Modded skyrim is dangerous
Escape Velocity
Fnv
Nethack.
I believe the Pac Man cartridge for my NES is probably the oldest video game I still pick up regularly.
PMD Rescue Team
Deus Ex 1. Still holds up after all these years and there are plenty of mods to keep things interesting.
osu!. Despite being made in 2007, it still holds up as a good rhythm game.
Currently replaying A Link to the Past (1991). It’s not even that old.
Highly recommend checking out the Link to the Past Randomizer if you haven’t. It shuffles all the chest contents while ensuring you can complete the game. It’s different each time and even gives you a cheat sheet if you get stuck.
Thank you for the recommendation. This is great. Here’s what I got on a quick first try lol
Yep, that’s the experience! 😂
1991 was only like 20 years ago. Right?
1991 was 34 years ago according to my birth certificate, so no :(
You are correct
I wonder if Lemmy is all Gen X
This was mine, my most replayed game of all time.
Thats only an 8 year old game man. I think they meant something old like SpaceWar!
For a time it was Solitaire, but these days it’s 2048.
If you haven’t played Threes!, do yourself a favor and try it. 2048 is a soulless clone.
Currently playing Hot Wheels TURBO Racing (1999) on the N64 (Analogue 3d). It’s a good little arcade racer and has been fun to hop back into it.
I go back to play some nethack pretty regularly.
I’m not alone!
Never ascended once. Somewhere in the late midgame the inventory juggling becomes just too complicated and it feels like the last few turns of Civilization 4.
Tried fiqhack but it flakes on me a lot, can’t figure the reason, won’t find assets et c. I do dynahack now but it changes too much for my taste, and it doesn’t help the inventory problem when you have hundreds of items and try to make sense of it all.
And yet 30 years on something about it still tickles me pickle.
I sometimes play “Beneath Apple Manor” (1978) and similar-era games via Apple emulator. Believe it or not, it’s a “roguelike” that actually predated Epyx’ Rogue (1980) and NetHack (1987).
But I’m also thankful that Epyx’ Rogue happened to become used for the overall genre name. “BeneathAppleManorLike” is just too much of a mouthful!
Oh my god that game art! <3 <3 <3
I don’t know what it was about Apple II games, they just had an other-worldly quality to them.
Hell yes!! And you can play it on the nethack site through terminal. So awesome. And watch others play it too
Angband for me, high five my fellow older roguelike enjoyer
Is it worth getting into it now? Without rose tinted glasses I mean. Or are there better alternatives? (Shattered Pixel Dungeon for example). I have tried Shattered Pixel but found it too nonsensical, having to learn tons of mechanics that don’t seem to make sense other than trial and error and huge RNG (which I am not a fan of).
Yes. Its still awesome. And I never got to play it in the heyday.
Its just an engaging game for me.
To be fair trial and error and RNG are just par for the course with classic roguelikes, but learning how to manage all that is part of the appeal. Nethack and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup are probably the two best-supported old classic roguelikes out there. Honorable mentions for Dwarf Fortress, which basically abandoned its roguelike mode in favor of a fortress simulator, and UnReal world, which is a weird outdoor primitive survival game that’s a testament to one man’s obsession.
There are also more modern offerings like Tales of Maj’Eyal, Caves of QUD, and Dungeons of Dredmor that are fully faithful roguelikes with either more modern graphics or QOL upgrades.
Does OpenTTD count?
Playing regularly? Minecraft.
There are a few games I revisit as my kid grows up and gets to experience them for the first time, but Minecraft keeps coming back.
That one hits close.
I started Minecraft because my kid talked me into it. I bought him the last Alpha version, then bought myself the first Beta so I could play with him. At the time it just felt like blocks and wandering around, but it stuck.
Now I play with my grandsons.
Last weekend was my oldest grandson’s eleventh birthday. Along with a Steam gift card and probably some Robux, all he really wanted was to spend the day playing Minecraft with his grandpa. So that is what we did.
Not my oldest game, but definitely the one I play most consistently. At least once a week.
I generally play at least one of the Ultima games every year, mostly the late 80s and early 90s ones.
I play retro games I missed growing up so I’ll soon be starting final fantasy 6
Currently playing FFVI myself. It’s a treat.
Bit easier than other Final Fantasy games, I’m finding… at least in the early game, Edgar and Sabin are ass-blasting everything in the game with very little resistance, those boys probably don’t even need the rest of the Returners squad. I know that will probably change later but the duo are definitely the MVPs of act 1.
I’m also of mixed opinion about the ability to teach every party remember every spell in the game. It’s obviously not the best idea, that I can’t stop myself from doing. Does Edgar or Gau need to know how to cast Bio or Slow or Rasp? No, not at all, and they’re probably better served leveling up with magicite that gives them useful stats. Will they learn those spells? You betcha.
I’ll be playing this version, no idea how it will compare to the original
Best old school one. You’re in for a treat
…old school. mf’er I still play III (us version 3)
That’s the same one. 6 is US 3.
ah. damn it I was being pretentious
