What are your favorite classic PC games?

Transport Tycoon Deluxe (which lives on as the much improved OpenTTD.)

Master of Orion 2

Star Wars Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast

Home Alone (1991) - Special mention as my first computer game. Still have the box…

Age of Empires II (revived, remastered, and still receiving expansions and development)

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Descent and Descent II

Not so sure about D3 but that was okay too I guess.

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Still playing OpenTTD and Dwarf Fortress.

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Been looking into getting into DF but it all seems intimidating and lacking polish. Is it worth the effort? I know people love it, but learning curve is kind of annoying. If you had to compare it to a similar game, which one would it be?

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- Have you looked at the Steam version yet?
  
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- The Steam version is great, but still fairly intricate. (not complicated, but there is a lot going on) also get DFHack, it automates a lot of the confusing stuff). Definitely worth the effort IMO, I am having a lot of fun with it. For example, I was besieged by goblins last night, and after a big fight one of my dwarves killed their leader, and we won the day. My champion was praised in song and engravings, and we made a platinum statue in his likeness, that was displayed in the entrance to the fort. A few weeks later the Duke of Paperprice (the name of my fort) threw a tantrum because his mandated goods was delivered late, and in his rage he killed our hero. One of the dwarven kids had to carry his mangled body down to the Atomsmasher. Ah well, that's dorfs for you.
  
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Star Control I and II

Medieval II Total War (except that diplomacy was a joke)

Civ III was great, but Alpha Centauri may have been the best 4x game ever.

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What grinds my gears about Medieval II is how every general gets a ton of battle dread pretty much no matter what

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Red Alert, Half-Life, Arcanum, EverQuest, Gex, GoldenEye 007, Sam 'n' Max, Donky Kong Country (all 3), Final Fantasy 7 and 8.

Also liked a lot of HL mods like CS and DoD. Oh, and that cool SRC one where you play as aliens vs humans and evolve...

Edit: Tribes. And C&C.Generals...and Nox.

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Are you able to get Arcanum to run on Windows 10+ or Linux? My nostalgia sense wants to do another playthrough or 10 but every time I try it just ... won't work.

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- I got it on Steam if that helps. There usually isn't comparability issues released on there and anything from XP to 11 seems fine. No mention of Linux.
  
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/500810/Arcanum_Of_Steamworks_and_Magick_Obscura/
  
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Monkey Island 1-3 and System Shock 2. And Might and Magic 4+5. I play these once every two years.

And a modern classic-to-be: Shadow Warrior 2. I play this once per year (New game +) and will never stop. I have reached level 240 just today.

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ut 2004, red alert, starcraft broodwar (use map settings online was awesome), americas army, halo custom edition (the huge maps with longswords and pelicans were fucking amazing), civ III, star wars empire at war, kotor II knights of the old republic (mods for this are cool)

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Someone else that played America's Army!

I loved that game, even with all its faults. I still remember those maps fondly. I haven't found another game that quite scratches that slow-paced strategic shooter itch. (But then, I hardly ever play multiplayer games these days anyway.)

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- The bridge map was awesome, and the pipeline map was fun AF too.
  
  FUCK THE SPECIAL FORCES TRAINING WHERE Y9U HAD TO CRAWL PAST THE SNIPER TOWERS THAT SHIT STILL GIVES ME NIGHTMARES
  
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Dune 2 is a classic (one of the first) rts that I still love to play today.

The original is super tedious so now I play an updated version with some more features

https://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/

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See also https://www.openra.net/about/

Dune 2000 was a (mostly?) remake of Dune II.

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Civilization (1/2/3 all sort of blend together for me), Sid Meier's Pirates!, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, Magic Carpet, Half-Life, Hexen, Team Fortress/Quake, Duke Nukem3D, Warcraft/Starcraft, Diablo, C&C, and so many others that remind of being at home on my Dad's then-cutting edge computer, before my Dad died, before I graduated school and had my own kids, before my parent's divorced, before everything got worse than it was, life was good just hanging out and playing games. The games may be "better" now, but I'd give anything to go back to the 90s/00s all over again.

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Return to castle wolfenstein enemy territory

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Mafia.
GTA: 3, Vice City, San Andreas.
Rig N Roll 2.
Cultures 2.
Industry giant 2.

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Dig Dug, Battlezone (the wireframe "3d" tank game), and C&C Red Alert 2. Those 3 will always live in my head rent-free, and they're more than welcome to.

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Zeus & Poseidon

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Fallout 2, Sanitarium (although point and click it's worth mentioning for anyone who hasn't played it), Quake 1/2/3, Half-Life all of it, Portal all of it, OpenTTD, Theme Hospital, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3, etc.

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Counter-strike 1.6. That game meant the world to me. I remember all the fun mods like surfing, knife, kz (climbing), zombie survival, grenades only, knife with janky ass cars.

I know certain modes can be found now too in games like roblox. My little sister plays roblox and plays a ton of the climbing ones (i think its called obby or something). But i miss the counter strike gameplay. I think my favorite was bunnyhop hide and seek. I hosted a server and it got pretty popular. We all build fun levels together and played all day. I miss these old dedicated server games with fun mods 😔.

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Depends how you define classic.

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Old computer games from way back.

You might even consider the older PCs.

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Non digital, non streaming, no updates necessary. You bought it, you own it type classic.

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Carmageddon, worms, quake 3, heroes 3, doom 1, prince of Persia, wolf 3d, claw, hitman 1, max Payne, gta2

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Haven't seen it mentioned yet but,

Scorched Earth.

It's the original Worms, tons of fun.

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Battlefield 1942 was amazing and the Desert Combat mod was killer.

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Mafia
Operation Flashpoint
Giant Citizen Kabuto
Half-Life
Blood
Serious Sam the 1st & 2nd Encounter
The Sims
Age of Empires II
Red Alert
Red Faction
Deus Ex
Max Payne
Dynablaster
Driver

And others I could list as well but I'd say I've played these the most... Also sorted in no particular order.

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Half-Life The Sims

I have those games too!

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I’m late but Quest for Glory is one of the best games of ever.

Combat was pretty horrible though. The rest of it was amazing.

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making/playing quake maps is fun :3

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Arena, Rise of the Triad, and Monkey Island 2

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Medal of Honor 2010 reboot and Call Of Duty 2.

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No mention of Allied Assault?

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- No, because of the game mechanics and the graphics, I can't tolerate it anymore.
  
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Ultima Underworld 1

Baldur's Gate 2

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