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Volte posted:I think Win8 was the peak of their tabletization of the UI and subsequent iterations have been walking it back a bit. IIRC all that was the bright idea of the previous regime under Steve Ballmer and things started turning around after Satya Nadella took over as CEO. under the new leadership you can look forward to every corner of win12 being stuffed with useless AI bullshit that nobody wants, however
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Volte posted:I think Win8 was the peak of their tabletization of the UI and subsequent iterations have been walking it back a bit. IIRC all that was the bright idea of the previous regime under Steve Ballmer and things started turning around after Satya Nadella took over as CEO. Ya this is a good summary of windows from then to now. W8 was unusable, also that's when touch screen laptops were the craze. THE WORST IDEA EVER, your whole screen looks dirty because you wanted to scroll up and decided to use your nacho fingers.
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Phlegmish posted:Listen, if I can get an embedded AI girlfriend that way, I'm all for it. I hate to break it to you, but Cortana was discontinued. There's a Bungie joke in there somewhere. RIP e: My win8 surface pro was actually pretty cool, I liked being able to highlight and make annotations with the stylus. It had a little button for right click too. I've been considering resurrecting it as a spotify machine for the sound system. I'm sure the desktop experience was balls though Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jan 1, 2024 |
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I am absolutely hooked on this game https://store.steampowered.com/app/790060/The_Void_Rains_Upon_Her_Heart/ Bullet hell action Roguelike The amount of content is absurd and can get very challenging. Binding of Isaac is probably one of my favorite games of all time and this game brings me that “let me try another run” feeling I’m 7 hours in and I’ve only cleared 9% of the game
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Ihmemies posted:
Vicky 3 is great don’t particularly care what to online nerds say
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I don't really care about upgrading to Win 11 in general but currently it's telling me my computer where the oldest thing in it is a 3080 can't be upgraded and while I'm sure it's a BIOS setting I haven't exactly felt pressed to figure it out. Plus, at least a little while ago VR things didn't work very well on 11 so I found that a pretty good reason to wait. I'll upgrade before EOL of 10 but I might also set up a Linux dual boot when I do because Windows has been getting worse for multiple versions in regards to poo poo it installs and activates by default. I don't enjoy having to registry edit to turn off features from the biggest OS and their push towards AI doesn't fill me with confidence.
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Mr E posted:I don't really care about upgrading to Win 11 in general but currently it's telling me my computer where the oldest thing in it is a 3080 can't be upgraded and while I'm sure it's a BIOS setting I haven't exactly felt pressed to figure it out. It's probably your CPU. Microsoft wants a particular modern CPU feature to be available that they can use to try to enforce DRM (unsuccessfully) so they're attempting to restrict systems without it from upgrading.
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Anyone play and willing to give a post their thoughts on Colony Ship? I know it's not inscrutable as Age of Decadence (a game I desperately wanted to like but was just too hard and specific) but looking at the reviews it seems like both the combat an social routes through the game have their drawbacks. The "most helpful" reviews on Steam mention that combat can become a real slog with its pacing very slow and difficulty just being "enemies got more health, accuracy and numbers" instead of it being a clever combat puzzle. Meanwhile social lets you bypass combat in a lot of cases but you do miss out on a ton of exp and items. Any truth to these or are they exaggerations?
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Mr E posted:I don't really care about upgrading to Win 11 in general but currently it's telling me my computer where the oldest thing in it is a 3080 can't be upgraded and while I'm sure it's a BIOS setting I haven't exactly felt pressed to figure it out. Plus, at least a little while ago VR things didn't work very well on 11 so I found that a pretty good reason to wait. I'll upgrade before EOL of 10 but I might also set up a Linux dual boot when I do because Windows has been getting worse for multiple versions in regards to poo poo it installs and activates by default. I don't enjoy having to registry edit to turn off features from the biggest OS and their push towards AI doesn't fill me with confidence. for most motherboards there's a BIOS update which changes the defaults to what win11 wants
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Only an hour into Erannorth Chronicles but I feel like these cards have way too many stats and like I've already hosed up my character  Playing on the recommended difficulty, which I'm guessing is Easy, so it's probably fine but idk. Just feel like I have no idea what I'm doing and just clicking on enemies with little thought.
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fit em all up in there posted:Any opinions on DotAGE ? It feels more like a city builder / manager than Against the Storm and I quite liked that. You have milestones you have to meet or it death spirals, but it doesn't feel like you're solving a puzzle the way AtS does. It's also really good about having all the necessary information upfront on the main UI. You barely have to go into submenus for stuff.
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I bought and played the 2005 Neversoft developed game GUN (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2610/GUN/) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-_jnT1cGE and it is amusing to me how much more this game feels like the first in the Red Dead series than Red Dead Revolver. A (small) open world, narrative game, third person shooter with bullet time, and basic sidequests like wanted posters, cattle herding, big game hunting, poker. You will be randomly attacked by bandits. It also has a button for holstering your weapon. And I think it holds up! Gameplay wise yes, story mostly (with a big asterisk, stuff like a scalping mechanic that does nothing and can be ignored but yikes even for 2005). It has a great voice cast too: Thomas Jane as the main character, with Kris Kristofferson, Lance Henriksen, Brad Dourif, Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt. This was the third time I can remember playing it, first on the Gamecube and then also on the PSP (which had a multiplayer mode I think I got to play once, with maybe two other people, back when every game had to have a multiplayer mode). There's a widescreen fix out there that worked okay, but it made the cursor off-center from where you were really clicking but it didnt matter except for menus. A fun ~8 hour game.
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PlushCow posted:I bought and played the 2005 Neversoft developed game GUN (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2610/GUN/) This was a good game for the time. And yes it’s still fun today as well.
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What I mostly remember about that game was having a hell of a time searching for a pirated version of it on my college’s directconnect hub
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It's technically an open world game, it's just that said world is small and rather empty. It can't rely on NPCs, vehicles and buildings as much as GTA 3 did.
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If you for some reason don't have Oblivion, it's two bucks on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/elder_scrolls_iv_oblivion_game_of_the_year_edition_deluxe_the
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Hwurmp posted:better than Starfield That's an insanely low bar.
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Dackel posted:I can roll my eyes at all the paradox releases but I'm legit mad they got involved with Across the Obelisk. Using the paradox launcher, pricing DLCs higher than the base game. Recent reviews are mostly negative now. yeah this one really gets to me too 
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Hwurmp posted:Shivering Isles was good Remember when that one character was randomly talking about cheese? What a knee-slapper.
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Grabbed the Space Engineers DLC since it's on sale and it's been a couple of years. What's good in mods and workshop content these days? I like putting together machines in relaxed survival mode and generally just having a nice little time. There's no real thread for this stuff these days hey?
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Black Griffon posted:Grabbed the Space Engineers DLC since it's on sale and it's been a couple of years. What's good in mods and workshop content these days? I like putting together machines in relaxed survival mode and generally just having a nice little time. There's no real thread for this stuff these days hey? [metal gear solid alert sound] I put Space Engineers in my GOTY: quote:7. Space Engineers And no, it doesn't really have a thread but the Niche Sim thread will talk about it.
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ymgve posted:If you for some reason don't have Oblivion, it's two bucks on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/elder_scrolls_iv_oblivion_game_of_the_year_edition_deluxe_the Arx Fatalis Deus Ex Deus Ex 2: Invisible War Divinity 2: Developer's Cut Dungeon Keeper Gold Dungeon Keeper 2 Or any other Bullfrog game. Jade Empire Majesty Gold HD Metro 2033 Redux Metro: Last Light Redux Mirror's Edge Thief Gold Thief 2: The Metal Age Thief 3: Deadly Shadows The Witcher
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Rebel Blob posted:You can do much better for under $2 on GOG:
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Azran posted:After an amazing initial impression, Jagged Alliance 3 drops the ball so hard with one of the most massive difficulty spikes I've ever seen in an XCom-like. It went from an easy 10 and GOTY to something I don't think I'll ever replay. You go from fighting numerous but poorly-equipped mooks to excelently-equipped enemies with skills and equipment like yours, but who are still just as numerous as before. Most of the new enemies get to shoot as soon as the battle starts, their snipers can crit-kill your less resilients mercenaries from behind cover, at night, from off-screen, and even if you take full cover half their squads are equipped with AoE stun grenade launchers who reduce your action points and force you to wait a bit on the campaign layer before continuing on your way. When does this happen? I’m pretty deep into the story I thought and haven’t experienced anything like this.
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Rebel Blob posted:You can do much better for under $2 on GOG: Half of these games are jank as poo poo and not nearly as easy to just pick up and play as Oblivion is
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Volte posted:Hey, that game you like? It loving sucks, don't even think about playing it Bethesda is the new Blizzard. Although I think some people are still mad about Oblivion not launching with some features that were in the promos. Rebel Blob posted:You can do much better for under $2 on GOG: Y’all should also get the games on this list though! Well, maybe not Witcher 1 or Invisible War unless you have a tolerance for jank on par with Oblivion. And titty trading cards. Majesty also kinda stops working towards the end of the main campaign but it’s a great ride until you get there. The expansion included in the gog version is sadly equally flawed Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jan 1, 2024 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:[metal gear solid alert sound] Ah hell yeah, cheers. Absolutely will not come with you on the no voxel deformation, to such a degree that I'm gonna somehow hack your server into toggling voxel deformation and then build a captial ship and crash it into you, but the rest of the stuff sounds sick. No idea what exact mods you're using, but I'll throw up a post in the niche sim thread too.
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Cross-Section posted:Half of these games are jank as poo poo and not nearly as easy to just pick up and play as Oblivion is Maybe a little red ball is more your speed
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Sab669 posted:Only an hour into Erannorth Chronicles but I feel like these cards have way too many stats and like I've already hosed up my character Do not worry about it. That said - I would try to concentrate on one or two skills to start with, trim your active deck down a bit so you're not keeping track of too many things. That said I'm sure it's possible to play the game efficiently. It's just that my entire playstyle has been 'lmao whee' so I can't help.
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Volte posted:Hey, that game you like? It loving sucks, don't even think about playing it drat, forgot about this. gently caress
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Bing Bong theory shelder voice: I’d sooner clean install Windows 11 on my terabyte Seagate drive than play this so called “game”, if it even deserves to be named as such!
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