Re: "8 Classic Games You Haven't Played (but should)"

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:49 this Sunday (GMT):

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:30:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:28 this Thursday (GMT):

On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 06:51:03 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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There's other games like SSI's Pool of Radiance that feel almost
unplayable and not terribly fun that I would put on as best games of all
time that have aged poorly and I wouldn't recommend to anyone who wasn't
already getting into AD&D and only as more historical look at how it
could be interpreted, more of an academic pursuit.

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Now, THERE is an interesting concept for a listicle: Best Games Ever
that you shouldn't play because they haven't aged well.
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I'll leave it up to somebody else to start that thread and offer up
some examples, though.

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The only one I can think of is "Pathologic", but for different reasons..

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Okay, I'll bite; what reasons?
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I can't remember if I played Pathologic or not. It's from 2005 and
even back then I was acquiring games at an unhealthy rate (nothing
compared to now, when free games shower us weekly, but still quite a
lot). I made an attempt to play all of them, but sometimes I'd buy a
game, install it, play it a few minutes then move on to something else
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    [usually this happened when I bought multiple games at once
     and I'd install the less-exciting game first, only to abandon
     it quickly for the game I /really/ wanted to play]
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I think Pathologic was one of these. But I can't remember a thing
about it. It's quite possible I never even gave it a chance (it was
unusual, but that occasionally happened. I'm looking at you, "Odium").
Looking on Steam, it doesn't look /too/ bad. Sure, it's very 2005ish;
a sort of Slavjank "Silent Hill" but not --on the face of it-- not
looking absolutely terrible.
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So why not play it?
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No really. Save me from making an awful mistake, 'cause at the moment
I'm sort of tempted... and you know what happens when a game not in my
library attracts my attention. ;-)

Oh no, the game does EXACTLY what it sets out to do. It's designed to be
as miserable and soul crushing of an experience as possible, an
excersize in the futility of man against natural forces, it is so
brutally difficult that the achievement for passing the FIRST DAY has a
20% completion rate. If you get past that theres some cool story stuff
though.
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