Many of the older games suffer from bad graphics but the game play still holds up. I played OpenRA with some friends at a good old fashioned LAN party when we all didn't have computers that could play the latest games or budget issues to purchase the latest games. We set up in different rooms to form teams and it was super fun. A side benefit is that nobody had all the maps, hints and cheats memorized so we were on equal footing.
I personally think Yuri’s Revenge brought about a bit too much mechanical cheese, and prefer vanilla RA2 - but I won’t begrudge a fellow fan their preferences!
Ah, decoding the morse code at the back of the counterstrike manual to find the instructions for unlocking the secret ant missions. I think it involved clicking on the speaker looking thing in the top right of the menu while pressing shift
My now over 20 years old self built rig still runs. It's a time capsule, running winxp with photoshop 7. It has Winamp and all my old music. And it has games like red alert 2 and generals zero hour.
Hell, yeah! Anyone willing to lug their Bigtower+CRT over? I got heaps of thin ethernet (you know? the one with the BNC connectors and Terminators) ready to party.
I play AoE these days because it has - relatively speaking - more real units. I do wish there was an AoE or C&C type game that used just realistic troops and vehicles and such. Seems like we have the computing power these days for a much larger-scale area of battle where you could command troops and vehicles over a small city sized map. Still RTS with fog of war and such… Maybe better simulated behaviours for the troops. But command your groups of military to go take out targets or attack positions and take terrain and such...
Seems like it'd be awesome, but nobody has done it.
i appreciate the convenience of launchers taking care of installation and setup without hassle in the background, but i do miss when installers hyped the game sometimes. seeing warheads being readied, hearing marching steps while the game was installing was a pretty cool way to build anticipation. it helped that the game was awesome, of course.
Basically it was just a dotted line around your text. But in German it was called something like "ant platoon / queue" or such. I think this function existed between Word2000 und Word2007 if I Google correctly.
I heard my Nokia getting a text message through the distortion in the speakers by just looking at this photo
Dun dudun dun dudun dun dudun duuuuuuuuuuun.
https://www.openra.net/
You're welcome.
Amazing
affirmative
Acknowledged
Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.
Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.
Many of the older games suffer from bad graphics but the game play still holds up. I played OpenRA with some friends at a good old fashioned LAN party when we all didn't have computers that could play the latest games or budget issues to purchase the latest games. We set up in different rooms to form teams and it was super fun. A side benefit is that nobody had all the maps, hints and cheats memorized so we were on equal footing.
Hell March intensifies
"Gentlemen... it is a nuclear device." "T-T-Time-Time is running out."
dadadaaa dadadaaa dadadadadadadaaaa
Fight! Win! Prevail!
Westwood studios was a treasure
Anyone else remember their Blade Runnder game?
Dairy and dairy products are class 2 contraband
While everyone was in Tristram, I was spending my teenage nights playing NOX
RA and RA2 were so awesome.
https://openra.net/
ACKHnowledged.
It's like they were doing their best Sean Connery impressions
Yuri's Revenge with the Devastator mod.
I personally think Yuri’s Revenge brought about a bit too much mechanical cheese, and prefer vanilla RA2 - but I won’t begrudge a fellow fan their preferences!
o7
https://youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM
I still hope theres copies of the takes that didnt make it if thats the best one
Can we play Age of Empires after this?
Age of Empires Il still has a very active scene with new content all the time. In fact there's a new expansion dropping this week!
Is AOE 2 the one where you could use a cheat code to spawn in a blue sportscar with a machine gun on the front?
I seem to half-remember taking a few of those into France a few times lol.
It is. But there was a black sportscar in AoE 1, as well. And a laser gun warrior and a similar looking dude shooting miniature nuclear missiles.
Whaaaat?
How do you turn this on
Wololo
Don't point that thing at me!
It’s weird this picture looks like it shouldn’t be this high resolution.
It's new.
Oh, not denying its legitimacy. Just not used to such a high quality picture of such an old machine.
dune is the way.
Dune 2? That was my jam.
Dune 1, iirc, was more of a story based game.
I think it was 2. ordo got assasins from palace, atreides got fremen, and harkonen got nukes. you would think nukes would be op but oh man the fremen.
Back in the day before you could group select units.
Ah, decoding the morse code at the back of the counterstrike manual to find the instructions for unlocking the secret ant missions. I think it involved clicking on the speaker looking thing in the top right of the menu while pressing shift
My now over 20 years old self built rig still runs. It's a time capsule, running winxp with photoshop 7. It has Winamp and all my old music. And it has games like red alert 2 and generals zero hour.
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Awesome! Love your period hardware. I have a complete XP setup, but I would love a 95/98 setup. No more room.
I did install 86Box last week, though! And installed 98SE. I was also partying like it's 1996 with Microsoft Hellbender!
/me pops in some Master of Orion 2
Hell, yeah! Anyone willing to lug their Bigtower+CRT over? I got heaps of thin ethernet (you know? the one with the BNC connectors and Terminators) ready to party.
Take me back.
My childhood!
I play AoE these days because it has - relatively speaking - more real units. I do wish there was an AoE or C&C type game that used just realistic troops and vehicles and such. Seems like we have the computing power these days for a much larger-scale area of battle where you could command troops and vehicles over a small city sized map. Still RTS with fog of war and such… Maybe better simulated behaviours for the troops. But command your groups of military to go take out targets or attack positions and take terrain and such...
Seems like it'd be awesome, but nobody has done it.
There's Company of Heroes with realistic units and "order based" real-time combat, alas, it is not very large scale.
Closest I remember to your description is another very old game: Sid Meier's Gettysburg. But that was limited by the possibilities of its time.
Worth checking out, though, thank you1 <3
Gonna go fire up Wing Commander 2.
It's the yeeooww pew de pew pew pew pew ... kachunk ... chop chop chop fwosh KAPOW that I'm reminded of.
Oh god I just remember my soldiers getting turned into mutant worm things
Uhhh I think that was a different game
100% lol
Right company. Less red alert.
i appreciate the convenience of launchers taking care of installation and setup without hassle in the background, but i do miss when installers hyped the game sometimes. seeing warheads being readied, hearing marching steps while the game was installing was a pretty cool way to build anticipation. it helped that the game was awesome, of course.
Still have mine in a shoebox somewhere
Wasn't there a thing where if you clicked on the speaker in the top right corner you could play against ants or something
That was part of the counterstrike expansion.
There was a function in WORD, where ants could walk around your text...
Say what, now? Like Microsoft Word?
Basically it was just a dotted line around your text. But in German it was called something like "ant platoon / queue" or such. I think this function existed between Word2000 und Word2007 if I Google correctly.
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Nah dude, Daggerfall. Daggerfall Unity is the best of both modern and old school, especially with the DREAM mod.