What old games are you currently playing?

I started 999 for the DS and am really enjoying it. It's keeping me entertained until the big blockbusters come out this holiday season. Coincidentally it's made me interested in getting more DS games because I never really got into it last gen. What about you, SW? What old games are you currently playing?

Pokémon Blue, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Persona 3 Portable... That's about it.

I just finished Doom (2016) and now have a huge craving to start up The Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth with the Skulltag .wad launcher for some pseudo-3D-made-real-3D, free-aim and jumping goodness.

I was playing F.E.A.R. 1, Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance and Soldier of Fortune before.

Ys Origins.

Nothing. The oldest I'm playing right now is Starcraft 2 but I'm in Heart of the Swarm already, so 2013 which is hardly old. I have Dragon's Dogma on my imminent backlog so at least that will take me back to 2012. :p

Pokemon Red and Smash 64. The latter because I found it for $3 at a local used shop. They sell a bunch of shit and really must have had no idea what that game is actually worth lol. They had some other old games but most was old sports games and licensed crap.

I just finished Mario and Luigi Bowser's Inside Story for DS yesterday.

With the Pokemon craze happening right now, I convinced my fiance to do a Pokemon FireRed run with me (doesn't play video games)- she even picked the team and everything and is doing pretty much all the playing, I'm just sorta guiding her.

Next game I'll start is Golden Sun, which I had never sunk more than 2 hours into before, but I'm determined to actually make progress and beat it this time

Half-Life

Not in the middle of anything old or retro right now.

Last old game I played was Chrono Cross.

EDIT: Or durrr I'm playing the Megaman Anniversary collection, so Megaman 1-6

Wolfenstein 3d, Divine Divinity, Max Payne, Aladdin (Genesis), Sonic 2, Super Mario Bros 3.

I'm still stuck alternating between Metal Gear 2 and Half-life. I fucked up and forgot to cancel my GF subscription, figured since I already paid for the month I got Wolfenstein: TNO and the new Ratchet and Clank, so I've been playing those instead. Recently just finished both, so I'll probably have time to finish up both MG and HL now, then I'll try and move on to MGS1 before the summer ends.

Funny how R&C kinda applies though, they did a great job incorporating old and new stuff. I've played through the original a ton of times and this feels familiar but still in many ways fresh.

Okami HD

Prince Of Persia Two Thrones.

Ps2: Shadow of Rome

Gamecube: Nightfire and Chamber of Secrets

I beat Prince of Persia 2008 this past week with 1001 orbs.

Super Mario Bros 3

System Shock Enhanced, so I guess its not that old.

Syberia 2, Half Life 2 saga, No One Live Forever 2, Broken Sword: The Shadow of Templars and Morrowind.

Deus Ex.

Playing these old ones right now off and on....

Evil Islands, Zanzarah, Theme Hospital, Simcity 2000 & 3000, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Sudeki, Chrono Cross. I think i'll have to restart Chrono Cross... its been over a year since I played it and i forget what im doing.

I'm playing Pokemon Platinum, which I never gave a legitimate shot before, and I'm really surprised at how much I'm enjoying it. It really fixes the mess that Diamond and Pearl made.

Started Deus Ex Hum rev recently, I had already finished it before but just getting hyped for the next game. Not sure I'll keep playing it though, as I decided to tackle another game from my backlog, Dying Light, and really enjoying that.

@SolidGame_basic:

Silent Hill HD Collection. Not nearly as bad as people have been saying it is so far.

Replaying my old games as of late are:

• Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within/The Two Thrones PS2
• Megaman X Collection PS2
• 007 Goldeneye N64 (love that game just for guilty pleasure)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic PC

I was playing MEga Man Legacy collection and Borderlands Handsome collection

Mount and blade warband, there is nothing more fun than commanding your own army while fighting side by side with your men.

Final Fantasy IX

Sonic CD. I was playing mainly new stuff like Blood and Wine and Street Fighter V, but Sonic Mania's announcement has gotten me so hyped.

Good game.

Why don't you guys take these conversations to Retro? The forum is a ghost town because conversations about retro games are happening on the wrong boards

I've been playing some Oracle of the Ages for the Gameboy Color for the 3ds. It's a pretty good juego.

Suikoden III. Loved the first two (the second one is actually my favorite game), so I made a promise to myself to play the entire series, even the 4th one, which I hear is dogshit.

Suikoden III is very good so far. I love the art, the writing keeps up the series tradition of having surprisingly good writing for an RPG, the story seems interesting despite it moving a bit too slowly, battle system is weird but has a lot of strategic potential, large scale battles seem a bit deeper than previous entries in the series.

I played Half Life today

Agree. To tell the truth, it's not just Retro becoming a ghost town, it's basically the whole GS is dying. Seriously this place will become extinct in just a few more years.

Seriously, if anyone isn't going to use the Retro forums, what's the point in having it if everyone wants to discuss retro games here on SW?

I think the oldest game I've played recently would be F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin.

Metroid fusion

Super Mario Sunshine.

People like Greg Kasavin, Jeff Gerstmann, Alex Navarro, etc., were Gamespot, them leaving progressively changed the identity of the site. The Terms of Use abolishment and the layout change culminated into what effectively killed the website as we knew it.

The layout is a jumbled mess of shitty shows tightly wrapped in a bland, generic theme with 0 identity that managed to slow down to a crawl community involvement because Unions were left out, and features such as user blogging and user reviews aren't appropriately shown to visitors. By 'appropriately', i mean let them fucking know of their existence and promote them so they get seen.

.. Now that i think about it, a lot of design choices really hit community involvement hard. Remember lvl'ing your account? I didn't give a shit about that, but i know a lot of people did get a kick out of seeing their accounts have a tiny amount of progression via changing sub-titles and levels. You know, small touches like that really go a long way.

Besides, there's no helping it, what is left of the community is spread on too many useless forum sub-sections, an outdated husk of a forum design that has no place in a world where people like simple. There's nothing simple about anything on Gamespot. Everything is designed to strangle the motivation of registering an account out of the visitors.

I love it so far!

Back into Pokemon in a massive way, lol.

You just answered your own question... System Wars is the only forum with a bit of life on it here anymore, sadly.

I picked up God of War 1 and 2 HD collection for PS3 today because I always wanted to know what the fuss was all about. I played the first one on PS3 all HD-ified and it looked awful and I seemed to just be clobbering people then moving a bit and clobbering more people.

So I tried again today. I now have a much bigger, much better TV than I had back then so it looks even worse now and I found myself clobbering people then moving a bit and clobbering more people. Again.

So yeah... my determined efforts to really get into GoW and find out what it's all about just aren't working out as planned. It only cost me 5 quid though for both games, so I can continue exploring its awfulness hoping something great happens, or just chuck it in the bin. Dunno yet tbh.

@blueinheaven: I'd recommend upping the difficulty if you are playing on normal. Normal lets you button bash and nothing else, which is boring. Harder diffs make you use your dodge, magic, etc. Still never gonna be DMC or Bayo but it's better.

That's good advice, thanks.

seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy, though - if 20 people dig in on a Retro thread here, that could have been "heavy traffic" in Retro if they had done it there

Right now I'm playing a few older games: Super Castlevania IV on SNES and Panzer Dragoon Orta on Xbox are my two major ones. It took me years to get Orta, and I'm loving it so much! :P

Metroid Fusion. Can't believe I skipped this game during that gen.

Super Mario Allstars most recently. A remaster before it's time.

Never going to happen though. Example: the handful of PC gamers on here blabbing on about their 'rigs' no way they will do that in the PC forum boring each other to death where nobody cares, they come here instead and make long threads that they would all ignore in the PC forum if anybody ever went there.

In an RPG mood lately so just started Neverwinter Nights again, its better than I remember from my last playthrough 13 years back. Also started Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines for the first time. Supposed to be full of bugs but with the latest user patch its been bug free.

Just finished up Kingdons of Amalur on the 360. That was a pretty good RPG romp, super cheap now too.