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Thelsim, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

Westwood, but not for Command & Conquer or Dune 2. I still remember them fondly for their Kyrandia games. I loved the art design, the music and the jokes.
Kyrandia 2 being one of my all time favorite adventure games, Zanthia was an awesome protagonist. Especially for her time.

It’s nice that their strategy games picked up the way they did, but part of me wishes they stuck with their fantasy games.

chaorace, do games w Whats your favorite Main Menu music?
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Gumus,

I’ve been using that as a ringtone ever since Orange Box came out

ex10n, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

Neversoft. THPS2 had a banger soundtrack.

root, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

Origin “We create worlds”. They definitely did with the Wing Commander series. Played a lot of WC 3, 4 as well as Privateer.

I don’t think anyone mentioned Lionhead Studios. Black and White was fun. Sadly it’s in copyright limbo if I’m not mistaken.

Also played a lot of Civilization 1 from Microprose back in the day.

as_is_tradition,

My favourite games from childhood were the Ultima series (3 onward).

Grimpen,

Never finished most of the Ultima Games. Started U4 again a few years ago. Tried picking it back up, and I’ve misplaced that damn balloon again.

root,

Never tried any of the Ultima series. :p

FlashMobOfOne, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
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Fighting Fantasy books

Grimpen,

Have most of them still! I think all of them into the 20’s, and hit or miss after. There’s been a couple of reboots.

dewritoninja, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

I’m surprised no one has said thq. They had so many bangers

Kwakigra, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

Squaresoft, Bioware, and Bethesda are three companies whose logos I once considered a seal of quality. None of the three really exist anymore, although there are new much larger companies using their names.

dewritoninja,

Bethesda game studios is the same studio as always, just under Microsoft

Toes, do games w 'Great' games I didn't play this year due to requirements

Make sure your games are on a SSD, this isn’t optional anymore; modern games often rely on loading assets as they are needed and if they fail to do that it could appear to stutter, among other issues. This is particularly important for UE games.

Additionally that smearing effect you mentioned could be FSR loading low resolution textures. Try tweaking your settings related to it.

Confirm, that your AMD drivers are up to date. Also If your ram supports XMP or a equivalent feature enable it to benefit from your ram. This is often overlooked.

Enable “Above 4G Decoding”. Consult your motherboard manual for details on how to do that.

Additionally if your game offers a choice between directX or Vulkan.

Choose Vulkan, if you experience problems try the DirectX options.

verysoft,

Also upgrade that CPU, you have so many good drop in replacement options with AM4 still.

Kecessa, (edited )

Yep, if you can afford to buy full priced games then just play some of the ton of free stuff (or some of your backlog) for a while and buy a new CPU

Ranvier, (edited )

Yeah I wasn’t ready to swap out my whole motherboard and got a 5800x3d. A little on the pricier side still (~$320), but many games really love that extra large cache. Should hopefully keep me going for quite a while before having to upgrade sockets. There’s cheaper options than that that would still be a good upgrade, a 5700x is about $170. A couple games recently like baldurs gate 3 have been very cpu intensive.

verysoft,

Yuppp it's a monster gaming CPU still, I love what AMD did with the longer-term socket support. I recently got a 7800X3D, it should last a long time, but having the piece of mind that in a few years I could just drop another AM5 CPU in if I needed or wanted to is great.

delitomatoes,

Unfortunately my mobo only supports up to 3000 series, so I’m switching to AM5 next year

azurekevin,
@azurekevin@lemmy.world avatar

Which mobo do you have? Most of them got bios updates to support Ryzen 5000, even old B350s and some A320s.

delitomatoes,

Asrock Fatality B350, not officially listed on the manual and forums say that is technically possible but risky

azurekevin,
@azurekevin@lemmy.world avatar

Weird, the K4’s latest bios supports Vermeer, but perhaps not the X3D CPUs? But if so, even a 5600 would be an acceptable and pretty cheap upgrade over a 2600.

delitomatoes,

All running on SSD, but I aim to run at 1440p and more than 60fps. RE4 looked better than most games and had buttery smooth performance, really important for the ‘speedrun’ type trophies

Underwaterbob, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

Treasure! Dynamite Headdy, Gunstar Heroes. Bangai O. Not to mention the shmups. Damn they made some amazing games with super cool mechanics. Last I checked, they made a few anime tie-in games or something in the 2010s, but nothing since then.

osprior, do games w Whats your favorite Main Menu music?

Lagoon (SNES), Premonition, such a banger.

stoy, do games w Whats your favorite Main Menu music?

Unreal Tournament 2004:

youtu.be/uTFfxtb7q4M

Kraivo,

It wasn’t great. It was just good in sense of it’s time. Some of those music still instantly wakes me up and turns into hunting machine

stoy,

I have the entire soundtrack in my music library, Hyperblast 2 Redeux is awesome.

I also regularly play UT2004 online, DM-Deck17 is my favourite original map, amazing flow, it just goes hard.

Kraivo,

My favourite forever will be Gerudo valley remix from one of the custom games

But i know more song from original soundtrack

LilB0kChoy, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

Apogee Software for Rise of the Triad, Blue Sky Productions for Última Underworld and Bullfrog Productions for Syndicate.

drcouzelis,
@drcouzelis@lemmy.zip avatar

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBm44oWwsk

I can’t see the name Apogee without hearing the fanfare.

I miss Wacky Wheels.

Scary_le_Poo,
@Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org avatar

Wacky wheels is the best kart racer ever. Fite me.

levi,
@levi@feddit.de avatar

I won’t, because you’re right!

LilB0kChoy,

I’m always reminded of finding and playing the midi files from the game music on my 486 as background music.

drislands, do games w Whats your favorite Main Menu music?

Cadence of Hyrule, for sure. So damn good.

youtu.be/SnpaNEj4aCU?si=GrBpxcq1EN96Nv9D

VulcanDeathGrip, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

Red Storm of OG Rainbow 6

Acclaim of N64 era, Turrok in particular

Telorand,

Ah, yeah. Acclaim did some good work from that era

espais,
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Time to login to mplayer to see which games weren’t using the heartbeat sensor 😔

kosanovskiy, do games w 'Great' games I didn't play this year due to requirements

For me it’s because work, school, research, and car/house repair.

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