Bannerlord finally has some cool mods for it nowadays

Baba Yetu, the intro music from Civilization 4

I’ve played a good chunk of these games. For me, Underground 2 was the most fun. I disliked the police chases in Most Wanted and thought customizing and upgrading your various cars was the best part of the Underground games, so take it with a grain of salt. I also liked the open world of 2 better than the individual courses of 1.

Hard disagree. Having nearly infinite ranged attacks and being able to run away while attacking made it way easier for me.

Maybe in 2 and 3 what you’re saying is true, but sword and board was way harder for me than playing a mage with a shield in Dark Souls 1 and Elden Ring.

Dark Souls. If you play a mage, you’ll be on easy mode, which very much does feel badass in a game so full of terror.

I realized it had community mods available that fill in all the missing tech and countries from the expansions/DLC, installed them, blinked and suddenly the sun was rising?

Unciv is an open source version of Civ V that works on Android and PC, if you really want to lose some hours

I have a gaming desktop, personally, with a relatively light laptop I picked primarily for repairability and battery life.

My laptop can’t really game, but it can run Moonlight like a champ. I have a Raspberry Pi setup as a VPN and the gaming desktop has Wake On LAN, so I can have Baldur’s Gate 3 up and running in a couple minutes from anywhere with internet.

Oh man, if you haven’t played Wind Waker, make that one a priority.

Having beaten both the original and the HD version, the HD version is better because the original version of collecting the triforce shards towards the end of the game is a slog and the HD version cuts down on that tedium quite a bit.

ToTK is way more about the puzzles than BoTW was. Figuring out how to put together a device to solve a given puzzle is a huge portion of the game. That’s what I mean when I say the different powers make it a wildly different game. Ultrahand alone is the source of hundreds of puzzles way more entertaining than the whole “pick up the out-of-place rock to find a korok” type filler that BoTW has.

TotK is wildly different for a game made with the same engine and sharing many core mechanics. Just my opinion, but the different powers really add a ton, to say nothing of the verticality of it.

I prefer digital steam.

I’d love to have a copy of Dwarf Fortress or The Talos Priciple 2

I do genuinely think you would find this game easier to control on an N64 controller. Those 4 separate controls on the “C stick” are actually 4 separate C-buttons on the N64 controller.

This is one of the rare scenarios where a stick instead of 4 independent buttons makes a lot less sense to have.

I should tell my brother-in-law about this because he’s made and remade stram accounts like 6 times because he keeps forgetting the passwords (also forgets his email account passwords and abandons those)

I don’t know how many people will agree with me, but I never liked the Chrono Trigger out-of-game art at all – the characters have a kind of Dragon Ball Z appearance to them that I never liked much (didn’t like the DBZ series, either), and the cutscenes appear to be done in that art style. The in-game Chrono Trigger graphics I’m fine with, though.

Surely you’re aware they’re not merely in that style, but in fact the character designer was Akira Toriyama, the mangaka who wrote Dragon Ball, right?

Like it’s not in the style of Akira Toriyama, it’s that the character designs are by Toriyama. Toriyama also did the character designs for the Dragon Quest games.

Baba Yetu fucking slaps

Ooh, and while we’re at it,

SE-GAAAAA

is permanently burned into my brain

Elden Ring has the most epic main menu music

IDK why this is being downvoted. The game’s been available for purchase and play for 3 years already

I bought it before the orange box existed, like I said it was bundled with the OG Counter-Strike and CS: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes.

To be clear: Condition Zero came out in '04, the Orange Box came out in '07.

My Steam account is 18 years old, so I bought CS in '05

It’s a cult classic for a reason

Mine was Counter Strike, bundled with CS: Condition Zero.

My account is old enough to buy cigarettes

My back hurts

Nobody’s mentioned it yet, so here you go:

Across the Obelisk is like Slay The Spire in some ways, but you always have a party of 4 adventurers and they each have their own seperate decks to represent their differing abilities and classes. Early on it can feel basic, but the more you play the more cards you unlock and the gameplay and deck varieties really deepen and get engaging.

The first one came out on Gamecube, so if it doesn’t work on PS2 or Xbox emulators, Dolphin will for sure work since it’s much more mature.

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 1 and 2 on PS2 are excellent action RPGs

Also Gauntlet Dark Legacy on PS2

Loved it so much I 100%ed it. I basically never do that.

I still have my install DVDs of the Deluxe edition from launch, including the bonus feature DVD with the making-of documentary.

I’m thinking Starfield. Ship building and their procgen both look amazing, but if I’m waiting at least 6 months for the bugs to get worked out by both the devs and the modding community, why not at least wait till it’s $30 or less?

The RE 1 remake is quite good as well, still, despite being originally made for Gamecube. The pre-rendered backgrounds on Gamecube era hardware led to graphics that still hold up today. That said, the controls are much more old school, so maybe save it for after you’ve beaten 2 and 3

As someone who followed the development of Bannerlord since the first blog post and who first played Warband in 2010, I can confirm that it is truly excellent and with a handful of mods is straight up better in every way but one: in Warband, the total conversion mods are fully mature entire alternate campaigns. I must’ve sunk 100 hours into Gekokujo (Warband mod that puts the campaign in warring-states era Japan) alone, let alone A Clash of Kings (the Game of Thrones total conversion).

Southeastern PA. I have 1000 down/1000 up fiber to the home for $90 a month. Seeing people get these speeds for under $20 makes me both envious, hopeful that things can be improved, and depressed at the state of the regional monopolies here in the US.

Here’s hoping we can make municipal fiber viable going forward.

Android is open source, and there are many forks of it already. If they were to try this, those of us who care would just run a fork of Android.

Meanwhile my Hyundai Ioniq not only allows you to open it with just the physical key, it also has a button to charge the 12v portion of the battery off of the larger hybrid battery

You should also check out wefwef. It’s very full-featured already and is getting updated constantly.