20 year old games that still run (and are still relevant)

[mwgdrwg]

Haven't played Unreal Tournament for a few years but it's the only online deathmatch type thing I ever really bothered with. The first Halo was also great online but I doubt anyone still plays that.

The first Halo didn't have online. It does now via the Master Chief Collection, but the original was LAN only.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The first Halo didn't have online. It does now via the Master Chief Collection, but the original was LAN only.

Maybe I'm thinking of Halo 2. It was on the original Xbox anyway.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Maybe I'm thinking of Halo 2. It was on the original Xbox anyway.

Yep. I still play the first one, it's still great.

 

[Dandred]

Half Life

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Worms 2 was the best. You could manipulate every paramater for every weapon, and customise all the voices. The level editor was great too. But just fucking around with the Ninja Rope was worth the cover price.

Armageddon added little and took much away.

Was Pro Roper a thing on Worms 2?

That’s pretty much the highest level of skill one can attain (I never did).

 

[Magnus McGinty]

And that isn’t the best example tbh.
Pro Roper has a 15 second turn time where you have to collect a (health) crate and attack your opponent all from the rope. All you have is the bazooka, grenade and mine to use. Some people were amazing at it. Shopper is the more forgiving version.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Oh, and if there’s 3 of you playing you can only attack the opponent who has the most health. It’s mental difficult.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

BnG involves skill also. You can place your worm/s where you want but they can’t move. Apart from with limited teleports or the blowtorch. All you can use is bazooka or grenades (hence the name).

 

[dessiato]

I regularly play Lemings on my iPad

 

[JimW]

Still play Quake 3 all the time as a quick break from work and thinking.

 

[Edward Kelly]

Used to play that a bit with a gaming mate. And he kicked my arse. But it was one of the first (if not the first) multiplayer death match instances in software.

When Quake came out in mid 96 it came with "Game Spy" (or was it "quake spy?") anyway, it was absolutely brilliant in finding deathmatch and CTF etc all over the world and it had all the things you needed to know before clicking on "start' with heaps of servers and maps.
I used to play games in the US from Australia on a 56 k modem

 

[Artaxerxes]

Deus Ex
Alpha Centauri

 

[Chz]

Star Control 2

 

[ruffneck23]

Star craft ( the first one with the brood expansion ), me and a couple of mates played it quite a bit at the beginning of lockdown

 

[sleaterkinney]

Unreal Tournament. One of the best games ever made, and it's still going strong.
I spent far too many hours making maps for that game.

You are dominating!

I remember there was one map which was just a pipe going around, we had a mod which turned all the lights off = carnage.

 

[BassJunkie]

GTA5! Oh, hang on, that just seems like it came out 20 years ago.

 

[Sunray]

GTA5! Oh, hang on, that just seems like it came out 20 years ago.

When your playtime says 43830 hours, perhaps go for a walk.