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RPATDO_LAMD posted:that's nearly $1/gigabyte lol, apple's hardware division is just criminal You're not paying for the hardware, you're paying for the experience 
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Fuzz posted:Imagine thinking you need a PCIe4 drive to run Fallout 1 and 2, though. You can get a 4TB external drive that will run the game perfectly fine with zero load times because it's still 20x faster than the drives from 1998, and it will run you barely $100 USD.
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Okay, thread, back on track now. Enough snipping, enough money chat. Discuss free games, please.
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HopperUK posted:Okay, thread, back on track now. Enough snipping, enough money chat. Discuss free games, please. Are free games really free if they require you to give your e-ma--*launched into the sun*
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HopperUK posted:Okay, thread, back on track now. Enough snipping, enough money chat. Discuss free games, please. Talking about money in the free thread should be a bannable offense tbh
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Kheldarn posted:Are free games really free if they require you to give your e-ma--*launched into the sun* 
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HopperUK posted:Okay, thread, back on track now. Enough snipping, enough money chat. Discuss free games, please. [sad EGS/China business relationship derail noises]
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flatluigi posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2570630/20_Small_Mazes/ I will second this. In a similar vein but by a different author, there’s 12 Word Searches, a free PDF puzzle you can either solve with a PDF annotator or using pencil and paper. https://playcebo.itch.io/12-word-searches
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Kheldarn posted:Are free games really free if they require you to give your e-ma--*launched into the sun* i had to install another launcher to launch you into the sun ffs
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Thought RDR2 went free or something. Sad!!
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I have put video games in prison. they will never be freed. feel free to close this thread
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Teddybear posted:I will second this. In a similar vein but by a different author, there’s 12 Word Searches, a free PDF puzzle you can either solve with a PDF annotator or using pencil and paper. Just what I needed, another launcher!
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flatluigi posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2570630/20_Small_Mazes/ this was a rad game, thanks almost missed it in the midst of weird arguing
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Teddybear posted:I will second this. In a similar vein but by a different author, there’s 12 Word Searches, a free PDF puzzle you can either solve with a PDF annotator or using pencil and paper. oh i love word searches, and this'll be great on my tablet. thanks
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no thanks i already found all the words i need in this big 2 book set. now thats frugal
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Teddybear posted:I will second this. In a similar vein but by a different author, there’s 12 Word Searches, a free PDF puzzle you can either solve with a PDF annotator or using pencil and paper. I'm liking this one
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Here, play a browser based detective game. https://jjohnstongames.itch.io/the-roottrees-are-dead It's free. Pretty good. Post free games.
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alexandriao posted:no thanks i already found all the words i need in this big 2 book set. now thats frugal nice av
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tokin opposition posted:nice av thx it took ages to isolate the specific frame and then gif it lol
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flatluigi posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2570630/20_Small_Mazes/ I really enjoyed this. It was really innovative.
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Teledahn posted:Here, play a browser based detective game. This one made it into a lot of game of the year lists!
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Teledahn posted:Here, play a browser based detective game. Binged this over the course of the afternoon, really well done. If thread readers like Return of the Obra Dinn, this scratches a similar itch
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flatluigi posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2570630/20_Small_Mazes/ THIS IS FUN, PLAY THIS
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Star Control 2, or the Ur-Quan Masters variant, is now free on Steam. I'm not sure if previous versions were ever on Steam but now it is. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters/
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Teledahn posted:Here, play a browser based detective game. Loving this, thank you
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Rapner posted:Loving this, thank you Same, stayed up way too late playing this last night and I’m looking forward to diving back in tonight. It’s like Obra Dinn meets Hypnospace Outlaw meets Succession and it owns so far. Especially for the low low price of zero dollars!
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Zachack posted:Star Control 2, or the Ur-Quan Masters variant, is now free on Steam. I'm not sure if previous versions were ever on Steam but now it is. Any difference from the one that was available from sourceforge?
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This one adds +1 to your library, duh.
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Oldstench posted:Isn't sourceforge full of adware and poo poo now? they knocked that off almost a decade ago downloading UQM should be fine, but always download with care, from anywhere.
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I haven't played this yet, but a search of itch.io failed to turn up an alternative download for Ur-Quan Masters, but it did turn this up: https://szcz.itch.io/hunt-of-the-kohr-ah (Warning: this game has spoilers for UQM.) My first playthrough of UQM ended in the Kohr-Ah absorbing their brother race and moving throughout the galaxy exterminating all the other races, one by one. I could see this as an obvious fail state, and I figured I'd lost the game. But, I had been playing for so long that I roleplayed my own ending, gathering at least one ship of each race into my fleet, staffing my main ship with as many people as possible, and attempting to follow the Arilou into one of their alternate universe warp zones. Basically, I created an ark. The game ended anyway, of course, with the failure message being delivered by the victors, and that was that. However, the above freeware game (which I haven't yet played, but I'm kinda intrigued that it exists) would essentially let me live out my roleplayed ending for UQM. I think that's pretty neat.
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That time limit in SC2 was the worst. It was never really clear to me that it was there and seems impossible to overcome without a guide. You can’t really spend any time exploring from what I remember. Though I mostly played on 3DO in the 90’s. I did download UQM years after that and finally get the good ending with a guide. I guess it was meant to take multiple play throughs to figure it all out but I wasn’t that smart.
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The time limit isn't overly harsh for completing the game (though far from impossible to blunder into on a blind playthrough), it's just that there are some events that can happen relatively early that remove some helpful resources (and it obviously doesn't feel as much like a golden ending if you miss out). You can totally still beat the final boss after most of the rest of the quadrant is wiped out (in fact, you can even circumvent a few quests that way).
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VegasGoat posted:That time limit in SC2 was the worst. It was never really clear to me that it was there and seems impossible to overcome without a guide. You can’t really spend any time exploring from what I remember. Though I mostly played on 3DO in the 90’s. I did download UQM years after that and finally get the good ending with a guide. I guess it was meant to take multiple play throughs to figure it all out but I wasn’t that smart. This sounds like the complete opposite to my experience, I've played through the entire game about four times and never hit the time limit. My last playthrough was years ago but I didn't even need to read a guide that time, it was enough to go to the aliens that sell information, they will basically tell you how to beat the whole game as long as you have enough resources to pay them. So I did lots of exploring for resources, lots of buying of useful hints from the aliens, and all the quests, and it was fine (All on PC if that matters, never played 3DO)
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Yeah probably my memory is faulty it’s been too long. I’m probably just remembering one or two races that were hard to get to in time if you didn’t know about them already. It must have been the perfect run where I needed a guide and it felt like I never would have figured that out on my own. But I was never the type to keep track of things in a notebook or whatever so I’d forget the clues. Anyway it’s a good game and I remember enjoying it even though it could be difficult. Talking about it I want to play again now.
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The Kins posted:Also worth noting: The next free game on EGS will actually be three free games - Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics. It's changed to Super Meat Boy Forever now.
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VegasGoat posted:That time limit in SC2 was the worst. It was never really clear to me that it was there and seems impossible to overcome without a guide. You can’t really spend any time exploring from what I remember. Though I mostly played on 3DO in the 90’s. I did download UQM years after that and finally get the good ending with a guide. I guess it was meant to take multiple play throughs to figure it all out but I wasn’t that smart. I beat it in my second play, and I found it pretty meaningful, given my first failure. Playthrough 2 was way more focused than playthrough 1, and I think of it as a full experience of the game. I'm not going to sit up here and judge anyone for modding out the time limit or using a walkthrough or whatever, but I personally appreciated it. I'm ambivalent about things like that in general, though. You know how in fantasy and sci-fi, when someone comes across an immortal person, or immortality in general, and there's always this philosophical thing about how for us poor mortals, death gives our lives so much meaning? Absolute bullshit, immortality is objectively better than dying. But in Star Control II, hitting the bad ending unawares did something for me and made me very determined to beat the thing. I can't say I would feel that way about a lesser game.
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Teledahn posted:Here, play a browser based detective game. This is really good
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Teledahn posted:Here, play a browser based detective game.
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I got a key for fo1 which I don't need for gog galaxy, whatever that is. M8ARB99BA20C86344B
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