Games you have a soft spot for despite its flaws.

Lil' Hog said:
To this day, every time I need to upgrade my PC I always try to search the recommended parts for the game and buy them if I can.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying here, but is a 13-year-old MMO really stressing new PC hardware?
 
Ibanez RG 350EX said:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying here, but is a 13-year-old MMO really stressing new PC hardware?
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Yeah, GW2's optimization is kinda shit. It's hard to reach good FPS in the big world-events even with a decent CPU/GPU combo since people are spamming AoEs , plus all those obnoxious character effects.
Of course, you can easily mitigate some of that by messing with the configs (especially the ones that involve other player's character rendering), but it's kinda hard to justify buying new parts for my primitive peanut brain if I can't crank everything to 11 with a new rig.

You can check here how a (IMO) pretty decent PC run the game at 4K:
 
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Drill Dozer for the GBA, one of the rare titles made by Game Freak that isn't Pokemon and it is a damn good game, the levels are fun and the Dozer mechanic is very creative and unique, I obviously have bias because I grew up with the game but I wholeheartedly recommend it.
 
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Bakugan Battle Brawlers for PS2/Wii. I always loved that franchise as a kid, so a game where I could fight and team up with my favorite shonen characters and have my own Bakugan partner like the main cast (Leonidas is my GOAT) was just a wonderful experience.

The game however is pretty repetitive and extremely easy (as it was designed for kids), but no matter what, I still have a massive soft spot for it.

The Wii version is slightly better because the main story tournaments go through a cycle of 1-on-1 > 2-on-2 > battle royale rather than only having 1-on-1s constantly.
 
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THPS3 and soul calibur 2 both benefit from the nostalgia bias. But they were pretty silly games.

The “campaign” of THPS3 was either completely silly or too hard in some cases without cheats and there were a lot of silly cheats and even sillier characters that made no sense why they were included lol. The park creator was limited but Lord knows we alllll wanted to make infinite loop de loops or see how much air was possible from a huge slope to a ramp.

Soul Calibur 2 aged poorly as well but man, using Link to just chop up and break peoples arms was really cool at the time and was probably the main 3D inspiration for the new age Link we saw in twilight princess later on. Namco and Nintendo had a pretty good deal this way. And the game was shamelessly risqué with the girls costumes. I felt embarrassed every time someone walked in.
 
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GTA San Andreas, this game is the closest thing to a time machine I will ever have.
So many memories on this game, singleplayer and online, with SAMP and MTA back in the late 2000's, early 2010's was peak, now it's only Roleplay and shit, but I will never not have this game installed in my computer just in case I feel like playing a bit.

 
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Might & Magic 6-8. they are nearly unplayably jank by modern standards but there's something about the sandboxy gameplay, the big zones full of hidden treasure chests and shit to discover, the way the game lets you go absolutely anywhere as long as you're strong enough to survive the random enemies crowding every dungeon and outdoor area. the character progression systems are tight too, I love the feel when you crawl back to town after clearing a dungeon and buy like six levels at the trainer and spend half an hour figuring out how to allocate the fat stack of skill points you just racked up. or when your characters hit their skill breakpoints and you have to figure out how to navigate the schizo travel agency schedules to get to the town you need to train them up to Expert/Master level. the goofy little portraits and voice clips are just so choice too. GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS!

yes I've played Wizardry 8, and yes I feel the same way about that game (except the combat gets horribly tedious)

Michael_Jordan_Peterson said:
Legend of Grimrock 1 and 2
dont hear much about them but they are amazing.
fairly simple RPG
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the Grimrock games are the only games that have really managed to capture that classic Might & Magic feel for me. it's a real shame they stopped after 2. I would have loved to see a Grimrock 3 that actually tries an open-ish world approach like the World of Xeen games.
 
Bathhouse Owner said:
GTA San Andreas, this game is the closest thing to a time machine I will ever have.
So many memories on this game, singleplayer and online, with SAMP and MTA back in the late 2000's, early 2010's was peak, now it's only Roleplay and shit, but I will never not have this game installed in my computer just in case I feel like playing a bit.

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That game was fucking amazing. It had a massive world with a great storyline to boot. The best part was how well the characters were written.
Sweet Johnson, so bad he's good.
 
I mentioned this before but there's an old Windows game called Outpost, by Sierra On-line, sort of their attempt to make a Simcity in space. It had a unique feel but was released in a practically unfinished state. Nevertheless I like to go back to it as there really is a sort of charm to it.

Also the original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. While Warcraft II is legitimately good (and is one of my favorite games), the first is... well, a good first attempt, just the controls are a problem and once summoning is introduced the game is basically broken. However, it has a certain vibe about it (not to mention some mechanics that were removed in later games) that still make it something I like to come back to.

In general sometimes I like to go back to early games in a genre before the conventions were codified, because sometimes losing something you expect to come standard can result in an interesting and unique play experience.
 
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The first Halo (the PC port, since we couldn't afford consoles). A shame what the franchise has become post-Bungie, but I have fond nostalgia over it since it was the first game I beat from start to finish.

Also, the Bioshock franchise. Nowadays I see Infinite as overly pretentious, but the first two games' aesthetics were on fucking point.
 
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Uncle Sid said:
If you've never played State of Emergency, you're in for a treat...
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I have! It's jank as fuck but very amusing if you enjoy mayhem like many people here probably do. I miss the days when Rockstar branched out into other games besides GTA and Western GTA.
 
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