It’s also any RPG-like game that lets you summon creatures or undead

I meet the specs easily, but they seem pretty high for 30 year old games…

There’s a Warcraft mobile game?

Nevermind, I don’t care.

So last week my boss gave me 4 older laptops and I was looking for games that would work on Thinkpad T420s with Mint.

I got Myth II running on those 4 Linux machines and 2 Macs. I have 3 friends to LAN party it with.

Check out Project Magma.

http://projectmagma.net/

They’ve been doing the work for decades now to keep the game alive. You need a “disc” to install (available on myabandonware.com), but they have installers that do all the heavy lifting of getting it to work on modern machines.

Then the two must-have plug-ins are Twice Born Edition, which gives you upscaled graphics and The Fallen Lords: Deluxe Edition, which gives you the Myth:TFL campaign in Myth II: Soulblighter.

I fucking loved Myth as a kid and I am absolutely stoked that I can play it again.

Also, with the speed that games have been coming out the last 20 years, there’s always something on sale to play

I dunno. It’s plugged in directly to the modem/router provided by my ISP while my wifi is provided by a separate mesh setup, which is also plugged in to the modem/router 🤷‍♂️

Yea same I don’t even care.

It’s an old laptop, I have a backup. Go ahead, fuck it up.

You could argue that games have gotten worse

I was going to try to host my music on Jellyfin, but I had an issue.

Since 2005 I’ve been curating my music collection with my old iPod that I still use.

I like my albums in release order so, with the iPod in mind, probably 80% of them are named [year] - [album]

Lidarr and Jellyfin won’t find them because of this and I don’t want to manually sort through 2000-some albums.

So I still use my iPod (20 years old next year!)

There’s so many games out there I’d like to play, but I’m an adult with responsibilities. I don’t need the newest game or gaming hardware because no matter how hard I try to catch up I never will, so I don’t bother to try and I always have something to play on my hardware.

I use a Mac. I’m not really interested in high end games though. I like turn-based things.

I’m still using a 2018 Mac Mini (middle-of-the-road specs) and I run things like Pathfinder:Kingmaker and Wasteland 3 just fine. Both are older, but came out around the same time as the computer. However, Baldur’s Gate 3 suffers.

You can add eGPUs to them, but I’ve never bothered to look too much in to it because I’m satisfied with the games available to me.

I’ve heard nothing but good things about the new M-series but have yet to try one.

This sounds pretty cool. It seems similar in concept to a different 90s MMO I already play, Clan Lord. I’ll give it a shot later, but I don’t know if I can commit to twoMMOs

I got the first 2 free with GwG (RIP) and the 3rd for $12 on sale.

Guess I‘m not a real fan.

lol I’m not changing it

Is this how they’ll use AI to write new Star Wats canon?

I don’t think GTA games have ever used pre-rendered cut scenes

You don’t have to do everything in an open world game. Just go from main mission to main mission and you’ve pretty much turned it in to a linear game.

Owning a console and having a library card gives you so many free gaming options.

Why would you want that to go away?

Whoa I picked up Wreckfest from the library a few weeks ago. I had never heard of it, but found it really fun.

I may have to check this out…

Same. GTA VI is the only thing I’m really waiting for, but I may as well wait for the next console generation to play it at this point.