Creole Ned
02-06-2006, 01:33 PM
Which old game are you most likely to re-install?
Looking over my collection, when the urge comes to dust off a classic of yesteryear, I find myself re-installing Unreal (1998) for the umpteeth time. I've only actually played the game completely from beginning to end once but have revisited it many times since it went onto the hard drive of my trusty Pentium II way back when.
Unreal is paced differently than many of the shooters that came out around the same time and emphasized exploration and atmosphere as much as the shooting. Too bad about the plot falling off a cliff halfway through. :P
At the time it was hailed as one of the best-looking games ever. Today, if you use the high-res textures, it still looks surprisingly sharp, if low-poly. The skies are still as pretty as ever and the opening castle flyby continues to mesmerize. I think one of the reasons I re-install it is I secretly want to play an adventure game but without spending hours working on obscure puzzles. Unreal gives me the pretty without the thinking.
Runners-up would be Jedi Knight (although it's pretty hard on the eyes now) and Quake 2. For JK it's because the game was just damn fun to play. With Q2 it's more to evoke the memories of playing mods like Jailbreak and ChaosDM.
I occasionally re-install the original Tribes, too, but loading that up now just makes me sad at how the whole series is basically dead. Such great potential...
Looking over my collection, when the urge comes to dust off a classic of yesteryear, I find myself re-installing Unreal (1998) for the umpteeth time. I've only actually played the game completely from beginning to end once but have revisited it many times since it went onto the hard drive of my trusty Pentium II way back when.
Unreal is paced differently than many of the shooters that came out around the same time and emphasized exploration and atmosphere as much as the shooting. Too bad about the plot falling off a cliff halfway through. :P
At the time it was hailed as one of the best-looking games ever. Today, if you use the high-res textures, it still looks surprisingly sharp, if low-poly. The skies are still as pretty as ever and the opening castle flyby continues to mesmerize. I think one of the reasons I re-install it is I secretly want to play an adventure game but without spending hours working on obscure puzzles. Unreal gives me the pretty without the thinking.
Runners-up would be Jedi Knight (although it's pretty hard on the eyes now) and Quake 2. For JK it's because the game was just damn fun to play. With Q2 it's more to evoke the memories of playing mods like Jailbreak and ChaosDM.
I occasionally re-install the original Tribes, too, but loading that up now just makes me sad at how the whole series is basically dead. Such great potential...