/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9626365]

Can we have a thread about obscure or simply lesser known PC games from the late 90s and early 20s?

I have a weird soft spot for all the mediocre games released back then, because even if they weren't particularly good, they almost always felt fresh and tried something interesting. I always enjoy finding new ones.

[Anonymous No.9626389]

I'll post some titles I like revisiting, to get the thread going.

[Anonymous No.9626394]

[Anonymous No.9626402]

[Anonymous No.9626412]

[Anonymous No.9626554]

>>9626365
I had this on GameCube. The gameplay was nice. The studio needed money so Skittles funded them and henceforth why her magic abilities are…well…Skittles!

[Anonymous No.9626571]

>>9626365
RUNE is a third person viking hack and slash from early 2000s that is really good.

[Anonymous No.9626578]

>>9626571
Rune is truly wonderful. You’ll prolly enjoy Too Human which is a modern Norse mythology story but it’s not exactly /vr/.
>imma gonna go play Too Human on xbox360 now

[Anonymous No.9626597]

>>9626365
Man of War II Chains of Command from 1999 was a pretty unique naval warfare game, though it had a lot of flaws too. It's fun but bittersweet reading old archived fan pages devoted to it, knowing it's practically unknown today. I feel like I'm the only one still playing or talking about it.

[Anonymous No.9626624]

>>9626578
Too Human is free on Game Pass right now, I saw it on my Xbox One. Should I give it a go? I seem to remember it being very controversial at the time and it like killed the studio that made it or something?

[Anonymous No.9626634]

>>9626624
If you like Viking stuff, lasers, plasma weaponry, and robot monsters then yes.

[Anonymous No.9626656]

>>9626634
I do enjoy all those things. Downloading now, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.9626804]

>>9626365
Outcast 1.1 is a good contender. Came out in 1999 and it has some interesting voxels graphics. The gameplay itself is kind of meh, the mission structure is too repetitive, guns are not that fun to use, and you have to walk slowly to everywhere, it's frustrating after a while. However, the characters are likeable and the worldbuilding and lore is interesting, there are also interesting open world mechanics that could be way more fun and immersive if they were refined and thought over more.

[Anonymous No.9627023]

>>9626365
looks kind of cool for aborted skittles tie in, reminds a lot of jedioutcast. I always have a softspot for games that use non conventional projectiles that aren't just mmo cooldown lock on type stuff.

[Anonymous No.9627027]

C**kies B*stle

[Anonymous No.9627119]

G-nome is a pretty neat mech game. You can hop out and steal enemy mechs as well.

[Anonymous No.9627135]

>>9626365
>and early 20s

The 1920's? 2020 is not retro.

[Anonymous No.9627147]

>>9626394
God i love this game. Probably the best Gauntlet clone out there.

[Anonymous No.9627152]

Throne of Darkness. Diablo for weebs

[Anonymous No.9627232]

>>9626804

I don't know what 1.1 means here, but I played Outcast a while ago and had fun with it. It's a pretty cool game even if it, as you say, badly needs work. It did feel a lot like a promising rough draft of something far better.

[Anonymous No.9627395]

>>9627232
It's just the version of the game being sold at online store fronts. I don't know what they went with that, but it's always named as Outcast 1.1.

[Anonymous No.9627402]

This game was a commercial failure.
Is a good Zelda clone.
Today there are still mods around the web.

[Anonymous No.9627408]

>>9627119
>You can hop out and steal enemy mechs as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fucTAq3VmbI&t=285s

[Anonymous No.9627604]

>>9626412
It was supposed to be the sequel to Nocturne, which is actually a very good game.
>>9627395
Because there are some updates compared to the original Outcast, like HD and gamepad support.

[Anonymous No.9627624]

>>9626571
How does the PS2 port of Rune hold up?

[Anonymous No.9627641]

>>9627147
that would be dungeon explorer

[Anonymous No.9627648]

>>9627402
Oh shit Dink Smallwood. It was a classic. The dev ported it to ipad lmao

[Anonymous No.9627651]

>>9626412
I have both of the Blair Witch games on CD, I gotta try them out one of these days.

[Anonymous No.9627694]

Dunno for some reason many of the early 3D PC games are totally forgotten.
Stuff like Project Nomads.

[Anonymous No.9627767]

>>9627694
I think the reasons are usually copyright limbo, lack of legal avaliability, and proprietary engines that make them a bitch to run on newer systems. Euro projects like PN were never all that big to begin with.
As for PN, the game was cut heavily and pretty late during the development, and it shows.

[Anonymous No.9627780]

JP Trespasser

[Anonymous No.9627802]

>>9627152
Who thought inventory-tetris for 5 characters at once seemed like a fun idea?

[Anonymous No.9627810]

>>9627402
Was it a commercial failure? I always thought he made bank on that, it was made by a single guy and even reviewed well in pc gaming mags at the time

[Anonymous No.9627815]

>mfw I'm the only person that played this

[Anonymous No.9627819]

>>9627815
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.9627828]

>>9627767
>proprietary engines that make them a bitch to run on newer systems.
I think this is the key, unless a game from this era gets a re-release on GOG or Steam most people won't bother to get them working.

[Anonymous No.9627837]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJJQTOVYl4

[Anonymous No.9627846]

>>9627767
>>9627828
>proprietary engines that make them a bitch to run on newer systems
What makes them a bitch to run?
Never understood why you can't get them to run on newer systems and as a matter of fact personally never had an issue that was more than a 5min google search away from getting it to work.

People told me running them on linux via wine would be easier but I personally had more issues than on windows.

[Anonymous No.9627864]

anyone else play septerra core? I don't remember it being bad, but I definitely didn't finish it for whatever reason. I remember it come up in magazine ads a lot.

[Anonymous No.9627865]

>>9627864
>I remember it showed up in magazine ads a lot.

[Anonymous No.9627942]

>>9627846
>never had an issue that was more than a 5min google search away from getting it to work.
That's the thing, that's too much for a lot of people sadly.

[Anonymous No.9628297]

Tommorrow im going to replay this childhood game. A friend of mine from school loaned it to me for a week when i was 11 years old.

[Anonymous No.9628308]

Also this game is on my backlog for replaying some of these days. absolutely very comfy game.
I suspect that this is the game that inspired Spintires/Mudrunner/Snowrunner. A pity no one ever heard of it and the game just dies a silent death.

[Anonymous No.9628319]

>>9628297
Battleship Surface Thunder is the name. Back then the color and graphics blew me away. My dad and my brother used to play the classic gamemode.

[Anonymous No.9628338]

SHOGO Mobile Armor Division
Drakan: Order of the Flame

Both seem to be largely forgotten now, but both are a lot of fun.

[Anonymous No.9628357]

>>9626804
>voxels graphics.
sweet, you just reminded me of commanche: maximum overkill, and earlly voxel graphics game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_nUbcIdWA

[Anonymous No.9628363]

Magic & Mayhem

[Anonymous No.9628384]

Recoil (1999)

[Anonymous No.9628408]

Anyone knows how can i get this game to run on windows 10? or is it impossible without using a virtual machine. I had it as a kid but never got around to playing it. and now it doesnt run on modern systems...

[Anonymous No.9628434]

>>9627119
If I remember this correctly, I did that all the time. Jumped out, forced the enemy pilot to eject, then went back into my mech and shot the pilot. That was much faster and easier than destroying the enemy mech.

[Anonymous No.9628464]

[Anonymous No.9628473]

Eurojanked Deus Ex and it's awesome.

[Anonymous No.9628480]

>>9628338
>Both seem to be largely forgotten now
Come on, I know at least three e-celebs who reviewed it.

[Anonymous No.9628498]

>>9628363
That one is nice.

>>9627119
G-Nome looked pretty neat for 1997, and yet gameplay-wise it was too shallow compared to MW2 Mercs (even though Mercs was buggy as hell) released in 1996.

[Anonymous No.9628631]

>>9628480
Why can't I do anything right!?

[Anonymous No.9628937]

>>9628297
Reminds me of Nuclear Strike. Fun game.

[Anonymous No.9628946]

>>9627864
>I don't remember it being bad, but I definitely didn't finish it for whatever reason.

It's a wonderful game that suffers due to repetitiveness of combat. I can't even count the number of times I've started playing it, but I've never finished it and you probably haven't for the same reason. I've seen a mod somewhere that speeds things up, so might actually revisit it sometime.

>>9626804
>Outcast 1.1 is a good contender. Came out in 1999 and it has some interesting voxels graphics. The gameplay itself is kind of meh, the mission structure is too repetitive, guns are not that fun to use, and you have to walk slowly to everywhere, it's frustrating after a while. However, the characters are likeable and the worldbuilding and lore is interesting, there are also interesting open world mechanics that could be way more fun and immersive if they were refined and thought over more.

As if I was reading a review of pic rel. Great start, lots of interesting elements gameplay and story-wise, but once you get to base building and a few missions in, it's the same thing over and over again.

[Anonymous No.9628949]

>>9628473
Man, that cover art just screams 2000s. Lovely.

[Anonymous No.9629001]

Fun platformer with interesting light/shadow mechanics.

[Anonymous No.9629026]

I don't see anyone ever talk about this game
https://youtu.be/r-ZJ7dWbYFs

[Anonymous No.9629052]

This is a really interesting game. It has a lot of problems, but it's essentially Crysis/Far Cry done by a small (back then) polish studio Techland. The thing is it came out a few months before first Far Cry.

[Anonymous No.9629067]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ2OL7NYNok

Gorosul pic and Archangel

[Anonymous No.9629113]

>>9627864
Didn't last an hour. Combat is brainless and interminable. The bug things you fight take dozens of hits to kill.

[Anonymous No.9629119]

>>9628473
>MMO
Aw man, screenshots looked good, I was ready to download it.

[Anonymous No.9629138]

>>9626365
Project Eden. Team-based action-adventure where you have to use each member's specific abilities to solve puzzles. Pretty brilliant.
>>9627828
>to get them working
Or even to get them in the first place since they are not available on any digital store.
>>9627846
Many require wrappers such as dgvoodoo, some don't even install on 64bit systems. It's true that the vast majority works with little trouble, but it's hardly ever straightforward.
>>9628357
Novalogic was the shit.
>>9629026
It was re-released as Battlezone Combat Commander a while ago.

[Anonymous No.9629149]

>>9629119
A private server exists though it's mostly played by Germans I believe. First result on any search engine.

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[Anonymous No.9629206]

>>9628338
Shogo is awesome. I used to play that on my 3dfx Voodoo 4 4500.

[Anonymous No.9629213]

>>9629191
That was pretty popular when it came out. I always sucked at it.

[Anonymous No.9629335]

>>9626571

I have played very few games (apart from maybe the Jedi Outcast series) that got such a terrifically kinetic feel from bladed combat.

[Anonymous No.9629354]

>>9627402
This may have been a failure but his prior game, which was a BBS "Door" game, was supposedly a phenomenal hit. It was Red Dragon something. Big for it's day.

[Anonymous No.9629369]

>>9629138
I remember Project: Eden back in the day. Shame that they never released the level editor. Otherwise, I would've become a recluse and worked on making levels for that game non-stop. Urban Exploration was in my wheelhouse back in the day.

[Anonymous No.9629382]

>>9626365
I only ever played the demo, but found it strangely enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.9629385]

>>9626365

Widely renowned as one of the worst games made that year at least, but very different from most of the other point and clicks.

[Anonymous No.9629395]

>>9629382
I remember the original. Sadly, I've never found a boxed copy out in the wild. I may have the CD for it, though.

Yeah, it was a wild concept. Developers had to be pretty creative back then with what they were able to do. I think that the remake had John Carpenter doing the soundtrack, if I remember correctly.

[Anonymous No.9629435]

>>9628946
>Giants
Man the multiplayer was where it was at on this game. Those rare times that you could get a full match and everyone knew what they were doing?
Utter, beautiful, wonderful chaos and an energy to rival the best Tribes maps or UT2K games.

That and deleting the file that censored Delphie, because the titties must be free.

[Anonymous No.9629494]

This game wasn’t released until 2009 (and took 3 more years to get translated into languages besides Czech), but for all intents and purposes it’s basically a retro game. The development took 10 years and the devs did very little to change the game’s initial architecture. It runs on Direct 3D for fuck’s sake.

Anyway, it’s not a very good game from a gameplay perspective but the story is phenomenal. I’d advise anyone who enjoys Diablo-clones to check it out (if the gameplay doesn’t end up filtering you).

[Anonymous No.9630309]

>>9627837
Looks wild

[Anonymous No.9630401]

>>9626365
I remember OutWars demo was fun to play even if it had only two levels. Learning how to properly use limited jetpack while getting shot from everyhere was kinda hilarious.

[Anonymous No.9630460]

>>9630401
I was wondering what this game was since I saw a screenshot of it when it came out in ‘98(?). The videos on it look like fun.

[Anonymous No.9630503]

>>9630460
It was fun but it also required mastering mobility since enemies were pretty accurate in toasting the player.

[Anonymous No.9630564]

>>9626571
a bunch of games in the early 00s like outcast, rune, and apparently skittlesTM had a third person melee combat system built around snappy mouse movement, the homogenization of pc and console releases towards the end of the 6th gen likely killed them off. funnily enough the new god of war games are probably the closest we've gotten since just heavily clunkified.

[Anonymous No.9630724]

>>9630564
Oni is probably the best weeb game and the combat was really good with mouse and keyboard.

[Anonymous No.9630845]

>>9629026
reminds me of Incoming Forces

[Anonymous No.9631090]

I'd be really surprised if anyone played it.

[Anonymous No.9631096]

Hard to call it unknown, because it grew into a pretty big series overtime, but I think the very first game is overlooked and for me it's the best in the series. The only problem it really has is the retarded pathfinding.

[Anonymous No.9631104]

Karma: Immortal Wrath aka Eternal Karma. Supposedly the first 3D RPG made in South Korea. There doesn't exist a retail English version, but it was released in Germany (among Japan and Italy, I think). The German version has a notorious game breaking bug, which I was actually able to work around.
There's also an incomplete English translation in the game data. All in pretty low quality. I guess the developer translated it from Korean to English and the publisher then translated it to German. I was thinking about re-inserting the English script and re-translating the missing parts myself, but I just didn't find the time and motivation to do so yet. The game is rather mediocre but I have some nostalgia for it.

[Anonymous No.9631107]

My goto christmas/winter time game.

[Anonymous No.9631145]

Fun Rayman 2 clone, that came out a couple of moths before Rayman 2, lol.

[Anonymous No.9631149]

>>9626365
me on the left

[Anonymous No.9631186]

>>9628946
I think the designers ran out of ideas for Delphie, the Merc's segments were fun both gameplay wise and plot wise, Kabuto's plot was kind of lackluster but since the gameplay differs so much from both Merc's and Delphie it felt fresh especially since you got to kick ass as a giant now.
Delphie was more of the same where she could have some fun stealth missions instead of More of the Same FPS-fauxRTS.
Always wished I played multi, never did.
> pic rel
I rarely see anyone discuss KuL and it was kinda unique. W3 before W3.

[Anonymous No.9631190]

>>9631186
> pic rel
I'm a fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.9631219]

>>9631190
KuF Kingdom under fire 2001

[Anonymous No.9631378]

>>9630724
I remember getting her and the Major from GiTS mixed up in my head all the time as a kid.

[Anonymous No.9631481]

>>9626365
>>9626389
>>9626402
>>9626412
>>9626804
>>9627152
>>9627402
>>9627604
>>9627864
>>9628338
>>9628498
>>9628937
>>9628946
>>9629001
>>9629026
>>9629052
>>9629385
>>9630724
>>9631090
>>9631096
I know all of these

[Anonymous No.9631503]

KKnD (1997)
It's a simple RTS game, but the post-apocalyptic backgrounds look real nice and the talking heads before the missions are very entertaining. The sequel is nice too.

[Anonymous No.9632090]

>>9631107
Heyyyy, I remember playing that on my cousin's PC. Pretty fun platformer, some of the secrets were a real pain in the ass though.

[Anonymous No.9632184]

>>9627837
The zomb's lair release is pretty good

[Anonymous No.9632264]

>>9631378
Yeah, that was the point.
>>9631503
Boy where there a lot of these. Dark Reign, Dark Colony, Dominion, Earth 2140... All pretty good.
RTS is actually a genre that I see working well on mobile devices. I remember a C&C game a few years ago, but I'm surprised they are not re-releasing all this stuff there.
>>9632184
Zomb's Lair and The Collection Chamber are treasure troves.

[Anonymous No.9632879]

>>9629186
I only know this game because one of the voice actors is Charlie Adler and his dirty line outakes are hidden in the files.
https://tcrf.net/Atomic_Bomberman/Unused_Voice_Clips/Filthy
No longer have to wonder what it would sound like if Buster Bunny called me a bitch.

[Anonymous No.9632907]

>>9628308
ohhh, looks nice

[Anonymous No.9632926]

Tekwar. Sci-fi fps with a bitching 90's mood featuring William Shatner.

[Anonymous No.9632931]

What was the space game where you drove around in hover ships setting up mining operations. Can jump out and snipe enemy ship windshields for easy kills.
There was a mech escort across an ice lake and they would fall through and you'd fail

[Anonymous No.9633509]

>>9631503
Yeah, you needed to watch the cutscenes twice for all the funny little messages they hid in the FMVs.
Game itself was a load of fun, but the later missions got insanely hard, at least for me.
Really good soundtrack too.
https://youtu.be/azPlUhw1ew0

[Anonymous No.9633546]

>>9631481
I will try to find some games you have not played yet but I will also post some popular games that are fun anyway and some might not know them. Here is number 1:

[Anonymous No.9633553]

>>9631481
game number 2

[Anonymous No.9633554]

>>9631481
way more popular so I am sure you know it but it is the first thing I had to think of when I saw the pic of OP and I did not see anyone bring it up yet. This game gave me a boner.

[Anonymous No.9633556]

>>9632264
reminds me of incubation and ZEDD

[Anonymous No.9633558]

it is weird that this game never made it to xbox and is a PC exclusive.

[Anonymous No.9633561]

not sure if this is too old for pc. I do not even know if games have to be 3d or if I can also post 2d games, I mean I did post gene machine which is a 2d game. I think that should be enough games for now.

[Anonymous No.9633563]

>>9626365
okay I had to post one more

[Anonymous No.9633565]

>>9628631
It's okay, I never heard of either of those

[Anonymous No.9633567]

This is my kind of thread

[Anonymous No.9633569]

>>9631481
here I hope that I have found the most obscure game now. It is always console games on /vr/ so I am happy to be talking about PC games for once but it makes me post too much.

[Anonymous No.9633573]

>>9626365
alright too many games in a row. I am off to bed. Hope there is one game in there you might like, OP.

[Anonymous No.9633653]

Love these janky late 90s/early 00s PC games. Wish I was at my computer so I could dump my Drakan screen shot library

[Anonymous No.9633656]

>>9627604
Nocturne is gonna stay obscure due to how hard it is to run on Win10. At best you're missing or have wrong effects with 5 minute load times when you open the inventory. At work the shit just ant working

[Anonymous No.9633669]

>>9627864
Septerra Core is one of those games that needs a complete rebalancing. I have really high tolerance for grinding in games but holy shit, the last third of the game needs hours and hours of grinding to overcome every new screen you go into. It's a really cool game with a lot of stuff to see but it's BRUTAL

[Anonymous No.9634081]

Most of them are just Shovelware that are not worth playing

[Anonymous No.9634094]

>>9627651
There are three.

[Anonymous No.9634137]

>>9633561
This one was pretty big when it came out. It was Bullfrog after all.
Speaking of 3D flying stuff, the original developers are re-releasing Terminal Velocity.
>>9633573
Is this The City of Lost Children?

[Anonymous No.9634156]

>>9631090
I did, a bit. Was fun but very generic looking and i only had a pirate rip without music that didn't run well on my PC at the time. I didn't give it much time.
>>9630401
Same story here but it was a pirate russian CD that gave me an error after the tutorial mission or something like that.
>>9631145
Wasn't it like an engine test for Rayman 2 made by the same studio?

[Anonymous No.9634161]

>>9628498
>G-Nome looked pretty neat for 1997, and yet gameplay-wise it was too shallow compared to MW2 Mercs (even though Mercs was buggy as hell) released in 1996.
Yeah, this. Hijacking was a fun gimmick but there was nothining this game except campaign, not even mech customization.

[Anonymous No.9634169]

>>9628473
>that game
Hi Mike, have you and Andy finally make amends?

>>9629026
Solid game with solid mods

>>9629138
Rebellion fucked this game the same way they did with 98 redux, and the retards at the community were too beta to react and fix the game, all because Rebellion's ceo was a bitter faggot at battlezone community.

[Anonymous No.9634172]

>>9633567
I remember seeing 2 projects for netstorm, one being a Starcraft 2 TC.

[Anonymous No.9634191]

>>9633569

I have Banzai Bug - it's abandonware now, and still runs surprisingly well on Windows 10. It was one of the games that was used as a slew of early 3DFX and Micosoft Sidewinder demos. Kind of fun - very hard to tell which way up you were though!

[Anonymous No.9634194]

>>9626365
Guessing this isn't considered obscure? I just started playing it again for the first time in about 20 years. It's still great.

[Anonymous No.9634198]

Malice has SOVL

[Anonymous No.9634352]

>>9633556
>incubation
I loved that game. Like playing chess puzzles with a WH40K-esque gothic-grimdark aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.9634523]

>>9631145
rayman is the clone

[Anonymous No.9634552]

>>9627152
Prince of Qin is pretty good too

[Anonymous No.9634556]

A game by weirdos, for weirdos.

[Anonymous No.9634557]

>>9628308
looks similar to Screamer 4x4

[Anonymous No.9634575]

A total conversion of Half Life sold as a game, and a quite good FPS.
The original website is curiously still up.
it runs well with the Xash3D Engine for anybody interested.

[Anonymous No.9634637]

>>9634557
looks similar at first glance yeah, but its not. Screamer 4x4 is basically an offroad racing game. Offroad adventure 3 is not about racing, you drive around like an offraod taxi ferrying people and small supplies around the zones. there are 16 maps in total- all interconnected- from deserts ,forests,swamps and snowy mountains. Its an extremely comfy game, highly recommended. But you wil need dxvoodoo 2 to get it running on windows 10.

[Anonymous No.9634638]

>>9634137
>Is this The City of Lost Children

yes it is. how is the game?

[Anonymous No.9634661]

>>9634637
i mean there are loading screens between the zones , obviously. The game is basically Mudrunner/Snowrunner just with SUVs and no cargo carrying, no time contraints and no multiplayer of any kind. its a solo game.

[Anonymous No.9634718]

>>9634637
>Screamer 4x4 is basically an offroad racing game
it's only that if you really stretch time trial and pathfinding into the definition of racing

[Anonymous No.9634745]

>>9627152
>Diablo for weebs
That’s Brave Soul

[Anonymous No.9634756]

>>9631481
Grats, but I don't think it was a competition.

[Anonymous No.9634812]

>>9634638
I hope you like pixel hunting with the worst implementation of tank controls and some of the longest scene to scene load times on the console

[Anonymous No.9634841]

>>9628297
God this looks like it was made by the same studio that made Shipwreckers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9A-JnueZOs

[Anonymous No.9634869]

>>9634575
Looks badass

[Anonymous No.9635269]

>>9634718
>>9634661
yeah and i forgot to add, you can also leave your vehicle and walk around and shoot with a gun

[Anonymous No.9635572]

>>9634137

Fury3 was actually published the same year, with the same engine but for Windows rather than DOS.

[Anonymous No.9635582]

>>9626365

This was fun for a bit of a blast - also even though it was a completely different game and setting a lot of the look of the graphics reminded me of Populous: The Beginning.

[Anonymous No.9635602]

I still finish this game every other year or so. The story and atmosphere draw me back every time.
I've even reused large parts of the story and its magic system for a pen and paper campaign many years ago.

[Anonymous No.9635605]

Jack The Ripper

[Anonymous No.9635607]

>>9635605
>Jack The Ripper
wrong pic

[Anonymous No.9635638]

>>9635269
Thanks anon, seems comfy.
>>9635572
Oh yeah, now that you mention it I remember this one too!
>>9626365
Look at this, a 1997 dungeon crawler that uses the Descent engine, aptly called Descent to Undermountain.

[Anonymous No.9635670]

>Battlezone 2: Combat Evolved

A FPS-Vehicular combat-RTS hybrid. The best part is you could hope out and change vehicles or jump in the command building and play it like an FPS. You could also snipe enemy pilots and steal their vehicles.

[Anonymous No.9635692]

>>9633558
Undying is a classic in my book.

[Anonymous No.9636657]

>>9634198
I always wanted to play this. Heard it is shit, but it looks really cool.

[Anonymous No.9636673]

>>9627402
Zelda, more of a Diablo like game if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.9636773]

>>9629186
TIME FOR A FUCKIN' DIRTNAP YOU SHITFUCK

[Anonymous No.9636778]

>>9626365
that is an extremely cute design for a western female protag

[Anonymous No.9636841]

>>9635692
Fond memories of this one. It broke down at the point you're sent back in time to a monastery and there's shotgun ammo everywhere, but it recovered for a decent ending.

Earliest parts were the scariest though.

[Anonymous No.9636991]

>>9636773
THAT'S RIGHT THERE TITS!

[Anonymous No.9637885]

>>9633653
Reminds me of The I of The Dragon. I've never played it, because it crashed on my PC back then. Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.9637893]

>>9633656
It's a shame it had no console release. These old games are so much easier to emulate than to run on modern hardware.

[Anonymous No.9637904]

>>9634575
>A total conversion of Half Life

Man, I'm still hoping for Underhell chapter 2.

[Anonymous No.9638435]

>>9637893
Nocturne was supposed to have a Dreamcast port. Supposedly a complete build exists since it was cancelled at the last second

[Anonymous No.9639641]

>>9633653
very comfy pic, very comfy thread.

[Anonymous No.9639670]

Great Battlezone style game. I would like to see FPS/RTS hybrids make a return some day, but I know it wont happen because of controllers.

[Anonymous No.9639680]

Used to play this in elementary

[Anonymous No.9639854]

>>9626394
JESUS CHRIST! ANON. THANKS YOU!
I played this game when i was kid. And couldn't find for years.

[Anonymous No.9639876]

Is this count?

[Anonymous No.9639885]

>>9626389
I know someone who worked on that game IRL

[Anonymous No.9640425]

Beside other nice things, that game had a mindblowingly awesome OST.

[Anonymous No.9640436]

>>9640425
>war of
Shame the AI was so atrocious

[Anonymous No.9640445]

>>9634198
Malice is pretty based, has nice skill progression, a lot of magics but lacks content after finishing it.

Also, it has a great limbo level each time you die, i don't know a lot of games with this mechanic, specially in 2004.

[Anonymous No.9640451]

May as well ask here. I once played a demo that featured a guy with a talking sword. It was isometric and had similar lighting to Diablo 2. It was some kind of RPG. I don't remember much more than that, you're in an encampment and it's raining, then you descend into a crypt?, your sword talks to you and the demo ends I think.

[Anonymous No.9640804]

>>9631090
this was on a CD for a well known games mag in Germany, so I'm sure a lot people played it

[Anonymous No.9640832]

>>9627152
I'm actually amazed anyone remembers this.

Got my copy for free from one of those euro pc magazines that came with random software. Pretty fun game.

[Anonymous No.9640845]

>>9639854
Enjoy fren. :)

[Anonymous No.9640865]

>>9640451
There was a talking sword in Baldur's Gate 2, but I don't know how the demo looked like.

[Anonymous No.9640896]

Some JA fans probably remember this one.

[Anonymous No.9640909]

>>9626365
Not mediocre by any means, it's just underrated as fuck: "Giants - Citizen Kabuto". Honorable mention: "Evolva"

[Anonymous No.9641059]

just blackpilled on modern pc gaming, older pc games seem like such a great deal. Less storage, less graphical requirements, many have a rich and complete modding scene, often times dirt cheap, no MTX/always online/zoomer bait. Already feel like I have more than several lifetimes worth of games at this point.

[Anonymous No.9641060]

First game i played with WASD layout.
Is it actually good? I tried to play but i just gives me some weird error

[nox No.9641085]

>>9626365
nox

[nox No.9641094]

>>9626365
Swiv 3D, the original Hostile Waters

[nox No.9641102]

>>9626365

[nox No.9641110]

>>9632264
>Earth 2140
fucking 10/10 soundtrack too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDOlBOAmgr0&list=PLF3D97C9B52B3969D&index=7

[nox No.9641112]

>>9626365
>>9641102
>>9641110

[Anonymous No.9641117]

>>9641102
Fantastic fucking game!
NetstormHQ is still alive and kicking, too

[Anonymous No.9641132]

Best USA simulator in existence.

[Anonymous No.9641138]

When I was a kid I played this one PC FPS where you play on a old castle or something like that, it's raining and some gargoyles are after you. When you died you could freely look around the map. Anyone knows which game is it?
I know it's not "Blood" because the gargoyles looked 3D.

[Anonymous No.9641143]

Quite decent platformer from Spain. Very interesting visually.

[Anonymous No.9641158]

Surprisingly good RTS from 1999. Made by Techland. Probably little known outside of Poland.

[Anonymous No.9641162]

>>9641158
Oh, it was actually called Mission Humanity outside of Poland. Explains why I couldn't find much under Extermination.

[Anonymous No.9641172]

>>9639876
Man i love the style of Mechanoids. Isn't there a new one in development?

[Anonymous No.9641174]

This one is probably quite known, but still deserves a mention in case someone missed out on it.

[nox No.9641198]

>>9641174
kurwa mać fuck it time for a replay

[Anonymous No.9641210]

still one of my favorite pnc games

[Anonymous No.9641221]

>>9635670
Dont go mixing combat commander up with halo, now

[Anonymous No.9641490]

>>9641210

The whole Discworld series is pretty solid. Fantastic writing.

[Anonymous No.9641502]

I don't remember this game being amazing to be honest, but the mechanism of diving and rising to the surface again was pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.9642756]

>>9641132
I remember seeing previews of this, waiting for the game and then completely forgetting about it for maybe a decade.

[Anonymous No.9643215]

>>9635670
I remember getting through one mission only by sniping enemy tank pilots for fifteen minutes and then taking over empty tank after empty tank to take out the enemy base as the base defenses kept destroying the tanks from under me.

Loved the game, but it always felt like your guns didn't do enough damage while the enemy guns could wreck you in a couple hits.

[Anonymous No.9643680]

>>9641502
>diving
Sub Culture was great.