# Replaying the classics: Do you ever rip through an old favorite? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 16, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872 "2011-08-16T06:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872/1 "2011-08-16T06:06:13Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872/2 "2011-08-16T06:11:29Z")
Thanks to the good folks at Good Old [Games.com](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872/3 "2011-08-16T07:33:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872/4 "2011-08-16T07:46:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Stowed\_Bob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stowed_bob/32/3312_2.png) [@Stowed\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stowed_Bob)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872/5 "2011-08-16T07:51:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872/6 "2011-08-16T08:56:58Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Thanks to the good folks at Good Old [Games.com](http://Games.com), in the last two months I’ve purchased: 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](http://GoG.com) before, time to go shopping. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872/7 "2011-08-16T11:34:47Z")
> [@Stowed\_Bob](#): > > 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. This. I replay BG2 a hell of a lot, and the mods, NPC addons, and other stuff really makes it fun. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872/8 "2011-08-16T14:11:39Z")
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! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replaying-the-classics-do-you-ever-rip-through-an-old-favorite/592872/9 "2011-08-16T14:21:25Z")
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.