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bjoern_tantau, 21 godzin temu

It’s not impossible at all. People have done this literally for decades. Classic WoW only exists because people hosted their own seevers and Blizzard wanted in on the money. Star Wars Galaxies the same. I think Everquest 1 as well. And probably others as well.

bjoern_tantau, 10 godzin temu

Because they can be sued for that. Have been sued for that. And while it is possible to reverse engineer this stuff it is incredibly hard to do. So games with smaller fanbases might lack the manpower to achieve it. Or the game was made in such a way as to make reverse engineering impossible.

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Divinity Original Sin 2 apparently has them. Don’t know how much you can do with them hut there’s a stream out there with Matt Mercer using it to DM. But I haven’t watched it yet because I want to play the game myself first.

bjoern_tantau, 5 dni temu

But honestly, going from software rendering to 3D acceleration with a 3dfx Voodoo 2 accelerator with a whopping 8 MB RAM made me appreciate FPS. I spent several minutes just switching weapons in Jedi Knight and marveling at how quickly that suddenly went.

bjoern_tantau, 4 dni temu

Funny thing is that the game is actually worse 3D accelerated because the trilinear filtering made textures blurry and thus removed special colors that made specific colors glow in the dark.

bjoern_tantau, 4 dni temu

I was genuinely upset that my parents didn’t get me the 12 MB version which locked me at 800x600. But I didn’t really get the distinction between system RAM and graphics RAM so I couldn’t formulate my frustration.

bjoern_tantau, 12 dni temu

You could play multiplayer Tetris that way. I think I saw it once in my life.

bjoern_tantau, 21 dni temu

I’d say the biggest news with that is that patch 7 won’t be the last update.

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

Not necessarily bad games GmanLives also does retro games.

LGR does retro games and hardware. His detective Barbie video is great! youtu.be/xiZvk0WRBxs Clint!

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

Doom got ported to the Switch, right? That’s great!

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

Well, they’re all good.

The older ones defined the genre. They’re still fun to play albeit a little dated. No idea how good the Switch ports are.

Doom 3 is slower and more focused on horror than the others. It’s a good horror fps but not a good Doom game.

Doom 2016 is the first of the modern Doom games. Fast, brutal, super fun through and through. If in doubt start with that one.

Doom Eternal is the second of the modern Doom games. It’s even faster than 2016. But it has more focus on using every mechanic at your disposal. Learning those mechanics is a little bit tedious at first. But once everything is available it’s an adrenaline pumping high speed 4D chess. When you’ve mastered everything every fight lets you enter a trance of violence that’s absolute bliss.

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

The problem on PC is that many games don’t offer an aim assist like on console.

For more precision you should use the trackpad and gyro for aiming. It’s still not as good as a mouse but much closer.

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

I really want to like them. They are everything I want in a game. Open levels you are free to approach however you like, a possible stealth approach, nice attention to detail and one of the later games even had native Linux support. But I never could get hooked to the story like other people seem to be.

I came to the conclusion (based on other games and media as well) that I just don’t like cyberpunk dystopias. Maybe because we’re in one, Miss Turner.

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

Luckily I can replay Thief every few years.

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

No matter what I play I always get pulled back to Diablo 2. Not even for the grind in the endgame. Just playing the normal game from Normal to Hell.

With newer games I always find myself overwhelmed with a screen full of indistinguishable enemies in later levels until I lose interest.

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

Visually maybe but not gameplay wise. They are very much Metroidvanias (that genre isn’t called that by chance) where you collect gear to open up the maps more and more and shoot aliens on the way.

I really loved Prime 3 on the Wii. One of the few shooters that played well on there. I got the trilogy when that was ported but got stuck somewhere in the first game. Was too proud to look up a walkthrough.

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

The company that introduced horse armor is charging horrendous prices for small DLC?

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bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

Maybe you’re looking for stopkillinggames.com

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

Yeah, the gameplay looks awesome. But the story seems dumb. But then again Doom did come from a dungeons and dragons campaign.

In the end the gameplay has always been the more important part of the Doom games.

bjoern_tantau, miesiąc temu

Doom 3 is good if you don’t regard it as a Doom game. It’s also an absolute blast in VR thanks to the slower running speed.

bjoern_tantau, 2 miesiące temu

I mean, are people playing and somewhat satisfied? If yes, who gives a fuck about any arbitrary release date?

bjoern_tantau, 2 miesiące temu

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bjoern_tantau, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah, the Spider-Man games are a good comparison. A ton of different moves you can do but most of them are pretty easy and intuitive to pull of. I’m patiently waiting for Spider-Man 2 to arrive on PC.

I think I’ll invest a few more hours into Arkham Knight and if I can’t get into it I’ll try Origins. And if that one doesn’t do it for me either I’ll just play Asylum again.

Thanks all for your input!

bjoern_tantau, 3 miesiące temu

Spectator. Beholders are even more dangerous.

bjoern_tantau, 3 miesiące temu

Has it ever been better?

What happened was that they made a fuckton of money that way.

Ports of older PC games are also often quite good.

bjoern_tantau, 3 miesiące temu

I guess the news is that someone is finally setting up a campaign with an actionable plan to punish some of the shitty unethical practices. And every bit of news in that regard is more fuel for the fire to keep it from sizzling out.

bjoern_tantau, 3 miesiące temu

That’s basically the plan of stopkillinggames.com. It lays out how to contact your country’s consumer protection service.

bjoern_tantau, 3 miesiące temu

Depends. How many As does it have?

Judging by the quality of the trailer about one or two.

bjoern_tantau, 3 miesiące temu

When I was a kid I was on holiday with my parents in Spain. Since Mortal Kombat was verboten in Germany I went to every shop that might have SNES games to find it. I think I was finally able to find Mortal Kombat 3 in Andorra. And it was glorious!

Nowadays I just emulate on my PC or Steam Deck.

bjoern_tantau, 4 miesiące temu

The old Might & Magic games are very nice. Especially 4 and 5 that you can combine into an even bigger game with additional quests and an ultimate ending are awesome. And it should even run on your phone through ScummVM.

bjoern_tantau, 3 miesiące temu

No, just Might and Magic. Same universe but different genre. They were RPGs while the Heroes series was strategy.

bjoern_tantau, 3 miesiące temu

Did someone say Diarrhea 4?

bjoern_tantau, 4 miesiące temu

I love the term. For me it’s not just a shooter in an older style but also a shooter that goes BOOM. Much better than boring cover shooters.

bjoern_tantau, 4 miesiące temu

Na, because the newer shooters still go boom. But boomer shooters are just boomer. And everybody’s waiting for the coming of the boomest shooter.

bjoern_tantau, 4 miesiące temu

That’s the neat part, we don’t. Can’t have the messiah coming for real. Otherwise you get splinter religions.

Now I feel like playing Messiah.

bjoern_tantau, 5 miesięcy temu

Probably cheaper to get one scary settlement and then use that to bully everyone else.

bjoern_tantau, 6 miesięcy temu

Not long and a remaster will be pre-order DLC.

bjoern_tantau, 7 miesięcy temu

Aunty Ethel’s lair is a non-rest area in act 1. And I think there’s also one in the Githyanki crèche. And short rests are allowed. And by that time I usually have a few of those potions that are essentially a long rest. Or a short rest with benefits. And there’s a restoration pod in the mindflayer colony.

bjoern_tantau, 7 miesięcy temu

Do they also have a PC to play them with?

bjoern_tantau, 7 miesięcy temu

You can claim it quickly with www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

bjoern_tantau, 7 miesięcy temu

Still on Baldur’s Gate 3. Just started my fifth or so character. An Abserd (someone multiclassing into every class) character who fools around in Honour Mode. Works surprisingly well so far and I still manage to find stuff I have never seen before.

bjoern_tantau, 7 miesięcy temu

Honestly, with a good director I see this work better than as a game.

bjoern_tantau, 7 miesięcy temu

That’s why I could never get into these games, even at the start as a WC3 map. So little time to actually assess what your choices are. You either need a dozen sessions to actually read everything or just someone to tell you what the good characters and items are.

bjoern_tantau, 7 miesięcy temu

Oh, really? In that case let me pre-order it right away. Of course they will deliver on an empty promise!

bjoern_tantau, 8 miesięcy temu

Which reminds me, what did we get for the 25th anniversary of Unreal, another super important game from 1998 whose engine nowadays even powers movie production?

Right, Epic pulled it from all stores…