Only one character does the talking and you have to actively listen in to hear any of it.

I just remembered Star Wars: The Old Republic. There everyone could participate and it would select randomly who would say the next line. That was nice.

Star Wars: The Old Republic is great with dialogues. All players choose an answer and it randomly selects who actually gets to say what they want. And the Sith Warrior and Sith Magician (can’t remember the actual class names) synergise great in terms of story and quest locations. The corresponding Jedi classes might as well.

Used to play it with my wife, until some small human took up all our time. We got lucky with the classes. We had a lot of fun. Other classes all seem to have separate starting locations. But with all the subclasses available to Warrior and Magician you should be able to get a good spread.

Baldur’s Gate 3. The default party size is 4. In single player it’s filled with NPCs. Might be a long commitment, but it’s a bloody good game. If you are more than 4 you can increase the party size with mods that can be installed from within the game. You could increase the difficulty to compensate.

Incidentally the first two games can be played in multiplayer as well, with up to 6 people. But although they are awesome as well they might be a little bit dated.

If you’re looking for F2P Path of Exile is one of the best. It’s an action RPG like Diablo (which is also great in multiplayer).

2023 was a phenomenal year for gaming. One great game after another. AAA and indy. Of course there will always also be bad games. But I think we do have enough good stuff. And looking at Ubisoft it seems like customer’s dissatisfaction with bad spectacles seems to reach the big companies. And with development tools becoming ever more accessible I think we’re looking at a bright future.

I really hope the VR controller can be used without VR. Stop forcing my hands together! I want freedom!

Loved the Wii for the ability to hold my hands independent of each other.

The agreement wasn’t made with the Internet Archive but with OldUnreal so that they can distribute an installer that automatically downloads the games.

But hopefully it can be expanded to the later games as well.

Then again they said that Astrobot boosted the sales of their other games

Donald Trump is pretty funny.

Yeah, that as well. You have to pay a special licensed packer to pack the backup parachute.

Kinda triggered by this post. My father had that happen to him for his 99th jump on a Friday the 13th. He considers that his lucky day because most parachutes have a backup parachute which he got to use that day for the first time.

So no, skydivers just look for their parachute after it failed to open properly and they had to deploy the backup because those things are fucking expensive.

Baldur’s Gate 2

Sadly I just can’t read so much at the moment.

Nice! I can’t wait to start and never finish RDR 1.

I remember being stuck at one point as a kid. Eventually I gave in and ordered the official hint book. Mind you, that meant physically mailing a paper and I guess the money to the company and then waiting several weeks for the reply.

I finished the game two days before the book arrived (use physics book with horse). But it was still worth it. The book also contained a novelization of the story written by Bernard. Title: My Physics Adventure or It’s Never Too Late To Stop Polution So Let’s Start Yesterday

It’s meant for games but I haven’t found a better remote desktop solution than Sunshine (server) and Moonlight (client).

By default Sunshine is configured to only accept one client but that can easily be remedied.

Had a CyberMaxx VR headset back in the days. It had a whopping resolution of 505x230 per eye at a combined 60 Hz (so each eye only got 30 Hz). Headtracking worked with 3 degrees of freedom. The included mouse driver for DOS made the head tracking available for every DOS game even if it didn’t have support. It came with Tekwar and a Flight Unlimited demo I never could get to run.

Some games worked with stereoscopic 3D. That was about the only really awesome thing about the headset. But the 30 Hz displays made sure that you could only play for a short while anyways. Descent was nausea inducing on its own. But in VR it was a guaranteed pukefest.

Thinking about playing with the headset was always much better than actually doing it. I’d pull it out every few years and then put it back into storage. Last I heard it died at my brother’s.

I wonder how long it will take until all the mods shown are available.

They’re great. Just avoid the reboot. Its developers didn’t even play the old ones.

The Cradle level in Thief 3 will forever and always be the scariest experience I’ve ever had in any video game, including horror games. It elevated an otherwise mediocre game to be a worthy entry besides the first two games.

I’m still salty about how they fucked up Thief 4.

I think they actually are unionized. At least in the UK. That’s what some of the Baldur’s Gate 3 actors said when asked about the anti AI strikes. They can’t participate because of the rules of their union.

If I recall correctly there is even a sentence in the article about the British union starting to tackle this issue.