Oh look! Maybe I’ll play a bit too, then. ;)
The expansions are on sale, so I decided to dive back in. It’s been so long I’ve no idea what I’m doing, but it’s sure pretty on the new rig.
I had problems getting FO3 to run reliably in Windows 7, which is truly unforgivable of Bethesda considering they KNEW Win7 was coming out during the very Fall 2008 window as the damned game.
From what I understand, though, there’s a mod out there called Tale of Two Wastelands which lets you play the FO3 game in the New Vegas engine. I’m assuming you have to import assets or something from FO3.
Speaking of NV, I’ll be playing New California.
Surviving Mars managed to hook me from the free weekend. While it’s obvious it won’t last forever (like a good sim), it should last several dozens of hours. And it’s calming / Zen as a break between other games.
I picked up Total War: Warhammer 2 on sale last weekend, even though I haven’t finished a campaign in the first yet (but have played plenty the last few weeks to know I’m a big fan). Wish I’d known the first game is effectively included in the second Mortal Empires campaign, plus some very welcome UI improvements - would have upgraded earlier. Can see this being my regular for quite some time to come.
Anyone? I also wanna know.
I guess I may restart Bard’s Tale IV. Play a bit of Kassandra (and more if it lures me) and some Fallout 4 heavily modded survival mode so I can stay humble and get killed a lot.
I’f a land a nice big fat client tomorrow I may wander over to the Bethesda Website and buy Fallout’76 and look for wonderglue and duct tape from zombies while I find off the other 23 weirdos playing. We’ll see.
Oh and a very funny Warhammer 2 campaign if I have the time.
It’s like interstate '76 but in fallout? :P It’s the new Bethesda thing, Fallout as an MMO. I for one am totally and utterly uninterested in any of that.
Thanks. I actually just heard the new Gamers with Jobs podcast discuss it, and they said it was still pretty buggy, and that even grouping could be a problem. An MMO where grouping is a problem?
It’s more toward one of those multiplayer “survival game” things, apparently. Certainly it’s not what I’m looking for from a Fallout game.
Skyrim VR, Astro Bot VR, Tetris Effect. Yep, got a new PSVR set. The immersion will be strong this weekend.
Starsector and more Starsector.
Loved that game. One of my favorite sims ever. I remember it ran like a dog on my rig back then - which was a 486 dx2 66 with 16Mb of ram and a 2d video accelerator card. I convinced my father I needed it to run physics simulations…
RE: EF2k
DOSBox-ECE +
VirtualMIDISynth+
A Good SoundFont+
EF2K DOS set for MT32
equals
HARDON
TOO MUCH INFORMATION! ;-)
I confess to having shut off the music as my first move.
Deep Madness board game
Pavlov’s House board game
A Distant Plain board game.
Fallout 76
COD IV.
I looked up a bit, and on my Mac, Boxer (the local, fancy DOSBox) ran the game quite sluggishly, and had no voodoo support.
The DOSBox ECE you mentionned has voodoo support, but the game wasn’t working here, crashing back to DOS on loading the simulation. I found a special version of DOSBox released in 2013, “EF2000 reloaded”, that works perfectly (running it through Wine here, to top it off!), with a small caveat: its voodoo support prevents switching in or out of fullscreen, which is why they recommend playing in an oversized window.
I have just done that, and to celebrate, I turned on the CD soundtrack.
Just played my first dogfight, where I hardly did anything but told my buddy to engage while I was only tracking down the crashing enemies with my gun, thanks to the all the knowledge I acquired reading the dry manual this past week, but it was glorious.