Ranking the best vintage video games (25 years or older)

Play Black Mesa, you deserve it. Not only it's Half-Life like you've never seen it, but there's also a completed Xen campaign.

Yeah, this is the make us feel old thread.

We’re only a couple months from the launch lineup for the ps2 qualifying here.

PS1's rpg library is nothing to scoff at, either. Square's golden years (3 mainline final fantasy, tactics, Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve and more), Suikoden, Persona, Breath of Fire 3, Valkyrie Profile.

They made a freaking MOVIE to promote it!

And that stupid glove.

YES. It's absolutely criminal that people always show the first one off and out it on a pedestal.

Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost.

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I would argue Quake or Street Fighter 2 holds that distinction, but it's close.

Use an alt account, but this would technically count as vote manipulation.

I mean... if there's no yeti trying to eat me it just won't feel the same...

There's also a really nice skiing game called 'skiing' (no joke) by featherweight games. The ads aren't too bad, and I think they did a really good job of capturing the rhythmic back and forth of slaloming.

I think it's still fun today. Maybe only for a few minutes, but it never fails to entertain me.

The only sequel was Perfect Dark.

On the SNES, or counting only mainline titles, yes. Overall, tactics is the best FF

I prefer the first game as you're exploring a wild and hostile world while trying your best to survive and discover what's actually going on. You have no idea why assassins keep coming for you, what's going on with the iron crisis, or how it could possibly relate to you...but for some reason, you are tangled in a messy web of intrigue, politics, and danger.

You're right...you are SO underpowered and helpless in the first game. Getting to any town is such a relief. But this makes adventuring so very worth it and so rewarding. I feel like the first game is brutally realistic, whereas the second is more fantastical. I love the cool gear and interactions of BG2, but the first one just feels so urgent and pressing to me.

The EE versions really changed the game...so many improvements without needing mods. However, the modding community is amazing as well. NPC banter packs, item packs, new quests, etc...there are so many options to modernize the game!

I think Q2 largely started the mass multiplayer FPS gaming culture. Multiplayer was trivial to setup over LAN unlike other games at the time. It quickly exploded in LAN parties and clubs. Q3 continued in that vein and was also great.

I think Q2 had the best mods and TCs though

Its really about whether GS are better than Yellow, GS are definitely better than RB. Anyone saying RB is better than any of the other GB ones is saying it for nostalgia.

The Game Boy was instrumental in game history and this was one of the first and most played games on the system.

I'd say the bigger problem is the bugged randomizer. Doesn't deal pieces evenly.

I played it again last year. Still fun!

I usually play the GOG version on Windows 10 with dxwnd and these settings:

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Yogho Yogho

rise up ✊

An incredible port, plays amazing on mouse and keyboard.

I both agree and disagree.

I agree that RE1 is the best RE, because it is also the only Survival Horror game in the RE series. When RE2 was in development, Capcom changed it to an Action series. By the developers own words, they wanted to mimic "Hollywood Action movies." They did a good job, but Action is exactly opposite of the genre wheel from Survival Horror. Survival Horror depends on a de-emphasis of action and combat, while Action games heavily emphasize action and combat.

I disagree that Capcom needs to remake RE1 again. The RE remake from 2002, which later became RE HD, is perfect. It does not need Capcom further altering the game to take away the qualities that keep it a Survival Horror game. Konami did this to Silent Hill 2 and that still has me pissed.

Additionally, RE1 is vastly more influential to video gaming as a whole than RE2, spawning a big Survival Horror genre boom that did not end until RE4 came out.

Apparently the original team behind Star Control is making a direct sequel to II, since SC 3 was done by a different studio and did not follow the storyline that the creators had in mind.

And it's supposed to be released this year. They are calling it "Free Stars: Children of Infinity", since they don't own the rights to the Star Control name. But they do own all the rights to the content in SC 1and SC 2, so this could be fun!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Stars:_Children_of_Infinity

I did like SC 3 as well, but it wasn't nearly as great as SC 2. I can barely remember the main storyline.

Yeah it was a year of mad Half-Life deathmatch and then we hopped in bulk onto CS beta 4.

If I ever get rich it's on my must buy list

I liked that I didn't have to worry about mana/magic points, and if you didn't want to draw you could convert items into magic, or cards into items into magic, enemies into cards into items into magic....

The weapons in general I chalk up to fantasy universe with flying school buildings, and the story could absolutely be more fleshed out, but it doesn't revolve around gun sword, that's just another weapon in the messed up world

Its an example. If you think a game should be higher or lower in ranking, then upvote or downvote it. If you don't see a game on the list that you think should be on the list then create a top level reply with the name and system.

Find the site where the guy debugged it, then he said it was an OK game. Not great but on par with most Atari games of the time.