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Was visiting my parents for their 50th anniversary and stumbled upon this gem from my youth. More below.

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[–] optissima@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hah, I can finally play Homeworld thanks to OPs CD key 😈

[–] pecet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish Tim Epic would release this as open source. Cmon game and engine is old enough and Quake guys did the same...

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Can't. They're totally bogged down in making Darth Vader to the Macarena.

[–] BlueDiamond@rammy.site 3 points 1 year ago

Wow. So many flashbacks. Thanks for sharing

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How did I miss this!? Looks fantastic! Definitely wishlisted. Thanks!

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I have all four of those boxes in my bin-o-old computer games in my garage. Oh many I need to play Homeworld again.

[–] brewdtype@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, Homeworld. My best friend and I spent countless hours with that.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It was amazing what they did with relatively primitive 3D graphics. It was a beautiful RTS.

Unreal is so fucking good, if you guys didn't play it yet, it holds up perfectly. Get the fan patch from oldunreal and play.

Quake III is fun, I like occasionally duking out with bots on it.

Never touched Homeworld, maybe someday.

[–] squawkduck@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ahh, UT, those were the days, me and my friends played it in school during school hours. (Then moved on to WC3 DOTA, in school during school hours.)

[–] TheTeaMonster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Quake 3 Arena... ahh, the memories...

UT99 still slaps

[–] Cloud55@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

All great games, I played so much of all these, especially unreal. Dial up deathmatches!

[–] ali_g@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Great collection. I spent endless hours playing Capture the Flag in Unreal Tournament, loading up the rocket launch to unleash when someone popped round the corner. Good times.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[Edit] Mlem and Memmy aren’t posting correctly. Had to edit on the website from a browser. Sorry, still getting used to all the quirks!

[–] Debo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Low-grav, insta-gib is the best play mode.

[–] cashews_win@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

On DM-Deck16 map!! Firing rockets at the ground to jump up and over to the other side and blasting your mate point blank with the frag gun mid air. God I loved that game and it wasted HOURS of my uni time playing LAN matches across campus.

I won every tournie we set up and played in the 1st year Halls.

When I first got the original CS thoguh I lost my skill. I didn't have the patience for one-shot kills. I rage quit everytime I'd get headshot. I realised I was good at tanking a shot then crazy-dodging and countering. You couldn't do that in CS. So in UT I could take a shot, rocket jump in their direction and shotgun the bastard from behind before they knew what was happening. None of those skills transffered to CS where accuracy and cover was the main aim.

[–] Raze157@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Adding Command and Conquer, Heavy Gear. And Battlezone (1998) to those three would round out my PC gaming childhood. Good times!

[–] MisterMoo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tribes 2 and Sacrifice come to mind.

I’d had a lot of fun with that newer F2P Tribes game. Not quite the same, I’m sure.

[–] shgr@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

These bring back good memories.