Somehow, our gaming habits keep overlapping. I just started playing Minecraft again a few days ago. However, I’m playing “All The Mods 10”. I’ve been focusing on creating an aesthetically pleasing factory this time. So far, I have a cozy house with a workshop. My mineshaft is behind the house, and it’s my starter shack converted into a garden shed.
I highly recommend playing with a mod pack on a return playthrough. You can still do all of the vanilla stuff, but the experience is also expanded upon with things like steam quarries, programmable mining bots, digitized wireless storage, blood magic, dimensional travel, and cozy kitchens with in-depth cooking.
I used to dive pretty hard into Feed The Beast, but All The Mods seems to have taken over it. The big thing with these packs is making all the mods play nice with each other, so they can share resources and be cross compatible.
I recall one pack where the world was a wasteland. All the ores were depleted, and the oceans were toxic. You had to figure out how to try to grow crops, make survival gear to explore, and eventually make mystical crops that could produce tiny bits of ores that you could harvest.
You should do it! It’s a good time. I’d recommend Prism Launcher if you’re doing mods (or playing on Linux).
If you’re looking for a legacy console experience though you can do the 4J Modpack on Java (I’ve heard good things about it) or run it through Xenia, RPCS3, or CEMU.
Most if not all version of Minecraft can be played. I think the only one I haven’t been able to play is Bedrock edition PC and that’s only because it needs windows 10/11 and I use Linux.
I will be playing Linux vanilla Minecraft if anything, I believe. I haven’t played in probably 10 years, so the basic experience will be plenty new for me as it is. 😅
You should share a picture of the factory! When I play with create with friends I’m that guy and always make factories for my stuff so I love seeing a good factory
Star Wars Jedi Knight I and II: Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast (Not stable) - OpenJK github.com/JACoders/OpenJK
Despite the official name being “Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy” it is not Jedi Knight I. It is actually a sequel to Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. It came out only a year after JO and was announced in April. At first I thought it was an April Fool’s joke because the screenshots looked like something that could easily be made with the mod tools at the time.
It wasn’t called Jedi Knight III because you play a different character.
Anyways, the real Jedi Knight I was “Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II”. An open source implementation is available at github.com/shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2
And to round it off, the open source implementation of Dark Forces is available at theforceengine.github.io. I think it even supports the remaster.
I actually really appreciate someone clarifying the chronology of these games, I’ve got them all in my steam library and can never remember the order they go in.
Do the OS remakes have any QoL improvements? I tried playing through them recently and had a very hard time with the manual save system since I’m used to autosave points in linear games like that.
Honestly anything to deal with the horrendous friction and instability of the original would be welcome. Even modded I think I had to stick with 4:3 which even with black bars was still not quite right on my modern system. It would have to be a better experience, even if I have to re-learn manual quicksaves.
Got them working, and was pleasantly surprised to find most of them had flatpack installers! Manual saving is still a pain but the engines running smoothly does make a big difference.
Although the dark forces installer doesn’t work with the steam install so you have to copy the game data to the data folder to make it work.
i play a lot of shmups and their songs are often stuck in my head, most recently some stuff from raycrisis. fire emblem warriors songs get stuck in my head as well.
Its funny, I just think I have a thing for the underdogs. So I was always drawn to GOG, their stance on DRM-free gaming and games preservation in general don’t hurt though, of course!
Its taken me until now to even really look at Steam, even for my Steam Deck. I will admit, Steam’s cloud saves and pre-shader compilation is a blessing to game with.
I’ve wanted to do this, too, but some times it’s difficult because I’m really into the tactics of the game. I generally blow past a lot of the story these days because I’ve played and seen so much of it all, but there’s always new ways to do combat and some strategies I haven’t tried with particular battles. Having said that, if you are into the story, I suppose I could run around and loot all the hidden things while someone else is in a dialogue.
I’d want to do a decent handful of mods and I know not everyone is down with these (all from ingame mod manager):
Tactician Enhanced
Party Limit Begone (so we could do up to 4 person coop, each of us gets 1 companion if we want it)
Extra Encounters + More Enemies in Regular Encounters
Random Loot (so the gear we find is different locations than vanilla)
Full set of class-specific loot (there’s 12 of them, but we could do without this if too much)
Also disclaimer: my internet is kinda shit, I get ~100/Mbps on average. May or may not be an issue, I’m not entirely sure. I never really had issues playing Helldivers 2, so maybe not an issue with BG3.
If there’s a group that’s cool with all that, then I’m interested. Again, though, I know not all players are into it this way.
ETA: I’d be playing on Steam, but I’m fairly certain all the mods I mentioned are available on console, too.
I like the look of the white custom title cards but whenever I get to a game that doesn’t have one it ruins the theme and I end up changing them back…
Also if Old School Rally does come to GOG I would buy it in a heartbeat. Colin McRae Rally (and 2.0) are some of my all time favorites and I still play them regularly.
Ohhhh maybe that is why I found a user elsewhere offering to pay for people to design some game covers for specific titles with the similar white font idea?!
(and me too, I played Colin McRae with my papa a lot and I just love it, you can make it look amazing with emulators these days!!!)
Some other bangers are the entire Silent Hill 3 sound track (You’re Not Here and I Need Love are my personal favorites) and My Dark Disquiet by Poets of the Fall from Control.
my hot take is that even though portal is a masterpiece this song is so cringe because i associate it with unfunny “the narwhal bacons at midnight” type redditors
the counterpoint to me not liking a song from a Video Game because it of its association with Internet Culture has to be something other than “get out more”
I feel like the association of Portal with that era and that type of person, even though I think most of them probably became different people with age, even though I was practically one of them, makes the song a little harder to enjoy. I am aware of Ellen McLain’s (GLaDOS voice actress) opera creds and think that’s super cool though.
Sorry to the composer, it is not your fault. Similarly, I think maybe the same thing happened with Undertale. I think I played before the fandom got a bad reputation, so it and its songs are not quite tainted in my mind, in fact I’m a big fan of the game’s use of leitmotifs (am I using the word right?) and really enjoy its music, but if I came in after I saw the fandom, I might like the work less through no fault of the composer.
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