ut 2004, red alert, starcraft broodwar (use map settings online was awesome), americas army, halo custom edition (the huge maps with longswords and pelicans were fucking amazing), civ III, star wars empire at war, kotor II knights of the old republic (mods for this are cool)
I loved that game, even with all its faults. I still remember those maps fondly. I haven’t found another game that quite scratches that slow-paced strategic shooter itch. (But then, I hardly ever play multiplayer games these days anyway.)
Are you able to get Arcanum to run on Windows 10+ or Linux? My nostalgia sense wants to do another playthrough or 10 but every time I try it just … won’t work.
I got it on Steam if that helps. There usually isn’t comparability issues released on there and anything from XP to 11 seems fine. No mention of Linux.
Not sure. I had no issues on 11. If it’s happening in Linux and Win,.I’m guessing it more hardware related. Try disconnecting any additional monitors, installing to another disk, that kinda stuff. I was going to suggest making a new Win profile and signing into that—I’ve had that fix launching old games—but dunno if that’ll help.
Been looking into getting into DF but it all seems intimidating and lacking polish. Is it worth the effort? I know people love it, but learning curve is kind of annoying. If you had to compare it to a similar game, which one would it be?
Only causally reading about it. Didn’t purchase the game yet. Graphically it’s much better, which is why I was drawn to the idea of getting in the first place. Am not much of a fan of ascii art in games.
The Steam version is great, but still fairly intricate. (not complicated, but there is a lot going on) also get DFHack, it automates a lot of the confusing stuff). Definitely worth the effort IMO, I am having a lot of fun with it. For example, I was besieged by goblins last night, and after a big fight one of my dwarves killed their leader, and we won the day. My champion was praised in song and engravings, and we made a platinum statue in his likeness, that was displayed in the entrance to the fort. A few weeks later the Duke of Paperprice (the name of my fort) threw a tantrum because his mandated goods was delivered late, and in his rage he killed our hero. One of the dwarven kids had to carry his mangled body down to the Atomsmasher. Ah well, that’s dorfs for you.
Dig Dug, Battlezone (the wireframe “3d” tank game), and C&C Red Alert 2. Those 3 will always live in my head rent-free, and they’re more than welcome to.
Civilization (1/2/3 all sort of blend together for me), Sid Meier’s Pirates!, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, Magic Carpet, Half-Life, Hexen, Team Fortress/Quake, Duke Nukem3D, Warcraft/Starcraft, Diablo, C&C, and so many others that remind of being at home on my Dad’s then-cutting edge computer, before my Dad died, before I graduated school and had my own kids, before my parent’s divorced, before everything got worse than it was, life was good just hanging out and playing games. The games may be “better” now, but I’d give anything to go back to the 90s/00s all over again.
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