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jaycifer, do games w What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing?

There are several good total conversions for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. Star Trek Armada 3 is the most complete overhaul I’ve played for it. I’m a big fan of Halo spaceships and the Sins of the Prophets mod is the closest thing I’ve seen capture the asynchronous battle between UNSC and Covenant ships. There are others for Star Wars and Stargate that I hear are good, but I have not tried them.

LainTrain, do games w What should I understand about Guardians of the Galaxy as someone who's never watched any of the movies but I'm playing the game right now?

They’re a team of misfits who go about the galaxy doing stuff, mostly good stuff but sometimes petty. That’s it!

It’s actually better to not have seen the movies or read the comics or played the somewhat rightfully forgotten telltale game as this game’s version of the characters differs from all and it’s best to take it as it is rather than having “I wish it was more like the movies” in the back of your head.

turnerpike20,

I’m disappointed that TellTale was shut down. Anyway yeah it’s not the game I’m talking about I assume you know that cause your pointing out other examples I just want to be clear.

VaultBoyNewVegas,

Telltale is actually around again under a different name. They made the expanse episodic game and it felt the same as their older stuff.

LainTrain,

Need to check this out now. I loved TWD S1/S2 and TWAU

Capitao_Duarte, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 2nd

Just started The Forest and Stardew Valley. Was looking for something like minecraft, but with flavor

taiyang, do games w What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing?

It’s been a long time but one of my favorites was the Star Control 2 remake Ur-Quan Masters. I believe there is a free HD version out there, too. Plus if you like it, the OG creators have current projects you can support (they left that IP after 2).

Not sure what genre it is; certainly not action packed like your examples but those space battles were fun.

otp, (edited )

uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/Download – Best version to play today (free)

…steampowered.com/…/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters… – Steam download of the “no frills” version (also free)

taiyang,

Thanks for linking that, I didn’t have anything handy since it’s been ages.

CerineArkweaver, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 2nd

Picked up Rogue Trader in the WH40K “Skulls” sale, so been playing that.

PunkiBas, do games w What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing?

I really enjoy Mindustry, it’s kind of like Factorio

mindustrygame.github.io

any1th3r3, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 2nd

I finally started Horizon: Forbidden West - gameplay changes compared to HZD keep trickling in and I couldn’t be happier. I love Aloy’s character so I’m really happy to be in her shoes again.

This past week was pretty disappointing before that:

  • Hellblade II was good, but nowhere near as impactful as the first one for me. I’m left with a sour taste overall, although I’ll admit they did a tremendous job with cinematography and character rendering.
  • Stellar Blade was insipid. Whatever could save it in my book - its gameplay - turns out stale pretty quickly, so I ended up abandoning the game midway. The story and characters were really uninteresting imo, couple that with how EVE is represented… I couldn’t really find any redeeming qualities.
Penguincoder,

Horizon Zero Dawn is amazing, gameplay and story.

Berttheduck,

I’m working my way through forbidden west as well. I’m really enjoying it. It’s always good to spend more time in an interesting game world. I really appreciate the more free form climbing system in this one, not quite breath of the wild climbing but way better than grab the yellow ledges only.

any1th3r3,

Absolutely! You could sort of “cheese” your way into climbing some parts of the world of Zero Dawn, but Forbidden West’s climbing is much improved - to the point that I’ve been getting sidetracked a number of times already just exploring and getting to great vistas.

ISOmorph,

I started it as well. Had weird sound issues that I had to fix by downgrading my system sample rate. It looks and feels amazing now that it works.

simple, do games w The N64

It was definitely a product of its time, but it paved the way to what we have now. It’s important to note the N64 was the first console to have an analog stick, so nobody really knew where to place it. They put it in the middle since it was something extra not all games would use.

That said, the hardware limitations didn’t matter that much as long as the games were stellar. Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time are maybe the most influential games of all time, up there with Doom and Quake.

NewNewAccount,

Technically the Sega Saturn had an analog stick controller available before the N64.

segaretro.org/3D_Control_Pad#History

Albbi,

No. The N64 was released in Japan before this weird abomination was released on either Japan or North America.

NewNewAccount,

Looks like you’re right. The N64 released a month before the Saturn’s controller was available. TIL.

PlasticExistence,
loops, do gaming w Is Disco Elysium playable in short bursts?

I usually play it in short bursts, iirc you can save at any time.

kurcatovium,

Thank you for heads up. Will definitely give it a try.

eratic, do gaming w Is Disco Elysium playable in short bursts?

It depends how long between sessions. The game is a lot like a book - you can read (play) for an hour at a time and put the book (game) down anytime then pickup where you left off. It might be a problem if you haven’t played for a few weeks as you might forget where you are in the story.

kurcatovium,

I manage to play usually about 4 nights a week, so about day or two between sessions. This should be okay.

Reading all the comments, it looks like DE might be great pick for this interrupted play through. Glad to hear that, because everyone says it’s a great game.

Even though I have games like Skyrim or Kingdom Come at my account, it’s almost impossible to dig into those with this kind of gaming schedule. LA Noire was really great game for this.

misk, do games w The N64
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Every piece of hardware in a given budget is ultimately a product of compromise. 3D capabilities of N64 are way beyond what PS can offer - texture filtering and Z buffer just put Playstation to shame. No CD is equally embarrassing to N64. The controller… well, it was a weird time.

glimse, (edited )

I played a lot of THSP2 on my PS2 PS1 and was horrified by the N64 version’s audio quality when I played it at a friend’s house

Num10ck,

the ps2 came 4 years after the N64, a crucial time window of consumer audio chip evolution. but even more importantly, the N64 didnt even have a sound chip, relied on the CPU for it while competing for resources.

glimse,

Sorry I meant PS1! It played CD quality audio as well

SimplyTadpole, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 2nd
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door quite a lot. Also getting back into Minecraft and Euro Truck SImulator 2. And of course, Cassette Beasts.

brenticus, do games w What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing?

Mount and Blade: Warband has multiple incredible total conversions. I’ve dumped a lot of time into Prophecy of Pendor and The Last Days, probably more than the base game.

For actually free games there are so many options that it really comes down to taste. Unciv is a fantastic reimplementation of Civ 5. Super Auto Pets is a fun casual auto battler. HoloCure is a really good Vampire Survivors-style game themed after Hololive vtubers. There are tons of MMOs and shooters that are F2P and good, but I know most of those from hearsay rather than experience.

freeman, do games w The N64

The controller had a weird and unfortunate shape. It’s still miles better than any PS controller due to Sony’s refusal to put the stick on a natural position for the the thumb.

Sega and then Microsoft (after the first huge iteration) got both general shape and analog positions right.

Cartridge is an indefensible choice, it was perhaps borne of Nintendo’s falling out with Sony that prejudiced them against CD. Nintendo probably liked that they were more difficult to pirate as well, gamers not as much evidently. The Gamecube going optical but with a bizarre reversed mini-dvd is even worse.

There’s also a complete absence of software from your post, whatever it’s shortcomings Nintendo and Rare pushed some amazing games on it which people remember fondly.

Tolstoy, do games w What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing?
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Sunk 2000hrs into Warframe without paying a dime. Also Path of Exile is a nice fair free 2 play game. For total conversions try Fallout new Vegas and mount and blade

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