• Cabeza2000@lemmy.world
    29·
    1 year ago

    So many to pick… But I will choose only a few…

    Age of Empires 2

    Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

    Heroes of Might and Magic III

    Civilization

    Doom 2

  • lungdart@lemmy.ca
    283·
    1 year ago
    • Ff4, 6, and 7
    • Chronotrigger
    • Super Metroid
    • Castlevania SOTN
    • Zelda a Link to the past
    • Tony hawk’s pro skater 1 and 2
    • Any of the street fighter
    • Pokemon
    • Star craft + brood war
    • Diablo 1 and 2

    And so much more!

    • Lawyerator@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve bought SOTN for 4 different systems/platforms now. Double Crissaegrim and double Rings of Varda ftw.

      • lungdart@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        I used to play it that way to. OP. To the max. It was more fun to try the other weapons and items to be honest. The game has tonnes of unique gear!

  • at_an_angle@lemmy.one
    242·
    1 year ago

    Top 5

    Doom and Doom II

    Command and Conquer: Red Alert

    Super Mario World

    StarCraft with Brood War expansion

    Duke 3D

  • oʍʇǝuoǝnu@lemmy.ca
    14·
    1 year ago

    Hard to pick one but if I had to I’d go with Final Fantasy VII since it was the game that got me into RPGs, and I got some good memories of watching my brother play it when we were kids.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      1 year ago

      I remember beating Final Fantasy VII and just staring at my TV in shock. Like, mouth hanging open, mind blown.

      What’s crazy is for the life of me, I can’t even remember the basic gist of the ending of the game today. I just remember how it made me feel.

    • oliver_randolph@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Earthbound and Chronotrigger are the two games with the most memories for me.

      U. N. Squadron and Super Punch-out! We’re the two I played through the most - just over and over again. So much fun.

  • Platform27@lemmy.ml
    141·
    1 year ago
    1. Quake
    2. Thief
    3. Metal Gear Solid
    4. Half Life
    5. System Shock 2

    Honourable mention to Final Fantasy 7, and Zelda Ocarina of Time. They might have been great when released, but I don’t think they’ve aged well.

    • hamburglar26@wilbo.tech
      1·
      1 year ago

      The original System Shock is definitely one of my all time favorites too. An absolute game changer playing that late night with headphones on.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, super nice choices!

      With exception of MGS, I still play all of those (Quake and Thief series) every few years.

    • ed@battleangels.net
      1·
      1 year ago

      @Platform27@lemmy.ml @mayflower@lemmy.ml Those are some excellent choices. I’d pick quake for multiplayer - and SS2 for single. Honorable mention to Dune 2.

  • samick1@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    1 year ago

    Total Annihilation… couldn’t get enough of it. Even playing strategy games today I desperately miss the elaborate control and mechanics of TA.

    • monsterpiece42@reddthat.com
      1·
      1 year ago

      Pretty sure you can get a modern copy of TA. Either on steam or gog.

      And if you like the general style but want to broaden your horizons a bit, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance and Planetary Annihilation: Titans are both good options!

  • fireweed@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    Handheld it’s Pokemon red/blue, no competition.

    Edit: although it’s actually gold/silver if that counts (released 1999 in Japan, 2000 in North America)

    • banana_meccanica@feddit.it
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yes Game Boy was a must in that years, even with just Tetris was great as device and then Pokemon have make the addiction.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes, I spent many years with red/blue/yellow, but I have to say, gold/silver were the most bang for the buck. I remember reading so many articles about what the new game would have (day night cycle, radio with daily lottery system, weekly events, new pokeball types, holding/berry systems, etc.) and they delivered on absolutely everything in spades. It was only after I beat the elite four that I realized you could go back to kanto and do 8 more gyms! It was by far the most satisfied I have ever been with a new release to a series. I have since read that the devs were under the impression that it would be the last game in the franchise (lol!) so they poured everything into it. And it shows.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.app
      1·
      1 year ago

      I replayed Spyro recently, and honestly, I felt like it didn’t hold up. It felt like the objective was to get all of the gems, but there was no reward for getting gems. And maybe because it was a kids game, I just felt like it was way too easy. You could basically just walk to the end of each level, skip any gems and dragons that weren’t in the main path to the exit of the level, and finish the game in a couple of hours. I also felt like the level design was kind of wonky. Like, there were paths where you would follow to a dead end just to get gems, and there was nothing else there. That’s fine if that happens a couple of times in the game, but it was like this like 4 or 5 time per level.

      Spyro 2 was a huge improvement to this formula, because you use the gems to buy upgrades and unlock new paths, or pay the dude to let you use the elevator and such. It made getting gems - and therefore the rest of the game - feel a lot less pointless.