Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[Rand]

I find it very strange that they have a full fledged page ready already, I am going to guess it means they may be considering the people's wishlist pledge then as, when I searched for an answer, the games I found were all in this category of people asking for them. Thank you for the information!

The one with the GoG page is a different adult JRPG game "The Heart of Darkness".

Users are asking GoG to add the 1998 JRPG you are talking about via the forum:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/heart_of_darkness

https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/?title=he ... order=desc

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Oh, I see. That's using their system service GOG Galaxy.
How odd.

So, you can load other games into Galaxy to manage.
Looks like someone did that. Perhaps someone on your friends list?

[TKVNC]

Have you read Tolkien's essay, On Fairy-stories?

I have not, perhaps I will.

Or Leaf by Niggle which is basically a narrative version of his main argument in that essay.

In b4 Leaf by ******

I read the synopsis, and I think that I should read that too.

I think it's strange that people view Tolkien's work as some secular creation. Missing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

[DagothGeas5]

The one with the GoG page is a different adult JRPG game "The Heart of Darkness".

Users are asking GoG to add the 1998 JRPG you are talking about via the forum:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/heart_of_darkness

https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/?title=he ... order=desc

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Oh, I see. That's using their system service GOG Galaxy.
How odd.

So, you can load other games into Galaxy to manage.
Looks like someone did that. Perhaps someone on your friends list?

I have no one on GoG, that is just me. I have also never loaded or managed a game through it, nor do I have, for example, Heart of Darkness installed. The thing also shows "strange" editions of other games. Can't recall what game it was but, for example, one started with [DUPLICATE] or something like that before the actual name. I am using the Desktop Galaxy app-thing program.
If you wish to try this out do let me know the name of a game and I can look it up and post a screen of what appears

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[Kalarion]

Have you read Tolkien's essay, On Fairy-stories?

I have not, perhaps I will.

Or Leaf by Niggle which is basically a narrative version of his main argument in that essay.

In b4 Leaf by ******

I read the synopsis, and I think that I should read that too.

I think it's strange that people view Tolkien's work as some secular creation. Missing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

Leaf by Niggle is by far my favorite of his short stories.

I found On Fairy very difficult to read; Tolkien makes heavy use of wandering threads of thought while laying out an argument (he did this in his essay on Beowulf too). It was worth it though, very thought-provoking, especially in helping understand his approach to building the Legendarium.

[Acrux]

I wish there was a single volume that has all of his short stories and translations. Right now, I recommend Tales From the Perilous Realm if you want to read the short stories. There's also an audio adaptation from the BBC.

[ArcaneLurker]

This little thing I posted here before has been released already.

[Valter]

This little thing I posted here before has been released already.

What a novel setting

[TKVNC]

I wish there was a single volume that has all of his short stories and translations. Right now, I recommend Tales From the Perilous Realm if you want to read the short stories. There's also an audio adaptation from the BBC.

Really nice, thank you

[Oyster Sauce]

[Havitner]

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[maidenhaver]

People don't understand that without covid and DEIA, Starfield was going to complete the ARPG system and Todd was taking gaming to a new century of seemless procgen handcrafted worlds. He was going to create a true world.

[Tangerine]

White-washing the greatest black composer yet again. smdh

[DagothGeas5]

For anyone interested in the Mozart game by the way, the Steam version is a scam from what I read on the game's page.
Here is one review for an example:

BEWARE - ABSOLUTE SCAM - DO NOT PURCHASE.

This is a game from 2008 originally called Mozart: The Conspirators of Prague/Mozart: The Last Secret. It was only released in France on PC. There is NO mention of this on the store page, but it is the exact same game with barely, if any changes, besides being in English. It has the same outdated gameplay, despite developers insisting in the Steam discussion page it is "revamped."

To further this absolute extortion, it is priced at $AU42.95 ($30 US). At the very, very least, it should be made explicitly clear on the store page that this is NOT a new game and this price point is a hoax.

The game itself is functional, but has aged awfully and English subtitles are completely wrong.

I received this through my curator, and am typically very eager to help out Indie developers with honest and constructive feedback, but this marketing is extremely deceitful. Stay away from this game.

[DagothGeas5]

After seeing a post from Tweed that Picq had died, I wanted to play the 1992 DUNE game for which he did the Spice Opera soundtrack, but I am having an issue. I have the game on DOSBox, and though I saved, my save was seemingly either wiped or it never saved the game at all, does anyone know how could I save the game? I go to the "mirror room" and then select to save the game from there, but it seems to have not done anything. My in-game settings (like enabling subtitles) also were not saved.

This is where I got it from
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/dune-23h
I am using the ISO version mounted using these recommended settings (for mounting c, for anyone reading this, the user that wrote this did not specify, but you need to mount the place where DOSBox is installed, at least from my experience and what I do. For me I mount c as this, for example)

mount c "C:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74-3\DUNECD"

mount c .
imgmount d Dune.iso -t iso -fs iso
d:
DNCDPRG.EXE AMR ADP220 SBP2227 EMS 386 SAF WRIC:\DUNECD\

[Red7]

lel subnautica 2 trailer got 2 hideous ******* ofc.


good thing, i recently spend like 1000 usd on ssd drives and im starting to run out of room already

[DagothGeas5]

@Vergil I wanted to ask about Marathon, if I may. I only played (and love) the original as I couldn't bring myself to get through much of Durandal as it felt different to me, not sure how to explain, and I didn't particularly like it because of it though I enjoyed the menu music. This to say, I never played Infinity, could you tell me more about it?
I myself discovered it exists today, actually, while finding Marathon for free on Steam (I had already added Infinity to my Library, thinking it was a fancy name to say "the whole saga in one" sort of thing, without realizing it was a game of its own).

[Vergil]

@Vergil I wanted to ask about Marathon, if I may. I only played (and love) the original as I couldn't bring myself to get through much of Durandal as it felt different to me, not sure how to explain, and I didn't particularly like it because of it though I enjoyed the menu music. This to say, I never played Infinity, could you tell me more about it?
I myself discovered it exists today, actually, while finding Marathon for free on Steam (I had already added Infinity to my Library, thinking it was a fancy name to say "the whole saga in one" sort of thing, without realizing it was a game of its own).

I'm not very familiar with the games themselves outside of lore due to my interest in the Halo games sadly.

[DagothGeas5]

@Vergil I wanted to ask about Marathon, if I may. I only played (and love) the original as I couldn't bring myself to get through much of Durandal as it felt different to me, not sure how to explain, and I didn't particularly like it because of it though I enjoyed the menu music. This to say, I never played Infinity, could you tell me more about it?
I myself discovered it exists today, actually, while finding Marathon for free on Steam (I had already added Infinity to my Library, thinking it was a fancy name to say "the whole saga in one" sort of thing, without realizing it was a game of its own).

I'm not very familiar with the games themselves outside of lore due to my interest in the Halo games sadly.

It's alright, thank you regardless

[Havitner]

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[Irenaeus]

[UltraFan123]

Now that I think about it, this also does explain why all the recent sanitization of humanoid races have only been applied to those who appear more human-like in general like tieflings, orcs, and drow, while the likes of gnolls and bullywurgs remain as they always have because they don't have human faces.

[Breathe]

I'll play WoW one day and it will be glorious.

[cyberfriend]

What game is that?

[DagothGeas5]

I am replaying Marathon through Steam and there is a certain place where, once entered, you have a set time to escape before the floor and ceiling slowly meet with the character in the middle. To escape this, there is a hidden door right at the beginning of the slow ascension, but the Steam achievement if you die from it (like it happened to me because I keep making the same mistake of searching for a switch), says in its decription "Failed to notice the hidden door." This irritates me somewhat because it feels like handholding, and I believe this game should be explored. I fortunatly played this through other means before, but if this was my first time playing I would have been robbed of that feeling of success after finding the solution by myself. Just wanted to share to report on this find.

[Finarfin]

[Acrux]

We have Castlevania at home, son.

[DagothGeas5]

For anyone interested, I managed to fix DUNE not saving my game. I just forgot to install it first, thus it did not know where to save my progress to.

I am posting also to ask a question about DOSBox itself. Is there truly no way to copy-paste inside the program? I enjoy typing all the file paths etc, but I am sure it will get tedious if I crash or something happens as the things to type tend to get very long at times. I found this page about something called DOSBox-X https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
but I'd rather type it all if it means having to learn how to use a new program at this time.

[gerey]

We have Castlevania at home, son.

It certainly looks very low-budget, unpolished and derivative. Not sure what it could bring to the table to an already oversaturated market to make it stand out from dozens of metroidvanias that get released each year.

Can't quite recall who said it, but in the current gaming market where thousands of games get released each year, catering to every taste imaginable (except chuds because the Holocaust didn't happen) your product really needs to be extraordinary to gain traction.

This looks like a lazy Castlevania romhack.

[MC_Sea]

We have Castlevania at home, son.

It certainly looks very low-budget, unpolished and derivative. Not sure what it could bring to the table to an already oversaturated market to make it stand out from dozens of metroidvanias that get released each year.

Can't quite recall who said it, but in the current gaming market where thousands of games get released each year, catering to every taste imaginable (except chuds because the Holocaust didn't happen) your product really needs to be extraordinary to gain traction.

This looks like a lazy Castlevania romhack.

It feels like it's relying too hard on the fact that it is essentially a modernized version of Castlevania 2. While there are some new mechanics that stand out to me (charge attacks, passive ally abilities, puzzles), it doesn't feel like it is doing enough to stand on its own merits. I understand it was made due to their being a drought of Castlevania games, even more so with games similar to Castlevania 2, but I don't have enough faith in indie developers these days to get excited before the full game is out.

[SpellSword]

For anyone interested, I managed to fix DUNE not saving my game. I just forgot to install it first, thus it did not know where to save my progress to.

I am posting also to ask a question about DOSBox itself. Is there truly no way to copy-paste inside the program? I enjoy typing all the file paths etc, but I am sure it will get tedious if I crash or something happens as the things to type tend to get very long at times. I found this page about something called DOSBox-X https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
but I'd rather type it all if it means having to learn how to use a new program at this time.

Right click on the DOSBox command prompt window to bring up a copy/paste option.

I think you can also create something like a batch file to run a series of commands for you before launching the program using the command line parameter "-c".

And another option is to add your sequence of commands to the configuration file in the [autoexec] section at the end.