glau

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For ARPGs if you feel burnt by Diablo IV, I can recommend Path of Exile. Arguably the king of the genre today.

  Others mentioned Grim Dawn, which has a bit slower gameplay, but a good choice nonetheless.

  If you’re looking for indie ARPG, then there’s Chronicon. Nice little game that I really want to go back to again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I should mention 4 more. Most of these are playable in some form or other too, but still.

  • Dune II - I didn’t understand any English when I was playing this as a kid, but had lots of fun with it either way. Open source remake (needs original data files): dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/index.html
  • Golden Axe - This one was somehow memorable to me out of all the cheesy beat 'em ups. store.steampowered.com/app/34276/Golden_Axe/
  • Stunts - The first racing game I played. Very nice map editor too. I even remember the bug where if you hit a peak between two ramp edges you’d fly straight up towards the sky! A brief search didn’t give me any faithful offline remakes, but here’s the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)
  • Secret Agent - I’m fairly sure this or Dune II was the first graphical game I ever played on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/358350/Secret_Agent/
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Game Recommendation for a Broken Arm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I second XCOM, if we are talking about the original two, Enemy Unknown/UFO Defense and Terror from the Deep. I heard good things about the more recent ones, but I never played those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Game Recommendation for a Broken Arm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Might I recommend the timeless classic Heroes of Might and Magic III? Most of the campaigns are not too difficult after you get the hang of things, if I remember correctly. And you can get a hundred hours out of it even if you only play the official campaigns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Quake III Arena. It came out in the 20th century, which sounds crazy to me. It was about 10 years ago I last played it or its remakes.

  I got into Q3 a few years late, but there was still a fairly healthy local community for it back then. Quake 4 came out and then Quake Live, which I played for a while, but the local community was missing by then.

  Sure I could still play it, but I’m guessing there aren’t even enough people to fill a 5v5 capture the flag match anymore, Q3 or QL… a shame. But at least I have good memories of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [2]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been slowly playing through Vampire Survivors again with each hero only using their starting weapon. I did the lightning ring dude on the first map the last time. Only barely made it to 30 minutes with that one.