What are you playing?

[Taraquin]

Elden ring...

 

[Splinterdog]

Mannn we went over this a while back. Tried to warn ya. Least it didnt cost. Gamepass can really come in handy.

I have a feeling you missed my favorite mechanic. The assist is insanely overzealos. A good nfs game is "loose" right? You do manuevers the "wrong" way but in nfs its right if it looks/feels cool... and the reward will be better time. You drive with gusto. If it looks like youre entering a turn too fast, youre not going fast enough. You need to punch the nitrous and throw the back out a bit.

Payback, OTOH keeps you on a hotwheels track. Like theres a guy behind my monitor with his own controller jumping in every time I try to take turns with speed. Killed the fun for me instantly. It barely lets you crash. And then when it does let you drift, its wonky as hell.

True enough, but I had to take a peek and boy, was I disappointed. I didn't even get to do much racing because of the dumb drift training, but what really put me off was the inane characterisation and social media influenced story, if indeed there is a story which no one cares about.

I'd love a remaster/remake of the original 2005 version. My favourite NFS without a doubt.

I'm pretty sure I've got the 2005 version somewhere. There are so many versions, that I get confused. Could be my age of course
NFS Rivals (2013) is a real scream (Game Pass again!) as you get to tear through buildings, over jumps and smash up cop cars. What could be more fun? Only drawback is the 30 FPS limit and the crappy EA Desktop program which we are forced to use doesn't have the option for launch parameters for adding the 60fps hack. I've added it to the shortcut but it doesn't work. Anyway, it still plays fine at 30 and just like Hot Pursuit, really gets those devil horns out. It's a blast.

 

[Ruru]

I'm pretty sure I've got the 2005 version somewhere. There are so many versions, that I get confused. Could be my age of course
NFS Rivals (2013) is a real scream (Game Pass again!) as you get to tear through buildings, over jumps and smash up cop cars. What could be more fun? Only drawback is the 30 FPS limit and the crappy EA Desktop program which we are forced to use doesn't have the option for launch parameters for adding the 60fps hack. I've added it to the shortcut but it doesn't work. Anyway, it still plays fine at 30 and just like Hot Pursuit, really gets those devil horns out. It's a blast.

So I guess you may be few years older than me, I'll be turning 32 next month. Tho I still have the same NES I got in 1993.

e: Oh shit, ur double my age! Damn

 

[Audioave10]

I need to break my STALKER habit so I think I'll play this game again.

 

[Ruru]

I need to break my STALKER habit so I think I'll play this game again.

Cool to see a 4:3 screen in 2022

 

[Audioave10]

I'd like to find another in good shape. I was playing this but its not really a game...

 

[Ruru]

I'd like to find another in good shape. I was playing this but its not really a game...

Dawn! Tho I liked Nalu the mermaid more :3

 

[lexluthermiester]

Cool to see a 4:3 screen in 2022

Actually that's a 5:4, 1280x1024 screen. Easy mistake to make though..

 

[Ruru]

Actually that's a 5:4, 1280x1024 screen. Easy mistake to make though..

Damn! Ur correct, totally forgot that as I had only one (yea, 5:4) TFT before getting a Full-HD one. My bad.

 

[Audioave10]

You are correct Lex, however I set it to 1280 x 960 (4x3) so it works better on certain older games.

 

[Ruru]

You are correct Lex, however I set it to 1280 x 960 (4x3) so it works better on certain older games.

Does it scale well? I remember that older TFTs had probelms with scaling..

 

[lexluthermiester]

You are correct Lex, however I set it to 1280 x 960 (4x3) so it works better on certain older games.

And it doesn't look weird?

Does it scale well? I remember that older TFTs had probelms with scaling..

Was going to ask that next..

 

[Ruru]

And it doesn't look weird?

It looked weird when I tried 1920x1200 on my 21" 4:3 Trinitron

 

[Audioave10]

I've only got 6 games on it now and no problem so far.
I go into Nvidia control panel and set it to Native resolution.

 

[Ruru]

I've only got 6 games on it now and no problem so far.

Well, if it's for retro games, it should be okay. Though older games should support 1280x1024 as well without problems so I'm with Lex on that.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It looked weird when I tried 1920x1200 on my 21" 4:3 Trinitron

1920x1440 should have been ok.

 

[Ruru]

1920x1440 should have been ok.

I may have tried that. Probably I was just that "oh a HD resolution, this is cool!"

Sucks so much that I had to leave it behind as I moved with my then-fiancee and she was like "oh hell no, that monster isn't coming with us" It was a great CRT, 1600x1200@85Hz..

 

[lexluthermiester]

Sucks so much that I had to leave it behind as I moved with my then-fiancee and she was like "oh hell no, that monster isn't coming with us" It was a great CRT, 1600x1200@85Hz..

I would have said "Stuff that! You want me, you get my beastly CRT with me!"...

 

[Ruru]

I would have said "Stuff that! You want me, you get my beastly CRT with me!"...

In fact, I should've done that. A Trinitron in the corner wouldn't been the end of the world..

 

[lexluthermiester]

In fact, I should've done that. A Trinitron in the corner wouldn't been the end of the world..

That's right!

 

[Ruru]

That's right!

Well, a human is in his/her most vulnerable point when he/she is in love, so fuck..

Sucks that good CRTs these days costs as much as high-end GPUs, dammit. I'm jealous that my friend (that one who has the tuxedo cat) has a good 28" wide CRT TV, damn fine to play older consoles with that. Though NES Zapper (gave it to him about a decade ago) doesn't work with that as it's a flat-screen CRT.

 

[robot zombie]

I need to break my STALKER habit so I think I'll play this game again.

Duuuude you are taking me back to "Digital Design" class in high school. We had a PC-illiterate woman trying to teach us HTML, while we were much more interested the total lack of any security on the network for the machines in that room. She was SO confident there could be no fooling around because there was an internet filter. Thought she new EVERYTHING about PCs. She taught bad, outdated HTML form, which she could not be questioned on. I think I gave up on her right there, when she gave me an 'F' for using CSS correctly. She was confused - didn't know anything about CSS. Oh dear lord, the potential javascript pranking running through my mind in those moments was astronomical. I could've given her a heart attack with the script kiddie madness I would unleash lol

I mean... the site I built was legitimately better put-together than what most businesses in the area were rocking, fully modern standards. Other kids were impressed at least "It looks like a real website!" while she just frowns. I could probably sell it to one of those businesses and get myself a car, I thought to myself. I was building PCs and beginning to solder my first PCB projects, and this lady wants to tell me about this HTML stuff she's just started reading about. I couldn't take that class even a little seriously. I took it personally. I went out of my way to get as many kids excited about Halo, because if enough of us play, it's harder to punish us when we get caught... and they probably won't close our opening, so we can just come back when things cool off.

It was all Halo from that point on. We c/p'd our assignments from tutorials and worked on our real skills the rest of the time. Way more valuable than anything else happening in that class. I got pretty good at no-scoping in there. We got caught pretty much every time, but the whole class was such a throwaway, the school itself didn't care to do much about it. But then, they never identified the mastermind. Looking back, I think maybe she couldn't face her superiors as the 'computer' person who's class is always playing Halo over a LAN that they SERIOUSLY should not have any access to, which she is coincidentally utilizing for distributing class materials like it's a college network. I don't think anyone there understood anything to do with PCs back then.


I think everyone else just saw it as a cop-out elective, while I was actively pissed that the elective was a total joke. Meanwhile kids next door were developing their own photos in a real darkroom. The least they could do was let US play Halo, being stuck with the angry computer lady who gives terrible web design advice and doesn't know what "RAM" means. I just felt like it was only fair, since we didn't get to have fun and learn in the only elective left for us to 'choose.' Halo kicks the crap out of learning to make awful restaurant menus in Powerpoint like that's ever going to be a significant skill in any of our lives. I can't think of a more useless task. Halo does more for brain development, probably, and if you're good maybe you can compete in e-sports.

 

[Audioave10]

I thought I had it bad because my one stint in College involved NO computer courses available at all. (1974) I would have loved to see them as I was great at Math.
Your story seems worse!

I need To finish Far Cry on my Windows 7 PC...or Crysis.

 

[Ruru]

STALKER gives me also vibes, I remember when I bought my first 1080p monitor 10 years ago and I thought that nah, the VGA cable is fine, but oh hell the artifacts on black background.. I ordered a DVI cable immidiately.

Still haven't finished any of those, tho I have SoC installed and I guess I almost finished it years ago. My best strategy is to

Spoiler

in the beginning when you have a gun, save, then try to kill the guys who have assault rifles. If you die, just reload. With AR, it helps a LOT

 

[Ahhzz]

I need to break my STALKER habit so I think I'll play this game again.

I'm so DYING for the next STALKER.... don't knwo when we're gonna see it, but I'm waiting!!!