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dukemirage, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results. And which game was it?

Lembot_0006,

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results.

I am a programmer myself and have an overall understanding of what can happen unintentionally. I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

And which game was it?

“Fear the spotlight.”

anon5621,
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Other idea increase ur health using not game console but with using cheat engine ,find pointer to ur health

Lembot_0006,

The game has red-yellow-green health scale, not 0-100%. It would have taken too much effort to experiment while looking for the correct value.

anon5621,
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Value if u know how much damage to boss with exact value it can be filtered much faster ,or u can find own health and freeze it

dukemirage,

As a programmer you should know that wonky single-purpose software like a game engine may react chaotically to state changes. I wishlisted the game though.

Kelly,

I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

They could be using player character state as a proxy for player skill.

A player who successfully navigated earlier changes with such competence that they have an excess of health items might appreciate a more challenging final boss.

You may have inadvertently put it into hard mode!

en.wikipedia.org/…/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balanc…

Tattorack, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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This is me with SHMUPS. Oh, sure, I can find databases of the ones that were popular, but in the early to late 2000s there were so many PC SHMUPS with mouse controls that came on demo CDs or you could get from the front page of any demo shareware website…

Now all forgotten.

Some of them I used to play a lot and want to play again, but can’t for the life of me find back.

SlurpingPus,

You could try r/tipofmyjoystick on Reddit, describing the game as much as you can remember. 2000s wasn’t even really the peak of the genre popularity.

krooklochurm, do gaming w Playing Final Fantasy XI in 2025 (or 2026)?

What?

There’s chat in ffxiv

MagisterSieran,

But the post is about XI.

krooklochurm,

Oh - I may have misunderstood what you were saying then.

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

If I remember the name I’ll tell you.

From the ones I do remember: Airfix Dogfighter was cool.

DylanMc6, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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ants.

SethTaylor, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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There was this game I swear was called Solaris but was not able to find. The whole thing is a model of a star system with a couple dozens of oddly-named planets and you need to “shoot units” at the planets you want to conquer. You basically have to estimate how many units you need to take it over or something.

I’ll probably never be able to find it cause I can’t even describe it so well haha

Daefsdeda,

Do you perhaps mean solarmax (1/2)?

burntbacon,

That’s what sprang to mind for me as well. There’s another version somewhere with viruses/bacteria where you’re in a petri dish and can find/modify your dna for better traits in certain multiplying/attack/defending strengths.

prole,

Probably not Stellaris right?

KittyCat,

Almost sounds like eufloria

Ashiette,

apocalypsis.org ?

mech, (edited ) do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I remember a top down game from the late '80s or very early '90s where you drive a car along a highway and try to defend yourself against other cars using different weapons and tire-slashing spikes mounted to your wheels.
You’d start inside a semi-truck, drive out of it backwards, and at the end of the level, the truck would re-appear and you have to drive into it again.

SlurpingPus,

‘Spy Hunter’? It was on a whole bunch of platforms.

mech,

YES, that’s it!

SlurpingPus, (edited )

Yeah this one was easy. I even forgot about the trucks (probably because they weren’t there in ‘Super Spy Hunter’, which started as a clone before having been released as a sequel).

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7ab4716a-5728-4283-be3d-8f9ce1ea35a3.gif

SlurpingPus,

Btw, there were sequels ‘SpyHunter’ in 2001 and then ‘SpyHunter 2’, for PS2/Gamecube/Xbox and desktops — though not with the top-down view.

And there’s the 2012 ‘Spy Hunter’ for PS Vita and 3DS. Apparently also with the view from behind, and this time with poor reviews.

coaxil,

Major motion?

youtu.be/bASGBe6jhes

One of my favs growing up

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

It took me FOREVER to find, but I was determined to find my old games. I assumed they were Sega Master System games, so I started watching videos like “best master system games” and such.

Then when I finally came across them, the memories all came rushing back like it was the 80s again! It’s so frustrating but when you finally find it, it’s such a good feeling.

RememberTheApollo_, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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I can’t remember if it was C-64 or DOS, but there was a sidescroll game where your character was on a quest in a forest where there were tree houses. They were called the “Grund” or something. Can’t find it anywhere.

Edit: I may have found it: “Below The Root” Gotta see if I can find it abandonware somewhere and try it again.

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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Appoxo, (edited ) do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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For me it is a ski racing game that looks like about 2005 or 2009 type of game and has a sort of athletic/olympic winter games type of vibe.

Jela,
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Was it SSX?

Appoxo,
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Doesnt look like it.
Additionally it was also a PC game on Windows XP.

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

Yep, I have one of those. A side-scrolling scifi shooter for C64 from probably late 80s that I just remember a general vibe about. Not Nemesis, something where you fly above a sort of city. I have tried to remember its name for more than a decade probably.

One would think that there weren’t that many of them but oh boy.

RememberTheApollo_,
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Dominion?

vga,

I haven’t heard of that one, but no, wasn’t that.

Also tried figuring this out with an AI but nope. I’m pretty sure I’m not hallucinating this game.

gorkur,

Can’t really tell from that description but have you tried to look for it on Lemon? 🙂

www.lemon64.com/games/list.php?list_year=1985&lis…

vga,

I have.

In fact, once I browsed through all the games in there and didn’t find what I was looking for. It’s so far ago and I was so young that I probably have a very distorted and overly positive view of what the game looked like.

N01R3, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I know it’s name: End of the World, part 2. Was a Wolf RPG Editor game someone made and released for free.

Cant seem to find it anywhere.

umbrella, (edited ) do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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top down spacecraft kind of thing. two of them, but there are so many of these its pretty much impossible.

radiantshackles, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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Brave Fencer Musashi for me. Played that game so many times through what I remember as the first boss, then didn’t figure out how to progress when the world opened up

Soggy,

It’s so good! BFM is a top 5 PS1 game for me, easily.

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