Dwarf Fortress is 20 years old and still only has half the planned features. Tarn will be working on it until he croaks. Bless that man.
It’s kind of blown my mind to learn about the development of that game. UnReal World’s similar how it started development in like the 90’s and the guys still just keep working on it like a group hobby. Love that for them
My ADHD would never. I’d love to have a forever project, but the unending crave for novelty would never allow me.
Did you see the /NoClip documentary?
I have not. My exposure to it was through Frederick Knudson DownTheRabbithole.
I’ll go look that up though if there’s more to be heard
The amount of simulations is still looking for its match. Hell, it reminds me of the possible best simulation: Dwarfes are having a party. Someone spills their beer. A cat walks through the beer puddle. The cat cleans its paws. The cat becomes drunk from the beer on its paws.
The graphic is rather old, even the steam version or with “Lazy Newb Pack”, but it is still !!FUN!!.
Right now is the best time to play old games. Retro gaming handhelds have never been better, and honestly there’s little to improve in them at this point.
Get yourself a retro handheld for as little as $100, that will feel more premium than a Steam Deck, and start playing games that came out before you were born.
I’ve genuinely forgotten how bad the current video game industry is, because I’m so busy having a blast with older/retro titles.
Highly recommend to all gamers.
You can check out what handheld console would fit you best here: https://retrocatalog.com/
And see what people’s experience is in various games here: https://www.emuready.com/
games that came out before you were born
how old do you think i am
About to say, I’m older than Pac-Man :D
my cool SIL is way too into Ms. Pacman because that was her game at the arcade.
i can’t solder for shit, but i could code a mame console to run that for her 50th
yet another shout out for Space Station 14, a fully open source almost-massively multiplayer game with tons of forks being actively developed with lots of cross pollination of ideas and mechanics between them.
outrageously fun gameplay, totally free, easily modified, decently easy to set up ones own server
also totally cross platform between linux, mac, and windows
Indie devs are fucking killing it, though. A lot of bangers have been coming out.
I’m currently obsessed with How Many Dudes? That game is so much fun.
I play open source games
🙇🏻
I mean Warcraft II is still the shit. As is classic doom, carmageddon, Aoe,… you name it.
I still play Warcraft III - Frozzen Throne. So many custom maps. I’ve got enough gaming content for another 10 years.
I have this urge to revisit Dune 2000 but my life is a bit hectic. Boys+Sports…
Flashpoint Archive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashpoint_Archive
Flashpoint is amazing!
Fuck yes I’m so happy people did this. This is art preservation
It’s so fun!
:o
that sounds like an amazing project. i have literally been thinking just yesterday whether i could ever get back the nostalgic (and often crappily made xD) flash games of my youth.
xD and the video on the project website is so iconic xD literally uses music from redacted (guess the game yourself :)).
question: does anyone have a backup of the flashpoint archive itself? in case that one goes down (so, double backup)
There are so many new games coming out that even if you don’t want 99% of them you could never play everything you want.
What’s really going on here is that most of us are getting old and busy enough to where we genuinely prefer something familiar regardless of the quality of new games.
I’m excited for all the disposable AAA gaming income that can now go to indie developers…
You guys are going to monetarily support indie developers right?
I love that he says “splendid” in response to his own point
That’s honestly my favorite part of this template
I like how they both say it at the same time
Cyberpunk 2077 is 6 years old. May pirate and try out before realizing my pc can’t run it.
You could, or gog have a much better refund policy than steam. You could even refund it and keep the offline installer if you really wanted to, of course you won’t get updates and it isn’t really the idea of it. I think they do block you eventually if you keep abusing it for everything.
I mostly play minecraft and indies, i am relatively safe lmao, what can happen? Mojang stop to update the game? Great now everyone will make mods on the same version lol
lmao, what can happen?
Microsoft, a company i never did business with during my purchase of Minecraft, stole my copy because I didnt learn about the account migration in time.
As said, you can still play the game without account on Java edition as of now (you have to either use a 3rd party launcher or launch the game from the terminal though)
Anyway, i don’t know how the fuck Microsoft wasn’t sued for that ““incident””
you have to either use a 3rd party launcher or launch the game from the terminal though
i’m pretty sure that both are illegal btw
if you’re interested in this, somebody made an open source re-implementation of it with excellent modding abilities.
No it"s not illegal, they don’t even break the EULA or TOS in anyway, maybe it does if you never bough a license for the game but that’s it;
I am not really interessed in Luanti tbh, it does not have the same mods or content
(Side note: i did read the entire EULA btw)
??? so i have some bad news about minecraft…
That there’s an open source alternative which is gaining momentum?
Edit: oh bad news the Microsoft
Luanti aka minetest
You can log in Minecraft (Java) without using Microsoft authentication servers (and even if we couldn’t, we could just mod it in the game tbf)
I was not able the last time I tried…
What launcher have you used?
Everyone about that GTAVI life while I’m in the Fire Emblem and Yakuza mines trying to make a dent in the 50 million games each of those series have, because every time I finish one they release three more
Japan…please…stop…I beg you. I feel as overworked as the devs working for you.
I am a man dying of thirst watching another drown. Smashes skull in Fallout borne frustration
On top of FE and Yakuza, I’ve still got like 10 Shin Megami Tensei games to go through, after playing (what feels like) 20+. It never ends.
Not quite, rimworld and factorio are only around 13 years old.
This is the way.
