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Heavy Lobster posted:i still have my copy of stalker soc on disc but will be finally getting the steam version sometime soon because i need a clean install for a different mod setup and i am really not going to regret buying this, or any, game twice for the convenience of it I wonder if there are assholes out there who are nostalgic about soundblaster drivers
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how did people power their cotton gins before then?
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how come its been 15 years or whatever and the steam client is still loving appalling
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The switch from the big pc game boxes to the small game boxes was really jarring as a kid. I thought it meant it there was less game.
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I remember the day WON finally shut down and we had to get Steam to keep playing counterstrike, even though Steam was poo poo back in '04.
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The Imp Zone Geriatric Ward
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the only thing i kind of miss are game manuals, but even then who gives a gently caress, games companies can just let a bunch of nerds create fan wikis without paying them and it's 100% more comprehensive anyway
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the manual for the sims 1 had a list of recommended books to read
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My favorite were the Jane's flight sim games. They had dozens and dozens of pages of specs for aircraft and ground vehicles. Fallout's manuals had recipes in them. I also miss giant fold out posters of tech-trees.
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BgRdMchne posted:My favorite were the Jane's flight sim games. They had dozens and dozens of pages of specs for aircraft and ground vehicles. 90's manuals were loving rad 
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I'm a sucker for backstory fluff so I loved getting pc games with fat manuals
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CODES AND PROCEDURES OF THE WARRIOR CASTE
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i actually did use the pack-in map for morrowind quite a bit, but then again http://www.uesp.net/maps/mwmap/mwmap.shtml
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I wish Diablo 2, the game I most enjoyed in all of history, was worth playing for just one more time.
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Just came across a bunch of NES and n64 manuals I thought were thrown out. they actually had pages unlike today where you're lucky if a manual has two pages.
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UP AND ADAM posted:I wish Diablo 2, the game I most enjoyed in all of history, was worth playing for just one more time. With some good friends, it might be.
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When I played X3:TC for the first time I downloaded the manual and sent it to my tablet so I could learn how to play. Of course the manual was not enough for me to learn all aspects of the game so I also browsed some wiki during that learning time. Games still have manuals, it's just more convenient, you can just right click on the steam entry for the game and download it.
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program666 posted:When I played X3:TC for the first time I downloaded the manual and sent it to my tablet so I could learn how to play. Of course the manual was not enough for me to learn all aspects of the game so I also browsed some wiki during that learning time. Games still have manuals, it's just more convenient, you can just right click on the steam entry for the game and download it. I downloaded a manual from Steam once. It was two pages long and instructed me not to turn off my console while the game is autosaving.
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Same as before then, not all games had awesome manuals some would only come with a single sheet of paper.
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FuriousGeorge posted:CODES AND PROCEDURES OF THE WARRIOR CASTE
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Pretty sure there's still a big rubbermaid full of Nintendo powers, strategy guides, and SNES/N64 manuals in my parents' basement
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Also I'm there too because that's where I live
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Arian_Samurai posted:I wonder if there are assholes out there who are nostalgic about soundblaster drivers my soundblaster X-fi crashes my computer every time I listen to music if I accidentally update it loving soundblaster still existing is a travesty The Taint Reaper posted:Just came across a bunch of NES and n64 manuals I thought were thrown out. novel-sized game manuals filled with lore and minutiae are loving rad
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yea it was called the World Opponent Network, aka WON
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I remember as a kid I had "favorite" 3.5 floppies, the grey 3M ones totally had a better metal slide and made a deeper more satisfying *THAK* when it slot in. I was so retarded 
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the feel of excitement of getting a disc full of shareware from the far away lands of the USA
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qnqnx posted:the feel of excitement of getting a disc full of shareware from the far away lands of the USA
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I copied mortal kombat 2 from a friend's pc using 50 diskettes and ARJ, one of them gave out a CRC error when unarjing and I probably almost had a heart attack but it worked when I tried again. Later on I was playing MK2 using a cheat code that made the characters have the huge heads. Edit: it's actually mortal kombat 3 and it's giant mode not big heads. program666 fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:Every single person in your village gathered around the computer to see what Apogee, the most popular game company in the world, are up to now. Cargo Cult Commander Keen
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Eye of Widesauron posted:Cargo Cult Commander Keen
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Eye of Widesauron posted:Cargo Cult Commander Keen many brooms were broken that day jumping off trees, hut roofs, stairs
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FactsAreUseless posted:That's just Duke Nukem for DOS. some day ill do the shoot a can and grab it in midair trick, but irl
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Village elder, playing Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure: The gods must be crazy.
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i had a woodshop teacher in middle school who spent the whole day playing age of empires 2 and i burned it off him and played the game with a key generator, which in all likelihood gave my computer all sorts of terrible viruses
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I remember having to tie up the phone for 4 hours to download a 14MB patch for heretic 2, so I could play it online heretic 2 players were very cliquey and weird, it was like the same ten or so people every night so a bit like half game half irc channel
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The Colt Had a Silencer and a Scope
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