Anyone here still play old games? Options

[SwissFerdi]

I recently found myself to be bored, so I reinstalled the original Max Payne because I liked it so much a few years ago.

It's still a great game. Graphics are pretty good, but the gameplay itself is still awesome- shootdodging a baddie just does not get old.

So, does anyone else dig up old stuff, and if so, what are you playing? I hope I'm not the only one.

And I'd consider an old game to be something like five years old, considering how quickly the graphics are evolving.

[SwissFerdi]

But aren't Episodes 1 and 2 pretty short? I'm excited to get into the story...the gameplay is so deep.

[solidxsnake]

But aren't Episodes 1 and 2 pretty short? I'm excited to get into the story...the gameplay is so deep.

They are short, I'll give them that. But the storyline is far too intricate to not want to play them... they are also just as fun as HL2.

The first was in a league of its own, though. HL2 was good, but HL was just crazy on the first play through. I felt like I was glitching some parts of the game, or skipping around/advancing the wrong way, the puzzles were just so obscure and abstract many times that it feels like you're doing the wrong thing. Its dated graphics make it slightly less enjoyable now... Waiting for "Black Mesa Source" to be finished. It's a third-party conversion of the original Half-Life to the Source engine with vastly updated graphics, models, textures and levels. It looks gorgeous.

I'm also eagerly awaiting Episode 3 and Portal 2. Shame that the "episode" trilogy is essentially HL3. Still, when everything's out, I will probably want to tank through all of the games in a row. Preferably one sitting

This post has been edited by solidxsnake: Aug 19, 2009 - 10:23 PM