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This is where you can find all your favorite PC game top list (including mods). It does not matter which version, engine or theme, just comment and DO NOT overwrite the same game again. I will update the list once something new pop up. +rep for sharing, guys. Also +rep to me if you see this useful.

Note: The mod has to be a huge modified + completed and provides good replay value and gameplay.

Now, lets put your knowledge about games into the table.

Current List:

Section 1-1: Classic FPS


I. Counter-Strike (Series + Expansions + Mods):
- The Legendary FPS Game of all time. In the past, you can find this game in every single internet-providing service and turn people completely addictive on it. An endless battle between Law-Enforcers and Terrorist as well as endless epic win/fails in game.
- Currently, CS:GO is the latest release of the series. However, if you wanna look for best modding CS ever, check out CSO-NST (CS 1.6) mods here:
1. Counter-Strike Allstars.
2. Counter-Strike NST Edition.
3. Counter-Strike Ultimate.
4. Counter-Strike Zombie Mod.
Gameplay:

II. Crysis (Series)
- The Science-Fiction FPS which is focus on a battle-suit which can empower solider, giving them superior abilities. But to fight what? Aliens, Mutated Soldiers... In which, Crysis 2 is the best release of this game.
Gameplay:
Crysis:

III. Painkiller + Dreamkiller (Series + Expansions)
- No free-shooting, run and gun single-player game can beat Painkiller, not to mention its straight-forward Hell-focus story and huge boss fights. There is no best release of this game, try to play them all by yourself.
- Dreamkiller is another clone of Painkiller but focuses on most common Phobias of human. However, if you don't evaluate its poor game-play but curious for checking interesting level-designs then check this game.
Gameplay:

IV. Serious Sam (Series)
- Serious Sam is better Painkiller in different way, due to its ancient depiction of unique ancient structures design, vast level secrets, unique battle theme, funny story and mind-blowing multiplayer mode. Currently, Serious Sam Fusion is your best option to play entire game.
Gameplay:

V. Wolfenstein (Series)
- Wolfenstein is legendary classic FPS in its own time. Interesting WWII story, unforgettable characters and levels, dual-wielding weapons or big fucking guns. It is one of first game which brings so many funny secrets each mission, as inspiration to many other top games such as Doom, Painkiller, Serious Sam, Duke Nukem, Tomb-raider, Shadow Warrior...
- This series is still on-going developing with incredible graphics, bigger campaign, keeping old element, put something new... Never disappoint FPS Fans. Currently, Wolfenstein: The New Order is the best release.
Gameplay:

VI. Unreal Tournament (Series)
- Fast, Cunning, Deadly are what this series focus on game-play instead of story. Legendary single/multiplayer-level FPS which remake every time a new version of Unreal Engine emerge... with interesting unique guns, map designs.
Gameplay:

VII. Shadow Warrior (Series)
- Similar to Wolfenstein but you have a change to use other infamous Japanese weapons such as katana, shuriken... and of course, gore and violence combat and secret chambers for perverts "You have been warned". Currently, Shadow Warrior 2 is the best release.
Gameplay:

VIII. Section 8 Prejudice
- I must have to say if you wanna wish for epic "Superhero landing" and "Auto-aim" then you have come to right place. Landing on everywhere or kick evasive asses out in this fast-pace "Halo-style" FPS game.
Gameplay:

X. Blue Estate
- Be a hero, protector of hot black stripper in this game. This game reminds me to infamous "House of the Dead" and "Virtual Cop" by its identical Auto-move/Point and Shoot game-play. Simple and fast enough to keep you busy for hours.
Gameplay:

XI. The Darkness (Series)
- Hoops, is he a half-hydra, half-man or something? Anyway, if you wanna a good love-story end up with dramatic ending then play both releases of this game. Unique FPS game-play, plenty ways to kill enemies.
Gameplay:


Section 1-2: Horror FPS


I. DOOM (Series)
- I have come this far only to hear this game sound-track, one of the best FPS theme ever. Killing demons with bare-hand or chainsaws, big fucking guns and hilarious secrets. Welcome to DOOM 2016, jack-ass.
Gameplay:
- Below are top mods for two earlier release of this series:
1. Brutal Doom (Doom 2)
2. Doom 3 BFG + Ultimate Mod (Required RBDoom3BFG)

II. F.E.A.R (Series)
- Fight haunting ghosts, face unforgettable jump-scare with your slow-motion power? Seem fair to me. Now if you are a pussy and need gun to defense against ghost then play this game, anyways, it still make you jump out of chair sometime. Fun question: Guess what do F.E.A.R mean?
Gameplay:

III. Half-Life (Series)
- I don't need to mention this game anymore. If you know Counter-Strike then no way you will not know what this game is. Half-Life 3 is on its way, people!
Gameplay:

IV. Turrok (Series)
- Well, people seem to have a natural trait that we all love killing dinosaur with guns. From Dino Crisis to this series, you wont be disappointed. Remake version is all you need.
Gameplay:

V. Clive Barker's Jericho
- This game allows you to switch control of each unique super-character who possesses different power and weapons. It feels like a Matrix team doing a suicidal mission and final boss is so fucking weird, seriously.
Gameplay:

VI. 35mm
- Horror, not by any supernatural mean. This game is so real, teach us how horrible survival against natural things is.
Gameplay:

VII. Alien (Series) + Aliens vs Predators
- Any Alien fan know this title, from movies, comic to game. Aliens vs Predators is all you need for this epic story. Or, play hide and seek game in Alien: Isolation.
Gameplay:

VIII. Prey (2017)
- Doom + Wolfenstein + Alien + F.E.A.R = Prey. Go get some!
Gameplay:

X. Condemn - Criminal Origins
- Drug, Hallucination, Jump-scare and fuck your own mind. Play this game if you are tough enough.
Gameplay:

XI. Dead Effect (Series)
- Mass Effect + Dead Space = Dead Effect. Good combination but not so good, check it out.
Gameplay:

XII. Dementium (Series)
- Silent Hill + Dead Space = Dementium. Disturbing.
Gameplay:

XIII. Dying Light + Dead Island (Series)
Gameplay:

XIV. Killing Floor (Series)
- Instead of walking around and shooting, both you and zombies can now utterly park-out, chasing around like Spider-man... Best horror game ever.
Gameplay:


Section 1-3: Adventure FPS


I. Fallout 3 + 4
- Best open-world FPS game in apocalyptic world where radiation is king. Ton of mutant creatures and super weapons. And you can even have a "man best friend" on your side.
1. Nexus Fallout 3 Mods
2. Nexus Fallout 4 Mods
Gameplay:

II. Farcry (Series + Expansions)
1. Nexus Farcry 3 Mods
2. Nexus Farcry 4 Mods
III. Borderland (Series)
IV. No Man's Sky
V. Depth Hunter (Series)


Section 2-1: Action TPS


I. Hitman (Series)
II. Splinter Cell (Series)
III. Tomb Raider + Lara Croft (Series)
IV. Wasteland (Series)
V. Alpha Protocol
VI. Rogue Trooper Redux
VII. Sniper Elite (Series)
VIII. Max Payne (Series)


Section 2-2: Adventure TPS


I. Mass Effect (Series + Expansions)
II. Saint Row (Series)
III. Grand Theft Auto (Series)
IV. The Saboteur
V. Mafia (Series)
VI. Fallout 1 + 2


Section 2-3: Horror TPS


I. Dead Space (Series)
II. Resident Evil (Series)
III. Silent Hill (Series)
IV. Afterfall Insanity
V. Deadly Premonition
VI. Zombie Army (Series)
VII. Alan Wake (Series)
VIII. Dreadout (Expansion)
IX. White Day
X. The Evil Within (Series)


Section 3-1: Action & Adventure RPG


I. Dragon Age (Series + Expansions)
II. Assassin's Creed (Series + Expansion)
III. The Elder Scrolls (Series)
1. Nexus The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion Mods
2. Nexus The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim Mods
IV. The Witcher (Series)


Section 3-2: Hack & Slash RPG


I. Devil May Cry (Series)
II. Devil May Cry (DMC)
III. Castlevania: Lord of Shadow (Series)
IV. Darksiders (Series)
V. Bayonetta
VI. Lords of the Fallen
VII. Ninja Blade
VIII. Dark Soul (Series)
X. The Surge
VI. Wolverine


Section 3-3: Classic RPG


I. Torchlight (Mods)
1. Torchlight Ultimate Modpack
2. Torchlight Synergy
II. Torchlight 2 (Mods)
1. Torchlight 2 Community Modpack
2. Torchlight 2 Synergy
III. Sacred (Series)
IV. Alien Shooter + Zombie Shooter (Series + Expansions)
V. Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Series)
VI. Diablo (Series)
1. Diablo 2 Median XXL
2. ModDB Diablo 1 Mods
V. Din's Curse + Depth of Peril
VI. Fall of Light
VII. Aarklash Legacy
VIII. Confrontation
X. Divinity Original Sin (Series)
XI. Grim Dawn (Expansion)
XII. Ruiner
XIII. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Final Cut
XIV. The Red Solstice
XV. Trine 3 (Series)
XVI. Victor Vran
XVII. Warhammer 40K - Kill Team


Section 5-1: Action Arcane


I. Mirror's Edge (Series)
II. Superhot
III. Dead Core
IV. Magrunner Dark Pulse
V. Mind Path to Thalamus
VI. Remember Me
VII. Downward


Section 5-2: Fighting Arcane


I. Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja (Series)
II. One Piece Pirate Warriors (Series)
III. Tom and Jerry in Fist of Furry
IV. Mugen Games (Mods)
V. Stick Soldiers + Stick Veteran (Series)
VI. Arcana Heart 3 - Love Max
VII. BlazBlue Chronophantasma Extend
VIII. Dead or Alive 5 Last Round
IX. Dragon Ball - Xenoverse (Series)
X. Dynasty Warriors (Series)
XI. Killer Instinct
XII. Marvel VS Capcom Infinite
XIII. Mortal Kombat (Series)
XIV. Musou Orochi Z
XV. Street Fighter (Series)
XVI. TEKKEN (Series)
XVII. Toukiden (Series)
XVIII. Way of the Samurai (Series)


Section 6-1: Turn-based Strategy


I. Commandos (Series + Expansions)
II. Space Hulk (Series + Expansions)
III. Battlechasers Nightwar
IV. Blackguard (Series)
V. King's Bounty (Series)
VI. X-COM (Series + Mods + Expansions)


Section 6-2: Real-time Strategy


I. Supreme Commander (Series + Expansions)
II. Warhammer 40k (Series + Expansions)
III. Age of Mythology (Series + Expansions)
IV. Age of Wonders (Series + Expansions)
V. Dungeon Keeper (Series)
VI. Warshift
VII. Dropship Down
VIII. Dungeons (Series)
IX. Black & White (Series)
X. Command and Conquer (Series)
XI. Grey Goo
XII. Homeworld
XIII. Meridian Squad 22
XIV. Paraworld
XV. Planetary Annihilation (Series)
XVI. Starcraft (Series + Expansions)
1. Starcraft: Burning Ground
XVII. Total War (Series + Expansions)


Section 7: Funny Action


I. LEGO (Series + Expansions)
II. Paint the Town Red


Section 8: Minigames


I. Battle vs Chess
II. Besiege
III. Blood Bowl (Series)
IV. Don't Get Angry
V. Orc Must Die (Series)
VI. Poker Night (Series)
VII. Pure Hold Them
VIII. Pure Pool
IX. Redcon
X. Sanctum (Series)
XI. Scooby-Doo (Series)
XII. Worm (Series)
XIII. Chicken Invaders + Star Defender (Series)
XIV. Elf Bowling + Zombie Bowling (Series)
XV. Deathtrap
XVI. Demigod
XVII. Tank Brawl


Section 9: Other Good Old Games


I. Asterix And Obelix XXL (Series) - Action
II. The Suffering - Horror
III. Chaos Legion - Hack & Slash
IV. Duke Nukem 3D + Manhattan Project - Action
V. Mari0 + Super Mario Dark Dungeon + Super Mario Fusion - Arcane
VI. Bubble Bobble - Arcane
VII. MEGAMAN X (Series) - Arcane
VIII. Virtual Cop + House of the Dead (Series) - Arcane
IX. Blood (Series) - FPS
X. Cube (Series) - FPS
XI. Dino Crisis (Series) - Horror
XII. Apocalyptica - Action
XIII. Blood Rayne (Series) - Hack & Slash
XIV. Clive Barker's Undying - Horror
XV. Curse The Eye of Isis - Horror
XVI. Beach Head 2002 - FPS
XVII. Blade & Sword - RPG
XVIII. Moorhuhn Tiger and Chicken + Moorhuhn 1 Remake - Arcane
XX. Freedom Fighters - TPS
XXI. Delaware St.John (Series) - Puzzle
XXII. Vietcong - FPS
XXIII. Crazy Frog Racer (Series) - Racing
XXIV. Ostrich Runner - Racing
XXV. Roadrash - Racing
XXVI. Battle Realms - Strategy


Section 10: Other Japanese Games


I. RPG Maker Games + Corpse Party Games (Mods)
II. Pocket Kanon and Air
III. Azu Beach
IV. Yugi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist
V. Agarest Generations of War (Series)
VI. Fairy Fencer F
VII. Legend of Heroes (Series)
VIII. Tales of ??? (Series)
X. Ys (Series)
XI. Mugen Souls
XII. Utawarerumono
XIII. Onechanbara Z2 - Chaos
XIV. Hyper Devotion


Section 10-1: Classic Racing


I. Need for Speed (Series)
III. The Collider 2
V. Jacked
VI. Burnout Paradise
VII. GRID (Series)
VIII. Moto GP (Series)
X. Ridge


Section 10-2: Platform + Fighting Racing


I. Blazing Rush
II. Blur
III. Carmageddon Max Damage
IV. Gas Guzzlers Extreme
V. Road Redemption


Section 10-3: Platform Horror


I. Knock-knock
II. Lakeview Cabin (Series)
III. Lone Survivor


Section 10-4: Platform Action


I. 8 Bit Armies
II. Apotheon
III. Blade Kitten (Series)
IV. Castle of Illusion + Duck Tales Remastered
V. Dust - An Elysian Tail
VI. Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams
VII. Hammerfight
VIII. Kingdom
IX. Never Alone
X. Outland
XI. Rayman Legends
XII. Reus
XIII. Strider (Series)
XIV. Shantae (Series)
XV. Blood of Werewolf
XVI. Double Dragon (Series)
XVII. Foul Play
XVIII. Jotun
XIX. Mark of Ninja
XX. Onirika Demon Killer
XXI. Shank (Series)
XXII. Slain Back From Hell
XXIII. Speedrunner From Hell
XXIV. Neighbours from Hell (Series)
XXV. Shadow Complex
XXVI. Cuphead


Section 11: Exploration + Family + Sand-box Games


I. Subnautica
II. Minecraft (Updating)
III. The Sim (Series)
IV. Stonehearth
V. Spore
VI. Euro Fishing
VII. Create
VIII. Simulation Games
IX. Fallout Shelter
X. Starforge
XI. Stranded Deep
XII. The Long Dark
XIII. The Storming Land
XIV. The Universim Prototype + Univeral Sandbox
XV. Garry's Mod
XVI. Imagine Earth


Section 12: Action + Investigation Puzzle


I. Archaica - The Path of Light
II. Asemblance
III. ASRE Corp
IV. Human Fall Flat
V. In Verbis Virtus
VI. Myst
VII. NaissanceE
VIII. Niko through the Dream
IX. Portal (Series)
X. Rememoried
XI. Rolling Sun
XII. The Old City Leviathan
XIII. The Talos Principle (Expansion)
XIV. The Turing Test
XV. Dreamfall Chapters (Series)
XVI. Life is Strange
XVII. Sherlock Holmes (Series)
XVIII. Syberia (Series)
XIX. The Stanley Parable
XX. The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter
XXI. The Wolf Among Us
 
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Unregret said:
This is where you can find all your favorite PC game top list (including mods).
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Are you talking about ModDB?
Games and mods development for Windows, Linux and Mac
Mods for Games
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StarCraft: Burning Ground mod

A few caveats, though:
- requires Brood War v1.16.1
- game opening strategies are very limited imho
- best played on maps with *wide* ramps
 
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In the Flight simulator / Space Combat category (to be added):

- TIE Fighter - Collector's CD-ROM Edition (1995)

"The [1995] CD-ROM version offered optional enhanced SVGA graphics, increasing the game's resolution from 320x200 to 640x480. The cinematic cutscenes were also enhanced, and the game received numerous voiceovers. The CD-ROM includes the previously released Defender of the Empire expansion and an additional Enemies of the Empire expansion. This CD-ROM also added support for gameplay under Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9."

Also, the 1995 CD-ROM version of the game includes more Star Wars spacecraft than the floppy disk version.


Caveats:
- MS-DOS game (nowadays, DOSBox is your best friend :wink:)
- No texture mapping
- No joystick support
 
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pyf said:
In the Flight simulator / Space Combat category (to be added):

- TIE Fighter - Collector's CD-ROM Edition (1995)

"The [1995] CD-ROM version offered optional enhanced SVGA graphics, increasing the game's resolution from 320x200 to 640x480. The cinematic cutscenes were also enhanced, and the game received numerous voiceovers. The CD-ROM includes the previously released Defender of the Empire expansion and an additional Enemies of the Empire expansion. This CD-ROM also added support for gameplay under Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9."

Also, the 1995 CD-ROM version of the game includes more Star Wars spacecraft than the floppy disk version.


Caveats:
- MS-DOS game (nowadays, DOSBox is your best friend :wink:)
- No texture mapping
- No joystick support
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I forget them and will add a list of MS-DOS games. Damn, they are so freaky old.
 

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SiN - Wikipedia
SiN Windows, Mac, Linux game

Probably best experienced with the fan-made Sin Ultimate Patch. For an enhanced gaming experience, Sin Resurrected may also be worth checking out. Widescreen fixes are here.

Caveats:
- some censorship with the Steam version of the game.
- The Retail version of the game may crash on startup on modern PCs. If you have a Codec Pack installed, then adding an exception for sin.exe may fix the issue.
 
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My list, in no particular order:

1. Europa Universalis IV - if you're into history and one of those folks that dreamed about creating an empire, it's definetely a game you should try.

2. Knights of Honor - while Europa Universalis might be pretty hard to understand at first, KoH is very simple and user friendly. The only downside is that the base game is extremely easy, so once you get seasoned, you might want to try out some mods that make it harder.

3. Armies of Exigo - a rather simple Warcraft 3 "clone", but with a pretty fun story, a lengthy campaign and a more serious vibe. Cool features include all units gaining experience, underground areas on the map and spells that require multiple casters. Overall a definetely nice game to check out by anyone who enjoyed W3.

4. Titan Quest with Immortal Throne addition - another pretty old game, but still pretty fun. Offers a nice customization system, a lengthy campaign and pretty fun boss encounters.

5. Starcraft (series), Diablo (series), Warcraft (series) and World of Warcraft (series) - my favourite Blizzard games, not really much to be said about them here except the fact that for instance, W3 is the only game that I had continously installed on my PC for the last 10 years or so :)

6. Football Manager (series) - if you're a fan of football/soccer and would like to test yourself as a manager of your beloved club, this is definetely a game for you. It offers a lot of depth and despite it's simple appearance - a lot of fun.

7. FIFA/Pro Evolution Soccer (series) - another one for football/soccer fans, this time a little more hands on. Great game for playing with your buddies during parties :)

8. Minecraft: Feed the Beast mod - yes, it looks aren't great, but what you'll find is that Minecraft alone allows you to build a lot of stuff and Feed the Beast mod-pack increases your options by a ton. To me, it captures at least some of the appeal from lego building back in the days when I was a kid, so it definetely has to be on this list.

9. Pokemon (GBA games - Pokemon Gold for instance) - kill me for it, but these games bring back a lot of memories. Back when Pokemon were popular, me and a couple of my friends played this and tried to find the best composition to win the league. And yes, it's a Gameboy Advanced game, but it goes on a PC list, because I've always played it on the GBA emulator :)
 

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Bulletstorm
- A steampunk, gang, first person shoot with great humour and melee system.
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Commandos 2
- Best strategy and tactic role playing game.
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Metro 2033 / Metro 2034 (Metro Series)
- Steampunk, post-apocalyptic Russia, and great gameplay. I'm waiting for Exodus on 2018.
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Unregret said:
I forget them and will add a list of MS-DOS games. Damn, they are so freaky old.
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An old favorite of mine:
The Ancient Art of War - Wikipedia

"The Ancient Art of War is generally recognized as one of the first real-time strategy or real-time tactics games, a genre which become hugely popular a decade later with Dune II and Warcraft. [...]"

 

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Maybe it should be mentioned somewhere that nowadays, Prince of Persia is best experienced imho with PoP1-Total Pack or with SDLPoP.

SDLPoP forums:
SDLPoP - Prince of Persia

PoP1-Total Pack forum:
PoP1-Total Pack: New version development - Prince of Persia


Regarding PoP1-Total Pack, Windows XP users will currently have trouble updating the Custom Levels list / downloading the mods. This is because when popot.org made the switch to HTTPS in July 2017, some decisions regarding the configuration of the server were made.

Also, be aware that the developers of the Custom Levels for Prince of Persia expect you to know (and to have already mastered) each and every glitch of the original game. Therefore, playing these additional levels / mods may be a *very* frustrating experience for the casual gamer.

PoP1-Total Pack is imho very convenient for playing the original game with different combinations of graphics for the dungeons / palace / characters.
 
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just played fable the lost chapter. I thought it was good until I played a little further in when it started revealing, 'expressions' then the game got super easy and started pissing me off.

they threaten you That you will never beat them, and then one hit later they are dead-_-¿

well... yeah just never buy that game
 

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Dark Earth


Probably best experienced nowadays with Peixoto's Patches (untested)
VOGONS • View topic - Peixoto's patches for a few old games

PJ: courtesy of @Hallfiry, this is the latest version that I am aware about, of the Dark Earth CRH player. This standalone Windows command line tool allows one to freely view the FMVs of the game.

Caveats:
If the game crashes while saving, then disable DirectDraw acceleration to fix the issue.

Dark Earth (video game) - Wikipedia
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Those camera angle feels like Resident Evil in Middle-Age. Nice game!
 

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.kkrieger


It is the beta version of a 95 KB (97,280 bytes) playable FPS game.

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This was made possible, thanks to the use of procedural generation.

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"In general, if you have any technical questions concerning .kkrieger, either refer to our web site or contact us via email. However past experience shows that there are some rumours and misunderstandings about our work that are very hard to correct, so we'll state the truth here, in written form, for all the world to see :)

- We do .not. have some kind of magical data compression machine that is able to squeeze hundreds of megabytes of mesh/texture and sound data into 96k. We merely store the individual steps employed by the artists to produce their textures and meshes, in a very compact way. This allows us to get .much. higher data density than is achievable with normal data compression techniques, at some expense in artistic freedom and loading times.

- .kkrieger is not written in 100% assembler/machine language. Not even nearly. Like the vast majority of game projects being developed today, .kkrieger was mostly written in C++, with some tiny bits of assembler where it is actually advantageous (notably, there are a lot of MMX optimisations in the texture generator).

- A kilobyte is, historically, defined to be 1024 (2^10) bytes, not 1000. Thus .kkrieger is a game in 96k even though it's actually 98304 bytes.

- The concept of the texture/mesh generators was developed by fiver2. We do .not. want to claim that the techniques we used to develop .kkrieger are new inventions. It´s rather a selection of useful operations and their parameters to optimise the results."
The "official" minimum specs for .kkrieger: chapter 1 beta are:
  • A 1.5GHz pentium 3 / athlon or faster.
  • 512MB of RAM.
  • a GeForce4Ti (or higher) or ATI Radeon8500 (or higher) graphics card supporting pixel shaders 1.3, preferably with 128MB or more of VRAM.
  • some kind of sound hardware.
  • DirectX 9.0b.
however, there's bad news: due to an unnoticed build error in the actual released version of .kkrieger, there are severe shadow bugs on Geforce4 and Radeon8500/9000 cards. the game should be playable, but everything will be way to dark.


The full list of known bugs (which will of course be fixed in the final version) is:
  • shadow bugs on GeForce4 and Radeon8500/9000 cards.
  • "everything is red" bug on some NVidia Card/Driver combinations.
  • sudden big framerate drops that go away when a certain monster gets killed.
  • several collision bugs.
  • alt-tab doesn't work properly.
  • crashes during the "loading" phase.

For those interested, there is the Farbrausch GitHub to explore.


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As of this writing, there is no final version of the game afaik.

However, the werkkzeug3_kkrieger folder on GitHub incorporates changes that were done more than one year after the original kkrieger release. But the resulting compiled code may be "unlikely to work", according to the developers.

.werkkzeug3 was the proprietary (unreleased back then) development tool for .kkrieger.
On the contrary, .werkkzeug1 had a proper official release in 2004.

Links to the demotools of Farbrausch can be found at the end of this page:
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Final Fantasy VI
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... even though I have only played the SNES version of the game (as Final Fantasy III).


Disclaimer:

This story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this video game are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or undead from The Hive Workshop, or actual events, is purely coincidental. Even the avatar of @TheLordOfChaos201 could not remind anyone of Ultros. Honest.

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Quake III Arena (demo version)
Unreal Tournament (1999, demo version)


The demo versions of these two games have enough replayability value and are imho feature-rich enough (especially UT99), so that buying the full games feels not that mandatory in the end.



On August 19, 2005, id Software released the complete source code for Quake III Arena under the GNU General Public License. Some modern game engines (such as ioquake3) can run using the data from the demo version of the game.

Unfortunately there are afaik no unofficial third-party patches / video or audio renderers / S3TC texture packs, that are suitable for the demo version of UT99.


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Unreal Tournament - Wikipedia

Selected quotes of possible interest for game developers (I hope Blizzard will read this):
"[...] The development team for Unreal Tournament consisted of around 16 people. Most team members had worked on Unreal, though Epic hired a number of new developers to reinforce the team. [...] In December 1998, [Brandon] Reinhart discovered an Unreal mod called UBrowser, which provided a new user interface for finding multiplayer matches. After showing it to James Schmalz, the lead designer at Digital Extremes, Schmalz decided to hire the mod's author, Jack Porter. After only a few weeks Porter was already working with the team, replacing the game's existing menu system with his new interface. [...]"

"[...] Lead designer Cliff Bleszinski credited much of the game's success to its community. As he said in the November 2001 issue of Maximum PC, "Unreal Tournament would not have sold nearly two million copies if it did not have support from the community... We ship the very same tools that we used to build the game, and folks use these tools to realize their own visions of first-person action." Like Unreal, Unreal Tournament is designed to be easily programmable and highly modularized. Through its scripting environment UnrealScript and level editor UnrealEd, developers are able to modify easily most parts of the game to both manipulate default game behavior and to supplement the game with their own mods. These range from slight changes on some aspects of gameplay (such as map voting) to total conversions. One modification, ChaosUT, became popular enough that it was included with the 'Game of the Year' edition of the game, while Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror was released as a stand-alone retail product. [...]"
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That art style reminds me of LoM
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Both games were developed by Square.
 
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Star Wars: The Battle of Yavin and Star Wars: The Battle of Endor, by Bruno R. Marcos


Now, the Battle of Yavin definitively feels more satisfying here than its 'recreation' by LucasArts in Star Wars: X-Wing. :smile:


There exist third-party graphic and sound upgrades/mods for both games.

The ones developed by Master_Syrus (BoY - BoE) are the most graphics intensive iirc.
The ones developed by Lurker (BoY - BoE) are less demanding, but they may also alter the gameplay.

Manually updating the Truevision3D dlls to v6.3 might help with performance, or not.



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