The recent release of
Diablo 3 has stirred up all sorts of memory’s for me, you see back
before being seduced to consoles I was quite an avid pc gamer and
spent many an hour playing Diablo 2.
so in the spirit of
this nostalgic look back at my own gaming past, this week I give you
Monday Richard's top ten classic PC games!
(Also, in the spirit of
fairness, I’m limiting the number of point and click adventures I
put in this list, or it would be a list of nothing but point and
click... at some point I will do the list of my top ten point and click adventure games)
The 7th Guest.
One of the first games
I ever owned on Cdrom, the 7th guest is a puzzle game
where you wonder around a creepy mansion solving puzzles and trying
to figure out why your stuck in the mansion in the first place. This
game is a classic, but its also bloody hard, as a child I never got
past the tin can puzzle and its only recently, with its re-release on
the ipad that I have actually finished it. The 7th guest
serves as one of my first introductions to horror gaming and it still
plays well today.
Doom.
To any gamer, doom
needs to introduction, your the original badass space marine fighting
demons from hell, on Mars. Need I say more?
Lemmings.
In lemmings you are put
in control of a seemingly endless supply of little green haired men
that try despite your best efforts to walk off cliffs. The only way
to help the lemmings not throw themselves into every hazard they come
accross is by quickly solving puzzles and desperately racing to out
wit the game developers and guide them to the exits. This strange
gameplay made for a very compelling game and is still one of my
favourite puzzlers today.
Zork.
This Text based
adventure game was released in the early 80's and has been installed
on every pc I have ever owned, without the use of any graphics it
manages to stand out as one of the most compelling experiences I have
every had at a pc. Adventure, cunning, danger and amazing terrain
only limited by your imagination.
You can download all the Zork games for free here, ZORK! so you have no excuse not to play them.
Baldur's gate.
My first introduction
to Dungeons and Dragons and I did not even know it at the time.
Baldurs gate is a complex involved RPG based in the fantasy world of
D&D, you level up, kill monsters and get to experience possibly
the greatest storyline in RPG history. If you have not played it, you
need to.
Ghost master
In this take on the god
game genre you play as the ghost master put in charge of a team of
haunters and given tasks, most of witch revolve around scaring
mortals. This game has a lot of flaws, its buggy, the camera is
clunky and the final level was missing when it was released having to
be patched in later. But despite all this I love ghost master,
something about how the music starts pumping when you really start
scaring the mortals... bliss.
Diablo 2.
Diablo and Diablo 2 are
the original hack and slash games, you just point your mouse on what
needs to die, and the game does the rest. A decent story line, and
interface lay on top of pure gaming narcotic and I consider myself
still a recovering Diablo addict. I still hold Diablo responsible for
my less than amazing GCSE results.
System Shock
The spiritual successor
to the excellent game Bioshock, System Shock is to cyber punk, as
Bioshock is to steam punk. You find yourself stranded on a space
station taken over by an evil AI and it falls to you to put an end to
the madness collecting weapons, stimulants and as many personal
diaries as you can carry. If you have only played Bioshock I urge you
to give System Shock a go, its just like Bioshock, but with a lot
more freedom and a much less linear story line. (and dated graphics)
The Sims
The Sims is still a
major name in PC gaming, and there is very little I can say about it
that you don't already know, you build a house, and then you put some
people, or “Sims” in the house and help them live their lives...
before getting bored of them and drowning them in the pool...
The secret of Monkey island.
The greatest game of all time, and still to this day my all time favourite game. I'm not going to talk about it at length here, because I have already talked about it at lengh on this very blog. All i'm going to say, is play it.
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