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Where to start with Wing Commander? And any other space sims on Steam should I check out? I'm looking for arcade-y fun rather than 1-to-1 accuracy.
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The name is kind of weird but it's called Just Breed and it's on the NES.Are there any real old school strategy or tactics games? I'm thinking 8 bit systems like the NES or the Spectrum. I know of Famicom Wars, Fire Emblem, and Laser Squad, but that's basically it.
Failing that, any kind of game with tactical choices. I know JRPGs kind of fit the bill, but not really?
I'm looking for them as reference material.
Colony Wars was pretty good, it had a nice sense of scale iirc and that's largely missing from many spinning-in-the-void space games.Where to start with Wing Commander? And any other space sims on Steam should I check out? I'm looking for arcade-y fun rather than 1-to-1 accuracy.
Not really a sim, but I enjoyed House of the Dying Sun a lot. It's short but fun.Where to start with Wing Commander? And any other space sims on Steam should I check out? I'm looking for arcade-y fun rather than 1-to-1 accuracy.
Wing Commander 1 and 2. Rough around the edges, but the thrill wasn’t the dogfights—it was pacing the decks of the Tiger’s Claw and Concordia, rubbing shoulders with the crew, the whole Mass Effect camaraderie.Where to start with Wing Commander?
The Japs aren’t even trying to hide their propaganda anymore.it's called Just Breed
There is always the Freespace titles which are pretty much considered the holy grail standard of both story and gameplay. Have a ton of mods and support to basically get it to run on modern system with graphic overhauls.Where to start with Wing Commander? And any other space sims on Steam should I check out? I'm looking for arcade-y fun rather than 1-to-1 accuracy.
I liked that one, too. Maybe I'm just a sucker for That Chin. And Freespace was fun as hell, too.Another game in that gene that I loved was Tachyon: The Fringe. Had Bruce Campbell as the main lead, a pretty fun combat system (you had the ability to do a "slide" to go in one direct while rotating your ship) and a decent story to follow. Sadly the multiplayer, which was really good, is basically dead.
I’m still waiting for avatars to be added to Xenia so we can play the best 360 games as they were meant to be played: Uno and Uno Rush.A static recompilation project for Sonic Unleashed for the Xbox 360 released today, allowing for the game to be easily played on PCs.
In addition, the person behind this project also released the tools he used for it, allowing for potential static recompilations and ports of other Xbox 360 games.
Maybe 'Shining Force' fits the bill for you? I remember playing it on a Sega Collection CD when I was younger and enjoying it.Are there any real old school strategy or tactics games? I'm thinking 8 bit systems like the NES or the Spectrum. I know of Famicom Wars, Fire Emblem, and Laser Squad, but that's basically it.
Failing that, any kind of game with tactical choices. I know JRPGs kind of fit the bill, but not really?
I'm looking for them as reference material.
Freelancer is great. Highly recommended.Or, if just WC-like games? Nobody said Freelancer?
This is fucking insaneA static recompilation project for Sonic Unleashed for the Xbox 360 released today, allowing for the game to be easily played on PCs.
In addition, the person behind this project also released the tools he used for it, allowing for potential static recompilations and ports of other Xbox 360 games.
That's a toaster oven, breh.My MiSTer build continues. Upgraded to a larger than ITX case so I can add back in the MT32Pi along with a big 8 pole switch to switch between the MT32Pi and a UserIO port. And I can use non-custom cables for much of the wiring, which wastes space. Also a little on-board Ethernet switch to allow the MT32Pi and MiSTer to share one Ethernet.
Next up, wait for the new OLED displays to arrive so I can check the specs I found on-line, as usual every slightly different Chinese junk model will likely differ from another that looks identical.
For a while I considered making the front panel look like an SX64, but that's like work.
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Saints Row 1 (never released outside of X360)This is fucking insane
So many great games once locked to Xbox or with shitty PC ports now able to be given a proper PC port
Beetle is great, it just has issues with compatibility from time to time. There’s a number of games that just lock the fuck up during pivotal/trivial moments and there’s a handful of audio glitches that make little sense.If it works it works dude, Beetle was running all my games with no issues while the dude/future tranny behind Cuckstation was still an itch in his father's pants. It's not like they're releasing new PS1 games that require emulators to be continually updated either. Get off your high horse.
All the Rock Band games, most of the Guitar Heroes, Driver San Francisco (the PC port got taken down), the Skate games, so much stuffSaints Row 1 (never released outside of X360)
Saints Row 2 (PC port was a disaster with no DLC's and Deep Silver lied to a man on his deathbed that they'd finish fixing it)
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2005 (the Xbox re-release had next gen graphics that never got ported back to PC)
And probably many, many others. I'm also sure that the devs of the Xenia emulator will have a wild time with this, even if they were the ones directly helping the development of this. Definitely excited to see if we'll get some impressive projects going. Getting Midnight Club: LA and Saints Row 1 running natively on PC would be a huge deal.
A (good) PC port of Ninja Gaiden 2, Lost Oddysey, Blue Dragon, are all on my wishlist. Obviously they won't come out nearly as fast as Unleashed because of Sonic Autism but the fact that it's no longer a pipe dream is something beautiful.This is fucking insane
So many great games once locked to Xbox or with shitty PC ports now able to be given a proper PC port
Similarly I was just wondering about the likelihood of getting patches and updates for any game outside the top 25 or so of the main library. With emulation I can get the nightly build of PCSX2 and do my own compatibility tweaks. With recompiling it seems like you might need a dedicated autist for every game.A (good) PC port of Ninja Gaiden 2, Lost Oddysey, Blue Dragon, are all on my wishlist. Obviously they won't come out nearly as fast as Unleashed because of Sonic Autism but the fact that it's no longer a pipe dream is something beautiful.