Transport Tycoon Deluxe (which lives on as the much improved OpenTTD.)
Master of Orion 2
Star Wars Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast
Home Alone (1991) - Special mention as my first computer game. Still have the box…
Age of Empires II (revived, remastered, and still receiving expansions and development)
JKII - Outcast!
So many character skins.
This had to be the precursor for all the fortnite additions.
I remember downloading a Yoda skin and running up to people as a 9’ yoda and doing the “make-out” action just to mess with them.
Descent and Descent II
Not so sure about D3 but that was okay too I guess.
Still playing OpenTTD and Dwarf Fortress.
Red Alert, Half-Life, Arcanum, EverQuest, Gex, GoldenEye 007, Sam ‘n’ Max, Donky Kong Country (all 3), Final Fantasy 7 and 8.
Also liked a lot of HL mods like CS and DoD. Oh, and that cool SRC one where you play as aliens vs humans and evolve…
Edit: Tribes. And C&C.Generals…and Nox.
Are you able to get Arcanum to run on Windows 10+ or Linux? My nostalgia sense wants to do another playthrough or 10 but every time I try it just … won’t work.
I got it on Steam if that helps. There usually isn’t comparability issues released on there and anything from XP to 11 seems fine. No mention of Linux.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/500810/Arcanum_Of_Steamworks_and_Magick_Obscura/
I have it on Steam as well but I just cannot get it to load.
Not sure. I had no issues on 11. If it’s happening in Linux and Win,.I’m guessing it more hardware related. Try disconnecting any additional monitors, installing to another disk, that kinda stuff. I was going to suggest making a new Win profile and signing into that—I’ve had that fix launching old games—but dunno if that’ll help.
Star Control I and II
Medieval II Total War (except that diplomacy was a joke)
Civ III was great, but Alpha Centauri may have been the best 4x game ever.
What grinds my gears about Medieval II is how every general gets a ton of battle dread pretty much no matter what
Monkey Island 1-3 and System Shock 2. And Might and Magic 4+5. I play these once every two years.
And a modern classic-to-be: Shadow Warrior 2. I play this once per year (New game +) and will never stop. I have reached level 240 just today.
ut 2004, red alert, starcraft broodwar (use map settings online was awesome), americas army, halo custom edition (the huge maps with longswords and pelicans were fucking amazing), civ III, star wars empire at war, kotor II knights of the old republic (mods for this are cool)
Civilization (1/2/3 all sort of blend together for me), Sid Meier’s Pirates!, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, Magic Carpet, Half-Life, Hexen, Team Fortress/Quake, Duke Nukem3D, Warcraft/Starcraft, Diablo, C&C, and so many others that remind of being at home on my Dad’s then-cutting edge computer, before my Dad died, before I graduated school and had my own kids, before my parent’s divorced, before everything got worse than it was, life was good just hanging out and playing games. The games may be “better” now, but I’d give anything to go back to the 90s/00s all over again.
Dune 2 is a classic (one of the first) rts that I still love to play today.
The original is super tedious so now I play an updated version with some more features
See also https://www.openra.net/about/
Dune 2000 was a (mostly?) remake of Dune II.
Return to castle wolfenstein enemy territory
Dig Dug, Battlezone (the wireframe “3d” tank game), and C&C Red Alert 2. Those 3 will always live in my head rent-free, and they’re more than welcome to.
Mafia.
GTA: 3, Vice City, San Andreas.
Rig N Roll 2.
Cultures 2.
Industry giant 2.Carmageddon, worms, quake 3, heroes 3, doom 1, prince of Persia, wolf 3d, claw, hitman 1, max Payne, gta2
Counter-strike 1.6. That game meant the world to me. I remember all the fun mods like surfing, knife, kz (climbing), zombie survival, grenades only, knife with janky ass cars.
I know certain modes can be found now too in games like roblox. My little sister plays roblox and plays a ton of the climbing ones (i think its called obby or something). But i miss the counter strike gameplay. I think my favorite was bunnyhop hide and seek. I hosted a server and it got pretty popular. We all build fun levels together and played all day. I miss these old dedicated server games with fun mods 😔.
Haven’t seen it mentioned yet but,
Scorched Earth.
It’s the original Worms, tons of fun.