/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10326803]

>1998
>Unreal and Starcraft release in the same year
How did people stop their heads from exploding? Holy fuck and this was just the year before 1999. I think there may be some truth that the men who lived during these times did so with permanent erections.

[Anonymous No.10327441]

>>10326803
We didnt, we just had permanent erections.

Truely, though, didn't fully appreciate how good we had it. Knew shit was awesome but everything was awesome for kids in the 90's.

ut99 would come out the very next year, and 3d accelerators(GPUs) would hit the market bigtime around this time, too, pushing forward even harder.

Wall to wall back to back year to year banger after banger, truely culminating in halflife and halo.

Gods, we were strong back then.

[Anonymous No.10327468]

>Anno 1602
>Fallout 2
>Baldur's Gate
>Commandos
>Grim Fandango
>Might and Magic VI
>Half-Life
>SiN
>Populous: The Beginning
>Thief
>Starcraft
>Unreal
>Jazz Jackrabbit 2
>Descent: Freespace
>Myth II
>Warhammer: Dark Omen
>Sanitarium
>Magic & Mayhem
>Star Wars: Rebellion

PC gamers ate good in 1998

[Anonymous No.10327601]

>>10327468
Everyone ate good. Most of the PS1 and N64's best games dropped in 1998 plus the Saturn got Panzer Dragoon Saga and the Dreamcast launched with Sonic Adventure 1, meanwhile the GameBoy got Pokemon in the West and it sold so fucking good Nintendo postponed the launch of the GBA and launched the GBC instead.

[Anonymous No.10327605]

For me it's 96 and 97, but honestly, any year in the 90's starting from 94 was extremely basé

[Anonymous No.10327618]

>>10326803
this was the norm. for every platform. dont listen to anyone who says gaming is better now. they are just upset they cant figure out how to play thief and freespace 2. 1999 is the king of computer games.

[Anonymous No.10327623]

>>10326803
Sadly a lot of us played it in software mode for a long time. Most of us were too young or computer inexperienced to justify a 3D card. When I did finally get a Voodoo3 it was pretty transformative, though.

[Anonymous No.10327627]

>>10327601
>ayo mane we eetin' gewd, sheeih was str8 fiya
Shut up.

[Anonymous No.10327631]

>>10327623
True enligthnement is realizing that software mode looked better all along. It just ran worse (at the time).

[Anonymous No.10327634]

>>10326803
>Unreal Tournament
>Quake III Arena
>Planescape Torment
>System Shock 2
>Age of Empires II
>Half-Life Opposing Force
>early Counter-Strike
>Team Fortress Classic
>Age of Wonders
>Homeworld
>Alpha Centauri
>EverQuest
>Asheron's Call
>Hidden & Dangerous
>Descent 3
>MechWarrior 3
>Midtown Madness
>Freespace 2
>Rollercoaster Tycoon
>Omikron: The Nomad Soul
>C&C Tiberian Sun
>The Longest Journey
>SimCity 3000
>Dungeon Keeper 2

I almost want to say 1999 was even better for PC gaming.

[Anonymous No.10327637]

>>10327631
Not in Unreal. I'll grant you this for Q1 and 2, but detail textures alone looked space age and amazing compared to software. Lots of surfaces, skyboxes especially, just looked butt and clearly meant to be filtered in Unreal.

[Anonymous No.10327642]

>>10327634
It was. Here's what's missing.
>Heroes of Might & Magic 3
>King of Dragon Pass
>Might & Magic 7
>Discworld Noir
>Soul Reaver
>Worms Armageddon
>Pharaoh

[Anonymous No.10327647]

>>10327642
Those are all good ones too I forgot. The PC version of Soul Reaver's not as good as the PS1 or Dreamcast version though.

[Anonymous No.10327690]

>>10327634
>>10327642
Also:
>Alien vs. Predator
>Star Trek Klingon Academy

[Anonymous No.10327695]

>>10327647
Dreamcast was in 2000, and it was better than the PS1 version. The only thing you lost was the dynamic soundtrack.

[Anonymous No.10327713]

>>10326803
>>10327468
Yeah, I owned all of those games. But do want to know what I was really playing in ‘99? Aliens vs Predator

[Anonymous No.10327732]

>>10326803
My pc could not run unreal in 98. StarCraft was great though

[Anonymous No.10327806]

>>10327637
I think unreal has the best software renderer I've seen. Color lights and texture filtering.

[Anonymous No.10327812]

>>10327806
It was very impressive, I won't take that away. It just so happened to be one of the best Glide engines too.

[Anonymous No.10327845]

98-2004 was fantastic for PC gaming. You can play only the top ten of every year and never run out of things to play. Most games will run without having to jump through hoops or emulate, some even have fan made graphics mods, it was a great era for PC and consoles.

[Anonymous No.10327854]

>>10326803
>How did people stop their heads from exploding
What was the average standard of excellence has become the high watermark of our civilization.
The new millenium was a mistake, but soon enough the march of time will bury this painful fact in the comforting blanket of oblivion.

[Anonymous No.10327869]

>>10327468
You forgot
>JP Tresspasser
>Shogo
>Starsiege Tribes
>Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
>Dune 2000
>Heretic 2
>TES Redguard
>Oddworld
>OoT
>Parasite Eve
>MGS
>MechCommander
>Rainbow Six
>Police Quest SWAT 2
>MIG-29 Fulcrum
>Delta Force
I'm sure I even missed some but 98 was non-stop bangers for everyone not just peecee gaymores

[Anonymous No.10327917]

>>10326803
You have to keep in mind that we didn't run most of these games maxed out on release.

[Anonymous No.10328007]

>>10327634
>>10327642
You missed some major ones
>Jagged Alliance 2
>Outcast
>Gabriel Knight 3 (fuck you it's great)
>The Wheel of Time
>Imperium Galactica II

[Anonymous No.10328023]

Where are my 1994 niggas at?
>X-COM UFO Defense
>Master of Magic
>Death Gate
>System Shock
>Realms of Arkania II
>Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
>Transportation Tycoon
>Magic Carpet
>Quarantine
>Little Big Adventure 1
>System Shock
>Doom II
>Wing Commander III
>World of Xeen
>Dreamweb
>TIE Fighter

[Anonymous No.10328032]

>>10328023
Dude your autistic rec lists aren't anything to do with OP's question.

[Anonymous No.10328056]

[Anonymous No.10328072]

>>10328007
Gabe 3 is actually really fucking good.

[Anonymous No.10328270]

>>10327441
>Gods, we were strong back then.
I caught most of this stuff secondhand three or four years later and even then I was INCREDIBLY impressed. Console or PC, 1998 was amazing. Hell, even before that we got cool toys like Beast Wars. What a time to be alive.
>>10327631
Depends on the game but yeah, 3D accelerators were picking up the slack from the CPU quite often.
>>10328056
Christ, what a list!

[Anonymous No.10328698]

>>10328072
Yeah, if you can overlook the ugly graphics and ignore the controversy with that one puzzle, there's a really good argument to be made that it's the best game in the series. Personally my favorite will always be The Beast Within though for easily being the best FMV adventure game ever made in a genre with only a handful of good games.