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Quite niche, but sim racing, I will pick Assetto Corsa Rally as an example.
The definitive way to play is with a proper rig. 9nm+ Direct Drive wheel base, round wheel, a sequential shifter, handbrake and decent load cell pedals. Put it up on a nice ultrawide or triple screen and have an amazing time sliding through the forest. You can also do VR, for complete immersion as well.
Buuut that's also the expensive way, you can also have a load of fun with a controller or cheaper wheel on a desk.
There are a host of open source remakes of old game engines that fix bugs and update them for modern systems as well as add support for higher resolutions and widescreen aspect ratios. Here's a few off the top of my head:
These are just the ones I know of. There are probably loads more.
Edit: the Ur-Quan Masters for Star Control II. I can't believe I forgot about this! Star Control II is one of the best and most influential games that most people have never heard about.
OpenXcom for the first two X-Com games (UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-Com: Terror From The Deep). This reimplementation is insanely good.
There's really no reason to play the original DOS versions anymore.
Really nice list. One can spend many hours on these games.
Speaking of Dark Forces 2 and Not about the Force Engine for the first Game? :0 you barbaric! Joking.
Yeah. Force engine fornthe First Game is top notch.
My bad! Every time I think about replaying Dark Forces I remember the sewer level with the dianogas and change my mind.
Oh god. I forgot..
OpenRCT2 is 100% the definitive way to play Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2.
But I would never recommend a new player try OpenRA. The game has stellar multiplayer support but they just can't figure out the campaign scripting at all. Go with the remaster collection instead.
Factorio. It doesn't matter how you are playing it, you are doing something wrong and that invalidates your whole base.
I finally properly started space age 2 days ago and feel like I know nothing again and have been cooking up spaghetti since
For League of Legends the definitive way to play is to not start. I swear I do not know of any other game that has such addictive properties while being so absolutely fucking awful. You don’t stop playing this game, You take extended breaks.
Friends don’t let friends play League
I found it incredibly easy to walk away from. Whatever it is that is supposed to be addicting about it it just didn't fire on me at all.
Try Dota while you're at it. More or less identical game I was glued to for years.
I was the same way. Got about 20 hours in and just couldn't get into it. I played with friends, bot matches, ranked, a variety of characters, and just never got the appeal. I really don't have a competitive spirit, so maybe that's the draw I'm not getting.
The chosen one!
Keep your talent hidden lest everyone side-eye you like this
Hahaha I'm also the kind of person who has never bought a single cosmetic in a video game. I think I just don't have an addictive personality generally.
OK well that just makes sense. Cosmetics are so dumb. $25 to look different? Do you know how many games I can buy with that?
Mgs on a ps. With a memory card with konami saves on it. Iykyk
Also with a rumble enabled controller, but you need to wipe your memory of that feature so the magic becomes real.
I prefer devilutionX for D1. If we're talking about essential patches like this, killapps restoration patch for fallout 2 is also a thing to experience.
The first Kingdom Come: Deliverance was a great game and I think it should be played first, but I understand it's old clunky and unoptimized. These days it should be played with certain QoL mods like unlimited saving, instant herb picking (no animation), richer merchants, and trough washing deluxe/clean Henry (honestly I don't want to spend all my time going to the baths or looking shite). There are others, probably about 7-8 total, that I recommend but you get the idea.
Or you could embrace the vision, play on Hardcore with no map marker or compass, accept that travelling through war-torn lands is dangerous, feel the rush of galloping through the woods knowing a Cuman ambush could set you back 30 minutes, accepting that quests can fail, accepting that people will react to you stinking like blood and horse.
The definitive way to play Skyrim is to take a shot every time someone says "dragon".
Recommending that might be tantamount to manslaughter. Better check with a lawyer first.
Quick question: Did you get the password and username fields mixed up when you made your Sopuli account?
That's crazy talk! What kind of lunatic would make a password without at least 3 symbols?!
Viva New Vegas for Fallout: New Vegas and the Unofficial Patch for VtM: Bloodlines are my go-to examples. Not a mod but Ninja Gaiden Black is the definitive version and much better than both Ninja Gaiden (2004) and Ninja Gaiden Sigma.
For Chrono Trigger, definitely don't play the original SNES localization. No disrespect to Ted Woolsey, he was one man working on an unreasonably tight deadline and hard technical limitations, but the retranslation is much better.
With headphones.
Pokemon Red at 10fps on a gateway laptop circa 2004
Should I put the RAM back in?
First off, here's a big list of unofficial ports:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_unofficial_ports
Dhewm 3 for Doom 3. Just updates the game engine to run better on modern hardware since id tech 4 is open source. Mod support sort of, not every mod is compatible. They helpfully list those that do here: https://dhewm3.org/mods.html
The Sims 2 High DPI patch, self explanatory:
https://github.com/lah7/sims2-4k-ui-patch
VCMI - Heroes of Might and Magic 3 open source engine/game extension. Has a built in mod manager, really handy: https://vcmi.eu/
Coming soon / WIP: I'm excited to play this port of the MS-DOS game Albion when it reaches feature parity with the original:
In the time since Quake released, common rendering systems and resolution options on monitors have changed. ID's solution to put it back on Steam was some gargantuan monolith wrapper that might've used Unity or something, and ties to an online ID, so that it could release on consoles. The open source community's solution was to take the original, open-source engine release, and port it upwards. Playing through the recent Quake Brutalist Jam 3, a map pack using a set of reinvented weapons and altered enemies, they recommend you use the "ironwail" source port, which even has a native Linux build.
if you're playing FFXIV, especially on Linux, don't bother with the official launcher/updater. Use XIVLauncher, hell even use that if you're playing on Windows. Updates a hell of a lot faster plus you also get the dalamud stuff which adds a few quality of life plugin improvements.
Silent Hill - alone, in the dark.
Alone in the Dark - on a hill, silently
I've been playing BG3 with a loot randomizer. It really makes you have to think about your builds because you can't rely on certain gear anymore. Makes it almost feel like a roguelike.
Of course, if you don't look up any builds a first playthrough of BG3 will be indistinguishable from one with a loot randomizer.
Obligatory, if you do want a roguelike BG3 you can get that with the Trials of Tav mod.
Duke3D - would recommend eduke32 port. The High-Resolution Pack is quite nice, butperhaps some prefer the retro feel of sprites.