Master of Magic Classic
The best game of my life came to Steam.
I’ve been playing Master of Magic since it first came out in ‘94. I was in middle school back then, I think my dad mail ordered the game for me and my brother as a gift. I played it over and over. I played it even after I got the Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, PS 2, 3, 4, signed up for WoW classic, BC, FT, got the Elder Scrolls series, and until last year, after I learned about the Caster of Magic mod.
I’ll just say that it fundamentally changed my life. I’ve developed a strong preference for fantasy themed games, novels and even board games and strategy games. I’ve read many fantasy novels and light novels, even wrote some, and went on to play fantasy-themed RPG’s and simulations like HOMM series and Baldur’s Gate series. But still, even after literally 25 years of challenge, Master of Magic is still the best game ever for me.
– Real player with 425.1 hrs in game
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Unfortunately there have been severe changes to the base game. I will detail the changes I think are not in keeping with the spirit of the original game.
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Very little reward from claiming towers etc. Now all you get is mainly mana, money and some rubbish item.
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The AI can see everything and exploits that advantage whereas the player has to actually scout the terrain. The AI uses its unfair sight advantage to hunt down your units that it couldn’t possibly be able to see if it wasn’t cheating.
– Real player with 330.0 hrs in game
DOOM II
What I liked:
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Amazing modding community
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Fast paced, pick up and play with secrets for those that search
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Gameplay that may seem simple, but offer great challenge and variety that feels badass too
What You Need to Know:
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Like Doom, this game needs to be modded to play for anyone that is used to mouse and keyboard controls. Otherwise aiming with keyboard and no looking around will turn you off from the game.
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With mods like project brutality,brutal doom, doom 64, brutal “insert old fps game” mods are all really great and offer tons of variety and fun, along with tons of maps and you can never run short of mods to play
– Real player with 80.5 hrs in game
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Should YOU play DooM 2?
First off you’re expected to be a 90s guy.
-You’re expected to be a filthy masochist. You’re punished for things that aren’t really your fault.
-You’re expected to not have learned controls of such a game. VERY SIMPLE CONTROLS
-You’re expected to be playing your first fps game ever and be amazed by everything.
-You’re expected to like the 90s aesthetic, so American exaggerations over realism.
-You’re expected to replay this. The second play through is more fun than the first.
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
Ultimate Doom
Doom the game, that like the main character, is just too angry to die, living on in a constant stream of re-releases, wrapping those age old wads in newer shinier packaging now with controller support and customization.
The original Doom team started before Id even existed working on making Super Mario Bros 3 work on a PC. The controls were impressive for the game, so mirroring them with the graphics onto a PC was quite the feat. Footage was uploaded by John Romero to celebrate Commander Keens 25th anniversary. From the description Romero says, Nintendo was impressed with the team developing the working clone for PC. Nintendo as history notes didnt want any of their proprietary games running on non Nintendo hardware. So the bad news is no Super Mario for PC and the better news is that we got Commander Keen out of it which then led to the creation of Id the creators of…. DOOM (insert dramatic explosion)
– Real player with 54.6 hrs in game
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A classic fps with endless ways of playing it
– Real player with 38.2 hrs in game
Devil May Cry HD Collection
“I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIIIIGHT!!!!”
Amazing trilogy, older Action/Hack and Slash games can sometimes feel very clunky and slow in comparison to more recent games however these games hold their own and were definitely revolutionary to the genre for their time.
DMC was very enjoyable, a very solid introduction into the games. The puzzles and boss fights can be quite challenging even if you are playing on standard difficulty or even if this is your first DMC experience (like myself). Exploring the castle was very interesting as every area felt new and different without reprinting the same textures for different areas of the map which is what you tend to see in a lot of the older PS2 Games.
– Real player with 94.1 hrs in game
2 amazing games with fun story and gameplay… except for dmc3’s mission 18…. and dmc2
– Real player with 56.5 hrs in game
Master Levels for Doom II
“Master Levels” is an official expansion pack for Doom 2 that comes with twenty maps made by some of the best and well known independent mappers from the Doom community of the 90s!
They are collected into four sort of anthology arcs that tell the stories of different figures from the Doom universe.
The arcs are:
Titan:
By: Jim Flynn
Consisting of two maps.
The mysterious mansion belonging to a UAC Weapons Engineer located on the “Titan” moon of Saturn has become infested with demons due to the Mars Incident. The manor was full of unfinished weapons that would be vital in helping the UAC stop the demonic invasion. It is your mission to recover these prototypes and check for survivors.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
Master Levels for Doom II is a pack of fan-made levels handpicked by id Software and put together for sale as an official product. As the name would suggest, these levels are intended for those who are already familiar with Doom II. I’ve also already reviewed Doom II and its predecessor so if you want more information on those basics then go check those out. If you’re still here, let’s talk about this one, shall we? Note that this is based on the Steam version of the game which runs through the program DOSBox. And additional thing to note is that I played the game with a controller using an extrernal program to map key presses to button presses. This means I can’t speak much for the control beyond how responsive it is to key presses rather than the layout and whatnot. Alright, let’s hit it!
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
Painkiller: Black Edition
Painkiller Leaderboard:
1.Painkiller : Black Edition (10/10)
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The one who started the whole series, he is recognized for his old school fps and it is still fun to play it right now.
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Pros: All.
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Cons: null.
2.Painkiller : Hell & Damnation (9/10)
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A remake to the original Painkiller made by Farm 51 including a variety of new features like : new weapons, new gamemodes, new level design, new levels etc.
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Pros: New weapons, new gamemodes, new level design, new levels, new monsters, new mechanics etc.
– Real player with 439.4 hrs in game
Painkiller is an PC designed Action FPS game where you take the role of Daniel, a person who goes to purgatory after an car accident. Daniel must fight his way if he wants to get to heaven since the hell’s warriors are attempting to take Daniel into hell. What you heard, is also what Painkiller is all about, killing.
You will be mauling down hordes of hundreds of different enemies in different location ranging from Icy Bridge to Abandoned Mansion with loonies in it to Trophical Palaces of Persian regions or midevil times Castles and soforth.. Modernday set Harbour Docks. Almost all of these maps feature completely new set of enemies, so there is quite alot of enemy variety.
– Real player with 62.4 hrs in game
Doom 3: BFG Edition
Since Doom 3: BFG Edition is in fact a collection of games, it makes sense to evaluate the games individually.
Two old-school DOS Doom games - The Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth - have been ported to run natively within Windows. These games are absolute classics, but unfortunately, the copies included in this package have two major problems: frame rate and censorship.
When launched directly through Doom 3: BFG Edition, Doom 1 and 2 have their frame rates capped. This means that these very old games can only have animation as smooth as is possible when they are played in DOS - an archaic operating system that, even for its time, had trouble managing and accessing memory that was physically available to the computer.
– Real player with 71.5 hrs in game
Doom 3 is an odd game since despite having a greater focus on horror, it’s still an action game at the end of the day. There’s more story compared to the original games, however it is nothing too special and it can be very predictable at times. Since Doom 3 is still an action game, your weapons are pretty strong and you can carry a ton of ammo with you. I am aware the BFG Edition added more but considering the lockers give you a ton of ammo anyways in the original Doom 3, I am confused as to why they even added more ammo to begin with. Doom 3 still has good atmosphere and a great interpretation of Hell that I think even Doom 2016 and Eternal do not capture. It really shows how terrifying Hell is for your normal person, or in this game’s case, a marine who is usually indifferent to a lot of things.
– Real player with 65.7 hrs in game
Devil May Cry 5
This game is short, but it’s a gem for sure
between the stylish gameplay that puts all other spectacle fighters to shame, and the variety of really fun characters that are all really fun and compliment a different playstyle, and the… subpar but still really good multiplayer aspect of the some sections of the game (there’s a mod that let’s you use the co-op on all missions btw, see Nexusmods)
Once you finally get good at the game and unlock all of the moves, you can pull off some REALLY stylish combos, even I’ve managed a few
– Real player with 542.8 hrs in game
I literally hate this game so much I swear to god level 10 on HaH is not even possible I have spent over 20 Hours trying to do it and if you even make one mistake you lose I hate it so much I hate this game
– Real player with 120.5 hrs in game
DOOM 64
Like most people, I passed on Doom 64 back in 1997 and assumed it was yet another port of the PC version.
Nope! This is a totally different game, and it’s now considered to be the canonical sequel to Doom 2 and the prequel to Doom 2016.
Doom 64 goes for a more unsettling style of horror, with creepy ambient music and a colorful gothic atmosphere. It does a good job of putting you on edge and creating a sense of dread.
The level designs are elaborate and labyrinthian, and very much in the spirit of the original Doom games. They’re a joy to explore, but some people will be put off by the game’s ample use of switches and trigger events, which are sometimes unclear and can slow down gameplay.
– Real player with 12.9 hrs in game
Never played the original on N64 and was worried it would feel like a cheap knockoff, but it feels like a real followup to Doom 2. Feels just like old-school DOOM with the graphics and sound polished up.
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
DOOM 3
Phil loves DOOM 3, and the vanilla game is far superior to the BFG edition.
– Real player with 41.3 hrs in game
Has no gurls.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game