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Offline Rejenorst

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Nostalgic reflections on games past
« on: December 24, 2013, 12:25:52 pm »
I suppose this is a thread dedicated to chatting about feelings of nostalgia over old titles you might have/had, feel free to chat/discuss any older titles you remember fondly.


I stumbled across a youtube video of the Warcraft 2 soundtrack. I bought Warcraft 2 when I was traveling in France as a kid and bringing it home to play on our newly purchased windows 95. It was the first game I ever played that had a CD soundtrack and what a soundtrack. I loved the game art especially all the amazing pictures by Metzen in the manual, the game story and game world as well as the soundtrack which was awesome and the voice acting. Sadly I never quite felt the same way with Warcraft 3 and definitely lost interest in the series with the release of World of Warcraft.

I mean the soundtrack was amazing for the time:
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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2013, 02:38:31 pm »
Total Annihilation. Best. Game. Ever.  8)
Grew up on a combination of that and Dungeon Keeper. Also Freelancer a bit later on.

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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2013, 02:45:36 pm »
Age of Mythology?

Rise of Nations?

Stronghold? (The first one)

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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2013, 02:46:06 pm »
Ah, for me it's Morrowind, Dungeon Siege, and Freelancer; the games that raised me. I recently played Morrowind again with the overhaul mod, fucking amazing :D

EDIT: Age of Mythology best RTS ever :P
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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2013, 03:11:36 pm »
Replaying Bully: Scholarship Edition was really nostalgic because of the music.
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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2013, 04:19:56 pm »
Battlefield 1942 was awesome. I just want a slightly more modern version of that. Please EA.

PLEASE.

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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2013, 05:34:25 pm »
Rollercoaster Tycoon.... On windows 98... That was awesome.
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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2013, 07:33:07 pm »
Commandos 2, 'nuff said.

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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2013, 08:03:09 pm »
Red Alert. Soviet March really gets me on.

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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2013, 08:03:55 pm »
Anyone remember Bugdom? It came for free on a lot of old Macs. Played the shit out of it on my elementary school computers

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Oh, and Nanosaur. My friends and I just called it Dinosaur With Ray gun. Fantastic game.

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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2013, 10:00:09 pm »
- Frogger
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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2013, 10:40:32 pm »
Battlefield 1942 was awesome. I just want a slightly more modern version of that. Please EA.

PLEASE.

BF 1943?  :P
Nah I'm with you. A shame it was never released for PC, and yeah, an even newer version would be awesome.

But yeah 1942 is something I really look back to with pleasure.
Same with Rome Total War and Age of Mythology.
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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2013, 10:52:09 pm »
- Populous
- Age of Empires II
- Stronghold Crusader
- Imperium Galactica II
 
Ah, memories..
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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2013, 10:53:25 pm »
- Populous
- Age of Empires II
- Stronghold Crusader
- Imperium Galactica II
 
Ah, memories..

Stronghold is still to be no-lived though.
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Re: Nostalgic reflections on games past
« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2013, 10:54:53 pm »
Indeed, Stronghold HD on steam for 2 euros. Let the nostalgia flooooooow!
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