Gaming/VR
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@nzzp what kind of games do you usually like?
Tend to prefer thinking games over FPS type. Really enjoyed Portal 2, for instance, and played through SubNautica just now. Horizon Zero Dawn is probably my top game - just so well put together.
If you prefer puzzle type games, there's games such as these:
Unpopular opinion here, but got bored by Witcher 3. Had such high hopes, but couldn't get excited by teh shitty combat and inventory management. May have another crack sometime though, I hear a second attempt can pay off.
D&D type games I'm not interested in. Rather do proper FPS and put up with the reaction times of ADHD kids.
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@antipodean said in Gaming/VR:
I bought one of these a couple of years back for the basement
Pretty fun, man the graphics are funny on some of the old games. Twin Cobra and Double Dragon still hold up pretty well though!
These are the sort of games youse guys are talking about right?
I decide to put retropie onto one of my raspberry pi's but in the long run I want to make a fullsize arcade machine. I'm hoarding a couple of good CRTs for that.
It funny to open the thing up and see how little computer-stuff is in there - it is literally a black box the size of a laptop.
Bloody kids have no idea how lucky they are to get free credits, or how hard we had to work to make 20c last back in the days!
Or not work.
Back in my 'just quit Uni' days with something like $50 a week less rent and food on the dole hours could be wasted at the spacies parlour as long as you had a few 20c pieces and a mate with a weed supply. you could lock in to Defender for a long time.
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Righto nerds, I just grabbed an HP Omen on discount ($600 markdown) and once I finish setting it up I'm keen.
Last game I really snagged was Witcher III and a bit of COD. My previous laptop was 6 years old so it was doing ok.
What's good?
Where was the deal? That is a seriously good one.
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@nostrildamus HP were running discounts on that model according to the shop nerd. Across their site and retailers.
This was $2900 down to $2300 for the 1P6U9PA model. I saw it elsewhere for less but not sure if it is still running.
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@antipodean said in Gaming/VR:
I bought one of these a couple of years back for the basement
Pretty fun, man the graphics are funny on some of the old games. Twin Cobra and Double Dragon still hold up pretty well though!
These are the sort of games youse guys are talking about right?
I decide to put retropie onto one of my raspberry pi's but in the long run I want to make a fullsize arcade machine. I'm hoarding a couple of good CRTs for that.
It funny to open the thing up and see how little computer-stuff is in there - it is literally a black box the size of a laptop.
Bloody kids have no idea how lucky they are to get free credits, or how hard we had to work to make 20c last back in the days!
Or not work.
Back in my 'just quit Uni' days with something like $50 a week less rent and food on the dole hours could be wasted at the spacies parlour as long as you had a few 20c pieces and a mate with a weed supply. you could lock in to Defender for a long time.
One of my projects is a arcade machine running RetroPie so I can waste an inordinate amount of time playing Galaga and Mortal Kombat
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@antipodean said in Gaming/VR:
@antipodean said in Gaming/VR:
I bought one of these a couple of years back for the basement
Pretty fun, man the graphics are funny on some of the old games. Twin Cobra and Double Dragon still hold up pretty well though!
These are the sort of games youse guys are talking about right?
I decide to put retropie onto one of my raspberry pi's but in the long run I want to make a fullsize arcade machine. I'm hoarding a couple of good CRTs for that.
It funny to open the thing up and see how little computer-stuff is in there - it is literally a black box the size of a laptop.
Bloody kids have no idea how lucky they are to get free credits, or how hard we had to work to make 20c last back in the days!
Or not work.
Back in my 'just quit Uni' days with something like $50 a week less rent and food on the dole hours could be wasted at the spacies parlour as long as you had a few 20c pieces and a mate with a weed supply. you could lock in to Defender for a long time.
One of my projects is a arcade machine running RetroPie so I can waste an inordinate amount of time playing Galaga and Mortal Kombat
Galaga and Defender were awesome. Gameplay is the most important thing not graphics.
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There is a animated Witcher movie on Netflix, Nightmare of the wolf, was fun, made me start a new run through of Witcher 3
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@machpants said in Gaming/VR:
What's the best controller to use with a PC?
Mouse and keyboard, unless you need HOTAS or wheel for Sims. Anything else is for plebs
Xbox elite is supposedly pretty darned good
I have an Elite, they are excellent. Really useful to be able to map different things to additional paddles underneath. Also, being able to make the trigger pull shorter actually had a measurable impact on DPS in the shooter I play.
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saw they announced a remake of Star Wars: knights of the old republic
didn;t play the original but it might be enough for me to buy a PS5, always hear about how good a story/game it is
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@mariner4life said in Gaming/VR:
i just spent $30 and bought a re-mastered version of Command & Conquer, and Command & Conquer: Red Alert
The days i burned playing those in Uni. I bought them to show the kids. The youngest thinks it's great. It's still cracking fun. The sound of a Tesla Coil frying infantry always cracks me up
So - is @Tim 's link pretty much a free version of what @mariner4life and I paid money for?
To be fair - I don't really care - the remastered C&C & C&C:RA - was pretty fucking cheap, and I'm enjoying it. I'm no fucking good at it, but it's a decent time-waster. -
@kiwiwomble said in Gaming/VR:
saw they announced a remake of Star Wars: knights of the old republic
didn;t play the original but it might be enough for me to buy a PS5, always hear about how good a story/game it is
I did and really enjoyed it. I also prefer storylines where you can be "evil" instead of being forced down a narrow storyline. Shows depth by the creators.
If they did nothing else than rework the graphics I'd still be pretty happy.
