I've been playing old adventure games using Dosbox and ScummVM recently. I'm having a lot of fun. I've been point maxing some games that seemed impossible as a kid, playing games I wanted but never got, etc.
I'm thinking about trying some of the really old Gold Box D&D games. Pools of Radiance, etc. Not sure that they've aged well.
Pools of Radiance is a bit iffy but entirely playable, but if you're willing to go back to red box, beyond gold box, the Sega Genesis' "Warriors Of The Eternal Sun" is a banger D&D RPG for its era, though it has a couple broken or janky mechanics, it's honestly a marvel how well it adapted things onto such a limited system.
Made an 8 hour RPG out of less data than a 3-minute youtube video in data.
I've done a lot of old shooters in GZDoom. Just slightly modernized and if I get really bored, there's a huge list of available free "mod" games.
Played Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis a dozen times I bet in my life, both old DOS from when that was still a thing to ScummVM. I really need to go through The Dig as that's one I never got that far into.
Also tried Ultima series in DOS recently. I just can't manage to get into those.
I played a couple of the Ultimas as a kid. For me, the interface is just too rough to play today. I've tried a couple times with Ultima4, 6, and even 7, and I just can't do it.
I've been playing old adventure games using Dosbox and ScummVM recently. I'm having a lot of fun. I've been point maxing some games that seemed impossible as a kid, playing games I wanted but never got, etc.
I'm thinking about trying some of the really old Gold Box D&D games. Pools of Radiance, etc. Not sure that they've aged well.
Pools of Radiance is a bit iffy but entirely playable, but if you're willing to go back to red box, beyond gold box, the Sega Genesis' "Warriors Of The Eternal Sun" is a banger D&D RPG for its era, though it has a couple broken or janky mechanics, it's honestly a marvel how well it adapted things onto such a limited system.
Made an 8 hour RPG out of less data than a 3-minute youtube video in data.
I've done a lot of old shooters in GZDoom. Just slightly modernized and if I get really bored, there's a huge list of available free "mod" games.
Played Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis a dozen times I bet in my life, both old DOS from when that was still a thing to ScummVM. I really need to go through The Dig as that's one I never got that far into.
Also tried Ultima series in DOS recently. I just can't manage to get into those.
I played a couple of the Ultimas as a kid. For me, the interface is just too rough to play today. I've tried a couple times with Ultima4, 6, and even 7, and I just can't do it.
I still want to play 7 some day.
You can use the Exult open source engine to play Ultima 7 with a lot of QoL improvements.