Video game thread

@Humble Oriathan  
It’s a weird feeling knowing 10 years ago that would’ve been considered either a bug or pure laziness on part of the dev.

@Humble Oriathan  
Saved. That’ll be useful later. Although I might leave them in so I can smash them, drown them, burn them or feed them to the animals. Use them for guard training, maybe. I wonder if I could rig a catapult to launch them into a pit on the other side of the map…

What’s the best wheelplank gaming experience around?

@IvanSatoru  
What?

I’m looking for the best wheelplank games out there.  
What didn’t you understand?

We’re in an epidemic of games that felt half-assed. They may have good concepts and even implementations, but feel like no one play-tested them and fixed obvious issues.

@ponypony221  
We’ve been in that epidemic for a long time. Plenty of quality older games to buy anyhow.

@ponypony221  
That’s because no one play-tested them or fixed the obvious issues.

@Humble Oriathan  
And here I thought people were deriding it just because of the dev or something. But once it makes its way into the game? Dropped.

Can I get free Halo 1? I think my pc can run it

@DvneT  
Haven’t seen you in ages.

“Please support [game developer] by buying their games!”  
I don’t want to support them  
“Then don’t play their games!”  
I want to play their games  
“You can’t play their games if you don’t buy them!”  
Yes, I can.  
“So, you’re just going to play their games without paying for them?!”  
Yes  
“How?!”  
I’m going to ask a friend to lend me his copy…  
“Oh, ok that’s fine”  
… AND MAKE A COPY OF IT!  
“Nooooooooo you can’t just make a copy of a game without permission from the developer - that’s PIRACY AND THEFT, AND MURDER, AND GENOCIDE, AND ARSON!  
Haha computer goes beeeeeep.

@IvanSatoru  
Twitter socialists: money is a tool of oppression.  
Also Twitter socialists: you better give me that money.

I finally platinumed God of War 2018. I picked it up on launch day, and then my attempts to finish it were interrupted by life things that caused me to put it down several times.

@IvanSatoru  
And then there’s the devs that release the full game on pirate sites themselves.

@IvanSatoru  
Generally speaking, it’s a bad sign if your computer is doing that.

@Officer Hotpants  
Computers used to do a long beep when you booted them and it was usually a good sign. Now if they beep when booting, it means your hard drive died.
 
 
God I’m old.

@ponypony221  
*BEEEEP* *skrchskrchskrchskrchskrch* *whiirrrRRRRRRRR*

@ponypony221  
I’ve added a CD/DVD drive to all my computer builds not because I actually use it, but because I enjoy the sounds it makes when the computer turns on.

@Officer Hotpants  
Lots of lurking, not a lot of posting! Trying to change that. Fell into the “looking at images and watchlist but totally ignoring the forums” trap.

Anyone interested in Hogwarts Legacy? I’ve never read, seen, or played anything Harry Potter before, but this one’s caught my eye.

Unreal Gold and UT99 as well as Unreal Tournament 2004 are gonna be removed from the GOG storefront per NuEpic’s wishes. However, if you’ve already gotten any of them before the coming day, it will still be in your GOG library to keep. Steam, I think its a similar situation…

You know I’ll bet EA is loving this. Origin (or whatever the fuck they’re calling it now) finally isn’t the shittiest service anymore.

@Officer Hotpants  
The funny thing is Origin was leagues better than what they’re trying switch to.

@Officer Hotpants  
It’s just called EA now, but no matter how shitty Steam gets, I’m sticking with buying games purely from there just so all my games are in one spot.