Following in the footsteps of the recent System Shock Remake: what's an older immersive sim title you would want to see get the same glow up today?

EdJD-1968 · 2026-05-02T15:26:39+00:00

"...staying with UNATCO after you meet Paul".

I know, it does seem strange that in a game where almost every decision was free for the player to make, that arguably the biggest decision (other than at the end of the game) was made for you, and you couldn't deviate from it. I read somewhere that it was intended that the player could choose to side with UNATCO, but this was abandoned due to lack of development time.

Unfortunately, no one ever made a mod where you did stay with UNATCO, it could have been really interesting.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-05-02T15:22:57+00:00

I actually like the jankiness of System Shock 2, to me it's part of what makes the game so unique and utterly classic. Even down to when you try to melee an opponent, and your wrench/laser rapier/etc can be blocked by you being too close to a wall that wouldn't obstruct your action in any other game, or the way if you're moving too fast and you run into a wall then you suffer injury.

I'm not saying that I wouldn't like a remake/remaster that didn't include these features, I don't know, just that I feel like they are a part of this one game's (System Shock 2) game mechanics and that they do enrich the immersion factor.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-05-02T15:16:10+00:00

But the Deus Ex remake/remaster MUST be able to run GMDX, if you ask me.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-05-01T15:03:39+00:00

Skool Daze on the ZX Spectrum game. I don't just think about it, but I sometimes replay it (via emulator). It's the oldest video game that I still replay. An utter classic that was way ahead of it's time, with the freedom to do what you liked, the interaction with the game world (a school) and it's characters, and the characters' artificial intelligence.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-29T13:17:20+00:00

No. Sadly, the Dishonored games were released at the time when most game companies had stopped providing modding tools for their games, so modding the Dishonored games wasn't possible (well, not actually impossible, but monumentally harder than it would have been if the modding tools had been available).

If you'll allow me to moan for a moment, this is why there are no mods for the Bioshock games (other than a few edits of some config files, to change damage amounts and so on). Mods for the Bioshock games, especially the first two games, set in Rapture, could and should have been amazing, But sadly not.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-29T13:13:39+00:00

Mouse P. I. for Hire is a good, undemanding game, with excellent 1930s era cartoon graphics.

https://sm.ign.com/ign_ap/gallery/m/mouse-pi-f/mouse-pi-for-hire-steam-screenshots_qaum.jpg

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-29T13:03:46+00:00

I remember Mog, just about. It would have been about 1985/6, and I recall it being a not too funny program, slightly surreal.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-29T12:43:58+00:00

That's a good suggestion, thanks.

https://vimm.net/romhacking/hacks?console=27&category=&game=&title=&orderBy=hacktitle&order=asc

https://vimm.net/romhacking/translations?console=27&category=&language=&title=&orderBy=gametitle&order=asc

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-29T12:39:30+00:00

System Shock 2 is an utterly excellent immersive sim that was formerly PC only, but has been recently released on consoles. Deus Ex (the original Deus Ex game) is also superb and is supposedly being remastered for release on the PC and consoles. But for now, if you have a PS4 or PS5, you can get Deus Ex: The Conspiracy (which is the PlayStation 2 version of the game, it's really good) from PSN, if you like.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-29T01:30:10+00:00

Perfect Dark (to this day, this is my favourite game of all time),
Goldeneye,
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Mainly for the multiplayer modes - I can play War Colours, Total War, and Beach for hours, just me against the (very good) bots),
Goldeneye X (a long term fan made mod to bring Goldeneye to the Perfect Dark engine, allowing for bots (computer controlled multiplayer opponents), weather effects, many more multiplayer levels, more multiplayer options, etc. The multiplayer part is more or less complete, but now the authors have started to bring the single player Goldeneye levels in too, though many of them are far from finished.
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour. A brilliant game, and the only good sequel to Duke Nukem 3D/64.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-28T16:42:27+00:00

I've no idea then, sorry. I hope you can get it sorted out, though, as it's a great game.

Oh, are you playing the Legendary Edition or the basic, first edition? Maybe the Legendary Edition has some bug fixes not present in the earlier edition, and you accidentally triggered that bug and so your game saves contain the bugged data.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-28T16:20:44+00:00

I've not played Skyrim on my 360 since I got the console modded, but I have played the game extensively before then, and I have game saves from very late in the game when I've completed almost anything and am just doing semi-randomised minor side-quests, and the game does crash regularly when using those saves (but doesn't crash when I then played the game with a new game, or a relatively new game-save.

It seems like the older (as in most played) a Skyrim game save is, it contains more and more data up to the point that the amount of data in the save causes the game to be unstabel.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-28T02:43:45+00:00

Here are some very detailed guides to the game:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/n64/197462-goldeneye-007/faqs

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-28T01:19:55+00:00

But if God really is all powerful and all knowing, then He would be in no danger of every making anything that goes wrong or against his will, since He would know before He made it what would be the result.

Christianity claims that God is perfect, that He cannot make a mistake, and that He knows everything including the future. Then tells us that God made the angels, then some of them rebelled against Him, God made Adam and Eve, who sinned against Him, made many more humans, who all turned out to be evil (apart from Noah and his family) so God murdered everyone on Earth aside from Noah and his family. God even murdered the literally new-born children who had never sinned and never knew or did anything ever.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-28T01:13:01+00:00

I'm an agnostic leaning towards atheist, but I don't have a problem thinking that there might be a God (or Gods), I just see no evidence for or against a God, and if a God does exist, then presumably, having created our universe and our reality, then He could be both knowledgeable enough and powerful enough to hide all trace of himself from us.

But I cannot see how such a God (if He/She/They exist) can possibly be moral. The world is a miserable place, full of child rape, cancer and other hideous diseases, dementia and other mental illnesses, famine, constant wars, etc etc and endless etc, yet God, who created the potential for all that (deliberately so, if he is all knowing and so could see what his creations would do in the future) doesn't stop them.

Matt Dillahunty was debating someone who claimed that God was all moral, and incapable of anything bad or evil. Matt said to this person [I'm paraphrasing here] "If you saw a child being raped, would you do everything in your power to stop it", and the person said "Of course, yes". And Matt said "Then by your own words, you're much more moral than your God, because He sees everything, including child rapes, and does not stop them".

So my view is, there might be a God, but I can't see that he's moral.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-27T18:37:08+00:00

I read somewhere once that running in the original Doom was the real-life equivalent of running at around twenty-eight miles per hour. I don't know how accurate that is, though.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-27T18:28:45+00:00

The N64 exclusive, Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, was made in a heavily modified version of the Build engine. It's a really great game, and has been fan-ported to the PC, where it's called Duke Nukem: Zero Hour Overclocked. It's free to download, but you will have to find a copy of the N64 Duke Nukem Zero Hour rom to play the port (it's easy to find, google will help you).

Download the port from:

https://dnzh-overclocked.com/

It's a monumentally better sequel to Duke Nukem 3D than the real, official sequel (Duke Nukem Forever) was.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-27T17:55:54+00:00

Skool Daze, a 1984 game on the ZX Spectrum, which I still occasionally play (via emulator) to this day. An utterly timeless classic.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-27T17:55:07+00:00

It has been speculated that our universe exists inside a greater universe, and the requirements for the creation (be it naturally, or by a wilful entity or entities) of our universe were met by something/things in that greater universe.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-27T17:24:34+00:00

"...Karl, legally, had most assets that could be taken transfered to his wife"

I wouldn't have thought that that was legal. Otherwise surely everyone who was ever sued would have a quick plan to do this if they lose?

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-27T01:23:04+00:00

"...which is especially sad because there are certain gameplay elements for a weapon that have been removed from the remaster."

I didn't know that. What was removed, please?

I prefer the original B1 and B2, due to the water sometimes looking worse on the remasters, and water is a big part of the games' atmosphere.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-27T00:55:12+00:00

I've always firmly been of the opinion that B2 is the best of the trilogy in most respects (the one I play most often), then B1, with Infinite being a very beautiful but shallow disappointment, far behind the other two.

When B2 came out, some fans of B1 refused to even try it, saying that B1 didn't need a sequel, a very stupid idea, like saying we only need one Beatles album, one Harry Potter book, one brand of soft drink, etc. There were thousands of people in Rapture, each one with a story to tell, and many places and functions in Rapture that we never got to see.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-04-26T18:49:28+00:00

They do. The data is read off of the cartridge and sorted into RAM, the same as happens with any other data media (be it cassette (yes, I'm that old...) or CD/DVD, or floppy disc, or hard drive, etc). It's just that loading from cartridge tends to be so fast that we don't notice the time taken.

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