I have two gaming PCs. Guess I just use this one for nostalgia gaming or playing 10+ year old titles I missed. I emulate PS2 games on it as well, since I never owned it as a kid.
My personalized sheet. These are actually all the less playable conventionally modern era CRPGs with an overhead view that you can find. I've also categorized them by influence. - Buldur's Gate school - Fallout school - TRPG with a huge CRPG influence - Uncertain CRPGs
>>134256 I fell in love with a brand of chinkpads called Gamesir. It's really good and they're even licensed by Xbox to manufacture and sell Xbox controllers with hall effect sticks. I now own 4 of their controllers and there's another one on the way for my phone, lol. My personal favorite is the Kaleid T4.
>>134262 Thanks I take it there is no big difference between DirectInput and Xinput for the emulator? Does XBox-like gamepad work correctly in PS2 games?
>>134264 I don't think there is. I just use xinput for pretty much everything. And sure, any controller that supports windows can work with the emulator. The most confusing thing is the buttons, since they are different on PS and Xbox controllers, but it's fairly easy to memorize them.
>>134526 I played miside recently, it was short about 2 hours or so I saw that some people on steam who've spent hundreds of hours playing it
It was a little depressing and I felt sad after playing it, I don't think I'll play it again, don't know how people can put so much time in it, maybe they really like the mini games
>>134537 When the game first came out, I used to create threads and make memes to rofl the assholes who play this shit. But then I decided to play it myself. I went through it 3 times and even bought it. Surprisingly good product for a small Russian company of a couple people.
>>134836 Why does the post-Soviet world always copy something from Western nations? It's a shitty tradition really. Why do you need your own Splinter Cell? Make a unique, unlike anything else franchise from scratch. How many cool books have been written about Soviet spies. Not a single decent game except for Death to Spies 1, 2 and Alekhine's Gun (the de facto third installment of the series)
eng title: A.I.M. 2: Cland Wars An open-world role-playing game about an artificial intelligence civilization.
In 2004 became a hit in Russia. The first part is not bad either. Has a mediocre spin-off about racing. A full-fledged third part is in development at the moment.
eng title: Planet Alcatraz (1 and 2) I consider it one of the best CRPGs of the Fallout school ( >>134260 ).
But the translation into English was disgusting and lost a huge part of black humor and charisma, so the game did not go further than Russia and Post-Soviet. But perhaps someone has already made a normal English localization. According to the author of the script, the third part is also in development.
>>134251 (OP) Heroes 3. The russians made a HD fix which works great. Haven't played the HotA fan-expansion yet, but it's well worth a try if you remember Heroes 3 fondly.
>>134702 still don't understand what were you trying to say with this - this Intel App Slop in the laptop doesn't even recognise the second monitor, it only shows if it is locked to the laptop original monitor.
>>134893 Older games where only square resolutions are supported (e.g. 1024x768) are stretched on a rectangular screen, e.g. 1360x768, which distorts perspective. This can be corrected by disabling scaling (stretching), then the video card will display the square resolution on a rectangular monitor, with only black bars on the sides (and top, bottom, if it is 1920x1080, for example). If you want a distortion-free picture, this is a good method. I also want to point out that when stretching a “square” game on a “rectangular” monitor, the cursor has different sensitivity in the X and Y axis which can cause both problems in gameplay and in the operation of the game itself. That's why I recommend fixing it. As for the application, you can find another one, there are at least two versions of it, if you need it. In general, Intel Control Panel for Intel integrated video cards should come with drivers in the package.
>>135020 I will cite the most recent ones I have read (I sincerely hope they are available in English). I'm also not sure if I'm translating the authors' names correctly; book titles may be different in the Western market:
I recommend starting with “Aquarium”, an autobiographical book by Viktor Suvorov (pseudonym of a former Soviet GRU spy hiding in the UK). 100% available in English, because at the very beginning in my version of the book it says it's been translated into 30+ languages.
“KGB: A History of Foreign Policy Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev” (Oleg Gordievsky and Christopher Andrew). Gordievsky is a high-ranking KGB officer who fled to the West in 1985.
“Special Operations. The Lubyanka and the Kremlin 1930-1950” (Pavel Sudoplatov). The author is a legendary NKVD saboteur, an ethnic Ukrainian. He organized the assassination of Ukrainian nationalist leaders Eugene Konovalets, Roman Shukhevych and the assassination of Lev Trotsky.
“Seventeen Moments of Spring” (Julian Semyonov). The novel was also the basis for a TV series that became a hit in the USSR: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069628/.
>>135021 It's a tactical game, with science fiction elements, which doesn't focus on Russian spies, but rather on a small group of saboteurs of different factions. By the way, there is an interesting shadow miscalculation implemented there, which reminds of primitive raytracing (long before RTX), you can notice how the shadows gradually “recomputed\resolved” to a higher quality with a static camera, although over time it becomes annoying. Also, even Splinter Cell has a Russian spy you can play as in co-op. https://splintercell.fandom.com/wiki/Kestrel
>>135023 It's a very valuable thing, take care of it, some people in 10 years will be willing to kill for it. I recently bought myself an original PS2 from an honest Chinese comrade, but it took me 2 times to do it. The first time I bought an “original” console from an inexperienced seller on the online marketplace Avito, at first glance a perfect copy, but the unnatural pattern of plastic underneath gave away the fake, which was confirmed when I opened the case - basically Chinese handcrafted crap with an emulator stitched in, but interestingly it worked without FPS sags and was compatible with those games that didn't work well on PCSX2. The seller refunded the money. The second time I was very lucky, but I gave a huge amount of money for it, although the Chinese comrade as a bonus gave me a box of unique Chinese candies, for which I am very grateful to him. The Chinese add something as a bonus all the time, I was told it has to do with the geography of the buyer. But I don't know how true that is.
>>135037 Because they don't sell it anymore. Pure 1.9.32.0.8 (aka Legendary Edition aka Original). Includes all original DLCs. Steam-rip. Translate the installation procedure using a page translator. Inside is a [CRACK] for each language. Windows Defender may remove it without warning. The language of the game is selected in the installer. https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5198988
I also heard that in the US they fine for torrents, but I don't know if it's true or just another troll joke from reddit, so I warned you just in case.
>>135040 Great, you can also optimize the game with a dozen plugins, load low-resolution textures, or self-compress DDS textures to 512x512 with Ordinator to save video memory.
>>135037 >I wanted to play Skyrim so bad but my PC is a potato. I tried to find the original version everywhere unsuccessfully. Tf you mean bro? It's a game from 2011.
The game isn't a masterpiece, but it's one of the best Terminator game ever. Much better even than the last movie. There is DLC that allows you to play as Skynet and expand on the storyline of the main game.
Easter egg: If you go to the end and watch the credits, you can find out that the game is made in Zelenograd, Moscow region, which is hidden by the publisher for political reasons in pre-sale. (Developer: https://vk.com/catswhoplay )
>>135069 All right, buddy. I'll try to combine my selection with older games in the future.
By the way, interesting fact.: The elf Drizzt Do'Urden, one of the heroes of Menzoberranzan (1994), can be killed in Buldur's Gate and Buldur's Gate II and the player can get better weapons (his famous scimitars) and equally famous armor in the game if you play as an evil character. The Menzoberranzan game itself allows you to print out character dialog on a dot-matrix printer in real time, which was incredibly cool back in the day and provided a new level of immersion.
>>135093 I can imagine an American childhood, but I can't imagine an Australian one for obvious reasons - Australia like Russia is not a generator of global media goyslop.
My first game on my father's PC was Grand Prix Curcuit (1988), i played it in 1996 when I was 4 years old on my father's homemade computer, who soldered computers for sale. About a year later, when I learned to read better, I read my first review from my father's game magazine (I think it was “Igromania” or Game.exe - two of the first Russian magazines), where the author analyzed some first-person action game, but the player was controlling a car (I still can't find this game), and wrote that the game has a lot of bugs because Microsoft imposes its incomprehensible and unnecessary DirectX on developers. it's still funny to me. (t. 3D graphics programmer and 3D artist)
Russian Starfield from the 90s, which didn't become popular in the West because of “outdated graphics”. The Western publishers was embarrassed by 2D enemies, because the game was released a few months after Quake 1.
Parkan II (2005)
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Ukrainian Starfield from the 00s from the developers of Xenus and Xenus II. Too much ambition = shitty realization, but it has its own charm. I still play it sometimes.
Russians I think they keep a mod for Freelancer (2003) that even had Russian dubbing/subbing. But I'm vanilla chad, never installed. Only Vanilla HD mod I'm even there on trannycord.
>>135132 I played it when it came out and it was one of the best games I've ever played. I recently replayed it and the game is still just as good. Halo didn't become iconic in Russia because of the lack of console culture, also because of the lack of Russian language. The PC version meanwhile got a shitty port where the lighting didn't work properly.
>>135124 I make posts with Russian games not because I'm a Russian patriot and so on, but because I think Ru-gamedev was little known and unfamiliar in the west due to a number of problems, in other words - if I start posting games that everyone has played, it will be very boring. So I'm surprised you know about this mod. Freelancer is a game I neglected because I started playing it after spending a huge amount of time in X-Tension (1999), where there was complete freedom of action, the ability to build stations and buy armadas of ships, a dynamic economy, the AI could even build stations itself, the player influenced the galaxy, the galaxy was dynamic. Freelancer seemed to me then very boring and static, despite the presence of a plot, and I quit playing. I'm thinking of catching up soon, though.
>>135125 Yes, this is a very familiar opening, I must have watched it back in the 90's in the evening after kindergarten. Even has a Russian adapted title on Kinopoisk (Russian imdb).
Good. It's an interesting feeling when neurons try to reconnect at some places from the past, a thing seems familiar to you, but you can't tell if it's really familiar or not.
>>135126 Great pic, really liked the video chart, if I have time to find videos and edit, I'll do similar ones.
>>135131 This game is morally and technically obsolete, but I can see that's not a problem for you. You can't change the controls there without special utilities, many of which are also outdated, so you'll have to get used to what you have.
>>135135 >X-Tension (2000) https://youtu.be/8lZRuoL2FDU With due respect to your suggestions and not bashing you personally or something, these graphics suck ass compared to Freelancer (2000) >So I'm surprised you know about this mod. I know the mods but never installed them. Only random addons and freelancer mod manager for minor things.
You asked me what my age when about Obvilion and /colony/ general thread but I'm forced to play these 1990 until 2010 games because 1) I own a 2020 laptop toaster with integrated GPU (512mb???) bought in Covid because I needed to attend online university classes 2) the previous laptop was also a toaster 3) I've got an 12 year difference older brother who literally installed these games during his university in PC toaster.
Even I've tried to stream these in ptchan or newly affiliated streaming website, these even lag (even fucking CS 1.6 lags in gameplay and videostream)
>>135138 >>135139 Discussions on Steam say that the main issues in the game are related to the music and music cutscenes, which either doesn't sound at all, doesn't match the events, or plays the same tune throughout the game. There is also a patch that fixes this problem. - ParkanPatch.exe - run in the folder with the game. - Replace SPVOICR.LIB in the game folder to remove the annoying “manual control is enabled”. https://steamcommunity.com/app/575690/discussions/0/3061868384737619205/
>>135147 >With due respect to your suggestions and not bashing you personally or something, these graphics suck ass compared to Freelancer (2000) I was about 7 years old when I played X-Tension(2000) in 2000, the graphics there really seemed like crap even for those times, but there were huge pluses for which this flaw was forgiven. But when I turned on Freelancer and realized that I wasn't going to be allowed to build my trading empire with complex production chains: from batteries to complex weapons, build an army of 100 ships and start cleaning Xenon's sectors and pirates while earning reputation, I gave up on that game despite all its graphical advantages, decent story, art deco and great music playing in the bars.
>Even I've tried to stream these in ptchan or newly affiliated streaming website, these even lag (even fucking CS 1.6 lags in gameplay and videostream) Well, a laudable initiative, I'd support it if you get the chance again.
Btw, check out this Linux distro, it literally turns your PC into a retro console emulator, it'll probably expand your gaming roster considerably if you have a gamepad. I've emulated Playstation 1 and on older junk from 2012. And even Playstation 2 (with some lags in some games) - both consoles at least have a huge base of good games. https://www.lakka.tv/