Tony_Tarantula on 15/9/2020 at 10:25
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Tony, your little attempt to trick the rubes into thinking you're a super woke progressive radicalist is blatantly transparent, and more than a little pathetic.
For our sake and yours, please, for the love of all that is good and holy, shut the fuck up. Save the rest of us our brain cells.
You do realize that a lot more people than “super woke” people including retarded right wing evangelicals would have a problem with that right? Even dipshit racist fuckers like the Proud Boys have rules against porn.
I have daughters so I don’t like blatant objectifications. As usual you Are simply project your own bizarre cross-corollary reactionary mindset onto every controversial topic. This isn’t that and I do hope they tone down the edge lord aspects of the IP.
*****
Anyway I’ve pulled out DOSBOX and am messing around with some old Sierra games. They’re mostly great and I’m spite of the age reflect a level of care that most more recent games don’t. For example modern games usually have a binary campaign structure where you need to win missions in order to advance whereas some of the old Dynamix games had branching campaign structures with a salvage system where the outcome of one mission can impact the rest of the game and multiple play through a are needed to see everything.
Marecki on 15/9/2020 at 18:23
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
Anyway I've pulled out DOSBOX and am messing around with some old Sierra games.
Just in case you haven't heard about these, some of the Sierra SCI games need special script patches to work on modern hardware - even when running under Dosbox (although some of these problems, like Roger dying of thirst way too quickly in the SCI version of Space Quest 1, can be worked around without patching by tweaking Dosbox settings). I found out about those the hard way when I tried to play Space Quest 6 quite a few years ago, there is that one place where the game would invariably crash without those patches. Here's a link, I am not sure if it's the same place where I got them myself (got them all archived just in case) but if memory serves me right it does look about the same: (
http://www.oocities.org/belzorash/)
Or just use ScummVM - having remembered that they did start working on Sierra SCI support at some point I went to their compatibility page and it turns out that they now offer good to excellent support for most SCI, AGI
and ADL Sierra games!
Thirith on 16/9/2020 at 07:28
I may have mentioned it before, but one thing I'm coming to hate in Mass Effect Andromeda (even though in the grander scheme it's a minor issue) is missions that consist of having a quick chat with a person in location A, heading to location B, talking to a person there, moving on to location C and talking to someone there, then returning to A to have a final chat with the first person. IMO it's dreadful mission design, but so many (especially side) missions work like that. FFS, we're in a sci-fi world and there's no way to talk to these people on some kind of communication device? If you're going to make me go to various locations, and there's travel and load times in between them, make it worth my while. Give me gameplay, choices, *anything*. Otherwise, if you're literally just making me go places, press one button, rinse and repeat, take out all the meaningless elements. Otherwise? Fuck you.
Obviously a lot of RPGs do that kind of thing, but but in MEA Bioware's managed to strip this down to the most boring, meaningless parts: walking and pushing the talk button. If your mission requires me to go to four, five places on different sections of the Nexus just to have boring, minimal conversations, it's a badly designed mission.
henke on 17/9/2020 at 06:33
This is the "humor" you wanted preserved? Wow, ok.
mopgoblin on 18/9/2020 at 12:10
I kinda hate to tell you this but by the standards of contemporary porn that's, like, hilariously tame. Not that I'm super-keen on the current state of porn but this in particular seems like a bit of a weird one to worry overly much about.
Sluggs on 18/9/2020 at 18:09
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
I really love this game, but I kind of hate it too; not because it's bad or anything, heck no way, it's because it has killed my interest in some other games; mainly shooters.
After playing this, I don't want to go back to shooting everything in games like COD or any of the Half-Life games.
The games I currently have on my aging PC are...
Heavy Metal FAKK 2
FlatOut
Skyrim
Half-Life 2 (plus episodes)
Portal 1 and 2
Saints Row IV
Soma
I installed FAKK 2 and FlatOut for a bit of nostalgia. FAKK 2 runs really well on modern machines, which isn't really surprising since it's an Unreal engine game.
Obviously, I'm not playing the HL games! :eww:
I enjoy Saints Row IV but I can't play that yet, as I've unzipped the game from my steam backup Bluray discs (I have like 20 of them, all containing parts of a huge .zip file that also includes the Steam program files), but until I redownload Steam and update the Steam files, I can't play this game, as it won't save my games, and Steam needs to update for that to work, or so I read someplace! :(
Can't play the Portal games yet either, for the same reason as above.
Anyway, in-between looking on the web and whatever I'm doing at *cough* home (I don't call a place I don't own a "home"), I'm playing The Witcher 3 :D
Malf on 18/9/2020 at 19:04
Quote Posted by Sluggs
I installed FAKK 2 and FlatOut for a bit of nostalgia. FAKK 2 runs really well on modern machines, which isn't really surprising since it's an Unreal engine game.
HERETIC!
It's actually the Quake 3 engine behind FAKK 2 ;)