Video game thread

@Anonymous #7A61  
I’m afraid your images are broken, and not just here.

Are image links b0rk’d again? Try clicking on “quote” to see the original image URLs and see if they display for you. They do for me.

@Anonymous #7A61  
Nah. I did that and grabbed the image links. They seem to be broken in general.

@Officer Hotpants  
Ah well. They were just screenshots from the Windows 3.1 version. Which is still quite playable, but getting it to work on a 64 bit operating system is non-trivial.

The silent pain of the TF2 dev.
 
Fine details here.

There really ought to be a modded version of Doom 3 that comes with ROE as well as includes at least some elements of BFG edition, especially the checkpoint saves along with the Lost mission level pack.  
The best of both versions of Doom 3 basically.

@Absol95  
What does Doom 3 have that Doom 3: BFG doesn’t?

@Officer Hotpants  
Here’s a decent list of changes. Doom 3 was designed around its flashlight mechanic. Changing it up so that you can just have a flashlight up and shoot at things as they appear messes up the pacing of encounters and makes it so a lot of enemies just die before they can even do anything. It kills the tension. Add to that ammo and health being more plentiful, as well as a more forgiving armor system, and a lot of people consider BFG Edition to be Doom 3 babby mode.
 
There’s also the fact that Doom 3 is easily moddable and BFG isn’t.

@ANoobis  

As if there was any in the first place.

@ANoobis  
So mostly the mods thing, I’m guessing, since the health & armor can be fixed by just playing on a harder skill level. Which is ironic since the only mod I know of for Doom 3 was the taped-on flashlight mod. Because intentional or not, that flashlight mechanic was fucking dumb.

@ANoobis  

 
Seriously? In THUH FURTUR the Space Marines on Mars don’t have things we have now?
 

 
@Officer Hotpants  

 
Well, yes.

@Officer Hotpants  
we should all go back to the half life 1 flashlight that was a huge piece of shit

@TeamBlueplant  
Never played it. I assume it was taped to that crowbar everyone jizzes over.

I wonder if the PS4, like the Xbox One (which I own the One S of already), requires even physical games to be installed in order to be played. Or does this only apply to digital games?

@Absol95  
I own one. Most of the physical games I bought required install.

There’s something satisfying about Romans taking Carthage in 1665 with WWII era equipment.

 
I just finished to 100% completion Sulphur Nimbus with pony mod. Even without it would be a contender for best 3D platformer I’ve ever played, but with detailed Rainbow Dash player model there is no doubt. And this certainly won’t be my only playthrough.
 
Links  
Official Site for Download  
Pony Mod

@Fleur de Lis  
Fleur provides.

@Fleur de Lis  
Dash is so fucking cute.

@Barhandar  
no u

Why is the TW Rome 2 encyclopedia nearly impossible to navigate? The only reason I managed to finally find the section on buildings was because I happened to stumble across a link to the page in the forums. It doesn’t seem to be linked anywhere on the encyclopedia homepage or any page it actually does link to.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Because they don’t care.

@Fleur de Lis  
Also, enemies:  

@Barhandar  

What? I never noticed anything like that.
 
Maybe you need more momentum or better timing?

@Fleur de Lis  
Yeah, you can’t prevent Dash scaling if she wants to.
 

 
hue hue hue hue hua I’ll shut up now.