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Post by AIS-Sona_v7 on Dec 6, 2016 21:47:01 GMT
"Do you remember playing ______ ?"
We all have had our childhood, and times when our professionalism was at an all time lowest... The expectations for quality of games were next to none and we loved every bit of them.
Yet today is different.
Games have changed and the players have changed. So have we. We moved on to play better titles with better features, but we have not forgotten our roots, the "Retro" games of our lives.
Do you have any old games that you loved and would like to remind the world of ? Do you want to introduce players of modern day games to old classics because those classics STILL OUTRANK CURRENT DAY EXPECTATIONS ?
Flare and share your DOS Boxes or BSP based Quake right here !
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Games: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 6, 2016 23:06:14 GMT
"In the distant future, mankind is locked in a deadly war..."
Back in 1990, when we installed games from 3,5 inch disks and liked it, there was Wing Commander - a space flight simulator game that pretty much introduced me to the idea that action games can have stories, too. To this day, this game has elements that shaped what I want and expect from video games - a story, an overall immersive experience, good gameplay, and a possible final failure state.
You could talk to your fellow pilots between missions. Your save game slots were actually the pilots' barracks, with an empty cot being a free save slot and an occupied one an existing save. Those fellow pilots actually had differing behavior in combat based on their personalities - Paladin would be steady and cautious, Angel totally by the book, Maniac... deserved his call sign.
Each mission had a failure state - winning would lead to a different next mission than losing it did. Only in the last quarter or so of the game you would be set on a winning or losing path to the end that you could not turn around anymore.
When you died, you got a funeral. And your commander's funeral speech actually depended on your achievements in the game. Pretty much any pilot could die and the game still went on.
The sequel was more of the same but better, with romance and tragedy and all that stuff on top of what had been good in the first game, and after that they became huge cinematic experiences starring Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell.
Damn, I miss that series. Might reinstall soon.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Dec 7, 2016 0:43:05 GMT
Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced robot evolution into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a Replicant. The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them. Replicants were used Off-World as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6 combat team in an Off-World colony, Replicants were declared illegal on earth - under penalty of death. Special police squads - BLADE RUNNER UNITS - had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant This was not called execution. It was called retirement.
Blade Runner. This is one of the first games in which multiple endings is possible, more than ten which is better than any title back then and even now. The outcome depends on your decisions, your actions, your associations with the NPCs; whom did you kill, whom did you save, whom did you romance? It also determines your protag's true natue; is he a replicant?
This is a game title that truly deserves a remake.
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