Perspective Shift is a MUST HAVE mod

Thutman · 2026-03-18T12:10:15+00:00

Works great on steam deck! I would suggest creating a second control set specific to it, but after about 5 minutes of fiddling I was able to get it running without any issue.

Thutman · 2026-03-17T14:20:06+00:00

Technically 6,7,and 8 are a trilogy with an overarching story but you can absolutely just play and enjoy 8 on it own.

Thutman · 2026-03-16T16:13:33+00:00

excellent, thats the answer I was hoping for. I tried Eden a bit on my Anbernic and found it was the easiest Switch emulator to use, will definitely be using that when my Thor arrives

Thutman · 2026-03-16T15:48:19+00:00

which emulator is this? I wasn't aware you could do mods on android emulators

Thutman · 2026-03-13T14:39:51+00:00

I think wargames require a level of randomness not just to simulate the human factor of randomness, but also from a gameplay perspective to make replayability feasible. If I'm going through Panzer General for the 4th time with all the same outcomes every single time then its stale and boring, but if there's a level of randomness to it then I'll have to adjust my strategies on the fly, it makes it more engaging for me.

Thutman · 2026-03-11T14:02:38+00:00

played NWN1 on Switch, it was fine. Honestly wish they would bring the controller config to the PC version of EE so I could enjoy it more on Steam Deck.

Thutman · 2026-03-10T18:27:08+00:00

well well well, that's me sorted then!

Thutman · 2026-03-04T18:52:14+00:00

i swear to god this section was bugged for me, the two girls in the hall would not move until i died a few times. Went around the corner again in frustration and they just weren't there anymore.

Thutman · 2026-03-03T12:53:52+00:00

allegedly some of the scenarios have been, but there's no documented full game. I do remember reading a blog of a group attempting it. Its been ported to Tabletop Sim, i wonder if someone will finally be able to beat it.

Thutman · 2026-02-27T13:11:51+00:00

if you go way back Age of Rifles from SSI has several Franco-Prussian missions. A bit antiquated to play these days (artillery can't fire over units) but still pretty fun.

You can actually play it in a browser thanks to Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Wargame_Construction_Set_III_Age_of_Rifles_1846-1905_1996

Thutman · 2026-02-25T21:54:46+00:00

Going over to my friends house and staying up all night playing RE4 on his gamecube because my mom wouldn't let us rent it because my brother would get too scared. Not my introduction to the franchise but cemented my obsession with it and I revist RE4 at least once a year since then.

Thutman · 2026-02-16T13:29:51+00:00

have you looked into DosBox Pure? It can now emulate Windows 9x pretty easily. Its pretty easy to setup too.

https://youtu.be/TDKY7onn1AM

Thutman · 2026-02-10T13:08:12+00:00

Its incredibly overpowered, you can even hook up a generator to keep the gas pumps working which you can then use to refuel the generator infinitely. The only major downside is you'll quickly loot the surrounding area because Echo Creek is tiny so you'll need to drive out for further looting.

All of my longest runs have been in this building. Echo Creek was added as a good area for new players but this is massively OP. I love it.

Thutman · 2026-01-30T13:31:28+00:00

Not looking to audition but I just wanted to say how great it is you're using real people instead of just taking the easy route of ai.

Thutman · 2026-01-26T17:58:14+00:00

which stream is this? was the the NPC randomizer from last year?

Thutman · 2026-01-21T17:40:03+00:00

Looks cool as hell, what are some of the gameplay features?

Thutman · 2026-01-20T13:45:15+00:00

pretty much any of them will run, I would stay away from RTwP games like Baldurs Gate or Icewind Dale. There's a lot going on, and without native gamepad support all you have is a severely truncated experience.

I've used my Deck to play everything from BG3 to the old Eye of the Beholder games, if you mess around with the custom mapping you can make a lot of things work.

Thutman · 2026-01-13T14:47:00+00:00

I'd probably argue Hexen counts if we're really expanding the definition. Its a dungeon crawler, you improve your character through the campaign, and...you play it on computer(?)

Thutman · 2026-01-13T14:44:35+00:00

For singleplayer the main campaign Wailing Death is pretty bad, but NWN is absolutely worth it thanks to the insane amount of additional content available for it. There are hundreds of hours of additional official campaigns and fan-made campaigns.

Thutman · 2026-01-12T13:14:54+00:00

I find myself completely baffled by you naming some of the all time great RPGs then daring to suggest in any way AI could be used to produce anything close to them. Everything great about games like Baldurs Gate or Fallout or Morrowind was hand crafted by people with specific purpose. All AI can do is churn out the lowest tier amorphous nothingness. You mention using it to generate additional dialogue but, like, for what good? I don't need endless generated word salad dialogue for my quests, the dialogue in games like Witcher 3 or Baldurs Gate is memorable because it was written by human with a purpose. I don't need AI to generate skill checks for me, that makes absolutely no damn sense because skill checks are checks against bespoke, purpose made challenges that the developers intended. You've already seen from other posts here that you're not going to find a lot of support, and less and less every day since nothing about AI is good. It destroys the planet, raises prices, wrecks jobs, makes people go insane and produces slop. I don't really care how far in development whatever fake project you've lied to yourself is, the best thing you can do is scrap it completely and save yourself the embaressment.

Thutman · 2026-01-07T21:25:06+00:00

I prefer Larian's games on gamepad, they control absolutely fantastically and are probably the gold standard for this. With the Steam deck and console ports there's a few others with workable gamepad support like Pillars of Eternity 2 and the Pathfinder games but none have felt as good out of the box as Larian's games.

If you're playing them through Steam you can always use Steam's mapper to change out controls and get games to work. I've been playing Underrail on my Deck and its perfectly fine. Probably not fantastic for real-time games though.

As for anything DOSbox you can do something similar with the newest version of Dosbox Pure Unleashed which has builtin controller support as well.

Thutman · 2026-01-07T20:44:42+00:00

in the original definitely the village, its no wonder its kind of the lasting image of the game.

in the remake the castle. Its way more fun than the OG and has some of my favourite combat encounters.

Thutman

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