What games are like....?

[Hobbit XIII]

Yes its me again with another thing to ask.
I'll probably add to this list as I think of games.
Some games are not available on Steam and some have been discontinued - thank you very much whoever was responsible for removing Unreal Tournament :( .

So what games are like these favourites of mine from yesteryear that are available on Steam now. Please only post with games you have experience with.

Shadow of Rome : fun game of wonderful violence ruined by a tenchu/metal gear solid style of stealth em up game play when forced to switch characters. Shadow of Rome is about a general or something and you get put into an arena and your job is to survive the violence and keep the crowd happy.
During this holiday of being a gladiator you might throw a flower to the crowd to get some points or the decapitated arm into the crowd for laughs and points.
You don't like using your sword? fine cut someones arm off pick it up and beat them with it.
The innovative violence in this game would have made a 1960s gangster clap his hands with glee.

Unreal Tournament : You ever looked at a band saw and thought what that needs is to be made into a firearm?
If the answer is yes then this is the game for you. But is there a Steam equivalent?
Don't get me wrong the original star wars battlefront 2 has me happy enough but some days you just need that little extra violence.

The original Grand Theft Auto Vice City / San Andreas games.
I looked at the reviews of the definitive editions and I do not want to know. What I do want to know is are there any recommended games where you are in a city and have missions to do / life to live similar to Vice City / San Andreas.
If anybody doesn't know about these games and has children then I highly recommend you get these games to teach them how to behave in the world. Your children will love you for it and so will the corporate prison system.

Mercenaries 2 world in flames.
As is often the way I get lost when the characters are telling me about what everything wrong is in the world and why I should be trying to fix it. The great thing about this game is all I need to know is its South America and Oil and there are people who don't get along with each other and all they want from me is money so I can buy weapons and ordnance from them for me to use to help them blow each other up. You get to call in airstrikes and rockets and explosive stuff for buildings , tanks, aircraft, people....
Never has been an Englishman abroad ever felt so good....well maybe in the 1800s it did.

Legacy of Kain - Yes they got some titles on Steam I don't think they got all of them but its not that I am after and I liked Soul Reaver and I liked the one where you are Kain himself set long before he chucked Raziel into Oblivion.
So for this I am asking any cool Vampire type games actual creepy suspense horror maybe out there on Steam?

Afterburner.
I did not check if they had this on Steam but this and anything similar?
Afterburner is about being in a fighter aircraft with lots of ammunition and explosives.
There are lots of enemies coming at you and your job is to shoot them and use your guided explosive delivery system to let them know you are very much correct on the forums.

Arnie.
It's called Arnie, probably based on his real life movie of 'Commando' .
A film about Loyalty, Camaraderie, Betrayal, Family and one of the most beautiful moments in 20th century cinema history :
Cindy 'What happened to Sully?'
Arnie ' I let him go '
Brings tears every time.

The game version of Arnie Schwarzenegger's life has him dropped off in some place nobody cares about.
Arnie then goes on a spiritual journey shooting up South American jungles/bases with thousands of enemies respawning and we all know how that turns out.
Any games you can think of like this? please only respond if you have played this game and have a credible Steam alternative.

[Hobbit XIII]

Update on Unreal Tournament I got the original very recently and it does not disappoint as the years have gone by. The Ps3 version was not bad but it just didn't feel like Unreal Tournament.

I will relax the rules of discussion a bit you do not have to have played the exact games I mention. So any games like these or the aforementioned on Steam?

Going back decades again....

Spy vs Spy 2
I did not play the original but got the sequel from a magazine cassette. There used be magazines where you would get cassettes with them and this was main reason anybody bought the magazines. They did serve as a good read while waiting for games to load. And thinking on it I believe those magazines gave me the itch to learn coding because every month they would have cheats you would have to physically type into your computer that modified the code somehow.
Few years ago to be seen as a genius all you had to was to a hello world 'program' and then the good ole FizzBuzz to impress the ladies.
But back in days of old if you wanted to feel special you'd write out lots and lots and lots of lines just so you could play the impossibly difficult yet awesome games like The Untouchables and T2.
Anyway Spy vs Spy is about two spys trying to sabotage a building against each other. A lot of fun.

Robocod
We all like Robocop and if you didn't well there is no helping you.
Robocod though takes a fish makes him into some kind of super extendable robot and put him as a secret agent.

Robocop
If you don't know what Robocop is about watch the original and get back to me if you know any games like it ie Law Enforcement with Robots maybe some decision making thing to do. Guns are a must and obviously shooting suspects before reading them their rights.

Which brings me onto Dredd
Both films of Judge Dredd are good.
Judge Dredd is and the Judges in general are some pretty touch people with a mass superiority complex. You think having a half man half machine merged together is a bit controversial?
Try having a class of humans who think they are doing you a favor by judging you to penal colonies.
You want to see Stallone get angry and ride a flying motorbike then this is a good film and will make probably a great game if its out there so does it exist?
oh and the remake is also good very different feel and bit too realistic about how the world is going watch it for the action and a cure for optimism.

[Crazy Tiger]

It's a shame epic removed the UT games from all stores. UT99 has been one of my favorite games ever since I played the demo disc about 6 months before release back then.

Quake 3 Arena is the obvious alternative.

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

It's a shame epic removed the UT games from all stores. UT99 has been one of my favorite games ever since I played the demo disc about 6 months before release back then.

Quake 3 Arena is the obvious alternative.

Thanks!
I discovered Quake 2 through a review in a magazine for the ps1 back in the days of none rising sea levels.

The review was glowing and I could not wait to get hold of it. Utterly disappointed at the so called amazing graphics of it and really could not get why the reviewer was so over awed by it.
I completed it anyway and then played it multiplayer 1 vs 1.

In the days you actually had to have friends in the first place to play them (unless you liked renting prostitutes to play video games with you) me and my none prostitute friend spent hours at a time daily killing eachother on that game and when we got bored we would flip over to his n64 Goldeneye.

I just looked at the Quake games on Steam and that Champions looks pretty awe inspiring stuff even if to me it looks a complete rip off from Unreal Tournament - which does it no harm in my book at all.

Again thanks when Quake 3 drops a bit in price i'm grabbing it.

[miakisfan]

Originally posted by Hobbit XIII:

Update on Unreal Tournament I got the original very recently and it does not disappoint as the years have gone by. The Ps3 version was not bad but it just didn't feel like Unreal Tournament.

I will relax the rules of discussion a bit you do not have to have played the exact games I mention. So any games like these or the aforementioned on Steam?

Going back decades again....

Spy vs Spy 2
I did not play the original but got the sequel from a magazine cassette. There used be magazines where you would get cassettes with them and this was main reason anybody bought the magazines. They did serve as a good read while waiting for games to load. And thinking on it I believe those magazines gave me the itch to learn coding because every month they would have cheats you would have to physically type into your computer that modified the code somehow.
Few years ago to be seen as a genius all you had to was to a hello world 'program' and then the good ole FizzBuzz to impress the ladies.
But back in days of old if you wanted to feel special you'd write out lots and lots and lots of lines just so you could play the impossibly difficult yet awesome games like The Untouchables and T2.
Anyway Spy vs Spy is about two spys trying to sabotage a building against each other. A lot of fun.

Robocod
We all like Robocop and if you didn't well there is no helping you.
Robocod though takes a fish makes him into some kind of super extendable robot and put him as a secret agent.

Robocop
If you don't know what Robocop is about watch the original and get back to me if you know any games like it ie Law Enforcement with Robots maybe some decision making thing to do. Guns are a must and obviously shooting suspects before reading them their rights.

Which brings me onto Dredd
Both films of Judge Dredd are good.
Judge Dredd is and the Judges in general are some pretty touch people with a mass superiority complex. You think having a half man half machine merged together is a bit controversial?
Try having a class of humans who think they are doing you a favor by judging you to penal colonies.
You want to see Stallone get angry and ride a flying motorbike then this is a good film and will make probably a great game if its out there so does it exist?
oh and the remake is also good very different feel and bit too realistic about how the world is going watch it for the action and a cure for optimism.

I thought the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament was the best and I'm hoping that they really are going to make it free to play and release it to the public. Mighty disappointed that was taken off Steam.

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by miakisfan:

Originally posted by Hobbit XIII:

Update on Unreal Tournament I got the original very recently and it does not disappoint as the years have gone by. The Ps3 version was not bad but it just didn't feel like Unreal Tournament.

I thought the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament was the best and I'm hoping that they really are going to make it free to play and release it to the public. Mighty disappointed that was taken off Steam.

there is nothing wrong with the ps3 version and I loved the faster travel option.
Just for me the original UT felt edgy and a bit grimy. The Ps3 version was a little tame feeling now maybe if they put into the story mode a touch of the Manhunt type killing (parents you would have failed if you do not get your kids Manhunt it will teach them how to survive) and creepiness it would have taken that shiny off of the ps3 UT and made it feel how the original UT felt to a testosterone filled Hobbit all those years ago.

-still getting use to how quotes work on here.

[Hobbit XIII]

Again I apologise for insulting the ps3 UT. I love the hover boards and I think they should be put into Star Wars Battlefront 2 original as well.
Please will people stop throwing eggs at my house now thank you.

Today as well as all the other items i posted here...

Have you played any really cool 1970s type games and I do not mean pong or space invaders.

I liked the original Driver and I got Driver set in san francisco on ps3.
So looking for a game set in 1970s or a GTA type game set in the 1970s.
If not I will be forced to watch the show Life on Mars all over again , its about a detective who gets hit by a car and his conscious is sent to a 1970s city to be a detective there.

Also anybody remember the original star wars game with cool vector graphics youd shoot some tie fighters and then go flying in the death star.

[Hobbit XIII]

This discussion is about as popular as the Lada at NASCAR.

Next on the list of wants is a really cool spy game.
Something that has a good storyline. You know when you had that life defining moment of playing FF VII and the storyline just blew your brains (not the remake) . I am not after a FF VII game but I mean the depth of storyline and thought that goes into it.
Maybe something like a Ludlum, "Richard" Francis (really its an author how Orwell is the world going - edit censor rant over), Bourne series.

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i was a lot more into games in the past when it was a lot simpler ie games not forcing subversive overpriced dlc, and i think i got a lot f that feeling removed when i saw almos every company basically milking customers, ie even devs i liked in the past were doing it and i realized games are just yet another business that just brainwashes you into thinking its some form of entertainment like f2p even, is it really free? i mean some games old ones like postal and shadow warrior are free thats all i could say is free and even those devs totally milked their franchises ie it was just a free ad to release their old games for free, i also got into major modding effort which ended in me almost breaking my mind, ie i think i probably wrecked my psyche of putting a lot of effort in it, and that also made me realize devs are sort of like herding its fans like cattle, ie you are useful as long as you make them money, lots and lots of money.

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by mk:

i was a lot more into games in the past when it was a lot simpler ie games not forcing subversive overpriced dlc, and i think i got a lot f that feeling removed when i saw almos every company basically milking customers, ie even devs i liked in the past were doing it and i realized games are just yet another business that just brainwashes you into thinking its some form of entertainment like f2p even, is it really free? i mean some games old ones like postal and shadow warrior are free thats all i could say is free and even those devs totally milked their franchises ie it was just a free ad to release their old games for free, i also got into major modding effort which ended in me almost breaking my mind, ie i think i probably wrecked my psyche of putting a lot of effort in it, and that also made me realize devs are sort of like herding its fans like cattle, ie you are useful as long as you make them money, lots and lots of money.

I have in the past felt the same way of doing the devs job for them when really all they were doing to customers was milking them more and more. That was not on a coding or modding side though.

There are simpler games out there but with good depth in them on the text side of gaming.
MUDs are still around and I delve into them every now and again.
MUDs are Multi User Domains/Dungeons.
So many are just abandoned of players as the world has moved on yet the owners keep the servers going just for players like me who wander in and have a world to explore at their leisure.
They take a bit of getting used to and they all have differences of levelling and gaining experience to improve and skills etc etc.
Mudlet was a program many people used if that sounds like your cup of tea. It is like a gateway you boot it up and put the information in and your good to go hopefully to play the world of your choice.
Some MUDs will have players hanging around still and usually they are happy to help - just remember they probably havn't spoken to anybody for ten years so expect some bad breath.

A lot of MUDs are made from love of making them over profit some ask for money to help run things and you get a bonus maybe but its not a requirement usually and that money really does go to maintenance if you ever do choose to pay.
If you like modding some MUDs may even hap a development board and you can make your mark by designing a zone / castle / village / quest / space port whatever the theme is.

Hopefully somebody out there who has never heard of MUDs gives them a go and be aware to use all your usual cautions on giving information out and socialising beyond the game.

[RasaNova]

If you're looking for Grand Theft Auto type games... Check out the Saints Row series. The original, NOT the laughable reboot that just came out.

When I first saw them I dismissed them as a cheap GTA clone... but then I played them, and found that they WERE a cheap GTA clone, but they dgaf and it freaking WORKED. It's like they saw how over the top GTA was and said "hold my beer..."

But maybe start with SR3. SR2 was great but has some serious console-port issues, and SR4 is, well, they kinda take it in another direction... Imagine GTA cranked up to 11 but you are a godlike literal superhero.

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

If you're looking for Grand Theft Auto type games... Check out the Saints Row series. The original, NOT the laughable reboot that just came out.

When I first saw them I dismissed them as a cheap GTA clone... but then I played them, and found that they WERE a cheap GTA clone, but they dgaf and it freaking WORKED. It's like they saw how over the top GTA was and said "hold my beer..."

But maybe start with SR3. SR2 was great but has some serious console-port issues, and SR4 is, well, they kinda take it in another direction... Imagine GTA cranked up to 11 but you are a godlike literal superhero.

Yes of course Saints Row!
It has been years since I've played them.
I played I think number 2 and 4 on the ps3. I'll look forward to checking it out.

The same reason put me off from playing Mercenaries 2 was because someone said its a GTA clone . So glad I ignored them eventually.