What are the best old games?

[Soycast Guy]

Modern gaming absolutely sucks. So, what are some good old games to play? As I’ve given up all hope on new games being good, I’ve been wanting to play the gems of the past myself.

 

[Dill]

You should play the Ogre Battle games

 

[Elite Kipchak]

Age of Empires 1-3 and Age of Mythology. still unwilling to come to terms with the fact that aoe3 is 20 years old next year.
also rise of nations and empire earth. old rts games just have such a charm to them imo

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/358270/Death_Rally_Classic/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thief_(series)

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-thief-series.17909/

After Thief's original missions (OMs), there are hundreds of fan missions available, including campaigns like The Black Parade.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Depends on the genre. My favorite genres and a couple of the best in each:

Visual Novel/Adventure: Hotel Dusk, Steins;Gate
JRPG: Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy X
Platformer: Conker's Bad Fur Day, Super Mario Sunshine
Action-Adventure: Zelda Wind Waker, Star Fox Adventures

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

manhunt

 

[Chad Holdenford]

Check out /v/'s recommended games.

 

[Dill]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/358270/Death_Rally_Classic/

If you like that Carmageddon is a good Twisted Metal clone

 

[starborn427614]

Right up there with Pokemon, Link's Awakening and Tetris for me.

 

[August Levasseur]

Daggerfall is a fun experience for the hardcore RPG enjoyer. It was released for free exactly as it was 30 years ago by Bethesda on their website, and can be downloaded in a number of different places. It has a small community of enthusiasts in the modern day who mostly crowd around a remaster of the game in the Unity engine, developing and playing mods for said remaster.

Fallouts 1 and 2 are well also well liked among RPG enthusiasts, with the turn-based gameplay of both being mostly the same, but the second obviously having a few small improvements. The first has a smaller world, but with a more consistant and darker tone, while the second is larger and a bit more goofy at times, more similar to later Fallout games.
I should mention that if you enjoy the OG Fallouts, there are also a handful of fan games that were made in their style. These games include Fallout: Yesterday, an attempt to recreate the original cancelled Fallout 3 in an upgraded Fallout 2 engine, Olympus 2207, a Russian developed total conversion mod that is kinda difficult to find nowadays (the developer's site shut down a couple years ago for unclear reasons) but is fun if you can find it, and FOnline, a small family of classic Fallout MMORPGS with a small but dedicated playerbase.

As an aside, although I personally don't enjoy its gameplay, shoutout to Morrowind which has its own small dedicated MMORPG fanbase via TES3MP.

For other Genres, I am personally well acquainted with old-school FPS games, so I'll discuss those. There are the obvious id classics like the OG Doom games (and their zillions of mods) and Quake (Arcane Dimensions is a great mod btw), but a few sometimes overlooked classic gems would be the Serious Sam games. Serious Sam was an evolution in the boomer shooter formula where the more advanced hardware of the time allowed devs to make their players face off against huge hordes of enemies. Enemy counts in classic SS levels scarcely drop below 100 and are regularly many times more than that, yet with a large arsenal of powerful weapons, you never really feel outmatched.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

Phantasy Star 4. Released 30 years ago, still holds up today. Plus the final boss has a nice rack.

Another game with a nice-rack final boss is Breath Of Fire 3. Matter of fact, play the first 4 games in that series.

 

[PovertySprocket]

Can't go wrong with THPS 1-2-3-4-UG-UG2.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Breakout

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Peek-a-boo is one of my favorite childhood games.

It's pretty simple. One person holds a blanket over their face and then lowers it and says, "peek-a-boo!"

It makes me laugh every time.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Dead Rising
Dark Souls (Demon's Souls was always pretty garbo, fuck off, dont @ me .)
Every COD except 3

 

[Soycast Guy]

I suppose I might as well contribute. Spider-Man 3 on the ps3 is a pretty fun old game. It’s one of those games that’s somewhat bad but was a charming bad. The gameplay is janky but has some really fun and hilarious physics, the acting is atrocious but it again adds to the charm of the game, and overall it’s definitely not a bad time if you are looking for something to play.

 

[urr13 account]

Peek-a-boo is one of my favorite childhood games.

It's pretty simple. One person holds a blanket over their face and then lowers it and says, "peek-a-boo!"

It makes me laugh every time.

You're supposed to use your hands to cover your face not a blanket, you're playing peak-a-boo wrong.

 

[Girl Named Sandoz]

30 years later and super metroid still hasn’t been topped

 

[Tablet County]

Based on what the internet has told me, old games are the realm of the tranny and I'm not allowed to enjoy them.

 

[Wuornos]

Golden Axe and Wonder Boy.