Finally, someone who understands my pain. Thank you for the insights.

I loved Black Mesa up to this point. They turned Gonarch into a RPG sponge in an arena full of hard to avoid clutter which makes it nearly impossible to dodge the attacks.

I think upscaling is a good idea. Most of the time I’m running around while dodging bullets, arrows or fireballs, so I don’t really have time to examine the details of the foliage around me at the pixel level. I also will not buy an overpowered space heater so that the grass in my game looks more realistic. I don’t want a triple fan monster sounding like a turbojet near me.

Thanks, that’s nice to know in case I decide to get a VR headset in the future.

It’s both financial (huge investment for a single game) and not. Playing with a thing strapped to your face does not sound fun. Especially with glasses. Or in the summertime. Plus I’m a Linux gamer, so I’d probably run into a lot of issues before I could run it.

Good luck guys, do let us know how it turned out.

I discovered Brutal Wolfenstein (a Doom II mod that replicates and enhances Wolfenstein 3D) so I’ve been slaughtering nazi scum for a while.

This is the way.

Thank you for the first link, kind stranger.

Looks like PatientGamers’ membership numbers will be on the rise soon.

Journey.

I have over 700 games waiting on Steam, over 300 on Heroic… I’m not buying any other game until I get that backlog down.

Playing some smaller, chill games: The Unfinished Swan and Sludge Life.

Heroic launcher. This is what you need, my friend.

I focus on the playability and addictiveness of the game; you focus on the immersiveness and photo-realism of the experience.

That does not make either of us right or wrong, we’re just weighing different aspects differently.

As someone who grew up when you could physically count the bloody pixels on the screen, this whining about a miserable invisible miniscule artifact makes me palmface very hard.

Over 700 hours in Skyrim. I don’t know how that happened as it’s not my usual game type. I usually go for shooters like Half-life or Serious Sam,b or puzzles like Portal or Talos Principle.

Awesome brain killer.

The only game with portable nukes.

Graven

I’m really happy that I completed the games and can put them down

Good luck. I’ve played them countless times and they are installed permanently on my drive. 🙂

Graven on Steam.

I prefer to buy GOG when possible, Steam second. I even have some duplicated titles across vendors.

Excellent that they don’t engage in Nintendo level community hostility and at least let people who care about old games preserve them.

Stream goes one step further and actively maintains their legacy games playable. That is commitment.

I posted from Boost for Lemmy, but formatted nothing.

52001. Brb.

Both end songs are on my playlist, I love it when the randomize function picks them up. You could say it is a triumph.

I’m still playing this game today. Undoubtedly my favorite game.

I’ve been playing Eldritch. Friggin frustrating game. Ok, just one more go.

I have too many Half-life games and mods installed and refuse to remove them to make room for other, larger, games.

Now I will have to try the bucket%.

Some games give you a story that sticks with you and you love them for that (Half-Life, To The Moon, Bioshock Infinite). Some give you an experience that sticks with you but no story to speak of (like Doom and Doom II, which I still play).

What I dislike is having to deal with people in my games. I already do that in reality, thank you very much.

To me games are about escaping reality.

Skyrim SE, yet again. At this point it feels like a second job.

Portal / Portal 2

“Science Is Fun” is a great track, as are the end songs “Still Alive” and “I Want You Gone”.

I played it for like an hour or so, but it didn’t click either. I’ll give it another go one day, but there are just too many games in my backlog right now

You’re an inspiration to us all. Well done, sir!

I on the other hand may have crossed the threshold where I have more games than time to live. I’d better get a move on.

It’s not the cost. I’ve not pirated anything since Steam and GOG came along. It’s just that games nowadays want you to be online all the time, force you to open accounts you don’t want, try to sell you in game items (that’s a brilliant idea to get money from certain types of people, a bit like religion, do congratulations to whoever came up with that).

I want games to be single player playable, offline, start to finish. I’ll buy expansion packs if the game is worth it. It’s it too much to ask?

Some games you sometimes load just to hang around. This is one of those. Lovely game.

I’d add Valley and Sable to this group.

Thank you, I’ll check it out.

Still playing Skyrim. Can’t seem to put it down.

I’ve modded it a bit and started over. I’m picking up more hidden details that I missed the first time, and I’m abusing some game mechanics to be all powerful. Muhahah!

I’m on level 50-ish in Skyrim, and I either have done all the quests I could find or can’t do some quests because of some bug.

Then I can either pile mods on it to make it more interesting (and lose achievements in the process) or start again with a new character.

Either way, it’s still a nice place to burn some hours.

Same here. I have a few games from the Fallout series, but it just doesn’t click for me. I keep going back to Skyrim. It is just fun to ride around the landscape, sometimes doing nothing, with a huge ass battleaxe on my back.