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I crashed an iMac multiple times trying to play that built in dinosaur egg game.
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Vic posted:PC gaming being for rich people is so wrong it's not even funny. There are entire subcontinents of hardcore gamers who only ever owned a PC. Agreed. I was a college student in the 2000s, consoles were uncommon but computer gaming was everywhere. You needed a computer for schoolwork and other forms of digital entertainment anyway so pretty much everyone already had one and it didn't take much to be able to play any number of classics, like Counterstrike and Starcraft. I had a friend who wanted to play Warcraft 3 with us, probably around 2004ish, so we chipped in to buy a used video card for $60 as a birthday present and he was good to go. Some BWM people would buy brand new rigs too, but that wasn't the norm
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Barudak posted:I crashed an iMac multiple times trying to play that built in dinosaur egg game. Nanosaur. I believe my bondi blue imac was my last mac desktop.
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QuarkJets posted:Agreed. I was a college student in the 2000s, consoles were uncommon but computer gaming was everywhere. You needed a computer for schoolwork and other forms of digital entertainment anyway so pretty much everyone already had one and it didn't take much to be able to play any number of classics, like Counterstrike and Starcraft. I had a friend who wanted to play Warcraft 3 with us, probably around 2004ish, so we chipped in to buy a used video card for $60 as a birthday present and he was good to go. Some BWM people would buy brand new rigs too, but that wasn't the norm Not to mention you can build/get a computer for literally free if you keep an eye out, and have free games to play for the rest of your life. And the rabbit holes you can go down... Like for example Mechwarrior: Living Legends. It's Crysis mod (don't have to own Crysis) with the biggest roster of mechs of any mechwarrior game but also tanks, planes and vehicles. And it's really loving good. Meanwhile old consoles are being sold at crazy prices because baseball capped dorks are trying to relive their childhoods.
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Mar 8, 2023 11:24
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Duck and Cover posted:Computers games generally just worked. Why yes I did have a Mac growing up what does that have to do with anything? I did eventually switch to PCs. I remember wanting to play Everquest. Everquest was the exact reason why I bought the first pc in a mac only household lol. I used my orange iMac as a second monitor to have everquest maps open while playing eq on the pc lol
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Mar 8, 2023 11:36
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PC gaming is really cheap for AAA titles and after the absolute whiplash between PS4 Red Dead Redemption and the PC release I'll never buy a AAA title on a console unless there's no other option
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Mar 8, 2023 11:37
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Ppl complain about the performance on a PS4 but will happily play games on a Switch. Curious!
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Mar 8, 2023 11:41
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fridge corn posted:Ppl complain about the performance on a PS4 but will happily play games on a Switch. Curious! fwiw I tried playing Wolfenstein on the switch while on a longhaul flight and it was a joke. Game looked and ran like muddy poo poo
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Mar 8, 2023 11:43
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Vic posted:Not to mention you can build/get a computer for literally free if you keep an eye out, and have free games to play for the rest of your life. And the rabbit holes you can go down... Like for example Mechwarrior: Living Legends. It's Crysis mod (don't have to own Crysis) with the biggest roster of mechs of any mechwarrior game but also tanks, planes and vehicles. And it's really loving good. 
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Mar 8, 2023 11:45
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Octopath Traveler 2, a game which does not appear in anyway to be graphically intense: PS5 - 4k, 60fps Switch - 720p..... 30fps???? Great console lmao
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fridge corn posted:Octopath Traveler 2, a game which does not appear in anyway to be graphically intense: Need some dollars per pixels breakdowns to really get my lmao in personally
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Mar 8, 2023 12:55
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Vic posted:Not to mention you can build/get a computer for literally free if you keep an eye out, and have free games to play for the rest of your life. And the rabbit holes you can go down... Like for example Mechwarrior: Living Legends. It's Crysis mod (don't have to own Crysis) with the biggest roster of mechs of any mechwarrior game but also tanks, planes and vehicles. And it's really loving good. Its true, I probably spend close to 1000$ a year on video games and the 2 I ended up spending more time playing than anything else last year (easily 150+ hours each) were both completely free mods (STALKER: Anomaly and Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos) also pretty sure you dont need to even own the original games to play them same as MW legends
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Steam is a wonderful candy store where I browse through cool looking games and then stick them somewhere roughly into the middle of my ever growing wish list and then start up the same handful of games yet again
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Steam is also like, chock full o' hentai now which isn't a hill I'm looking to die on as much as point out "that's loving weird."
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Mar 8, 2023 17:34
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I like that steam has custom filters on the store. I told it to filter out anime and the store instantly became infinitely better.
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Mar 8, 2023 17:42
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mind the walrus posted:Steam is also like, chock full o' hentai now which isn't a hill I'm looking to die on as much as point out "that's loving weird." Well, that is what hentai means. Unless you are making a subtle joke.
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Mar 8, 2023 17:52
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I never even look at the Steam store anymore. If I decide I want a game I hit up https://isthereanydeal.com/ and buy it from whoever is cheapest. I don't think I've even bought a game from Steam for awhile.
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Mar 8, 2023 17:56
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yeah. why enable gabe newells meatball parm addiction?
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Duck and Cover posted:Computers games generally just worked. Why yes I did have a Mac growing up what does that have to do with anything? I did eventually switch to PCs. I remember wanting to play Everquest. Getting dos games to run right in the 80s/90s was usually way harder than the games themselves The first time I downloaded a configuration file from a bbs instead of having to make my own was 
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We'll be playing in minutes guys, just have to install the drivers for this sound card!
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precision posted:Getting dos games to run right in the 80s/90s was usually way harder than the games themselves Should have had a Mac. Escape Velocity, Unreal Tournament, Myth 1/2, Blizzard games. Probably the best era for owning a Mac and wanting to play games on it. As far as PC gaming being expensive? Eh the actual hardware can be expensive but games tend to be cheaper. Actual indie games, "free" to play, and discounts but no used games. The thing is you don't need the most expensive hardware for the majority of games. I don't think I've played a single game that has really needed the 3080 over the 1080. Well except the VR stuff which doesn't count. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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Duck and Cover posted:Escape Velocity Hell fucken yes
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mind the walrus posted:Steam is also like, chock full o' hentai now which isn't a hill I'm looking to die on as much as point out "that's loving weird." I was looking at Nintendo's website and it's about the same there.
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My first computer came with a Soundblaster compatible card. I put a game in. Sound doesn't work. No matter what i can do it doesn't work. I bring the computer and the game back to the store. "You said it was compatible." "it is" "well, put a sound blaster in and see what happens." They did and the sound worked immediately. "how is that compatible?" My next PC I built myself.
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Mar 8, 2023 20:06
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Dude you're getting a Gateway 2000
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Waltzing Along posted:My first computer came with a Soundblaster compatible card. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_A1GNx0M9M
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I have a soundblaster in my pc for all of the software synths I use. It's a good accessory for your rig if you really want to get into the game and hear crystal clear audio for that extra edge
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fridge corn posted:Hell fucken yes It's sad that there's been no successor. Endless Sky/Sea is too slow, story heavy. Starsector doesn't feel right. Oh look at what I found https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-frontier-override. Although, I'd prefer a new game. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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I think it was wizardry 6 there was a game that used the internal PC speaker but somehow made it sound almost good, it was wild
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fridge corn posted:Ppl complain about the performance on a PS4 but will happily play games on a Switch. Curious! raytracing-brained dopes don't buy switches in the first place
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Wizardry 6 was an incredible game for how fuckin primitive it was. It's one I go back to once every 5 years or so.
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Vic posted:Steam Deck is the best piece of gaming hardware ever produced. Either it plays it natively, or it's available via a cloud gaming service with <50ms lag. I used to play MMOs on dial-up, motherfucker, I am immune to latency.
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Playing MMOs also inured me to bad video games. I am now immune and can play bad video games like Nier Automata without issue.
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jokes posted:Playing MMOs also inured me to bad video games. I am now immune and can play bad video games like Nier Automata without issue. this + the witcher 3 for that extra layer of immunity
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speaking of MMOs though I kinda want Project 1999 to start up a new server because I'm feeling nostalgic
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I reported a duping bug there that ended up getting a shitload of accounts banned, and the dude gave me a fungal staff and a guise as thanks. Crime never pays, kids.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I reported a duping bug there that ended up getting a shitload of accounts banned, and the dude gave me a fungal staff and a guise as thanks. The smart move is to cater to the people who exploit bugs and benefit off of it. Sell them the reagents they need for their illicit alchemy.
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What 90’s-00’s PC exclusives were actually worth playing that weren’t FPS or RTS? I get that those are both actually good genres with massive amounts of great games, but if people can say the same thing about Nintendo platformers and action-adventure then it’s only fair play. And I mean actual PC exclusives, You can’t say Morrowind for instance because it’s on Xbox.
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cave story
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galagazombie posted:What 90’s-00’s PC exclusives were actually worth playing that weren’t FPS or RTS? I get that those are both actually good genres with massive amounts of great games, but if people can say the same thing about Nintendo platformers and action-adventure then it’s only fair play. And I mean actual PC exclusives, You can’t say Morrowind for instance because it’s on Xbox. Some of my favorites off the top of my head: X-Wing and a bunch of other Lucas Arts games, Sim City 3000/4, Myst/Riven, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Unreal, Counterstrike. Some of those got ported to consoles I guess but the ports were awful. Apparently Deus Ex had a PS2 version, but it came out a year later and they changed a bunch of poo poo.
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