I think about saboteur a lot. And red faction. Oh volition… Oh pandemic
As a kid, I spent a lot of time glued to SimCity 2000, so stumbling into this game and being able to fly around the cities I built, and in 3D no less. And then do… awkward janky helicopter shit in them? Mindblowing.
Dungeons keeper 2. The vibes were impeccable. Miss it dearly.
I really cherish this one. The story and combat are simple and basic but the sense of community and overall goofy tone that evolves into a understanding of how bad systems of power can be for everyone living under said systems really stuck with me.
Oh fuck I didn’t say Arcanum because I assumed we are always thinking about it
I played all of Saboteur again last year!
You just need the GoG version, that one is fixed for Windows 10 and multi core systems.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Saboteurhttps://xenkogames.gitlab.io/DIDOEN/
genuinely one of the best incremental games I’ve played, wish it got more progression.
Huh, think I played this a while ago when it had a different name.
Edit: Actually, on closer inspection, it seems the dev might be the hexbear user with the same username. @makotech222@hexbear.net was this something you made? Just played through and it was pretty good!
yeah it is my game lmao. thanks @daniyeg@hexbear.net ! I hope to finish it up eventually, just life getting in the way.
Lord of the rings: battle for middle earth 2: rise of the witch king
Now that’s a game that doesn’t deserve to languish in inaccessable abandonware hell. The orc worker’s “Work never ends here!” soundbite has lived rent free in my head since the xbox 360 days.
war of the ring mode was so good
Been playing this every day for a few weeks now. Such a good game. Very easy to pirate and mod
Damn i the game knower didn’t even know of this one and it’s an RTS I’m certain i had played basically all of them.
My RTS equivalent would be maelstrom. I think I’m the only person who remembers this ever existed. Still being sold on steam no less
it still has a very active mod community, you should check it out.
Freespace 2 is one of my favorite sci-fi stories, and an incredible game. Has shockingly good ongoing mod support, there are tons of high quality, fully voice acted campaigns.
Stunts/4D Sports Driving. That game was pretty incredible for the time with its 3D graphics, instant replays and track editor. One of the games that made me a racing game sicko as a kid.
No one has been able to re-create how this game felt. Every attempt at making a new version of this one loses something in the process. Game studios don’t understand that graphics and fluidity aren’t the defining features of a game. The defining features are
- no voicechat
- plasma discing someone mid air during a duel
- jetpacking into an enemy base, stealing their flag, and skiing away
- destroying your enemy’s generators and hiding out in the basement to kill them when they come to repair them
- vibes
Haven’t played this game in nearly 20 years and even then it was considered an old game with only around 3-4 dedicated servers left. Wonder how that’s going nowadays.
I was into Tribes: Ascend, and feel a lot of fomo about missing out on Tribes 2
Oh shit I played Tribes: Ascend and loved it! Didn’t know there was more to the franchise. I should get back into it.
A quick look later and this game went on for 12 years??? And it got shut down last October?? Goddammit. I loved the movement and the progress when I played it back in '13.
I remember the Saboteur, it was part of that period where if you bought the game firsthand it came with a 1 time use code unlocking certain content, to deter secondhand purchases. The content for the Saboteur was uncensored titties in the burlesque shows you could visit lmfao.
I’ll bring up Alpha Protocol, the janky secret agent rpg, it wasn’t particularily good, but I remember playing it.
The uncensored titties thing was also a way around censors too in certain countries I believe. Like the base game gets reviewed then the “dlc” is “optional”
Freelancer. Oh what could have been.
Sid Meier’s Pirates! Oh what could have been.
Basically I like ships and the fantasy of being a privateer. But everyone who makes a privateergame fucks it up somehow. These are the only two that have gotten close.
Honourable mention to Armoured Core.
Another game that pops into my mind at time is Rogue Soldier (I think? You were a blue guy with a chip in his neck? It had some neat covershooter mechanics.)
And of course Time Splitters: Future Imperfect.
Rogue trooper, it even got a remaster. For some reason my memory always mixes up rogue troop and army men sarges war idk why
Rogue Trooper is based on a 2000 AD comic (the same comic book Judge Dredd is from in case you didn’t know).
I loved the Saboteur they should have made a bunch of them.
I liked all 3 Army of Two games for split screen coop.
Battle realms the Asian themed RTS that’s probably problematic but had so many neat things and quirks.
Star Trek Elite Force. Weird combo for Star Trek to make a game in the Quake engine, but I love it
Dunno if it’s still popular as it’s about 20 years old, but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chornobyl. Best experience I ever had in a game. Full of dread and tension.
This deffo has a fair few dedicated fans me included. Most of the stalker fanbase swears by call of pripyat and alot actually only got into stalker via anomaly or gamma. But for me ShoC is and always will be my favourite game in the series.
