PigLick on 8/5/2019 at 09:02
dont you mean Vice City? or do you mean the SA one where you pilot a cessna to land into the big plane?
henke on 8/5/2019 at 16:23
Oh man I forgot David Cross was in that game. That video kinda makes me wanna play it again. :)
PigLick on 9/5/2019 at 00:30
Yeh I remember that one now, I think I used cheats to get through it.
demagogue on 9/5/2019 at 03:27
Quote Posted by Sulphur
I'm assuming you've tried it while connected through USB as well? That usually solves intermittent weirdness.
Just on this, yes, connected through USB. And I wouldn't use the phrase intermittent weirdness. It's a constant and consistent pattern that gets 100s of hits in the forums of other people with the same issue going back to 2016, so much so they've pinned it to the top of their Steam forum. Some are saying it has to do with the Visual C++ installs, which at least gives me something to do to try to fix it, although I have it installed so many times (each year). Hopefully just the one reinstall matters (2013) and not all of them...
Sulphur on 9/5/2019 at 05:46
Yeah, I feel ya, that sounds like a shite problem to have. FWIW, there's a few beta forks that have controller-specific updates/rollbacks, it might be worthwhile to try those if nothing else works.
demagogue on 9/5/2019 at 09:45
That reminds me of the other game that tragically failed on my new rig, Celeste, which was thankfully solved exactly by one of those beta-forks. I was seriously full-fledged depressed for the few days that wouldn't run until I found that fix. I'll hand it to Steam for being pretty good about handling forks and mods in a standard way.
PigLick on 9/5/2019 at 10:53
what is your new rig btw, spec wise?
as I am at a point where I kinda need to upgrade my cpu and m/board, but have no idea where to start.
Harvester on 9/5/2019 at 11:21
I thought I'd like Botanicula, but it turns out it fails to hold my attention and doesn't really grab me. It's cute I guess but I can't get into it. I didn't expect this after how much I liked Machinarium...
Now doing a replay of Curse of Monkey Island (with ScummVM, I have the original CDs), after this I'll buy Escape from Monkey Island on GOG - it's not supposed to be all that great but it's the only MI game I've never played.
WingedKagouti on 9/5/2019 at 11:49
I've recently been playing the SSI Gold Box games I never completed back in the day, those being Secrets of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Dark Knights of Krynn, and The Dark Queen of Krynn. I have now completed the first three of them and gotten on to the main map of Dark Queen.
While it is unfair to evaluate them with modern eyes, I can't help but constantly find areas where each of them could be massively improved in the UI department. The stories vary between forgettable and mediocre, but except Secrets they do a decent attempt at hitting an epic feeling (or at least with as far as I am in Dark Queen, setting up something epic). Some of the UI issues are definitely down to the games appearing on many different systems at the time of their release, especially the titles that appeared on the Commodore 64, but others (like menu navigation) are very much a product of "this works, no need to spend more time here".
The games do see various improvements as time goes on, with various QoL features being introduced like the Fix option in the camp menu or the in combat menu being more streamlined.
The main meat of the game is combat, which tries to be as accurate to the version AD&D each individual game is based on. The combat itself can be enjoyable, but it can easily get very tedious if you run into several consecutive random encounters (especially ones that disturb your Resting to regain spells). Especially in Secrets where you don't have an overland map (the only Gold Box game without one), but have to run through the entire game in first person perspective through several massive labyrinths with few unique landmarks and lots of chances for random encounters (including several areas with no chance of Resting outside specific spots).
Overall, I'm happy to finally have taken the time to play these games, even if the enjoyment mostly relies on nostalgia.
demagogue on 9/5/2019 at 12:14
Quote Posted by PigLick
what is your new rig btw, spec wise?
as I am at a point where I kinda need to upgrade my cpu and m/board, but have no idea where to start.
It's a MSI GS75 Stealth. Let's see, Intel i7-8750H (6 cores), RTX 2060 GPU, 6G, 144Hz 3ms, 16GB, 500GB NVMe SSD & another 500GB of I forgot the other HD. And the thing is just over 4 pounds. It's unreal and I'm happy as a clam with it, although I did splurge on it.
The one thing I'd say for you is, interestingly, the RTX 2060 is benchmarking faster than the GTX 1070 and it's ~$50 cheaper. I got it right when the RTX series came out & I read claims like that but wasn't sure how credible they were & in my mind I thought I was skimping a little to get it (the RTX 2070 and 2080 start getting astronomical in the price, and like I said even the 1070 GTX is a bit more), but then seeing it was outrunning the 1070 made that a nice surprise and suddenly I feel very clever for having gone with it. The screen has a really high refresh rate too. So graphics are always amazing & amazingly fluid. I mean this is the first gaming laptop I've had in ages, so no doubt that's putting a lot of rose tint in my glasses, but ... Yeah, it's easily the best laptop I've ever had for gaming in its time. 4 pounds / 1.8 kg! That's nothing.
