Surprised it took this long to happen. The game was already a shambling corpse after it got sold to a crypto company.

Gran Tourismo 2 and 4, Ridge Racer Type 4, Burnout 3 Takedown and NFSU2/MW. I like a lot of racing games but these are my favorite retro ones.

It’s thr reason a SIGNIFICANT portion of users still put up with their bullshit OS on their machines. Doesn’t mean they aren’t shitting the bed with said OS or their gaming divisions.

Yes that’s what I said. PS3 era games and at this point, early PS4 start yo qualify for me. Although still actively developed games aren’t “fully” retro, clearly. I’m still on the fence about calling Bloodbkrne retro, for instance.

Around 2 generations of consoles ago, or around 10 years, whatever comes “first”.

Pokemon or other turn based games that were originally designed for portables usually work great for a commute! Also monster hunter, I played a lot of that on the subway back in the day on my 3DS. Thr PSP games might be easy to emulate.

The exact same bullshit they pulled on Helldivers 2 and all their other recent PC games, for that matter, even the single player ones needing PSN logins and region locks. Don’t buy their stuff.

Yeah I replaced mine with Gulikit sticks after they started drifting while playing BotW. They were surprisingly easy to service, no soldering or special tools required.

I know it isn’t what you mentioned but it reminded me when I wad reading anyway. I am quite hyped for the new Heroes of Might and Magic.

I’ve never even dared to make an account there to ask questions because they’ve always been toxic as fuck. And lately they’ve been going about pivoting to AI, after they sorta monopolized the “business” of answering questions on several subjects… They can go eat my ass with that shit and attitude.

Is anyone surprised by this? Really? At this stage, after we’ve seen the lenghts that Sony has went to stuff PSN account requirements on even their offline singleplayer games?

Most of them have no idea what they’re talking about, and sometimes those who do, are making a video just for entertainment purposes or got paid (in getting a free game key) to not say anything too bad about it.

I got pretty much the same opinion as you, probably a bit angrier about all the shit they did, with Unreal Tournament, their store and spyware and exclusives, and their unoptimized bloated game engine taking over the industry.

So no, I guess I don’t claim those games or have an account. I already have a million games I’ll never finish playing on Steam and emulators anyway.

Yes. Next stupid question.

When in doubt, true doubt, Doom is always there for me, in every device I own.

Me too. Stopped a couple years ago after I hit 2,000 hours of play time. This year I’ve played a lot of Helldivers 2 and Monster Hunter, which I have a combined total of nearly 1,800 hours again.

I’ve been playing using the latest forks setup on the Fitgirl torrents of Switch games. Started with The new Zelda and Unicorn Overlord, then grabbed some other games. The folder comes with a launcher to both emulators, I customized the whole thing to be my own Switch central, and updated the Ryujinx build with the last “official” one on the Internet Archive.

Other than that, this thread has good recommendations for followup projects to both. The megathread has places to download the games themselves individually.

Usually around Christmas time it’s vacations and steam sale times and sometimes beach trips with my Switch and phone. So it depends a lot. But, also because of that, there are some games I played on the past in this time of the year that kinda got stuck with holidays vibes because of it. Some kf them are Doom, Quake and Monster Hunter. I think I’ll be playing Pokemon Platinum this year too, on my phone.

Real. Ever since I spent some time setting up good CRT shaders, playing retro games feels a lot cooler. They just give the best feeling and look pretty nice with them on. Sometimes for fun, I leave the shader on for regular Windows usage.

Hmm for patient games I’m playing now… Does Super Robot Wars V count? I feel like I’ve mentioned it in several weekly threads already. I’ll also mention NFSU2 with the underground2.net modpack, then.