I'm playing Oblivion again. The Steam version supports my RTX 3080 and my 3440x1440 monitor so that's a huge plus
Oh man, Oblivion. I remember my days just before building my first actual gaming computer, only got a x800gto, which was not officially supported, so had to run it using a mod called Oldblivion. It looked horrible, but TES gameplay is solid as always. I played a few level of Commandos 2 last week thanks to a steam-key giveaway. It brought back a lot of memories. The HD remake also supports latest hardware and ultrawide. Crysis remaster, does that count as old? Before Prey 2017 sucked me in, I was 2/3 way through that.
Recently played through Company of Heroes again and I've just started my annual replay of Dishonored, which is a contender for my favourite game ever.
recently got the steam deck and its more or less all ive filled it with. All the old need for speeds from underground till nfs heat Emulators for the ps1,2,psp from crash to god of war Way to many to name, but playing nfs u2 on the deck.... many hours enjoyed, very quickly brought a smile to my face
Played through the old Boulderdash levels recently and still loved it! Everquest goes on occasionally. Saw the Oblivion sale price but I'm still waiting for the Sky-blivion mod for the updated textures and such.
Not currently trying again, but on the list to do so: Homeworld: Remastered Batman: Arkham Knight Black Mesa Homeworld's on there because I played it at launch, and apparently much work has been done on it since (and the first game is on my best games of all time list). Batman, because of my reignited interest in comics. And Black Mesa, because it's excellent.
I recently caved in and bought Homeworld Remastered as well - in my queue to play. At the moment I'm replaying MDK for some real old fun. Also enjoying Thief 3 again with the Sneaky mods, which makes it feel much more like the first two but better looking.
Horizon Zero Dawn. I tried it when it was a freebie for the PS4 and left it as I just kept dying very early on. I've just gone back to it today, got past the sticking point and really enjoying it. I did watch a play through a while ago but I can't remember how the story played out, only that it went a bit weird toward the end. I recall watching the first encounter with a Sawtooth was pretty intimidating but the first time I did it, it didn't really pose that much of a threat. A few well-placed trip cast traps and a whole bunch of fire arrows soon brought the machine to its knees. I was surprised at myself tbh as I was prepared for it to take multiple attempts but I somehow managed it first go. Love the side quests that pop up too. I must finish my second play through of Portal 2 soon too. And do what I guess must be the final boss in Concrete Genie.
Last year I played through Gothic 2:Night of the Raven, originally it was only released in German, after a while their was a fan dub that I think was more effort to install than it was worth. Now (since 2005!) you can get an official edit as part of the Gothic Gold package. It was the same game as Gothic 2 but with an expansion that gives a whole other map and additional storyline, but at the same time it changed a bit of the underlying dynamic making things more challenging. I'd been wanting to play it forever and it was a nice little foray, not exactly worth the wait but if you enjoyed the series it is worth a look.
Good grief, I guess it shows how long ago it was! The last one, Sleeping Dragon was an alright play through with a good story.
I've just replayed Tomb Raider Legend, and now replaying Tomb Raider Anniversary, Underworld coming next. It's surprising how well they stack up against the modern titles: they're not as expansive, and the graphics obviously aren't as good, but still pretty fun.
0. Just didnt play much and am losing interest in games in general. Also feel I am starting games but never finishing them. Also state of releases has been pathetic.
Planescape: Torment! I tried it once in the past, but I was put off by how much reading it actually requires lol. However, many deem it to be a real old-school-RPG classic, so I'm gonna endure this time around (at least I hope I will)
Darwinia. It was aight. I didn't get into it enough to finish it, pretty minimalist arcade formula. But I always meant to play it and now I have. Morrowind. All the tech/code/stability mods for this game have made it a dream to play now, it used to be a shambling mess of a game engine. The content itself has aged well. I don't think Morrowind will ever die - although I've still never completed it, it remains the most engrossing RPG for me, largely because of how close to literature and pen&paper RPGs it is in the execution. I like games that make me read and imagine stuff, as opposed to a stunning HD cinematic experience like MW2019 or RDR2. I grew up with lots of books so I guess that's my brain's bias.
Ooh, fun fact time: every now and then you'd get a really, really long loading screen on the Xbox version. This was because the game had run out of resources and used a hack to silently reboot the console in the background, loading the game and a quick-save from scratch as a nuclear form of garbage collection.
It's like the Boris Johnson of game engines, you think you know all the ways it's incompetent, but there's always one more
