Title. What’s some of your favorite older games that you might have grown up with, or still enjoy years after its release?
(Ideally, these are games that released before or during 2005)
Some of my favorites are:
(PC)
- DOOM 1, 2 and 3
- Quake 3 Arena
- Starcraft (+Brood War)
- Warcraft 3 (+Frozen Throne)
- Zoo Tycoon 2
- Half Life 2
(XBOX)
- NFS Underground 2
- NFS Most Wanted
- Burnout 3 Takedown
- Halo Combat Evolved
- Halo 2
- Spyro, a Hero’s Tail
- The Legend of Spyro, a New Beginning
- Lego Star Wars 1 & 2
- Crimson Skies
- Panzer Dragoon Orta
- Star Wars Battlefront II
- Munch’s Oddysee
(GBA/NDS)
- Pokemon Sapphire
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
- Megaman Battle Network Series
- Animal Crossing Wild World
- Mario Kart DS
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I think my favorote game of generations past was probably Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. I put more hours into that game than any other game until current gen, I think. Even further back, I absolutely loved Kirby 64. I don’t think I was very good at it back then, and I actually think it’s the worst main series Kirby game, but I love it so. <3 However, while my gaming career started on the N64, I find myself going back and playing older games a good amount. Kirby’s Dreamland 3 is one of my favorites, and the old Star Fox games play really well, surprisingly. I think, though, if I had to give props to any pretty old game, I’d have to give them to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. While it was Super Metroid that started the Metroidvania genre, I think SotN put areally unique twist on it, that even modern Metroidvanias don’t really do. Unlike, say, Hollow Knight, all of your powers felt really unique, rather than just reskins of the usual, and the fighting game-esque inputs for spells were really fun. Plus, you could play as a vampire with a faerie companion. Come on, how [i]awesome[/i] is that?