/vid/ - Video Games

first of all, it is previewing the media, only big fnaag tech companies are allowed to pirate, they have loicense.
secondly, a better quuestion is how much you can spend on hard drives to archive, because files you might be insterested in right now or in the future suddenly disappear, and many more are forever gone, and only some fraction is fully preserved on someone's box or in the dead torrents.
t. reanimated a few olden torrents

>>12
I have a backup hard drive (4 TeraByte) for me and the family. I do not recommend a ssd, because I hear that ssd could get faulty over time.

>>5
The GOG version is not actually a linux port, it's just an old wine wrapper that I never manage to make it work. It's better to run the win version under proton with this patch: https://www.zombs-lair.com/post/definitive-edition-patcher-septerra-core

>>6
Ah well, still cool

I could seldomly get wine to play nice with old games, fond memories years ago of being up into the early morning out of sheer frustration. Linux was like signing a contract 'I will not game (except nethack)'

Proton is making a pretty big difference, I have some friends that have gotten into Linux more recently and found most of their games work, some even run better. Personally I still keep Windows on a dual boot though.

>What is everyone's ideal retro setup?
literally just the same computer i play any other game
tho i dont usually play old games bc they lowkey suck
there are some games like doom that i can see how theyd be the pinnacle of fun when there was nothing better going on, but shit like pokemon just plain sucks
>old CRT TV
thank fucking god i dont have nostalgic memories attached to those games so i dont gaslight myself into thinking using barely-functioning hardware will somehow enhance the experience
>Linux was like signing a contract 'I will not game (except nethack)'
skill issue?
there is plenty of linux native games nowadays and i find that wine works very well for 99% of games i try
the only annoyance i have is that some games becoming unable to regain focus if i click outside the window
also i cant run some modern rpgmaker games bc apparently that shit now runs on electron and somewhere along the steps of simulating a javascript-capable webbrowser, wine gets really confused and the games "loads" indefinitely
supposedly proton can cope with that but holy shit im not gonna install something else just to enable this insanity
>some even run better
yea p funny how the windows bloat machine has even more overhead than translating system calls

i never had any consoles and i feel like i missed a lot. thanks to people who madeemulators i could at least discover great games, art and music that although it was detrimental to my lifestyle.

I've also gotten back into playing Diablo II LOD recently, for the first time in about 10 years. A lot of the mechanics seem cliche now because newer games have built on it, but I'm heavily nostalgic for it.

Not so interested in the modern version with remastered graphics, I actually prefer how it looked before. Sorceress has been fun to play, assassin is alright as well but the charge up moves plus a socketed weapon just feels like cheating in the early game.

>>8
>pokemon just plain sucks
I never liked Pokemon the battles are so fucking slow, the combat messages and animations need to go much quicker and being limited to 4 moves per monster makes it pretty tedious. Only really tried the older games.

>skill issue?
Probably lmao, it was years ago I was messing with Wine it may have improved since then

>>9
I don't think having the physical console matters that much, emulators are good I prefer playing everything from my puter anyway