The "You're Winner!" Gaming Thread

[Ataxia]

Ahh, good old classic DOS games. I'd personally add Wolfenstein 3D and Rise of the Triad to that list.

I'd add Star Wars: Dark Forces as well. Any game where you punch out a dragon is awesome in my book, to name but one awesome thing you do in the course of completing it.

If we're talking DOS games, I have a sudden urge to play either the classic Monkey Island games or Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis...

[DOSBoot]

On the other end of the shooter spectrum, has anyone here played Serious Sam 3? It's pretty damn good if you're into old-school run-and-gun shooters like Quake and Doom. Admittedly I find the first couple of levels a bit slow, but it really picks up after that - the last half of the game is pretty much the best gameplay I've come across in a shooter.

I haven't, but anything Doom-esque should be fine in my book. Although, likely as not, I will continue to play Doom/Heretic/Hexen wads that I find lying around the internet as opposed to finding anything all-new that I have to play on a console I don't have.

No need to worry about that with Serious Sam 3 - it's a PC title first and foremost, and it's fairly lax in it's requirements to boot.

Ahh, good old classic DOS games. I'd personally add Wolfenstein 3D and Rise of the Triad to that list.

I'd add Star Wars: Dark Forces as well. Any game where you punch out a dragon is awesome in my book, to name but one awesome thing you do in the course of completing it.

While were on the subject of Doom-esque shooters, you should have a look at the classic "Maraton" trilogy. They were the precursors to the Halo games, and made by the same developers. All three have been released as freeware by Bungie themselves, and can be dowloaded for free. It runs fine on my Windows 7 3ghz HP Pavillion. An awesome game for it's time.

Here's the link to it.
http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/

[Nuppiz]

And yes, you're right with Rise Of The Triad - Doom may have been a superior technical package but the amount of guts and gore in ROTT certainly made up for it. As did the quite literal interpretation of "God" mode.

Indeed. In what other shooter can you turn into a tall, invincible creature which can shoot balls of energy from it's hand that home into your enemies and literally obliterates them? And do so indefinitely until the effect wears off?

[Shizuka]

Probably the worst video game I ever played was Superman 64 for the Nintendo 64. Man that was an awful game.

DOSBoot, have you seen the beta version of Superman 64? That's actually better than the final version... Have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JHCn3THgGU

[DOSBoot]

Probably the worst video game I ever played was Superman 64 for the Nintendo 64. Man that was an awful game.

DOSBoot, have you seen the beta version of Superman 64? That's actually better than the final version... Have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JHCn3THgGU

Man. That is a thousand times better. It's not great, but it's certainly better than the final product. What were they thinking when they decided to make you fly through a whole bunch of rings? Someone needs to make this into a repoduction, and fast!

[FMecha]

So, I've started playing NationStates today. My nation name there is Jukenia.

[Gerudo Dragon]

Does anyone else have TOCA 2?

[Shizuka]

I only had TOCA WTC, but boy do I liked Vancouver and Surfers Paradise...

[Gerudo Dragon]

I only had TOCA WTC, but boy do I liked Vancouver and Surfers Paradise...

I had that aswell, and yes they were fun tracks.

[MinardiFan95]

Does anyone else have TOCA 2?

Yep, one of my favourite games of all time, along with TOCA WTC (which, to my 9 year old self was the greatest game ever as it had the Ford Falcon AU and Bathurst).

[RonDenisDeletraz]

Does anyone else have TOCA 2?

Yep, one of my favourite games of all time, along with TOCA WTC (which, to my 9 year old self was the greatest game ever as it had the Ford Falcon AU and Bathurst).

The AU. Quite possibly my favourite Ford ever because it was so crap half the time.

[AndreaModa]

Does anyone else have TOCA 2?

I do as well, but I can't get it to work on my laptop which runs Vista.

[dr-baker]

Does anyone else have TOCA 2?

I do on PSP. Better than the follow-up TOCA 3 on PSP.

[MinardiFan95]

Does anyone else have TOCA 2?

I do on PSP. Better than the follow-up TOCA 3 on PSP.

There's two different TOCA 2's though - one is "TOCA 2 Touring Cars" which features the 1998 BTCC season plus support categories and the other is "TOCA Race Driver 2" (which is the one you're referring to) which has the 2003 V8 Supercars and DTM series' as well as some series made for the game.

[dr-baker]

Does anyone else have TOCA 2?

I do on PSP. Better than the follow-up TOCA 3 on PSP.

There's two different TOCA 2's though - one is "TOCA 2 Touring Cars" which features the 1998 BTCC season plus support categories and the other is "TOCA Race Driver 2" (which is the one you're referring to) which has the 2003 V8 Supercars and DTM series' as well as some series made for the game.

Oh, OK. My fail. Ignorance isn't always bliss...

[MinardiFan95]

Speaking of the TOCA/RaceDriver series, anyone else a bit disappointed in the direction that GRID 2 seems to be heading, with no cockpit view, less actual racing cars and Need For Speed style tracks?

[Gerudo Dragon]

Speaking of the TOCA/RaceDriver series, anyone else a bit disappointed in the direction that GRID 2 seems to be heading, with no cockpit view, less actual racing cars and Need For Speed style tracks?

I agree, It seems like Codemasters is becoming more arcadey except for their F1 games.

[Phoenix]

I only had TOCA WTC, but boy do I liked Vancouver and Surfers Paradise...

Wasn't this one the original plattform of F1RWRS? Or am I confusing facts/games?

[RealRacingRoots]

Speaking of the TOCA/RaceDriver series, anyone else a bit disappointed in the direction that GRID 2 seems to be heading, with no cockpit view, less actual racing cars and Need For Speed style tracks?

No? We've only seen a CG trailer and a bunch of written previews. There will still be a bunch of street tracks and Permanent Tracks, with only more tracks based on road ways.(compared to GRID 1 which only had the touge track)

The lack of cockpit cam doesn't really matter to me, the reason why they passed on adding it is understandable; it takes too much power to have a good cockpit cam when there is already a lot going on and it adds alot of development time which can be used to make the game better. A cockpit cam does not a good game make, or lack of one a horrible one make. (The 95%/5% statistic Codies apparently have is hilarious by the way.)

I am disappointed that GRID 2 won't have any racing cars, as far as it looks like. I enjoyed the classes of cars that GRID had, especially the GT1 class. GRID 2 needed an extension of the GRID 1 car list but with cars from 2006 (GRID's carlist was built around the 2006 Le Mans Series, with some other cars) to now, and with a few extra classes like GT3 in there too.

As it turns out, people have been overreacting to the trailer and the limited previews, wait until you play the game before you get overly judgemental. I guess that what disappoints me with gaming today.

[tommykl]

I only had TOCA WTC, but boy do I liked Vancouver and Surfers Paradise...

Wasn't this one the original plattform of F1RWRS? Or am I confusing facts/games?

That was TOCA Race Driver 3, also known as V8 Supercars 3

[Klon]

I only had TOCA WTC, but boy do I liked Vancouver and Surfers Paradise...

I had that aswell, and yes they were fun tracks.

To this day it is my biggest pet peeve that there were so few games that without mods include Vancouver - it is one of my favourite tracks to (virtually) drive on.

[DOSBoot]

I was just browsing around, and found out that Peter Arundell, who scored two podiums with Lotus in 1964, is responsible for founding the software company Mystique, which created a number of pornographic video games for the Atari 2600.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arundell

[dinizintheoven]

I was just browsing around, and found out that Peter Arundell, who scored two podiums with Lotus in 1964, is responsible for founding the software company Mystique, which created a number of pornographic video games for the Atari 2600....

Quoth Wikipedia: "...responsible for amongst other games the notorious Custer's Revenge."

And that deserves the biggest Reject Of The Post-Motorsport Career Award in history - even bigger than the one Jacques Villeneuve got for his "musical" career. I will rescind the award only if there are any others who joined a far-left or far-right political party, or became a televangelist preacher, or (insert equally heinous crime). After all, we will never know exactly what Ricardo Londoño-Bridge did in Colombia to get himself shot, even though I doubt it was legal.

[Ataxia]

I was just browsing around, and found out that Peter Arundell, who scored two podiums with Lotus in 1964, is responsible for founding the software company Mystique, which created a number of pornographic video games for the Atari 2600....

Quoth Wikipedia: "...responsible for amongst other games the notorious Custer's Revenge."

And that deserves the biggest Reject Of The Post-Motorsport Career Award in history - even bigger than the one Jacques Villeneuve got for his "musical" career. I will rescind the award only if there are any others who joined a far-left or far-right political party, or became a televangelist preacher, or (insert equally heinous crime). After all, we will never know exactly what Ricardo Londoño-Bridge did in Colombia to get himself shot, even though I doubt it was legal.

Now this sounds interesting, find the ex-F1 driver with the most controversial post-racing career...might need a new thread for that.

[dr-baker]

I always thought Jody Scheckter's immediate post-F1 career was controversial:

After Scheckter's retirement, he founded FATS Inc, a company which built firearms training simulators for military, law enforcement and security organizations. The sale of the company provided funds to allow Scheckter to help the racing careers of his sons Tomas and Toby.

[Ataxia]

I always thought Jody Scheckter's immediate post-F1 career was controversial:

After Scheckter's retirement, he founded FATS Inc, a company which built firearms training simulators for military, law enforcement and security organizations. The sale of the company provided funds to allow Scheckter to help the racing careers of his sons Tomas and Toby.

Oh, the stereotypes...

According to Wikipedia, Innes Ireland skippered trawlers in the North Atlantic. That's quite a fishy job...

[TomWazzleshaw]

I have a question for all you Tropico fans (Read: Klon ).

For weeks now, I've been debating whether to get the Modern Times expansion pack for Tropico 4 or not. I've been reading up the features included and it appeals to me but I'm undecided on whether to get it or not. So does anyone have Modern Times and should I get it or not?

[Nuppiz]

Skyrim still does it for me. It's just terrific.

For whatever reason, I haven't actively played Skyrim since February. Instead, I've played Morrowind quite a lot in the past couple of days.

Funny thing is, I bought Skyrim to myself when I was doing on-the-job-training at a video game store in last December, and had set myself the limitation of not buying it until for once I completed the main story line of Morrowind.

[Ataxia]

Skyrim still does it for me. It's just terrific.

For whatever reason, I haven't actively played Skyrim since February. Instead, I've played Morrowind quite a lot in the past couple of days.

Funny thing is, I bought Skyrim to myself when I was doing on-the-job-training at a video game store in last December, and had set myself the limitation of not buying it until for once I completed the main story line of Morrowind.

Morrowind was also terrific. The graphics are dated by today's standards, but as a 10/11 year old I just played it to death. Back then, I used to Silt Strider everywhere, but playing it recently it's so much more fun to walk it and find cool things. I don't think I liked the constant confrontation with Kwama Foragers and Cliff Racers back then...

I also enjoyed Oblivion, but IMO Morrowind and Skyrim are definitely better. I've never played Daggerfall or Arena though, might have to give them a try...

[Nuppiz]

Morrowind was also terrific. The graphics are dated by today's standards, but as a 10/11 year old I just played it to death. Back then, I used to Silt Strider everywhere, but playing it recently it's so much more fun to walk it and find cool things. I don't think I liked the constant confrontation with Kwama Foragers and Cliff Racers back then...

I also enjoyed Oblivion, but IMO Morrowind and Skyrim are definitely better. I've never played Daggerfall or Arena though, might have to give them a try...

I'm also travelling a lot by foot these days, largely because I've found some heavy-duty constant effect Resist Magicka gear (combined total 70%) which allows me to wield the Boots of Blinding Speed yet only suffer a very slight blind effect (the screen merely gets a bit darker). So for most of the time I'm running around the map like a madman (or should I say madwoman, as my current character is female). This has also allowed me to find so many good places for loot that I have practically limitless funds: a lot of good stuff is waiting in my house to be sold whenever I need some extra cash, and most of it I can't even sell because no merchant has enough money to buy them. Unless I go to the enchanter to make myself some superb gear and then, as her available money has been temporarily boosted by this, sell some of the expensive stuff to get my money back.

Oblivion is good and looks bloody beautiful with mods, but the only thing that matters is that once you've completed all of the quests (of which there are too few in my opinion) there's very little to do (and I'm not going to download any quest mods, for the record). Still, I've spent literally hundreds of hours playing Oblivion. Skyrim isn't bad, as there's a lot of stuff to do (including making your own items, something not possible in TES before), but the dreadful UI (somewhat fixable with mods) and overly simplified gameplay (no doubt made for the impatient console players) reduce my interest on it.

I've tried Daggerfall as, like Arena, it's freely downloadable via Bethesda. But I can't even get past the first dungeon without dying...

[Ataxia]

Morrowind was also terrific. The graphics are dated by today's standards, but as a 10/11 year old I just played it to death. Back then, I used to Silt Strider everywhere, but playing it recently it's so much more fun to walk it and find cool things. I don't think I liked the constant confrontation with Kwama Foragers and Cliff Racers back then...

I also enjoyed Oblivion, but IMO Morrowind and Skyrim are definitely better. I've never played Daggerfall or Arena though, might have to give them a try...

I'm also travelling a lot by foot these days, largely because I've found some heavy-duty constant effect Resist Magicka gear (combined total 70%) which allows me to wield the Boots of Blinding Speed yet only suffer a very slight blind effect (the screen merely gets a bit darker). So for most of the time I'm running around the map like a madman (or should I say madwoman, as my current character is female). This has also allowed me to find so many good places for loot that I have practically limitless funds: a lot of good stuff is waiting in my house to be sold whenever I need some extra cash, and most of it I can't even sell because no merchant has enough money to buy them. Unless I go to the enchanter to make myself some superb gear and then, as her available money has been temporarily boosted by this, sell some of the expensive stuff to get my money back.

I assume you've tried Creeper in Ghorak Manor (I think) in Caldera? I think he buys anything, and he's got around 4k gold. And there's the Mudcrab Merchant too.

Oblivion is good and looks bloody beautiful with mods, but the only thing that matters is that once you've completed all of the quests (of which there are too few in my opinion) there's very little to do (and I'm not going to download any quest mods, for the record). Still, I've spent literally hundreds of hours playing Oblivion. Skyrim isn't bad, as there's a lot of stuff to do (including making your own items, something not possible in TES before), but the dreadful UI (somewhat fixable with mods) and overly simplified gameplay (no doubt made for the impatient console players) reduce my interest on it.

I like the new style of gameplay; it rewards you for how you play the game. I'm a sneaky bows 'n' arrows kinda guy (will be crossbows when I have the expansion pack), so my light armor, sneak and archery skills are fairly high. I felt that in the previous games, you were perhaps tied down to a set of weapons and skills from the off, less so in Oblivion as the thing at the beginning sort of picked up your style.

I've tried Daggerfall as, like Arena, it's freely downloadable via Bethesda. But I can't even get past the first dungeon without dying...

Found it, will get it sooner rather than later. I've heard it's a hard dungeon...might have to find some tips on how to do it.

Just an aside, I decided to play Gran Turismo 5 for the first time in a little while and now I have to download a 475MB update. Oh, the cruelty of it.

[Nuppiz]

I assume you've tried Creeper in Ghorak Manor (I think) in Caldera? I think he buys anything, and he's got around 4k gold. And there's the Mudcrab Merchant too.

Yeah, I've sold the Creeper a lot of stuff, and was aware of the Mudcrab Merchant too but he's a bit in the middle of nowhere so I've rarely visited him. The problem is, a lot of my stuff is ebony, glass or daedric, and they're valued from 10k up. Besides, I've already got over 70k cash so I've no need for it at the moment.

I guess I'll try Skyrim again today, although for whatever reason I feel a bit uninspired by it.

[Alianora La Canta]

My favourite DOS games are Rogue (a role-playing game that was coded before I was born, and I still haven't managed to finish it...), Jazz Jackrabbit (think Sonic with gun-wielding bunnies and turtles), Commander Keen (a fun if occasionally frustrating platformer) and SimCity 2000 (probably doesn't need an explanation). Other old games I like include Mordor (a role-playing game with a great guild system but surprisingly less broad-ranging than the decade-younger Rogue) and Dr. Drago's Madcap Chase (the only board-game to computer-game conversion I've ever seen that worked).

I like old games a lot, which is just as well because my somewhat creaky custom-built computer's components are, on average, 7 years old and do not run anything newer than The Sims 2 (which is my favourite computer game).

[dinizintheoven]

My favourite DOS games are Rogue (a role-playing game that was coded before I was born, and I still haven't managed to finish it...), Jazz Jackrabbit (think Sonic with gun-wielding bunnies and turtles), Commander Keen (a fun if occasionally frustrating platformer) and SimCity 2000 (probably doesn't need an explanation). Other old games I like include Mordor (a role-playing game with a great guild system but surprisingly less broad-ranging than the decade-younger Rogue) and Dr. Drago's Madcap Chase (the only board-game to computer-game conversion I've ever seen that worked).

I like old games a lot, which is just as well because my somewhat creaky custom-built computer's components are, on average, 7 years old and do not run anything newer than The Sims 2 (which is my favourite computer game).

Hands off her, Baker!

[dr-baker]

My favourite DOS games are Rogue (a role-playing game that was coded before I was born, and I still haven't managed to finish it...), Jazz Jackrabbit (think Sonic with gun-wielding bunnies and turtles), Commander Keen (a fun if occasionally frustrating platformer) and SimCity 2000 (probably doesn't need an explanation). Other old games I like include Mordor (a role-playing game with a great guild system but surprisingly less broad-ranging than the decade-younger Rogue) and Dr. Drago's Madcap Chase (the only board-game to computer-game conversion I've ever seen that worked).

I like old games a lot, which is just as well because my somewhat creaky custom-built computer's components are, on average, 7 years old and do not run anything newer than The Sims 2 (which is my favourite computer game).

Hands off her, Baker!

Out of that list, Sims 2 and SimCity 2000 are about the only two games I've heard of... Sorry, Alianora!

[AndreaModa]

Ah SimCity...I'm a massive fan of SimCity 4, I've spent many early hours of the morning messing about on there!

It's probably my favourite game, mainly because as a human geographer, I love designing road networks, land-use planning, etc, etc.

[TomWazzleshaw]

Ah SimCity...I'm a massive fan of SimCity 4, I've spent many early hours of the morning messing about on there!

It's probably my favourite game, mainly because as a human geographer, I love designing road networks, land-use planning, etc, etc.

SimCity 4's an absolute bitch when you're just getting used to the game but once I got Rush Hour and figured out how to actually make financially viable cities with the money making tutorial, I started to love the game as well.

Another good game out there is Cities In Motion. Whilst it may fry your computer about once a week, there's a crapload of good free addons and maps out there and you can spend many an hour designing a new public transport system for places like Helsinki or Vienna. That being said, I've always preferred maps where you have to connect small towns together for some reason.

[David AGS]

This is a great thread, a lot of great memories.

Wolf 3D up there for me, and who can remember its sequel in Spear Of Destiny, which was the same but had weeds growing from ceiling.
Doom, Heretic 3d (where you shoot at devils etc) Descent where you fly in a spaceship in a maze sort of thing. Wing Commander, I can go on and on.

I can go back to Atari 2600 days, River Raid, Tennis, Boxing, Tomcat, and even back to Commodore 64 at a very young age, playing Bubble Bubble, Commando, etc

Commander Keen was good, but frustrating, enjoyed the pong game built in every now and then too.

GOOD TIMES

[dinizintheoven]

Out of that list, Sims 2 and SimCity 2000 are about the only two games I've heard of... Sorry, Alianora!

SC2000 is the only one I've actually played, I've heard of Commander Keen (mainly via what you have to do at the end of Doom II's second secret level), and I'd not heard of the others. But still - any woman who plays old games herself, whatever they are, certainly won't mind if I do the same (especially seeing as that's what F1RMGP involves), certainly won't mind me obsessing over a Grand Prix weekend (eh, Eryx?) and might not even be too averse to setting up camp for a few days in a rainy forest in eastern Belgium. That, and "Derbyshire" could mean as little as eight miles from my house, means my offer still stands, although I've got a response planned for the inevitable situation when Alianora finally sees this post and tells me she's happily married with three kids...

[quote="David AGS"]Wolf 3D up there for me, and who can remember its sequel in Spear Of Destiny, which was the same but had weeds growing from ceiling.
Doom, Heretic 3d (where you shoot at devils etc) Descent where you fly in a spaceship in a maze sort of thing. Wing Commander, I can go on and on.[/quote
Hopefully you mean the original Heretic (for those of you who don't know, think Doom with a medieval makeover) rather than the third-person Heretic II. Descent was a game I only ever played a demo of, figuring I'd need a joystick to play it properly, seeing as it was more of a cross between a first-person shooter and a flight simulator.

[FullMetalJack]

My favourite DOS games are Rogue (a role-playing game that was coded before I was born, and I still haven't managed to finish it...), Jazz Jackrabbit (think Sonic with gun-wielding bunnies and turtles), Commander Keen (a fun if occasionally frustrating platformer) and SimCity 2000 (probably doesn't need an explanation). Other old games I like include Mordor (a role-playing game with a great guild system but surprisingly less broad-ranging than the decade-younger Rogue) and Dr. Drago's Madcap Chase (the only board-game to computer-game conversion I've ever seen that worked).

I like old games a lot, which is just as well because my somewhat creaky custom-built computer's components are, on average, 7 years old and do not run anything newer than The Sims 2 (which is my favourite computer game).

Hands off her, Baker!

Every one of your posts on here makes me laugh at least a bit.