VOGONS

Search

Common searches

Search results

Display options

Display options

Re: Any notable unofficial DOS conversions of games?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 21:42

Google sent me a notification today that this file "contains content that may violate Google Drive's Malware and Similar Malicious Content policy". Apparently it did not like some of the links I listed. It does not tell me to remove the file, so I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do with this. …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-19, 08:08

Some of the changes in this release are nice, while others kinda feel like downgrades. I personally think most of the replacement shaders are downgrades in BFG edition. But, I'm probably biased to how gritty things looked in standard Doom 3. The character models in particular seem quite messed up …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-15, 15:40

The expansion introduces some cool new toys, such as the Gravity Gun Grabber. It does feel very satisfying to throw fireballs back at those annoying imps, and their new albino cousins. I've always felt there was a insane amount of emphasis placed on the "Grabber" in particular because of how …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 19:10

On that note, I don't like how the game kind of discourages exploring. For example, you find a semi-hidden place containing armor shards and some health packs. After picking those up, a bunch of enemies spawn out of thin air and attack you from all sides, thereby negating any benefits that you may …

Re: NUCs (and other really small PCs)

Posted on 2023-05-07, 00:47

I have been using a Intel NUC6i7kyk for several years now. The refurbisher I bought it from was selling it for a lot less than most did, and it hasn't failed me yet. Runs both old games and modern games just fine under Linux, and the Intel Iris Pro 580 it uses for graphics is the most impressive …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-04, 18:47

Coming off of Unreal and Half-Life, the controls in Renegade feel really weird. Not sure how to explain it, but there's a lack of "smoothness" in your movement compared to the aforementioned games. It's basically the same kind of "infinite friction" player movement you see in Bethesda's games. As …

Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2023-04-28, 23:13

I just beat the old 1997 Finnish DOS game Aleshar: World of Ice. It's one of the hardest, yet most satisfying RPGs I've ever played. Totally unique. Yet could have been so much better and more varied. I'm sorry the company didn't market the game -- or their creative talent skills better. That game …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-04-28, 18:57

BTW, I experienced a weird bug with OpenAL in OldUnreal which prevented certain sounds from working. After a bit of googling, it turns out this is an issue caused by the latest drivers for the X-Fi Titanium PCIe card that I'm using. Downgrading to an older driver version from 2010 solved the …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-04-27, 12:16

That said, I will probably play that on my WinXP machine with the OldUnreal patch installed. I think this game has enough texture detail to justify running it at 1600x1200 using the DX9 renderer. I'm in the strange circumstance of actually being able to run retail Unreal on version 225f with the …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-04-27, 10:00

I'm about half way through Unreal Gold If you were planning on playing Return to Na Pali, Unreal Gold's version of it has some really dumb issues that the standalone retail copy of doesn't have. I've had to manually change to the next part of the UMS Prometheus crashsite because for whatever reason …

Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-04-21, 03:38

A Rendition port would be more realistic given how they worked ;) I'm very curious how Rendition Verite cards work now, from what you just said. I've never owned a single one of these, since my late father bought into 3dfx early on first, so the other accelerators at the time we've completely …

Re: Denuvo has published a book on the dangers of emulators

Posted on 2023-03-31, 07:01

Threatens the revenue of new games. Oh dear. What a line to start with. The best part about that rhetoric, if anyone is really that concerned about loss of revenue with "new games", then maybe they should stop producing bad games in the first place. It's practically the same situation as the "Video …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-03-28, 11:52

Really though people should push back and force valve to to provide people a way to play the games they purchased (remove the cef shit that no one needs) instead of breaking them due to their perpetual laziness but they won't due to the same laziness. The whole CEF thing seriously did not need to …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-03-28, 07:04

On the other hand, GOG has DRM-free offline installers which you can download and then freely use on anything from Windows 2000 and up. I don't even use those installers as-is, I extract them and "manually install". That is one of the big things I like about GOG still is even after them pushing " …

Page 1 of 85

Go to top of page Go to top of page
Close window
Close window