Speaking of old PC Games: what are some essential classic PC games to you?

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Malenko:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 28, 2016, 12:45:24 am ---Holy crap Monster truck madness! Remember when Microsoft actually made games in-house? Yeah they were surprisingly awesome.

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totally forgot about that game, used to play the crap out of it. Crimson Skies count? It came out in 2000

Howard_Casto:
That's a good question. When they entered the console market was about the time that they started buying game development studios and having them make games on their behalf. Not that there is anything wrong with that, it's just the games sure were better when they made them themselves. I think project gotham was made in-house. I'm not sure about crimson skies.

matt24601:
Really loved the Baldurs Gate games. Probably preferred the Icewind Dale spinoff a little more.

shponglefan:

--- Quote from: dkersten on March 25, 2016, 11:15:13 am ---Then there was a period where I was in college, and I would have to say the MUDs were what got me. In fact, I got so addicted it cost me the ability to stay in college. Not only did it get me in a lot of trouble (got kicked out of several computer labs and got caught stealing people's accounts so I could log more hours on the VAX), I got to the point where I was playing 20 hours per day and sleeping during classes. My gpa slipped below 3.0 and my dad stopped loaning me money for tuition so I had to drop out. While working to save (and to get off my parent's taxes so I could get a student loan), I knocked up my girlfriend and never went back. Such is life, but you could say that those prequels to MMORPGs really did define my life.

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Dang, that's rough and kinda a scary precursor to MMOs... had a roommate that got addicted to UO in a similar way. Watching his addiction kept me clear of any MMOs.

--- Quote ---FPS games that defined the genre for me started with Wolfenstein 3D, which was great because I used to play the original Wolfenstein on Apple II's at school. Doom, of course was huge, but I LOVED Duke Nukem. That one got me to dial up with friends and play 1v1 for hours on end.
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Oh yeah, Duke was the king back then. I especially loved the fact it came with the map editor. Probably played more deathmatch of that than any contemporary FPS's.

--- Quote ---Around the same time as Ultima Online came Diablo, and OMG, talk about a defining game. I remember playing 4 way games too, which was great. When Diablo 2 came out years later I hated it at first, but nearly a year after release I got back into it with a friend and spent the next 2 years playing hardcore version daily until 2 am. It was the first game that hooked me for more than a few months.
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I'm going to have to retry Diablo I think. I did play it back in the day, but only have bad memories of idiot PvPer's online. I should retry it single player.

ark_ader:
The ones I bought and kept (and still play today) on my 486 laptop.

Xwing
Tie Fighter
Elite
Starcontrol

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