CodexArcanum

CodexArcanum, 10 dni temu

I’ve been following an indie dev working on a Mario-3-ish-clone and nothing excites me more than that it seems like they brought Kuribos boot back. Why is that stupid fucking boot power up from one level in SMB3 still so beloved? I don’t know, but I feel it.

CodexArcanum, miesiąc temu

Well friend, if you don’t know about these channels, I think you’ll find them up your alley!

Joseph Anderson - looong form analysis youtube.com/

Noah Caldwell-Gervais - even longer form! youtube.com/

Civvie-11 - funny boomer shooter man youtube.com/

Grim Beard - shout-outs to the goth gamer nation youtube.com/

If you like long-plays or commented play, I really enjoy Klatremus playing Thief in the “Supreme ghost” style youtube.com/

CodexArcanum, 2 miesiące temu

When i was browsing the Gemini web one time, I ran across someone who had uploaded the whole archive to Gopher! I love the idea of real cyber punks keeping these precious old text files alive in the backwater sub-webs.

CodexArcanum, 4 miesiące temu

C A N N I B A L

S T A R

M E T A L P L A N E T

S C A R S

sick as frick guitar solo

CodexArcanum, 4 miesiące temu

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Our young minds could barely handle those dozens of terrifying polygons!

CodexArcanum, 4 miesiące temu

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CodexArcanum, 5 miesięcy temu

There’s some nostalgia goggles for sure.

I mean, the demo for Rollercoaster Tycoon (Mr. “Hand coded in assembly” there) bricked our Windows 98 machine when i installed it as a kid. My dad was pissed: we had to reformat the harddrive, reinstall windows, all that.

CodexArcanum, 5 miesięcy temu (edited 5 miesięcy temu)

One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was digging through the “1000s of Games” disc I had that was full of demos, shovelware, Doom mods, and tons of other garbage. Occasionally you’d find a diamond hidden in the turds.

There’s even a Youtuber who does “Shovelware Diggers” as a show and it’s just that! Him and his community riffle around in old shareware collections looking for treasures, which he showcases. (Edit to add: Looked it up and he ended the show after 300 episodes! He still does other retro gaming stuff too. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCIZNtotF3Xh0dfQjJx8Xc… )

But yeah, most of the content on those discs would have qualified more as viruses than games, if they even ran in the first place!

CodexArcanum, 5 miesięcy temu

I remember being irritated about this in Falllout 3, but even more so that every person pre-war from the poorest child to the most exalted CEOs hoarded bottle caps and stuffed them into every ready container. Almost like they knew I’d need the cash decades later.

CodexArcanum, 5 miesięcy temu

Honestly, I wrote 200 years initially then couldn’t remember if they were actually that dumb, second guessed myself, and hedged on “decades.”

But yes, realizing that many places in America would have been uninhabited wilderness 200 years before today, the idea that major metro areas would still be untouched ruins 200 years after the war is just ludicrous.

I just put all this stuff in the same “ignore it for the gameplay” box as torches still being lit in ancient tombs and backwoods merchants accepting 1000 year old gold coins as currency for buying beef jerky or magic shields or whatever.

CodexArcanum, 6 miesięcy temu

Damn, I really need to stop letting how good Legend of Mana was convince me to give Squenix more chances on this series. But… this trailer does look very fun, kind if mix of the Tales series combat with Mana themes!

CodexArcanum, 7 miesięcy temu

I finally got around to beating Doom Eternal’s DLC, which I often found more of a grind than entertaining (some of the Ancient Gods fights just go on and on, and I hated the final boss.)

Then I started on Turbo Overkill, which does have a lot of Doom’s DNA but the pacing is a lot more fun so far! Been trying to get back into Hitman (3+2+1) as well.

But mostly I spend a shocking (to me) amount of my quick gaming time on Xenotilt: Hostile Pinball Action. I did not expect to get so completely absorbed into virtual pinball (been meaning to post about it on the pinball communities) but little by little I’ve been getting better at it. My current high score is only 1.2 billion, which feels good to get into the billions club but the ceiling is still so much higher!

CodexArcanum, 8 miesięcy temu

I played this one twice in a row when it came out, first on PS4 and then PC. Game of the decade for sure, and one of my all time favorites! It’s just so good!

Honestly, I got annoyed by the combat about 3/4s in, but the game has excellent “cheats” or aids, however you want to call them, for adjusting the gameplay. Tuning the damage multipliers made the end of the game a lot less grindy and frustrating. I wish every game had such excellent fine tuning of difficulty.

CodexArcanum, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Listen peasants, if you don’t like the freeholder fees we charge, then surely Lord Microsoft will shelter you on his lands as a serf, and pay your fees on your behalf.