Alternate title: what’s your favorite obscure jank?
Black and White and Black and White 2 (The Lionhead god simulator games, not the Pokemon games)
They were extremely cutting edge for their time but are VERY jank and cheesy and I’m not sure modern gamers would like them.
OOOOOOOOH WE’VE THIS NOTION THAT WE’D QUITE LIKE TO SAIL THE OCEAN
I played the shit out of 2 as a kid and have been looking for it ever since. I have a very specific memory of attacking a town with my army, and my giant creature was having a kaiju fight with theirs in the middle of it all. He kicked the giant wolf backwards into a house, collapsing it instantly.
Expansion where you fight the death god with skeleton soldiers was pretty dope too
OOOOOOOOH WE’VE THIS NOTION THAT WE’D QUITE LIKE TO SAIL THE OCEAN
Well that sure unlocked a memory.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
My favorite jank? GTA: San Andreas Multi Player.
Its a mod for GTA:SA that allows better multiplayer action than GTA online does.
Ive been playing it since around 2007 or 08. I like to roleplay as a homeless dude from Blueberry who goes around quoting Carl Marks at everyone. It’s pretty fun, and I’ve been doing it enough that im known around one particular server for doing it.GTA:SAMP isn’t really obscure, but at this point it’s old as fuck, and nobody really talking about it anymore.
Would you be ok with sharing a server you play in? I had no clue there was a MP server. It sounds awesome.
Map games
But i dont “love” them
I “love” them in the same way a flagellant “loves” his whip
I got an emberassing amount of Total War clocked.
1k in WH2
1.4k in Attila
750 in WH1
500 in Three Kingdoms
400 in Shogun 2
250 in Rome remastered
33 in WH3 lmfao
Not counted is a couple hundred hours in the classic total wars before steam and considering I got them pirated
1.4k in Attila
Attila really was a fcking legend. The reversed start of collapsing empire and the actual need to supplicate before the might of the Huns 😭
I managed 600 EU4, 150 Victoria 3, 150 EU3, 200 CK2. But then I actually do love 'em.
I look back on the time I wasted on FPS games like I was an alcoholic or something serious so, idk, go with god or something
Deadly Premonition. It has a cast of very charming and surprisingly well written characters alongside a fascinating mindfuck of a story that is very much unlike anything else I’ve ever experienced. Heavily inspired by David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and the closest I’ve seen another piece of media come to recapturing its dreamy, surreal vibes. Has a cult following despite being an absolutely shit game by all reasonable metrics. The combat is atrocious, it’s unfathomably buggy, you’re forced to drive between locations in a janky ass car, and the driving is like pulling teeth. It’s really quite an unpleasant game to play for many reasons, and that’s if you even get the game to run; the PC port is basically unplayable and requires a fuckton of fiddling on newer systems. Despite all that, it’s an experience I remember very fondly. Just don’t know if I’ll be booting it up for another run in the next decade.
Came here for this one. In nearly every aspect of what makes up a video game, it absolutely fails. The combat was a last minute addition to appeal to western audiences in the Call of Duty heyday and it’s awful. The exploration is miserable. The music is eclectic and the cues are strangely mistimed in several instances. Visually, the game is ugly to look at with very stiff animations. The voice acting is approaching Resident Evil 1 in terms of quality. Despite all of that, the story was so moving, that I was in tears at the end and I can’t help but have fond memories for it.
ohh that sounds right up my alley. I saw it’s only a few bucks on steam, but the port sounds pretty bad. Do you have any recommendations for the best way to play on PC? One thing that comes to mind is emulating the 360 version, but I’m not enough of a gamer to know how that works or if that would be better lol
It’s definitely possible to get the PC game running with some patience.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Deadly_Premonition:_The_Director's_Cut
PCGW has a good page on most of the PC version’s critical issues and candidate fixes, and as you can probably see, there are quite a few. Getting it running in the first place was the hardest part for me. Once you get it running, just refer to the wiki now and then to watch for problematic points in the game and how to best avoid crashes.
As for emulation, I have no idea. I do know that the console versions are supposed to be quite messy themselves, though, so I would guess it won’t be a much better experience.
Fallout New Vegas (pure vanilla with not a single mod aka the console editions and the broken PC ports).
It’s sometimes hard to recommend FNV to other people due to the fact that the only way to really enjoy the game is using the Viva New Vegas modlist.
I’m never reinstalling Windows so I have to pray that MO2 gets ported to Linux sooner rather than later because I personally despise hacking with WINE prefixes/organizing esps/ESM files myself. Also the fact that
- Mods are distributed through a proprietary network
shitholeservice called Nexus Mods - I own a copy of the game on Steam unfortunately and I know how much I despise interfacing with that program.
- There’s so many mods to install goddamn
Have you tried SteamTinkerLaunch? I use Vortex through it, but supposedly it has MO2 support
I haven’t tried it but I’ve heard of it, it sounds very promising though.
Well, here’s some good news: https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer/
I’ve tried this before and I hadn’t managed to get it to work, but I’m going to try again this week on my Bazzite machine.
