Time for an old school LAN party.
UT 2004 is my top rated multiplayer FPS of all time. It was just so damn polished. I remember buying the UT GOTY then a year later seeing it for sale.
"How can they just sell it again? I just bought it!"
Then I played it. It was just outstanding. I wasn't even mad.
Did Romero make you his bitch?
If you are going to put Bioshock on here, you really should put on System Shock and System Shock 2.
System Shock was remade in 2023 by Nightdive Studio. It is fantastically faithful to the OG System Shock. Shodan is one of the greatest villains ever written. She is 100% the inspiration for GLADOS.
System Shock 2 is still a great game. It is FPS action horror. I guess it is a little dated now, but it uses modern controls so it is playable. I am sure you can get mods to improve the graphics etc.
Also, X-Wing, TIE Fighter and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter were all outstanding games. They build on the lore from Star Wars and were a blast.
It is actually possible to kill a crippled Star Destroyer in one of the missions of X-Wing if you try hard enough. Normally their shields are immune to fighters, but this one has been sabotaged. See if you can take it out.
Harpoon 2 came out in 1994.
The current, modded version of Harpoon 2 is still the best naval fleet simulator of all time.
It is realistic enough to use for command training, and still lots of fun.
I'll just point out how many of those entire genres vanished once Console 'Tards vomited stupid all over games.
Master of Magic is turn based strategy, as was X-COM: UFO Defense
Eye of the Beholder was turn based RPG
Theme Park was an isometric builder
Warcraft Orcs and Humans was RTS
All gone as soon as the X-Box came out. Console 'Tards can't read and they only understand running and gunning. They only have ten buttons or so on their 'Tard 'Trollers. The attention span of a 'Tard is frighteningly short.
After the X-Box was proved to rake in the big bucks through 'Tard Tax, future development of AAA games was for 'Tard Boxes, then ported to PC.
It even happened to FPS games. Unreal Tournament 3 had 100 ms of lag baked directly into the network stack. It had fewer game modes and simpler, smaller maps. It was the worst of the series. It made the most money, because Console 'Tards got to play it for the first time.
Want the perfect case study? Deus Ex: Invisible War. In this sequel maps were reduced to the size of a phone booth. Maps and missions were made simple enough for 'Tards. Stealth was an ineffective afterthought. It made way more money than the original, ground breaking Deus Ex.
Console 'Tards ended the golden age of gaming. Then they fucked your mom.
Guy, do you know what a suspended sentence is?
A suspended sentence is a sentence in which the period of incarceration is suspended. In effect it is exactly like getting parole on day 0.
So as long as this woman keeps her sentence conditions (shows up to community service plus whatever else) she will not see a single day inside an actual prison.
My dad visited New Guinea in the 1970s. There were still cannibals in the highlands then. Heck, there were costal cannibals, who raided villages in boats.
There are probably still people who consume human flesh in the mountain highlands now, but only as part of funeral rituals or similar.
I really enjoy the Superheros genre and have been playing it since highschool.
GURPS doesn't do Superheros very well, which is fine.
I jumped onboard with Wild Talents first edition and have really enjoyed it.
Godlike, for gritty, alternate history WWII with superpowers, is amazing. The One Roll Engine is really very quick.
It also works well in StarORE (ORE Star Wars) and Reign, which is fantastically scalable from a single character to a kingdom or an army.
It frustrated the heck out of me that people only want to play D&D. The system sucks and until milestones there was a single advancement mechanic. Combat.
GURPS is great. I love it. It is the preverbal kitchen sink RPG ruleset.
GURPS Lite is on of my favorite lightweight rulesets. I like GURPS can do everything between rules light and super-complex just by picking how many of the rules you want to use.
I like EarthDawn for Fantasy / Horror. I enjoy Reign by Greg Stolze. Both of them are vastly superior to D&D.
And all umpires are just on power trips. The sport (any of them) would be better without them, AM I RITE?!
The issue is that D&D is not the sum total of TTRPG.
TTRPGs were one of the first casualties of the culture war. Many publishers and much of the industry fell to woke-tards.
It hasn't made any difference at all at the table level. TTRPG players are fantastically fractious and if the don't like something they just ignore it. Once they have their books they don't need anything else. They can (and frequently do) write entire settings and only use Rules Reference Documents, which are cheap as fuck or free.
I stopped playing D&D in 2003. There are so many better settings and systems. I'll talk about what and why if anyone cares.
Hey! Al-Quadim is still neat!
“An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.”
Well, one thing I am sure of is that Mossad knows exactly how close the Iranians are to finishing the bomb. It is surely a part of the calculus as to when and how hard Israel retaliates.
The day you forget to point out my massive faggotry is the day you won't be allowed to come back
I love you too, bro. In a manly, not gay way. Like a brother. <3
I agree. I don't think the Iranians want a shooting war. That said, the Iranians are striving, day and night, to finish a nuclear weapon specifically so that they can vaporize Tel Aviv. The Iranians are itching for any pretext at all to end Iran as a potential nuclear threat; Up to and including nuking the hardened facilities in which uranium is enriched.
I don't particularly dislike your cock-sucking ways, Tony. The day I can't point out your massive faggotry is the day I leave and don't come back.
lol. Ultramarines.
Look, they operate under "don't ask; don't tell".
They are fucking insane.
If Iran starts a war with Israel, then Israel will take out the Iranian nuclear enrichment program.
Doing that will be very, very hard with anything but A) Cooperation of the Iranians or B) a nuclear strike.
Israel has sworn to never let Iran get a nuclear weapon, and I can't say that they are wrong in that pledge.
As in: "I worked hard so I deserve money!"?
You are correct, Labor must be part of a value-added step.
The idea that Labor was, in and of itself, valuable is just so divorced from reality as to have never occurred to me. The value-added step is valuable, and then only insofar as it adds value. This often requires physical work.
I knew Patel was an Indian name, and there are Muslims in India. It just ... didn't make any sense.
I hope they make an example of, her. But they won't. Sentencing gap and all that.
You have no chance to survive! Make your time!
Sweet Eris. Why on earth would you start a shooting war with a nuclear power? How can that turn out well?
Do you mean "Emotional Labor?"
Because Labor really does have value. People pay for it every day.
Is she Pakistani? She certainly isn't Palestinian.|
WTF is she doing this for?
It is nothing to do with the hardware. It is everything to do with the audience.
Before the console, PCs were an expensive tool used by professionals. Computer games propagated through white collar professionals and their nerd-spawn. There was an entire body of work on PCs only that were only available to hard-core hobbyists.
Text Based Adventure games, then Graphical Adventure Games, Flight Simulators and Space Fighter Simulators, Real Time Strategy Games.
Then consoles arrived. The console is a toy. It has a few buttons. Interactions are limited to a controller. You can't possibly program your own games. Console gamers can only sit down and consume the pre-packaged content.
X-Box players think that Halo was the first ever FPS. They run and gun through every game, skipping the dialog. They can't even type.
Entire genres of games disappear because for decades games are made for consoles and then ported to PCs.
Because console 'tards have no experience playing games, the have simple tastes. They don't get complex stories or game mechanics. They don't understand or care for rich game-play experiences.
For example the last three months of Bioshock development was spent ripping out story and simplifying gameplay so Console 'Tards would like it.
At the time of Fallout 3 the entire fucking world was declaring that stupid, insipid game to be one of the greatest games of all time. It made thousands of top ten lists. All of the 'tarded fan-boys were ranting about how stupid isometric turn based combat was, and how FPS was the way of the future.
I bet you never played a single session of any TTRPG before you played Fallout 3!
Decades later consoles are drying up. The 'Tard Tax for consoles isn't worth the exclusives you get.
The Console 'Tards are finally starting to get educated as to what a great story or good gameplay can bring to the artform.
Now you are whining and complaining about how these idiot children know nothing other than Roblox, Minecraft and Fortnight. About how Zoomers are vomiting stupid all over your beloved Mass Effect and GTA.
Enjoy. You fucking earned it.
If you are going to recommend Choplifter, then you need Loadrunner. A brilliant mix of puzzle and reflexes.