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

If you haven’t already played it, DOOM: The Golden Souls is probably the best total conversion you can find. Just S tier all around. Adventures of Square is also pretty good despite looking a bit simple.

If you’re looking for free games in general, might I recommend Megaman Maker? There’s an absolutely insane amount of content, and the level editor itself is very fun to use.

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N,
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Came to say golden souls as well. Just started recently and it’s impressive and fun as hell. There is also a 2 released and recently announced working on 3 I believe.

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.

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.

Sanctus, do games w What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing?
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Beyond All Reason is an open source RTS similar to Total War. Here is their website.

B0NK3RS,
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Never heard of BAR before so thanks for this. Looks amazing and can’t wait to try.

Fizz,
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I learnt about bar from lemmy and have been hooked for months. Such a fun game, it’s Foss and has a great community.

PunkiBas,

BAR is awesome, but it’s nothing like Total war, it’s similar to Supreme commander or total annihilation.

Sanctus,
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Ah, I meant Total Annihilation. Sorry haven’t played those two, just heard that total annihilation was very similar. I’ll leave my descriptors alone next time.

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.

B0NK3RS, do games w The N64
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N64 is one of my favourites but also the hardest to go back to after all these years.

takeheart,

My family still has one but the image quality is terrible on modern big screen TVs because

  1. It’s stretched out and native resolution of N64 is already tiny by today’s standards.
  2. Unnatural aspect ratio unless you can set black bars somehow.
  3. Modern displays have sharper pixel separation and colors don’t ‘bleed’ into each other as much which kinda helped the rough polygons of that era.

The result is a picture that is both sharp and blurry at the same time and gives me head aches after an hour or so.

deegeese, do gaming w Why are arcade cabinets so expensive?

If a new video game console is $500, a full size piece of furniture with custom art and a video console inside it sounds like a bargain for $600.

sleepybisexual,

Not sure if that’s a good parallel.

The hardware in a console and a cabinet are very different

BorgDrone,

Yeah, the hardware in a console is mass produced, the hardware in an arcade cabinet is made in relatively small batches. Mass producing something is always a lot cheaper per unit due to economies of scale.

erwan,

The hardware in an arcade cabinet is either a raspberry pi or a regular desktop PC.

BorgDrone,

In a MAME machine maybe, but the original arcade cabinets all have custom hardware.

DdCno1,

Not all of them. In recent years, virtually all arcades have been powered by standard gaming PCs (see for example the infamous Half-Life 2 arcade). In the past, it wasn’t unheard of for some arcades to have nearly identical hardware compared to home consoles. The Neo Geo arcade for example is running the exact same code as the home console (although in this case, the arcade came first). There have also been edge-cases, like the Namco System 11, which is using only slightly modified PS1 hardware (primarily in the sound department) in order to drive down costs.

Kolanaki,
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Depends on when it was made. A modern, multi-game cabinet could run entirely on a Raspberry Pi and cost far less to build than a console.

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

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.

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

daniyeg, do games w Any full loot/pvp base building mmos out there?

Albion online seems like a good fit for you, although based on your location your ping will massively vary since they only have a few centralised servers.

ericbomb,

I see gold is for sale in the shop, is store bought gold a big influence in the game? Or pretty irrelevant?

daniyeg,

i haven’t played it that much since my ping was atrocious, but i would say no. IIRC beside membership and cosmetics that you can buy with gold, i think you can covert it into silver which you can use to progress faster and even buy gear but you won’t gain an unfair advantage or get something that’s exclusive to the MTX shop.

you should read what experienced players have written if you want a more detailed explanation, im just sort of vaguely familiar with the game.

bogosort,

Pretty much the same as PLEX in Eve. If that was p2w for you, then this will be p2w for you too.

Actually come to think of it, it’s worse in the regard that gold prices have an impact on the game. The lower the conversion rate of gold to silver drops below 1:5000 the higher the global discount on repairs, travel, islands etc.

ericbomb,

I mean… in eve you were allowed to straight up buy perfect characters or skill injectors, then the isk to buy a ship. So you could have a newbie with the same character power as a 3 year old player.

My brain does not like grinding games with strong P2W aspects, it messes with me.

Aradina,
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Yeah but that person would suck. A player with experience will beat a credit card warrior every time.

ericbomb,

Brain says bad. Because I’ll be there, working on trying to get a new shiny ship and then the brain is like… “You make 40$ an hour overtime. That’s a lot more ship than doing this.” or "instead of checking in on your skill queue every day for two years to make sure it’s optimal $300 worth of plex and you have your dream toon. "

And yeah… I know myself. I need to avoid games that make that lil voice pop up.

Aradina,
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Entirely fair objection. I’ve won eve too and at least partially due to increasing monotization

bogosort,

Albion has “skill injectors” too. There are tradeable tomes with which, if you were to spend enough money on it, you could almost max your character.

Keep in mind I’m just trying to paint you a picture here, so you can decide whether it fits for you. I’d still recommend trying Albion. It’s a small install and free to try after all.

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

To add to the other commentators, it also has a task list / journal which should help you remember things to do through sessions.

kurcatovium,

Nice, thank you. This should be very helpful in case I won’t have time to play at all. Which is what sometimes happen, life is life, so you never know…

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.

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

I’m not adding anything new, but I wanted to agree with others saying playing in bursts is fine. I would suggest at least 1 hour, if not more. If you don’t have an hour just wait till you do. I played it in burst, but there is so much to read that a shorter amount of time won’t do it justice.

Definitely worth playing. Multiple times too. I played my first go one way and now I’m playing a completely different Tequila Sunrise.

Infynis, do games w Any full loot/pvp base building mmos out there?
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I was going to recommend Worlds Adrift, but looking it up for this post is the way I discovered it was shut down 5 years ago lol

I did not realize it had been that long since I played it. Sadge

ericbomb,

My brain is like “I played that game just like… last year right?”

Nah bro, you played that in high school, which was most certainly not last year.

XenBad,

Game was fun and had a lot of potential, it’s a shame it didn’t get popular enough.

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