Some more excessive self-indulgence here:
Van Hemlock (Ep 57): A Tank, a Healer and a CC walk into a bar...
It's another What We're Playing One, which turns out to include:
- Guild Wars
- Lord of the Rings Online
- City of Villains
- Planetside
- Runes of Magic
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Infamous
- Prototype
- Red Faction: Guerrilla
- EVE Online
- A Tale In The Desert
- Sam N Max Season One
- Wallace and Grommit's Grand Adventures
- Supreme Commander
- Burnout: Paradise
And possibly a few others we forgot to mention! Busy kind of week...
Do check out this site:
Good Old Games
Which I tried out with Beneath a Steel Sky, an ancient title with a minimum spec of a 386 processor running MS DOS 3.0. The game is officially freeware anyway, so being a free download isn't so impressive a fact as it running perfectly and first time on notorious finnicky OS Harridan Windows Vista, after GOG.com's presumably in-house technical jiggery pokery.
Their list is a bit on the spartan side at present, but does have some gems; I recommend Descent, Spellforce and Haegemonia, all titles which I already own in their original releases, but had lost to OS incompatibility in the intervening years, and shall probably be buying again, via this service. I'm a big abandonware fan in general, but theres always the vauge guilt of what technically amounts to software piracy, even if I am unable to actually pay anyone for it, and the mucking about to get these old classics to even run anymore, both of which seem to be addressed here. Bravo!
Apologies on the overun; we'll have to buy a great big clock for the studio wall!