Classic Game Recomendations?

I like playing old games, and while I have quite the cue of new games (Space Marine, BF 3, The Old Republic, Dues Ex:HR, etc) I like playing old games in between the new ones to the help reduce the cost of playing games frequently. Considering I can get the first 3 thief games for $10 and the Baulder's Gate series for about the same that's 7 games for $20 which I think is great! This is this list of what I have so far, yes some of them require mods/patches etc to play on windows 7 but I confirm that most of these are playable. Any others you all would recommend, keep in mind your definition of classic can be what ever you like!

Thief: The Dark Project
Thief II: The Metal Age
Thief: Deadly shadows
Baulder's Gate (4 in 1 Boxset)
Neverwind Nights
Icewind Dale
Tie Fighter
Dues Ex
Half Life 1
Age of Empires II
Total War series
Myst,
Quake III
Doom series
Painkiller!
KOTOR I/II
Oblivion
Sacrifice

 

if you liked half life 1 i would recommend the orange box The Orange Box on Steam

 

I see you have a bunch of D&D games on your list. GOG's 3 year anniversary promo might interest you: D&D Classics up to 60% off, but today's the last day to purchase it.

 

My favorite classic games are

Rollercoaster Tycoon (original w/ expansions)
The Sims (original w/ expansions)
Need For Speed Underground 2

I actually like these games better than their newer counterparts...

 

Not sure if it fits the bill looking at your list but you could pick up the X-com collection on steam.

Just prepare to break your keyboard and screen and scream at the PC as your crack squad gets wiped out repeatedly lol

 

Tom clancy's rainbow six series (especially the first one or rogue spear)

Splinter Cell 1

 

Crazy Taxi is great game. And it's on sale in Steam.

 

Legacy of Kain series?

 

rise of nations

comand and conquer red alert 1 and 2

xwing vs tie fighter and the expansion balance of power

day of the tentacle

monkey island 1, 2, 3 and maybe 4

baldurs gate

neverwinter nights


there are a lot more, I just have to remember

 

Add the first C&C as well as tiberian sun (which was made available free by EA some time ago).

While i'm into RTS, homeworld 1 & 2 as well. I don't know if you can still find them for sale though.

 

Awesome suggestions guys keep them coming!

 

No "classic" list is worth something without Xcom.

 

C&C Generals Zero Hour
Descent 2
Descent Freespace & Freespace 2
Operation Flashpoint (original + expansion)

 

Baka suggests Celtic Kings: Rage of War and also Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

Despite having Oblivion in the list, Baka believes that Morrowind also requires special mention.

 

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is a great game...steam punk off- shoot of Baldurs Gate, multiple party members, type game

Diablo Battle Chest

Warcraft Battle Chest

Starcraft

Revenant, if you can find it.

 

I saw an article somewhere mentioning Wing Commander. That was an awesome game back in the day. So sad they stopped making similar games

 

red alert, cs 1.6, starcraft, diablo 2

 

Oh yeah, No One Lives Forever games are fun. As are Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell games.

 

Titan quest, Serious Sam(s).

 

Try Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven if you play Third Person Shooters!

 

if u like some kinds of 4x games;
-master of orion 1,2 ( also in GOG ) i played only 1 but they said mom2 is good also
-galactic civilization 2 ... i am studying how to play it ..
-all seriese of civilization..

just notice that all above are turnbased strategy ^^

 

My favorite kind of list. I would recommend, Unreal, The Seventh Guest (since you like Myst), any of the Half Life 1 expansions (Opposing Force and Blue Shift). Aliens vs. Predator Classic (available on Steam, pm me for a dll that will make it standalone ), so many more.

 

Apologies if they've been mentioned, but as a Star Wars fan, the Jedi Knight series is really some can't miss stuff. It might take a little finagling to get them to work right on modern hardware and drivers, but they're great games.

I picked up the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight pack on Steam. Working on trying to get the games to play right. The original Jedi Knight has some screwy stuff going on with artifacts, and JKII is working OK except that I can't adjust the gamma so it's way too dark.

 

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division - what I would consider to be one of the, if not the, most underrated game(s) of all time.

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division - GOG.com

 

I have always wanted to play this game. How does it run on Win7? Does it have issues with multicore CPUs?

 

It runs fine on Windows 7 for the most part. It has its quirks, though. There's one crash that can be done on command, but you can work around it by disabling the music, loading the game, getting past the point where it crashes, saving again, exiting, and re-starting with music enabled.

The in-game text will appear garbled/distorted, which is fixed by disabling Clear Type. Installing from GOG.com means the game will start in compatibility mode for Windows 98. This limits maximum resolution to 1280x720. Turning compatibility off opens up all resolutions supported by your display and video drivers, albeit at a cost of the game crashing slightly more often. Also, widescreen works just fine without any sort of FOV hacking.

In testing various laptops over the last six months, I've found Shogo runs best on AMD/ATI GPUs. In testing on notebooks with NVIDIA, Intel, and combinations thereof (Optimus), I couldn't get the game to run on these video cards without major in-game audio stuttering. There are various fixes out there, but none of them worked. With all AMD cards I've used, the stuttering only occurs on the loading screens, which I can more than live with.

To me, the game is too good to pass up because of these technical issues. I'm just glad to be able to still play it relatively smoothly more than a decade after its initial release.

 

- Ultima 7
- Dungeon keeper
- Krondor series (including Antara)
- Dune 1
- Quake 1 and 3 (or Open Arena)
- Jagged Alliance series
- The Horde
- All Lucas & Sierra classic adventures

 

Thanks guys again for all the suggestions, I am going to modify the original post and start making a comprehensive list probably broken down by categories.

But please feel free to keep the ideas coming!

 

Planescape: Torment
Fallout 2
Diablo (and Hellfire expansion pack)
Quake 2 (I think very under rated)
Quake 4 (This is actually a great game)
Need for Speed: Porche Unleashed
Deus Ex

 

Besides what's already been mentioned (and not knowing your preferred genre although your list provides clues):

DOS
Master of Magic (gog.com)
Magic Carpet/2 (first one is on gog.com)
Panzer General (PG2 is a Windows 95/98 game and is on gog.com)
System Shock/2 (eBay? The first one runs under DosBox...the second has user-made patches/installation guides on the internet for running the game under modern OSs with multiple core CPUs)
Ultima Underword/2 (eBay?)

Windows
Alpha Centauri (gog.com)
Battlezone (Good luck...)
Beyond Good & Evil (gog.com and Steam)
Missionforce: Cyberstorm (???)
Dragonshard (gog.com)
Dungeon Siege/2 (both are included with Deluxe Edition of DSIII on Steam...)
Freedom Force/2 (gog.com and Steam)
Interstate '76 (gog.com)
Independence War (gog.com)
Myth/2/3 (??? one of Bungie's other franchises)
NOX (gog.com)
Rise of Legends (Nations) (???)
Silent Storm (???)
Star Trek - Armada/2 (the second, and better, one is very expensive on eBay and Amazon...all the Activision Star Trek games were decent)

I think Beyond Good and Evil is the most recent title from that list...good combination of action/adventure/stealth/humor...probably easier to play on the 360 after downloading from XBLA, but the PC version is good...and rumors are swirling of a sequel...

My favorites from everything suggested are:
Master of Orion
X-Com
Freedom Force

 

Tons of great suggestions on this list, but I don't think anyone mentioned Max Payne and Max Payne 2, surely old enough considering that Oblivion is on the list, and both are brilliant games with really delightful noir writing that straddles the line of seriousness and self-parody-by-way-of-excess brilliantly. And if adventure games are on the list, another noir classic, Grim Fandango, is really the best out there. It'll take a bit of research to get it running on a modern PC, but it's brilliant. Gabriel Knight is another classic adventure series available on gog.com

Oh, and I see people recommending Fallout 2, but Fallout and Fallout Tactics are good too. I personally consider Fallout 2 the best of the isometrics Fallouts, but the others are good.

And don't forget Ultima - 7's got a great reputation, but I grew up playing 6 for hours and hours and hours as a kid, even though I had no idea what I was supposed to do.

Personally, I grew up playing the Commander Keen series, the original Duke Nukem/Nukum series, Halloween Harry, and a special favorite, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, though the gog.com version has a bit of a gimp in that the jet's movement speed is slower than the version I played as a kid, making the game a bit harder and, IMO, less playable.

Oh, and for a good time, Moria/Angband/Zangband/Rogue/etc.... Totally free, totally awesome. My personal favorite is Angband, but I've heard good things about Zangband, just never figured out how to get it running...

If we're really going down in the way-back machine, though, Kroz, Paganitzu, Aldo's Adventures, these were some of my first games. And the old Windows games were good too, especially Skifree, Pipe Dreams, and Chip's Challenge.

 

Call Of Duty 1.

 

The Longest Journey

 

Surprised no one's mentioned Psychonauts either.