Just started Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon. The Ubisoft Launcher says I last played it in 2016 which is certainly incorrect. Played about 1 and a half hours and the launcher just doesn't seem to detect the game running. Weird, but as long as it doesn't affect gameplay, I don't care much. Lutris tracks my sessions and I can update my exophase profile manually like with my offline and 7th generation consoles.

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon was the only Far Cry game I enjoyed. I usually am not a fan of open world games, but the synthwave vibes and the silly humor were top notch. Glad to see this old gem being mentioned.

Been playing lots of civ 6, getting ready for 7. Probably gonna take some of the older ones for a spin again. 4 and 5 are my favorite but it's been so long since I've played em.

I'm not sure how long this playthrough has taken me, but I finally beat WarCraft II. Maybe it's been a year of picking at it from time to time? The last human mission was a doozy, way harder than the last orc mission. Was an uphill battle almost the whole way, desperately conquering the next orcish base, and gold mine, right as my last was running dry. Quite the maze was set up before the final object I was to destroy, but I just flew in with about 20 Griffon's and wiped the place clean.

All in all, I think I enjoyed it. They definitely played around with severely restraining the amount of gold available to you, and keeping you hungry and pressured to expand to another gold mine. I don't recall this being a factor what so ever in StarCraft, WarCraft III or StarCraft II, which makes sense to me because I really didn't care for it that much. I mean, on an intellectual level I could appreciate it. But it kind of spoils an RTS to me to have enough resources for a single attack to expand, and if you allocated your resources poorly you might as well restart the level. Probably why they shied away from that in future RTSes.

I also found myself save scumming a lot, which is not typically I thing I ever do in RTS. But with resources so constrained, and having effectively one shot at certain assaults, doesn't hurt to save before you give the order, and reload if it goes squirrelly.

I give it a solid "meh". I didn't hate it, I didn't particularly love it, but it feels good to have revisited a game from my childhood that I was only ever able to beat with cheat codes, and conquer it legit.

I'm playing Divinity Original Sin 2, split screen coop with my daughter, and I gotta say I don't like this game very much. Getting the coop to work is painful , and then there's the terrible journal, annoying map, messy UI. The gameplay itself is OK I guess, once we finally battle through the red tape and get to play it, but yeah I remember why I stopped playing when I tried it solo a few years ago.

I would have loved to play Pillars of Eternity 1 or 2 with her instead but no coop there sadly. Oh well - she seems to be enjoying it, which is the main thing. The writing is pretty great I must say.

I'm playing life. I have 50 girlfriends and a mansion. What's doom? I only play Duke 3d. That's right I'm Duke Nukem.

Yo sorry for the post about the cute baron

Seriously tho I'm playing Doom 2016

Returned to Elden Ring and am working towards finishing my first play through.

But man, this game is depressing. Every single NPC quest line ends in tragedy.

Control
This is getting better. There's a whole lot going on in the UI that I'm just figuring out 14 hours into the game. Maybe I'm just dense but I feel like the game could do a much better job filling you in on stuff. I'm talking about weapons, weapon mods and personal mods. It's a fairly complex system, and not much tutorial. You're left to figure it out on your own. The story and quests are pretty fun, but once again, several things are not explained very well, leaving you to stumble upon solutions accidentally or look them up. Then there's these timed quests that I didn't even realize until one of them timed out and I'm like, What?! I did some research online and apparently these repeat periodically, so it's not the end of the world if you miss one. One thing I really like are all the documents you pick up. They really add to the story and make it more meaningful. The game reminds me of The X-Files and Fringe TV series and The Matrix films. As for reminders of other games, F.E.A.R., and Half-Life series come to mind.

Yesterday my 5 y/o twins wanted to play something so I let them play Commander Keen's goodbye Galaxy. They like it!

I started playing Strife, which I always had fond memories of but never went back to. A buddy of mine down the street had it, and I watched him play it, and I think played it some myself. At the time I was really impressed with what they did with Doom. Like the interconnected hub world and all the voice acting and the full screen portraits, which was a lot of multimedia on a 486 to me.

Playing it now, finally, I'm super into it, but I think I picked too hard a difficulty. I actually don't remember what I picked, but it's whooping my ass. I'm not very far yet, so I might just restart on the second difficulty instead of the third which I think is what I selected. Normally I can handle your average Doom engine game shy of Nightmare difficulty, but something about this one I'm just struggling with. Maybe it's because even the basic grunt are hitscan and pack a good punch to boot. Like the normal enemy is a Doom 2 Chaingunner instead of a Grunt. Or age is finally setting in and I'm losing 30 years of FPS reflex.

clueless1 wrote on 2024-09-02, 20:22:

As for reminders of other games, F.E.A.R., and Half-Life series come to mind.

The atmosphere reminded a lot of F.E.A.R. as well. A lot of the ambient music, too. That was one thing Control did really well.

Finished the base game of Elden Ring.

My first playthrough clocked in at about 220 hours, which seems excessive although I did try to explore every nook and cranny of the game.

Was on the fence about getting the DLC, but decided to pick up, so that will probably be the next thing I play.

I just played some Rise of the Triad on my P1 . Tough game

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-09-02, 14:30:

But man, this game is depressing. Every single NPC quest line ends in tragedy.

Heh, isn't that game's plot written by George R.R. Martin? Shouldn't be much of a surprise then.

I've returned to casually play the DOS version of Golden Axe for some reason.
It had always bothered me a bit that the level skip cheat in the Duel mode only works up to battle #8 (there are 15 battles), so I spent some time in the debugger and removed that limit.

Law212 wrote on 2024-09-04, 19:30:

I just played some Rise of the Triad on my P1 . Tough game

Yeah, I've completed it on my P1 MMX build as well, some time ago.

Playing it with the OST on my Roland SC-55 was really a great experience 😄

Fallout 76, still. They just released a huge update and started a new season, so my wife and I will be playing that a lot for the next month or so to unlock all the new content.

Today, I was doing a bit of vendor hopping looking for some deals, came across a guy with a great name. 😜

I'm at over 3500 hours in this darn game, and in all that time, I think this was the first time I've come across someone with such a blatantly obvious "retro" name. So perhaps they're an "oldie" like me, or just someone into retro computing, either way, it was cool to run across.

Demetrio wrote on 2024-09-05, 17:16:

Law212 wrote on 2024-09-04, 19:30:

I just played some Rise of the Triad on my P1 . Tough game

Yeah, I've completed it on my P1 MMX build as well, some time ago.

Playing it with the OST on my Roland SC-55 was really a great experience 😄

I wish I had an SC-55.
Did you play it in DOS or windows? In windows I cant set the music it keeps kicking me out

Law212 wrote on 2024-09-06, 01:52:

Demetrio wrote on 2024-09-05, 17:16:

Law212 wrote on 2024-09-04, 19:30:

I just played some Rise of the Triad on my P1 . Tough game

Yeah, I've completed it on my P1 MMX build as well, some time ago.

Playing it with the OST on my Roland SC-55 was really a great experience 😄

I wish I had an SC-55.
Did you play it in DOS or windows? In windows I cant set the music it keeps kicking me out

Windows95.

Didn't have any problem setting the sound and music