Lands of Lore 2 is one of my all time favorites. I love the main character's wry humor and the hilarious acting in the FMV cutscenes. There's so many secrets and mysteries in the game. There's two entire secret dungeons that can be easily missed. And the underground City of the Ancients is one of the creepiest places I've ever explored in a video game.
Hey! Thank you so much for using my video and crediting me! It was the first time this happened to me, this is so cool! And your video is really informative, nicely done! Thank you
Oh, no no no no no no! Thank YOU! For making your videos and sharing with all of us viewers! Sure, I used a bit, but without yours, there would be mine. :) And I always give credit, both in the comments and on the ribbon, cause I hope that the channels get more views, from my viewers if they're interested in a particular game. :)
Incubation, POD and Postal were so amazing! All I could ever get back in those days were demos on gaming magazine discs in Romania, but damn, the memories!
Incubation was fun for a while for me, but it was in this weird spot between "real" Battle Isle games and XCom, and just either of the two did their own thing much better. So Incubation while rather cool, was never really "my" thing. xD
Did yall ever play Command & Conquer: Renegade? It was a fps set in the C&C world. It wasn't fantastic or anything but it was interesting and different enough to be pretty fun at the time. It came out before that time period (2005-2012) when there was a vast oversaturation of fps games so it wasn't played out yet to see an unusual take on the genre. I remember you could destroy buildings as your guy, similar to how you would in the regular rts command & conquer games. If you had a tank you could just blow up smaller enemy buildings with the tank's cannon, or you could place explosives or find a computer terminal inside the building and trigger a self destruct mode. Not a bad little game. There was a sequel planned but it got canceled.
Well, if you remember the games, and last time you played them was when you were a teen, so if you still recognize them, it can't be that much later. 5-6 maybe 7 years at most. So, you're... 24-ish? ;)
Incubation was that game I saw an ad for and its never left my mind. I've still never tried it but I would really like a GOG release. I love MDK 1 and POD, both fun games.
I really like Lomax. The music is really nice and the graphics by Henk Nieborg is some of my favourite pixel art in video games. Gameplay is alright, the last few levels get really tricky. I actually agree with you on XWing vs TIE Fighter. Buying it I was really disappointment that it didn't have a singleplayer campaign. There was an expansion that added one but I never knew about that back when I had bought the game.
Yeah, I'm actually not big on any games even today that don't offer some kind of a serious single player experience. Don't mind the multi, but if it's not an MMO, it better let me do some fun things on my own too.
I have one or two DOS videos planned before the next. One's like 100% dropping before it, as it's already written. The other's half done, so it can go either way. But yeah, you can expect games in the next one to be as good.
I recently found a mod that made Incubation playable on modern hardware. Oh the joy! I'd totally forgotten how it was like when three fourths of the squad jammed their weapons in the same turn, leading to a violent end for everyone. Oh the horror!
Ha ha ha :) That sounds like something that'd happen in XCom. I mean not the jamming but maybe all soldiers panicking in the same turn, because some new and mean alien showed up. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah, Incubation shares a lot with XCOM ;) But a lot of the missions are more like logic puzzles than strategy, with pretty limited ways you can finish them. The time-limited missions especially often require you to move the exact right troops to the exact right positions every turn if you want any chance of seeing everyone alive in the rest of the game. Jump-packs and more powerful weapons give you more options later in the game, but only if you actually saved enough resources to be able to buy them when they are available. So yeah, if someone want to give it a try, save often, save in multiple slots, and don't be afraid to reload a save from several missions before when your road comes to a halt.
@@janneaalto3956 So, it's kinda like XCom Chimera or whatever it was called. It was a puzzle game in a tactical strategy's clothing too. It looked and played like XCom, but to complete the stages (much smaller than in an original game), you had to figure out the correct order of moves.
Nothing but top listers here, mdk (shame about the sequel), the good but stupidly difficult incubation (spin off of the Battle Isle series), the stylish POD, lomax really masterpieces
I know, right? So far not a single episode for 1997 had really bad games. And judging from what I've left for it, it may stay like that. I wonder if 1998 will be able to compare... ?
Lomax reminds me a lot of the Misadventures of Flink, another game you showed in an Amiga episode. Seems like a pretty fun game, but no doubt the lemmings branding wasn't originally intended. It's story and gameplay has absolutely nothing connecting to other lemmings games.
It was a free world, for the most part at least, and they could travel and settle anywhere. Even in Ireland. Especially that everyone knows that a real warrior dwarf loves a good drink!
POD, the elusive racer that I ckuldn't get running back in the day. But so nice-looking! Oh, no, more lemmings! :P I know, I know, silly joke. But the game looks cute. And I like that they kept the "let's go" sound. You know, you are right about the Borg cube having a good defense design. But the sphere is possibly even better. Except for spheres called Death Stars, which are just embarrassingly easy to destroy. Rumour has it that there had been another Death Star before the one in the movie, but one of the imperial troops accidentally sneezed too hard and... well... They had to build a new Death Star for the movie. Hmm. I was definitely expecting you to say that Postal is actually about delivering mail... ;)
A third Death Star!? That changes everything! It means that innocent subcontractors died more than once while the Death Star's not been completed yet, and Rebellion destroyed it... xD Perhaps it's the Rebels who are evil? ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Third? Wait, how many did they have in the movies? o.o` I'm so out of touch with Star Wars. But I tell you, the only evil people there are the Death Star architects. Either deliberately or accidentally while they were distracted by cheese or something. :P
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks There were two in the movies. Well, one and a half, as a one was incomplete when it was destroyed along with all the contractors working on it. xD Don't worry about know knowing too much, SW is heavily overrated. Not bad, just not as good as everyone's making it out to be.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh. I vaguely remember an incomplete one. It's true, I'm not a hardcore Star Wars fan, the movies were good, but yeah, like you said, a bit overrated. Too much action, not enough depth, in my opinion. Too much innocent contractor killing. The workers' health and safety department is seriously slacking off.
X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter: Now, first of all, how dare you?! Just kidding, I've never played it myself. I had Tie-Fighter back in the day though and loved it. Lomax looks amazing. I'm surprised I've not heard more about it.
See, the thing is you could actually play Tie Fighter all by yourself and have fun. A lot of it in fact. And XvT you couldn't. It was online only, and single player "tutorial" (not exactly but they kinda worked like that) missions just sucked. Check Lomax out, it's easy to do today. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh absolutely, I agree. :) I would probably have been quite disappointed if I had bought it only to discover that it's mainly a multiplayer game. I'm a singleplayer kind of guy too.
@@MrKanjidude Yeah, I like both, single and multiplayer games, but I spend 95% of my gaming time, if not more, playing alone. So, having a multi only game, back in the day, when stability of network connections was terrible, was not a great idea.
MDK - classic, I love it :). Was looking for my dropped jaw, when I first saw the huge mirror platform arena on my K5 133MHz (or was it 166 MMX already...). Incubation - it was really god, but flawed - most of the missions had only one proper way of playing. So it was more of a puzzle game than strategy. Wing Commander Prophecy - next one loved by me (but there is another game of this genre released in 1998 which was waaaaay better ;) ). And X-wing vs TIE Fighter... I played it for about 15 minutes, rebooted to my multiconfig dos, launched TIE Fighter Collectors for a few hours and never ever launched this multiplayer abomination again. TIE Fighter is brilliant (to this day i play it for a mission or two) and I love this game. But I hate X-Wing vs TIE Fighter. Even later Balance of Power was meh to me :P.
Hey! I had K5 PR-133 too :) And it was actually 100MHz only but given AMD's improvements it was as performing as Pentium 133MHz. Amazing CPU for its time! :) It'll be a minute till we get to 1998 though, as I've still few episodes for 1997 to do. It was really *that* good of a year!
I really enjoyed Lomax a lot, I think the graphics made me stick with it. Wasn't the best platformer, but still a very enjoyable game. Agreed with you on XWing vs TieFighter - I could never get into it. (and I was a star wars fan at the time!) I much preferred Rogue Squadron who released later. I never played Postal when it was released, I did in the 2000s after playing Postal 2. It was still kinda fun, but at that time in the 2000s, gratuitous gore and violence was the norm in games. Postal 1 felt quite quaint by comparison. Still enjoyable tho !
Oh, Lomax was just beautiful, no way going around it. It was a pixel masterpiece! Yep, Rogue Squadron was definitely better. But in fairness a newer title too. I'm yet to talk to someone who actually played the first Postal the way it was supposed to be played, so only going for those, that are actually attacking you. I don't think anyone went for it.
I'm with you on XvT. The arena is pretty but it's sorely lacking in story and mission variety. Very disappointed that with Squadrons they went for a modern XvT instead of a modern X-Wing/TIE/Alliance... As for Novalogic, were they really known for hardcore sims? I mostly knew them from Comanche which was extremely arcadey, but so, so, pretty with that voxel landscape...
Oh for sure. Those voxels were a product of their time, doing some serious black magic with the 320x200 resolution, but higher resolutions quickly made it obsolete when you could roll out fully textured 3D.
Incubation is a great game but it doesn't explain things well. Maxon, for example, panicked in your video. You need to let him rest by clicking on the down arrow icon so that he will function normally again in the following rounds.
Lands of Law: GoD is new to me but looks great, literally it’s a good looking game for its time? It doesn’t look much better game play wise than the Elder Scrolls of the time but that’s OK. MDK! Let’s Goooooo! My ex & me loved it but we originally played it on the Play Station. I have the PC version to hand right now because it’s the same game, it just looks better on PC. POD GOLD, a true classic racer with all the expansions, what’s not to love? You don’t like X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter?! Ouch, my soul! You are dead to me! (Don’t worry, being dead to me doesn’t last long. 😄) Adventures of Lomax always felt like a 16bit platformer upgraded for (at the time) modern PC’s & I love it. I wasn’t big on 2D platformers back then but it was, comfortable? Does that make sense? TOCA is another I played on the Play Station & it was great on that platform. Wing commander Prophecy is one I first played on (of all platforms) the Game Boy Advance! That version was obviously very downgraded & I’d always recommend the PC version 1st but that GBA port seemed huge for the platform at the time & is well worth a play for anyone in to GBA like me. Postal felt like a gimmick to me in it’s day, being offensive for the sake of it but looking back on it now it actually has more to it than that. Perhaps not super deep but it does have hidden depths. What a list! ‘97 really was a great year for gaming generally but also stood as the year PC gaming was really taking over as the dominant platform that didn’t lack really anything & could offer more “power” than really any other platform save for incredibly expensive arcade hardware that was becoming heavily PC adjacent by then. Great video, thanks.
I was not a fan of POD when it came out and learned to love it years later. On one hand it was a waste in 1997, on another, I had a fun surprise when I did, so I suppose it's OK. Well, I think it's third time I'm dead to you, so yeah, you're right, it's not as bad place to be as it may initially seem. We do usually reconnect after a minute or so. :P Yes, what you said about Lomax makes total sense. It's a very "modern" windows platformer. Very like M$ wanted games to be on their new platform. Beautiful, fast running and in a scaling window. Yeah, Postal was meh as a game, but pretty darn good as a tool to relax. And also, all of us played it wrong. :) The newer ones were definitely better. Yeah, 1996 was a great year, but I had few weaker episodes in it too, and 1997 so far keeps on serving tons of really cool titles. And I've still quite a few good ones left. I am really surprised how good of a year it was. I'd be hard pressed to find as good of a year for PC as 1997. Even though, arguably we've gotten much better games over the last 2 decades.
I remember liking the Story of X-Wing vs TIE Fighter's single player campagin but its still my least favorite game in the series because I suck at action games. I pretty much beat the X-Wing games by playing missions over and over until I got lucky and things went well. I like Wing Commander Prophecy but its pretty far down my list of favorite Wing Commander games because most of the games, including the spinoffs include at least one fighter (Sometimes from expansions) I absolutely adore and Prophecy was one of the few that lacked that. Technically the Confederation didn't win the UBW conflict. A conspiracy within the Confederation military was trying to spark s war with the UBW as part of their plan to transform humanity into something akin to ancient Sparta in space and the UBW managed to expose the conspiracy then convince the Confederation not to declare war. So either the UBW won by accomplishing their objectives of proving they weren't behind the attacks that sparked the conflict, and having their independence accepted by the Confederation (Legally they had never belonged to the Confederation remaining independent worlds allied with the Confederation during the Kilrathi war. The wartime Confederation fleet actually being a joint force of the Confederation and the worlds that would later form the UBW) or it was a draw. Still it was nice to see my preferred Blair love interest from III again even if the relationship didn't work out. I wish we had gotten to see more of the war that began in Prophecy.
I too had a few games that I loved but also had to power through repeating missions as I just wasn't good enough to complete them at the first attempt.
The spin that Lomax does is so incredibly smooth it's almost uncanny. It almost feels like it's got too many frames to it somehow
It Is a nice looking spin!
Yep, the game is pretty fun too.
Lands of Lore 2 is one of my all time favorites. I love the main character's wry humor and the hilarious acting in the FMV cutscenes. There's so many secrets and mysteries in the game. There's two entire secret dungeons that can be easily missed. And the underground City of the Ancients is one of the creepiest places I've ever explored in a video game.
The love you have for the game is more than obvious! It's an excellent title to fall in love with though. :)
Hey! Thank you so much for using my video and crediting me! It was the first time this happened to me, this is so cool! And your video is really informative, nicely done! Thank you
Oh, no no no no no no! Thank YOU! For making your videos and sharing with all of us viewers! Sure, I used a bit, but without yours, there would be mine. :) And I always give credit, both in the comments and on the ribbon, cause I hope that the channels get more views, from my viewers if they're interested in a particular game. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames 💜💜💜
@@bluluxabica868 :)
Incubation, POD and Postal were so amazing! All I could ever get back in those days were demos on gaming magazine discs in Romania, but damn, the memories!
Incubation was fun for a while for me, but it was in this weird spot between "real" Battle Isle games and XCom, and just either of the two did their own thing much better. So Incubation while rather cool, was never really "my" thing. xD
Did yall ever play Command & Conquer: Renegade? It was a fps set in the C&C world. It wasn't fantastic or anything but it was interesting and different enough to be pretty fun at the time. It came out before that time period (2005-2012) when there was a vast oversaturation of fps games so it wasn't played out yet to see an unusual take on the genre.
I remember you could destroy buildings as your guy, similar to how you would in the regular rts command & conquer games. If you had a tank you could just blow up smaller enemy buildings with the tank's cannon, or you could place explosives or find a computer terminal inside the building and trigger a self destruct mode.
Not a bad little game. There was a sequel planned but it got canceled.
@@Tony_Cardoza I always wanted to play it, but never got around to it. Thanks for reminding me of that!
@@Tony_Cardoza I can't say that I have, but it definitely sounds like it could've been a lot of fun. :)
I spent SOOOOOOOOO many hours playing and replaying "Incubation" (I think it's one of the games I have on the original cds) over and over again.
It's a good game, but for me it kinda never really fully landed. I preferred XCom. That said, it doesn't mean that I didn't like it.
Oh my God your Battlestar Galactica camera / protagonist description is the best.
Thanks! Like most other things in these videos, it came from a special place. A place of crazy. ;)
The transfer from MDK to POD was magical.
Thanks! :)
Stop making me feel old!
Love these vids though!
Well, if you remember the games, and last time you played them was when you were a teen, so if you still recognize them, it can't be that much later. 5-6 maybe 7 years at most. So, you're... 24-ish? ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I been playing games since DOS days, 57 now!
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Exactly, like I said, 24. ;)
Incubation was that game I saw an ad for and its never left my mind. I've still never tried it but I would really like a GOG release.
I love MDK 1 and POD, both fun games.
It's there. Included in BI Collection.
www.gog.com/en/game/battle_isle_platinum
Some tinkering is needed to make it run nicely with W10 (and later)...
I really like Lomax. The music is really nice and the graphics by Henk Nieborg is some of my favourite pixel art in video games. Gameplay is alright, the last few levels get really tricky.
I actually agree with you on XWing vs TIE Fighter. Buying it I was really disappointment that it didn't have a singleplayer campaign. There was an expansion that added one but I never knew about that back when I had bought the game.
Yeah, I'm actually not big on any games even today that don't offer some kind of a serious single player experience. Don't mind the multi, but if it's not an MMO, it better let me do some fun things on my own too.
Looking forward to the next one 😊
I have one or two DOS videos planned before the next. One's like 100% dropping before it, as it's already written. The other's half done, so it can go either way. But yeah, you can expect games in the next one to be as good.
I know it's not the correct Postal in the series, but I just gotta say it.........
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Butt Sauce!
LOL :)
I recently found a mod that made Incubation playable on modern hardware. Oh the joy!
I'd totally forgotten how it was like when three fourths of the squad jammed their weapons in the same turn, leading to a violent end for everyone. Oh the horror!
Ha ha ha :) That sounds like something that'd happen in XCom. I mean not the jamming but maybe all soldiers panicking in the same turn, because some new and mean alien showed up. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah, Incubation shares a lot with XCOM ;)
But a lot of the missions are more like logic puzzles than strategy, with pretty limited ways you can finish them.
The time-limited missions especially often require you to move the exact right troops to the exact right positions every turn if you want any chance of seeing everyone alive in the rest of the game.
Jump-packs and more powerful weapons give you more options later in the game, but only if you actually saved enough resources to be able to buy them when they are available.
So yeah, if someone want to give it a try, save often, save in multiple slots, and don't be afraid to reload a save from several missions before when your road comes to a halt.
@@janneaalto3956 So, it's kinda like XCom Chimera or whatever it was called. It was a puzzle game in a tactical strategy's clothing too. It looked and played like XCom, but to complete the stages (much smaller than in an original game), you had to figure out the correct order of moves.
@@OldAndNewVideoGamesSounds about the same :D
3:32 never thought I'd see Terminator and Judge Dredd team up
LOL :)
6:30 Wow, Miejski Dom Kultury (Municipal *Departament of *Kulture) really rebranded.
Jaka kultura taki dom. ;)
Nothing but top listers here, mdk (shame about the sequel), the good but stupidly difficult incubation (spin off of the Battle Isle series), the stylish POD, lomax really masterpieces
I know, right? So far not a single episode for 1997 had really bad games. And judging from what I've left for it, it may stay like that. I wonder if 1998 will be able to compare... ?
it could, 98 had half life, SIn, carmageddon 2, starcraft...@@OldAndNewVideoGames
@@Zontar82 Oh man, you are right, it may an excellent year too!
Lomax reminds me a lot of the Misadventures of Flink, another game you showed in an Amiga episode. Seems like a pretty fun game, but no doubt the lemmings branding wasn't originally intended. It's story and gameplay has absolutely nothing connecting to other lemmings games.
Lomax and Flink were designed by the same person, so that's why his artstyle transferred between the two. :)
19:08 UPS delivery man: *German-suplexes your package*
He didn't even wanna bother going with that package to the front door...
4:57 never knew dwarves were Irish...
It was a free world, for the most part at least, and they could travel and settle anywhere. Even in Ireland. Especially that everyone knows that a real warrior dwarf loves a good drink!
18:27 a cube could be eaten by a giant space horse
Anything can be eaten by a giant space horse ;)
Yeah, but not everything looks like a sugar cube
mdk was a great game I sadly only played the demo of way back when. lomox looks great.
Lomax is definitely worth checking out. :)
Dzięki za klucz STEAM.
Spoko :)
POD, the elusive racer that I ckuldn't get running back in the day. But so nice-looking!
Oh, no, more lemmings! :P
I know, I know, silly joke. But the game looks cute. And I like that they kept the "let's go" sound.
You know, you are right about the Borg cube having a good defense design. But the sphere is possibly even better. Except for spheres called Death Stars, which are just embarrassingly easy to destroy. Rumour has it that there had been another Death Star before the one in the movie, but one of the imperial troops accidentally sneezed too hard and... well... They had to build a new Death Star for the movie.
Hmm. I was definitely expecting you to say that Postal is actually about delivering mail... ;)
A third Death Star!? That changes everything! It means that innocent subcontractors died more than once while the Death Star's not been completed yet, and Rebellion destroyed it... xD Perhaps it's the Rebels who are evil? ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Third? Wait, how many did they have in the movies? o.o` I'm so out of touch with Star Wars. But I tell you, the only evil people there are the Death Star architects. Either deliberately or accidentally while they were distracted by cheese or something. :P
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks There were two in the movies. Well, one and a half, as a one was incomplete when it was destroyed along with all the contractors working on it. xD
Don't worry about know knowing too much, SW is heavily overrated. Not bad, just not as good as everyone's making it out to be.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh. I vaguely remember an incomplete one. It's true, I'm not a hardcore Star Wars fan, the movies were good, but yeah, like you said, a bit overrated. Too much action, not enough depth, in my opinion. Too much innocent contractor killing. The workers' health and safety department is seriously slacking off.
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks Imagine how many families and orphans the empire had to pay off after all that? Oh, wait! None, they're the bad guys after all. xD
X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter: Now, first of all, how dare you?! Just kidding, I've never played it myself. I had Tie-Fighter back in the day though and loved it.
Lomax looks amazing. I'm surprised I've not heard more about it.
See, the thing is you could actually play Tie Fighter all by yourself and have fun. A lot of it in fact. And XvT you couldn't. It was online only, and single player "tutorial" (not exactly but they kinda worked like that) missions just sucked.
Check Lomax out, it's easy to do today. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh absolutely, I agree. :) I would probably have been quite disappointed if I had bought it only to discover that it's mainly a multiplayer game. I'm a singleplayer kind of guy too.
@@MrKanjidude Yeah, I like both, single and multiplayer games, but I spend 95% of my gaming time, if not more, playing alone. So, having a multi only game, back in the day, when stability of network connections was terrible, was not a great idea.
MDK - classic, I love it :). Was looking for my dropped jaw, when I first saw the huge mirror platform arena on my K5 133MHz (or was it 166 MMX already...). Incubation - it was really god, but flawed - most of the missions had only one proper way of playing. So it was more of a puzzle game than strategy. Wing Commander Prophecy - next one loved by me (but there is another game of this genre released in 1998 which was waaaaay better ;) ). And X-wing vs TIE Fighter... I played it for about 15 minutes, rebooted to my multiconfig dos, launched TIE Fighter Collectors for a few hours and never ever launched this multiplayer abomination again. TIE Fighter is brilliant (to this day i play it for a mission or two) and I love this game. But I hate X-Wing vs TIE Fighter. Even later Balance of Power was meh to me :P.
Hey! I had K5 PR-133 too :) And it was actually 100MHz only but given AMD's improvements it was as performing as Pentium 133MHz. Amazing CPU for its time! :)
It'll be a minute till we get to 1998 though, as I've still few episodes for 1997 to do. It was really *that* good of a year!
I really enjoyed Lomax a lot, I think the graphics made me stick with it. Wasn't the best platformer, but still a very enjoyable game.
Agreed with you on XWing vs TieFighter - I could never get into it. (and I was a star wars fan at the time!)
I much preferred Rogue Squadron who released later.
I never played Postal when it was released, I did in the 2000s after playing Postal 2. It was still kinda fun, but at that time in the 2000s, gratuitous gore and violence was the norm in games. Postal 1 felt quite quaint by comparison. Still enjoyable tho !
Oh, Lomax was just beautiful, no way going around it. It was a pixel masterpiece!
Yep, Rogue Squadron was definitely better. But in fairness a newer title too.
I'm yet to talk to someone who actually played the first Postal the way it was supposed to be played, so only going for those, that are actually attacking you. I don't think anyone went for it.
I'm with you on XvT. The arena is pretty but it's sorely lacking in story and mission variety. Very disappointed that with Squadrons they went for a modern XvT instead of a modern X-Wing/TIE/Alliance...
As for Novalogic, were they really known for hardcore sims? I mostly knew them from Comanche which was extremely arcadey, but so, so, pretty with that voxel landscape...
Do you agree though that the switch from the early voxel to "modern" regular 3D brought huge jump in quality?
Oh for sure. Those voxels were a product of their time, doing some serious black magic with the 320x200 resolution, but higher resolutions quickly made it obsolete when you could roll out fully textured 3D.
@@fishmccool Yep, and mid 90s were the time when PC finally took the gaming powerhouse crown back, never to lose it again. xD
Hereeee❤
Glad you liked it! :)
It's white sticky substance so...we all know what it is lol
xD
3:41 bloodthirsty sky girl? Must be a anime girl, a yandere or sadodere.
:)
Incubation is a great game but it doesn't explain things well. Maxon, for example, panicked in your video. You need to let him rest by clicking on the down arrow icon so that he will function normally again in the following rounds.
Many of those older games run on the premise, that you either read the instructions back to back, or learned while playing. xD
Lands of Law: GoD is new to me but looks great, literally it’s a good looking game for its time? It doesn’t look much better game play wise than the Elder Scrolls of the time but that’s OK.
MDK! Let’s Goooooo! My ex & me loved it but we originally played it on the Play Station. I have the PC version to hand right now because it’s the same game, it just looks better on PC.
POD GOLD, a true classic racer with all the expansions, what’s not to love?
You don’t like X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter?! Ouch, my soul! You are dead to me! (Don’t worry, being dead to me doesn’t last long. 😄)
Adventures of Lomax always felt like a 16bit platformer upgraded for (at the time) modern PC’s & I love it. I wasn’t big on 2D platformers back then but it was, comfortable? Does that make sense?
TOCA is another I played on the Play Station & it was great on that platform.
Wing commander Prophecy is one I first played on (of all platforms) the Game Boy Advance! That version was obviously very downgraded & I’d always recommend the PC version 1st but that GBA port seemed huge for the platform at the time & is well worth a play for anyone in to GBA like me.
Postal felt like a gimmick to me in it’s day, being offensive for the sake of it but looking back on it now it actually has more to it than that. Perhaps not super deep but it does have hidden depths.
What a list! ‘97 really was a great year for gaming generally but also stood as the year PC gaming was really taking over as the dominant platform that didn’t lack really anything & could offer more “power” than really any other platform save for incredibly expensive arcade hardware that was becoming heavily PC adjacent by then. Great video, thanks.
I was not a fan of POD when it came out and learned to love it years later. On one hand it was a waste in 1997, on another, I had a fun surprise when I did, so I suppose it's OK.
Well, I think it's third time I'm dead to you, so yeah, you're right, it's not as bad place to be as it may initially seem. We do usually reconnect after a minute or so. :P
Yes, what you said about Lomax makes total sense. It's a very "modern" windows platformer. Very like M$ wanted games to be on their new platform. Beautiful, fast running and in a scaling window.
Yeah, Postal was meh as a game, but pretty darn good as a tool to relax. And also, all of us played it wrong. :) The newer ones were definitely better.
Yeah, 1996 was a great year, but I had few weaker episodes in it too, and 1997 so far keeps on serving tons of really cool titles. And I've still quite a few good ones left. I am really surprised how good of a year it was. I'd be hard pressed to find as good of a year for PC as 1997. Even though, arguably we've gotten much better games over the last 2 decades.
I remember liking the Story of X-Wing vs TIE Fighter's single player campagin but its still my least favorite game in the series because I suck at action games. I pretty much beat the X-Wing games by playing missions over and over until I got lucky and things went well.
I like Wing Commander Prophecy but its pretty far down my list of favorite Wing Commander games because most of the games, including the spinoffs include at least one fighter (Sometimes from expansions) I absolutely adore and Prophecy was one of the few that lacked that.
Technically the Confederation didn't win the UBW conflict. A conspiracy within the Confederation military was trying to spark s war with the UBW as part of their plan to transform humanity into something akin to ancient Sparta in space and the UBW managed to expose the conspiracy then convince the Confederation not to declare war. So either the UBW won by accomplishing their objectives of proving they weren't behind the attacks that sparked the conflict, and having their independence accepted by the Confederation (Legally they had never belonged to the Confederation remaining independent worlds allied with the Confederation during the Kilrathi war. The wartime Confederation fleet actually being a joint force of the Confederation and the worlds that would later form the UBW) or it was a draw. Still it was nice to see my preferred Blair love interest from III again even if the relationship didn't work out. I wish we had gotten to see more of the war that began in Prophecy.
I too had a few games that I loved but also had to power through repeating missions as I just wasn't good enough to complete them at the first attempt.