Do you have any more red flags?

easy!

pledged of US$ 500 goal

US$ 500 goal

so essentially this screams of “grab any money we can and vanish” type of deal

corn and petting? the future sounds great!

thanks for the explanation.

so… corn? Is this a thing or just something edible the cartoonist randomly chose?

But I do like corn though.

+1 for keepetclassy. Good stuff there.

Originally found the channel via “Lets drown out” -series Gabe and Yahtzee (Zero punctuation, Second Wind, etc) did aaaaaages ago.

well, they’re up for now. The games aren’t too expensive either, so get on it if you’re at all interested. :)

The gog version might come prepackaged with an older version of scummvm (basically an app to run older adventure games), you might want to get the latest version from https://scummvm.org/ and add the game manually into it, there’s been some advancement with graphics scaling etc.

But, yea, I’d say the LSL7 is the best of the older games, doesn’t have any player deaths / gameover -nonsense, but there’s a casino section (staple of the series, kinda) where you have to win in gambling to proceed - but you can savescumm through it if you can’t be bothered to play it for realsies (essentially just save every time you win, check what opponent has and then reload & play accordingly. slam dunk).

Other than the forced “gambling minigame” the puzzles aren’t “moon logic” per se, but do involve some creative/jokes thinkywork.

Along with the regular point&click verb-menu, there’s a free text-input for some dialogue/item manipulation/etc. IIRC there’s like 2-3 things you need to do with it to beat the game (they’re fairly obvious), otherwise it’s for eastereggs.

Huh, end of an era for Larry -games? Some of the games are pretty good and goofy adventure games.

Haven’t really played the text-parser ones, they were a bit before my gaming era, and I really don’t enjoy the brutal difficulty of older adventure games - they went out of their way to kill or softlock the player character if you didn’t know exactly what to do.

I do like Larry 6 and 7 quite a bit, they’re later games of the Sierra -catalogue and have evolved past the “hehe, lets kill the player on every possible situation because fuck you”.

While conservation of games is important, it’s not like the games are going to vanish even if they’re not actively sold (on steam) anymore. Archive.org and abandonware sites have carried them for ages anyway.

edit: oh, apparently the rights to Leisure Suit Larry are owned by Codemasters - and they’re owned by EA now, afaik. Might have something to do with the delisting.

lots of old games on steam, but worth noting that it’s on sale over at gog - generally old games tend to work better out-of-the-box from there, but YMMV

maybe megarace 2? https://store.steampowered.com/app/733760/MegaRace_2/ for screnshots etc. It does look quite rusty and gunky in that 90s 3d way

Does seemingly have a car called “Vipper” https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/733760/ss_e7039c00bf6dd7e601ee9dd8681a9516c6c4854a.1920x1080.jpg

edit: oh, the reward doors? https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/733760/ss_743a183a64b993def3bc62e66b59cbe761430d3b.1920x1080.jpg

perhaps “G-Police”? I’ve only briefly played it’s demo on pc ~around the same time as Unreal Tournament (99) had a demo. The game was also released on PS1

G-Police is fairly arcade, and iirc missions were fairly time-limited for … some reason? anyhoo, maybe screenshots might feel familiar? https://www.mobygames.com/game/1543/g-police/screenshots/

not really a ship, but otherwise a “closed ecosystem” in Stray, https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stray/images/0/04/Sewer_Zurk_Substance.png/revision/latest?cb=20220728192618 , maybe?

edit: some more pics here https://stray.fandom.com/wiki/Fleshy_Walls#Gallery

edit2: not really first person, but topdown adventure/scifihorror: stasis, cayne and stasis: bone totem? IIRC all deal with space-stations being infected by something that merges peopleparts to walls and such

edit3: also, Warframe’s infested missions have spaceships infested with “eyes”/dangly things - not really first-person but it fits the timeframe better

kinda shot in the dark, but maybe one of the Merry Gear Solid -games? https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/metalgear/images/9/91/Merrygear2.png

edit: I realize you said it was 3d, but… still giving this a go as a guess :P

couldn’t post as they’re still trying to escape their selfmade hell. /s

haven’t forked, no children. will neighbour’s do?

word. some devices just have angry machine spirits which just can’t be pleased.

unless you use cutting edge distro

yea well, “arch btw”. Haven’t had issues really, been running it for years on other systems but my gaming pc with nvidia is the only one with issues… because of course it does. :D

the penguin migration was going just fine, until nvidia 570.124.04 dropped, which is when the misery started. :|

Got to check if I can roll back to earlier version.

got the first game/shareware on some random “bajillion games collection!” cd when I was a kid. Even if it wasn’t a full game, the amount of game the shareware episode had was staggering. Years later I came across the second part which was released as freeware. There was much rejoicement.

The game sure has it’s BS moments - like nearly impossible dragons/whatever enemies which occasionally just murder you, but dangit I like it. :3

Just got to figure out a way to “double the pixel size” so that all those crusty graphics don’t get too small on my screen, dosbox + win3.1 is nice but… could be better! :P

Radiotower as a Service.

Ask for a lot, try to appear less shit when ONLY asking a bit less

Or you know, business as usual

I’ve mostly thought about playing Balatro, but haven’t gotten around to it as I’ve only watched numbers go big in Untitled Space Idle (idler/clicker/absolute-timewaster).

It’s been a slow gaming week for me. :D

edit: maybe I should actually elaborate a bit on the idle-game.

Essentially: you have space ship, space ship must fight other space ships, which get tougher and tougher the further you go. As you go, you research, build, etc. more things to your ship to make it sturdier, deadlier, and faster, then reset and do it again, but BETTER. Rince and repeat, the usual idle-game loop.

There’s so many different ways to make the ship better - but you’re gonna need them all anyway, having multiple systems you can/need to level up, but usually can’t do so in one go is just a time sink.

It’s a simple game but if you identify as “scandisk/defrag watcher”, it’s for you.