Are they the ‘epics’ of their time, or some things that are less well known?

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    Yoshis island
    Super mario world
    DKC 1, 2 & 3 Pokemon gen 1&2
    Banjo kazooie & tooiee TLoZ A link to the Past, Ocarina of time & Majoras mask
    Warcraft 3 + frozen throne
    Command & conquer 2 + yuris revenge

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    Half-Life 1 (and expansions)

    SimCity 3000, SimCity 4

    Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

    Deus Ex

    Zoo Tycoon

    Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail

    Morrowind

    Industry Giant 2

    Fallout 1/2

    Arcanum

    SimTower

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      4 days ago

      Great list. I think I will replay about half your list at some point over the coming years. And might first time play Love For Sail as well.

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    Nfs hot pursuit 2 holds up insanely well. Ahead of its time. Gt2, ff12, musashi, crash bandicoot. Lot of ps2. Still play all my 2600 and nes and n64 games too

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    Less Pokémon here than I thought there would be, though it does make a showing. I do gen 2 and 3 now and again. Gen 1, I think I’ve wrung out completely, and gen 4+ (DS and onward) just doesn’t emulate as cleanly in my experience.

    And I guess I’m approaching my 2nd decade of still playing certain MUDs: Achaea/Aetolia, Discworld, Lost Souls.

    I don’t really game much these days, though; certainly not like I used to.

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    I still play through The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at least a couple times a year though it’s usually with the randomizer these days. It is objectively the best video game ever made, which helps.

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      What do you think of the other Zeldas in the same style, like Link’s Awakening, the Oracle games or Minnish Cap?

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        All good to great games that build on the foundation set by ALttP. I’d gladly play any of them if you put it in front of me but nostalgia demands that I push the one I played when I was like 9 years old or whatever.

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    Half-Life 1

    One mod specifically (Sven-Coop). Been playing almost daily since 1999.

    I still fire up Duke 3d and Quake mods from time to time as well. There are lifetimes of user-made content in some of these older games.

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    The Pokemon games on all of Nintendo’s handheld consoles emulate really cleanly on a smartphone.

    I’m a sucker for the Gen 1 nostalgia every now and then.

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    DOOM.
    The old game got way better when they open sourced it and Quake 3d code was backported to make zDOOM. Its one of the largest modding communities that has ever existed. If you want to see what it can do, try Brutal Doom. That same engine is behind a new release called Selaco.

    Serious Sam.
    The first one. The demo is fine. Start off with a pistol. Its pretty easy to die at first, even if you know the game. I think that’s why I keep opening it, I know it really well, and it still catches me.

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      I got back into doom in the last few years and there’s a huge number of amazing maps people have made over the years you can play for free. I had no idea about the total conversion wads, where it doesn’t even feel like doom because everything has been changed.

      If anyone’s looking for a good place to start you can check out the yearly cacoward winners

      https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Cacowards

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        My_House.wad has been making the rounds on YouTube semi-recently as an example of the sort of fuckery that has been made possible by the progression of doom modding.

        If you’re not familiar with it, do yourself a favor and go in blind for an hour or so and then only look up a video when you’re stuck.

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      Ayyy ToME oldhead gang represent. Been playing since about 2014 myself.

      The modding community is what really kept breathing life into that game for me for so long. I’m hoping once we finally see the next (final?) DLC expansion that the modders will pick the game back up again. It’s been very stagnant for a couple of years now, presumably waiting for DG to release his expansion like a sudden kraken as is tradition. But it’s been 2 years now since the last update (which was primarily a scaffolding update for the Lost Lands content to come) and I imagine everyone who would be otherwise interested is now hanging in a limbo of not wanting to start work on a project when DG might drop a major update at literally any time and invalidate a bunch of your work.

      Even just the regular base game kept me playing for years and years though. Solid 10/10 freeware game. I used to bounce between ToME and DCSS (also freeware, also recommend, this one actually gets regular updates) pretty regularly and that kept me covered on dungeon crawling roguelikes for the better part of a decade. I still keep coming back to them on occasion though, I’ve played a bit of both of those games within the last 2 weeks.