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omgeeeee, this game was the best!!
Exultation: Correct, Master! My memory cores whirr with satisfaction at your impeccable assessment.
When they announced new star wars like 10 years ago I really hoped for a Kyle Katarn story. Seeing what they’ve done though I’m glad they left him alone
Unless Tony Gilroy is the showrunner
Plotwise, Andor kinda replaced Katarn though
If I’m not mistaken, Rogue One also did. Kyle Katern was the one who got the death star plans I believe, which Rogue One retconned
Vibewise Kanan Jarrus from Rebels kinda replaced the jedi side of Katarn.
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.
This guy used to have the broccoli cut
Oh and he was live action
That was just the standard attractive white male actor in the 90s. Even Pierce Brosnan had that cut when he was James Bond.
Also, I think the sides are a little too long and the top not nearly curly enough to be considered a broccoli cut, but I’m also quite blind to these sorts of fashion trends so maybe I’m wrong.
No you’re right. I thought Brosnan’s was shorter but maybe Jonathan Frakes would count as this too.
I retract my statement
He’s not amused
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 wish it were easier to mod current-gen QoL features into older games.
Burnout 3: Takedown holds up so well though
What kind of QoL features do you mean? Gameplay features?
This past month, I set up JKII to run in super ultrawide with high res textures and fixing the reticule position by dragging and dropping a few files.
Set up Splinter Cell Enhanced to glow up the PC version of the game.
There are other examples, like the X-Wing / TIE mods.
In these cases, my own goal has been to adapt the games to modern systems / formats while preserving the core gameplay.
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.
Are you kidding me, i have installed Morrowind, Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, GTA San Andreas and Saints Row 2 on my new Build…
Ok i admit, i mod the shit out of them, but still…
Funfact: Morrowind has a pretty nice Star-Wars total conversion mod:
It’s a bit buggy, weird, extremely ambitious and a lot of fun. They even managed to put in janky space flights and combat. 😄
Yeah, i never played Star Wind, i always have modlists on Morrowind and never planned scrape it and install a Star Wind one, but i admit i should try someday, especially becsuse i like KOTOR I and II
Please, I play Morrowind vanilla. Actually, I play it on my Series X.
I’d love an emulator so I could play it on my phone. Retroarch doesn’t have a core, and as far as I can tell an android capable emulator doesn’t exist.
OpenMW has an android port. You still need the original files but it does work if you have a someone capable device
I played long time ago, i also use OpenMW now, not worth the headache config vanilla to be playable in a modern PC
