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Quake III Arena. It came out in the 20th century, which sounds crazy to me. It was about 10 years ago I last played it or its remakes.

I got into Q3 a few years late, but there was still a fairly healthy local community for it back then. Quake 4 came out and then Quake Live, which I played for a while, but the local community was missing by then.

Sure I could still play it, but I’m guessing there aren’t even enough people to fill a 5v5 capture the flag match anymore, Q3 or QL… a shame. But at least I have good memories of it.

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DrKevorkian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Q3A was a big deal in the late 90’s - I played it all the time on my college’s LAN.

Sadly today I have only one person I know to play this with, and every time I check online servers they’re just bots

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glau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I guess I should mention 4 more. Most of these are playable in some form or other too, but still.

Dune II - I didn’t understand any English when I was playing this as a kid, but had lots of fun with it either way. Open source remake (needs original data files): dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/index.html

Golden Axe - This one was somehow memorable to me out of all the cheesy beat 'em ups. store.steampowered.com/app/34276/Golden_Axe/

Stunts - The first racing game I played. Very nice map editor too. I even remember the bug where if you hit a peak between two ramp edges you’d fly straight up towards the sky! A brief search didn’t give me any faithful offline remakes, but here’s the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)

Secret Agent - I’m fairly sure this or Dune II was the first graphical game I ever played on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/358350/Secret_Agent/
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