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I just found the (mostly) OG 2005 rerelease with all the DLC on steam for $10. It’s called “Painkiller: Black Edition.”


It was the very first game that Yahzee gave a good review of. He caused a 900% uptick in sales of a several years old game, at that point.

https://youtu.be/qk7DlYcQ0uM

Well worth torrenting and playing with if you remember Quake 3 or Doom 2


Is this a sequel to the 2004 Painkiller by People Can Fly?

https://youtu.be/qk7DlYcQ0uM

Edit: looking at the steam page it certainly seems related, but I don’t know if any of the original devs are involved.



Same for chex quest. Free video game that was better than it had any right being.



It was released for both then. I have a physical PS2 copy. Not really surprised. They did that with a ton of titles when hopping from one generation of console to the next.


Smugglers Run 2

Castlevania Symphony of the Night

Gladius

Burnout Revenge

Gran Turismo 3&4

Final Fantasy X/ X-II

Just Cause 2

Drakkengarde

I’m sure I’m forgetting some really good ones.


Age of Empires, Definitive Edition is honestly amazing to look at. Cities Skylines with mods and all DLC. Fallout NV with mods can get insanely good looking. Just cause 2 and Just Cause 3 are both beautiful at ultra settings. Star Wars The Old Republic gets fairly pretty for an MMO. Obligatory EvE Online, just don’t try to play the game. Took me 16 years to win EvE.



I’m pretty sure the mass shootings are just emulation of the mass violence the ultrarich inflict on everyone on a daily basis.

I hope the shooter’s name is Mario Brother






You suck at parking is a neat game. Well worth the $4 they are asking for it right now. It’s not a typical racing game, more like a souped up hot wheels track, with a “how accurately and fast can you park in the correct spot,” element.


Rollercoaster Tycoon and RCT2 should work well on most machines. They are smallish games and written in assembly.


Sounds like an excellent reason to never buy a non indie game again.


Not so much the collecting. I like learning how to drive them, and driving them. I blew up my steam engines the first several times I touched the controls



Depending on how long ago it was, we’ve had a couple of updates recently. You can now paint all your engines, and there’s a ton of gadgets


Pick up Derail Valley Simulator. It’s not as pretty, or expensive, but good Lord is it satisfying to learn how to NOT blow up a steam engine.


Derail Valley Simulator. I like my trains.


I put Factorio down for a bit. I have almost 4,000 hours in Factorio, and almost 3,000 hours in Dyson Sphere Program. Been playing Derail Valley Simulator, Schedule 1, and Vintage Story recently.


No clue, I just know that it exists and seems to work with the scammiest scammers that ever scammed


EvE Online doesn’t use root access anticheat software. I know it doesn’t because it runs on Linux just fine. That particular player base is the worst hive of scum and villainy that you’ll find outside of government. Clearly the anticheat software isn’t as essential as game studios would have you believe. The only major cheating I’m aware of in EvE was the BoB scandal, and that involved Devs cheating because they were Devs.


You made me read the link. I don’t think these games are actually related, but I dunno at this point.


I remember the guns, and the painkiller. Shooting enemies with mini telephone poles never got boring


The original Painkiller was the first overwhelmingly positive review that Yahtzee Crowshaw ever made. That review caused a years old game, at that point, to spike almost 3000% in sales for the next month. It contained gems of sentence construction such as: [Painkiller] (sic) “has a gun in it that shoots shurikens and lightning. I’m not making that up. It shoots shurikens and lightning. This gun could only be cooler if it had tits and was on fire!”


Its current state isn’t even close to being done. VS has a roadmap that is just as large as Schedule I or All Will Fall.

And VS has a modding API, unlike MC, or so I am told. I played MC for all of about two hours years ago. I thought that the graphics were the issue. Turns out it was that the gameplay loop was lacking in depth




Chrono Cross. You can accidentally write out all the endings of the game if you try to play without a guide.

Also Mordor 2. Completely procedurally generated world. The game literally can’t tell you where to go, it doesn’t know.



With the update, even if you don’t have the DLC, fluids have been rebalanced. You just have to place a pump every 200-250 tiles and everything flows.

For oil specifically, you don’t need anything but petroleum until what used to be late game. So just build a few (like a dozen) refineries and make sure that there’s actually oil coming in.

Once you actually need lubricant, and light oil, set up chemical plants to turn heavy oil into lube and light oil, and light oil into petroleum. It won’t be fast, but it won’t clog and it will produce what you need, slowly. You can use storage tanks as a buffer for your lube, light oil, and petroleum. Heavy oil isn’t used as a direct input for any assembler recipe.

I consider myself a Factorio apprentice, as I have yet to actually set up a proper train system. I’m slowly learning circuit logic, but can get to Gelba without getting stuck.

Don’t stress optimization, brute force works as well.

According to my father, who is an absolute Epic Wizard level computer programmer consultant, Factorio teaches you the basics of computer programming.



TI-82 here. Thank fuck that I got out of HS in '96. The administration hadn’t caught on that we had Drug Wars, and a really shitty MechWarrior game floating around the school.


Is this the same legal team that sent Pinkertons to some M:TG fan, because WotC sent him the wrong box, two weeks early.