Yeah. That is not retrogaming. That’s speculation, by assholes, for assholes.

Well I was trying to run OG with HD, the original game already had a French version (it’s the one I’ve always played, even back in 2000). But I just learned that the HD mod was not directly compatible with it, though there might be workarounds. As is, it crashes as soon as I start a map.

Honestly even though I’d heard of the project before, I had competely forgotten about VCMI, so thank you for reminding me of it (very good timing too). If VCMI let me do what I am trying to do, really there’s no point messing with the OG install. I’ll try it when I can get back to it.

And then power a murderous, snarky AI.

Does VCMI includes the ability to play the original campaigns with everything they had, on whatever language they were installed? It’s not clear in their FAQ.

I tried installing the original with HD mod through lutris on a PC I am converting to linux, only to discover HD mod just doesn’t support the French version of the game.

Lutris apparently passes down the system language to the installer with no option to change it. I’m sure there is a way to change the install script, but I haven’t really looked into it yet.

If there’s a way to pass down the French version in VCMI and get about the same improvements HD mod provides, and get all that to run natively, maybe I won’t have to.

Some of them tried to make video games, and that’s how they ended up with web3 and play-to-earn bullshit. Remember those? Barely? Yeah, same.

Your turn will come, gen AI. It’ll be a total shitshow because of the monster you’ve created, but it needs to happen anyway at this point.

Fun fact, the French version of this line translates to “I am a clothes moth wearing a sweater”. It’s kind of a classic too.

Depends. Are you a banana?

The power of vibe coding, everyone. Deploying shit with minimal effort at the cost of total incompetence.

Morrowind was a terrible action game, and a fantastic hand-crafted world to explore.

Oblivion felt like a huge step back to me. Sure it looked a lot better, it was technically bigger, it was entirely voiced over, and its physics… err… existed.

But it was so bland. Completely generic environments, copy-pasted dungeons and buildings everywhere, almost any encounter a leveled rando with no personality.

And then everything they did to make the game more modern only made it more boring. Voiced over? Sure, enjoy everyone having one sentence of dialogue. Looking for stuff? Nobody’s got time for that, just follow the magic compass.

I understand why they did those. But despite how janky Morrowind could be in some aspects, nobody can convince me Oblivion was the better game.

Depends, at some points you need enough to progress. I might have been a little too controlling of my cult’s population for my playthrough, because there were several times I struggled a bit to meet the requirement.

Haven’t bought the latest DLC yet. I might return to it.

Seems like they technically went a bit farther than mocking game footage (but barely). A 2001 demo of sort, that’s probably close to what they showed at E3 that year, was leaked in 2022.

It’s “playable”, in the sense there are quite a few maps you can explore and player physics and weapons are functional. But there is basically nothing to do, in particular no enemies at all.

Anyway, DNF has been a fun ride all these years, and the best part is you didn’t even have to play it. The pathetic attempt from gearbox to salvage it just gave a final punchline to the whole joke.

OK, that definitely counts.

Congratulations, would totally accept a shady surprise burger from you.

I mean, if NES was retro in 2006, XBOX 360 can be retro in 2026.

though I have no idea what counts as classics on 360

This is not the base online subscription, which is the part giving you access to online servers.

The so-called “expansion pack” subscription costs much more, and is only for limited access to emulators and a couple DLC for Switch games (like Mario Kart and Animal Crossing). I don’t like my games being kept hostage to a sub. This fee is literally just that.

My VC games are still there and playable on my Wii, Wii U and 3DS. I bought them (sure, technically, a licence, like every video game ever released, even physical. But let’s see them revoke it).

Everything you point out is literally working against this subscription.

You can get digital games that are not tied to a subscription, and while the download server might be shut down at some point, if you still have it on your system, it still works. NSO emulators won’t, because they routinely check whether your subscription is still active, even though everything is downloaded and runs locally on your console.

The NSO expansion pack is not the sub required for online access. Base NSO is, so if one is paying for servers, it’s just that one. Expansion pack is an extra and is only getting you access to emulators for N64, NGC, GBA, Virtual Boy etc. “If they made it a separate sub for the classic games”? That’s exactly the case.

Even if it was just one bundle for both online and classic games… Why would that be okay? There is zero technical reason for classic games to be a subscription model. Being artificially tied to an unrelated one is not an excuse.

There is literally no reason for it to be a sub compared to a one-time payment. Except of course in the sense that having customers pay for subs, forget about them and keep paying for nothing at all is the holy grail of content distribution nowadays.

Virtual console, though maybe a bit expensive for what it was, used to let you keep your games.

On principle, not paying a freaking subscription for the right to access old games, previously unreleased or not. We used to be able to keep our games.

I was wondering a bit about this too, what about usual obsession with dangerous blue haired feminazi. Though maybe that’s more of a US thing.

Maybe it’s because of that too :

The origins of the character are ironic, to say they least. An early iteration of Amelia began life in a counter-extremism video game

If you are unfamiliar with Amelia, the chances are you will soon encounter one viral meme or another inspired by her on Facebook or X

…no. that is not likely.

For what it’s worth, I could launch Towerfall on my swIItch and play a single player game. It was just a quick test though, it’s possible I just didn’t encounter the reason it’s still marked as unsupported.

On the subject of CotND, according to their discord, the annoying part is that the developers still couldn’t get a 2 dev kit from Nintendo and basically can’t do anything to patch the game and fix it on their end.