Results! Turns out there’s a free site called OpenGuessr that’s just the classic gamemode we all know and love, but you can just play it for free like normal.
#the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents Find the Airport again #(or possibly on purpose) #GeoGuessr #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #(people in the notes are saying Google was charging them shitloads of money for all the Street View use and they had to recoup it somehow) #(however that does not explain why anyone would want Unique Skins) #games #cows #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Hi, Mass Effect Legendary Edition is on sale for SIX DOLLARS.
That’s all three games, almost all the DLCs (rip, Pinnacle Station) including weapon and armor packs, for six goddamn dollars.
HOLY SHIT
look, if you can stand shooters at all (the easy mode, target assist, and squadmate auto-attacks are extremely helpful – this was the first video game I ever played), and if you think you’d be interested in 260+ hours *per playthrough* (the first game alone takes three playthroughs for 100% completion) of roleplay-heavy story content In Spaaaaace with close to two dozen potential found-family members played by some of the best voice actors in video games…
Do check if your computer can run the game, Legendary Edition is pretty graphics-heavy. But my god, six dollars for (if you like it as much as I do) literally thousands of hours of entertainment? Damn.
(Also, MELE is deliberately optimized to be modded. Check out NexusMods to see just how bananas the mods scene is, because it’s fucking amazeballs. Mass Effect 1’s original PC port was literally unmoddable due to loss of the original masters, and between the inbuilt moddability of LE and the dedication of the modding community, it’s now got mods I always wanted and never *dreamed* could exist. Drop another five bucks on a month of Nexus premium downloads and go to town.)
(obligatory disclaimer: not a paid endorsement yadda yadda, I just really motherfucking love this game and it was extremely formative for me)
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#Mass Effect #games #PSA #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#oh my fucking god #PopCap: ”at long last‚ we have created the Torment Nexus from classic story It Would Be Terrible Yet Hot to Create the Torment Nexus” #I would like to trade in this world’s genre and get a better one‚ thank you #sexuality and lack thereof #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #games #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
everyone loves to laugh at how comically granular/detailed Dwarf Fortress is (and rightfully so!), but i feel like NetHack doesn’t get enough attention because it is just as funny. for example, one of your most essential tools for surviving the early floors is to check the readme/wiki and notice that one of your, no joke, literally 134 keybinds is “engrave”. pressing that button prompts you to write a word or phrase on a nearby surface, either by etching it with a dagger, blasting it with a wand, or just writing in the dust with your finger. if you write specifically the word “Elbereth” on a tile, you can stand there without most monsters being able to touch you.
the word “Elbereth” is not referenced or explained anywhere in-game. you are expected to know it from having read Lord of the Rings. you can really tell this game originally released in 1987 sometimes
“Vegetarians can reverse genocide gelatinous cubes for the intrinsics once they can defeat them and take the acidic corpse damage” is such a good sentence
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#playing Nethack is fun but reading Nethack guides is even more fun #Nethack #games #my childhood #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#I love when people ask me this question #someday somebody should ask it to me in meatspace so I can see the look on their face when I earnestly tell them it was an Atari 2600 #why yes‚ they *did* stop making them before I was born‚ what of it #(it was a hand-me-down from my parents) #surveys #games #my childhood
#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #games #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
philosophically i’m against abusing the drawbacks systems in rpgs by looking for drawbacks that don’t actually impair you but the temptation is so strong sometimes. yeah my character is anosmic and ageusic. yeah this is enough to buy me a +4 to every social interaction roll.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #games #fun with loopholes #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
even if you think there’s no way they’ll have the game u want. they probably do anyway. when i first downloaded flashpoint i thought for sure theres no way they will have the obscure flash game i played for hours as a kid that was only even available on the internet for like 2 months in 2006. but you know what. they had it. seriously, download flashpoint
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#101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #the more you know #as it happens they do not have my Flash-game white whales‚ the pair of Wild Thornberrys wildlife-rescue games I played as a kid #but there *is* a lot of nostalgic Neopets stuff on there #(…and it seems that the Internet Archive has‚ not technically either of the wildlife-rescue games‚ but a *third* variant upon them) #(I’ll have to try poking that on a VM: it doesn’t look like that one’s been vetted) #games #my childhood
#1 #which I have not thought about in a long time #but I *do* have‚ deep in my brain‚ some memories of playing Space Invaders on my parents’ old Atari #after that it was basically just 14 and none of the others #we’ve never been very big on consoles #games #surveys #my childhood
Brinens and Things 