What game are you wasting time on?

[NecroLord]

I love how the game punished you for not blasting him through a window with a constant barrage of one liners that basically disable you as he opens up with his machine gun.

If you are quick enough, you can run behind him and slice his throat, which is an instant kill. Better than having to shoot him 9 times...

 

[pickmeister]

Speaking of the original Hitman series, probably even more than the gameplay and nostalgia, I absolutely love replaying them for the soundtrack. With the biggest jump between Codename 47 and Silent Assassin, the soundtrack just gets better and better with Contracts being my favorite.
Even the main menu music gives me goosebumps:


A shame Jesper Kyd's soundtracks are mostly for bad games the last 10 years.

 

[NecroLord]

A shame Jesper Kyd's soundtracks are mostly for bad games the last 10 years.

Haha, yeah, whatever pays the bills, right?

 

[Fargus]

Used to listen to this theme over and over. Only a handful menu themes have that effect. My second favorite would probably be Chatwood's "Welcome Within" from PoP 2.

Back when i actually gave a fuck about soundtracks in vidya. Soundtracks in new games are passable at best, but the games are even worse heh.

 

[Tavar]

I've finally received the Analogue Mega SG which I pre-ordered back in November and I've spent some time playing Sonic 3 Complete and Shinobi III on it. I'm very surprised how much smoother the games run in contrast to emulating them with Keiga Fusion. The colors are also much more vivid. I just wish you had the option to save every game like you have on an emulator, but I guess this in acceptable sacrifice to make for authenticity.

 

[Vyadhis]

I've finally received the Analogue Mega SG which I pre-ordered back in November and I've spent some time playing Sonic 3 Complete and Shinobi III on it. I'm very surprised how much smoother the games run in contrast to emulating them with Keiga Fusion. The colors are also much more vivid. I just wish you had the option to save every game like you have on an emulator, but I guess this in acceptable sacrifice to make for authenticity.

Does it work on a CRT? I have a little one on my desk I got at a homeless shelter that I haven't put much use into.

 

[Ezekiel]

Playing Crazy Taxi again. Not coming close to the scores I reached two years ago. It's weird how much better I drive on the 27 inch monitor than on the 65 inch TV.

 

[Tavar]

I've finally received the Analogue Mega SG which I pre-ordered back in November and I've spent some time playing Sonic 3 Complete and Shinobi III on it. I'm very surprised how much smoother the games run in contrast to emulating them with Keiga Fusion. The colors are also much more vivid. I just wish you had the option to save every game like you have on an emulator, but I guess this in acceptable sacrifice to make for authenticity.

Does it work on a CRT? I have a little one on my desk I got at a homeless shelter that I haven't put much use into.

It only has a single HDMI output, so not out of the box. The crafty salesmen at analogue will sell you a fancy DAC for this use case, though. Anyway, if you want to get a Mega SG, you'll probaby have to look in the used market. Analogue said that they won't produce any more units, but I'm not sure whether they are serious about this or just used it to drive up demand.

 

[pickmeister]

Tried Baldur's Gate 3 for the heck of it. Knowing how degenerate it is, my expectations were low. Laughing at bad games is not a bad pastime.

Beside the disgusting gory part of walking through sphincters, there's not much I can say about the game. The only thing I can point out is that the writing is dumb and the game as a whole is just boring.

What a disappointment. I was prepared for a bad game, not a boring one.

 

[NecroLord]

Alright.
So, I finished Hitman: Codename 47.
The last two missions can be rough (just as the entire game can be), in "The Setup" you have to kill a Dr. Kovacs in a mental asylum. However, someone called Dr. Ortmeyer calls the fucking Special Forces on your ass in an ambush. Grab a syringe from the office near the reception room and an Uzi (should you need it). IMMEDIATELY take Dr. Kovacs's clothes off his body. The rest of the mission is smooth sail after that.
The last mission "Meet your brother" is nuts. You have to fight a few of Agent 47's clones. They are fast and very accurate. I managed to complete this mission without dying once. Grab a kevlar vest and an MP5 with some ammo from a room right after you emerge into the corridor after killing the guard.

Can't wait to jump to Silent Assassin. This is the game that really put Hitman on the map, when the series took off and became big.

 

[TheCumGuzzler]

Since Jesper Kyd's name is mentioned..
Such a shame Dark Tide's soundtrack was wasted on that shitty game

 

[pickmeister]

Alright.
So, I finished Hitman: Codename 47.
The last two missions can be rough (just as the entire game can be), in "The Setup" you have to kill a Dr. Kovacs in a mental asylum. However, someone called Dr. Ortmeyer calls the fucking Special Forces on your ass in an ambush. Grab a syringe from the office near the reception room and an Uzi (should you need it). IMMEDIATELY take Dr. Kovacs's clothes off his body. The rest of the mission is smooth sail after that.
The last mission "Meet your brother" is nuts. You have to fight a few of Agent 47's clones. They are fast and very accurate. I managed to complete this mission without dying once. Grab a kevlar vest and an MP5 with some ammo from a room right after you emerge into the corridor after killing the guard.

Can't wait to jump to Silent Assassin. This is the game that really put Hitman on the map, when the series took off and became big.

I always end up cheesing the last mission by finding my way to the room with minigun and camping the mission out.
Always fun to see those clones ragdoll under the minigun barrage.

Damn, gotta replay the second one soon for the music alone.

 

[NecroLord]

Alright.
So, I finished Hitman: Codename 47.
The last two missions can be rough (just as the entire game can be), in "The Setup" you have to kill a Dr. Kovacs in a mental asylum. However, someone called Dr. Ortmeyer calls the fucking Special Forces on your ass in an ambush. Grab a syringe from the office near the reception room and an Uzi (should you need it). IMMEDIATELY take Dr. Kovacs's clothes off his body. The rest of the mission is smooth sail after that.
The last mission "Meet your brother" is nuts. You have to fight a few of Agent 47's clones. They are fast and very accurate. I managed to complete this mission without dying once. Grab a kevlar vest and an MP5 with some ammo from a room right after you emerge into the corridor after killing the guard.

Can't wait to jump to Silent Assassin. This is the game that really put Hitman on the map, when the series took off and became big.

I always end up cheesing the last mission by finding my way to the room with minigun and camping the mission out.
Always fun to see those clones ragdoll under the minigun barrage.

Damn, gotta replay the second one soon for the music alone.

Yes, great soundtrack.
Again, some shit missions too (like the first one in Japan).

 

[Great Deceiver]

Replaying Dark Forces with the Force Engine and having a blast. I haven't done a full playthrough since release (so almost 30 years ago), therefore I remember almost nothing.

It's a great game and missions are shorter than I remember. I'm using the Community Patch but since I couldn't be arsed to read the notes, I'm not sure what has changed.

I'll be doing a full Jedi Knight 1/2/3 run afterwards. Last time I played JK 1 I used the old jkgfxmod. I saw that there's a new interpreter/engine called OpenJKDF2, is it good?

 

[NecroLord]

Replaying Dark Forces with the Force Engine and having a blast. I haven't done a full playthrough since release (so almost 30 years ago), therefore I remember almost nothing.

It's a great game and missions are shorter than I remember. I'm using the Community Patch but since I couldn't be arsed to read the notes, I'm not sure what has changed.

I'll be doing a full Jedi Knight 1/2/3 run afterwards. Last time I played JK 1 I used the old jkgfxmod. I saw that there's a new interpreter/engine called JKDF2, is it good?

Honestly, I haven't heard about JKDF2. Hopefully you won't have many problems getting Dark Forces 2 to run on your system, as getting it to work on anything which isn't Windows 7/XP can be a real pain.

 

[Great Deceiver]

My last replay was on Windows 10 using jkgfxmod, it worked pretty well but still had some issues like weapon swap looking broken at higher refresh rates than 48hz, etc. It didn't bother me too much because I have a gsync display and just ran it at 48fps, but apparently OpenJKDF2 fixes that and other issues as well.

I just tried it and it seems to work just fine, it even picked up my old saves. I'll include Mysteries of the Sith in my replay sequence as I missed it back in the day. JK2 is still my favourite in the series, such a cool game.

 

[NecroLord]

My last replay was on Windows 10 using jkgfxmod, it worked pretty well but still had some issues like weapon swap looking broken at higher refresh rates than 48hz, etc. It didn't bother me too much because I have a gsync display and just ran it at 48fps, but apparently OpenJKDF2 fixes that and other issues as well.

I just tried it and it seems to work just fine, it even picked up my old saves. I'll include Mysteries of the Sith in my replay sequence as I missed it back in the day. JK2 is still my favourite in the series, such a cool game.

Oh yeah, great game. One of my favorites.
Mysteries of the Sith is also a great expansion, back in the day when developers actually put effort into expansions so they don't consist of only half assed missions and some different weapons.

 

[NecroLord]

Alright, started Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
The first proper mission "Anathema" can give you some trouble, but I did it first try, been a while since I played this game. Avoid getting too close to the guards and
quietly assassinate the Mafia Don in his office (you can reach it by way of the balcony).
The missions in Russia are also awesome. "Invitation to a Party" is a personal favorite, classic mission and one of the best in the series.
The first Japan mission is pretty decent, but "Hidden Valley" is just....
"Hidden Valley" is absolutely screwed. If you manage to reliably and consistently get a Silent Assassin rating at the end of the mission, then my hat's off to you and I salute you, but I just don't give a fuck and can't be bothered to get Silent Assassin on it. Best I got was Shadow. It'll do...
I'm at "Shogun Showdown".
Pretty good mission.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Hidden Valley" is absolutely screwed. If you manage to reliably and consistently get a Silent Assassin rating at the end of the mission, then my hat's off to you and I salute you, but I just don't give a fuck and can't be bothered to get Silent Assassin on it. Best I got was Shadow. It'll do...

This the one where you got to poison a dude to death?

 

[NecroLord]

Hidden Valley" is absolutely screwed. If you manage to reliably and consistently get a Silent Assassin rating at the end of the mission, then my hat's off to you and I salute you, but I just don't give a fuck and can't be bothered to get Silent Assassin on it. Best I got was Shadow. It'll do...

This the one where you got to poison a dude to death?

No.
You have to get a Crossbow, a disguise and make your through a mountain valley into the castle of a Yakuza Lord.
Absolute hell.

 

[AlwaysBrotoMen]

 

[Vyadhis]

I was having to reinstall scs on BG1 EE but it bugged out during a long install so I just said fuck it and returned to the non-EE edition. I started my game over for some reason. Its really autistuc but playing the OG without all the quality of life stuff and jank just puts me in a good mood.

Started playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 again too. 3 and 2 are my favorites.

I have Temple of Elemental Evil in my to play list too, heard about it through Auntie Lilura.

 

[NecroLord]

I was having to reinstall scs on BG1 EE but it bugged out during a long install so I just said fuck it and returned to the non-EE edition. I started my game over for some reason. Its really autistuc but playing the OG without all the quality of life stuff and jank just puts me in a good mood.

Started playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 again too. 3 and 2 are my favorites.

I have Temple of Elemental Evil in my to play list too, heard about it through Auntie Lilura.

What the...
You're playing as Scorpion?

 

[Vyadhis]

I was having to reinstall scs on BG1 EE but it bugged out during a long install so I just said fuck it and returned to the non-EE edition. I started my game over for some reason. Its really autistuc but playing the OG without all the quality of life stuff and jank just puts me in a good mood.

Started playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 again too. 3 and 2 are my favorites.

I have Temple of Elemental Evil in my to play list too, heard about it through Auntie Lilura.

What the...
You're playing as Scorpion?

Yes, I always make absurd out of place characters.

 

[NecroLord]

I was having to reinstall scs on BG1 EE but it bugged out during a long install so I just said fuck it and returned to the non-EE edition. I started my game over for some reason. Its really autistuc but playing the OG without all the quality of life stuff and jank just puts me in a good mood.

Started playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 again too. 3 and 2 are my favorites.

I have Temple of Elemental Evil in my to play list too, heard about it through Auntie Lilura.

What the...
You're playing as Scorpion?

Yes, I always make absurd out of place characters.

Would be funny if your character had selection and command sounds like Scorpion's "GET OVER HERE!".