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What dead game do you wish you could play again?
- Thread starter Mondai
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acidagfc
Member
I hoped that what 2042 would be... I doubt we'd ever get something as good.
BlackTron
Member
My old VMU still loads my very first character from launch using the DC disc. An afro magic dude lol. Not that I'm doing anything with it.
If I could go back I would also use that opportunity to pick a different first character
cash_longfellow
Gold Member
Yea I really fell into the 2042 trap. That’s the last time I preordered a game because of it too.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I am probably the only one....
How many sub-titles does a game need lol
ViciousAgenda
Member
MAG 
Guilhermegrg
Member
Tribes 1/2, Quake 1, UT99
darth.shrimp
Member
Eternal Crusade with da boyz
Come On Tars
Member
First couple seasons of Rainbow Six Siege when it was simple.
Flash Junkins
Member
Mass Effect 3 multiplayer.
Randall365
Member
Secret Weapons over Normandy deserves a re-release (or just putting on Steam).
RickSanchez
Member
A bunch of DOS games, which may not exactly be dead, but would be too cumbersome to get running on a modern WIndows 11 system - Sky Roads, Paratrooper, Ski Free, Road Rash, Test Drive, Dangerous Dave - these are some of my earliest gaming memories. If someone knows of an easy way to play these on a modern system, let me know. I actually tried to get Road Rash running a while ago, but couldn't manage it.
Yes, i'm old.
Yes, i'm old.
Dosbox
Even works in the browser:
SkiFree
Working as a programmer at Microsoft, Chris Pirih created SkiFree. An online classic reload game, was created in October 1991. A game with a very simple objective which is to ski down a seemingly endless slope avoiding the obstacles. No need to download, play SkiFree right here on Classic Reload.
Melchiah
Member
This + the first SSX, Shadow of Memories and the original versions of Silent Hill 2+3, since I don't have a working PS2 or backwards compatible PS3 anymore. :/
RickSanchez
Member
I need to check this out when i get back home from work.Dosbox
Even works in the browser:
SkiFree
Working as a programmer at Microsoft, Chris Pirih created SkiFree. An online classic reload game, was created in October 1991. A game with a very simple objective which is to ski down a seemingly endless slope avoiding the obstacles. No need to download, play SkiFree right here on Classic Reload.classicreload.com
WitchHunter
Banned
Where the fuck is Midnight Club.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
So as a long time PSO player there was a reason I didn't list it for a dead game I wish I could play again.
That's because I play it to this day on and off.
Ephinea PSOBB | Home
A Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst private server that recreates the classic PSOBB experience while adding new content and features.
ephinea.pioneer2.net
Your not the only people that miss PSO compared to the travesty that came afterwards (OK OK the DS PSZero was good too) so people keep the game going, and there's plenty of people who do.
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MonkeyClaw36
Member
Soldier of Fortune 2 online with ManDown mod..... Spent 100s of hours on that back in the early 00's.
PisswasserYellow
Member
Motor City Online. I think it came out around 2001 or so and was basically like an MMO for car junkies. There was an incredible amount of detail (especially for the time) that went into building each car and the online community was great. Definitely some of the most fun I've ever had in a video game and it was actually made by EA back before they turned into a giant steaming pile of shit.
The Infectious Paradox
Gold Member
Assassins Creed PVP multiplayer or Bioshock 2 multiplayer
00_Zer0
Member
TFC is still available to purchase on Steam. Not many players keep it going nowadays though, but it's still alive and kicking, and ready to purchase on Steam. Unless you are talking about the old Quake version before Valve scooped up the modders that created it? I played so much more of TFC than TF2. For whatever reason I couldn't get into TF2 the way I was able to get into TFC.
CuteFaceJay
Member
Didn't even know they made a 3rd I played Ascend back in 2012 or something at LAN but then forgot about it.
Naked Lunch
Member
Ive owned TFC on Steam the day the Steam client released - it was pretty much the launch game of Steam itself from my memory. I remember people hated Steam to death back then, hah.
I wouldnt call TFC 'alive and kicking' in 2024.
To be fair I havent tried recently but there was literally 2 servers with maybe 10 people the last I checked, heh.
I would love for it to see a resurgence though - but I know that aint happening.
I feel you on the TFC/TF2 comparison. TF2 removed all the insane (and fun) nade and conc jumping. TFC (and TF1) are still completely unique FPS experiences.
Team Fortress Classic is still probably my favorite videogame of all time.
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Jack Package
Member
Oh Hell yes! It seems like such a no-brainer. Konami could just keep adding levels and characters. We got that Getsu Fuma level and character pack to finish, they could do even more crossovers and promote new stuff.
What about a MGS Delta jungle map with a fight against The Sorrow at the end?
We could get reps from more games, more retro maps. Just live service it, Konami, if that is the money paw curse needed to make this game happen.
It'd be so cheap for them to make and maintain, even if it didn't sell in big numbers it would turn a profit and make fans happy!
Hell, this is how I got my wee cousin into the series!
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Dragalia Lost
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Naaaaaa TFC massively predates steam, I had like half a decade on WON.net playing it before steam. TFC was on there at launch, but so was CS 1.6, Half Life Team Deathmatch and Day of Defeat. It was just valve moving there old still active multiplayer games from WON.net to steam. I think the first new title steam actually got was Half Life 2.
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Naked Lunch
Member
Well - sure.
I bought one of those big box pc Halflife and TFC boxes way back before Steam existed.
I mean - TFC was one of the first games to launch on the Steam client.
I remember the TFC community was freaking out over having to DL and transition over to Steam.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
I was a global server admin for one of the largest UK server providers Multiplay at the time. For us it was essentially because the new account system used the Steam ID instead of IP like WON. This ment that much of our admin tooling needed a rework which might have sounded easy (and it eventually turned out to be) but as we where also a business selling servers, making sure all the owners and the commands on things like mIRC still worked after the change over was a nightmare.
Was a stressful couple of months.
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BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer and its Vietnam expansion were the closest to perfection that the franchise ever got, with map designs that were ridiculously better than everything that followed.
I can fire up BF2042 and play the Portal mode renditions whenever they come up, sure, but it's just not the same.
I can fire up BF2042 and play the Portal mode renditions whenever they come up, sure, but it's just not the same.
Unknown?
Member
Still in beta but can be bought on early access in Steam. It is still fun but not like Tribes 2 back in the day.
Rocco Schiavone
Member
Games of Today
Member
MAG was so sick man!
Shake Your Rump
Member
Strange choice. I mean, the game lasted about two weeks until Overwatch hit the shelves. How did you get so attached to it in such a short time?
hououinkyouma00
Member
Thinking back on MAG is crazy. So many players for a PS3 game. It was nuts.
mayham2199
Member
Infantry zone but with the CC zone I used to play in.
Mondai
Member
I’m, I played it every day for the whole period it was online and I loved it… what’s so hard to understand about this?
Neon Xenon
Member
Hawken. The real Hawken, not that Reborn bullshit from a year back.
I can't think of another mech game that felt as fluid and as easy to pick up as that one did. FPS controls combined with the weighty feel of mechs was a fantastic combo. Lost many hours to that.
I can't think of another mech game that felt as fluid and as easy to pick up as that one did. FPS controls combined with the weighty feel of mechs was a fantastic combo. Lost many hours to that.