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JTskulk, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

Starcraft! I really think Starcraft Brood War is a better, more balanced game. The quality of life changes in Starcraft 2 make it so hard to go back to playing Brood War. I don’t know if I can adjust back to only selecting a lot amount of units or needing to click on each building to build stuff or not having smart-casting and good pathing.

ampersandrew, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #7
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I’ve been playing Borderlands 2 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance, both in preparation for their sequels this year. What I played tonight of the latter was a bit obtuse, and I’m hoping it picks up.

AnimalsDream, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

The older Final Fantasy games. I made a point of doing a playthrough of the NES version of FF1, and I’m glad I did. The increased difficulty over the GBA version is mostly better than the absolute lack of challenge in later versions, but the added content and qol improvements make it preferable to play a hardmode hack of the gba version in the future.

The NES FF2 is just too much. I lose stats? No thanks.

And I’m really glad the Pixel Remaster version of FF3 exists now, the NES version was pretty unpolished and glitchy.

VitoRobles, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

Halo MCC version over the original.

I saw Halo running on a classic Xbox and tried to play with the clunky Xbox controller. Couldn’t do it. Everything looked so low res and blurry.

drmoose, do games w Skill issue

I have noticed that all of these misogynists are incredibly insecure alpha-pretending males. Can’t imagine how tiring this constant fear must be.

Duamerthrax, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

I can’t even leave the starting room of the original System Shock. So glad the remake updated the controls.

I did manage to finish System Shock 2, but the “puzzles” are just RNG, so I’m hoping the remaster changes that and maybe even fixes the ending.

VitoRobles,

I just played the original System Shock and System Shock 2. Incredible games.

I saw the trailer for the remake for the first one and wanted one last memory before I get my mind blown.

Duamerthrax, (edited )

The remake for the first game is so actuate to the original, you can use the old walkthough guides to beat it.

You could tell the ending was cut short for time with SS2. It would be nice if they took some creative liberties to bring it closer to what it was originally suppose to be.

Flagstaff,
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This is ironic because I loved Prey but couldn’t finish SS2’s tutorial!

Whitebrow, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #7

Happy to see GameInformer back

As for games: two point museum and nordhold

2point Museum has been a blast with all the commentary, announcements and fun descriptions and nordhold scratches that tower defence with meta progression itch

PerfectDark,
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Whitebrow,

From the video during a cinematic sequence: “there’s somebody talking but I muted that part”

The visuals are nice but cmon, you can’t play it with no sound :/

Mr_fuzzy, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

007 games. But the N64 soundtrack was great.

WordBox,

Esp given 007 on N64 varied so widely.

Idk how Goldeneye was ever playable yet it damn well was and the best!

spizzat2, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #7

Ok, I’m loving the idea of making cases for my GoG backups. I didn’t see a reference to the community. Can you provide a link?

Edit: I found this page, which has a dead link to the “up-to-date” list.

PerfectDark,
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BmeBenji, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

Call of Duty: World At War Zombies

Every map in WaW zombies has been re-released at least twice. WaW zombies is cool because of how simple and barebones it is, but holy fucking hell that game was not coded for any sort of melee combat. The zombie bodies are so damn large, according to their hit boxes. Try to run past them but brush up against their pinky? Guess you’re done. Also for some reason the co-op splitscreen is not split vertically, and it’s not split horizontally, each of the two players just gets a quarter of the screen in a tiny box. Who knows why.

I love it to death but it’s real hard to go back to it.

Lumbardo, do games w Skill issue

Why did you post this? Seems like a waste of time.

frostysauce,

Why did you comment this? Seems like a waste of time.

Lumbardo,

Why did you reply to my comment? Seems like a waste of time.

Pika, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #7
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inzoi being no devuno is amazing, I’m super hyped for it, I hope it’s good

RiQuY,

Don’t get baited, they said they removed Denuvo from the Early Access, we will see what happens in the full release, if it goes out of EA ever.

Pika,
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they said it’s not in it due to restrictions on modding and hindering freedoms, I would assume they have no plans at all for having it any. ore as the rest of the post would fall apart otherwise, but yea i guess take it with a grain of salt if you like. I’m hopeful it won’t have it.

Baggie, do games w Skill issue

Well then the obvious conclusion is that respecting women makes you better at video games.

edgemaster72, (edited )
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I don’t think that’s right, I’m terrible at games but I still respect women (enough to spare them from interacting with me whenever possible. Same goes for all people really)

Nosavingthrow,

Think about how bad you would be if you hated women. You’re really skill-maxing.

melpomenesclevage, (edited )

as a mildly misandrist lesbian with lots of obsessive crushes:

provably not. maybe there’s a bell curve?

TwanHE,

More likely higher ranked players finally figured out that keeping harmony within your team does wonders for your chance at winning. The amount of infighting I’ve had to stop just to save my elo is insane, why would i start something just because of someone’s gender.

newthrowaway20, do gaming w Stop doing path-tracing!

I would laugh if it wasn’t true. But also, people underestimate how realistic light and shadows can really sell a scene. It just shouldn’t require the electricity of a refrigerator to do it.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

A lot of that is just poor implementation on the developers end. They go “oh the engine we bought supports this? Well let’s do the bare minimum to enable the setting.” And you get games that don’t even look better, but run like ass.

Ephera,

Well, yeah, ray-tracing is actually a lot simpler to implement, because you just implement things the way physics works and then that works in most situations as you’d expect (i.e. how physics works).

All the lighting techniques we used in the past were just faking lighting in ever more intricate ways. Computationally much less intensive ways, which is why we bothered with them in the first place, but it’s genuinely quite a bit of work.
There’s some ways to optimize ray-tracing itself (e.g. pre-bake the lighting into scenes), but many times it’s also a matter of mixing ray-tracing and more traditional lighting techniques, which brings in that additional work again.

Which is then why it’ll be done less and less, the better hardware becomes. Because if publishers can sell to a wide audience without putting in that work, they absolutely will not put in that work.

shalafi, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

OK, maybe a slight twist, but Left 4 Dead absolutely sucks vs. Left 4 Dead 2. Want L4D? Fine. Play it inside L4D2 with better guns and zombies.

VitoRobles,

There’s something different between the two that I can’t put my finger on. Like everything feels a lot more solid?

I personally have a lot more memories of L4D and it’s cast of characters over L4D2.

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