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What games of older generations would you put up? i dont mind the genre really, id would just love to hear yalls suggestions.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Portal!

Calling this game "older" is hurting my soul, though.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

if it makes you feel any better, you dealt psychic damage to me as well

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My steam account is 15y old, the Orange Box was my first purchase.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Orange Box was a lot of people's first Steam purchase. It's hard to overstate just how much gaming value was included.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mine was Counter Strike, bundled with CS: Condition Zero.

My account is old enough to buy cigarettes

My back hurts

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Metroid is likely the most famous

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

i recently streamed metroid fusion but had to stop cause the infinite spin jump simply didnt work, very sad cause its a good one

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Mirror's Edge "older" already?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

unfortunately, yes, its been 15 years

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still alive I cannot apologise

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Late 00s first person, non-shooter game involving a female protagonist expertly traversing platforms in a techno-dystopia covered in white, with a theme song "Still Alive".

Portal and Mirror's Edge have a lot more in common than I realise

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mirror’s edge still had shooty bits if you wanted to. But of course the proper play-through is the one where you take the 100% non-lethal approach :)

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obvious one, but the original Tomb Raider.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (8 children)

How old are we talking? Final Fantasy VI, Super Metroid, Resident Evil 2, and the OG Tomb Raider series are all pretty old but great.

Portal, Portal 2, Mirror's Edge, Alien Isolation, Child of Light, Celeste, Tales of Berseria, Final Fantasy XIII, Slime Rancher, the newer Tomb Raifer games, and A Plague Tale are a few games from previous gens that hold up really well.

A more recent game that flew under a lot of people's radars is Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and it was a lot of fun. Also, Atelier Ryza and Alba: A Wildlife Adventure are very worth mentioning, too. :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I have to call out Mirror's Edge, it is a great experience if you have the right mindset.

Trying to play it with an FPS philosophy is not the way.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Portal

Perfect Dark

Tomb Raider

Metroid

Mirror's Edge

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fatal Frame
Rule of Rose
Clocktower (the series, but I recommend 3)
Resident Evil
American McGee’s Alice
Fear Effect
Dino Crisis

Depending on your definition of “older” you also have:
Alien: Isolation
Fran Bow
What Remains of Edith Finch
Life is Strange

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ms. Pac-Man, obvs

Magical Diary: Horse Hall was fun

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

No One Lives Forever.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Tomb Raider

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jill of the Jungle, if you like Commander Keen era PC platformers.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Metroid.

How did I scroll through this list and not see Samus Aran mentioned?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
One of my most favorite King’s Quest games. And one of the first games I remember playing with a proper female lead.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tomb Raider (1996). The levels are well designed and work with the tank controls in a way that lets you master Lara Croft's acrobatic descent through haunting environments that feel far more threatening than most games I see today

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Parasite Eve (never played it myself but I know it's considered a classic)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Here are a couple I played back in the day:

  • Oni (Bungie, 2001)
  • Remember Me (Dontnod, 2013)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I remember creating a female Twi'lek Jedi in some of the old LucasArts Jedi games.

  • LucasArts Jedi something something
  • KOTOR
  • Baldur's Gate
  • Fallout Although these were more like "create-your-own protagonists" rather than "known hero protagonists" that people recognize.

Aside from the classics already mentioned in the thread, Lara, Chell, Samus, Valentine, Redfield, etc. here's a few that come to mind:

  • Peach in Super Mario 2, the game that feels more like a mushroom trip, than a trip to mushroom kingdom
  • Aya from Parasite Eve
  • Chun Li from Street Fighter, also Cammy
  • Mortal Kombat
  • Tekken
  • Soulcalibur
  • Dead or Alive
  • Sarah Kerrigan in Starcraft(s), although it's an RTS, so protagonist is a bit loose.
  • Rayne from BloodRayne, the first video game character to appear in PlayBoy, eh
  • Ellie from The Last Of Us, damn it's been 10 years already? Is that an old game already? Am I old? Nevermind, don't answer.
  • Clem from The Walking Dead
  • Joanna from Perfect Dark

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Final Fantasy VI is a great one!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Barbie: Horse Girl Adventures

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Longest Journey was my favorite as a kid. Point and click adventure about a young art student in the future who keeps teleporting to a fantasy world.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Some of these aren't that old, but still...

Blades of Time - fun hack & slash

Crosscode - great SNES inspired action rpg

Gianna Sisters - platformer, has co-op

Icey - another hack & slash

Mirror's Edge - first person parkour simulator with a great main character and good story

Psuedoregalia - short indie metroidvania, best movement mechanics of any game in a long time

Transistor - awesome story, interesting mechanics.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Could look into Oni - One of Bungie's first game

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni_(video_game)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Jill of the Jungle is the oldest one I know of that isn't Metroid. Fairly certain Metroid was first, but everybody knows Samus. Nobody, even people my age, ever talks about Jill of the Jungle tho.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Iji is a free game released in 2008. Sidescrolling shooter with a story, fun boss fights, and a great soundtrack. It's really a shame it isn't as well known in these circles, it's quite good.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Laura Bow adventure games Colonel’s Bequest and Dagger of Amon Ra from Sierra OnLine.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Jill of the Jungle - PC

Shantae - Gameboy Color

Alone in the Dark - PC

The Misadventures of Tron Bonne - PSX

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trying to think of some obscure, unknown games: Eien no Filena, a JRPG on the Super Nintendo. The protagonist is a woman pretending to be a man as a lower class citizen forced to be a gladiator. Awkwardness ensues when she is "assigned" a wife and the men around her start being very confused about their sexuality.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Syberia, if you're into point and click adventure games. I think they made three of them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The ovious one: Tomb Raider

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, Tomb Raid. With famous action hero Lar Crof as the protagonist

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ulala from Space Channel 5.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I believe all Elder Scrolls (at least the mainline games: Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim) let you select your character's gender.

Also, what is "old"? Mass Effect 1 is already 15 years old.

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