Best game of all time...Does WS make it better?

MUonline · Post by **MUonline** » 22 Feb 2006, 20:04

anyone here play MU Online Global? u should all check it out. it one of my favorite games online.

http://www.muonline.com

P.S.
SSBM is the best consel game by far :wink:

Mole · Post by **Mole** » 22 Feb 2006, 20:08

Yes, WS does make old games better!

I can't believe old games like Giants: Citizen Kabuto and MDK2 have native widescreen support that actually works correctly, and most newer games can't even do it right! Half-Life 2 is the only recent game I've seen that scales everything correctly.

TurboJAzn · Post by **TurboJAzn** » 22 Feb 2006, 20:35

[quote]Ow, gheghe, i installed Windows 98 on it and tried Silver. It did work, but it was slooooooooooooooooowwww. So not really playable :lol: . Gameplay was very jaggy and loading took ages.

the reson for this is ram. I see you have a gig. the thing is you have the ram useage by XP(and anything curantly running) then you have the ram used buy VPC it self, then the ram used by 98(and anything running on98), then the game. from what I have found just to run 98 or any other os well. you need a gig. I wuld say to run a game like that you wuld need 2 gig. but I am not shure as I have never tryed to run a game like that. ( I have a old pc set up on a KVM to play my old games)

Running a game in Virtual Machine software won't work very well, because the Virtual Machine software uses its own drivers for graphics, so it's as if its not even using your graphics card to run the game.

My Top 5 right now:
1. The Sims 2
2. Unreal Tournament 2004
3. Half-Life 2
4. Battlefield 2
5. Call of Duty 2

tvuk · Post by **tvuk** » 22 Feb 2006, 20:55

Best games of all time (the ones I've spent most time playing):
1. Deus Ex
2. Battlefield 1942
2. Baldurs Gate 1/2
3. Fallout 1/2
4. Civilization (1, the original)

Only Deus Ex supports WS with a hack :(

Post by **ctrlsteef** » 23 Feb 2006, 09:01

Running a game in Virtual Machine software won't work very well, because the Virtual Machine software uses its own drivers for graphics, so it's as if its not even using your graphics card to run the game.

Yeah, i know. But i thought let's give it a try since Silver is such a good game.
Now i have an old second system on my room i think i'm going to run win 98 on it and try silver again. :P

CodE-E · Post by **CodE-E** » 23 Feb 2006, 20:40

World of Warcraft is all the better on widescreen.

Agreed. In fact, World of Warcraft is one of the main reasons (the 2nd was Counter-Strike) I bought a wide-screen monitor. ;) This game really plays better in wide-screen, not only because you can see more, but because you've got more space for all those user interface gimmicks like CT_RaidAssist and DamageMeters.

My top 5 games of all time... ugh... very hard to answer:

1. World of Warcraft
2. Counter-Strike
3. EverQuest (it kicked ass back in the day, but I have no interest in playing it now)
4. Warcraft 3 and StarCraft
5. Quake (3, and possibly 4, which I'll get it in the mail in a few days ;))

Widescreen gaming for the win. Every game should support it now. It just adds so much to the visual experience.

dimerethiel · Post by **dimerethiel** » 01 Oct 2006, 22:28

IÃ‚Â´ve found this download site for old Colonization game:
http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/amiga/games_c/colonization.html

MY02WRX · Post by **MY02WRX** » 02 Oct 2006, 04:07

1: civ iv
2: smac
3: civ iii
4: smacx
5: civ2

bit obsessed :twisted:

skeeder · Post by **skeeder** » 02 Oct 2006, 05:32

ALL TIME:
1) Freespace: Great War
2) Age of Empires: Rise of Rome
3) Call of Duty United Offensive
4) Unreal Tournament GOTY
5) Quake III

Current:
1) CSS
2) Guild Wars
3) COD2
4) HL2
5) Dark Messiah (probably will rate that higher when I got a rig that doesn't die)

Gecko · Post by **Gecko** » 02 Oct 2006, 14:25

Top Games of all time? I'll give it a shot...here's my Top 10, going waaay back to he beginning of PC gaming for me. :wink:

1) Aztec (Apple IIe) - Indiana Jones kind of game in monochrome. Had a T. Rex in it.
2) Ultima 3 - Exodus (also on Apple IIe) - great memories, like someone else posted of playing late at night, dark room.
3) The Bard's Tale
4) Castle Wolfenstein (Halt! Kommen sie hier! Aus-pass! Heil!) and Return to Castle Wolfenstein
5) Wing Commander - Privateer - someone else mentioned this as well - great game!
6) Duke Nukem
7) Age of Empires II
8 ) Baldur's Gate, 1 and especially 2.
9) Half-Life 2
10) Counter-Strike
11) The Elder Scrolls III - Morrowind - ok, so I listed 11. This game completely blew me away. I loved the openess of it. Oblivion, in contrast was a bitter disappointment with its scaling and hand-holding.

Some other notables - Neverwinter Nights, Max Payne, Vampire Masquerade:Bloodlines, Ultima 9 - even with the bugs.

One last one - XCom - Terror from the Deep.

It's cool how the games and gear have evolved over the years. I was happy and psyched to play a game like Ultima 3 on a black and white monochrome monitor with two dual 5.25 disk drives! The gear I have now is alien by comparison! :D

Forsaken · Post by **Forsaken** » 02 Oct 2006, 14:52

All time:
1) Ultima Online
2) Diablo 2
3) Quest for Glory
4) Baldurs Gate 2
5) Half Life

The early years of Ultima Online will go down as some of the best times I've ever had playing a game. Eventually the game was ruined by strange gameplay changes and the splitting of the worlds (Trammel/Felucca). But the first few years of UO were an absolute blast.

Current:
1) Titan Quest
2) Company of Heroes
3) Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
4) F.E.A.R
5) Counter Strike Source

EDIT: After getting up from the computer I realized I had made a terrible mistake! Baldurs Gate 2 is easily one of my all time favs and I removed Rome: Total War to allow it reign with my other top 5!

Bluesilentpro · Post by **Bluesilentpro** » 02 Oct 2006, 22:17

Top five:

1.Betrayal at Krondor
2.Gothic I/II
3.Heroes of Might and Magic III/IV/V
4.Freelancer
5.Fallout 2

I'm deeply into RPG....

wanderer · Post by **wanderer** » 02 Oct 2006, 22:32

Here are some great games that i remember:

TOM (Commodore 16, Plus/4)

ACE (Flight SIM, Commodore Plus/4/C64)

Great Giana Sisters (AMIGA, 1987)

Populous (AMIGA, 1989)

Terminal Velocity (PC, 1995)
My first 3D game, i was breathless!!

Realms of the hounting (PC, 1996)
One of the most athmospheric and fascinating games i ever played. Unknown and underrated. Have to install and play it again on my old pc!

The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall
The biggest gaming world i had ever seen! The dungeons were so large and complex, it gives me nightmares even today when thinking of it. And there werde thousands of them! And hundreds of cities! The size of the world of Morowind and Oblivion is just a joke compared to Daggerfall!

Unreal (Awesome graphics, but a real torture on a PI 133 Mhz with 16 MB RAM hehe! But when the game came out in 1998 i could not resist to buy it)

Unreal Tournament

Half-Life

Call of Duty

TES: Morrowind

TES: Oblivion

Far Cry

Widescreen modes would have made every old game better! Of course this was not possible because old computers often were connected to Television and the resolution was limited. For every new game. Widescreen is a big advantage! A 4:3 screen is just like wearing blinders (is that the right word? I mean these things horses have on both sides of their head to limit their FOV :) you know what i mean)

illuminati · Post by **illuminati** » 02 Oct 2006, 23:57

Oh man daggerfall was so hard lol - i sucked at that game :(

SnowBall · Post by **SnowBall** » 03 Oct 2006, 16:47

Ohh ohh, I love these type of threads!

My fave games of all time, ever! Hmmm, I remember a few and even got some on eBay!

In NO particular order -

- F-29 Retaliator
- The Secret of Monkey Island
- Day of the Tentacle(in fact any Lucasarts Graphic Adventure!)
- Moonstone
- Barbarian 2
- Prince of Persia
- Flashback
- Call of Duty Series
- Oblivion
- Company of Heroes
- Command and Conquer - Red Alert 2
- Delta Force(broke my online gaming virginity with this!) :wink:
- Super Mario World
- Golden Eye
- Shadow Warriors
- Golden Axe
- Speedball 2 - Brutal Deluxe
- Gods
- Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja

I've gone a bit ott on this, please forgive me! :oops:

Post by **ctrlsteef** » 03 Oct 2006, 19:12

Okay now, I have to officially add Company of Heroes to my list. This game is totally awesome. :P

wanderer · Post by **wanderer** » 04 Oct 2006, 12:22

This one should not be forgotten:
THIEF: The Dark Project
Solid graphics but perfect and innovative gameplay!

And of course: DESCENT I+II

cabe · Post by **cabe** » 04 Oct 2006, 17:07

My top five, oldest first..

Doom II
Super Mario RPG
Goldeneye/PerfectDark
Freespace 2
Half-Life
Diablo II

And yea, I would have enjoyed all of them even more had they been widescreen!

The Mighty Wimp · Post by **The Mighty Wimp** » 15 Oct 2006, 18:53

1. Half Life 2 - WS ;)
2. Guild Wars- WS ;)
3. Far Cry- WS ;)
4. F.E.A.R.- there is a way to get it, bu ti forget how at the moment :lol:
5. Rise of Nations- there is a way, but i cant find the file i need to edit.

Sweetlogan · Post by **Sweetlogan** » 17 Oct 2006, 06:40

I thought I'd throw this website in... it has a whole lot of old games you can download or at least read about. I would suggest looking up Darklands, if you like RPGs, you won't be disappointed. Or if any of you remember Gauntlet 2.... or look up any old game you remember.

http://www.the-underdogs.info/index.php

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