Neverhood was a fantastic experience. If you like puzzlers.
Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share.
Submitted 5 months ago by zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Linktank@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Theatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
And that soundtrack was so good
marquisalex@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Bandcamp link here - one of my all-time favourite VG soundtracks. Never heard anything like it before or since!
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Linktank@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I laughed so hard the first time I saw this.
skygirl@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I thought neverhood was just a fever dream I had as a child
eluvatar@programming.dev 5 months ago
That game is so good, one of my early gaming memories
MeatsOfRage@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Klaymens Theme is an all time banger
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I still sometimes hear songs from the game used in videos
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
The Neverhood is deeply underrated. It got a spiritual sequel a few years back.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
There is also a platformer set in the same world, using the same main character, on PS1 called Skullmonkeys.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yup skullmonkeys is great. It’s in a box with my Game sharked PS1 for playing a copy of Bushido Blade once a decade.
couggod@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ahh the paperboard case for Deus Ex. That brings back some memories. It’s amazing that it is in such good condition.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some classics in there for sure. For those that haven’t played it, Oni was a favorite of mine from the era. I don’t think it got a lot of attention at the time, or even today. This was Bungie near the end of its Mac-first pre-Halo era.
False@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Heard it felt unfinished
shyguyblue@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I remember the levels being copy/paste rooms, but things like bathrooms and break rooms were absent. It didn’t really feel like a real world people live in.
Maultasche@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I didn’t know there was a jewel case version. Mine is in a DVD case.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
omg the Neverhood.
glorkon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I still use the song “Operator Plays a Little Ping Pong” from the Neverhood OST as my ringtone. Never fails to amuse.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
My favorite was always “dum da dum doi doi.”
adarza@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
absolutely loved Oni, still one of my favorites ever.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 months ago
Gunman Chronicles is unironically great. Granted, I love games with ludicrous numbers of weapons, but the fact that the weapons have a bazillion firing modes is fun.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Fuck yeah Neverhood!
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I remember playing Project IGI, that one was hard. Die and you have to redo the entire mission, brutal.
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Was the same with the first Hitman
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
But it was a cool game
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If it’s on a cd, it ain’t old yet.
qbus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Your computer still has a CD drive. A retro
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I didn’t know for like six months that mine has a cd/dvd drive. It’s practically hidden.
essell@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Exactly.
Old games come in large cardboard boxes to accommodate the manual, with disks rattling around inside.
And in one case, a vacuum packed t-shirt too!
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ahhh the manuals… and the mail order hint guides. Those were the days.
skygirl@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Okay grandpa
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not yet, but I am old enough… lol
jinarched@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Oni is so good.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I seriously don’t think this game gets enough credit. It basically invented the combat system used in a bunch of AAA titles today. Like the Batman games. Sure they have been refined and improved it, but it was revolutionary at the time.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Now I can finally activate my RtCW
snake@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yoink
fraksken@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Sharing your cd key, are you now?
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I never thought I would see blade of darkness again. Thank you for sharing.
Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 5 months ago
One of my favorite games. One time I was able to dismember a guy completely before his body hit the ground.
Acidbath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I didnt know oni was on pc. Ive been playing it recently on ps2 and let me say the movement in that game is amazing.
Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I recently went through getting it to run on Linux. It’s one of the only Bungie games I haven’t played. Shockingly in depth combat, I’m enjoying it, but I’m bad at combo based fighting games, so I’m playing it in very bite sized pieces.
TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Man, my brother and I were obsessed with the Neverhood back in the day. That game was so weirdly satisfying
happysplinter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I swear one day I’ll beat it.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The day I figured out the mouse cheese puzzle was a major milestone of my childhood
poolhelmetinstrument@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Omg, thanks for this. I was looking for the name of Gunman and Oni. Played them when I was younger and forgot what they were called.
Mesophar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Came here to leave the same comment! I have such distinct memories of Gunman, but could never remember the name of the game.
iegod@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Oni! <3
sifr@retrolemmy.com 5 months ago
Looove Dues Ex. I just looked up The Neverhood, and it looks so interesting. Definitely going to need to watch a long play of that.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Eidos, I know that name… Anyone remember commandos?
farcaller@fstab.sh 5 months ago
There were quite a few games using the same formula (and improving on it), to the point where I feel Desperados would be my favorite in that genre, not Commandos itself.
I still remember having to reparation my drive and reinstall windows, upgrading from fat16, because commandos wouldn’t fit on either partition.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Going through Desperados 3 after wastelands 3 myself. Shadow tactic next.
For me Xcom mechanics is goat
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Loved commandos. They’re making a new commandos. There is a demo out. Probably launched next year.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Alarm! Alarm!
boaratio@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Never Hood is so good.
PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Blade of Darkness was kickass
Vladkar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I don’t remember that Oni game by Bungie. That cover art looks nice.
sirico@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Igi, Deus ex, NASCAR 2, there’s a lot of milestone games there
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wait, those games came on CD? I thought they came as ISOs with a nocd_patch.exe
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Based
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wolf’s logo rocks. I believe all id games have that touch, even Rage.
FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Their logos and packaging were designed by focus2 in Dallas, TX. I used to work there. Fun fact: The lead designer for Return to Wolfenstein project was flying back from Hong Kong, from a press check/approval of the metal tin packaging, on 9/11. He was stuck out of the country for a while. Really cool guy. But I’m not sure focus2 was involved in Rage. They were decimated by the economy after 9/11, never did really recover from that. I think they had gone under by then.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I can imagine they dragged that influence for a while, retouching old logos and keeping this style. I singled Rage out because it’s different and aim to be edgy in comparison to classic games, yet it standed out on a shelf.
rabber@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I should start collecting physical PC games
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oni was a slapper. Would love to see it done justice. Not by Bungie though.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Rockstar acquired Oni to get it’s engine and killed its sequel because they got what they wanted
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Or, Angel Studios became Rockstar San Diego and they made Red Dead Revolver instead.
splinter@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Boo rockstar. That game’s mechanics were some of the most fun I ever experienced. It was absolutely crying out for a sequel.
DWin@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I absolutely loved Oni. I didn’t own a copy for a while but I’d play it round a friends house once a week… Those fighting mechanics just felt so tight (for the time) and the gun play was weighty and responsive.
Shame to hear about the fate of Oni 2 from here, I had no idea