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Meet the community still obsessing over Mass Effect 2 10 years later:
Is Mass Effect 2 the series' golden goose or its ugly duckling? As the game passes its 10th anniversary this year, the debate rages on. Many space cadets recall their time with the game through a lens of utmost fondness, while others contend its status as the most detached and defunct entry in BioWare's illustrious trilogy (Andromeda, for all its pluses and minuses, is usually not part of the same discussion).
Regardless, a decade after its release, folks from all walks of life cling to Mass Effect 2 and the events surrounding it like a vice grip, continuing to invest time, effort, and money in the maintenance of their interest long after BioWare announced its plans to discontinue the series indefinitely.
What old games are Soylentils still invested in? Starcraft? Half Life?
And for Mass Effect fans, um, Liara or Miranda?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @05:21AM (5 children)
maelstrom
legend of the red dragon
operation overkill ][
advent
escape velocity
marathon
alpha centauri
wolfenstein, doom, quake
neverwinter
sim everything
I challenge any of you to substantiate a claim that any one of these is not better than the majority of games put out in 2020.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by vux984 on Saturday February 15 2020, @05:50AM (4 children)
"I challenge any of you to substantiate a claim that any one of these is not better than the majority of games put out in 2020."
Why would anyone argue that a selection of the greatest hits of all time aren't better than the majority of anything put out in this year?
Even so, I disagree with about half your list. I mean where is Star Control II ? Master of Orion II ? Fallout 2 ? Diablo ? Wing Commander (Privateer?!) You've got Alpha Centauri so I'll forgive the omission of Civilization... And I'd put Tradewars 2002 over LORD... but maybe that's just me. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @08:23AM (2 children)
X-Wing->X-Wing Alliance
Battle of Britain
Ace of Aces (Commodore 64, Atari, not PC)
At least half of the door games out there. Anyone remember ShadowBoard, or the various hacking games?
Uplink, just for the fucking metagame they ran alongside it.
The Wizardry series. Jagged Alliance 1, DG, 2, UB. If you want to see where the idea for Baldur's Gate's dialog came from, go and read the dialog in Jagged Alliance. JA2 had some of the most insightful and macabre characters around.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by coolgopher on Saturday February 15 2020, @02:20PM
Eye of the Beholder
Secret of Monkey Island
Lemmings
Settlers
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
Might & Magic
Ultima + Ultima Underworld
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @10:52PM
Mwahaha. Kinda fun, but more fun was breaking out of Renegade or Citadel themselves. Some of the less common BBSes had hilariously bad upload code and it was possible to ... well, those who remember remember, and those who don't, never did these things.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @10:48PM
The list was exemplary, not exhaustive. I agree, mostly, with your selections there!
Oh shoot, I mentally grouped that under "sim everything" but of course Civ is Civ. Agree!
Also agree, but the gap between those who knew how to access and make use of the star computer (players could dump the inter-system mesh to get a galactic map) made TW2002 a bit awkward. Still, TW2002 - and the mods for it! - was amazing! But LORD was much more accessible, and much easier to drop into, have a bit of fun, and forget about for months. TW2002, your home planet system and citadel would be obliterated, if you left for a month on an active board.