Going back to older games.

[J-D-Stagpump]

Any of you guys fallen into a slightly older game and realised it's the way to go??

My regular gaming buddies and I recently started getting the arse with BF1. It is generally a poorly made game that like most EA launches will probably need several patches to be truly playable.

Due to a freebie and a sale we all ended up with a copy of Tatanfall. It is the most fun we've had as a group for a long time. we are constantly laughing, trying dopey things and having fun with the game rather than getting salty about performance issues or being massacred by 12 year olds with the reflexes of a ninja.

I tell you older games where popular interest has died off is definitely the way to go.

[parabolica]

I love replaying older games (anything back to around 2000); recently replayed Deus Ex (with the Revision mod) and enjoyed it thoroughly. Also love replaying HL2, Hitman Contracts etc. To be honest I don't really keep a game in my library unless it has the replay factor.

[tenohfive]

Picked up Homeworld Remastered in a recent Humble Bundle sale. Enjoying it so far but only because graphically it's reasonably current - I struggle playing older games that have aged badly visually. Same reason I can't really stand the pixel style graphics that seem to dominate indy games.

[TommoAE86]

I think I have four or five current games in my steam library and on ps4 that I regularly play. If I want enjoyment then I'll replay older games, things like GTA Vice City, Burnout Paradise, Farcry 3, NFS Underground all get many more hours playtime than any of the latest.

[MockingJay]

I still play Skyrim.

[Rickyy]

I wish I'd kept my PS2. I'd seriously like to start GT4 from scratch.

I love Forza, but career mode is pants and it's too easy to progress.

[130R]

Mount & Blade: Warband. Released in 2010 but I only started playing it recently. It's amazing. 10/10.

[Morningside]

I love playing older games as the modern computers are so fast compared to the requirements of the older games and run at a much more fluid rate.

Long gone are the days of running Doom on a smaller window at lower (blocky) resolution.

[tenohfive]

130R said:

Mount & Blade: Warband. Released in 2010 but I only started playing it recently. It's amazing. 10/10.

Good shout. Would love to see a modernised version of this - genuinely innovative gameplay.

[RizzoTheRat]

tenohfive said:

Picked up Homeworld Remastered in a recent Humble Bundle sale. Enjoying it so far but only because graphically it's reasonably current - I struggle playing older games that have aged badly visually. Same reason I can't really stand the pixel style graphics that seem to dominate indy games.

I'm with you there. Bought the X-Com Humble Bundle a while back, I have fond memories of Terror From The Deep but the graphics put me right off pretty quickly. Didn't end up buying Homeworld because I have the original somewhere, sounds like I should have done, at the time it's graphics looked amazing so if it's been updated it should look great.

[SystemParanoia]

I still play Tribes and Tribes 2 from time to time

www.tribesnext.com

and its all freeeeeeee

[kowalski655]

tenohfive said:

130R said:

Mount & Blade: Warband. Released in 2010 but I only started playing it recently. It's amazing. 10/10.

Good shout. Would love to see a modernised version of this - genuinely innovative gameplay.

M&B 2 is coming out soon
http://store.steampowered.com/app/261550
The Napoleonic variant of it is quite good too

[The Beaver King]

I still play a lot of old games of varying age. Recently I've played:

• Command and Conquer (original through to C&C3)
• Battle for Middle-Earth 2
• Crysis
• Total War: Rome
• Doom (in Brutal Doom form)
• Final Fantasy 7/8/9
• Supreme Commander

And that is just in the last few months.

I do love a good nostalgia trip and, for most of those games, there isn't a modern day version that compares.

[sparks_E39]

Most of the time I'm put off by dated graphics. "Oldest" game I have played was the Metal Gear Solid HD remaster for PS3 about 4 years ago. I couldn't play stuff like Gran Turismo 4, it's too old looking nowadays.

[SystemParanoia]

I'm sure halflife has been remasterd with 4k graphics and textures

edit : here we go

https://www.blackmesasource.com/


and halflife 2 has been remastered too

http://store.steampowered.com/app/290930

Edited by SystemParanoia on Tuesday 31st January 18:33

[siovey]

sparks_E39 said:

Most of the time I'm put off by dated graphics. I couldn't play stuff like Gran Turismo 4, it's too old looking nowadays.

Sadly, this.

Although, I've gone a bit mad recently buying tons of new games via psn. As well as skyrim on disc. I've no idea when i'll get to play them as FO4 hasn't moved out of the ps4 since the day it was released...
I'd definitely not have any time for any older games.

[tenohfive]

kowalski655 said:

tenohfive said:

130R said:

Mount & Blade: Warband. Released in 2010 but I only started playing it recently. It's amazing. 10/10.

Good shout. Would love to see a modernised version of this - genuinely innovative gameplay.

M&B 2 is coming out soon
http://store.steampowered.com/app/261550
The Napoleonic variant of it is quite good too

Where's that Mr Burns .gif?

[tenohfive]

RizzoTheRat said:

tenohfive said:

Picked up Homeworld Remastered in a recent Humble Bundle sale. Enjoying it so far but only because graphically it's reasonably current - I struggle playing older games that have aged badly visually. Same reason I can't really stand the pixel style graphics that seem to dominate indy games.

I'm with you there. Bought the X-Com Humble Bundle a while back, I have fond memories of Terror From The Deep but the graphics put me right off pretty quickly. Didn't end up buying Homeworld because I have the original somewhere, sounds like I should have done, at the time it's graphics looked amazing so if it's been updated it should look great.

It's not top notch graphics but it's good enough to be playable - I don't notice the graphics in HW:R. Whereas with Deserts Of Kharak I binned it after a couple of hours as (amongst other things) I couldn't get past how poor the graphics were. (I didn't like having to repeatedly launch aircraft on sorties rather than them staying out patrolling either.)

[SystemParanoia]

http://www.retrogames.cz/play_042-Atari2600.php

Joust anyone ?

[snuffy]

J-D-Stagpump said:

Any of you guys fallen into a slightly older game and realised it's the way to go??

No, never.

For example, I bought AvP at the weekend (as it was £2.50 on Steam). It looked like it was out of the Ark. I played it for 10 minutes and binned it.