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Enough with the “best upcoming PC games” or “best games of 2018”. Today we are traveling to the past to find out few of the very old games that you can still play and enjoy. We consider them classic, some of you oldies will call them nostalgia but as a 90’s Kid not all of them would be in my nostalgic playlist. Honestly, some of them are from the time when I did not know what gaming is. This is the part about PC gaming that I love the most, games never get old. Even on your top-notch high-end multicolored LED-flashing rig you can play very very very old games and enjoy them as much as we did back then on our low-end setups.
We often miss a lot of good games because they were released before we even became a gamer and even though a lot of the old games are getting their new makeover it’s not possible to remake every PC classic we ever had. Some of the best RPG, adventure games, strategy games and point and click games are so old we have never even heard of them, playing is a very farfetched imagination. However, I decided to make a list of a few old PC classics that you can still buy or download and play. Maybe you’ve played some of these, maybe you have heard of some of these or maybe you are going to. Only one way to find out, right? So, let’s begin.
#4 Half-Life
Yeah! Half-Life! Maybe we have waited for Half-life 3 for too long and maybe some of us are disappointed knowing that it’s never happening but don’t give up. Half-Life one is still there for you. What made the gaming community go crazy over this game? Half-life’s storytelling and its fictional world were beyond anything else in gaming, in 1998. We are talking about a time when nobody could ever possibly imagine Half-Life happening and then all of a sudden something happened that changed the entire gaming scene and it was named Half-life.
Valve created an amazing experience with all the alien fighting and physics-based puzzles. The landscape itself was so stunning and unearthly at the same time. The narrative that never broke away from first-person makes the game one of the finest games of then and probably even now. So don’t waste time waiting for the imaginary Half-life 3 and play the original.
#3 Planescape: Torment
Planescape: Torment is a lonely journey to discover untold stories. Why this game is on the list? Because Planescape: Torment is possibly one of those game that is not focused on combat, it is more focused on storytelling. Listen to the conversation and don’t ignore them, make choices that you will not regret and pay attention to the storyline before anything else.
There are those games in which we don’t listen to what the commander has to say and follow the map, complete objectives, and level up. And then there is Torment, where combat or gameplay does not matter. What matters is the journey. Torment is a journey of a person who has lived and died many lives and has no recollection of them. Torment encourages you to uncover the stories and its world through exploration, conversations and clever questing.
#2 Diablo 2
One of those games that proved to us that a game’s life-cycle can be way longer than you might think. And Blizzard releasing a patch for Diablo 2 in 2016 supports my argument as well. Diablo 2 is one of the finest old PC games without any doubt. Diablo 2 introduced us to this new age of high-intensity action-packed RPG that later has been used in other games but none of them could beat Diablo 2. The well-animated pixels and grungy look s make Diablo appealing but the game-play of Diablo is what appeals more to the fans and one of the reasons why Diablo 2 is still going on strong.
#1 Fallout: 2
Fallout has come a long way. Just look at the picture of Fallout 2 and any picture from today’s Fallout game, and you can tell the difference but there is a reason why it is one of the classics. Because the bad pixel might wake some questions up in your mind but I’m telling you, old games were not famous for graphics. The amount of narrative and mechanical depth these games have, very few games have these depths in today’s gaming. Fallout 2 is available on steam in high resolution and with cloud saving.
The world of Fallout 2 is very unforgiving. One bad choice or a bad character development might give you a very bad experience and that is what fun about this game. You get to explore the post-apocalyptic world as you explore the landscape, side quests, and well descriptive characters. It is harsh and maybe a little ugly but Fallout 2 came out to define the entire series.
