Which Classic Computer Games should I play?

[Wanderer]

Necro resurrection, but XCom: Enemy Unknown is going to be a full blown remake of the original UFO Defense for modern systems and UI methods.

Firaxis is making it.  2k Games is the distributor.  This is going to be De. Lic. Ious.

Uhm...

Whoops...    Too many unread threads by the time I got back. 

[Mánagarmr]

Oh, right! Didn't know you had been gone. Mai bad!

[Diazo]

Also, there is a smaller indie game called Xenonauts coming out in october also that is much closer to the original X-Com to also check out.

There was a thread on these forums about it, but the game's page can be found here.

X-Com:EU is something I'm looking forward too and will probably be grabbing, but it is very much a re-interpretation of X-com and is not really that close to the original game.

Xenonauts is essentially X-com updated and made to fit the modern gaming environment while still being as close to x-com as possible.

The biggest thing I'm noticing so far, having only played the X-com:EU demo and not played Xenonauts at all is that X-com:EU is a faster paced game where you move you men forward using cover and trade shots with the aliens, with the cover keeping your men alive if you've done it right.

Xenonauts is going for a slower paced game, if you rush forward and trade shots the aliens are pretty much guaranteed to win, even with cover. Rather, you have to position you men correctly to overwhelm the aliens with numbers as they are simply better then your men 1v1.

I'm looking forward to both and we'll see how they actually turn out once released.

D.

[zebramatt]

Speaking of classic games, I just got Grim Fandango and System Shock 2 up and running fly on my Windows 7 64bit jobby with no problems at all! Man, I love the internet.

[Mánagarmr]

It's an epic year for gaming. XCOM:EU in a fresh reboot and Xenonauts for that old-school XCOM awesomeness, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams out in less than a month, FTL is EPIC, Torchlight 2 is awesome...my god, man! So many great games!

[Echo35]

Dungeon Keeper (I also liked the second one) is unmatched in its particular style of fun.

I can't get an emulator to actually RUN that game properly.  I seriously wish someone would buy the IP and just rebuild Dungeon Keeper on a modern box.  Don't get fancy, none of the randomly annoying stuff they put into II, just good clean Hero Smashing fun.

I have a year-old gold edition of Dungeon Keeper 2 and it runs like a dream... for about 20 minutes, then it crashes. I managed to play about three and a half hours, saving every ten minutes and restarting whenever it crashed, before even my saintly patience wore immensely thin.

I'm still waiting for someone to release a new version just so it will run on a machine built in the last ten years.

If you've got StarCraft II then a chap named Bibendus is currently developing "Hive Keeper": http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/hive-keeper/. The single player beta is actually pretty damn good!

It's crazy how much Dungeon Keeper 2 clicked with me. I think you'll have better luck running it on OSX or Linux using Wine nowadays -- people on GOG constantly complain about it. I actually think a lot of older games run better with Wine.

I really want a fully working open source remake of DK2. Looks like somebody starting writing it and abandoned it a while ago. (OpenDungeonKeeper) I'd love to have keeper AI that actually challenges you.

DK2 does work with modern computers if you get the GoG version (They have fixed hardware acceleration). I believe it has to do with the fact that modern operating systems don't really run DirectX versions older than 9 and kinda emulate them (To varying degrees of success. Go try and play Space Empires 5 on Windows 7 and tell me how it runs More like seconds per frame). But I do own DK2 on GoG and since they got hardware acceleration working, the game runs like a charm. Also yes, Startopia exists.

[zespri]

In the context of Startopia and MOO1 something called Moonbase Commander came up. Did anyone play this one? Any good?

[Echo35]

In the context of Startopia and MOO1 something called Moonbase Commander came up. Did anyone play this one? Any good?

It's not bad. If you have people to play with I'd totally get it. Surprisingly fun and entertaining in multiplayer.