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drgeppo, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

not an online game but Moonring is an amazing and underrated retro RPG that will run on anything! itch page with the Linux executable

YiddishMcSquidish, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

I still play Dawn of war and new Vegas on a cheap 2 in 1 tablet with an intel atom

thermal_shock,

I love new Vegas, but none of the mods I found fix the 1gb memory leak error. Crashes so often, it’s unplayable for me.

GerardsGuitar, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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This post prompted me to finally go work out what game I’ve been thinking about for the past decade and I’ve determined it was called mini mogul!

slappyfuck,

Best news I’ve heard all week!

dukemirage, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results. And which game was it?

Lembot_0006,

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results.

I am a programmer myself and have an overall understanding of what can happen unintentionally. I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

And which game was it?

“Fear the spotlight.”

anon5621,
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Other idea increase ur health using not game console but with using cheat engine ,find pointer to ur health

Lembot_0006,

The game has red-yellow-green health scale, not 0-100%. It would have taken too much effort to experiment while looking for the correct value.

anon5621,
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Value if u know how much damage to boss with exact value it can be filtered much faster ,or u can find own health and freeze it

dukemirage,

As a programmer you should know that wonky single-purpose software like a game engine may react chaotically to state changes. I wishlisted the game though.

Kelly,

I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

They could be using player character state as a proxy for player skill.

A player who successfully navigated earlier changes with such competence that they have an excess of health items might appreciate a more challenging final boss.

You may have inadvertently put it into hard mode!

en.wikipedia.org/…/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balanc…

takeda, do gaming w He does it so fast

Yeah, it looks like a glove, but maybe it supposed to be skin folding when you hold gun on the belt/stomach level? The skin will fold similarly if you do.

dual_sport_dork,
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He’s definitely wearing gloves. You can also see it on the plasma gun recoil sprite:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0df745cd-c679-4fb6-a5c1-bfb80e9d2bdd.png

The shotgun:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6504c75c-db9d-4201-8546-2cfe2c51bbf2.png

And especially with the super shotgun in Doom 2:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b8e94362-89cf-4178-a1c5-3987e6aaa20c.png

And for good measure, these uncropped pistol sprites are in the “vault” thingy that came with the latest Bethesda rerelease:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c1321e4e-bd3e-490b-9c2e-33e0f247e870.png

wjrii,

plasma gun

One of the first “aha” design moments I ever got was the Doom plasma gun. There was a kid’s toy version of the American M-60 Light Machine gun that I had. The back half was pretty cool on its own, the typical thumper machanism to make noise, but it also had secondary triggers in the stock and a little gear that would advance a belt of soft plastic ammo. Didn’t do anything except move, but the effect was cool.

The front actually came off, and was a pretty decent quality suction-dart shooter. However, if you turned it around and used the the mating surface as the “muzzle…” BOOM! (or “ZAP” I guess… lol) Doom plasma gun, down to the exact number of ridges.

takeda,

You’re right. My bad.

Thanks for explanations and including the art from the game, nice to see it as I haven’t played it literally in decades.

Clearwater, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I grew up playing a very specific Minecraft trial world. You spawn on a beach with a single tree. Immediately inland was a large plains biome, but about 100 blocks to the side was an oak forest. In there (still visible from spawn), was a single large hill with a small cave in it which poked though it and made for a good base.

I am rather confident it was a Minecraft trial edition world. I believe I reset that map several times over before discovering how to make the trial last forever. However the trial seed on the wiki does not match for any game version. (It does match a different world I remember playing at least.)

I’ve probably spent about 10 hours over the last couple years periodically going on the hunt for it, and at this point I’ll give out a small bounty for information.

toeblast96, (edited )

what platform? pc/ console?

I know pcgamer had a demo on pc but not sure if that sounds like your description

Clearwater,

It was PC. I’ve tried the PC gamer demo and the “North Carolina” seed for all probable game versions (1.3 to 1.6), and the base world generation just doesn’t match. There is a hill nearby which could be close, but the biomes are all wrong.

There is a chance, albeit not very high, that it was a cracked version of the game using a seed I simply forgot with time, but it would be quite difficult to brute force that since I would then need to figure out both the version and seed. Given I am fairly certain I generated the same world a few times, it’s possible I might be able to guess it.

Prancingpotato, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I got two im thinking of : One I am sure I can recover but hey, let’s shoot for some engagement here, it was a sort of worms like but with pigs, were you could promote units to archetypes The second one I couldn’t find on my searches, it was a PS1 game (I think) in which you constructed your Mecha for battle royale rounds, and you could buy parts or change chassis. I remember an arena on a sort of battleship or structure in the sea, but I was unable to retrieve the name of this game.

purplemonkeymad,

For the first it wasn’t hogs of war was it? Never played it but do remember it being in a few mags.

Prancingpotato,

It was definitely this one ! I remember playing it at a friend’s house and having a blast

faintwhenfree, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

If you like FPS

XONOTIC will be great

AlsaValderaan, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

A puzzle game where each (2D) map spawns with lasers and corresponding targets, and sometimes mirrors etc. You get to place some mirrors, T pieces, beam splitters etc. and have to fulfill each target.

There are so many clones of this out now it’s nigh impossible to find, especially as the game is literally just called Laser. This one’s also a clone I think but I just love this particular one.

I did recently finally find it again after more than a decade of looking.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

Technically, every game is free as long as you know where to find it.

And any game made before 2010 is likely to run perfectly on these specs.

yopyop, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I got you fam, it’s called NewZealand Story. myabandonware.com/…/the-new-zealand-story-679

Ashiette, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

It’s… an old game. Maybe it ran on DOS, but it sure was Windows 95 era.

It was a game for kids where you had to spell words. It took place in Africa I believe, because I remember vividly that there were hippos. You had to solve puzzles before spelling words.

I might be misremembering the following : you played as a boy with a loincloth. When you succeeded in solving a puzzle he rowed upstream on a raft. I think I remember a man with a mask, might have been the kid himself.

That’s about everything I remember about this. If someone knows anything…

kindred,

Sounds like Spelling Jungle. I remember that game had the dumbest ending - something about leaving the hose faucet on.

Edit: it was a faucet

Ashiette,

Of that was it, thanks !

ChaoticNeutralCzech, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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I’m looking for the name of the 3D racing game my classmates used to play on the school club PC. It came out in the 2000s and ran natively on Windows. The first track in the career mode (as far as we ever got) was dirt and inside an nighttime arena. There were crowds and even some onlookers behind barricade blocks around the track. I don’t think the cars could be damaged, and there were intended jumps over lower tracks sections, that could be enjoyed by driving from below to jump really high. Several views were available including one with a rear-view mirror, and a “blimp” aerial view in replay mode. It looked a lot like the nighttime arena tracks in ATV Offroad Fury (pictured) but with closed-cab vehicles.
https://www.gamegrin.com/assets/game/atv-off-road-fury-4/screenshots/atv-off-road-fury-4-screenshots-45.jpg

kindred,
ChaoticNeutralCzech,
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You are correct! Thank you!

How did you find that?

vga, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Yep, I have one of those. A side-scrolling scifi shooter for C64 from probably late 80s that I just remember a general vibe about. Not Nemesis, something where you fly above a sort of city. I have tried to remember its name for more than a decade probably.

One would think that there weren’t that many of them but oh boy.

RememberTheApollo_,
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world avatar

Dominion?

vga,

I haven’t heard of that one, but no, wasn’t that.

Also tried figuring this out with an AI but nope. I’m pretty sure I’m not hallucinating this game.

gorkur,

Can’t really tell from that description but have you tried to look for it on Lemon? 🙂

www.lemon64.com/games/list.php?list_year=1985&lis…

vga,

I have.

In fact, once I browsed through all the games in there and didn’t find what I was looking for. It’s so far ago and I was so young that I probably have a very distorted and overly positive view of what the game looked like.

Sv443, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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