da5fba No.15632490
Plumbing the depths of PC's ~35 year backlog of games is all well and good, but there's a lot of stuff to sift through. Everyone knows classics like Deus Ex, System Shock 1 & 2, HoMM3, etc, but the majority have fallen into relative obscurity, many of which have decreased visibility due to being unavailable on any online storefronts. Share any of these you can think of here, bonus points if you provide a download.
I'll recommend Myth, the RTT games Bungie made before Oni and Halo, they're relatively minimalistic RTT games, with a physics system and an emphasis on using the explosive-tossing dwarf units to cause huge amounts of destruction:
Refer to the first link for the game files and the second for setup instructions (refer to "Install/Update without CD" the contents of the .7z are what is needed in the "tags" folder). The game engine has been released to the community and is still being updated and maintained to this day, even having a Linux port. The third link is a community file share, among other things it has a texture upgrade mod (which you should definitely get as it makes the game less of a blurry mess) a port of the Myth 1 campaign to the Myth 2 engine (which you should get and play before the second campaign because the story is pretty good) and a bunch of community campaigns, mods and multiplayer maps, among other things.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/575zlde6g56fi92/Myth2_Install.7z
http://mythipedia.wikia.com/wiki/Installing/Updating_Myth_II
http://tain.totalcodex.net/
f70ffc No.15632567
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>any game from spiderweb software
>literally fallout1/2 but magic
9da032 No.15632721
Carmageddon, a shame these sorts of murder-racing games waned even on console & arcade.
>>15632567
More like Ultima VI than Fallout, really.
89fae5 No.15633541
>>15632490
>RTT
Can't go wrong with some classic hammer, either.
>>15632567
Geneforge series has it's moments, the rest? I dunno. Never really impressed me that much.
>>15632615
Take that cancerchart and shove it up your ass.
e2ac6e No.15633545
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409b2b No.15633772
>>15632721
were you a fan of tdr2000? i mostly see people shitting on it but i still quite enjoyed it
03caf8 No.15637796
I miss home of the underdos
You used to be able to download xcom for free from them before valve/steam started selling it
a time when the internet was actually worth using
d386f2 No.15637949
Hidden Gems thread
>>15633541
That chart is not so much of a recommendations chart as it was a chart of what generally popular games were released per year, and it does that pretty well.
82c49e No.15645206
I don't know how popular Wizardry 8 was when it was released, but it sure as hell seems rarely brought up now
9b6cfd No.15645271
>>15645206
It's fairly well known by people who are into blobbers but at the time it was overshadowed by Morrowind which was released around the same time. It's a really nice game. I wish more of the Japanese Wizardry games got English localisations though.
5cd8a8 No.15645337
Blade & Sword
Chinese isometric hack&slay without the item hoarding of diablolikes but complete focus on the combat mechanics. Features a neat combo system, nice and thought through maps and working enemy AI in a chinese folklore setting. Challenging game with no cheap shots. If you decide to give it a try be sure to pick the girl, the game is build around her.
Free for download at:
https://www.old-games.com/download/6944/blade-sword
Best combat in its niche to this day. Never understood why this game never got real publicity in any kind. It deserves a sequel very hard.
6f4046 No.15645377
>>15632490
Now OP. You wouldn't happen to be talking about any hidden gems now would you?
7ec275 No.15645428
>>15645377
Actually discussing and providing downloadable links to said games isn't, no.
28b1bd No.15645465
>>15645337
>Download is an exe
5cd8a8 No.15645482
>>15645465
Ill upload a rar if you tell me about a host service the cool kids use today.
1e2a75 No.15645544
Only real gamers will remember
8d9608 No.15646428
Has enough time passed for Stubbs to be a classic? If yes, The Suffering was a pretty good game. If no I still find it a shame no one remembers Nocturne.
9c6a5c No.15646455
>>15646428
Played it in 99, great game, despite the few design hickups. Very atmospheric.
747d1c No.15646470
>>15646428
>Stubbs
Patrician taste.
8d9608 No.15646486
Also Messiah is one of my old favorites if you manage to get it to work on a modern system. I haven't played it since that ancient laptop I had broke down.
4a01b7 No.15646507
>>15632615
>fortnite
weak bait
59e7c5 No.15646524
>>15632567
>literally fallout1/2 but magic
Your comparison to those piles of shit is fucking disgraceful. The Exile series were top tier RPGs before the isometric clickfest cancer of Fallout ruined the scene.
c4f120 No.15646545
>>15645271
Actually, in a lot of the Japanese PS1 Wizardy games, you could easily turn on English text by changing one of the options in the options menu
c4f120 No.15646552
>>15646507
For once, this isn't bait. It's just a chart saying what the most popular titles for PC are over the last 3 years, year by year. Unfortunately, Fortnite is VERY popular.
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e599e5 No.15651925
I like pic related but I don't know how "known" it is, so sorry if everybody has played it. One of the 1st PC games I played
>>15646486
Had to check this out simply because of the box art. Haha it's basically like Death Stranding.>>15646486
120fda No.15651965
>>15651925
It was pretty popular on console when it came out.
fe3d0d No.15651973
>>15646507
>>15633541
It's a history chart, not a recommendation chart. What is wrong with you?
06b4e2 No.15652084
>>15632490
You're pretty good, OP. For whatever reason that deal with modding Myth annoys me and I never end up installing it. Thanks for putting it there all wrapped up in a bow.
c07861 No.15652092
Crossfire MMORPG
Servers are almost empty though so play in a small group
06b4e2 No.15652125
I think this is great, it gets overlooked a lot. It's kind of hardass in some ways but it's about the only RTT game I know of that allows for sneakass behavior. Also I guess someone made a mech mod, gonna have to look into that. It and its spiritual sequels have always had a great destruction systems too.
74ce96 No.15652137
>>15652125
looks like the same fags who made men of war
Assault Squad 2 is actually bretty good, and so are the previous games.
06b4e2 No.15652150
>>15652137
Yeah, I've always wondered if they are outright the same guys, there's also Faces of War that came out before Men of War. Good to hear Ass Squad 2 is alright, the first one was kinda weak to me.
d90962 No.15652151
>>15652150
>>15652137
It is, Soldiers and Faces are the "prequels" to MoW
06b4e2 No.15652152
>>15652151
Isn't there also one that never got translated from vodka? I always forget the name of it.
06b4e2 No.15652153
>>15652152
These, I don't believe I've ever seen a slavanon or anyone tell me about these. I wonder if they were too janky to bother translating or something.
7b36ff No.15652235
>Neighbours from Hell
Good ol' fun. Requires you to use a brain to get full clear and lulz. Doubt leftists and SJWs are able to.
>Myst/Riven/Exile
Sublime and beautiful void. Works out your brain like a boot camp. Killed the entire genre because nothing will ever top these three as they have set the bar high up in heaven.
>Twin Caliber
Gritty, violent, and unapologetic two-player co-op zombies on-rail twin stick-shooter. Seriously can use a remake for faster gameplay and better graphics, but as one of the very first PS2 games this is the shit.
a11cfd No.15652279
>>15646552
>>15651973
Then why the fuck is it posted here? It might not be bait but its definitely a shitpost.
e599e5 No.15652290
Loved this and the sequel
06b4e2 No.15652296
>>15652235
Hey, that sounds interesting. I've definitely never heard of that Twin Caliber one. It's not a light gun game, huh?
>slo-mo kills
Did KF rip that off?
971a19 No.15652554
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"Incoming" a 1998 game by Rage Software. It's about an alien invasion and you alternate between flying ships and controlling turrets (depending on mission goals). My brother got a burned copy from his friend in the early 2000s and I played this a ton. Never heard anyone talk about it since then. Will need a VM to play on a modern system as it's designed for 32bit Win95/98. It's also on Dreamcast.
0ef09b No.15654655
How the fuck do I get into oldschool RPGs anons? They all seem so fucking cool, but whenever I try to get into them I either get confused, die quickly or just get bored before I have a chance to do anything. Especially if I need to write my own stuff in during dialogues. Any recommendations on how to git gud? Does it require some certain way of thinking? Or is the genre just simply not for me?
d410df No.15655764
>>15654655
>Does it require some certain way of thinking?
A little bit. Playstyles replace each other over the years, the ones pre-Win95 that require you to actually type are from another era and that style of playing is lost to our collective culture. I remember playing that shit as a kid and it wasn't confusing because it was THE way games "worked", and we didn't know anything else. Of course now you are used to how modern games work (dumbed down for the masses), and get lost.
I would suggest finding a walkthrough and beating a few games by following it to the letter. That should get your brain used to thinking with some of the assumptions people shared back then. Maybe sounds tedious but that's how we learned as kids, just kept fucking up until a friend showed us how to play it and eventually we'd "get it". And really only the first few games in a genre are confusing, after that you get used to thinking the right way.
0ef09b No.15656379
>>15655764
For the most part, I'm not exactly sure what words to use in such conversation to advance. Roleplaying aside, I know there are things that I need to do before I can go further, yet besides asking for simple information I do not exactly get what work and what doesn't.
Maybe beating such a game with a walkthrough seems like a good idea to figure that out. Thanks anon. I do enjoy older games, and old JRPGs but not necessairly older RPGs as they often are very abstract and obtuse to me, though I guess that might be might own fault.
d410df No.15656475
>>15656379
Yeah, there's not really a good word for it, but I think the concept is concrete. The point is, easter eggs and unique quirks aside, text games heavily used a common vocabulary of commands and syntax. As you say, it's hard to "get" what works and what doesn't, but the thing to remember is that most players and developers at the time did get it. That is because they all had roughly the same assumptions. It's not like every game had its own completely unique snowflake syntax. So once you get used to the basics of this common vocabulary I think it should be a lot easier (you might still need a guide occasionally, but that's expected). So I think a walkthrough is probably the fastest way of accomplishing that.
a79998 No.15656482
>>15652554
I actually played the shit out of this as a kid. Especially the later levels where you could fly both human-made and Alien spacecraft were cool.
d410df No.15656503
>>15652554
>>15656482
>cd came with my geforce 2 ti
>all this time i thought it was a tech demo not an actual game
fbff0c No.15656524
>>15632490
>lesser known
<All are known and popular
In this vein I add Faery Tale Adventure the first graphical open world action Adventure with RPG Elements from 1987 mostly known by Britbongs and other Eurpeans.
Amberstar a German RPG.
Hammer of the Gods, a 4 Player Nordic Mythology Strategy Game with Turn based Combat and Hero Managment.
And Ambush at Sorinor (as well as Siege) a massive Fantasy Battles Game.
a79998 No.15656537
>>15656503
IIRC Incoming actually was really resource-hungry when it came to the GPU back in the day. Makes sense they'd bundle it with one, as if to say
>Look, this baby can even play Incoming at a crisp 30FPS