Many of the older games suffer from bad graphics but the game play still holds up. I played OpenRA with some friends at a good old fashioned LAN party when we all didn't have computers that could play the latest games or budget issues to purchase the latest games. We set up in different rooms to form teams and it was super fun. A side benefit is that nobody had all the maps, hints and cheats memorized so we were on equal footing.
I personally think Yuri’s Revenge brought about a bit too much mechanical cheese, and prefer vanilla RA2 - but I won’t begrudge a fellow fan their preferences!
Ah, decoding the morse code at the back of the counterstrike manual to find the instructions for unlocking the secret ant missions. I think it involved clicking on the speaker looking thing in the top right of the menu while pressing shift
My now over 20 years old self built rig still runs. It's a time capsule, running winxp with photoshop 7. It has Winamp and all my old music. And it has games like red alert 2 and generals zero hour.
Hell, yeah! Anyone willing to lug their Bigtower+CRT over? I got heaps of thin ethernet (you know? the one with the BNC connectors and Terminators) ready to party.
I play AoE these days because it has - relatively speaking - more real units. I do wish there was an AoE or C&C type game that used just realistic troops and vehicles and such. Seems like we have the computing power these days for a much larger-scale area of battle where you could command troops and vehicles over a small city sized map. Still RTS with fog of war and such… Maybe better simulated behaviours for the troops. But command your groups of military to go take out targets or attack positions and take terrain and such...
Seems like it'd be awesome, but nobody has done it.
Basically it was just a dotted line around your text. But in German it was called something like "ant platoon / queue" or such. I think this function existed between Word2000 und Word2007 if I Google correctly.
i appreciate the convenience of launchers taking care of installation and setup without hassle in the background, but i do miss when installers hyped the game sometimes. seeing warheads being readied, hearing marching steps while the game was installing was a pretty cool way to build anticipation. it helped that the game was awesome, of course.
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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 195d
I heard my Nokia getting a text message through the distortion in the speakers by just looking at this photo
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 195d
Dun dudun dun dudun dun dudun duuuuuuuuuuun.
r0ertel@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 195d
https://www.openra.net/
You're welcome.
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 195d
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 195d
Amazing
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 194d
affirmative
khannie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
Acknowledged
manigordo@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 194d
Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.
r0ertel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
Many of the older games suffer from bad graphics but the game play still holds up. I played OpenRA with some friends at a good old fashioned LAN party when we all didn't have computers that could play the latest games or budget issues to purchase the latest games. We set up in different rooms to form teams and it was super fun. A side benefit is that nobody had all the maps, hints and cheats memorized so we were on equal footing.
manigordo@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 194d
Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 195d
Hell March intensifies
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 195d
"Gentlemen... it is a nuclear device." "T-T-Time-Time is running out."
saimen@feddit.org · 3 pts · 194d
dadadaaa dadadaaa dadadadadadadaaaa
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 195d
Fight! Win! Prevail!
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 195d
Westwood studios was a treasure
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 195d
Anyone else remember their Blade Runnder game?
Birch@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 194d
Dairy and dairy products are class 2 contraband
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com · 1 pts · 194d
While everyone was in Tristram, I was spending my teenage nights playing NOX
Cactusfighter@lemmy.org · 22 pts · 195d
RA and RA2 were so awesome.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 194d
https://openra.net/
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 194d
ACKHnowledged.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
It's like they were doing their best Sean Connery impressions
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 194d
Yuri's Revenge with the Devastator mod.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 194d
I personally think Yuri’s Revenge brought about a bit too much mechanical cheese, and prefer vanilla RA2 - but I won’t begrudge a fellow fan their preferences!
o7
nebthron@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 195d
https://youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 195d
I still hope theres copies of the takes that didnt make it if thats the best one
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 195d
Can we play Age of Empires after this?
Cheesus@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 195d
Age of Empires Il still has a very active scene with new content all the time. In fact there's a new expansion dropping this week!
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 194d
Is AOE 2 the one where you could use a cheat code to spawn in a blue sportscar with a machine gun on the front?
I seem to half-remember taking a few of those into France a few times lol.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 5 pts · 194d
It is. But there was a black sportscar in AoE 1, as well. And a laser gun warrior and a similar looking dude shooting miniature nuclear missiles.
khannie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
Whaaaat?
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 194d
How do you turn this on
khannie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
Wololo
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 194d
Don't point that thing at me!
otacon239@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 195d
It’s weird this picture looks like it shouldn’t be this high resolution.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 195d
It's new.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 195d
Oh, not denying its legitimacy. Just not used to such a high quality picture of such an old machine.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 8 pts · 195d
dune is the way.
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 195d
Dune 2? That was my jam.
Dune 1, iirc, was more of a story based game.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 195d
I think it was 2. ordo got assasins from palace, atreides got fremen, and harkonen got nukes. you would think nukes would be op but oh man the fremen.
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 195d
Back in the day before you could group select units.
Birch@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 194d
Ah, decoding the morse code at the back of the counterstrike manual to find the instructions for unlocking the secret ant missions. I think it involved clicking on the speaker looking thing in the top right of the menu while pressing shift
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 194d
My now over 20 years old self built rig still runs. It's a time capsule, running winxp with photoshop 7. It has Winamp and all my old music. And it has games like red alert 2 and generals zero hour.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 194d
Awesome! Love your period hardware. I have a complete XP setup, but I would love a 95/98 setup. No more room.
I did install 86Box last week, though! And installed 98SE. I was also partying like it's 1996 with Microsoft Hellbender!
jqubed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 195d
!retrogaming@lemmy.world
JamieDub86@piefed.social · 5 pts · 195d
Take me back.
Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 195d
/me pops in some Master of Orion 2
Hell, yeah! Anyone willing to lug their Bigtower+CRT over? I got heaps of thin ethernet (you know? the one with the BNC connectors and Terminators) ready to party.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 195d
I play AoE these days because it has - relatively speaking - more real units. I do wish there was an AoE or C&C type game that used just realistic troops and vehicles and such. Seems like we have the computing power these days for a much larger-scale area of battle where you could command troops and vehicles over a small city sized map. Still RTS with fog of war and such… Maybe better simulated behaviours for the troops. But command your groups of military to go take out targets or attack positions and take terrain and such...
Seems like it'd be awesome, but nobody has done it.
kossa@feddit.org · 2 pts · 194d
There's Company of Heroes with realistic units and "order based" real-time combat, alas, it is not very large scale.
Closest I remember to your description is another very old game: Sid Meier's Gettysburg. But that was limited by the possibilities of its time.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
Worth checking out, though, thank you1 <3
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 195d
My childhood!
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 194d
Gonna go fire up Wing Commander 2.
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 195d
It's the yeeooww pew de pew pew pew pew ... kachunk ... chop chop chop fwosh KAPOW that I'm reminded of.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
Still have mine in a shoebox somewhere
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 194d
Wasn't there a thing where if you clicked on the speaker in the top right corner you could play against ants or something
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev · 3 pts · 194d
That was part of the counterstrike expansion.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
There was a function in WORD, where ants could walk around your text...
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 194d
Say what, now? Like Microsoft Word?
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
Basically it was just a dotted line around your text. But in German it was called something like "ant platoon / queue" or such. I think this function existed between Word2000 und Word2007 if I Google correctly.
pyre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
i appreciate the convenience of launchers taking care of installation and setup without hassle in the background, but i do miss when installers hyped the game sometimes. seeing warheads being readied, hearing marching steps while the game was installing was a pretty cool way to build anticipation. it helped that the game was awesome, of course.
b3an@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
“BOOM BABY!” Tanya Cackles
inkzombie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 195d
Oh god I just remember my soldiers getting turned into mutant worm things
Photonic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 195d
Uhhh I think that was a different game
yggstyle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
Right company. Less red alert.
Cactusfighter@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 195d
100% lol
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
Nah dude, Daggerfall. Daggerfall Unity is the best of both modern and old school, especially with the DREAM mod.