Comments on: Flashback Gaming: Old is The New.

By: bbr

bbr — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:57:42 +0000

I am NOT coming back to ultima online.

EA has really just torn that game apart.

By: Qix

Qix — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:56:55 +0000

cmagoun has some great suggestions.
…
Ogre Battle and Chrono Trigger are played every year by me and co workers. Being in the Navy, emulators are about the only games I have access to most of the time while on the boat.
…
FF Tactics is another great game, the beginning is hard to get past, but then it turns into solid gold.
…
Xcom is still one of me favorite games ever. I could never get it to work very well from the original disks, or any of the abandonware sites (and their tutorials for slowing the game down – being a DOS game, it runs way to fast now). Steam sells it for pretty cheap though (at least when I got it) and it works great.
…
Also when I read the title of this article in the RSS feed, I immediately thought of the game Flashback. Another awesome game. Movement and control is ~kind~ of like Prince of Persia (but better), and its set in sci-fi world, and not as hard.

By: cmagoun

cmagoun — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:59:56 +0000

I am a big fan of old games… being an old guy. I love Final Fantasy Tactics, Ogre Battle and the Disgaea series (as well as lots of other NIS titles). And if you haven’t played the original XCom, or Master of Magic on the PC… you have to get yourself to an abandonware site.

By: Inktomi

Inktomi — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:58:35 +0000

I just picked up Shadow the other day. I read about “Beyond” and almost bought it from GoG for the PC. I’ll get on that. Thanks for the tip Andrew!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:07:58 +0000

If you find it, buy “Beyond Good & Evil” for the PS2. It’s one of my favorite titles of all time.

While you’re at it, “Shadow of the Colossus” is an amazing experience.

Of course, FFX is no slouch =) I loved that game to bits.