I played so much Rome Total War as a kid my parents instituted a "no computer on weekdays" rule until I was in high school
- Warcraft 2
- Command & Conquer, both the original and Red Alert
- Age of Empires 1, later 2
There were others, like Halo 1 & 2 in co-op, Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights and so on :zizek-joy: , but I put ridicilous hours into those first ones.
I got into C&C as a teenager, and did a replay of every game during 2020-2021. Most of it still holds up well
It mostly holds up well because the genre has barely evolved. The UI design has just gotten better. :shrug-outta-hecks: :
Still love me some dumb RTS action :Care-Comrade:
If I had to pick just one, it would be Starcraft: Brood War. I never appreciated the main game until I was an adult, but I must have played every UMS game type in existence as a kid. If you try to play Starcraft Remastered now, it's a disappointing shadow of what it used to be - pretty much the only UMS games anyone plays are tower defense spinoffs - but in its heyday there was always something creative and cool out there. My favorite was this one that was a full-fledged turn-based RPG, with each player controlling a different party member.
One of my other favorite genres was the DBZ maps, where you had a couple in-game minutes to level grind before having to fight the next story arc.
Pokemon for sure, I played a huge amount as a kid. Also love the total war series though, first computer games I got into.
Pokemon was probably #2 for me. I had 300+ hours in Leafgreen and another 300 in sapphire
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. For multiplayer, we spent ALL the time playing Smash Brothers 64
Cant pick one so throughout my childhood and adolescence:
- Geoff Crammond’s Formula One Grand Prix 1-3
- Civ 1 and 2
- Colonization
- Floor 13
- F-19 Stealth Fighter
- Half Life 1 and 2
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Reallllyyy fucking showing my age there :bern-disgust:
Edit: totally forgot Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer
Sim City 4. Had a shitty prebuilt computer that could barely run it, but I sunk so many hours into it.
Others that I spent a ton of time on were Pokemon, Legend of Dragoon, YuGiOh: Forbbiden Memories.
Hard to pick just one, but the PSX Crash Bandicoots definitely got a lot of play
Even played Crash Bash, the poor man's Mario Party
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:biden-troll: mfw when people refer to games like Minecraft or Skyrim as childhood games, 2010 was like two weeks ago
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Lol yeah if we're talking real child hood games I was playing when the original Oregon Trail was the hot shit. It gets a little weird for me when I realize I was married before half this site hit puberty.
It was Minecraft for me, no matter what game captured my attention, once that attention waned, it was back to everyone's favourite block based game built upon Java spaghetti code, which ran like shit on my laptop. Still the same pattern today, when I start floundering from game to game, I nearly always land back on playing Minecraft.
Gran Turismo. Gran Turismo 4 when I was younger, and 5 when I was older
RuneScape. At least now I can type over 100wpm from spamming "wave1: selling lobbys 600 "
As a kid this was the game for me, as I got a little older it was Final Fantasy VII & Tomb Raider, then as a pre-teen into teen I started to get into FPS games.
I think not until I played and actually finished Fallout 2 did I realize I was a g*mer
