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omgeeeee, this game was the best!!
Exultation: Correct, Master! My memory cores whirr with satisfaction at your impeccable assessment.
Joke’s on you. I replayed Outcast and Academy just last month with the Team Beef VR mod.
Gah, I need to do that one still- it got updated to work with PCVR as well, right? I am curious how it works with the saber dismemberment set to max, so touching anything is an instakill. Playthroughs with that were so tense in the last few missions
I played Outcast like that, and it makes lightsaber battles a cakewalk when you have perfect control of the motions. A “reality ensued” moment for sure. For Academy I switched to “beef recommended” settings, and yeah, that was much better balanced.
Just did a run through Freelancer.
Might hop on the Dosbox and fire up EGA Trek later.
Everytime I fire up Freelancer I love love love it. It’s an incredibly good game. Pity that Crossfire is such a monstrous increase in difficulty from the get-go, I am still stuck on the first missions because I keep giving up.
Have you ever played its prequel, Starlancer?
Oh - that was the prequel? No, as a matter of fact, I have not. Does it run as well on wine as Freelancer?
Not sure. It’s pretty obscure, I think I was able to get it to run on my old Windows Vista laptop. No such luck in the Win 7 era though.
I’ll take that as a “yes, likely it’ll work fine on wine” g Try wine yourself, it usually runs old games better than Microslop :)
Well I think the frustration is we want novel new experiences with old world quality. Not to play the old game. Nothing wrong with playing old games. But I understand the desire for something new AND good.
Hence Expedition 33 being as well received as it was. The game was clearly made with passion, despite what you may personally think of the genre or other subjective traits.
Look, humans are good at subconscious understanding. We can tell when something is made with love and something is made with greed.
Sometimes we can’t articulate it. But we know.
I’m actually playing Shadows of the Empire on PC for the first time, am on the first Coruscant level (sewers). I think the worst the game had is behind me (Gall Spaceport and Beggar’s Canyon).
Ohhh no I never liked the sewers level. 😬 So much terror with the noises and the tentacles and the murky “water.”
The train level was awesome though, and the soundtrack they picked was PERFECT.
I just played Doom 2016 yesterday. I can’t believe that’s ten years old now… both because damn, time flies, but also it has great graphics, better than most games today imho
That’s how my newer games look at me as I say I have nothing to play. So I boot up an old game.
Actually, I have no time to commit to a new game. So I play games I’m familiar with that I can pick up after being away for 2 months with zero issues.
this is pretty much why I play retros anymore. I can take save states and just come back months if not years later.
I really should go back and finish Jedi Outcast.
I’m waiting for Aspyr to remaster Jedi Knight - Dark Forces 2.
I’m currently playing all of the Ratchet & Clank games in rpcs3, upscaled to 4k resolution. They look and play great! 😍
After that, it’s gonna be time for the Jak & Daxter series in the OpenGoal engine.
Kotor was life.
I’ve actually been playing old games I never got to play back in the day, like Arma 2, og OFP, and Star Wars Galaxies. Also got into Guild Wars 1/reforged. It’s a shame young me threw a fit over the no shared open world, because it is one of the best games and best communities I’ve ever encountered.
Ohh OFP Dragon Rising is great too if you get around to it. Red River is rubbish though
speak for yourself, finished BGI, playing BGII
Retro Achievements man. Retro Achievements.
Ah Jedi Outcast! Good game!
