Games that stood the test of time.

What are some great older games that you still play today? I'm looking for any gems that I may have missed. For me it probably has to be either KoTOR 2 or CnC Red Alert 2.

starcraft I + brood war

team fortress 2

CS 1.6

duke nukem 3D

C&C originals, including C&C, C&C RA, and C&C TS.

Zelda games

Metal Gear Series (all of them)

Diablo Franchise (My GF and I were playing Diablo2 Coop Lan about a year ago. Got tired of it cause all these other games lol, but it was still pretty fun.)

Parasite Eve franchise

Resident Evil franchise

Mario franchise

Silent Hill franchise

These are some of my games that are Old that can easily be picked up an played whenever! (Its harder for me to get into older FPS games, I use to love DUke Nukem, Shadow Warrior, and Blood, Turok back in the day, but for FPS graphics play a bigger role than those other games I mentioned!)

Ultima Underworld I and II: My god these games are amazing as I'm playing it for the first time. 20 years old and it feelsbetter then a lot of the games today.

Planescape Torment: Old graphics and technological advancements sure don't get down the best story in gaming.

Unreal Tournament 2004: The last truly great deathmatch game. It also happens to have the most variety of any of them.

Guild Wars: Looks good, plays good and still tells a good story 5 years later.

Doom: The shooting and level design is still as good as in 1993.

Blood: See Doom but for 1997.

Rome Total War

The Curse of Monkey Island

Morrowind

Starcraft

Rogue Spear

Battlefield 2

Baldurs Gate 2

The original Halflife

Warcraft 3

Thief: the Dark Project

Age of Empires 2 - still like it better than the third game.

Games that stand the test of time are mostly games wich offer solid gameplay:

* Jagged Alliance

* Rome Total War

* Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn

* F.E.A.R.

* Command & Conquer: Red Alert AND Tiberian Sun

I replayed some others which I held in high esteem but do not hold up so good anymore today: Max Payne, System Shock 2, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, ...

Pc games:

• Fallout and Fallout 2
• Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne
• Heroes of Might and Magic 2
• Theme Park
• Theme Hospital
• Dungeon Keeper
• Grim Fandango
• The Curse of Monkey Island
• Shogun Total War
• Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War Dark Crusade
• Warhammer fantasy, Shadow of the Horned Rat

Non PC games:

• Super Mario World
• Donkey Kong Country
• Dynasty Warriors 2

Good news by the way, a lot of these games are so old that you can download them legally for free.

Does Starcraft II and Call Of Duty World At War count?

I recently re-bought Sacrifice from GOG and i'd say that stood the test of time.

warlords 2

sid meier's pirates

sid meier's colonization

sid meier's civilization

imperialism

Warcraft III

Diablo II

Starcraft I

The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

Super Mario Bros.

There are others, but I'm done now...:roll:

Oh man, Red Alert 2. I wish it worked on multi-core CPUs. That was my favourite RTS of all time.

I'm not counting anything younger than 2004.

• Descent 1 and 2. Still nothing like them, and they have badass weapons. Also, diamondclaws. DIAMONDCLAAAWS
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (except the large outdoor levels)
• Far Cry with FCAM (except the cramped indoor levels)
• KOTOR (except Manaan. F Manaan)
• Baldur's Gate series (with TuTu for BG1)
• Half-Life and OppFor. Fighting the HECU is still fun
• The Neverhood
• Freespace series (FSOpen FTW)

Oh man, Red Alert 2. I wish it worked on multi-core CPUs. That was my favourite RTS of all time.

I'm not counting anything younger than 2004.

• Descent 1 and 2. Still nothing like them, and they have badass weapons. Also, diamondclaws. DIAMONDCLAAAWS
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (except the large outdoor levels)
• Far Cry with FCAM (except the cramped indoor levels)
• KOTOR (except Manaan. F Manaan)
• Baldur's Gate series (with TuTu for BG1)
• Half-Life and OppFor. Fighting the HECU is still fun
• The Neverhood
• Freespace series (FSOpen FTW)

Fusionmix

Have you tried setting the Affinity to only one core with RA2?

To do this you open the game, Then open task manager (Cntrl+Alt+Del) go to the processes tab, find the Red Alert EXE, right click it. choose set affinity, then choose only one core. (see if that helps, Have to do it with Silent Hill 2 for multi core cpus)

I could start listing titles, but at the minute I'm playing No Lives Forever 2 for the first time, and it's surpising how well it has aged in over 8 years - in graphics, gameplay and sound.

I tranquilised a guy standing on a hill, and he rolled down it. Might not sound like much, but it took me by surprise. Also the enemy tracking my footprints! Can't remember a game in recent memory that had that.

I could start listing titles, but at the minute I'm playing No Lives Forever 2 for the first time, and it's surpising how well it has aged in over 8 years - in graphics, gameplay and sound.

I tranquilised a guy standing on a hill, and he rolled down it. Might not sound like much, but it took me by surprise. Also the enemy tracking my footprints! Can't remember a game in recent memory that had that.

Tresca_

Metal Gear Solid. Just a few nights ago a soldier saw my footprints in the snow and was like hmm, whose are these? Started following them lol.

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I could start listing titles, but at the minute I'm playing No Lives Forever 2 for the first time, and it's surpising how well it has aged in over 8 years - in graphics, gameplay and sound.

I tranquilised a guy standing on a hill, and he rolled down it. Might not sound like much, but it took me by surprise. Also the enemy tracking my footprints! Can't remember a game in recent memory that had that.

Lach0121

Metal Gear Solid. Just a few nights ago a soldier saw my footprints in the snow and was like hmm, whose are these? Started following them lol.

Ah yes, forgot about Metal Gear Solid. It's even older! Strange we haven't seen it used a lot in other stealth related games - Crysis, Far Cry (the beaches), Hitman 2 (the snowy levels in Japan). Would have been a nice way to expand the AI in those games.

Homeworld -played it last year, none of the fantastic atmosphere and ambience has gone over the years

Mafia

Worms: Armageddon

JAGGED ALLIANCE 2 AND ALL OF IT'S EXPANSIONS

Oh man, Red Alert 2. I wish it worked on multi-core CPUs. That was my favourite RTS of all time.

I'm not counting anything younger than 2004.

• Descent 1 and 2. Still nothing like them, and they have badass weapons. Also, diamondclaws. DIAMONDCLAAAWS
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (except the large outdoor levels)
• Far Cry with FCAM (except the cramped indoor levels)
• KOTOR (except Manaan. F Manaan)
• Baldur's Gate series (with TuTu for BG1)
• Half-Life and OppFor. Fighting the HECU is still fun
• The Neverhood
• Freespace series (FSOpen FTW)

Fusionmix

Max Payne 2

Arcanum, No One Lives Forever, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Pharaoh, Neverwinter Nights, Nox :)

Halo ofc

Have you tried setting the Affinity to only one core with RA2?

To do this you open the game, Then open task manager (Cntrl+Alt+Del) go to the processes tab, find the Red Alert EXE, right click it. choose set affinity, then choose only one core. (see if that helps, Have to do it with Silent Hill 2 for multi core cpus)

Lach0121

Did that. Wouldn't work. The SAGE engine runs, but lags horribly. Makes the game unplayable. :|

Morrowind. If you really can't stand the graphics or animations get the sound and graphics overhaul mod that makes it look far better than skyrim does.

Max Payne 2

AireeeZ

This. Max Payne 2's graphics were way ahead of it's time, and the game still looks good.

Morrowind. If you really can't stand the graphics or animations get the sound and graphics overhaul mod that makes it look far better than skyrim does.

Former_Slacker

KOTOR, Medieval 2 Total War, Vampire: TMB, Starcraft 1, Zelda OoT, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Civ 4, Company of Heroes, and Homeworld 2.