Taffer69 on 23/4/2025 at 03:45
Vampire, The Masquerade: Bloodlines is a pretty good comparison, imo. It's from that early PC game era, it's just as fun, immersive, and janky as Thief, (Also has a much hated sewer level) is still modded and patched by fans to this day.
zajazd on 23/4/2025 at 17:00
I'm sure the Portal 2 community is very active still.
Udo on 2/6/2025 at 20:01
I would say, not only for me, Dungeon Keeper. It´s a classic I started playing back when it was released and still give it some playtime these days. Thanks to the KeeperFX project which keeps it alive for modern systems, and there are also fan levels and campaigns coming out. Think of it, it started as a DOS game in 1997, over a quarter century later one can play it with high resolution, game-breaking bugs fixed and QUOL improvements.
<Username> on 2/6/2025 at 21:48
This thread is interesting. I hope I can find the time to finally play Vampire, The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Dungeon Keeper I haven't played since when it came out, but now I want to revisit it.
downwinder on 3/6/2025 at 20:03
Quote Posted by john9818a
Thief 4 came out in 2014.
that was thief reboot not thief 4
Udo on 6/6/2025 at 22:12
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Dungeon Keeper I haven't played since when it came out, but now I want to revisit it.
Do that, it´s absolutely worth it. All these improvements and added features that weren´t in the original game. Sure, you might want to just stick to an older version which just eliminates the pathfinding bug(that caused the game to crash in levels with complicated layouts) if you want more of a vanilla experience, but for me additions like WASD in possession mode, now being able to drag books, traps and so on with imps and claiming rooms are really worth it.
There is also this very difficult fan campaign Ancient Keeper - knowledge of bugs is required to win it. Difficult, but can be fun.
Starker on 7/6/2025 at 00:17
Likewise, the original X-COM has been completely overhauled and given a fresh new coat of paint, including loads of bugfixes and improvements, such as saving soldiers' equipment loadouts, adding quicksave/quickload, better pathfinding, etc. And there are mods still being made that add new missions, new aliens, new weapons, etc.
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https://openxcom.org/about/)
Udo on 17/6/2025 at 13:46
So, I got the news they will remake Postal 2 with Unity engine! Yay!
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https://runningwithscissors.com/postal-2-redux-kickstarter-prelaunch-goes-live-today/)
It is also one of my favourite games. Kudos to RWS to give it a big overhaul for the 20th anniversairy in 2023. Still, it is often unstable. So I´m eager for the remake.
Postal 2 is easily one of my alltime favourites, with various DLCs and fan mods like Eternal Damnation(great to play!) out there. I admit, I love brutal games.
Also interesting, there will be a VR version. As recently the Thief VR game was talked. Pfft, I rather have P2. Immersive multilating, dismembering, urinating on NPCs, burning them alive and slicing them in half. Wading through VR gore sounds like fun.
Laige on 19/6/2025 at 22:25
I found three games that have have a great deal of ability to mod and base that seems to just be stuck like glue.
Morrowind
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Star Wars: Empire at War
All other games I made mods for were very niche. Or that the fan base was very small, even feeling like it was just me alone at times.
skacky on 20/6/2025 at 11:20
I'm not sure it's been mentioned yet, but Heroes of Might & Magic's modding community is also quite staggering. We have several mods for HOMM3, in particular Horn of the Abyss, that are professional quality and still updated to this day (a new faction is in the works). Heroes of Might & Magic 2 also has received a new engine called fheroes 2 that can be played perfectly in contemporary operating systems, as well as on any device you can throw at it (tablets, etc), with new maps coming out every other day.
