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Message: [QUOTE="Azkik, post: 50850, member: 150683"] [B]AstroFire - 1994 - Top Down Shooter[/B] A solid successor to Asteroids. You fly around in space and shoot various space-based objects, like asteroids and flying saucers, and collect powerups/gems. [B]Xcom: UFO Defense - 1994 - Strategy[/B] Has topped a lot of Greatest of All Time lists. The original has much deeper RPG and Grand Strategy elements with less of a focus on individual soldiers and a greater sense of scale than more modern successors. Features a real time overworld, with base-building of a sort, and turn-based tactical battles to defeat alien invaders. Best played through [URL='https://openxcom.org/']Openxcom[/URL] (which has a bit of a modding scene) but note that it requires original game files. Also has a Playstation and Amiga CD32 version with improved audio that can be selected as an alternative in Openxcom. [B]Xcom: Terror from the Deep - 1995 - Strategy[/B] More of the same but with underwater tactical battles instead. Widely considered inferior to its predecessor (much of the team had left the studio) but still decent. Also had a Playstation version and is also compatible with Openxcom. IIRC there's a mod out there that attempt to marry the first and second game into a unified experience. [B]Crusader: No Remorse - 1995 - Isometric Shooter[/B] Octopus did a great review on it here: [URL]https://retrogametalk.com/threads/crusader-no-remorse-dos-blasting-gold.2979/[/URL] [B]Crusader: No Regret - 1996 - Isometric Shooter[/B] Essentially just a standalone mission expansion pack to the above. I don't believe this one made it to PSX or Saturn. [B]Xcom: Apocalypse - 1997 - Strategy[/B] Has similar tactical combat to its predecessors but adds the option to play real time battles instead. The setting is also quite different in that the overworld focuses on a single city and you must ply or defeat various political, corporate, and criminal factions which will in turn affect different narrative and gameplay outcomes based on their themes and relationship to the alien invaders. This entry can be a little less accessible only because it lacks a modern open-source engine re-implementation. [B]H.E.D.Z.: Head Extreme Destruction Zone - 1998 - 3rd Person Shooter[/B] Very unusual game in which the enemies, throughout each level, will drop their heads when they're defeated and you can then "become" that character. There are 225 unique heads with different attributes and attack methods and you can choose 5 to go into each mission. Difficult to run on modern hardware. [B]Deus Ex - 2000 - aRPG[/B] Another GOAT list topper. A first person RPG with decidedly clunky but amusing first-person and melee combat and a focus on an extremely gripping narrative. Very similar to Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines but arguably less buggy and with a sci-fi setting. Has several mods that greatly improve and somewhat modernize the overall experience: such as [URL='https://www.moddb.com/mods/gmdx']GMDX[/URL] (I've played and can recommend V10, at least), [URL='https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-transcended']Transcended[/URL], and [URL='https://www.dx-revision.com/']Revision[/URL]. [B]Dungeon Siege - 2002 - aRPG[/B] Similar to Diablo albeit it is 3D, has a rotatable camera perspective, and features the ability to recruit up to 7 additional characters to form an 8 person party. Dungeon Siege is also a bit more of a traditional fantasy setting than the dark fantasy of Diablo. You can queue up a melee weapon, ranged weapon, and two magic spells to be swapped between by hotkeys that can affect individual characters or the entire party at the same time. Combat is automatic with some settings you can mess with to change aggro behavior and formation. This game can be a bit harder to run correctly on modern hardware, especially at higher resolutions; however, there are numerous guides on Steam and GOG for fixing these resolution scaling issues and there are mods which improve the appearance and add some QoL features. [/QUOTE]

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