Replaying the classics: Do you ever rip through an old favorite?

The Game Room
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Because of the Steam summer sale, I’ve been working my way through the old Castle Wolfenstein’s, and am now on Spear of Destiny, just shooting the shiite out of some Nazi sprites - it’s amazing how easy it is, just open the door, shoot once, stand back and let the guards come to their death. Your only worry is running out of bullets at the higher levels.

I’ve also installed (but haven’t played) X-Com and am looking forward to that game next - it has been well over 10 years since I looked at X-Com, I’m sure I’ve forgotten most of it.

And I never really cared for the gameplay changes in Civ 3 and later, so Civ 2 is what I load up when I want to build an empire that will stand the test of time.

I don’t have a computer powerful enough to play many of the games released in the past few years (including Civ 5), but that’s OK… there’s a huge backlog of games that can keep me busy until I get a new computer in a few years. I mean… I’ve never played Planescape: Torment. :o

So what old-school games do you still play? Ever go through a game years later surprised with how damned easy it was? Or hard?

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Thanks to the good folks at Good Old Games.com, in the last two months I’ve purchased:

Age of Wonders
Arcanum
Crusader: No Remorse
Might and Magics I through VI
Planescape: Torment
Realms of the Haunting

All told, I think I spent… maybe thirty bucks on those games. And they all run just fine under Windows 7.

I also picked up the entire X-Com collection through Steam about a year back, but mostly only ever play the first one.

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I replay Fallout 1 and 2 about once a year, because they’re so much fun. There’s such a wealth of content and so many ways to do things that it’s really never gotten old.

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DOOM and Quake 2 are both on my steam list.

If I could find a free copy of Duke Nukem 3D I’d be a happy girl.

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Baldur’s Gate series. With mods and the multitude of kits from BG2, I am always finding myself making new runs try try out what I haven’t already. Last run I did the least used characters like Cearn and Nalia, and next time I want to mod the NPCs into the worst kits from the game to see if teamwork can overcome being crappy.

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Ah, thanks. I lost my copy of Torment and wanted to buy it again, but 9.99 digital download is awesome. I’ve never heard of GoG.com before, time to go shopping.

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This. I replay BG2 a hell of a lot, and the mods, NPC addons, and other stuff really makes it fun.

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I also crank out the original Colonization from time to time.

Ahhh, the days of having a separate autoexec.bat and config.sys for every… single… damned… title. I even wrote a little batch command that would allow me to copy a specific game’s .bat and .sys files automatically… I would type in (I think I’m going to make a hash of this, it’s been so damned long) “gamecopy /civ” for Civ1, “gamecopy /xcom” for X-Com, etc etc etc.

These kids today don’t know how good they have it, I tells ya! :smiley:

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One of these days I’m going to have to hook up my Sega Genesis and play Buck Rogers and Shadowrun. I loved those two games.