Old but gold - what are you playing?

[Clive Howlitzer]

I almost exclusively play older titles. I don't venture into new ones as much. They tend to be pretty terrible.
At the moment though, I am playing Heroes of Might and Magic III.

 

[krazykidd]

I'm currently playing through xenosaga episode 1,2 and 3 . The story is amazing , i haven't played 3 yet , but i'm replayig the first two to get back into it . I wannna know how the story ends .

They had the budget cut short, plus internal strife caused the series to be finished at part 3 of 6 (Xenogears would have been part 5). Still, they decide to end the thing with a BANG!

Spoiler: As for Xenosaga 3 (not a story spoiler)

Although stupid censors cut out all instances of blood.

Oh snap you serious? I didn't know this . Without spoiling it does the third at least give some sense of closure? Or do they pull a MAss effect 3 ?I hope i wont regret going through the series :/

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Armored Core for Answer. Not old, I realise, but I do an SS run on a new account every time I feel the urge.

 

[babinro]

Every few years I tend to revisit the following:

Final Fantasy 6
Tales of Symphonia
Warcraft 3 + expansion
Ninja Gaiden 1&2(NES)

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

I'm replaying the Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver games after finding and buying them from GOG.com. Amazing story, amazing characters, and amazing soundtrack. In fact one of the theme songs is one of my favorite theme songs in any game, ever.


Also Legacy of Kain: Defiance has my favorite boss fight of all time in it.

 

[Snotnarok]

Spoiler: Oh I don't know, I suppose there is that one game I try to mention every five posts I make. I do like playing that once in a bluemoon just to make myself smile...

It can also boast one of hell of a soundtrack

Wow it's rare to see someone else who knows the glory of Timesplitters! Fantastic game series, multiplayer was heavily abused around here we played that waaaaaaay too much.


OT: Duke Nukem 3D, didn't play Forever, don't have an interest in forever however Duke 3D on PC rocks, especially with mouse control.

 

[Breywood]

I put Oni back on my PC last week. It's flawed, but I'm enjoying it. I didn't realize that there's a fandom for this game that's still quite strong.

Yesterday, my kids were asking me about NFS, so I tried to put NFS Underground on my PC. Because I made a typo in my CD-Key (I put them all on a page and stuck them in a jewel case) I put NFSU2 on and I'm having a blast with my indestructible MX-5 midlife crisis engine.

 

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I'm currently playing through xenosaga episode 1,2 and 3 . The story is amazing , i haven't played 3 yet , but i'm replayig the first two to get back into it . I wannna know how the story ends .

They had the budget cut short, plus internal strife caused the series to be finished at part 3 of 6 (Xenogears would have been part 5). Still, they decide to end the thing with a BANG!

Spoiler: As for Xenosaga 3 (not a story spoiler)

Although stupid censors cut out all instances of blood.

Oh snap you serious? I didn't know this . Without spoiling it does the third at least give some sense of closure? Or do they pull a MAss effect 3 ?I hope i wont regret going through the series :/

It does give a sense of closure, and at the same time, it really goes out of its way to show you how SO MUCH MORE could have been put in. Heck, the head writer left at Episode 2. But whatever the case, Episode 3 closes a lot of loose ends. And quite nicely at that, VERY SATISFYING. It certainly is an "Earn your happy ending" bit. Most notable is how the whole thread about Gaignun-Jr.-Albedo gets wrapped up. Nearly had me to tears with that, considering what Albedo went through.

Oh, and be sure to stick to after the end credits. Do this for every game. Also, once you finish EPisode 3, go to Youtube and watch all the "proper" cut scenes.

 

[krazykidd]

I'm currently playing through xenosaga episode 1,2 and 3 . The story is amazing , i haven't played 3 yet , but i'm replayig the first two to get back into it . I wannna know how the story ends .

They had the budget cut short, plus internal strife caused the series to be finished at part 3 of 6 (Xenogears would have been part 5). Still, they decide to end the thing with a BANG!

Spoiler: As for Xenosaga 3 (not a story spoiler)

Although stupid censors cut out all instances of blood.

Oh snap you serious? I didn't know this . Without spoiling it does the third at least give some sense of closure? Or do they pull a MAss effect 3 ?I hope i wont regret going through the series :/

It does give a sense of closure, and at the same time, it really goes out of its way to show you how SO MUCH MORE could have been put in. Heck, the head writer left at Episode 2. But whatever the case, Episode 3 closes a lot of loose ends. And quite nicely at that, VERY SATISFYING. It certainly is an "Earn your happy ending" bit. Most notable is how the whole thread about Gaignun-Jr.-Albedo gets wrapped up. Nearly had me to tears with that, considering what Albedo went through.

Oh, and be sure to stick to after the end credits. Do this for every game. Also, once you finish EPisode 3, go to Youtube and watch all the "proper" cut scenes.

Great. , you had me scared there for a momen . And i know about watching after the credits , i have played 1 and 2 before , but i just recently got 3 , so i'm replaying all of them . More games should do this , have somethin after the credits . Somethig to make you want to buy/play the next game , as well as making you go "WAIT WHAT?" .

But for now i'm only half-way through the second , and can't wait to play the third . On this that bothers me now ( i didn't notice it before replaying 1 and 2 ) is the change in character design and voice acting. I mean what happened between 1 and 2. Even though the second game starts litterally 10 seconds after the first games ending . Yet momo , Rubedo ( Jr.) , kos-Mos , shion , don't look the same . Half the cast don't sound the same . And most of the characters attitudes are different . I would have never noticed this 5 years ago. , but now jesus does it annoy me . Honestly i'm just in it for the story , which is reslly good .

 

[PonceyMcTosserFaic]

Im playing Hellbender. It's a awesome spaceship game. I loved the demo when i was a kid, and now i get to play the WHOLE game now YAY

 

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The third has the best style IMO. Shion loses more and more cloth as the series went on. Not that I'm complaining. Also, prepare for some other stuff about her. Mental Trauma from the first two games can do that to you.

 

[Pebblig]

I'm playing Pokemon Yellow atm, then on PC I'm gonna play Max payne 1 and 2 (as I've never played them) and I really enjoyed MP3. Then I'm gonna play Fable 1 =D

 

[wabbbit]

Just about to complete SC:Chaos Theory again as I found it cheap. (And immediately remembered how hard some of the objectives were if playing full-stealth)
Also just played Rogue Spear and Age of empires 1

Deperessing in a way, I just spent a load on a new gaming PC and only play old games

 

[Saltyk]

Currently playing Legend of Dragoon, actually. Not because of nostalgia, mind you. No, I always heard it was good, but never played it. A year ago I even found it on sell for $50. I was so tempted to pick it up, but didn't. I couldn't justify it.

Then, glory of all glories, I found that it was added to PSN as a PSOne Classic. The rest, is history. Or something like that. Who knows?

Now, if they will only add a few more of my favorite PSOne games, I will be very happy. Come on Legend of Legaia, Mega Man Legends, and Breath of Fire 3. I know you're out there.

 

[TecnoMonkey]

Currently playing MediEvil until i get my hands on Borderlands 2. I wanted to give more than 4.99 but Sony didn't let me.

 

[Idlemessiah]

Recently I've gone through the old Spyro the Dragon series and Medievil on the PSX and the Jak and Daxter series on PS2.

I admit, Vice City is still damn good, but as a completionist I need to have a big chunk of time spare if I'm going to play it.

I tried to play Road Rash the other day, but sadly the disk has perished from old age and scratches

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I recently pulled out my old copy of Knights of the Old Republic and threw it in my 360. Man, that game really runs badly on the 360.

 

[Eldrig]

The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. You really just can't beat that game (at least in my opinion. There's still a dedicated modding community 10 years post release so i can't be alone in that opnion).

 

[The Cliffe]

The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. You really just can't beat that game (at least in my opinion. There's still a dedicated modding community 10 years post release so i can't be alone in that opnion).

I heard that there's a mod out there that uses Oblivion's engine to run a linear version of Morrowind's storyline... tempting for me because I loved a lot of Morrowind, but I could not stand the combat.

I recently dusted off the old cel-shaded FPS XIII, featuring the voice talents of Adam West and David Duchovny. Not the greatest shooter ever made, but it has a certain unique charm to it.

 

[Krantos]

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

Damn, playing this game again reminds me just how great is was. Little things like temporarily disrupting the lights, throwing objects/whistling to get guards attention, even the ability to instantly throw a guy over your shoulder when you kill him/knock him out, they're all conspicuously absent from conviction.

That being said, the game controls like ass, but the sheer number of ways to progress through an area are staggering.

Do I blow the lights, then knife all the alerted enemies in the back? Stalk them one by one and drop them all unconscious in a corner? Create a distraction and then slip passed them completely unnoticed? Or do I charge in guns blazing?

This is how you do a linear stealth game. It's no wonder CT is still held up as a pinnacle in the genre.

Add in dynamic background noise (you can be louder in areas with higher background noise without alerting enemies) and the ability to complete the entire game not killing anyone other than certain targets and you have my favorite stealth game of all time.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Conviction, but it moved too far in the action direction to be a decent stealth game anymore.