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Dark Mod. https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/ If you even remotely liked LGS's Thief in any of its forms, but especially in its earliest phases, you need to try this. At one time it required Doom3, but it has been stand alone since probably 2012 or so. Just a gently caress-ton of work to get it to where it is. Yeah, it may be a bit rough around the edges but, come on, it's the closest thing to Thief in all its taffing glory as we'll ever see again. eta: fixed apostrophe and top of the page too. woo-hoo! YeahWhatevah fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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Toribash's loosy-goosy physics reminds me of some other ragdoll physics classics, the DIsmount series (Stair Dismount, Truck Dismount, etc.) https://jet.ro/dismount/ It's hard to figure out whether these are games or sandbox toys, but essentially you have a ragdoll and exactly one push vector, and want to do as much damage to the poor sap as possible.
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Has there been any kind of a game with a similar concept to Toribash but with the controls not being deliberately a giant pain in the rear end? It's a genre I keep being a bit tempted to make. I realize it's hard, because turning the player's expressed intent into actual physics that can work isn't easy (like "I want the fist to go here" probably involves running a complicated set of inverse kinematics to make that happen without also falling over backwards), and collecting the player's intent coherently is also not a super easy task (I have a good mental model for that part though). But it seems like a fun game could be made of it. Conceptually kind of similar to Superhot, but with flexible physics rather than FPS-rules physics.
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Black Shades, by the developer of Lugaru, is a weird and good FPS escort mission generator-thing. You're a psychic bodyguard in a randomly generated city filled with pedestrians, with a person in white to protect from assassination. If you kill an innocent or your charge dies, you fail. Here are some things that are possible in this quick game:
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Blocksum is a puzzle game that I remember fondly. Get rid of numbers by matching them as blocks keep increasing from the bottom. Pair two 2s, or three 3s, and they'll disappear....but why stop there? Pair fifteen 2s together if you want! The initial number is just the "minimum" amount of matches required to pair. Makes for some fun CLEAR SCREEN IN ONE GO situations. I always die when the 9s and 11s start appearing. Gameplay description might be off, going by memory whee. A Yahtzee classic is Trilby - The Art of Theft. Basically a 2D sidescrolling Thief game. I think it's the same character from the point and click series? Not too sure, I tend to avoid horror. rRootage is a boss-based SHMUP, with four different modes that crib from various other SHMUPs. I can't remember the exact details here too, but one of the versions is "Ikaruga". All the stages are boss only.
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Mar 9, 2020 04:25
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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory A great team-based/objective-based/class-based WW2 FPS in the Quake3 engine. The main site is here: https://www.splashdamage.com/games/wolfenstein-enemy-territory/ But that's more for historical purposes... Since the source code has been released, a source port is actively being worked on called ET: Legacy. "The main goal of this project is to fix bugs, remove old dependencies and make it playable on all major operating systems while still remaining compatible with the ET 2.60b version and as many of its mods as possible." In practical terms this means things like support widescreen resolutions natively, and working on modern operating systems without faffing around. https://www.etlegacy.com ET Legacy cannot/does not distribute the copyright assets from the official ET installer. When you run the installer it will offer to download them but that can be pretty slow. It may be quicker to download and install the old version from Splash Damage, then when you run the Legacy installer it will detect that and copy the .pk3 files across. You can uninstall the old version after that if you wish. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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Artelier posted:A Yahtzee classic is Trilby - The Art of Theft. Basically a 2D sidescrolling Thief game. I think it's the same character from the point and click series? Not too sure, I tend to avoid horror. It is the same character! That specific game is a prequel, before Trilby got caught up in supernatural nonsense. Speaking of, all of Yahtzee's games are here. The Chzo Mythos, 1213, everything else. I highly recommend the Chzo Mythos (5 Days A Stranger to start) as a fun horror point n' click adventure with some actually good writing. For an indie effort, it's really compelling. Double bonus: when Quovak LPed the entire series Yahtzee logged into his old account in the thread and commented on it, taking the critical look at the games like a good sport. If you have archives, it's worth a read!
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Mar 9, 2020 12:09
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Warzone 2100. Early 3D strategy game, released on the PC and Playstation. It has aged surprisingly well. A game where you battle for map dominance while you design and build an army of drone tanks and aircraft, being able to customize them between different chassis, propulsions, and weapons. It went open source and has been perfected and expanded by a team of modders called The Project. The campaign is good, and lets you build a homebase on one map while sending away teams to specific missions on other maps. Here's the link: https://www.wz2100.net
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Sparq posted:Warzone 2100. Early 3D strategy game, released on the PC and Playstation. It has aged surprisingly well. A game where you battle for map dominance while you design and build an army of drone tanks and aircraft, being able to customize them between different chassis, propulsions, and weapons. It went open source and has been perfected and expanded by a team of modders called The Project. The campaign is good, and lets you build a homebase on one map while sending away teams to specific missions on other maps. It's also available on steam for free!
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~Coxy posted:Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Might have missed this on the ET site, but is there a way to play with bots? I like just firing these kind of games up to get some rounds in. I still have UT2k4 installed for this reason, though that's definitely not free.
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Mar 9, 2020 16:10
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StrixNebulosa posted:It is the same character! That specific game is a prequel, before Trilby got caught up in supernatural nonsense. Even better, Yahtzee's posts got included in the LP Archive too, no need for archives.
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Artelier posted:Might have missed this on the ET site, but is there a way to play with bots? I like just firing these kind of games up to get some rounds in. I still have UT2k4 installed for this reason, though that's definitely not free. Absolutely, if you download ET Legacy when you run the installer there is an option to also download and configure omnibot. Then you can start a local game and add bots to fill the teams. The bots obviously do not play like real players but they will do objectives and you can change the firefight skill to make them pretty hard. P.S. I should have mentioned earlier that ET Legacy cannot/does not distribute the copyright assets from the official ET installer. When you run the installer it will offer to download them but that can be pretty slow. It may be quicker to download and install the old version from Splash Damage, then when you run the Legacy installer it will detect that and copy the .pk3 files across. You can uninstall the old version after that if you wish. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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Mar 10, 2020 01:48
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~Coxy posted:Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory How's the player base for this? The original Enemy Territory is still one of my favorite multiplayer FPS games of all time - I wish someone would do a proper reboot but I'd try the port if there are enough people around.
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Shooting Blanks posted:How's the player base for this? The original Enemy Territory is still one of my favorite multiplayer FPS games of all time - I wish someone would do a proper reboot but I'd try the port if there are enough people around. Dirty Bomb was pretty great spiritual sequel until Splash Damage shut it down last year. Servers are apparently still running, but it's a little late to be jumping in. I'd be game to get an ET group going for some matches if anyone else is. I have a number of friends and old FPS organizing groups to pull from so it shouldn't be too difficult to get something happening for a little bit.
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treat posted:Dirty Bomb was pretty great spiritual sequel until Splash Damage shut it down last year. Servers are apparently still running, but it's a little late to be jumping in. I'd be game to get an ET group going for some matches if anyone else is. I have a number of friends and old FPS organizing groups to pull from so it shouldn't be too difficult to get something happening for a little bit. I know at least one person I could probably get to join, probably a few if it runs reasonably well.
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Shooting Blanks posted:How's the player base for this? The original Enemy Territory is still one of my favorite multiplayer FPS games of all time - I wish someone would do a proper reboot but I'd try the port if there are enough people around. Yeah, that is a problem. There are active servers but being an old game like this with hangers on they have regulars and busy times and otherwise are empty. You can check out servers here: http://et.splatterladder.com/?mod=serverlist (red numbers are bots)
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I loved playing ET as well, though it's been a long time since I played. If anyone wants to make a group/server to play I'll gladly join if possible.
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https://play0ad.com/ 0 A.D. is 3d open source take on Age of Empires 2 about 10 years ago. It's still being updated to this day and is really good in its own right.
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all of amon26's games but especially All Of Our Friends Are Dead and Au Sable they're both unsettling platformers of sorts anyway they're short just try them
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Entorwellian posted:https://play0ad.com/ Isn't it more like AoE1 given its antiquity setting? Thematically, I mean, I haven't played in years, but I recall it also has RoN-like territory control.
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Mordja posted:Isn't it more like AoE1 given its antiquity setting? Thematically, I mean, I haven't played in years, but I recall it also has RoN-like territory control. Sure.
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I'll bring up Spirit Engine 2. A sidescrolling, technically turn based but basically real time RPG. You are restored to full health at the end of every fight, so the developer can balance almost every fight as if it matters. Each character class has their own way of mitigating damage, from straightforward/dodge tanking to blowing all their actions on shield abilities. Heck your characters even get up during the course of long enough battles, though this also applies to the enemy. An important part of combat is balancing between charging abilities for stronger effects/damage and reacting to what the enemy is doing right now. Probably the most famous feature is that your party has three slots, which can each be filled by one of three unique characters. Each of those 9 characters even have their own journals, though the journals rarely talk about other party members for obvious reasons. The personal plot beats happen at roughly the same time every game, but they are radically different between characters. The sprites look pretty and the main plot isn't bad, even if every shopkeeper feels the need to justify their existence. I will warn that there is only x amount of money in the game, and only y amount of places to sell items. So when offered 2 paths to an objective take both, and don't hold on to too much equipment "just in case". There are 2 sequences with timed battles that will be very annoying to defensively oriented parties. Finally a non-zero number of boss fights and just plain tough fights take place indoors, plan your characters accordingly. [url:]http://www.thespiritengine.com/news.html[/b] Old enough website that you should look elsewhere for an actual download.
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StrixNebulosa posted:It is the same character! That specific game is a prequel, before Trilby got caught up in supernatural nonsense. 1213 is a really interesting idea, but I think trying to make a platform stealth/shooter thing in AGS was a little too innovative.  Yahtzee also did playthroughs of all the games he made, right back from the ones when he was like 15, with commentary with one of his friends who'd never seen them before, which was interesting.
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Popped open my itch.io dash today and here are two free things: souls of dead humans coagulate into crystals - "this is a zero player diorama. over time program will automatically vary different parameters: the precipitation rate, wind, turbulence, water level, etc.. in addition, the city and floating platforms are rebuilt over time (quite gently in this diorama). crystals form and dissolve in alternating phases, like snowflakes. interactions between systems result in changing output." MADNESS OF THE COASTAL STRUCTURE - it's an interactive fiction THING with an old-school interface, weird writing, and dice rolling  
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So I did have a bit of an ulterior motive in posting to this thread: I've just finished coding my first game, and it's free (and will always be free). It's called Robostar -- it's a twinstick shooter with about two hours of gameplay, dialogue, multiple endings, places to explore and loot to find. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6DwIZ0HYE0 Game: https://team-robostar.itch.io/robostar
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Whybird posted:So I did have a bit of an ulterior motive in posting to this thread: I've just finished coding my first game, and it's free (and will always be free).  That is a radical title screen! Will actually play it soonish, my migraine says nothing too flashy right now
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The Kins posted:Here's some full versions of old shareware games that have since been freely released online by the rights holders. You'll want DOSbox for these, unless otherwise specified.
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Also Jill of the Jungle, an absolute classic.
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precision posted:http://nethack.org There are forks of this that are of some interest. I'm not very familiar with them, though! Be warned if you start them today, you'll have bad luck ingame. Angband forks are somewhat interesting, but I'm very behind on those too. Ones of note are Zangband at http://www.zangband.org/, which is based on Zelazny's books, Steamband at http://angband.oook.cz/steamband/steamband.html which is based on steampunk, and ToME 2 which is somewhat in an odd place of being supported but not officially maintained. ToME is back when it was Tales of Middle Earth, and is a drastically different game. I'd recommend Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup more than any other roguelike. https://www.falcom.co.jp/vantage/download.html Vantage Master Online is a hex-based strategy RPG by Falcom that's free to play. Zandronum is the current Doom engine of choice. If you don't have commercial IWADs, you can use Freedoom and Blasphemer (FreeHeretic, basically) Legend of Princess (link goes directly to download) is a Zelda fangame that Konjak of Iconoclasts/Noitu Love 2 fame made. It is cute and fun and fast. zeta86 is a program to run ZZT on modern Windows. ZZT is one of the best examples of a commercial game working entirely as freeware. If you got the game from a BBS or floppy, you were only able to play one episode, but could still play user maps. If you paid, you got three more campaigns they made, but no change in user map functionality. This led to people scripting JRPGs, platformers, multi-part adventures, and demoscene-styled music tracks in it for free, and the success of it led to Tim Sweeney renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic MegaGames. DigitalMZX has a ton of information on Megazeux, the successor to ZZT. If you want to play a Windows 3.11 game like Jezzball or Castle of the Winds, there's a (somewhat) new method using WineVDM. I've had luck getting Spiderweb Software games and After Dark working on it. It mentions a DOS mode, but it doesn't work afaict. Jezzball works great, but other things run too fast and there's no clock cycle settings that I know of.
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SelenicMartian posted:Is that the actual title? It took me longer than I care to admit to realize why there was confusion there. Whoops! Here's another game! Ultra Fight da Kyanta 2 is a chaotic, fast paced, MS Paint level fighting game with a surprising number of fun gimmicks. It's starting to get some traction at fighting game tournaments!
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YeahWhatevah posted:Dark Mod. Thanks for reminding me this exists. I played it a couple of years ago, and its incredibly well made. It nails everything good about the thief games, so yeah, play this game people!
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Creativerse is a pretty good game. I would describe it as Vanilla Minecraft, but Better.
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Open TTD had for a long time required rescouces from other games in order to be played. However in recent years a free alternative has been made, making this game completely independant and thus completely free. https://www.openttd.org/ Based on the original Train Tycoon Deluxe by Microprose, Open TTD is an engrossing game about building a massive transportation empire. From trains to planes to boats and who knows what else, you'll be moving things to various stuff-places and then moving that stuff to other places and making tonnes of money for more thing-stuff-place moving. Its great fun watching the various towns and cities grow throughout the eras (and maybe watching everything turn into a existential nightmare of criss-crossing railroad-tracks).
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Negostrike posted:Age of Empires Online was brought back from the dead by the guys of Project Celeste. Now you can play it online or offline with all the premium poo poo (like some premium civs) unlocked. Check it out if you like RTS. Me and a buddy downloaded and played this back in the day. Holy poo poo what an obvious cash grab that game was. No wonder it died hard. It was the very definition of pay 2 win. We downloaded it now that its free, and with everything unlocked it is a good game in its own right. Albeit very light on tactics. The fun is in the singleplayer/coop i'd say.
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I thought Company of Heroes Online was really really fun. I miss that game.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I thought Company of Heroes Online was really really fun. I miss that game. Oh, I dunno, some of those special units were ridiculous, like that jeep that could call in mortar strikes at will.
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GyverMac posted:Me and a buddy downloaded and played this back in the day. Holy poo poo what an obvious cash grab that game was. No wonder it died hard. It was the very definition of pay 2 win. It was absolutely ridiculous, but even so I played a lot back then. I liked the quests. Now it's perfect. As a bonus, Project Celeste is making new content for it and are about to release a new civ (Romans).
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Happy to see the original truck and stair dismount here, I spent a lot of time on those. I used to download a lot of weird indie games back in the day, and a lot are lost to time but one I will always love is generally. a fixed camera racing game for up to 6 players. All the cars are at most 40 polygons, and it was good fun because the number of cars and tracks people made was huge. Rally, f1, someone figured out how to make boats and ski races, it was a blast. I think there might still be an active community, apparently there was an effort to make a second version but I don't think it ever got made.
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Mordja posted:Oh, I dunno, some of those special units were ridiculous, like that jeep that could call in mortar strikes at will. Yeah, the game was horrible unless you were one of the poopsockers who had bullshit like the 5man engineer squad, but if you did.... 
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