GoG has Empire of the Ants - Digital Deluxe Edition for $44.99 USD for
the next couple days in >https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_of_the_ants_digital_deluxe_edition.
So tempting, but I can't play with my old PC hardwares. :( Maybe I will
wait until it goes really cheap or even free like in decade when I get
my hardware upgrades. :P
On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:33:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
GoG has Empire of the Ants - Digital Deluxe Edition for $44.99 USD for
the next couple days in >https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_of_the_ants_digital_deluxe_edition.
So tempting, but I can't play with my old PC hardwares. :( Maybe I will >wait until it goes really cheap or even free like in decade when I get
my hardware upgrades. :P
Considering how quickly the years go by, waiting a few of them for a
game to get really cheap (or even free) is a viable strategy as far as
I am concerned.
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategy Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:33:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
GoG has Empire of the Ants - Digital Deluxe Edition for $44.99 USD for
the next couple days in
https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_of_the_ants_digital_deluxe_edition.
So tempting, but I can't play with my old PC hardwares. :( Maybe I will
wait until it goes really cheap or even free like in decade when I get
my hardware upgrades. :P
Considering how quickly the years go by, waiting a few of them for a
game to get really cheap (or even free) is a viable strategy as far as
I am concerned.
Yep. It's not like I can play it with my current hardwares. In fact, I resumed playing my Star Wars: The Old Republic game finally last night.
I resumed my tutorial. Haha! It ran nicely on this old PC!
As long as a game is fun (and runs well), it doesn't matter when it came
out :)
On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 17:50:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
As long as a game is fun (and runs well), it doesn't matter when it came >out :)
I think the oldest game I played that was actually fun for me was
Wizardry 1, which came out in 1980 so I obviously agree with you on
this.
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 16:26 this Saturday (GMT):
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategy Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:33:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
GoG has Empire of the Ants - Digital Deluxe Edition for $44.99 USD for
the next couple days in
https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_of_the_ants_digital_deluxe_edition.
So tempting, but I can't play with my old PC hardwares. :( Maybe I will >> >wait until it goes really cheap or even free like in decade when I get
my hardware upgrades. :P
Considering how quickly the years go by, waiting a few of them for a
game to get really cheap (or even free) is a viable strategy as far as
I am concerned.
Yep. It's not like I can play it with my current hardwares. In fact, I resumed playing my Star Wars: The Old Republic game finally last night.
I resumed my tutorial. Haha! It ran nicely on this old PC!
As long as a game is fun (and runs well), it doesn't matter when it came
out :)
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 16:26 this Saturday (GMT):
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategy Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:33:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
GoG has Empire of the Ants - Digital Deluxe Edition for $44.99 USD for >> >> >the next couple days in
https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_of_the_ants_digital_deluxe_edition. >> >> >So tempting, but I can't play with my old PC hardwares. :( Maybe I will >> >> >wait until it goes really cheap or even free like in decade when I get >> >> >my hardware upgrades. :P
Considering how quickly the years go by, waiting a few of them for a
game to get really cheap (or even free) is a viable strategy as far as
I am concerned.
Yep. It's not like I can play it with my current hardwares. In fact, I
resumed playing my Star Wars: The Old Republic game finally last night.
I resumed my tutorial. Haha! It ran nicely on this old PC!
As long as a game is fun (and runs well), it doesn't matter when it came
out :)
Agreed! Oh, and it's free to play. ;)
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 23:55 this Saturday (GMT):
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 16:26 this Saturday (GMT):
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategy Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:33:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
GoG has Empire of the Ants - Digital Deluxe Edition for $44.99 USD for >>> >> >the next couple days in
https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_of_the_ants_digital_deluxe_edition. >>> >> >So tempting, but I can't play with my old PC hardwares. :( Maybe I will >>> >> >wait until it goes really cheap or even free like in decade when I get >>> >> >my hardware upgrades. :P
Considering how quickly the years go by, waiting a few of them for a
game to get really cheap (or even free) is a viable strategy as far as >>> >> I am concerned.
Yep. It's not like I can play it with my current hardwares. In fact, I >>> > resumed playing my Star Wars: The Old Republic game finally last night. >>> > I resumed my tutorial. Haha! It ran nicely on this old PC!
As long as a game is fun (and runs well), it doesn't matter when it came >>> out :)
Agreed! Oh, and it's free to play. ;)
Free to play as in microtransactions?
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 23:55 this Saturday (GMT):
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 16:26 this Saturday (GMT):
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategy Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:33:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
GoG has Empire of the Ants - Digital Deluxe Edition for $44.99 USD for >> >> >the next couple days in
https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_of_the_ants_digital_deluxe_edition. >> >> >So tempting, but I can't play with my old PC hardwares. :( Maybe I will
wait until it goes really cheap or even free like in decade when I get >> >> >my hardware upgrades. :P
Considering how quickly the years go by, waiting a few of them for a
game to get really cheap (or even free) is a viable strategy as far as >> >> I am concerned.
Yep. It's not like I can play it with my current hardwares. In fact, I >> > resumed playing my Star Wars: The Old Republic game finally last night. >> > I resumed my tutorial. Haha! It ran nicely on this old PC!
As long as a game is fun (and runs well), it doesn't matter when it came >> out :)
Agreed! Oh, and it's free to play. ;)
Free to play as in microtransactions?
On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 23:55 this Saturday (GMT):
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 16:26 this Saturday (GMT):
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategy Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>> >> On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:33:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
GoG has Empire of the Ants - Digital Deluxe Edition for $44.99 USD for >>>> >> >the next couple days in
https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_of_the_ants_digital_deluxe_edition. >>>> >> >So tempting, but I can't play with my old PC hardwares. :( Maybe I will
wait until it goes really cheap or even free like in decade when I get >>>> >> >my hardware upgrades. :P
Considering how quickly the years go by, waiting a few of them for a >>>> >> game to get really cheap (or even free) is a viable strategy as far as >>>> >> I am concerned.
Yep. It's not like I can play it with my current hardwares. In fact, I >>>> > resumed playing my Star Wars: The Old Republic game finally last night. >>>> > I resumed my tutorial. Haha! It ran nicely on this old PC!
As long as a game is fun (and runs well), it doesn't matter when it came >>>> out :)
Agreed! Oh, and it's free to play. ;)
Free to play as in microtransactions?
Free to play as in you get to keep your cash, but not necessarily your identity, your soul, etc. :)
Software development is a skill that requires talent and has high
value in the market. Never believe that when something involving
source code is pitched as "free" that it really is in the long term.
Was that recently or back then?
On Sat, 09 Nov 2024 23:55:52 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
Was that recently or back then?
Recently.
Adventure for the Atari 2600 came out in 1980 and that is what I was
actually playing back then. I still play it from time to time via the
Atari Vault on Steam.
I mean, sure, given the choice I'd still much rather play "Knights of
the Old Republic", "TIE Fighter" or "Jedi Survivor"... but SW:TOR was
a lot more enjoyable than it had any right to be.
On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 23:55 this Saturday (GMT):
Agreed! Oh, and it's free to play. ;)
Free to play as in microtransactions?
[Note: I played this game back in 2017. My information may
be out of date]
There are microtransactions, but I didn't find that the game pushed
very hard to get me to buy any of them. You could pay for things like
more characters, a bigger stash, and the usual cosmetics, as well as expansion campaigns. But the free bit was extremely playable without
paying a cent; you got access to the original retail game which had
several full-length campaigns built in. Each campaign was equal in
length and breadth of content to the older "Knights of the Old
Republic" games, so you can keep busy for quite a while. Neither was
the game so grindy (although, like any MMORPG, there is a fair bit of
grind) that I ever felt that I was being pressured to buy some method
to bypass it.
I think some of the more multiplayer aspects (groups, clans, whatever)
of the game may have required additional payments. I didn't really
follow up on any of those.
But as a single-player experience, it was -given it was absolutely
free- a fairly satisifactory game. The stuff I disliked about it had
more to do with the MMORPG trappings: e.g., the idiot players
constantly shouting "LFG" in the background, or the generally shallow
quests, or the way everything has to be balanced because no one player
can be allowed to overwhelm others, unlike the power-fantasies of single-player games. But all that would have been true regardless if
I'd paid money for the game or not.
But, again, I played the game seven years ago. Things may have
changed.
Well, that's nice at least. I hate games that force your wallet open.
I liked it, but dang it got really hard in the later games. Did you ever play its sequel as shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_%281980_video_game%29?
candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
...
Well, that's nice at least. I hate games that force your wallet open.
Ditto. That is when I quit the game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287330/Empire_of_the_Ants/
And I'm still too busy and using an old video card (MSI NVIDIA GeForce
GTX 750 Ti (N750TI-2GD5/OC; 2 GB of VRAM) so I can't play it for now. :( Maybe I will finally play it in a decade when it is free and have better hardwares. Ha! :P
GoG has Empire of the Ants - Digital Deluxe Edition for $44.99 USD for
the next couple days in >https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_of_the_ants_digital_deluxe_edition.
So tempting, but I can't play with my old PC hardwares. :( Maybe I will
wait until it goes really cheap or even free like in decade when I get
my hardware upgrades. :P
On Sat, 09 Nov 2024 23:55:52 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
Was that recently or back then?
Recently.
Adventure for the Atari 2600 came out in 1980 and that is what I was
actually playing back then. I still play it from time to time via the
Atari Vault on Steam.
On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 08:01:25 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:
On Sat, 09 Nov 2024 23:55:52 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
Was that recently or back then?
Recently.
Adventure for the Atari 2600 came out in 1980 and that is what I was >actually playing back then. I still play it from time to time via the
Atari Vault on Steam.
*----
I just played it a couple minutes ago. It is part of the Atari 50
collection on Steam, which is fantastic! I didn't understand what to
do though!
On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:21:12 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
I just played it a couple minutes ago. It is part of the Atari 50
collection on Steam, which is fantastic! I didn't understand what to
do though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLU53q3yrMA looks cool, but where can we >play it? :(
Archive.org has it (of course)
https://archive.org/details/adv-2600-r
The video you linked to is of a fan-created reboot though (or a
remaster? Remake?) and not the game as came out in 1980.
If you want the original experience, try either the aforementioned
"Atari 50th Anniversary Collection" https://store.steampowered.com/app/1919470/Atari_50_The_Anniversary_Celebration/
or play it on archive.org (via MAME emulation) https://archive.org/details/Adventure_1978_Atari_NTSC
It's still all 'move the green square to the red square' gameplay to
me. ;-)
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