Yeah, there was something special about the communities that built up around these games…

I was always a discworld mud player… Lots of time there. But I bounced around many :⁠-⁠P

Got it on GamePass yesterday. It runs like a dog, and that’s on a 10-700k with 64GB ram, 3070 and a Sabrent Rocket 4 nvme. Even dropping to 1080 and low still hovers around 30 - 40fps with random dropouts to <10fps in ‘complex’ areas. Given this system can run God of War at 4K Ultra (With DLSS Balanced) at 30fps, or Black Myth: Wukong at High at 50 - 60fps, I’m going to say it’s not the system at fault…

Wait for a few patches, the performance is currently not up to spec. Which is sad, because the introduction got me super hooked and I want to play more.

And… Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, too.

Oh fuck yes. I remember reading about this year’s ago, glad to see it’s still going ahead.

Time to catch up on the lore. And by that I mean watch some kick ass videos again.

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https://youtu.be/87KtMnmZWzQ?si=TmqF3Br1F8yGhPA3

I’ve got Braid. Played it, enjoyed it, moved on. Why would I buy it again to listen to someone rambling over it? Some AI upscaled graphics? What’s the point?

One of the biggest sells for gamepass and cloud gaming (assuming you’ve got a wired network). Shaving ~250GB+ (Given the cache and update downloads) is a hard sell, and I’ve got 6TB of NVME installed.

Heh… I started building in the late-90’s with a custom 486-sx. Went from that to a Pentium 100, then to an AMD-K6-II at 233, then to another AMD I forget… then to an i5-2500K in 2011. That build hit the sweet spot, and with just graphics card, memory and drive upgrades stayed roughly the same until I bought this -7-10700K last year… that’s now got 4Tb of nVME and 8tb of SSD, no spinning rust, and a 3070. I would like to upgrade the graphics card as I’ve got 2x 4K monitors and gaming is a bit sluggish at times on 4K, but… I just can’t justify the upgrade price to a graphics card that could improve. So, I’ll wait another gen, and probably get either a 4080 when the 5x series is out, or wait until the 5x series 5070-eqivalent is at a reasonable price. Other than increasing storage, I don’t see any other demands for CPU or GPU coming this console generation…

Can it go back to Codemasters where it’s meant to be, please? TOCA Touring Cars is still awesome, however many years on it is.

How are you getting on? I’m really considering getting this - I get paid today and have a week next week without the family… Been playing and enjoying Planet Crafters and Forever Skies, and I’m in the survival-building-exploring mood at the moment.

Thank you, just added it to my account. Not heard of it before, but I do like the Geometry Wars-style combat games, so I’ll have a go at it on the Steam Deck later.

I’m cautiously optimistic, but not preordering because, well… because.

A bit perplexed where the hollow where the lake of the watcher has gone in that image, unless it’s another door into the mountain - though as it’s got the iconic, “Mellon” door, I somehow doubt it. Still, it’s clearly years onwards, so maybe it’s all been filled in and worked on.

Fingers crossed, I really want a new LotR game that’s good, and this looks like it could be one. Maybe a touch of Ancient Domains of Mystery in with it?

Amazed no one has mentioned Antimatter Dimensions. It’s now on Steam, but was originally on a few sites (I played it on Kongregate). Fantastic, and now with the latest update and the ‘aero’ skin and hidden games, it’s multiple games (Including the original Paperclips) inside one :D

It might be eventually given the close relationship with Ubisoft and GamePass… probably not at release, though.

For those who know in the UK - the Argos catalogue was always my favourite thing to browse as a kid :D

Yeah - I don’t even cary cards with me any more, it’s all on my phone. Including many store cards (Coop, Texaco, Shell, McDonalds…) which automatically pick up without me doing much - I scan, it works.

The only thing I can think is that the US is such a fractured environment with Federal, State and Local government, each with different jurisdictions, rules and taxation, that trying to get it to work would be beurocratically difficult. But at the same time, it’s so ruled by corporations that surely they’d want to push the easiest way - flip your phone out and wave it to pay, easy and secure, so make it happen :D

Member since 24 July 2004 here. Doesn’t feel like 20 years, but it’s also hard to imagine having ~5Tb of installed games across multiple launchers just… available. Plus emulators and other resources. Steam was a pain in the arse at first, but they made it work, and they saw beyond the limitations of dialup tech. I was all for it at the time because I had one of the few Coax connections (NTL at the time, later taken over by Virgin Media) which at that point I believe was 10Mbit… Of course, nowadays we have Gigabit FTTP rolling out throughout the UK, so this seems really quaint, but it’s pleasing to see how far we’ve come.

The US coverage still sucks. Sort your shit out guys, you’re 20 years behind the UK, and we’re a good 10 behind Norway, Hong Kong and others thanks to Twatcher.

Just a quick note - it’s this weeks free game, not this month - they do a game or two a week. :) I’ve not played it, and I kind of feel like it could bring the worst of deck-building and real-time strategy together into one, rather than best in my mind; but I’m open to try when I get free time.

The Layton games - the DS games have been ported to Android and totally slap. As someone who never had a DS, I’m enjoying this era of the games coming to Android and being playable here.

Interesting. I’ve never explored alternative app stores for Android, usually being happy with those I found through Google. Thanks for the heads up, I’m going to have to investigate :D

This is an intruiging subject. I was part of reddit’s /r/patientgamers subreddit (lurking, mostly) because it was a good place to get insight into valuable gems that I missed first time through because I didn’t have time or didn’t want to spend £60 or £70 on a brand new game, and would rather wait for a sale.

Nowadays, I generally wait for Game Pass, Ubi+, PS+ or similar to get the game. Sure, I spend on subscriptions, but the games I play if I count out the costs it’s a lot cheaper.

I do also play retro games - ‘retro’ being an ambivalent term for me, as it somehow is used pejoratively throughout the modern gaming community, which I disagree with: They’re good games, just not on modern hardware or systems - quite often. So - yeah, sometimes I lag, sometimes I’m up-to-date, oftentimes I’m on my Steam Deck so I get to play slightly older games at a high fidelity on a handheld device, which is awesome.