[.::Tin Can::.]

Although it's not old (2002), you could play Natural Selection, since it's free...

www.naturalselection.com

Its a mod for half life... and its fun.

[Scuddie]

An update...

I noticed a few old titles, most of which I enjoyed playing many years ago.  However, they would not work well today, considering DOS doesn't work well with WinXP.  Add that to the fact that Warcraft 3 ran too fast on my PII 450 and now I have an XP 2600+.  When I said good old games are better than mediocre new games, I didn't mean to leave out some good quality new games.  So poo on you .

And to respond to a few statements, yes I am tired of FS2.  You will get tired of it too if you play it non-stop trying to create your own campaign and failing at every attempt.  I have FB+Ace and I wish I could have hawt mansecks with it.  Natural selection has a great gameplay idea, but the servers are all filled with stupid pubescant teenagers who love how '1337' they are.  MechWarror 3 is indeed the best mech game ever, but it's too bad a decent one hasn't shown up since MS bought it out.  I haven't tried any of the riddick games.  What are they about?  I might follow up on that.

[aldo_14]

Incidentally, can anyone tell me if Armed and Dangerous is worth £2?  I saw it in a shop for that, wondering if it's worth a pop.

[Swamp_Thing]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Incidentally, can anyone tell me if Armed and Dangerous is worth £2?  I saw it in a shop for that, wondering if it's worth a pop.

Yes it is. It has some of the best voice acting i´ve seen, and it made me laugh so hard it hurted. Very good stuff. The gameplay is a bit...uh, awkward. But good. Well worth the 2 pounds.

[Flaser]

"System Shock 2" can be downloaded at HOTU.

[Grug]

Originally posted by Turnsky
Fallout 1 or 2

Ditto.

[Andreas]

Vietcong. Okay, so it's not old, but IMO it is the best FPS ever.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Flaser
"System Shock 2" can be downloaded at HOTU.

[color=66ff00]True but it seems Looking Glass is a bit miffed about that.

Oh and you pretty much can't play it on anything other than win98 as 2k and XP are problematic to say the least. Oh yeah, if you play it go get the texture and model upgrades and give zylonbane some kudos while you're at it as he's responsible for some of those nice addons.
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[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]True but it seems Looking Glass is a bit miffed about that.
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I thought Looking Glass was dead?

If not, rather than *****ing they should just sodding  re-release it on budget, rather than whining.  Gits.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by aldo_14


I thought Looking Glass was dead?

If not, rather than *****ing they should just sodding  re-release it on budget, rather than whining.  Gits.

[color=66ff00]Too true, SS2 is hens teeth these days. Costs a bloody fortune if you do manage to find a copy too.

This is why I personally find their attitude to the game rather annoying. Oh yeah, saw a post by them or a representative of theirs on a SS2 forum, can't remember which one offhand though.
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[Bobboau]

for old _OLD_ school SNES style shoot'em up space fighter game try this

[Cyker]

Wow, all good suggestions...

I'd like to add Darwinia to that list 'tho - I can't think of a game so simple yet so complex... it's almost Tetris-like!

I just played the Psychonauts and that's pretty fun. Damned well should be since it was made by the same guy who was largely responsible for stuff like Day of the Tentacle
However, there is a fairly strong 3D platformer element which may put people off. Basically, if you hate MDK, then you'll hate Psychonauts because they play *very* similarly.

The Warhammer game, Dawn of War is very good too, but the single-player mode is depressingly short.

If you're really stuck, get a SNES emulator and play ChronoTrigger - Best damned game Sqauresoft ever made IMHO.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Flaser
"System Shock 2" can be downloaded at HOTU.

and while we're on that subject... pretty much any game, particularly new, can be downloaded off any P2P utility... eMule, Bittorrent, Kazaa, ,etc.


just kidding!

[Unknown Target]

Unreal Tournament (original)

[Clave]

Unreal (original)

[Flipside]

You know, you've all just reminded me of a game called Archon, which was like Chess but more. I downloaded a version from HotU but we are talking Pre-Windows here, and XP no like one little bit.

[phreak]

http://www.penguinbomb.com/phreak/othello/

[willy_principal]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Unreal Tournament (original)

UT rules......................Counter-Strike: SUCKS

[Deepblue]

Agreed Counter-Strike sucks. The only reason I plaly it is because it has bots, and I finished the campaigns in all my other games multiple times.

Anyway, on topic.

Download Americas Army v. 2.3. It's free and fun. Just don't forget it's a recruiting tool.

[Flaser]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]True but it seems Looking Glass is a bit miffed about that.

Oh and you pretty much can't play it on anything other than win98 as 2k and XP are problematic to say the least. Oh yeah, if you play it go get the texture and model upgrades and give zylonbane some kudos while you're at it as he's responsible for some of those nice addons.
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That's not quite true sir.

I've played SS2 on my 2k and XP machine several times. (I own an original copy.)
All you need is the -lgntforce command line added to setup.exe when installing and all is fine AFAIK.