Old games you'd like to play again but...

kthula666 · 3 Sep 2013 at 12:47

Drod

http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewsitepage.php?id=90294

enjoy

Kishywish · 3 Sep 2013 at 12:51

Final Fantasy 7.

Was given this as a present recently, but don't have the heart to play it.

BuZ · 3 Sep 2013 at 12:55

Pokemon!

macmodder · 3 Sep 2013 at 12:57

I just bought TA from gog.com and apart from a few graphics glitches it's every bit as awesome as I remember

Narj · 3 Sep 2013 at 13:03

Regy53 said:
I bought a N64 recently solely for goldeneye but it was so dated, I enjoyed the maps and the themetune but it just did not do it for me.

I then bought a snes and love it, mario kart, mario world, etc are all epic and it looks good even on a 50" plasma

I did the same... what TV have you got though? I'm still getting issues with the SCART output where there's a sort of cross-hatch pattern. This happened on my old Samsung plasma as well. Maybe it's because it's a PAL SNES.

N64 and some PS games have aged terribly because of the super-low poly and low-res textures IMO. Good quality 2D still shines.

Freddie1980 · 3 Sep 2013 at 13:53

Pighardia said:
I'm not sure it is about games being 'as good as you remember' so much as games just getting dated. I tried to play Thief the other day, but just couldn't as it had dated so badly. No doubt it is still great though, but times have changed.

How did you get on with getting Thief to run? I played Thief a few years ago and I had to apply a number fixes one of which was disabling the other cores on my CPU because the engine didn't like multithreaded CPU's?

I play old games all the time and while they may look dated the trick to enjoying them is to treat them like any new game and give it time. Wing Commander 3, 4, Prophecy, Monkey Island 1 & 2, all Thief games, Tie Fighter are classics for me and just as enjoyable now as they were all them years ago.

MOOGLEYS · 3 Sep 2013 at 14:06

I have been playing the Rallisport challenge games again and they are everything as good as I remember. MS really need to do a remake of them it's miles ahead of the crud Codemasters churn out.

TommyV · 3 Sep 2013 at 14:21

For this very reason OP, I'm avoiding reintalling MOHAA:SH for the multiplayer. Possibly best left as a fond nostalgic memory.

Pighardia · 3 Sep 2013 at 14:29

Freddie1980 said:
How did you get on with getting Thief to run? I played Thief a few years ago and I had to apply a number fixes one of which was disabling the other cores on my CPU because the engine didn't like multithreaded CPU's?

I downloaded some HD mods, and widescreen fix from Moddb(this is the steam version btw) and ran it in compatibility mode for windows xp, I believe. It ran fine, but it was the gameplay that hadn't aged well tbh. Same with Thief: Deadly Shadow, it still looks really good, but you know you are playing an old game.

I was trying to get in the mood for the reboot, out soon which looks pretty epic!

macmodder · 3 Sep 2013 at 14:39

TommyV said:
For this very reason OP, I'm avoiding reintalling MOHAA:SH for the multiplayer. Possibly best left as a fond nostalgic memory.

MOHAA probably is one of the games that suffers. I remember playing it and having great fun. But with the advent of CoD I can imagine it's very clunky (no aiming down the sight for example)

Ryan-3 · 3 Sep 2013 at 14:40

gigeorge said:
destruction derby

I found this. Loved it as a kid, but it really shows its age now.

Regy53 · 3 Sep 2013 at 14:47

Narj said:
I did the same... what TV have you got though? I'm still getting issues with the SCART output where there's a sort of cross-hatch pattern. This happened on my old Samsung plasma as well. Maybe it's because it's a PAL SNES.

N64 and some PS games have aged terribly because of the super-low poly and low-res textures IMO. Good quality 2D still shines.

just a LG pg3000, nothing major, I am playing through the RF cable though so no problems, I have a CRT upstairs and its great on that.

The Snes is still a great machines

CliffyG · 3 Sep 2013 at 14:51

I tried Populous the other day, remember it being so good. Loaded it up, thought WTF how does it look so awful and promptly quit.

almoststew1990 · 3 Sep 2013 at 15:04

Its got to be simcopter. That was quality fun!

Mark3h · 3 Sep 2013 at 15:15

Narj said:
OMG.. I remember DD2 - "Death Bowl" I think the map was that I liked. So much chaos!

Best part of DD2 was you could just pop it into a CD player and listen to the soundtrack.
One of the best things about most PS1 games and is a feature that needs brought back.

hamesy · 3 Sep 2013 at 15:41

CliffyG said:
I tried Populous the other day, remember it being so good. Loaded it up, thought WTF how does it look so awful and promptly quit.

Agree about the first two Populous games, although Populous: The Beginning is still pretty good imo.

Michael Myers · 3 Sep 2013 at 15:57

id like to play ARC - Attack Retrieve Capture again, shame the sierra servers got taken down years ago.

Jono · 3 Sep 2013 at 16:31

Soldiers: Heroes of World War II - It's not that old but I can't get it to work :\

MotherMayI · 4 Sep 2013 at 08:30

Sleepery said:
Anarchy Online, but I just can't get past the ancient character models.

Havent they just released a new graphics engine?

If we could go back in time, I'd love to play release DAOC.. and UO to a lesser extent. I still play 'classic' pub15/16 UO, so that's not such an issue.

As for single player titles, the Wing Commander series.

Sleepery · 4 Sep 2013 at 08:45

It's in closed beta at the moment, but apparently it's landscape only, no character model changes at the moment.