tombruzzo

joined 1 year ago
[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

They better be stealing that bloodborne source code

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel there's a place for the floaty generous autoaim of games like time splitters and Metroid Prime. It lets you have fast shootouts whilst focusing on exploration. I hope someone makes a game like that one day

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Pseudoregalia nailed this. Every room feels great as an n64 era platformed. But if you stop and look at any of them you have to ask, 'what the fuck would this room be used for otherwise?'

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just slide down the side of the elevator, brother

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

A big part of the Elden Ring lore is there are aliens and I feel like people don't make a big enough deal about that

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Sonic lore is wild. Chat, is this true?

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

No one thought America would do Operation Anchorage to themselves

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've played through it, technically twice because I got stuck at the end the first time. I just never have the hankering to play it again like I do the others.

Like, I know the early stages of the first two quakes so well and I feel like I could drop into them any time. I just never feel like playing half life 1

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I didn't play the first one when it came out and feel like I kind of missed the boat on it. I grew up on Quake and Quake II and played HL2 at release so I never feel like going back to HL1 like the others

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

The movement and gunplay are the main parts that feel like it has aged, and not in a bad way. You move so much slower in modern games. Maybe it stands out more in the half life games because you're a quake guy in tiny realistic corridors

 

If you want to get into some free gaming history, one thing I noticed is there are a lot of community projects maintaining the more popular games on MyAbandonWare.

Check the links and comments on the game page and do some research online about any game you want to download.

The games I've downloaded from MyAbandonWare have been fine, but they've been original rips of the CDs with only a few cracks and patches. Sometimes they just crash on startup or are missing some dependency.

The more popular games have maintained versions made to work on newer hardware with better resolutions.

There are downloads of all the Need For Speed games on MyAbandonWare on other sites with mods and updates preinstalled to work better on current systems. The same goes for games like the No One Lives Forever series, Tribes, Midtown Madness, and the original Silent Hill 2.

There's even projects for other free games like Marathon, Bungiee's FPS before Halo. Marathon is free on Steam now as well, but you can play it off platform on more systems through the community maintained freeware version.

These are also great ways to play older games without needing to use an emulator, so you can play them without the resource overhead of later emulators because you're running a native version or at least a port of the game instead.

That way you only need to worry about compatibility mode or trying to get games working through WINE for obscure titles that don't work and have no support.