Looks interesting. I like this thriller-horror adventure games.

Interesting to see flat design style minimalist artwork in the 80s.

Love the retro space sci-fi style!

Vageua does look pretty cool. Wishlisted.

Cheers.

At least you can see the post (or so I am guessing). I honestly thought it would be shadowbanned/blocked.

I can strongly recommend this title even if the idea of a text adventure doesn’t seem that appealing.

It has great ambience, solid RPG gameplay and a genuinely interesting and engaging world. Support multiple playthroughs as well and you can play rather different characters (in addition to initial class selection).

Some of the 90s era educational games were pretty cool:

• The Dr. Brain series
• Logic Quest 3D - An edutainment FPS set in a medieval world with logic programming and voice acting. The controls were terrible.
• Stowawy! - Very minimal gameplay, but a great experience. I would kill for a 4K remaster.

Pharaoh/Cleopatra had lots of relatively in-depth explanatory text about life in ancient Egypt, but I don’t know if it qualifies as an educational game.

Sorry to hear that! KNThost went bust? They weren’t making ends meet?

This does look like a lot of fun and the art is really beautiful.

I don’t think people at that level have friends, more like business aquintences. And all they do is work; feed their net worth value must increase addiction.

I see. We’ll that’s too bad.

It’s a great game but definitely flawed in places. I will agree that the world building really carries the game. By modern standards the open world is rather small (and some parts look like they simply didn’t have time to develop - the hotel in downtown), but it works really well.

I will pick a less commonly chosen favourite; you get to meet the creator of the zombie movie genre and help him out.

And I love the Hollywood map music track (and this just excellent track among many).

VTMB2 sounds like an action game that’s lacking in RPG elements, so it’s not for me.

I might get it at as some point if the game + all DLC are available for under $10. If not, no problem, there are more than enough games to keep me occupied.

I know a bunch of restaurant management games from that period, but first person simulation type game weren’t all that big in the early 2000s.

Curious what this is.

Vice City x Caesar III (I am assuming this was a retrospective), with a HL2 preview piece. )))

Really cool! 92 was bit before my time (we got out first home PC at the end of 96), but I love the 90s aesthetic and of course the magazine format.

What are the cheese mechanics (high level)?

I’ve heard about this game maybe 7-8 years ago, been meaning to try it, but have never got it. It’s actually not my type of game (I am more into city-builder, tycoon/business sim and strategy game), but its history makes me want to play it at least for a few hours.

The Cannon Fodder soundtrack is an eternal classic.

The reggae intro song was a nice touch.

That, ah, doesn’t quite seem to be the approach being taken with the DX remaster. “They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics,” wrote one disgruntled fan in the immediate aftermath of the game’s reveal. “How did someone not realise how awful those visuals look?” asked another.

A remaster shouldn’t just be about “upgrading” the graphics, but also being mindful of the overall aesthetic. The whole thing sounds like a project by an executive who probably never played the original Deus Ex and only vaguely knows anything about it.

I think this is due to the broader “move towards AI”, gaming was big around COVID, now it’s in a massive decline, at least in terms of employment and investment opportunities, if not actual revenues.

K&B all the way (since 96), but I play genres where K&B makes more sense (city-builder, tycoon games, strategy games). You also need a monitor to see charts and smaller details.

I don’t play as much FPS these days (mostly TF2 and occasional replays of HL/HL2 and expansions), but to this date I don’t really understand how people play FPS games on controller (I played GoldenEye and the OG Halo at friends’ homes when they came out).