Retro Gaming Recommendations

[J4MES OX4D 10,026]

Anyone got any good retro recommendations they are currently playing, looking to play or have played recently? Anything that is easily accessible i.e available on PC or on the current consoles, would be ideal.

 

I've recently finished Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars for the first time since the late 90's and also the Smoking Mirror sequel which I never got around to playing back in the day. Two excellent games and they've recently released a remaster of sorts called Broken Sword Reforged which preserves the original game but upscales everything. It's £24.99 but as I had the original in my Steam library, I opted to just play that. 

 

I have also just started the OG Resident Evil trilogy from GOG and playing the second one first as it's practically 25 years since I last played it way back on the PS1 and it's my personal favourite of those games. Actually played the original, RE2, RE3 and Code Veronica all in 1999 and the difference from the 1996 original to CV on the Dreamcast at the time was absolutely insane! 

 

After those, I am tempted to finally get around to playing the Tomb Raider Remastered titles as they are incredibly faithful versions and currently 50% off on Steam. Had the original on PC around 1997 time and picked up Tomb Raider II for the PS1. They seem to be really solid ports so I'll have to definitely check them out. 

 

After all them, I will likely be gagging for an FPS title so instead of wasting £70 on Black Ops 6, I need to complete the Half Life trilogy by finishing Opposing Force for the first time in 25 years. I did Blue Shift last year but didn't have a chance to to this one. 

[Luseth 1,937]

Ooooo my sort of post James 😄 

 

My suggestions and I am making these based on the sorts of games I have seen you talk about on here -

- Max Payne (Fairly sure this is on steam)

- Deus Ex

- The longest Journey (Think Broken Sword esque)

- This is because it is one of my favourite ever games and I think everyone should play it - Dragon Age Origins

- Medal of honour Allied assault (On GOG store)

[J4MES OX4D 10,026]

Currently revisiting Return to Castle Wolfenstein 

[phil bottle 9,743]

Not mega old, 2007 I think? GTA 4.

 

I've been playing it on the SteamDeck.

 

Forgot what a good little game it is. Some of the dialogue between Niko and Roman is hilarious and it's much more brutal than I remember. Poor Vlad 🤣

[J4MES OX4D 10,026]

11 hours ago, phil bottle said:

Not mega old, 2007 I think? GTA 4.

 

I've been playing it on the SteamDeck.

 

Forgot what a good little game it is. Some of the dialogue between Niko and Roman is hilarious and it's much more brutal than I remember. Poor Vlad 🤣

I played through GTA 4 again back in June and it's still excellent! I'd say it's aged better than Red Dead. Probably the best story in the entire GTA series with a level of seriousness and some tough decisions to make. Vehicle handling also felt pretty authentic and the missions are great fun! 

 

Gonna do the expansions sometime too - they add on another 30+ hours of content. GTA V was completely neglected and wasted in that respect. 

[phil bottle 9,743]

I've also tried Half Life 2 on the SteamDeck, plays really well.