After just reading a post about how good games these days are being determined by hows great they look in the graphics department, I just wanted to drop a nostalgic post about why a good game is all down to game play, immersion, atmostphere and old school innovation. For example, to start us off. Pioneer games such as Command and Conquer for the RTS were amazing and revolutionary due to the fact that the sole focus off the game was good old fashion strategy gameplay dynamics. Riflemen >Rocketmen, Humvee >Soldiers, Tanks >Humvee etc. Make no mistake, when C&C came out it was a notch above the rest in terms of graphics ( i mean you could actually see the pixelated soldiers dropping to the floor to do push ups when they were idle! The maps were diverse, the campaign & story line were unparelleled and totally engaging and it had great Cinematics.

More Old School Pc Games images. Nov 06, 2014 These rockingly retro PC games weren't around doing the 8-bit Nintendo era, though you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

The purpose of this post is too just discuss the merits of the old greats of the PC gaming era - Im interested to see peoples thoughts on the topic and what they think were great old school games and what made these games stand out amoung the multitude. Does anyone remember Reunion or Masters of Orien - what about StarControl or Privateer 2. Man I miss the old days!

Feel free to reminisce. That was a fun game, but suffered a major flaw, it was one of the last games that required you to drop to DOS to play it and as a result a lot of people never gave it a chance due to the complexity required to get it running. Once you did get it going, it was great up until the second to last plot battle which was for all intents and purposes, impossible. I never beat the game and my game disks were destroyed in a move.

Deus Ex, now there is a game that is truly peerless. That is everything FPSs should have always been and yet there has never been another game since or before that measured up to it. University Of Pittsburgh Summer Programs For High School Students there.

Warkey 1.24. Noone Lives Forever and System Shock 2 were similar in some ways but ultimately took their own paths. Troy Stetina Ebooks more. Both were great games but nothing lived up to Deus Ex. Master of Orion and MOO2.

Oh the hours I lost playing these games. Its a shame they never made a Master of Orion 3. No matter what anyone says no true sequel was ever made for those legends of gaming. Elite, Elite 2, Elite 2 plus, and Elite 2 Frontier. This series of games were the definition of immersive when I was young.

Exploring, trading, mining, bounty hunting, etc. You picked what you did. It was in many ways the true beginning of the sandbox style game.

I used to have these 2 old small games that just owned at the time. The first was cannon fodder which had immense replayability and the second was called Stronghold ( before the firefly series came out ) which was an awesome castle building and community/war managing game. Shogun Warrior and Duke Nukem 3D took hours of my life away, and Im glad for it. They had true atmosphere.

In terms of time syncs I remember surrendering my youth to the likes of Fallout1, Fallout2 and Tactics ( which was a truly great next move in the series but I am aware that it did dissapoint some people - i think i might have played tactics the most incidentally ). The post apocalyptic adult atmosphere in the series was IMHO truly unparalled. Loved a close range AK47 to an enemy - they would literally split apart in the most creative ways.