Love the "Old-schoolness" in the game. Especially the use of non-combat skills.

 

what game is that?

Lords of Xulima?

^ What in the...

The funniest part is I've now figured out how to reproduce leaving the normal boundaries of the game, at will. Some oddball glitch with view angles and tossing around materials. Sadly, the biggest caverns I've dug for checking out their outer shapes are long gone. I'll have to do another.

what game is that?

 

Lords of Xulima?

 

Exactly.

Playing Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.

 

My character showing absolutely no sympathy for drow slatterns:

 

Good riddance.

Haters. Viconia is awesome

Best part of her was the pic BioWare traced over

 

Outlast:

I'm having a Thranduil moment.

Best part of her was the pic BioWare traced over

 

Indeed.  BioWare was using stock photos long before Tali.

Come to think of it, I've noticed that RPG characters voiced by Grey de Lisle tend to have a very high mortality rate in my play-throughs. I don't remember any who survived...

Nothing like taking care of business yourself. Even though the sword is longer than my character's height.

HD Quake 2 on the Rift, if you cross your eyes you can see what I see

 

 

Bokishi, you're such a tease.

 

Keyrock, is that Dead State?

looks more like a remake of Jagged Alliance

Bokishi, you're such a tease.

 

Keyrock, is that Dead State?

Nope

 

looks more like a remake of Jagged Alliance

It's Jagged Alliance: Flashback, so you're basically correct.

The bottom screenie just reminded me of a shot from Dead State I guess.

I tried JA:Flashback shortly before the release again and it felt horribly unfinished. It totally killed my mood to play it since.

 

Also, yes, people should see it more as a JA1 remake, and not a JA2 remake. Me personally, I am fine with this. Back in the days I totally loved JA1. Played it for so many, many hours. Never finished Deadly Games, though...

Elite Dangerous is probably teh most epic sandbox space flying game out right now. You can be a trader or a bounty hunter or whatever. It is also the benchmark Rift game. In the Rift everything is true to scale and massive. You can turn your head and look out your windows to the stars and watch huge ships and rocks whiz by. You can look down at your digital hands and watch them make the same joystick movements that you make. It feels less like a videogame and more like the holodeck. And 10x more next gen than PS4 and Xbone. Cross your eyes and you'll see what I see

 

 

 

 

 

My matching joystick setup

 

Edited January 10, 201511 yr by Bokishi

Joysticks have come a long way, baby.

Yes and no. My preferred stick for space sims (where I favour minimal resistance) is the CH Products line. Other than switching the connection method from gameport to USB, their current products are absolutely identical to the ones they were selling some 20 years ago - and I'm glad that they are. Contrast to Thrustmaster (who were bought out by Guillemot) who dropped their entire line of products to make these oddities. That said, they still produce the god-king of all game controllers, the Warthog HOTAS.

I was mostly talking about their appearance (Bok's are pretty fancy looking to my eyes), although the ones in your link do retain the same general shape as the NES one we had ages ago, and a couple hubby bought when he wanted something for a pc game once. I've never been a joystick person tho. I mostly just remember the Atari one.