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20 years ago my computer was so shit I had to turn down the quality to play flash games on Newgrounds, I'm enjoying being able to fully experience all the PC games I missed out on.
Lowering the resolution for doom, to the point you need to squint to see the tiny box.
Tell me a damn modern game that is worth it? I’ve played a few new releases that don’t need a 5k+ computer. The games that need it are an unoptimized digital catalog of virtual currencies with some gameplay sprinkled in.
Nevermind just how many good classics are getting remastered for modern systems. I've been enjoying Tactics Ogre lately, with Final Fantasy Tactics to follow it.
The remasters always end up bastardizing something though. I've heard parts of the script for Tactics got butchered on the altar of the modern audience. Then again I still think it's heresy that releases other than the SNES version of Chrono Trigger changed tonics to potions, so my standards are a lot more stringent than most.
Granted I'm only on chapter 3 but so far most of what I've seen change has been undoing things the PSP version changed in the first place.
The FFT remaster toned down the purple prose from the PSP version? I know some oldfags love the janky translation of the PSX version, but it gets hard to read at times.
Yeah the translation and especially the voices are well done. It's been nothing but an improvement in my eyes and I say that as having hundreds of hours with the original.
I'd like one that had the janky translations, but with the clear mistranslations corrected.
Like, dragons aren't using elemental jewelery, "Bracelet" clearly was supposed to be "Breath" (dragons in old FFT used Fire Bracelet, Ice Bracelet, and Thunder Bracelet).
But at the same time, I prefer the old janky "Don't blame me, blame yourself, or god." to " 'tis thine faith that wrongs ye, not mineself".
Random, uninteresting add on here, but I learned the word heresy when I was a little kid from playing Tactics. So I think of that game every time I see or hear that word. Weird coincidence here.
You don't play games, paid shill. Stop pretending.
Why are you even here? This is a gaming and gaming-related politics forum. What's the last video game you've even played? Do you even have anything to say about video games at all?
The last thing I played? That would be Automobilista 2. I got into sim racing on PC after Xbox killed off Forza Motorsport unceremoniously.
If this is a video game forum, then we should doubly hate the Christcucks for trying to force ID to play GTA Online.
The three newest games I played:
Expedition 33: worth it
Doom, the Dark Ages: not worth it
Doom Eternal: worth it
The last decade has been pretty bad...
I would pay $120 for a game that isn't made of ass and faggotry.
I still play 2000s RTS games and they're way more entertaining than modern wokeslop
I’m still playing modded skyrim but I would happily play PS1 and PS2 games. Also looking into some sierrra games like Leisure Suit Larry.
I'm not a graphics whore but I have a hard time playing PS1 games nowadays. Everything is just too blocky for me, and the controls are weird.
It's the controls that get me. I just cannot take old control schemes especially for 3D. One game the aiming is inverted, the next it's not, the other you use the shoulder buttons for it.
If it's good enough and I only emulate the old stuff now anyway, I'd adjust. I just haven't found that many of them to be that good.
lol, I memba the first time I fired up Tekken 1 in my brand new Sony PlayStation and I thought, “Holy fuck, we’re living in the future!”
Played it on an emulator last month and the characters literally have square heads and cubed tits 😆
Still love it over modern day slop though.
I get that. I feel I could adjust.
You say Sierra and memories of King's Quest come flooding back.
Goddamn, I may have to watch a letsplay of that again lol
Those were so much fun. I never played part 6.
Dang, I didn't know there were so many, I think I only played III and IV. Looks like I have my next binge scoped out.
The LSL games are great up through 7. 1, 2, 3, with a walkthrough handy, 5 is during the weird super-VGA/mouse interface switch happened and it's very easy, 6 is probably the best of the series, and 7 is decent. Don't even bother thinking about the rest--the college one, the hollywood one, or the dull recent entries.
Similar trajectory for most other Sierra franchises. The ega ones are nice but inscrutable and very die to die and almost as easy to enter a fail state but not find out about it until hours later, so walkthrough. The VGA ones and mouse interface ones tend to be softer and more forgiving, and the last entries were as the company and genre was failing.
King's Quest 1, 2, 3, 4 (ega era) 5 good but fairly easy (with a few soft-locks), 6 great, 7 pretty unimpressive, after that don't bother. Fans made some quite good re-makes of KQ1, 2, and 3 as well.
Space Quest 1, 2 (ega era) 3 (best one, but still ega) 4 for my money is when the wheels start to fall off, but the humor is still pretty good, 5 I recall being better than 4, and 6 is a mess.
Police Quest 1 good, 2 (ega era) great, 3 is where the decline sets in, but still good, 4 is just insanity.
Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory: Everything great except for 5. 1 wonderful, 2 even better, 3 quite good but vga and mouse, 4 wonderful but hugely buggy, 5 trash.
Those are the major ones, but then there's the others but similar:
Gold Rush, ega, good. Black Cauldron, ega, not very good Codename ICEMAN: ega, good, punctuated by bouts of awful Colonel's Bequest/Dagger of Amon Ra : both great Conquests of Camelot/Conquests of the Longbow: both great EcoQuest: not very good Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist: decent, basically another Leisure Suit Larry Gabriel Knight: 1 good, 2 great, 3 okay but a departure, basically a different game
Then there's the oddballs that don't fit among those already listed:
Manhunter: New York and Manhunter: San Francisco: WEIRD, but kind of good. Not exactly point-n-click adventures, with arcade sequences. A lot of bizarre imagery and inscrutable puzzles. Rise of the Dragon, Heart of China, Willy Beamish: Timed events, bizarre puzzles, occasionally arcade. Not my cup of tea, but some people loved em. Phantasmagoria/Shivers: FMV puzzle games, akin to The 7th Guest. Betrayal at Krondor: Actually kind of great, but long, Betrayal at Antara: crap.
I think that covers most of what you'd be looking at, in Sierra adventure. I left out stuff like Gobliiins and INCA and the very early cga/apple adventure stuff and the garbage sports shovelware and decent but very decent games like Red Baron.
Overall, I'd play KQ1-6, SQ1-5, LSL1-6, QfG1-4, Police Quest1-4, Gold Rush, Colonel's Bequest, Dagger of Amon Ra, both Conquests, Gabriel Knights 1-2, and if you have time and life left over or itch for an RPG between adventure games, Betrayal at Krondor.
Then there's the old LucasArts catalogue...
PS1 through PS3 is the greatest!
Playing through Disciples 2 rn and all the expansions, then I'll try that Polish mod that restores everything that was supposed to be in game
Great game, way better than it's sequels and turn based strategies that came out during the last decade
Another run of Shadows of Amn on my recently built gaming rig in 2026 you say?
The speed limit might be 45mph but that doesn't mean I don't want a car that can go 250+.
Part of the issue with PC is software developers purposely dumping sludge into the engine.
Extra bonus, my PC doesn't need upgrades. It was a budget focused PC set up in a case that's not much bigger than a PS5 to put on a TV. That was in 2022. Only thing I've done since then is add some storage. I haven't even considered an upgrade in a couple years, and I really don't foresee needing one for a while.
I recently wanted to play flight sim 2000 but couldn’t get it to run on windows 10 or 11. I still install disks for windows 98 and windows xp, but I couldn’t get them to install on modern hardware. Couldn’t get them running in a VM either.
I’m sure it’s a skill issue but I couldn’t tell you specifically what the problem is, other then planned obsolescence caused by things like “trusted platform modules”
I know GoG uses an old-windows emulator for their old games that just can't run on modern tech due to language changes, so there must be some kind of "emulator" out there that isn't tied directly into GoG's game-specific startup triggers.
Gmod squad, sound off!
Sometimes you need that extra power to offset emulation woes.