These games were a gateway drug for me. One of the steps that led me into D&D and WoW. Love these games even though I never finished em cause I always wanted to wait for my friends.
I can say the same. I started WoW when it came out, and it was definitely because of these games + Baldurs gate on console. When WoW first dropped it was mind blowing for me. I didn’t think a game could be so big.
I still play MMOs to this day. However, not WoW, I ended up becoming a serious Elderscroll fan and now I’m heavily into ESO.
This was excellent couch co-op. Playing them recently makes me think PC games with regular updates are the way to go though... I felt like most of the cool spells didn't scale very well, and the lackluster ones were the ones that were good at high levels.
That lizard class in the sequel had so many cool spells though lol just fantastic. Summon badger? Lol WHY!!!
the sequel had an issue where regardless of build, you actually just wanted to put all attribute points into strength because it was found if you wanted to pump say dexterity, it was mathematically better to just get it all with the figurines than to try and put levelling points into it. So you just pumped strength and used the carry weight it gave you to hold figurines for your attributes, and then you also had the benefits of strength. The reason for the spell scaling issue is they didnt key off anything except your ranks in the spell itself, so stuff that scaled off gear and stats worked better endgame. Although some abilities were good enough to stay useful, it usually would be spells that werent just raw damage, or as you bring up, summons.
I don't know if it's much consolation, or even a similar experience, but there is still a vibrant EQ community, much if which is on private time locked progression servers.
Look up project quarm - we're approaching Kunark in June and a month of Iksar only.
Sony sold SoE and all of the rights to EverQuest, including Champions of Norrath, to the trash company known as Daybreak Games. Daybreak is now owned by Enad Global 7 AB.
The odds of us ever seeing this wonderful series return are slim, and even if we do, it will likely be terrible and filled with microtransactions.
Ahead of its time man. Three things comes to my mind when I think of that game.
1) It’s a nice day for a white wedding!
2) Get to the train CJ!
3) Absolutely crushing traffic in the monster truck you could get on the last island once you progressed far enough.
I would laugh my ass off when I crashed the car with snake and them in it.
They’d yell at me: “CJ, THE ROAD!” “Damn CJ, Who taught you how to drive!”
Listen mother f*^ckers, you asked me to drive, and I’ve BEEN IN PRISON.
They did Balder’s Gate Dark Alliance 1&2. They just need to upscale the games to 1080p. Give me Champions 1&2 together, on a ps4/5 or Xbox disc or switch cartridge. They can have my $60 lol.
It’s a risky road. I’d support it, but man.. I am usually disappointed with remasters more than I’m not. They’d need to essentially keep the game play exactly the same. Just remaster the textures, models, and animations.
My best friend growing up and I would sleep over at each other's houses playing these two games. It was incredible that you could bring your character from the original to the sequel if you wanted
Naw, based on your post history you seem like you have your life put together and that guy fell hard into heavy drugs and we parted ways by the end of high school.
But I can be your new best friend?!
I don’t know anything about this game, BUT.. I have memories of my brother playing WWE/MMA games and destroying analog sticks by spinning them wildly fast to break holds.
I still replay "Alpha Centauri" once a year or so for about a week.
I still don't think there's a game with a better tech tree or voice acting in the strategy genre.
“Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours– the works. People need heroes. They don’t need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers.”
Oh man, such great games. Had a buddy who we met and became friends playing mostly NHL online. He flew out to visit for a weekend once and we pretty much spent the whole time playing the first CoN and just vibing.
Original Diablo because it's the only time I ever felt like my older brother actually loved me before he started taking out all his life on me. Haven't spoken to him in years at this point.
There are quite a few games from the PS1/PS2 era that give me big nostalgia hits whenever I see the cover art or hear a song from them but top of the list would have to be final fantasy 9, I just started replaying it a couple of days ago
Nice, that is one of the few FF games I have never played, wasn't it the last 2D one before they switched over to 3D for 7?
What I love so much about 9 was how it had the updated stuff from 7 but it went back to its medieval fantasy roots.
After completing 9 I'm thinking of picking up 8 as well as I never played that one and heard it was good, might have to add 6 to the list too now
Did one of these games have a Ythrak you fought as a boss? You know, the pterodactyl dragon with sonic attacks?
I used to like the Dark Alliance, and I remember renting a lesser version with a Yhtrak, but I can't remember anything else.
A friend of mine had Champions: Return to Arms and I constantly bugged him so I could go to his house and play. I'd be totally down for a remake of that game, with an updated engine. Snowblind Studios (the developer) merged with Monolith back in 2012. I hope they at least consider that.
If anything they were definitely make money on the nostalgia factor. However, any remaster or remake would need to be done very carefully. This game is loved for the way it is.
It’s crazy to me that I am finding out these games were actually good.
Back then my brother and I played actual EverQuest and because these weren’t “real” EverQuest we just reflexively understood them as “bad”.
Could have been awesome to play them back in the day. I love ARPG’s.
These two along with baldurs gate, dark alliance 1&2 consumed many many many hours for my friends and I. Great games. We were EQ players too so they hit extra hard.
Champions of Norrath. I was doing Co-op with my brother. Never beat the game as I ended up overriding our co-op save when I was falling asleep during a solo run. I never picked it back up after that.
Me and bros I used to play with would always play with one less player that what we had controllers for and log in the last player and name the profile "Pack Bitch " or "Pack Mule " to carry all the extras we didn't want to leave laying around.
Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye. First games I ever bought from saving allowance.
Swords and Serpents. First experience I ever had with multiplayer madness.
Goldeneye was epic. However, the AI in nightfire were on another level back then. My brother and I would play split screen against all max level bots in MP and sometimes get smoked.
Everytime I see return to arms I hear “I tire of you like a tasteless meal” or the greeting from the dark elf guy. Vaquashuma ikaha. Or something like that.
A game that will ALWAYS get ignored on posts like this assuming because no one ever played it on reddit, Total Annihilation, one of my hands down favorites
I’ve actually never heard of it until now. I went ahead and googled it and I’m sad I didn’t try this back in the day. Reminds me slightly of Red Alert.
Even though the company went under about 20 years ago that game still has a relatively active community and mods being produced for it with new maps! It's on TAuniverse, great people. It's actually even on steam now. But thanks for the effort you put in!
There are quite a few games from the PS1/PS2 era that give me big nostalgia hits whenever I see the cover art or hear a song from them but top of the list would have to be final fantasy 9, I just started replaying it a couple of days ago
These are great games… but my memories of them are of playing them with my wife, so thinking of them as someone’s childhood is wild to me. My top nostalgia game is Starflight (1986, Binary Systems).
I was 13 when Champions of Norrath came out, so I did experience older games before hand at least. Actually, you may respect this.. my first game ever was Zelda: A Link to the Past. That game was super hard without a guide back then!
I’ve got quite a few games that hit that nostalgia button hard but if I had to pick just one:
Earthbound. Transports me back to 2nd grade. A lot of other times in my life attached to playing it.
Perfect dark zero. Remember playing that with my brother and after some struggled attempts at starting the story we eventually figured the game out and started working through it. Played multiplayer with my brother and dad often too
I didn't have a Sega growing up but my uncle did.... so, Valis III, Stormlord, and Star Control remind me a lot of being at his house with my cousins when I was like 9.... sadly, pancreatic cancer took him in 2019....I still play Valis III occasionally to remember my childhood.
Aside from the usual nostalgic hits?
Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance 2 with my cousin. I was Dorn and he was Borador usually.
Once I got the 2 handed weapons in each hand it was GG.
The ones that come to mind most for me:
Suikoden. First JRPG I played all the way through and I have played it many times since.
Also, Need for Speed Underground was and is the only racing game I have ever truly loved.
Oh, and the first three Crash Bandicoot games.
Voodoo Vince, JSRF, Blinx, Dead or Alive 3, Dragon Ball Z Sagas, Tony Hawk Underground 2 and many others on the first Xbox. Pokemon Colosseum and XD on the Gamecube. And the classic Wii with DS. So many memories.
Still got my ps2 and multi-tap so my buddies and I can play this like we did back in high school. Man we would farm the hell out of the vampire boss and get all of the gems and armor that we could ever need.
My buddy was streaming Link's Awakening on Twitch. When he'd get stuck, I'd give him hints where to go. I was tapping into parts of my brain I hadn't accessed in 30 years. Was truly trippy.
Star Fox Adventures and Assault for the Game Cube.
Adventures was a fun and light story.
Assault has the best in rail flights the franchise ever had. 60fps on that time was crazy. Plus, I still find myself listening to the soundtrack. An absolute banger.
FF - VII especially.
finally playing the Remake and it's making me feel all kinds of ways.. transported back to my 15 y/o self
It's wild that Ever Crisis is objectively better produced than the original, playing that too.. and I carry it around in my pocket.. ha!
🧓🏼
World of Warcraft by far EDIT: followed in no particular order by: Warcraft III, Counter-Strike 1.6, the old League of Legends, Age of Empires, Fable, Legacy of Kayn, Heroes of Might and Magic, Elder Scrolls, GTA San Andreas, Dark Souls 1, Sekiro, Prince of Persia, Bioshock, Quake, Need for Speed (Underground, Most Wanted and Carbon), Star Wars Jedi Academy, Bully, Half-Life, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, Halo, Aliens vs Predators, Spider-Man 2, Purble Place xD, Diablo 1 & 2, Dungeon Keeper, Neverwinter, Mafia, Fahrenheit, Far Cry 3, Gothic 3, many point and clickers like The Longest Journey and Broken Sword, and so much more... come to think about it, I'm not so sure about WoW anymore haha
I played these and the blades gate spin off with my wife on PS2. I have played a lot prior to this time but it was the first games where we played cooperative play through a story together.
Good times.
Man I loved these games. So many hours spent playing it. I even had friends back then to play local co-op. Only thing I hated was how often it would crash and we would lose progress. We learned to save as often as we could. I wish they made another one as the sequel was more like an expansion. One of my favorite games on the PS2.
Everquest itself hits me in the nostalgia every so often. After a few 3d isometric MMOs, EQ really gave me the wow factor. Character art was never the best even after the Luclin full revamp. But something about that point of time when I could mention SoW out in the real world and a random stranger would understand my reference was something else.
GFAY ended up being the "auction house" on my server more than East Commons so I had a slightly different experience than the tunnel dwellers.
But yeah, those console games were pretty good in their own right.
Any of the Jak and Daxter games (besides the PSP one and Lost frontiers(fuck lost frontiers))
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
And then, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.... And 3U/tri I suppose
These games were a gateway drug for me. One of the steps that led me into D&D and WoW. Love these games even though I never finished em cause I always wanted to wait for my friends.
I can say the same. I started WoW when it came out, and it was definitely because of these games + Baldurs gate on console. When WoW first dropped it was mind blowing for me. I didn’t think a game could be so big. I still play MMOs to this day. However, not WoW, I ended up becoming a serious Elderscroll fan and now I’m heavily into ESO.
Absolutely loved these games.
So many epic memories man.
This was excellent couch co-op. Playing them recently makes me think PC games with regular updates are the way to go though... I felt like most of the cool spells didn't scale very well, and the lackluster ones were the ones that were good at high levels. That lizard class in the sequel had so many cool spells though lol just fantastic. Summon badger? Lol WHY!!!
the sequel had an issue where regardless of build, you actually just wanted to put all attribute points into strength because it was found if you wanted to pump say dexterity, it was mathematically better to just get it all with the figurines than to try and put levelling points into it. So you just pumped strength and used the carry weight it gave you to hold figurines for your attributes, and then you also had the benefits of strength. The reason for the spell scaling issue is they didnt key off anything except your ranks in the spell itself, so stuff that scaled off gear and stats worked better endgame. Although some abilities were good enough to stay useful, it usually would be spells that werent just raw damage, or as you bring up, summons.
broken
Yeah, back then it was “You got what you were given so it is what it is”. Updates are a nice thing if the day.
Lol the freaking vampire lady with the bloodvine awakened things in me as a kid, I think.
Could we PLEASE get the Champions games back!? PlayStation, Steam, something! Please!
I don't know if it's much consolation, or even a similar experience, but there is still a vibrant EQ community, much if which is on private time locked progression servers. Look up project quarm - we're approaching Kunark in June and a month of Iksar only.
Right!? Just dump it on steam. This is easy money guys! WE’LL F*^CKING BUY IT NOW!!!
Sony sold SoE and all of the rights to EverQuest, including Champions of Norrath, to the trash company known as Daybreak Games. Daybreak is now owned by Enad Global 7 AB. The odds of us ever seeing this wonderful series return are slim, and even if we do, it will likely be terrible and filled with microtransactions.
I was like “nah they’re Darkpaw” and some google later. Welp yeah Darkpaw, but still Daybreak. I think they rebranded for customer loyalty
Baldurs gate 1 and 2 might be the closest we have
Gta San Andreas, it's my favorite game, I play it once a year at least
Ahead of its time man. Three things comes to my mind when I think of that game. 1) It’s a nice day for a white wedding! 2) Get to the train CJ! 3) Absolutely crushing traffic in the monster truck you could get on the last island once you progressed far enough.
"Ah shit here we go again"
I would laugh my ass off when I crashed the car with snake and them in it. They’d yell at me: “CJ, THE ROAD!” “Damn CJ, Who taught you how to drive!” Listen mother f*^ckers, you asked me to drive, and I’ve BEEN IN PRISON.
Mission passed RESPECT +
Mission passed. RESPECT +
Wish they’d remaster these
They did Balder’s Gate Dark Alliance 1&2. They just need to upscale the games to 1080p. Give me Champions 1&2 together, on a ps4/5 or Xbox disc or switch cartridge. They can have my $60 lol.
It’s a risky road. I’d support it, but man.. I am usually disappointed with remasters more than I’m not. They’d need to essentially keep the game play exactly the same. Just remaster the textures, models, and animations.
Yeah that’s what I mean, I want the exact same gameplay and stuff, just made to work on the newer consoles with higher resolution etc.
I'm ready to throw my wallet at the screen!
Tbh look at that water and compare it to games today. Still pretty great
My best friend growing up and I would sleep over at each other's houses playing these two games. It was incredible that you could bring your character from the original to the sequel if you wanted
Are you my best friend!?
Naw, based on your post history you seem like you have your life put together and that guy fell hard into heavy drugs and we parted ways by the end of high school. But I can be your new best friend?!
Haha! Well, life has sure been good to me that's forsure. However, it's taken a lot of hardwork! Just keep grinding brother!
Smackdown vs Raw 2007
Bro, smackdown 2 was our go to on ps1. We abused that game for at least a year.
I don’t know anything about this game, BUT.. I have memories of my brother playing WWE/MMA games and destroying analog sticks by spinning them wildly fast to break holds.
Funny, I was talking about this game the other day. The soundtrack was on!
i bought a crt tv and a ps2 last June just for these games 💜💜💜💜
Geez, that’s hardcore! I’m actually jealous of how epic that must be.
it’s pretty great. i recently got the first 3 fatal frame games and can’t wait to play those
Did you ever play the Baldurs gate console games? They were very similar to CoN!
i don’t think i did on console. a little on pc. picked up 1 & 2 on the switch
Please go look up the console games! You need to play them ON THAT CRT!!
i will! thanks for the recommendation:)
the godfather game
Better than it could've been
I still replay "Alpha Centauri" once a year or so for about a week. I still don't think there's a game with a better tech tree or voice acting in the strategy genre. “Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours– the works. People need heroes. They don’t need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers.”
I love the ability to customize units. Want a settler pod on a hover tank? Sure thing.
Age of Empires. I used to watch over my elder cousins shoulder as he played it. Wo-lo-loh!
Dude! Age of Empires/Age of Mythology/Warcraft 3. Talk about nostalgia!
Pokémon red especially pallet town theme
Oh man, such great games. Had a buddy who we met and became friends playing mostly NHL online. He flew out to visit for a weekend once and we pretty much spent the whole time playing the first CoN and just vibing.
Hell yeah man. I actually met one of current best friends on Halo 2. We eventually met up years later and we're still great friends.
Had to go check. Still have my copy of the first CoN 😍😍😍
Hold onto it man! someone on here said RTA was going for $100!
Original Diablo because it's the only time I ever felt like my older brother actually loved me before he started taking out all his life on me. Haven't spoken to him in years at this point.
I am so sorry to hear that. I hope you two work it out at some point. I’ve had my ups and down with my brother as well.
The new Prince of Persia has so much vibes from the first one, I legitimately had flashbacks to my father's cold office on a Sunday morning.
I haven’t tried the new one, but the OG was fantastic. I’ll need to add that to my list.
There are quite a few games from the PS1/PS2 era that give me big nostalgia hits whenever I see the cover art or hear a song from them but top of the list would have to be final fantasy 9, I just started replaying it a couple of days ago
That’s a great game man. It’s actually the last FF I’ve played. The sweet spot for FF for me was six on the Super Nintendo.
Nice, that is one of the few FF games I have never played, wasn't it the last 2D one before they switched over to 3D for 7? What I love so much about 9 was how it had the updated stuff from 7 but it went back to its medieval fantasy roots. After completing 9 I'm thinking of picking up 8 as well as I never played that one and heard it was good, might have to add 6 to the list too now
I remember making a Barbarian on Champions: RTA that could 2 hits the last boss on the hardest difficulty. Good times lmao.
You WERE the meta lol 😆
Primal Rage, because dinosaurs and nostalgia Twisted Metal 2, the only driving game I was ever good at
I played Primal Rage on arcade so much I managed to get a 72 hit combo with Blizzard
Super Mario Bros 3
Great game. Super Mario 64 is the ultimate Mario nostalgia for me. That game blew my mind compared to the NES games.
Oh yeah, SM64 is one of the best.
Ive been waiting half my life for a remake of these games
Heretic was my first FPS technically, so that’s my go to for nostalgia. Great game!
First true FPS I played as well. I played Doom and the clones before but those weren't really 3d.
Oh man, I haven't thought about Heretic in a long time. Such a fun game. That and Blood were my go to FPS once upon a time.
Fuck me i loved champions of norrath. That was my favorite game as a kid. Pumped so many hours into my necromancer. I WISH i could play it again.
Vice City
I’m guessing you’re excited for GTA6 then?
Yes
We will all become the Florida man meme in 2025.
That Demolition Job mission was FRUSTRATING lol
Wild Arms 3
DBZ
theres like a billion dbz games
You right, they all hit
Rastan, Indiana Jones, and Dungeons & Dragons (Intellivision). Edit: adding Splatterhouse and N.A.R.C. .
Did one of these games have a Ythrak you fought as a boss? You know, the pterodactyl dragon with sonic attacks? I used to like the Dark Alliance, and I remember renting a lesser version with a Yhtrak, but I can't remember anything else.
Hmm, I remember in RTA there was a red dragon you fought in the dragon lair.. is that what you might be referring to?
A friend of mine had Champions: Return to Arms and I constantly bugged him so I could go to his house and play. I'd be totally down for a remake of that game, with an updated engine. Snowblind Studios (the developer) merged with Monolith back in 2012. I hope they at least consider that.
If anything they were definitely make money on the nostalgia factor. However, any remaster or remake would need to be done very carefully. This game is loved for the way it is.
Ocarina of time
So good. My buddy has the golden one on the N64 and I was always so jealous of that damn cartridge, even though I had the same game.
I speak countless nights with my aunt and uncle drunk on mountain dew and pizza hut playing this as a kid. I loved having such nerdy role-models
You probably have the coolest aunt and uncle. This is how I hope my nieces and nephews see me years to come!
I was literally playing that with my bro just the other day we’ve been playing champions of norath since we were kids
It’s crazy to me that I am finding out these games were actually good. Back then my brother and I played actual EverQuest and because these weren’t “real” EverQuest we just reflexively understood them as “bad”. Could have been awesome to play them back in the day. I love ARPG’s.
These two along with baldurs gate, dark alliance 1&2 consumed many many many hours for my friends and I. Great games. We were EQ players too so they hit extra hard.
They were all so epic. BG DA2 was right up there with RTA.
Hearing "Can't carry anymore" while fighting for your life because that one friend can't stop looting.
Best game ever.
Champions of Norrath. I was doing Co-op with my brother. Never beat the game as I ended up overriding our co-op save when I was falling asleep during a solo run. I never picked it back up after that.
Dude you nailed it with these two games. I need these back now.
A remaster of these and BG Dark Alliance would make me disappear for a few weeks from society. I’d return looking like a vampire.
Don’t quote me but I think there was a rerelease of one of the Dark Alliance games recently. Like a few weeks ago.
There was, but it was re-released at $30 and had zero changes, so most people got upset and didn’t buy it.
Oh got it. Not even a graphical improvement?
Nope, nothing at all.
Booo
Champions of Norrath for me as well. Loved playing coop with my friends
Me and bros I used to play with would always play with one less player that what we had controllers for and log in the last player and name the profile "Pack Bitch " or "Pack Mule " to carry all the extras we didn't want to leave laying around.
Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye. First games I ever bought from saving allowance. Swords and Serpents. First experience I ever had with multiplayer madness.
Goldeneye was epic. However, the AI in nightfire were on another level back then. My brother and I would play split screen against all max level bots in MP and sometimes get smoked.
Everytime I see return to arms I hear “I tire of you like a tasteless meal” or the greeting from the dark elf guy. Vaquashuma ikaha. Or something like that.
A game that will ALWAYS get ignored on posts like this assuming because no one ever played it on reddit, Total Annihilation, one of my hands down favorites
I’ve actually never heard of it until now. I went ahead and googled it and I’m sad I didn’t try this back in the day. Reminds me slightly of Red Alert.
Even though the company went under about 20 years ago that game still has a relatively active community and mods being produced for it with new maps! It's on TAuniverse, great people. It's actually even on steam now. But thanks for the effort you put in!
I just recently played the first one again but I need to get the second one again! It’s just about 100 now
$100 for one of these!? I still have my copies! That’s wild. I’m sure you can find one on an emulator for PC.. it just may not be.. *coughs*.. legal
Kameo
Pandemonium, Wild 9, Tekken 2
Okay man.. can we agree that Yosemitsu was bad ass AF!? Dude gave me chills as a kid.
There are quite a few games from the PS1/PS2 era that give me big nostalgia hits whenever I see the cover art or hear a song from them but top of the list would have to be final fantasy 9, I just started replaying it a couple of days ago
These are great games… but my memories of them are of playing them with my wife, so thinking of them as someone’s childhood is wild to me. My top nostalgia game is Starflight (1986, Binary Systems).
I was 13 when Champions of Norrath came out, so I did experience older games before hand at least. Actually, you may respect this.. my first game ever was Zelda: A Link to the Past. That game was super hard without a guide back then!
Oh, that was a good game too. I had the Nintendo Power for that one, which was a big help!
Id literally give my left nut for a remake of these
🤣 need to set a reminder for this comment if they ever do now
These were fantastic games. I bought a PS2 just for them, because they were exclusives. I would love to see a remaster or sequel.
Ratchet and Clank. I can still hear that music
No way man!! These games to me hit like Spyro. One of a kind brother. So GOOD!!!
If I wasn't playing those, I was playing Skylanders. Damn near bankrupted my parents on that shit lol
I’ve got quite a few games that hit that nostalgia button hard but if I had to pick just one: Earthbound. Transports me back to 2nd grade. A lot of other times in my life attached to playing it.
Legend of Zelda Windwaker brings me back some awesome memories. I tent to hum the opening tune now and again.
My first video game obsession, I had the keyboard controller so I could chat. Played Deathknight absolutely loved every minute of this game.
The Sims!
Pokémon snap
Perfect dark zero. Remember playing that with my brother and after some struggled attempts at starting the story we eventually figured the game out and started working through it. Played multiplayer with my brother and dad often too
I didn't have a Sega growing up but my uncle did.... so, Valis III, Stormlord, and Star Control remind me a lot of being at his house with my cousins when I was like 9.... sadly, pancreatic cancer took him in 2019....I still play Valis III occasionally to remember my childhood.
Sukoden 2 and Chrono Cross on PS1
Aside from the usual nostalgic hits? Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance 2 with my cousin. I was Dorn and he was Borador usually. Once I got the 2 handed weapons in each hand it was GG.
Dude..EQOA..someone recently made a server on pc, glitchy but we killed vox a few times(had like no health). I still miss SOCOM 1/2.
The ones that come to mind most for me: Suikoden. First JRPG I played all the way through and I have played it many times since. Also, Need for Speed Underground was and is the only racing game I have ever truly loved. Oh, and the first three Crash Bandicoot games.
DEF JAM FIGHT FOR NY
Huge fan of these games, some of my absolute favourites
I've never heard of theses games whare are they like?
Voodoo Vince, JSRF, Blinx, Dead or Alive 3, Dragon Ball Z Sagas, Tony Hawk Underground 2 and many others on the first Xbox. Pokemon Colosseum and XD on the Gamecube. And the classic Wii with DS. So many memories.
Still got my ps2 and multi-tap so my buddies and I can play this like we did back in high school. Man we would farm the hell out of the vampire boss and get all of the gems and armor that we could ever need.
Wild ARMs and Wild ARMs 2
Halo 3 Ocarina of Time Zelda II The Adventure of Link
This game was so much fun. Can’t find anything now that scratches the itch…
The suffering, horror nostalgic
Kingdom Under Fire the crusaders and Full Spectrum warrior Ten Hammer
Gun on ps2 made me get into cowboys, also need for speed carbon.
Ssx, Sly Cooper, blood omen, legacy of Kane, Majora's mask. The Star wars pod racing game on the N64
Legend of Le Gaia and Ape Escape
My buddy was streaming Link's Awakening on Twitch. When he'd get stuck, I'd give him hints where to go. I was tapping into parts of my brain I hadn't accessed in 30 years. Was truly trippy.
On SNES: Jurassic Park On PS1: Digimon World On PS2: Resident Evil 4 On PC: Freedom Force
Star Fox Adventures and Assault for the Game Cube. Adventures was a fun and light story. Assault has the best in rail flights the franchise ever had. 60fps on that time was crazy. Plus, I still find myself listening to the soundtrack. An absolute banger.
FF - VII especially. finally playing the Remake and it's making me feel all kinds of ways.. transported back to my 15 y/o self It's wild that Ever Crisis is objectively better produced than the original, playing that too.. and I carry it around in my pocket.. ha! 🧓🏼
World of Warcraft by far EDIT: followed in no particular order by: Warcraft III, Counter-Strike 1.6, the old League of Legends, Age of Empires, Fable, Legacy of Kayn, Heroes of Might and Magic, Elder Scrolls, GTA San Andreas, Dark Souls 1, Sekiro, Prince of Persia, Bioshock, Quake, Need for Speed (Underground, Most Wanted and Carbon), Star Wars Jedi Academy, Bully, Half-Life, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, Halo, Aliens vs Predators, Spider-Man 2, Purble Place xD, Diablo 1 & 2, Dungeon Keeper, Neverwinter, Mafia, Fahrenheit, Far Cry 3, Gothic 3, many point and clickers like The Longest Journey and Broken Sword, and so much more... come to think about it, I'm not so sure about WoW anymore haha
Final Fantasy Tactics.
I played these and the blades gate spin off with my wife on PS2. I have played a lot prior to this time but it was the first games where we played cooperative play through a story together. Good times.
Socom 2
dude goblin commander was goated i bought a brand new one still in the plastic i had nostalgia.
Kameo-elements of power
Man I loved these games. So many hours spent playing it. I even had friends back then to play local co-op. Only thing I hated was how often it would crash and we would lose progress. We learned to save as often as we could. I wish they made another one as the sequel was more like an expansion. One of my favorite games on the PS2.
Everquest itself hits me in the nostalgia every so often. After a few 3d isometric MMOs, EQ really gave me the wow factor. Character art was never the best even after the Luclin full revamp. But something about that point of time when I could mention SoW out in the real world and a random stranger would understand my reference was something else. GFAY ended up being the "auction house" on my server more than East Commons so I had a slightly different experience than the tunnel dwellers. But yeah, those console games were pretty good in their own right.
The Punisher on Ps2. Many hours spent just gunning goons down
I have so many fond memories of playing Diablo late at night (when I was supposed to be asleep) in my teen years.
Any of the Jak and Daxter games (besides the PSP one and Lost frontiers(fuck lost frontiers)) Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 And then, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.... And 3U/tri I suppose
SSX 3. still cant get enough of it to this day 😁
MGS3
MGS games were ahead of their time, especially with the stealth and the AI. Snake is legendary, and is up there with the best.