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BarHocker, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 21st

I am playing Haste, unbelievably energetic game, addictive and fun.

pressedhams, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 21st

Absolum. A side scroller rogue like. The art is beautiful. Combat satisfying. The four characters all have depth and story. Couch or online coop. Super fun!

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

3d third person shooter with a female protagonist. Late 90 or early 2000s. Think something like Tomb Raider, but I am pretty sure it was not Tomb Raider. I don’t remember much, aside from the tutorial level being in some kind of Portal chamber / Aperture Science like sterile tiled floor and walls with various lights. If I remember correctly, the first real level was in an old big multi store warehouse or club house.

petersr,

After having looked for this game for two decades and asked here, I realized perhaps I should ask ChatGPT. I gave it the same description and it came up with Oni (2001). And I am pretty sure that’s it!

dingleberrylover,

This is my guess as well. I still remember the tutorial.

tetris11,

Stealth game? There was a nice PS2 stealth/hacking fame with a female protagonist

petersr,

I don’t recall stealth, but I also only watched someone else play it for an hour or so.

captain_aggravated,
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What platform? PC, Playstation?

petersr,

PC

JcbAzPx,

It sounds like Perfect Dark, but that didn’t get a PC port until recently.

prole,

Fear Effect maybe?

Lushed_Lungfish,

Ah, that one cutscene in Fear Effect 2 jumpstarted my puberty.

Xatolos,
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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?

kindred,

I went down a retro pc gaming rabbit hole a while ago. It was the one game I couldn’t get working on my machine. Feels good that something useful came out of it

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

I think the free Ascii version of Dwarf Fortress should run fine.

Dvixen, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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That’s me and this robot-like C64 game. You did levels and took over robots so you could take over stronger robots.

I do remember Seven Cities of Gold, but only because the game crashed so often I saw the loading screen more than the game itself

SavinDWhales,

I played that. Paradroid, right?

Dvixen,
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It is!

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

I think these are better specs than my E7440, which will play Minecraft

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

Emulate GBA and PS1.

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

One of my earlier memories was playing a strange game I haven’t been able to find again. All I remember is: you control a car (I think it has flower decals on it?) and can drive through a desert/canyon area. You can also press a key which makes a rotor come out of the top of the car, allowing you to fly it like a helicopter.

I have no idea what the gameplay was beyond that, but I’d love to find it again.

gustofwind, do gaming w Is there a trick to controllers that I'm missing?
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No trick. It’s just harder on a controller and you need to practice

Hate to say it but….this is literally a skill issue lol

blackris,
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“Gamepads work significantly worse than kbm for this task, so you’re the problem. LOL.”

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

Those specs seems decent at first glance, but my bet is that the bottleneck will be the storage, if you are using a hard drive still. If you use an ssd, or change to one, then your performance may be greatly improved

I think you could run Steam on that build, I used to play Supertux cart, and have not played 0AD in ages

windowsphoneguy,
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What? Intel HD is easily the weakest part. HDD will only cause longer loading times.

Rooty,

Highly recommend SSDs for everyday use and HDDs for backup, an old laptop I had turned from a barely usable machine to a pretty decent one just by swapping out a HDD for an SSD.

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

I assembled a rather large list of free Linux games a few years ago, and most of them are low-spec friendly. Hopefully you find something interesting from it :)

lemmy.world/post/14336843

pixeltree, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
Haaveilija,

Therapist: “The terror tubbies aren’t real, they can’t hurt you.” The terror tubbies:

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

I used to have this symbian game that had a small dragon as the main character and accidentally deleted it from the phone it was on. Never found it again :(

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

Commander keen

Tonava,

You can get them as a bundle on steam!

fraksken,

😍

Edit: thank you for making me spend my money so recklessly. Thank gabe for the winter deala tho.

fraksken,

And they have carmageddon! Omg. I have been living under a rock!

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