Freelancer, return to castle wolfenstein, battlefield bad company

Half-Life 2 and Warcraft III still hold up today!

Deus Ex

Mass Effect

Max Payne

Warcraft and StarCraft.

KotOR

Diablo 2

Vice City and Final Fantasy X.

Black and White

That’s a tough decade thkugh. They were still pumping out N64 games at the beginning of the 2000’s and were balls deep into PS3 at the end of the decade, such a huge difference in tech

Maybe baldur's gate? I mean it is pretty well known but I don't meet very many people who have actually played it.

kind of cheating - but if you manage to run dolphin emulator on that CPU (drag vcpu to the 80%s maybe?) Metal Arms Glitch in the System might be the greatest hidden-gem of all time. It has a slow tutorial, but instantly becomes a 10/10 "how do i approach this situation?" game

Another idea for emulation is gameboy or DS games, they're still really fun

Doom (the original), Oregon trail, Descent. Lots of fun options

Call Of Duty 4

The first two Mass Effect games fall into that window, though the third is from 2012. Brilliant RPGs, you can get the remastered trilogy pretty cheap in sales nowadays.

Literally always when I check the profile of someone who recommends Gothic, they're from a German speaking country or a former Communist state.

Piranha Bytes games are way too janky for most people, even back then. For some reason people from those countries love that shit, but for the rest of the world, it's barely playable. I only played Risen 2 from then, but only played for an hour before I gave up. Those games were outdated the day they released, compared to bigger games from that time. They're really not fit for modern standards if you don't wear nostalgia glasses.

and Gothic 2

But dont look for Gothic 3

Do you recommend the whole series? I've got them all since a year or so but never made the time as of yet to thoroughly play 'em.

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

And again my sixth sense for knowing someone is German or Eastern European for liking Gothic proves it's effectiveness.

You really have to sit through the eurojank to appreciate a game like that nowadays.

Fallout: New Vegas.

Funny thing is, Im playing that right now

2000's ish

Mechwarrior 2 (1995)
Hexen (1995)
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995)
Quake (1996)
Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 (1996)
Blood (1997)
Colin McRae Rally 2.0 (2001)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (2001)
Age of Mythology (2002)
Rise of Nations: Throne & Patriots (2004)
Doom 3 (2004)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade (2006)

Halo, Portal, Old school Runescape, bioshock, Age of Empires 2 de, Command and Conquer,

Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic

Portal

Half-Life 2

Fallout 2

Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines is one of the greatest games from the 2000s era of gaming, along with Deus Ex. Period

VAMPIRES THE MASQUERADE BLOODLINES

Morrowind

Fable 1 is still one of my favorite games. I got it in 2004 for Christmas. I'm 32 now and still play it at least once or twice a year.

12 hours sounds about right. I must have played through at least 10 times. Nowadays I can’t even play through 50% of a bloat filled RPG.

Couldn’t even complete the Witcher 3 and everyone says how good it is.

Shocked I haven’t seen it yet but timesplitters, seems like it’s from the same era as red faction 1 and 2, at least in my mind. Lots of good memories

Here's some

• Serious Sam

• Aquaria

• Cave Story

• Harmony

• Fate

• World of Goo

• Space Funeral

• Pathologic

• Torchlight

• Uplink

• Darwinia

Had to check my old PS3 trophy list to see what I played at the time. Mostly towards the end of that decade:

• Critter Crunch
• Joe Danger
• Noby Noby Boy
• Lumines series
• Flower
• Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars
• Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom (more like AA maybe)
• Dead Nation
• Shatter
• Alpha Protocol (again, AA game)
• Trine
• Patapon series

Not a lot, but the massive surge of indie games started right after that.

Psychonauts

Castle crashers

I haven't played a lot of indie games from 2000-2010, just a few of the popular ones, but here are a few suggestions:

Cave Story (2004)

Braid (2008)

Limbo (2010)

Super Meat Boy (2010)

Age of mythology

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter was a pretty cool game. They're even remastering it.

Rollercoaster Tycoon

Deus Ex really deserves all the love. It’s become a cult classic, but it’s truly a game many other should be taking pointers from.