began swapping to disk and the performance immediately tanked.

>>5860550
I think some devs beat R* to the GTA3 punch. Urban Chaos was really similar to GTA3. I think if it came out on a 2000-2001 hardware it would have been far better.

>>5859084
I like Albion; its art direction did a hell of a job covering up for the fact that it was running on basically a Wolf3D - level engine.

This game and Transport Tycoon were legit impressive - maybe not graphic wise but the sheer amount of entities that the game engine can handle is astounding.
Fun fact: transport tycoon and rollercoster tycoon were written entirely by a single person in assembly language.

>>5861582
I had a demo disc with a handful of games on it. For whatever reason Settlers 2 demo had to be installed. If you clicked on the folder it installed into you could choose the full game.

I can't even remember anything else about the demo disc either. It was definitely Settler 2.

Comanche 3

Commanche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bByAGhzZtM

>>5861025
Ambermoon was better. Even the ex Thalion guys said that.

>>5861597
>>5861604
Comanche Gold (which is an updated rerelease of Comanche 3) runs great on Windows 7/8/10 when using the fix and either dgVoodoo2 or DXGL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xez_TTPPAwY

>>5859084
That one 3D platformer from 1991

>>5859084
>Most impressive DOS games
Dos is just an operating system, using less cycles too, so in theory it can produce better results than any gui based OS.

>>5860649
>>5860550
GTA probably was inspired by Motor City Patrol on nes

>>5862980
that said Tomb Raider takes the cake.

Twinsens Odysee impressed me a lot. You play it for awhile thinking its pre rendered but then you find out you can change the camera whenever you want. Its also open world with a lot of interaction. It also ran well on low end pcs while having graphics not really possible on console.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHb7yb9KL8s

>>5859084
Always blew me away what these look like.

>>5862804
Alpha Waves?

>>5863190
Yeah

I've wanted to play Laser Squad for a little while, but haven't gotten around to it. I'm catastrophically bad at strategy/tactics games and XCOM feels way too much for me, but Laser Squad seems like a good midpoint where it's still clearly in the lineage of XCOM (it's also made by Julian Gollop) but easier to hop into while not being as oversimplified as Rebelstar.

>>5863027
>thinking its pre rendered
you're a moron

>>5859126
I never did finish it. Being a long term console-fag at the time of its release I insisted on using a gamepad. Maybe some of the younger members of this board don't know, but pre-xbox controller PC gamepads were a joke with extremely limited compatibility. It was barely playable, made sniping much harder than necessary. Always meant to revisit it with mouse and keyboard now that I've seen the error of my ways, but the Steam and GoG versions both have game breaking rendering bugs and it's iffy in dosbox. :(

>>5862980
DOS is barely an OS. It's damn near perfect for high performance though because it's practically non-existent once a game launches DOS/4GW or cwsdpmi or any 32bit code of your choice.
Microsoft should have made a game mode for windows that shuts down EVERYTHING except also brings DirectX and the driver model to an otherwise bare metal game code.
Windows gaming is a pile of hacks to try and get exclusive hardware access on an OS that both provides interfaces to GET this low level access AND takes it away providing fake interfaces that pretend to have done so.

>>5863940
>Microsoft should have made a game mode for windows that shuts down EVERYTHING

true

>>5863949
They did it, it's called Xbox

>>5859084
Liero. The Finns were the masters of single keyboard multiplayer DOS games in the 90's.

>>5859138
>>5860492
I love that game. The Megadrive version is my favourite. i think the FM soundtrack works for this game.

>>5859084
protoHostile Waters

>>5864278

>>5863027
i loved this game but barely advanced coz i was like 7

>>5863929
>he has never seen the epic music video at the end

>>5859084
Some DOS games that i loved when i was a child:

-Magic Carpet
-Death Rally
-Realms of The Haunting
-Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri

>MDK
God tier taste