A Stroll Down Memory Lane: Best 3Dfx Glide Games

And then Nvidia bought the company just so they could destroy competition, hated the Nvidia turds ever since.
 
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My first Glide game was Mask of Eternity, which also had OGL and DX APIs supported. The DX had the highest res (800x600!!!), but limited graphics options. Glide was the most well-rounded of the three.
 
You missed a big one. Wing Commander Prophecy. That one also used 3DFX Glide and it was excellent.

Man, talk about nostalgia. I still have my Voodoo3 3000 card in a box somewhere lol.
 
My favorite game of all time was Descent (RIP). When the developers released the glide patch, it was nothing short of amazing... maybe not by today's standards but by the leap in framerate and graphical improvement. Too bad no one wanted to pick up the Descent world and run with it. There isn't a game out there that is similar. That game had an outstanding multiplayer experience.
 
It's Deus Ex for me, under Glide driver it looks and feels like a completely different game, the graphics are so crisp and motions are so fluid, unforgettable.
 
And somewhere in a box lies my Hercules Dynamite TNT. The memories, Quake, D2, Tomb Raider and so many others.
 
Obviously "best games" is subjective, but difficult to see how Unreal and UT aren't included. Awesome graphics (remember volumetric lighting, detailed textures and 22-bit-equivalent colour @ 16bit speed?) and smooth gameplay made these the 3dfx poster games. I never had driver issues with any games; they all played out-of-the-box on a Voodoo3.
 
Wow I played all of those games back in the day and I am sure they looked more realistic than that :)

Need for Speed II: Special Edition - OMG look at the graphics, I use to think the cars looked so amazing.

I think around that time I was using a 16MB Banshee but honestly I can't really recall.

I still listen to the music from NFSII SE. What an amazing game.
 
Wow I played all of those games back in the day and I am sure they looked more realistic than that :)

Need for Speed II: Special Edition - OMG look at the graphics, I use to think the cars looked so amazing.

I think around that time I was using a 16MB Banshee but honestly I can't really recall.

The cars DID look amazing though. For a display on a CRT.
 
And then Nvidia bought the company just so they could destroy competition, hated the Nvidia turds ever since.
3DFX was going out of business, regardless if they were bought. Nvidia bought them because they were intelligent business people.

It was nvidia buying them that gave us both modern SLI and crossfire.
 
I'm confused why Tomb Raider 2 is on the list? It's a DirectX game, not 3dfx. The only TR game to support 3dfx was Tomb Raider from 1996.
 
The move from software to hardware accelerated 3D (in Tomb Raider 1) was one of my alltime wow moments in gaming. I had an Orchid Voodoo1 and then a Voodoo 3 2000 (AGP or was it PCI?).
Always loved the early NFS, especially that mad looking Ford Indigo.
 
The move from software to hardware accelerated 3D (in Tomb Raider 1) was one of my alltime wow moments in gaming. I had an Orchid Voodoo1 and then a Voodoo 3 2000 (AGP or was it PCI?).
Always loved the early NFS, especially that mad looking Ford Indigo.
It was PCI, AGP came out much later. And short lived before PCI-E.

Wow, the memories of those games and we thought then....."Sweet, amazing graphics" - LOL
 
Another vote for Unreal needing to be on the list. The graphics combined with the animations were absolutely jaw dropping for that time. Loved me some MechWarrior - played a ton of that.

Interestingly enough, I bought a couple of classic games from GOG over the weekend during their sale. And I've come to the conclusion that revisiting old games you once had a blast with is not a great idea. They just don't hold their age well. After playing games like Bioshock: Infinite, Far Cry 3 and StarCraft II, then switching to Unreal II The Awakening or Fallout 2 - it's just not fair. For me, I think it's best to leave those great games in the memory banks as great games. Back then... ;)

I agree, let them be memories. Ive done the same before and ruined my childhood memories
 
Rainbow Six and Diablo/Diablo 2 were my go to games in the late 90's into the early 00's before I just sucked into World of Warcraft.

I would love for Blizzard to remaster Diablo 2 with the same battle.net type system as I was pretty disappointed in Diablo 3.
 
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire......bringing down AT-AT's with the tow cable was worthy of the purchase alone of my first( Diamond Monster 3d (voodoo 1)). Other standouts that I recall (obviously Quake II), Undying, DiabloII, Rogue Squadron, FFVII,
 
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