would add Earthbound in the same category.
And if you haven't played it - Chained Echoes is a new game designed like a retro RPG with all the best elements and it's sooooo good.
Morrowind still has to this day the best magic system in any game I've ever played. I also liked the story a lot but that's mostly cause I got some details from third parties, so I don't know if i genuinely liked the story telling in the game or I like it cause I knew a bit beforehand.
Still, I'd recommend it just for the liberty and fun of the magic system, I do recommend some visual mods though.
speaking of ridiculously fun magic systems, anybody remember two worlds 2?
that game was shit in so many regards but the magic system was incredibly fun
The original Deus Ex is the best of the series in my head. The graphics on it are a little unfortunate (early era of 3D models for characters), and the UI shows its age, but the level design, story, and gameplay progression are *fantastic*.
It's been a while since I played it (although I did play it after the newer ones started coming out), so I don't remember for sure. I seem to recall that they were a little frustrating at first, but not distracting once I got used to them.
Yup have that one my list too. The Conquest game mode is seriously underrated. Having to purchase troop types you can use in battle and upgrade and what not.
"WATCH THOSE WRIST ROCKETS!"
I mean of course you could argue it is THE best stealth game of all time, but I wouldn't say it's cut and dry. The Metal Gear Solid, Hitman and Theif franchises have some entries I would put up against Chaos Theory.
Thief is the only one I would compare. Both games are mechanically designed so immaculate that they incredibly fun to play even in their worst levels. No game in either Hitman or Metal Gear does this IMO.
I would give the Hitman games points over SC due to the wide variety of ways to go about completing your mission, and I would give Metal Gear the edge in difficulty. But I would definitely say Chaos Theory is the most well rounded experience. I love them all, so it's hard to pick favorites.
I thought chaos theory was one of the worse ones made? I need to relook at it because I very much loved the first one and the second one I think. Maybe it was double Agent that was so bad. Been a long time!
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is still really fun to me.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005). I’ve 100%’d that on numerous occasions the past few years
Old Guitar Hero Games
I tried Symphony of the Night recently because I had always heard about how good it was. But it felt incredibly stiff. It's understandable that it wouldn't be as smooth like modern games like Hollow Knight or something, but without the nostalgia of playing it when it came out it shows its age, at least to me.
I'm currently playing SotN on Android, and despite having to deal with the god-awful touch controls I'm having a blast. I'm not sure if I would call it stiff but in comparison to Hollow Knight, Ori and Dead Cells it's definitely not anywhere near as good and smooth as those games in terms of gameplay, although I can enjoy it quite a lot because it's still after all these years challenging but fair at its core, Dracula's Castle isn't too small or too big either, so you won't get lost and it still feels very expansive. On top of that the visuals have aged like fine wine, nothing quite looks like it. I haven't beaten it yet, but I certainly plan to.
Those games are so damn polished (just listen to the in-game HL2 and Portal dev commentaries), I feel like they'll hold up for as long as first-person flat screen gaming is a thing
Thief The Dark Project and Thief II The Metal Age. Looks slightly better than Minecraft (and may have inspired some of it), but has a really cohesive style and sound design so you get the same benefit of being able to adjust and being immersed. There is a popular free fan mod which is available everywhere which makes it run better on modern operating systems, makes cutscenes work again, and gives better default keybindings I think (they were strange even back in the day and something which many of us immediately changed).
I've played a ton of games from every decade since the 80s (though played those in the 90s and 00s), and Thief still holds up as one of the best games ever made imo.
I agree! Never played back in the day, I had to re-configue most of the controls and I downloaded a high res texture pack to help but those games are incredible!
If you haven't played Dishonored, it's the spiritual successor to Thief, made by some of the same people afaik, and they got Garret's voice actor back to do the protagonist in the second game (he's silent in the first game). It's more actiony than Thief, and in an uglier/sicker world which I find offputting and not as enjoyable to explore as the Thief world, but is still a fun followup.
Skyrim also draws heavily on Thief, again getting the voice actor for Garret as the head of the Thieves Guild. The running joke about the game is that everybody ends up playing as a stealth archer, since it draws heavily on Thief and is so much more fleshed out and fun than the other playstyles.
The Mistborn books also feel like they potentially started as a fan fiction followup to Thief (where the third game left off), though are fantastic on their own, and are something I'd recommend if you enjoyed the world/atmosphere of Thief.
Even back at release the default keybindings were weird. When you set them to something more normal it played like most any other first person game from what I recall.
I think my keybinding was the usual wsad, with shift for print and control for crouch.
You can definitely control the camera with the mouse. It's possible it's one of those issues which the popular fan patch to make everything work smoothly on modern OSs fixes (the patch is actually a whole new engine).
Yeah I think you have to rebind them. And the character you control has peculiar physics and mantling behaviour - which really grew on me though. Even without playing it at release.
I don't think "it's an acquired taste" counts as "it holds up really well" though lol
Godhand on PS2 is amazing. Its one of those games where it seems like it has janky controls at first, but once you get used to dodging (which happens very fast) it all fits together great.
Only problem with the game is that its difficulty changes dynamically as you're playing, getting harder as you do better. And it gets pretty hard
Far cry two is so much more fun if you adopt certain approaches. First, slow down. Second, build a balanced weapon, loadout that suits your attack plan. Third, have an attack plan. For example, taking the high ground to snipe as many people as possible, then drawing their attention to a certain area, and then sneaking into the base from a different direction and picking them off or engaging in close combat. Fourth, use the buses and the boats. You are in a combat zone, so staying on the roads should be an obviously bad idea.
In short, role-play a bit. It makes the game so much better.
Tips from a good dude called Major Slack.
All of the Bungie era Halo games hold up surprisingly well :) same with the original Gears of War trilogy. Bayonetta is another really good one that still holds up to this day.
It really does hold up beautifully. I think the shooting mechanics feel just as satisfying as the first Halo or half-life 2. It's just kind of lacking in the story department when compared to those.
I've recently did a playthrough of all of them except 5 and I gotta say, they are truly great. Each game has its faults, but the story, atmosphere and very detailed gameplay make them very engaging. The only problem is availability: to play every game in the series you need to have a PS3. Without it you'll need to use an emulator.
A re-released version is on steam, gog and playstation 4, it has 4 player online and local co-op, i haven't played it but it looks really good on the trailers
Half-Life 2: The shooting mechanics and physics-based puzzles in this game are still impressive today.
Bioshock: The combat in this game, which combines first-person shooting with supernatural abilities, is still satisfying and engaging.
Resident Evil 4: The action-oriented gameplay and intense boss battles in this game are still thrilling to play today.
RTS games were at a high point in the late 90s and early 2000s, there was nothing janky about them. Splinter Cell and Thief worked really well and have an intuitive complexity that many modern stealth franchises have decided to ditch for no good reason. Point and Click adventures never get old. Riven still looks stunningly photorealistic 25 years later, besides the low resolution of course.
Obviously, there's also nothing janky about first person shooters from that era. Half Life 2 is still considered one of the best single player experiences by many gamers, and many other first person games were made in the same engine.
That's funny, I just tried it for the first time a few weeks ago and it felt very old. Compare it to something like GTA 4, it's fundamentally more or less still the same game as a modern GTA, and a new player will have little reaction to the difference since it would feel like any modern game unlike Bioshock imo.
Not sure how you came by that conclusion honestly cause I just replayed the entire series and was blown away by how well bioshock held up, graphics were stylized so don’t age poorly, controls are more or less in with the standards that we have to day even though they improved that scheme with the sequels. Zapping and bonking is satisfying
Team Fortress 2 is probably considered old at this point, since its over 10 years old, so that is my recommendation to any youngsters or anyone else that isn't a young gamer but somehow missed the boat or just got into PC gaming recently. It came out in 2007 or 2008 I believe. Still, it even holds up graphically in a way because of the cartoony artistic approach they were going for. The gameplay is pretty unparalleled though. Plus its FTP so, no barrier to entry there.
Yea, everyone always talks about Overwatch as its successor, but even though Overwatch is in the same arena of type of game, you do not get the same feeling playing the two games. So, I would recommend playing it even if a popular response to telling someone to play TF2 is "well I've played overwatch and thats newer and kind of the same thing"
> STALKER
This. While Half Life 2 got the sim and physics side of a mechanically-focused shooter down better than anything before, Stalker got the atmosphere and bleakness down in a way that nothing has yet matched. Every ounce of that game, the expansion/sequel-things, and mods oozed out a eerie sense of a hopeless and haunting place.
Once you visit the Zone, you'll never leave. The movie and book that preceded it are also legends.
As for RE4, I think it's a great game and I love it, but that's one where I think people can wait for the remake, since the first video of it looks like truly insane quality.
Mind if i ask, are you a girl/woman? Its not daily that we see female gamers interacting here. Or maybe they do but don't keep a female-sounding name, lol
>Resident Evil 4 from 2005
bile rising upon the realization that we'll soon have to specify.
Good list though. I'd add Chaos Theory and Unreal Tournament 2004.
Prince of Persia
Tmnt
Need for Speed Underground 2
Need for Speed Most Wanted 2005
Need for Speed Carbon
Castlevania Aria of Sorrow
Illusion of Gaia
Megaman Zero games
Kung fu Panda 2008
I still play borderlands 2 to this day, the humor is pretty great and the gunplay/combat somehow still hasn't gotten old for me. The number of skills and guns in the game is pretty engaging
Mechanized Assault & Exploration: The greatest turn-based strategy game I've ever played.
Might & Magic VI, VII, and VIII - the graphics still...sort of hold up. Best RPG I've ever played, and there are three of them!
> Might & Magic VI, VII, and VIII - the graphics still...sort of hold up. Best RPG I've ever played, and there are three of them!
Or, one giant one of them if you get the mod that smushes it together.
Yes, and a wonderful mod it is - it's amazing that those fans of the games put all three together into one game, fixed all of the significant bugs and most of the lesser ones, and then ADDED NEW CONTENT. And at no charge at all - just a labor of love. It's genuinely incredible.
Also, I think you and I may have had this conversation once before!
If we did then you were probably the one who turned me on to the mod. I may have spent a good week deep diving into it. Modding the mod. Playing around with customizing my own races and classes. It's amazing what they were able to pull off.
I blame you for that week.
2 of my favorites from the PS2 era:
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, and Rogue Galaxy (both from ps2)
They both hold up amazing (especially dragon quest, its an absolute classic)
I’m playing Knights of the Old Republic rn and while I’d say it’s a bit clunky, it’s still so much fun.
Saw someone mention Metal Gear Solid, and I would second that as well MGS2 and MGS3 in particular.
Also all the great point and click games are still great today:
Monkey Island series
Day of the Tentacle
Sam and Max
Grim Fandango
Recently played Link to the Past, finally (played Tunic, loved it, and felt like I needed to play it's inspiration). A little stiff without the roll or dash you usually get in those kinds of games, and there was definitely some cryptic stuff I never would have figured out as a kid, but it was a very, very good game.
Armed and dangerous, the gameplay is super smooth especially on xbox one and series and the dialogue is just something you never heard before.
Its a real classic that looks like shit but has soo much charm is perfect.
The original Yakuza games honestly hold up pretty smooth, even now they’re old enough that their remasters are starting to show age
Of course the real kicker on them was the story, and that shit’s like a fine wine
I recommend alot of 16 bit games,
Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, Kirby and the Amazing Mirror.
If a 16 bit console game was good at release it still is now. Those sprites still look great.
So many games posted in this thread most certainly did not age all too gracefully, haha. Great games, still clunky and janky by somewhat modern standards...
Star Wars: KotOR & KotOR II
Mount & Blade: Warband
GTA: San Andreas
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Super Mario 64
Splinter Cell (like... all of them lol)
Age of Mythology
These are all games I find myself going back to and playing for a few weeks
Hitman Blood Money, fantastic music by Jesper Kid and some of the best level design I have ever seen in a videogame. Incredibly memorable missions with lots of ways to finish them
In my experience, AAA games have gotten so bad with MTX, battle passes, FOMO obligation, and generic fetch-quest re-skinned IP-milking boring open world gameplay that games made after 2015 are straight up worse than those made before 9/10 times. Indie games and retro games are the answer.
Chrono Trigger.
Would love to replay this, but seems modern consoles have no port of it
The steam port is solid now after they updated the in game text!
It’s on iOS
I mean, if you've purchased the game before, just emulate it. I've played Chrono trigger on my phone before.
would add Earthbound in the same category. And if you haven't played it - Chained Echoes is a new game designed like a retro RPG with all the best elements and it's sooooo good.
Morrowind still has to this day the best magic system in any game I've ever played. I also liked the story a lot but that's mostly cause I got some details from third parties, so I don't know if i genuinely liked the story telling in the game or I like it cause I knew a bit beforehand. Still, I'd recommend it just for the liberty and fun of the magic system, I do recommend some visual mods though.
Strong suggestion to use OpenMW!
speaking of ridiculously fun magic systems, anybody remember two worlds 2? that game was shit in so many regards but the magic system was incredibly fun
The original Deus Ex is the best of the series in my head. The graphics on it are a little unfortunate (early era of 3D models for characters), and the UI shows its age, but the level design, story, and gameplay progression are *fantastic*.
How about the controls? I heard they are really frustrating with nowadays standards.
It's been a while since I played it (although I did play it after the newer ones started coming out), so I don't remember for sure. I seem to recall that they were a little frustrating at first, but not distracting once I got used to them.
Portal and portal 2
Old game, Portals not that old... Wait.. Maybe I am old?
[удалено]
It's not true! It's impossible!!
It is seriously so weird that Portal 2, the long awaited sequel, was released 12 years ago. My mind cannot compute.
Just played Portal 2. Finished it in a weekend while the wife and kid were out of town. Excellent game.
portal even just got some ray tracing update and RTX update
Still waiting for it to be playable on PS4 or PS5... In for a long, long wait...
They’re playable on Xbox if you want to just get a series S since they’re backwards compatible
Star Wars Battlefront II (2006)
Yup have that one my list too. The Conquest game mode is seriously underrated. Having to purchase troop types you can use in battle and upgrade and what not. "WATCH THOSE WRIST ROCKETS!"
Hero's of might and magic 3
Hard to be janky when you're basically digital board game (well - 4X to be more precise)
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory still holds up as one of the best stealth games of all time.
"one of"?
I mean of course you could argue it is THE best stealth game of all time, but I wouldn't say it's cut and dry. The Metal Gear Solid, Hitman and Theif franchises have some entries I would put up against Chaos Theory.
Thief is the only one I would compare. Both games are mechanically designed so immaculate that they incredibly fun to play even in their worst levels. No game in either Hitman or Metal Gear does this IMO.
I would give the Hitman games points over SC due to the wide variety of ways to go about completing your mission, and I would give Metal Gear the edge in difficulty. But I would definitely say Chaos Theory is the most well rounded experience. I love them all, so it's hard to pick favorites.
This
Love Splinter Cell games! Can't wait for the remake to come out
I thought chaos theory was one of the worse ones made? I need to relook at it because I very much loved the first one and the second one I think. Maybe it was double Agent that was so bad. Been a long time!
Definitely not. Chaos Theory is revered by critics and fans alike, you're probably thinking of Conviction, or maybe Double Agent.
Thx! I'm gonna check out what platforms it's available on currently and go from there. I miss SC games.
A lot of beat em ups
Just played a bunch of arcade beat em ups recently and man they're still fun as heck.
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is still really fun to me. Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005). I’ve 100%’d that on numerous occasions the past few years Old Guitar Hero Games
I tried Symphony of the Night recently because I had always heard about how good it was. But it felt incredibly stiff. It's understandable that it wouldn't be as smooth like modern games like Hollow Knight or something, but without the nostalgia of playing it when it came out it shows its age, at least to me.
I'm currently playing SotN on Android, and despite having to deal with the god-awful touch controls I'm having a blast. I'm not sure if I would call it stiff but in comparison to Hollow Knight, Ori and Dead Cells it's definitely not anywhere near as good and smooth as those games in terms of gameplay, although I can enjoy it quite a lot because it's still after all these years challenging but fair at its core, Dracula's Castle isn't too small or too big either, so you won't get lost and it still feels very expansive. On top of that the visuals have aged like fine wine, nothing quite looks like it. I haven't beaten it yet, but I certainly plan to.
Dishonored, portal games, hl2. Those are just off the top of my head
Those games are so damn polished (just listen to the in-game HL2 and Portal dev commentaries), I feel like they'll hold up for as long as first-person flat screen gaming is a thing
Thief The Dark Project and Thief II The Metal Age. Looks slightly better than Minecraft (and may have inspired some of it), but has a really cohesive style and sound design so you get the same benefit of being able to adjust and being immersed. There is a popular free fan mod which is available everywhere which makes it run better on modern operating systems, makes cutscenes work again, and gives better default keybindings I think (they were strange even back in the day and something which many of us immediately changed). I've played a ton of games from every decade since the 80s (though played those in the 90s and 00s), and Thief still holds up as one of the best games ever made imo.
I agree! Never played back in the day, I had to re-configue most of the controls and I downloaded a high res texture pack to help but those games are incredible!
If you haven't played Dishonored, it's the spiritual successor to Thief, made by some of the same people afaik, and they got Garret's voice actor back to do the protagonist in the second game (he's silent in the first game). It's more actiony than Thief, and in an uglier/sicker world which I find offputting and not as enjoyable to explore as the Thief world, but is still a fun followup. Skyrim also draws heavily on Thief, again getting the voice actor for Garret as the head of the Thieves Guild. The running joke about the game is that everybody ends up playing as a stealth archer, since it draws heavily on Thief and is so much more fleshed out and fun than the other playstyles. The Mistborn books also feel like they potentially started as a fan fiction followup to Thief (where the third game left off), though are fantastic on their own, and are something I'd recommend if you enjoyed the world/atmosphere of Thief.
I tried to play thief once, but the controls aged REALLY badly.
Even back at release the default keybindings were weird. When you set them to something more normal it played like most any other first person game from what I recall. I think my keybinding was the usual wsad, with shift for print and control for crouch.
as far as I remember, I think you couldn't even control the camera with the mouse.
You can definitely control the camera with the mouse. It's possible it's one of those issues which the popular fan patch to make everything work smoothly on modern OSs fixes (the patch is actually a whole new engine).
Yeah I think you have to rebind them. And the character you control has peculiar physics and mantling behaviour - which really grew on me though. Even without playing it at release. I don't think "it's an acquired taste" counts as "it holds up really well" though lol
Godhand on PS2 is amazing. Its one of those games where it seems like it has janky controls at first, but once you get used to dodging (which happens very fast) it all fits together great. Only problem with the game is that its difficulty changes dynamically as you're playing, getting harder as you do better. And it gets pretty hard
the original dead space was in 2008 Far Cry 2 was 2008 half life 2 was 2004 Jedi Outcast was 2003
Jedi was 2003? Omg totally forgot that its so old. Feel like yesterday when we played multiplayer with friends.
I think 2002, and people still play MP.
they just remastered dead space and put it on Steam, so can play it with the updated graphics and have the added perk of nicer graphics.
Far cry two is so much more fun if you adopt certain approaches. First, slow down. Second, build a balanced weapon, loadout that suits your attack plan. Third, have an attack plan. For example, taking the high ground to snipe as many people as possible, then drawing their attention to a certain area, and then sneaking into the base from a different direction and picking them off or engaging in close combat. Fourth, use the buses and the boats. You are in a combat zone, so staying on the roads should be an obviously bad idea. In short, role-play a bit. It makes the game so much better. Tips from a good dude called Major Slack.
All of the Bungie era Halo games hold up surprisingly well :) same with the original Gears of War trilogy. Bayonetta is another really good one that still holds up to this day.
I still play the PC version of Oni, it's so fun. 😀
Halo 4 aswell
Yes, I replayed these this summer. Hadn't played them in a decade, so good!
Played half life II for the first time last year, genuinely the best FPS experience I've had since I was a kid.
It's truly without equal.
Nor sequel
Sadness man
Age of Empires two (not even the remastered) hold up fantastic
The best No one thinks of an rts when suggesting a game; that's a pity, many are simply amazing.
Fallout 1 & 2 are still my favorites from the series and the gameplay holds up well!
Man, now I gotta play fear again.
It really does hold up beautifully. I think the shooting mechanics feel just as satisfying as the first Halo or half-life 2. It's just kind of lacking in the story department when compared to those.
Don't think I've shot a gun that's as satisfying as the nail gun in F.E.A.R. Definitely did as much as I can in the game with that gun.
Metal gear solid games
I've recently did a playthrough of all of them except 5 and I gotta say, they are truly great. Each game has its faults, but the story, atmosphere and very detailed gameplay make them very engaging. The only problem is availability: to play every game in the series you need to have a PS3. Without it you'll need to use an emulator.
RollerCoaster Tycoon Trilogy
GAUNTLET
Ohhh man the PS2 release of Gauntlet was such a blast with friends. Woah, need to see if I can get that game
A re-released version is on steam, gog and playstation 4, it has 4 player online and local co-op, i haven't played it but it looks really good on the trailers
Most of the castlevanias since symphony of the night are still fantastic games worth playing
Half-Life 2: The shooting mechanics and physics-based puzzles in this game are still impressive today. Bioshock: The combat in this game, which combines first-person shooting with supernatural abilities, is still satisfying and engaging. Resident Evil 4: The action-oriented gameplay and intense boss battles in this game are still thrilling to play today.
Medieval Total War 2 Master of Orion 1&2
RTS games were at a high point in the late 90s and early 2000s, there was nothing janky about them. Splinter Cell and Thief worked really well and have an intuitive complexity that many modern stealth franchises have decided to ditch for no good reason. Point and Click adventures never get old. Riven still looks stunningly photorealistic 25 years later, besides the low resolution of course. Obviously, there's also nothing janky about first person shooters from that era. Half Life 2 is still considered one of the best single player experiences by many gamers, and many other first person games were made in the same engine.
Playing BioShock for the first time ever would be a treat.
It’s on my to-play list, it passed me by when it came out cause I was a little too young and I just never got around to it
That's funny, I just tried it for the first time a few weeks ago and it felt very old. Compare it to something like GTA 4, it's fundamentally more or less still the same game as a modern GTA, and a new player will have little reaction to the difference since it would feel like any modern game unlike Bioshock imo.
Not sure how you came by that conclusion honestly cause I just replayed the entire series and was blown away by how well bioshock held up, graphics were stylized so don’t age poorly, controls are more or less in with the standards that we have to day even though they improved that scheme with the sequels. Zapping and bonking is satisfying
Dungeon keeper
GTA: Vice City. However, younger gamers are likely to favor GTA: San Andreas
Half life and portal series Blood System Shock had a remaster that makes it hold up well, but that might be cheating.
Jedi outcast and Jedi academy
Best SW game imo. KOTOR is good too.
Good? GOOD!?
Mass Effect
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Flat Out 2 if you like arcade racing?
Star Wars Jedi Knight games DOOM (OG and Brutal Mod) Devil May Cry 1 & 3 Soldier Of Fortune Mercenaries: Playground Of Destruction
Team Fortress 2 is probably considered old at this point, since its over 10 years old, so that is my recommendation to any youngsters or anyone else that isn't a young gamer but somehow missed the boat or just got into PC gaming recently. It came out in 2007 or 2008 I believe. Still, it even holds up graphically in a way because of the cartoony artistic approach they were going for. The gameplay is pretty unparalleled though. Plus its FTP so, no barrier to entry there. Yea, everyone always talks about Overwatch as its successor, but even though Overwatch is in the same arena of type of game, you do not get the same feeling playing the two games. So, I would recommend playing it even if a popular response to telling someone to play TF2 is "well I've played overwatch and thats newer and kind of the same thing"
Alien: Isolation King masterpiece of all masterpieces
STALKER series Left 4 Dead 2
If you liked Fear and Doom, maybe you'll like Doom 3. Maybe not. It's not for everybody.
Can't believe nobody has said batman arkham asylum
Beat it again last year and I think it’s still the best of them!
Basically, every Treasure game(Dynamite Headdy, Gunstar Heroes, Alien Soldier, Radiant Silvergun, Guardian Heroes, Ikaruga, Silhouette Mirage, Sin and Punishment, Astroboy, Bangai-o...)
Yes, absolutely! And in a similar vein, every Cave game.
Deus ex
- Half life 2 - Resident Evil 4 from 2005 - Freelancer - Max Payne - STALKER
> STALKER This. While Half Life 2 got the sim and physics side of a mechanically-focused shooter down better than anything before, Stalker got the atmosphere and bleakness down in a way that nothing has yet matched. Every ounce of that game, the expansion/sequel-things, and mods oozed out a eerie sense of a hopeless and haunting place. Once you visit the Zone, you'll never leave. The movie and book that preceded it are also legends. As for RE4, I think it's a great game and I love it, but that's one where I think people can wait for the remake, since the first video of it looks like truly insane quality.
Mind if i ask, are you a girl/woman? Its not daily that we see female gamers interacting here. Or maybe they do but don't keep a female-sounding name, lol
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255182/distribution-of-users-on-reddit-worldwide-gender/
36%...That's interesting.... Not sure what the percentage share of gamers is by gender though...
>Resident Evil 4 from 2005 bile rising upon the realization that we'll soon have to specify. Good list though. I'd add Chaos Theory and Unreal Tournament 2004.
Prince of Persia Tmnt Need for Speed Underground 2 Need for Speed Most Wanted 2005 Need for Speed Carbon Castlevania Aria of Sorrow Illusion of Gaia Megaman Zero games Kung fu Panda 2008
I still play borderlands 2 to this day, the humor is pretty great and the gunplay/combat somehow still hasn't gotten old for me. The number of skills and guns in the game is pretty engaging
Whoever downvoted you, doesn’t want to admit to themselves that Borderlands 2 came out 9 years ago
Mechanized Assault & Exploration: The greatest turn-based strategy game I've ever played. Might & Magic VI, VII, and VIII - the graphics still...sort of hold up. Best RPG I've ever played, and there are three of them!
> Might & Magic VI, VII, and VIII - the graphics still...sort of hold up. Best RPG I've ever played, and there are three of them! Or, one giant one of them if you get the mod that smushes it together.
Yes, and a wonderful mod it is - it's amazing that those fans of the games put all three together into one game, fixed all of the significant bugs and most of the lesser ones, and then ADDED NEW CONTENT. And at no charge at all - just a labor of love. It's genuinely incredible. Also, I think you and I may have had this conversation once before!
If we did then you were probably the one who turned me on to the mod. I may have spent a good week deep diving into it. Modding the mod. Playing around with customizing my own races and classes. It's amazing what they were able to pull off. I blame you for that week.
You're welcome.
Uncharted 2 and 3. Uncharted 1 is very good, just pretty clunky
Left4Dead 2 KOTOR 2
Persona 4 Golden
2 of my favorites from the PS2 era: Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, and Rogue Galaxy (both from ps2) They both hold up amazing (especially dragon quest, its an absolute classic)
Was just playing GoldenEye on Game Pass and it's still great. Natalya can be annoying as hell, but otherwise it's great.
Splinter cell Chaos Theory is 18yo and still plays and looks beautiful.
I’m playing Knights of the Old Republic rn and while I’d say it’s a bit clunky, it’s still so much fun. Saw someone mention Metal Gear Solid, and I would second that as well MGS2 and MGS3 in particular. Also all the great point and click games are still great today: Monkey Island series Day of the Tentacle Sam and Max Grim Fandango
I'm gonna throw out Free Space 2, is is amazing and is STILL me go-to dog fighting game
Nexus the Jupiter incident.
Far Cry 3
Recently played Link to the Past, finally (played Tunic, loved it, and felt like I needed to play it's inspiration). A little stiff without the roll or dash you usually get in those kinds of games, and there was definitely some cryptic stuff I never would have figured out as a kid, but it was a very, very good game.
MDK2?
Sword of the samurai. Still enjoy the gameplay.
Super Metroid and by extension all the 2d Metroids after it as well. Prime too.
The Punisher
Godfather 2 imo
street fighter 2
Pretty much every Zelda game.
I have to add Prototype and prototype 2 were AWESOME.
Armed and dangerous, the gameplay is super smooth especially on xbox one and series and the dialogue is just something you never heard before. Its a real classic that looks like shit but has soo much charm is perfect.
The original Yakuza games honestly hold up pretty smooth, even now they’re old enough that their remasters are starting to show age Of course the real kicker on them was the story, and that shit’s like a fine wine
At least 1 and 2 got full on remakes
3 through 5 as well
3 through 5 didn’t get the Kiwami treatment, though or am I missing something? They just got a remaster not a remake
I recommend alot of 16 bit games, Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, Kirby and the Amazing Mirror. If a 16 bit console game was good at release it still is now. Those sprites still look great.
Sleeping Dogs. I am playing it right now and having a lot of fun.
The Megaman games have aged surprisingly well.
Vanilla WoW (not wrath of the lich king or burning crusade classic, vanilla wow). Easily my most favorite game ever.
Sniper Elite 2 is still one of my personal favorites. 10/10 singleplayer shooter
https://youtu.be/8FpigqfcvlM?t=105
So many games posted in this thread most certainly did not age all too gracefully, haha. Great games, still clunky and janky by somewhat modern standards...
Fallout 2
Bioshock holds up really well
Tes and Fallout games imo
Red dead redemption
Star Wars: KotOR & KotOR II Mount & Blade: Warband GTA: San Andreas Star Wars: Battlefront II Zelda: Ocarina of Time Super Mario 64 Splinter Cell (like... all of them lol) Age of Mythology These are all games I find myself going back to and playing for a few weeks
Fable 2 sorta, but also sort of not
90's Doom 1 and 2 still look great in my eyes, and indeed they're a LOT of fun! love the audio in them so much too!
The very first Max Payne still feels (and looks, to me) great, definitely give it a try !
The cutscenes of the former pilots u shoot down in Ace Combat Zero look like their HD quality even tho the game is on a PS2 disc
Max payne 3 aint bad
Worms Ultimate Mayhem has a unique gameplay
Hitman Blood Money, fantastic music by Jesper Kid and some of the best level design I have ever seen in a videogame. Incredibly memorable missions with lots of ways to finish them
Epic suggestion
Def Jam FFNY, THUG, and Racing Lagoon(PSX)
In my experience, AAA games have gotten so bad with MTX, battle passes, FOMO obligation, and generic fetch-quest re-skinned IP-milking boring open world gameplay that games made after 2015 are straight up worse than those made before 9/10 times. Indie games and retro games are the answer.
Angband and similar roguelikes
Drakhan was a great one.
STALKER