Randomthom
Silver Level Poster
Hey all,
I thought it would be good to see how many of us shared similar early gaming experiences...
Name a title, give it a brief description and maybe why it lives well in your memory...
Tyrian 2000
Arcade vertical scrolling sci-fi space-ship shooter, you control a ship with guns, BIG GUNS! Enemies fly at you from (mostly) the top of the screen and you blow them into the middle of next week. It has about 20 levels and you earn credits to upgrade your ship & guns and once you've done all 20 levels... you just start the cycle again!
Awesome fun, it's actually older than Y2k but they re-released it then, it's also now available on the iphone as an app (search the app store for tyrian).
Baldur's Gate 2
Bioware are known for their RPGs and they kicked off this series with Baldur's Gate but the sequel was just epic, truly epic. If you've ever liked RPG games then you need to play the King of Roleplay games. I love it for many many reasons.
It has one of the most engrossing stories that runs at a pace but you can choose to take some time out from that to do side quests.
There is a massive amout of voice acting, most of it very good.
It's MASSIVE, absolutely huge, if you played Mass Effect 1 + 2 + Dragon Age Origins + expansion then you've probably played about the same amount of content as BG2 has.
It's also flippin' difficult, if your character dies then you need to load & try again. If one of your allies (parties of up to 6 so 5 allies) die then you need to resurrect them... but they can also die permanently, gone, forever, just like that!
It keeps you on edge and gives you a healthy fear of Beholders, not those noncy beholders from Neverwinter nights that died in 3 seconds.
It has some of the best bad-ass bad guys in the history of bad guys ever.
It has some of the best good-guys too, "GO FOR THE EYES BOO!"
It has great replay value, I've played through this game about 5 or 6 times and just by writing about it now I'm tempting myself to dig out those 4 discs and keep going! I don't care that the graphics are poor, the backgrounds are flat & the characters have limited animation, this is truly a case of gameplay > all!
What are your great gaming memories? I have more but I'll leave it as those 2 for now!
I thought it would be good to see how many of us shared similar early gaming experiences...
Name a title, give it a brief description and maybe why it lives well in your memory...
Tyrian 2000
Arcade vertical scrolling sci-fi space-ship shooter, you control a ship with guns, BIG GUNS! Enemies fly at you from (mostly) the top of the screen and you blow them into the middle of next week. It has about 20 levels and you earn credits to upgrade your ship & guns and once you've done all 20 levels... you just start the cycle again!
Awesome fun, it's actually older than Y2k but they re-released it then, it's also now available on the iphone as an app (search the app store for tyrian).
Baldur's Gate 2
Bioware are known for their RPGs and they kicked off this series with Baldur's Gate but the sequel was just epic, truly epic. If you've ever liked RPG games then you need to play the King of Roleplay games. I love it for many many reasons.
It has one of the most engrossing stories that runs at a pace but you can choose to take some time out from that to do side quests.
There is a massive amout of voice acting, most of it very good.
It's MASSIVE, absolutely huge, if you played Mass Effect 1 + 2 + Dragon Age Origins + expansion then you've probably played about the same amount of content as BG2 has.
It's also flippin' difficult, if your character dies then you need to load & try again. If one of your allies (parties of up to 6 so 5 allies) die then you need to resurrect them... but they can also die permanently, gone, forever, just like that!
It keeps you on edge and gives you a healthy fear of Beholders, not those noncy beholders from Neverwinter nights that died in 3 seconds.
It has some of the best bad-ass bad guys in the history of bad guys ever.
It has some of the best good-guys too, "GO FOR THE EYES BOO!"
It has great replay value, I've played through this game about 5 or 6 times and just by writing about it now I'm tempting myself to dig out those 4 discs and keep going! I don't care that the graphics are poor, the backgrounds are flat & the characters have limited animation, this is truly a case of gameplay > all!
What are your great gaming memories? I have more but I'll leave it as those 2 for now!
