I enjoy these types of games with friends far more, but I always end up playing most of them solo because it can be hard to wrangle friends together at the same time when you’re all adults with busy lives.

Probably either the NES or the SNES. The NES felt the most “magical” at the time. Before the NES, consoles had games that were general clunky and not particularly fun and controllers that were all over the place. There was a good reason that the NES revived the console industry. The SNES just happens to be the home of many of my favorite games of all time. If we’re going newer, then I suppose the PS1 or PS3 (before Sony ruined it) would be my choices.

Exactly my experience. My Linux machines with 16GB of ram run circles around my work imposed W11 machine that has 64GB of ram.

I’d be tempted to if I could get my friends to give it a proper shot. They all really didn’t click with the game like they did with many of the others in the genre. Also, I’d be sad to give up my gigantic castle that I carved into the side of a mountain :)

Yeah, the game is pretty great though I really disliked the last boss fight (or at least it was the “last boss” last time I played through, big flying dragon). It was entirely unfun and brutal solo. Maybe they have tweaked it by now, and I thoroughly enjoyed most of the game so don’t let this dissuade anyone from giving it a try.

The main remaining purpose of buying physical is that you can lend, gift, or sell the game after the fact, and the recipient can then do so as well . This is part of why the GTA 6 plan of selling a code in a game box for $80 and calling it as “physical copy” is such a slap in the face.

Sadly, it is the latter.

Except for the “A browser on rare occasions”, which sadly is likely the only thing stopping me from buying this at the new far more palatable price. I don’t need to be treated like a baby, but apparently this is considered a core feature of the phone and they won’t back down from it.

It was probably a rhetorical question, but it used to be better than now, but even a couple decades ago it was a subpar magazine.

I totally do.

This is such a bad idea, Bernie got duped hard by the AI hype man in his ear. I hope that this gets sunk in congress, which it probably will because A. Bernie is pushing it, and the GOP hates Bernie and B. I suspect enough of those same idiots will see this as taking from the poor billionaires C. A few sane people in congress will see what a dumb idea it is

Being too expensive doesn’t mean they are necessarily gouging. My wife crochets blankets as a hobby, but she’d have to charge a stupid amount to sell them at a profit if she used decent yarn and valued her time at even minimum wage. Said blanket would be “too expensive” without a doubt.

They are definitely charging way too much, the price and the browser block are the only reasons I am not buying one. I think they could reasonably price it at $250 based on the hardware and that it will certainly be a low production run which massively increases the price. Also, that Sony with SailfishOS is both old (it was released over five years ago) and refurbished, not exactly a fair comparison.

As I said to another person, it is more due to the age of the title than it being an exe. It’s a shame that this game isn’t still available somewhere like gog. It’s probably in some sort of licensing limbo.

I’ve not had good luck with old (late 90s) Direct3D titles on modern systems, even within Windows. Then again, at this point Proton might be better at the legacy games than Windows.

If you give it a shot and have success, please let everyone know. I’ll do the same since I no longer use Windows, but I’m unlikely to be playing with it anytime soon.

Nope, it is definitely Wipeout XL. I quite literally still have the old rar file (25MB or so, crazy tiny), though I don’t know if it would run properly as it is a early Direct3D title.

Looks like you can get it here https://www.myabandonware.com/game/wipeout-xl-cok

I owned this game, it was one of the only “longbox” games I kept around because it was so good. That being said the sequel Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was superior in basically every way so it got a lot more play time. Fun fact, there was a native PC port for Wipeout XL that looked and ran amazing even at the highest resolution it supported (1600x1200 I believe).

Sorry, I have no idea if the re-release was worth buying. I still have my original CDs for the PC version and another copy on Steam. I don’t really want to buy it yet again even though Bethesda would love that.

I know it’s fun to clown on how “empty” the Daggerfall map was, but that game was loaded with content. Daggerfall had more game mechanics that any other TES game. With the possible exception of Morrowind (because it was so damned good), every TES game since has been disappointing to me.