I don’t think grey market is ethical… You better off pirating games than paying the thieves.

TL;DR: birds can fly up and down so they are more likely to get lost

Caesar III with Augustus mod.

Caesar III is a 1998 Windows city building game, so it’s like SimCity, but more fast paced, focused on efficiency, and set in Ancient Rome. You can get it from Steam or GOG. But the game is old, and clearly aged software and gameplay wise.

Then someone created a reimplementation named Julius project, adding some QoL improvement and compatibility with other OSes. And then someone else forked the project and added gameplay changes as well, incorporating features from later games.

Now I can play it in my Android phone in my bed.

I tried this a couple of years ago, The story seems intriguing but after hours and hours playing I feel like I’m not really good at this and my eyes are tired with the monochrome pixel style. I mean I can play Game Boy games for hours but honestly to use the same visual style in a genre where you need to read a lot and to look at things really hard, it’s really tiring.

I like the theatrical cut. I like the director’s cut even more. Saladdin depiction alone is worth it.

What? It’s that low? I like this movie. It’s the closest we’ve got to Fallout 3: The Movie!

Don’t forget that there’s also Gary Oldman in this movie. I like The Postman with Kevin Costner and this movie has similar vibes.

I’m not sure there are as Reddit already has subreddit for almost anything imaginable, but I can say that due to how Fediverse operates, I’m seeing more specialized communities that is probably represented just as a tag in a subreddit.

For example my country has one subreddit, with some sister subreddit for photography, food, some big cities, etc, but all these sisters are really low in both content and subscribers. People would rather post to the main subreddit and add [PICS] tag rather than post in photography subreddit, for example. While in Lemmy someone made an entire instance for my country, so we could create more communities and they all are going to be displayed in Local.

Neat!

The nostalgia of early Reddit…

Now I’m intrigued to make account in lemmy.world.

I tried this some time ago. It’s basically the same game, just with some QoL improvement like widescreen support, and also dynamic lighting which is cool.

I honestly feel a little disappointed that I scrolled this far and nobody mentioned Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999).

This is an RTS game, which is a dying genre. It’s also a 24 year old game, which after its release two more Age of Empires games have been released as well, and the game itself has been remastered recently. Yet people continue to play the original game to this day, the multiplayer scene and competitions are still active.

If that is not timeless I don’t know what is.

Oblivion was good, but even at the time of the release the graphics, especially faces, are potato. Skyrim is probably peak graphics at release, and still beautiful even now. Gameplay is a little dumbed down, but still enjoyable for both casual and hardcore gamers. Combine that with active modding scene and continuous support from Bethesda, Skyrim ages longer than any game has right to be.

For me, the controls are probably the only outdated thing in StarCraft, which is why it was fixed in StarCraft II. Oh and probably the very 90s soundtracks and early CGI cutscenes.

Other than that, I personally think StarCraft is one of the best games of all time. The plot, voice acting, character and unit designs are absolutely timeless. StarCraft is one of very few games that I can confidently say I’m suck at, yet still enjoy playing, with cheats if necessary.

For those who want to try StarCraft but put off by the outdated gameplay, I suggest installing StarCraft II (now free) and also installing StarCraft Mass Recall which is the remake of original StarCraft and Brood War expansion in StarCraft II engine.

Honestly after playing newer entries like Pharaoh and Zeus, it’s starting to show its age. But then the Augustus mod came and it feels truly timeless now.

Yes, the games are not especially creepy but the implications are really horror material the more you think about it. Like the reason why Aperture is abandoned, what experimentations were conducted there, what are the consequences, who is the rat man… Chills.

I think the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games are outright survival horror. The realism of the games, the historical event as background, makes it even more creepier.

Fanny pack. Is it just me?