[Archived] Games that you should have played

[Tom]

Just bought Limbo, but i havnt played it yet.Just finished Monkey Island se and going to do Monkey Island se 2 first.

Love me some Monkey Island, hope Episodes gets released on XBL.

[cn174]

You can download some of these games from http://www.dosgamesarchive.com

you might need to download some dos emulator software too, but I've been playing Commander Keen this evening!

[Sandiway Blue]

My favourites that i still have on pc are `Beach Head 2002` and `Caesar 3` .

Oldies but goldies!

[snatchymcsnatch]

Love me some Monkey Island, hope Episodes gets released on XBL.

Get yourself on Hector: Badge of Carnage if you like adventure games - really good stuff.

[Wilko Rover]

The 'Condemned' series on Xbox. Recently new compared to other titles mentioned in the thread. Discovered it last year, was on sale at Game. Incredible games, couldn't believe i'd never heard of them before. Full of suspense, horror and a bit of detective work... hunting a serial killer who kills serial killers... what's not awesome about that

[bluebruce]

Love me some Monkey Island, hope Episodes gets released on XBL.

I tried the first Monkey Island on the repeated recommendations of this thread...have to say, I wasn't very impressed. And no, I'm not vacuous enough to be referring to the graphics, and yes, I like that genre of games. It had its moments but overall, just ok, because at times it really didn't inspire me to play it. Nonetheless I'm going to give the next installment a go in the hope it gets better.

[Biddy]

It's like every game of their time, fantastic then, but a bit pap now. We look back fondly with rose tinted specs.

I used to love match day on the spectrum. Best football game ever. I fired it up recently on a speccy emulater and found it hardly payable. Same with Target renegade, although that did still play ok, it was just a bit boring.

[beerwins]

I used to spend my Blackpool holidays pumping 10 pences into double dragon when I was a nipper, had a speccy as a young lad and used to hammer Daley Thompsons decathlon and spy hunter.

My mates used to have two amigas linked and we would play rainbow islands and red alert, God I used to love sending my tanya into his base as he was working hard building it. :lol:

Happy days

[Tom]

It's like every game of their time, fantastic then, but a bit pap now. We look back fondly with rose tinted specs.

I used to love match day on the spectrum. Best football game ever. I fired it up recently on a speccy emulater and found it hardly payable. Same with Target renegade, although that did still play ok, it was just a bit boring.

See Monkey Island has held up brilliantly for me, still think they're great although I tried SWOS and Speedball again over the ast few years and aren't nearly as playable as I remembered.

I think a problem with the current generation is on the most part gameplay is second to graphics, once the games look dated then there isn't enough about the games themselves to stand the test of time.

Kind of related, does anyone remember being wowed when leaving the sewers for the first time in Oblivion? Well don't go back it's horrible!

[Clitherover]

Kind of related, does anyone remember being wowed when leaving the sewers for the first time in Oblivion? Well don't go back it's horrible!

I could never get into Oblivion in the first place, the first few hours were brilliant but after a while it all got way too repetitive, particularly trying to close all of the portals to Oblivion.

Fallout 3 is a better game by the same developers imo, although i doubt many would agree.

[American Rover12]

I used to spend my Blackpool holidays pumping 10 pences into double dragon when I was a nipper

What a fantastic game. Great (re)call.

[Hasta]

Anyone remember Paradroid on the C64 and then later on the Amiga.

The Amiga version is still great fun now when emulated.