Gaming Classics: 17 PC games that have aged well and you can play today
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TitoBXNY
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I've played most of the games on the list and all are great. Good article. Some of these games are better than a lot of the crap that we have out there now.
They were good enough to bother remastering....
Besides, there's no real reason you couldn't go out and play the originals if you really wanted to, in most cases.
The games I play the most tend to be older, yet still look decent on my 24" monitor. Here are some not mentioned in the article:
Freespace 2 (esp. with the free upgrades from the freespace source project)
Command & Conquer 3 (and Kane's Wrath expansion)
Unreal Tournament (both original and UT2K4)
Crimson Skies (search for Timeslip CSFIX to get a fix for Nvidia GPUs, and to increase the resolution)
Freespace 2 (esp. with the free upgrades from the freespace source project)
Command & Conquer 3 (and Kane's Wrath expansion)
Unreal Tournament (both original and UT2K4)
Crimson Skies (search for Timeslip CSFIX to get a fix for Nvidia GPUs, and to increase the resolution)
Squid Surprise
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OMG!!! HOMM3 is the Greatest game EVER!! I occasionally still start up a game... and then spend HOURS playing...
No, I still play the original Homeworld, single player. I don't have the remastered version yet.
DAOWAce
Posts: 325 +64
A lot of games are good enough for remastering, yet they haven't been. But that's irrelevant.
My point was that half of these "classics that have AGED WELL and you can still play" are remasters.
That is contradictory of the meaning of aging well. If it aged well, it wouldn't need a remaster. Updates to the game to support widescreen and stuff are fine, but an outright remaster? Nada..
No problem with the games on the list itself, just the writing of the article.
Ah. I see what you're saying.
The 'game' as far as I'm concerned is the content and style for the most part. The experience, if you will. Textures and models do not a game make.
If the story and gameplay are the same, then it is the same game.
None of the remasters mentioned have messed with the core game, which is pretty much the same as when it was released - just prettier and more compatible.
Legendle2007
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Anyone played Nox? It's kind of similar to diablo. I still find it to be very fun. Pretty decent isometric graphics.
Squid Surprise
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Depends on how they are remastered... Games from the 90s are remastered because they were often meant for DOS (Wing Commander Games especially, as they needed "expanded memory" to use speech packs, etc) and simply won't play in Windows 7/8/10....
The GAME has still aged well though - kind of hard to anticipate an OS that won't exist for 15 years...
When stuff gets added to the game, then you can start saying it hasn't aged well - new music, AI scripting, expansion quests....
But the games in the article were only "remastered" for Windows compatibility - no core gameplay was altered...
By the way, after I read this article, I went and acquired the GOG Wing Commander Collection.... STILL AWESOME!! Graphics are naturally a bit low on the first couple (WC 1 uses VGA graphics!!), but WC3/4 and Prophecy really hold up.... Gameplay on 1 and 2 is still great (I find WC2 gameplay better than all the others).
The GAME has still aged well though - kind of hard to anticipate an OS that won't exist for 15 years...
When stuff gets added to the game, then you can start saying it hasn't aged well - new music, AI scripting, expansion quests....
But the games in the article were only "remastered" for Windows compatibility - no core gameplay was altered...
By the way, after I read this article, I went and acquired the GOG Wing Commander Collection.... STILL AWESOME!! Graphics are naturally a bit low on the first couple (WC 1 uses VGA graphics!!), but WC3/4 and Prophecy really hold up.... Gameplay on 1 and 2 is still great (I find WC2 gameplay better than all the others).
Prosercunus
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Diablo 2 would be a great game to do a remaster on. I would love to see a revitalization of the game. I would likely sink hours in it once again.
TitoBXNY
Posts: 239 +61
I agree with you. I still load it once in a while.
No.
Since we have a bit of Diablo 2 nostalgia going on, check this out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pep2QaHORBQ
It's an awesome acoustic guitar cover of the Tristram theme.
It's an awesome acoustic guitar cover of the Tristram theme.
One game that isn't in the list but was very revolutionary:
Blade of Darkness ( tha same game: Blade: The Edge of Darkness )
Blade of Darkness ( tha same game: Blade: The Edge of Darkness )
It's a shame that some of the greats cannot be played on modern systems. Hogs of War was probably my favourite but the only way that could be played on a PC is by running it in an emulator. I loved the Infocom series of text adventures too. I think that they would still run in Windows.
Sadly, I couldn't find it for sale anywhere. Other than used physical disks.
Unreal Tournament 1999; Return for Castle Wolfenstein; Counter-Strike 1.6.
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