Honest question:
What were the best games developed directly by ms on it's own. I can only think of flight simulator, and that's not really a game. I just genuinely don't think I've played any.
I mean ignoring minesweeper and space cadet pinball or whatever.
Oh maybe like forza motorsport? was that them?
It's weird that they don't brand them - I guess B2B is too important to them to risk reputation on frivolity. Which is odd because of all the f-words i could use about sharepoint, i think frivolous is about the nicest.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They had a bunch of great titles.
Age of Empires, Freelancer, Mechwarrior, and more.
bryndos@fedia.io 2 days ago
I think I had a demo of one of the mechwarrior games, but it ran slow on my PC, or was a bit boring, or something, I never got on with it.
It was in the doom era though , and very little could compete (from my perspective) - so probably i just played doom coop (until it turns into defacto deathmatch) anyway. I mean that was most of the 1990s the way i remember it.
Certainly the mechwarrior demo wouldn't have had networking anyway - but i feel like maybe it got less out of my meagre hardware than doom did.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The old Mechwarrior games were more like simulators than modern mech games, so were pretty complicated to get into.
And they were very demanding performance-wise.