Over the years,name your 3 'WOW' games

[Standup]

Talking initial 'wow' factor rather than actually great games (although some were)...

80s Ant Attack, 3D on a spectrum
Lords oF Midnight, some much game in so little RAM

90s G Police, the graphics wowed me even though i never got more than a few levels in.
Baldur's Gate, just so unexpected.
Syndicate (or was it Syndicate Wars ?) first game i saw on a PC which looked better than the Amiga version

00s Can't think of any but by now i had high expectations.

[alva]

Loderunner,

Ooh, the memories...

80s Ant Attack, 3D on a spectrum

Terrible game, great graphics for it's days

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by DrSpike
The European version of UFO: Enemy Unknown was out pre 1996 I'm sure, though not in the 80s.

He's probably thinking of UFO's ancient ancestor: Laser Squad Appeared for the C64 and Spectrum as well in the 80's

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by alva

Loderunner,

Ooh, the memories...

80s Ant Attack, 3D on a spectrum

Terrible game, great graphics for it's days

AntAttack? There's a very nice lady who's been working on a remake.

http://www.remakes.org/website/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2282&perpage=15&highlight=antattack&pagenumber=1

And her development blog

http://modestybcatt.blogspot.com/

[MattH]

90's: SIM CITY 2000 BABY!
00's: Morrowind et. all

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by CapTVK


AntAttack? There's a very nice lady who's been working on a remake.

http://www.remakes.org/website/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2282&perpage=15&highlight=antattack&pagenumber=1

And her development blog
http://modestybcatt.blogspot.com/

i've just checked her site, seems like a fun girl!

3D Ant Attack

[reds4ever]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Trajanus
G-police is that game in which you are a coppa flying in airborne police vehicles hunting down pirates and other trash in those dome-like cities right?

Was a great game with a good athmosphere. Unfortunately I never got past that 'train' level. I never found out how to prevent it from reaching the exit

QUOTE]

Thank God I'm not the only one!

[DarkCloud]

00's:

The games were getting lame, relying too much on chrome (graphics and sound) instead of having good gameplay. Nothing really sticks out.

I agree Urban Ranger, it keeps getting harder and harder to find good games these days. As I noted, I hardly buy new games at all. Most of mine are pre 2000.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 1999 and Heroes of Might and Magic III 1999 were the last truly addictive/new idea games that I've played

[Father Beast]

OK, I'll give this a shot.

80's: didn't have a PC, loved Legacy Of The Ancients on my C64. My wife and I fought all the time about who was going to play it.

90's: it's a tie for the WoW factor. Master of Orion was impossible to stop playing. Duke Nukem 3D was really cool when I first started it up.

00's: ummm, I haven't done that many, but Dungeon Siege was really cool to start playing. the epitome of easy to play.

and I can't resist a couple more from the 90's: Diablo was a revelation to play, kinda the Dungeon Siege of the 90's. And no game ever had a cooler intro movie than Curse Of Monkey Island

[pg]

80s probably mario 1 that comes with nes. that's really the first video game i saw and played a lot.
90s quake 1 without a doubt. believe it or not i was much more wowed by internet multiplay than the first time ever real 3d graphics.
00s meh.

[Mr. President]

80s: Super Mario Brothers

90s: Donkey Kong Country

21st Century: Medieval Total War

[BustaMike]

Wow games that stayed great and/or got better over time:

SMAC
Diablo2

Wow games that started great then lost something:

UT2004 Onslaught Mode (still good, but no longer goddamn quality)
Morrowind (I ****ing hate this game now)

[duke o' york]

Civ 1, Civ 2, Civ 2, Civ 2, etc....

The first THPS game was a lot of fun. Sensible World of Soccer stole hours of my life, Elite and Frontier likewise. Is it time for another favourite games thread?

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
pre-80's:
Star Raiders, a cartridge game made for the Atari 400/800 home computers. An incredible game considering how much they packed in so little space.

Star Raiders was the ****!

80s - Romance of the Three Kingdoms

90s - Toss up between X-Com and X-Wing. Both were incredibly immersive and very WOW.

00s - Shogun: Total War

[dunk]

80s.... Ultima IV, Defender of the Crown, Jumpman, Berzerk
90s.... Ultima VII, Duke Nukem, Civilization I and II
00s.... Baldur's Gate II, Heroes of Might and Magic IV, Civilization III