I’m about the play call of duty on my gaming setup which got completed last week. For this setup, I had to buy a new gaming chair of my choice. I bought an elecwish gaming chair after I read some good reviews of it here at this website https://chairstalk.com/ .
Now It seems I would have great gaming experience.
Been toying around with GeoFS, an online(!) flightsim.
Jumped right into a 737, didn’t crash (had “register crashes” explicitly turned on), but had no clue of any but the most basic (keyboard) controls, so landed on some random streets in Chicago, as I couldn’t find KORD or KMDW.
A bit laggy depending on net.traffic, so you gotta anticipate…
DOOM was a terrific game. Of course, today the graphics look like crap in comparison to the latest stuff… but it’s amazing how the mind “fills in details” with old DOOM. I really wish they’d re-release it in much higher resolution. Same exact game. Same creatures. EVERYTHING but just in high res. Because what’s great about this game is that you can get your FPS fix at any time and easily blow off a good 10~20 mins, save, then come back another day and it’s not complex to remember where you were.
Have been playing and really enjoying the demos for Gunner, HEAT, PC! and Tiny Combat Arena. They’re “soft-sims” of Cold War-era armored and air combat respectively and are controlled (either with mouse+KB, gamepad or joystick) and in many ways function a lot like two infamous Free-to-play titles without the grinding and microtransactions of them. Just enough realism without needing 1000pg manuals and hours of practice just to start the engines (respect for DCS and other hardcore sims but I just don’t have the time or patience).
TCA demo isn’t publicly available anymore since the game has changed significantly and is getting much closer to release but if anyone is interested in trying it out just LMK.
DOOM was the reason I built a home network with several PCs on it so I could have friends over and blast away in coop mode. This continued with other games (age of empires, battlefield 1942, risk 2, left4dead, diablo…just off the top of my head but there were hundreds) until about 2 years ago when the last one moved away or passed away, but I still play stuff with RL friends online
Sounds great! Must’ve been loads of fun. Everyone with headsets on. Rallying against all kinds of nasties. Did you ever play one DOOM knock-off, called “Rise of the Triad?” It was such a fun game. God mode was hilarious. The yawning!
Currently I’m working on Valfaris, the most metal action-platformer ever created. I’m actually terrible at 2D platformers but I am toughing it out because this game is special. I just love the visuals and the weapon variety is good too. You can exchange savepoint tokens for weapon upgrade materials which has resulted in me stubbornly refusing to use savepoints in places. The game can be finished in under 2 hrs by a highly skilled person who doesn’t stubbornly cling to his savepoint tokens….I am 10 hrs in.
To be fair, there has been a resurgence of 90s style games from the Indie scene in the last few years. Dusk, Amid Evil, and Viscerafest are good examples. I suppose they still have higher levels of detail, but in terms of overall graphical fidelity they are totally relying on your imagination to take the visuals to the next level. Dusk is an instant classic in my opinion. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes shooters that play like shooters and not like 1st person moba games.