Board 8 > What's the most technically impressive 1990s PC game? (Day 28) + Switch final

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05/02/24 6:45:11 PM
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Nin ten dough swhich - Results (39 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
61.54% (24 votes)
24
Ring Fit Aventure
12.82% (5 votes)
5
Alien: Isolation
12.82% (5 votes)
5
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
12.82% (5 votes)
5
This poll is now closed.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Ring Fit Adventure, Alien: Isolation, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
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Previous Results:
Day 2 (SNES): Yoshi's Island
Day 3 (Genesis): Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Day 4 (Gameboy): Pokemon Gold/Silver
Day 5 (Gameboy Color): Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Day 6 (Game Gear): Ristar
Day 7 (N64): Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, F-Zero X (TIE)
Day 8 (PS1): Metal Gear Solid, Vagrant Story (TIE)
Day 9 (Saturn): Panzer Dragoon Saga
Day 10 (GBA): Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Day 11 (GCN): Resident Evil 4
Day 12 (PS2): Gran Turismo 4
Day 13 (Xbox): The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Day 14 (Dreamcast): Phantasy Star Online
Day 15 (DS): Metroid Prime: Hunters
Day 16 (PSP): Monster Hunter Portable 3rd
Day 17 (PS3): Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Day 18 (Xbox 360): Crysis 3
Day 19 (Wii): Xenoblade: Chronicles
Day 20 (3DS): Kid Icarus: Uprising
Day 21 (Vita): Killzone: Mercenary
Day 22 (PS4): The Last of Us 2
Day 23 (Xbox One): Red Dead Redemption 2
Day 24 (Wii U): Xenoblade Chronicles X
Day 25 (PS5): Astro's Playroom
Day 26 (Xbox Series X/S): Microsoft Flight Simulator
Day 27 (Switch): TBD

My Vote: Keeping in mind that we're limited solely to 1990-1999, I'll go with Half-Life. That's the first game I can remember that made a show of its physics engine.

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Joelypoely
05/02/24 6:58:24 PM
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SimCity 2000

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Snake5555555555
05/02/24 7:00:48 PM
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Homeworld (1999)

Half-Life is a good answer too though

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ZenOfThunder
05/02/24 7:02:49 PM
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EverQuest

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redrocket
05/02/24 7:05:46 PM
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FreeSpace 2

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TomNook
05/02/24 7:40:01 PM
#6:


Starcraft

Just like with my Super Smash Bros Ultimate vote, the painstaking technicalities of balance are a huge deal for a competitive multiplayer game. Starcraft and Brood War are still the most balanced rts game to this day.

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jcgamer107
05/02/24 8:39:10 PM
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RollerCoaster Tycoon

the fact that it was coded almost entirely in Assembly is insane. I also thought about Myst or Riven, but they're probably more so the best looking games for their time

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UF8
05/02/24 8:43:46 PM
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Planescape: Torment
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azuarc
05/02/24 9:13:38 PM
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ZenOfThunder posted...
EverQuest

This is a sneaky answer I wouldn't have thought of, but there might be some truth to this even though, having played EverQuest for upwards of 250 days /played, I was never all that impressed with it on a technical level from the user's perspective. There just weren't other games like it at the time, though maybe Ultima Online would be a valid or even superior response? idk, never played UO. Or Asheron's Call or those other early MMOs.

Half-Life also sounds like a very valid answer. Won't be surprised if someone else says Doom, either, even though that ran like shit on my computer at the time.

However, if we're considering for the year it came out and not just what was most impressive at decade's end, I think I might go for something like TIE Fighter. X-Wing was decent enough, but TIE Fighter was a vast improvement on a zillion levels and didn't brick my computer without the perfect autoexec and config.sys files.

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05/02/24 10:59:15 PM
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Bump

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05/03/24 10:38:32 AM
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Badump

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05/03/24 2:46:50 PM
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Bimp

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Xiahou_Shake
05/03/24 3:18:57 PM
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Splitting this by decade was a smart move!

Gotta say it's Half-Life. It really transformed the FPS genre and feels like a definitive turning point looking back from the DOOM style to more modern, puzzle-driven and story-heavy campaigns. The level of cohesion and scale of the adventure was nuts and the crowbar basically set the standard for what a melee weapon should be in these games.

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KamikazePotato
05/03/24 3:19:49 PM
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Half-Life

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agesboy
05/03/24 3:47:22 PM
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RollerCoaster Tycoon and it's not even close

the game is a technological marvel

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