Sentinel… From waaay back. Like, Commodore 64 age. I think it would be a perfect VR game, too.
Psygnosis did a remake in the late '90s.
There is also an indie VR game I’ve played that’s heavily based on it, damned if I can remember the name tho. I believe it’s on sidequest.
I own the remake, and I actually had a fan site for it… And got to interview John Freaking Carpenter for that fan site, as he did the music for Sentinel Returns. It was exactly as awesome as it sounds.
Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain. Quite a learning curve, but I loved the different ways you can win (conquest, trade, black ops) and how much you could customize your ships or pick unique races with tolerances for different planets.
Ngage Bounce Boing Voyage. I played it a couple of times but never finished it. It was great for the time and hardware.
The original Unreal. For me it was a perfect combination of beautiful graphics (back in the days of course), soundtrack which complemented and elevated the atmosphere of that game. And the gunplay was nice, with a collection of somewhat unconventional weapons. A relic from a time where developers were not afraid to experiment.
@Aganim The original Deus Ex also. Its story was brilliant and prophetic in a lot of ways.
As an example of a game, that actually got its second chance: the original Half-Life. Black Mesa is brilliant. I wish, other old games like Unreal and Deus Ex would have got a remake like that.
Yes, how could I forget Deus Ex. Incredible story and again such a wonderful soundtrack, not surprising as it was also composed Alexander Brandon, Michiel van den Bos, and Dan Gardopee.
As for Half-Life, that game was also something else. But part of me resents that game a bit because it overshadowed Unreal. 😋
The crazy variety of weapons and their interactions was great. Almost everything was dangerous in the right situation.
Blob gun? Charge it up! Blue laser thing? Shoot the ball form and shoot that for a huge boom! Double pistols? Max DPS in the game with no bullet curve!
The best maps too for CTF. Yeah, I loved that game, especially for in person LAN parties.
Unreal only had a single Automag though, so either you are thinking of Unreal Tournament or you played on a modded server. Some servers did have dual automags (I’ve still got a mod and mutator lying around to get them in single player as well) and dual Automags (Enforcer in Unreal Tournament) did indeed dish out major punishment.
Empire earth
I loved that one so much! The only flaw really was that the tech tree is incredibly massive. It’s feels unnecessarily difficult to learn.
i want another midnight club
Hunter: The Reckoning on the original Xbox.
Operation: Inner Space
Mega Man Legends. Fuck you, Capcom, for killing the blue boy.
A new Command and Conquer Generals. It was a big departure from the classical C&C formula of stuff being built on the UI on the right and more like every other RTS, but it was fun nonetheless. Zero Hour bringing the specialized generals was also a nice idea.
Dunno if it counts as a game, but something like MTV Music Generator on PS1 and PS2 would be awesome, especially with the ease of sharing stuff around nowadays.
There are many Star Wars games that deserve a second chance, but I think Republic Commando could really use the sequels “Imperial Commando” and “Rebel Commando” first. I’d personally love a sequel to Jedi Academy
With all the “boomer shooters” making a comeback, Heretic and Hexen could receive their respective 3rd installments.
Lastly, Virtual On Cyber Troopers. Something that plays like the very first game of 1995, that’d be 😗👌. I think that game is what paved the way for the many Gundam games that play a lot like it - On PC, you can get a taste of that gameplay with Bootfighter Windom XP
With all the “boomer shooters” making a comeback, Heretic and Hexen could receive their respective 3rd installments.
And Strife 2 while we’re at it; I genuinely loved Strife.
I waited to see if anyone mentioned it, but, POD. A old 1997 racing game from Microsoft built by Ubisoft. You can get the gold edition on GoG for rather cheap but I would absolutely love to see a remaster or remake. Unfortunately I would rather it not be made by Ubisoft as I don’t want to be forced into a separate account login setup from Ubisoft.
kenshi is the post-apocalyptic life/ant sim that I never knew I wanted. There is no story other than what is in your head, and that’s beautiful.
Legend of Kage for NES was an awesome minimalistic beautiful game and I’ve never met anyone else who thinks so
I don’t know if it’s forgotten, but it’s forgotten to me. There was this ant game where you had a colony of ants that would go collect food, or attack other colonies. There was this very pixelated top-down map view where you could see the brightly colored food disappear pixel by pixel as they ate.
I can’t figure out what the game was but I loved it.
Sim Ant ?
This is what it sounds like to me, and Sim Ant is the game I had in mind opening this post. It was a good one.
Nope, the other commenter got it. It was Microsoft Ants. Sim Ant is what most people guess when I have brought this one up before though. I’ll have to try it sometime.
Thank you for reminding me of this game. I think it is Microsoft ants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Ants
Oh my God! Finally! I genuinely couldn’t track down what the game was for years. Thank you!
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
It’s a shame that it doesn’t seem to have that many players anymore. It’s a lot like other multi-class shooter games like Overwatch and Paladins, but about three times more crazy and weird, and I had a ton of fun playing it as a teen.
I’ve heard Garden Warfare 2 is pretty good too though, so I’ll consider buying it at some point (when I have money).
I absolutely loved PVZGW. I have great memories of playing it.
xracer - A WipeOut clone (would love some development on this)
https://packages.debian.org/sid/xracer
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Sauerbraten FPS (1990s fps distilled)
