[NGTM-1R]

SWotL.

Da da da, da dada.

[Unknown Target]

SWotL.

Da da da, da dada.

I LOVE that game! That's totally what I grew up on!

[Mongoose]

He can't refute the criticism of the second game so he has to resort to trying to get us with the first game

yeahno

Also, again, what Battuta said.  I think I've been saying that a lot in here recently.

[NGTM-1R]

He can't refute the criticism of the second game so he has to resort to trying to get us with the first game

negrep. 

I think this is more likely true of you considering you didn't even try to refute the points he made about the second game. Neither did Unknown.

[Hades]

I'll give you those *****ninja assassins, but are you talking about the bullsquids and tentacles that you could kill with all of three bullets, or the MP5 that I could shoot thirty rounds into a soldier's face and not kill him with?  Yeah, I'm not really seeing the pluses.

The giant green tentacles? Uh, those couldn't even be killed with bullets. and I'm pretty sure you're wrong about 30 rounds into a marine's face, they died in about 6-7 shots IIRC, not to mention they had decent AI.

The bullsquids died in about the same amount of shots as a combine overwatch with each game's respective weapon.

I found the Combine pulse rifle to be fairly accurate at range myself, especially if you were going more single-shot with it; in any case, the Magnum was what you wanted to be using for longer-range headshots anyway.

It was more accurate than the SMG but definitely still pretty inaccurate. Not to mention Magnum rounds were extremely rare so you don't really have many with you at a time anyway.

And as far as that newspaper clipping goes, did you perhaps fail to notice the same one earlier at Black Mesa East in Eli's lab, one which Eli specifically comments on when you look at it?

He was saying that since the damned newspapers were a part of the texture that they were unreadable at low settings.

[CP5670]

I didn't like HL2 much either. The story was okay but was only told in a handful of cutscenes, and most of the actual game consisted of a series of dull sewers and destroyed houses. It always felt like you were running through these boring and completely linear maps with no purpose or goals in mind. As for the storytelling and presentation style, Cryostasis was a far better example of that approach. Despite its flaws, that game is what HL2 should have been like.

Anyway, I always play lots of stuff from the 90s. I play D2X-XL a fair bit these days and am going through some recent fanmade levels.

I still play the first Unreal...

There is still a fairly active singleplayer mod community for this and UT. I was just checking out the progress with this.

[Hades]

I didn't like HL2 much either. The story was okay but was only told in a handful of cutscenes, and most of the actual game consisted of a series of dull sewers and destroyed houses. It always felt like you were running through these boring and completely linear maps with no purpose or goals in mind. As for the storytelling and presentation style, Cryostasis was a far better example of that approach. Despite its flaws, that game is what HL2 should have been like.

Yeah, I definitely agree. It's also funny how the graphics looked only somewhat better than Halo 1 (and it's TPS pre-release version, which goes back before 1998) even though it was made 3 years after Halo 1 was made.

[Satellight]

I still play the first Unreal...

There is still a fairly active singleplayer mod community for this and UT. I was just checking out the progress with this.

Well, OldUnreal, UnrealTextures and UnrealSP are on my favorite bar, soooo... 
It's just fun that the 3 first games I ever bought (in order : Unreal, FreeSpace and Homeworld) are among those who have, even years later, great communities.

For Half-Life 1 : I found it inventive, not just the kill ! kill ! kill ! game, very pleasant to play (finished it at least 5 times), but a little bit too...clean (except in Xen, of course) compared to Unreal and his sinister atmosphere. I like to be scared and I'm pretty sure that the Skaarjs took me at least one year of my life  .
For Half-Life 2 : I really prefer what have been done with his engine than the game itself (PORTAL !!! )
BUT ! This is only my opinion, so don't kill me.

To strictly stay within the subject, I think that the games we played some years ago are the same than the games our children play today : great memories for the years to come, nostalgia... That's for THIS that GoG.com was created, after all. It don't prevent me for liking actual games (I pretty enjoyed Batman : Arkham Asylum, for example), but it's true that our first gaming experiences often remains in our mind.

[Davros]

since we are mentioning old games
Hardwar that rocked

[General Battuta]

hardwar was soooo goooood

[Satellight]

ATI Rage Pro 

Incoming was soooo beautiful on it !

[Polpolion]

System Shock 2

System Shock 2 was awesome, I just can't help but feel that it could've been way better if they had found some other way to tell what happened, other than the crew logs.

[Jeryko]

Tyrian
Day of the Tentacle
Monkey Island Series

[Unknown Target]

Battlefield 1942 (though I never played it, Bad Company 2 has given me a good idea of what a really fun BF-style match would be)

Freespace 2!

Homeworld

Jane's WWII Fighters

Unreal Tournament 1999

Unreal Tournament 2004

Infiltration for UT99

Matrix mod for UT99

Unreal4Ever for UT99

Ironically I never played that many FS2 mods, I was too busy modding

I can't think of too many others, actually. Freespace and all of the extra mods and stuff that came with every game I bought meant I didn't buy too many games. Didn't have the money, either.

[sayoqod]

Nostalgia for me is the old Zelda games. Ocarina of Time, in particular

[starbug]

For me it was

Freespace 1 ooh the music was epic and the intro sent chills down my spine! Shame FS2 never did for me, well not the intro.

System Shock 2

Realms of the Haunting - a truely classic, epic, atmosphereic game

Doom, i can still humm the soundtrack to E1M7!

As for Half-life 2 techincal and graphical it was a masterpiece but for gamplay wise i found Half-life superior in that respect, i prefer the marines to the combine to fight anyday. HL2 was just another shooter for me that lacked a proper plot but thats my take on it, maybe i was looking the wrong places to the get the plot and story of the game.

[Zacam]

Zaxxon
Frontier II: Elite
Star Control I/II
MANTIS
LHX
Echelon ( The OLD abandoned 1987 version, so as not to be confused with the MADIA 2001 version)
The above is NOT a warez link. The title is so abandoned, it's not even funny. Thanks to who reported it anyway, though. lrn2read.
Any SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc) AD&D Game.
Space Quest

[Flipside]

Well, if I go back to the ones that truly defined my gaming experiences:

Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy
Ant Attack
Scramble
Jet Pac/Nodes of Yesod
Phoenix
Q*Bert
Missile Command
Gauntlet
Elite 1

..... Ahhhh.. those were the days

[Ravenholme]

Dune II, the first C&Cs, Terminal Velocity, DK I, Half Life 1, oh.. too many games to count. I've literally been gaming since I was 3 (1994), where I started with Alone in the Dark (Too young to be scared) and Dune II on the Acorn.

[Zacam]

... since I was 3 (1994)...

I think I'm going to go have a large stiff drink. So I can not feel so old.