Unreal Gold

This game would probably be my pick for the most underrated 90s FPS (and there are a lot of them). I still listen to the soundtrack regularly.

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Even though I have a PC that is fully capable of playing any modern games (Ryzen7900+RX9070XT), I have found recently that I was simply not enjoying them very much. As a result I have spent most of the past 6 months playing old games like the original Oblivion again. Seeing the original Unreal sitting in my Steam library I decided to give it a go again, and after a short download and install (less than 700MB) I ended up playing for a solid 3:30. It may be highly dated (it is over a quarter century old) and quite simple, it is still fun, it's harder than most modern games designed to not stress the player (I dead a few times), and it does not guide you using yellow paint :). All in all a fun experience that I'm enjoying a lot, plus for anyone with a cheap potato PC/Laptop this game will run on just about anything. It even has a software renderer option along with DirectX (and Voodoo Glide ) rendering options so you don't even have to have any modern GPU so even a 20+ year old iGPU will work perfectly.

Doom was my very first pc game and Unreal the second. Then Half-life. I love imersive, other world FPS games. Its a way of getting lost for a bit. The one I've played the most is Sunless Seas. Such a shame I cant play these on my android tablet. Imagine my joy finding I can play it on Linux these days!

Old Guy here on a nostalgia trip! Unreal was the first game I ever played using a dedicated graphics accelerator (3dfx Voodoo2 with 8Mb of VRAM!) and it was simply mind-blowing. The scale of the environments, the textures, the fast-moving gameplay, the surround sound, the incredible music and the jumpscares put it into another realm entirely from the games I'd been playing up till then on PC. No hand-holding, no narration, no talkative NPCs, just magical environments filled with awful things trying to kill you, and an impressive array of weapons designed to gib them all. The atmosphere still survives intact to this day, dated and polygon-ridden though it may be, but it is still a great story you can enjoy on your own. A classic from one of the best game periods in history, that magical 1998-99 timeframe that gave us Half-Life, Unreal Quake III and System Shock 2.

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