For serious though some real bangers out there like Power Of Chaos, Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper, Battlefield 1942 (!) and BF Vietnam (!).
*! these were triple-a games now totally free to play with fan dedicated private servers.
I got into Elder Scrolls via Oblivion (2006) and spent untold hours in Skyrim. A few weeks ago, I finally got into trying out Morrowind (2002) for the first time ever, with mods expanding into the whole province of Morrowind among others, and its quickly shaping up to be my best experience in Elder Scrolls. The worldbuilding depth and characterization of opposing interests + imagination to paper over the cracks makes Morrowind so much more engaging than even past attempts at modded Skyrim with all my wishlist mods
Personally as a hobbyist developer, I’m find at TON of inspiration from 2002-2015 era gaming and so many of these games can be necromanced through some darkened computer rituals and played. I think that era was the last breath of games as “interactive software experiences” rather than “software as a service” we have today. With a little digging you can find a ton of good games from that era that can be hacked into running pretty damn well on your machine.
Very succinct way to put it and captures my feelings exactly!
What? None of those games are Master Of Orion.
It’s a fun gamble to see what games you can get working again and if they’re actually decent. And then there are the games that have weirdly strong community support, like Akklaim’s Revolt from back in the day. There’s a great community supported version where they still hold races and tournaments
I haven’t paid for a game in years and I’ve never been happier. I have 0 interest in random multiplayer lobbies that are filled with capital G Gamers
and it feels like modern triple A titles tack on any single player as an afterthought.I haven’t paid for a game in years and I’ve never been happier.
Big Same.
Has anyone out there made a dedicated downloader/launcher for abandonware? I bet something like that to get all of the private servers, widescreen hacks, and so on in one convenient place would be cool as hell.
Lutris does some of this: You can submit your configurations and WINE setups for games to make installing them easier for others.
That sounds like a fantastic idea. Too bad it couldn’t be put out there as like a bounty or something for coders.
playing skate 3 rn on emulated ps3, what a blast.
I’ll play Baldur‘s Gate 3 when it’s released as abandonware
Hocus Pocus is a good one to check out, 4 games in the series, all great
damn… that game came out when i was a kid
The first one was in a big box of pc games I got as a kid in the late 90’s, commander keen was another I remember.
I remember battlefield Vietnam being really fun, but i didn’t understand computer specs and settings so when it came out I played it at a very choppy framerate
I remember battlefield Vietnam being really fun
I played the hell out of the single player in high school when I had a phase where I was obsessed with the war (from the usa side, sadly). Anyway I really want to try out the multiplayer since the ai is kind of dog water and I never got to play against actual people.
I remember when the singleplayer in Battlefield games was just the multiplayer maps with bots, instead of the shitty Hollywood-esque “America, fuck yeah!” style campaigns they began to add since Bad Company just to compete with Call of Duty.
I have some fun memories playing the shit out of the Desert Combat mod for BF1942 on El Alamein 24/7 servers.
began to add since Bad Company just to compete with Call of Duty.
While it’s certainly not Wag the Dog, the Bad Company campaigns were at least kind of humorous in their approach to making fun of modern military shooter tropes (talking about “Spec Ops douchebags with heartbeat monitors on their guns”), and also portrayed the US military utilising expendable cannon fodder while largely losing a war with Russia that started for reasons most of the troops don’t understand. Also I connect with the character of Private Terrence Sweetwater on a personal level due to him spending both games constantly correcting people that the Russian Federation is no longer Communist.
I remember when the singleplayer in Battlefield games was just the multiplayer maps with bots
It’s just a shame the bots were so crappy but then again this is 2001 through 05 ish.
I still play sims 2 btw, back when it was just the community trying to keep the game up to date.
I still play sims 2 btw
Someone told me yesterday that the sims 2 runs best in wine on linux and that’s wild.
GTA IV runs best on Linux under proton as well
Thats true. Linux barely gives any “pink soup” and lets you run with a billion gb of mods. A lot of hardcore fans did switch to linux because of that.
What does “pink soup” mean in this context?
i wish someone out there had SimCopter… goddamn that game was fun
I recently got back into SimCity 3000 once more
Gaming attained perfection in 1998.
December 1998, to be precise.
This is so true, this was the peak!
I would kill for a populated Wolfenstein Enemy Territory community. I loved that game so much even though I was absolute trash. My first real “free to play” game, before that term caught on. I play a lot of really old games. I recently replayed all the old Indiana Jones point and click games, some of them are really good!
I would kill for a populated Wolfenstein Enemy Territory community.
Could try discord, might be players there. And can I add it sucks that discord is like the only way now to find people playing these old games? Garbage platform. Give me traditional forums please.
