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I agree that the characters in Inca II act and sound a little funny. Also, the fact that you play as an Incan (Indian, as columbus dubbed them), flying spaceships, is amusing. One of the things that I noticed when I first played was the graphics. At the time, I didn’t know DOS was capable of textures like that. Probably one reason that I have played the game is because I have it on disk. It was my dad’s when he was young, but he had a newer computer and couldn’t play it. The other DOS games I have played are IndyCar Racing, Oregon Trail, and a new one I have called SimAnt. All of these have worse graphics than Inca II.
SimAnt is another “game I am playing now”. Every summer, I get “ant fever”. I usually end up playing ant games on graph paper, but SimAnt has a thourough representation of ant life. I hope to make a game on Khan Academy about ants, incorporating many of the AI controlling abilities of SimAnt, but adding much more. Here’s a video of the game:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR5TCU68Pws[/video]
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
Im looking forward to that no mans sky for ps4, that should be fun
total annihilation is also a classic. at one time tied my vote with EOC for best game ever
could you imagine if EOC was an MMORPG like eve? but instead of levels and dps and all that garbage it was based on peoples piloting skills and mastering of physics?
the stations and asteroid bases could be the POS’s and people would form up fleets to try and dominate the cluster
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I followed this for a while, I think its a dead project but I loved how it was looking.
I think there is a fine line between having too much and too little UI. I wish EOC had some UI options because at times it felt like you were shooting at red and blue X’s and O’s rather then cool looking star ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8usuG0avM
The Priceline Negotiator
Neat soundtrack!
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
Now this one’s a little different – a while ago, the guys on the YouTube channel Funhaus played a game called:
I don’t know why, but it’s just fun. You play a little girl, you go to school, you like your Senpai and…you kill all of the others. Don’t get caught by the police and make sure to remove all traces! 👿
The game obviously isn’t finished yet. You can only enter one room at school, walk through walls etc. but I like it even in this state.
Space. The final frontier.
well I have cycles of productivity where I go form making games to playing games and right now I am slipping into playmode again and will probably be in it for several weeks. At least until my cousin comes down to help me with some of my code.
So in the meantime I downloaded that Witcher 3 Wild Hunt game for PS4, and I must say its pretty good. exactly the kind of game I have been craving so far. It took the good things from Farcry, Dying light, and KOTOR and put them into one game so it should have my attention for a while. (Farcry and Dying light I haven’t finished yet because you get to a certain point where there’s just not a lot of new things happening.)
Anywho. that’s why I haven’t been posting a lot lately lol
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So… the witcher 3 is a masterpiece by the way, but at one point I was in town talking with some gaurd and a swear it was the voice actor who played Smith in EOC.
I’m sure people have already checked out EOC’s imdb page but if you havent those things are always cool to look at. Its interesting to look at the voice actors and see all the other media they have contributed too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064882/
Stanley Townsend was Smiths voice guy and he was in the original Witcher game, but not listed in Witcher 2 or 3 but I swear hes in the 3rd one. You can’t really mistake the voice, its a good Hollywood voice (he’s done a few Pixars films) and he lends well to fantacy and adventure stuff.
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In the last month, I have downloaded a couple dozen games that I will probably never play through. The first one is Space Engine. After looking at Limit Theory and other games that have much more appealing environments than EOC, I searched for a supplement. I found this site. Space Engine is a very neat program. I would not call it a game, since it isn’t especially fun, but instead a planetarium/space simulator. The renderings are incredible, and the soundtrack is awesome.
Then I started looking into other Dos games. I found one called Elite. This Elite is the precursor to the modern Elite: Dangerous and is awesome in many ways. You can make money by trading, bounty hunting, pirating, and mining. The game also has its downfalls. They make for interesting gameplay, but are not realistic. your ship cannot stop moving at any time. It cannot go backwards, strafe, and has no yaw controls. The stations are constantly rotating, making docking a perilous task. Also, if you collide with another ship, it will drain one of your energy units, but destroy the other ship. On the other hand, their are some super awesome things about Elite. I watched this twenty-two minute documentary about it and learned these things: Elite was the first 3-D game ever made, it was the first 3-D space simulator ever made (obviously), it used procedural content generation, and it was only 22k large, using almost every byte of memory houshold computers had those days. The game also has a save function, but in the version I got, there is a glitch preventing it from working right. The fix for this is here.
Other games for DosBox:
Scorched Earth //mother of all games
Elite Plus //A version of elite with more colors
Boulderdash
Dig Dug //a fairly boring game, but one that I have played before.
Outer Ridge
fighter wing
Armada 2525 //an extremely complicated space strategy game
Mechwarrior //the original
Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries
Mechwarrior 2: 31st century combat //with expansion pack
//will get Mechwarrior 4 for windows
Bruce Lee Lives: the fall of Hong Kong Palace
Bruce LeeGames for Windows:
Mechcommander 2 //I downloaded the source code for this since my CD:DVD drive stopped working. It //includes the finished version, with another version that runs much smoother on my computer, but has //a few minor glitches.
Celestia
Orbiter 2010Games for the Mame arcade game emulator: //These, along with Dig Dug, were on a Namco //Plug’n’Play I had. and are the only old arcade games I am personally familiar with
Galaga
Bosconian
Rally-XLike I said, I doubt I will play through all of them.
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
I’ve played through SOMA in the last few days and it’s one of the best horror games I’ve ever played.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MN8gw6S4kM[/video]
The same guys who did Penumbra and Amnesia in the past took at least 3 years to make another, very well polished game.
The storyline is very futuristic – you had an accident and lost your wife. Your brain is permanently damaged, so the only ones who can help you may be two students working on their thesis about some brain healing technology.
You are scanned in their whacky lab and the next thing you know is that you wake up in the future. Under water. Are you human? Machines around you seem to act like humans, everything is rotting and falling into pieces and you are being followed by strange beings.
The graphics of this game are amazing, I’ve never felt so immersed with a game in a long time. One of the biggest AAA titles of this (or last?) year.
Oh, I also tried to enjoy Alien: Isolation directly afterwards and with that combination it looks really cheap. Cheap jumpscares, cheap graphics, overall just bad gameplay for me. Should’ve done it the other way around.
Space. The final frontier.
I’m currently watching the Let’s Play with German YouTuber Gronkh. It’s not a game I’d ever play (although I do own Amnesia and Outlast), but watching someone else have heart attacks is kind of funny. 😉
I play a lot of Kerbal Space Program these days, as well as Minecraft. I really want to finally… FINALLY.. play through Freespace 2 (Another game I’ve owned since release but never played).
Also a lot of Boardgames. Just started playing Firefly: The Game and loving it!
[quote=”7upMan” post=19310]Thank you. By the way, can you tell me again what kind of joystick setup you use? I wonder if my Thrustmaster Flightstick X (http://www.thrustmaster.com/products/tflight-stick-X) will be up for the job.[/quote]
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Hi all…
Old Soundblaster PCI Cards have a Gameport. Such as Creative Audigy Soundblasters.
There are also Custom Driverpacks for up to Windows 10 32/64Bit
Drivers you can find here….
http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=715369
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Thank you. My last Soundblaster with a gameport is a Soundblaster Live! PCI card (which I still have), which I switched for a Asus Xonar. Unfortunately, Creative doesn’t offer drivers for the SB live! for OSes higher than WinXP, so I had to switch the card and also switch my trusty old Logitech Wingman Extreme for a Thrustmaster Flightstick X (mentioned above).
In the end, I’m glad I did, because the Asus card offers better sound options, and the Thrustmaster joystick offers not only a throttle control but also has a rotating handle.
Unfortunately, Creative doesn’t offer drivers for the SB live! for OSes higher than WinXP
I have a Live!, too. It still works on Windows 10 using the open source KX drivers.
Unfortunately, Gameport support has been removed after Windows Vista and can only be hacked into 32bit versions of Windows.
But I can play with my Gameport joystick on Linux, they’re still supporting it 😛
Space. The final frontier.
I’ve now played through “Vampire – The Masquerade: Bloodlines”.
Two times.
I’m 60 hours in and there’s still no end to it. I think I can choose between 8 different races of vampires, all with their own unique abilities and dialogue choices.
The game has an excellent soundtrack by Rik Schaffer (who released 12 new ones last year which were put into the unofficial patch) and I’m really wondering why Vampires stopped being cool.
I know it’s totally different from my usual games, but it’s the best I’ve ever played, I think. Sorry, I-War. :whistle:
Space. The final frontier.
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