CeleryMan7
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this was many days of my life (likely one of the red alerts or other C&Cs when i was 12)
Dec 29, 2021 10:30 PM
CeleryMan7
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this was many days of my life (likely one of the red alerts or other C&Cs when i was 12)
littlecoatfatguy
Zeal before Nod.
SteveMND
"I am 12. It's summer vacation. I turn on my TRS-80 Model III and start up Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz. I have nothing but time." Fixed!
LordHosk
Fuck I wish.
KommissarLyus
Don't forget the expansion.. Yuri's Revenge. https://youtu.be/QonR-Xf8AZk
KommissarLyus
TheDreaded1
*sniffs* Mmmm. Back when computers were beige.
Stearnzy
Planescape: Torment, Motocross Madness, Conkers bad fur day for N64, many nights. Also banjo kazooie!
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Total Annihilation.
quietwalker
I only played laaaaaate at night. The day was for hanging out with friends and doing shit.
Jawesome19
Gaming in the morning and late at night lol
graehall
90s Gaming Nostalgia GIF - sound on -
Morneblade
12 Years old? Space Invaders on Atari VCS.
eadanke
Eye of the Beholder for me. Good times. Also a Westwood game
Gotnobrain
Bards Tale, Ultima IV
cloudphone011
diablo, command and conquer, warcraft
williamoftheoak
Oh, fuck yeah. Got frank keplacki playing music in my head now
Rovylern
Please do unmute.
oldguyexlurker
You are 12. It's summer vacation. There's no such thing as a microcomputer. You're camping, fishing, and hiking in the woods all day...
oldguyexlurker
Then I turned 13, and started learning BASIC on a TRS80 Model 1...
MADFOX
RuneScape for me. I remember summer of 2002/2003, transitioning from 8th grade to high school. Would play until 4am, then wake up at 7am
MADFOX
As an adult, I wish I had that energy again. I will never wake up early on purpose unless I have to.
iamkyleh
Mechwarrior 4 or crimson sky
ProfOakenshield
Oh My Gods, got an almost painful nostalgia hit for Crimson Skies, that was the shit. Thanks for the memories :D
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
KIROV REPORTING
Subtilico
I just finished a game of RA2 Yuri´s Revenge.
Wankbiscuit
GTA2 for me. Then came Morrowind.
ColorMeAnxious
OMG I got sucked into everything: Tiberian Sun, Yuri, Generals to the Red Alert 3 & lost at least 5 years of my life. Time well spent.
GeographyIsWhereItsAt
Age of Empires for me.
erzengal
Same. C&C would just kick my ass.
khp041000
Roegan?
KingMCG
Quake and Diablo 2. I miss those days.
youreathing
Quake nd Q2 had some of the most memorable atmosphere/background noise. Really great sound design.
Emulen
Cpma?
qtRaven
*Hell March Intensifies*
Shrekonomics
Rockets in the sky
JanCicvarek
Wtf, no sound?
Hixxie
Kirov reporting.
Voidhawk42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlfc13Ku2po
Tricorder
Make that a Red Alert 1 and we have a deal. :-)
NotWittyEnough
Old school C&C all the way!
GrumpyOldMillennial
Make that Z and we have an even bigger deal. It was the original red vs blue.
knowallknownothing
You know they re-released (recently) RA and C&C in high def and with new soundtracks from the original artists. It’s incredible.
incendiumsatus
And who needed to be 12 years old ?
sickleblade
If you weren't aware, red alert one got a remaster. Very playable on modern machines now
Sanotassard
Dungeon Keeper 2
SaFalken
I loved RA1, but Tiberian Dawn and Sun were my Jam... And Star trek elite force, operation flash point...
Wickingsham
I feel like Tiberian Sun gets less appreciation than it should.
SaFalken
Yeah. I see more appreciation for generals of all goddamn things
Wickingsham
I'm a fan of Generals, too. But Tiberian Sun was so... atmospheric? But not at the expense of gameplay.
Spiderbubble
Honestly nobody ever talks about C&C Renegade (The RTS) but it had MOBA-esque multiplayer elements and it was super cool.
BluePaladin42
Ayyy. I love how utterly cheesy the game's SP was. C&C owns it's ham and cheese anyway, but Renegade went full tilt.
Xerxes8169
I enjoyed Tiberian Sun
AndrewBrandon
Red Alert 1 and edited .ini files
clem573
I thought I was the only one to have this as the main memory from that game
y2sub
Red Alert 1 and Star Craft 1 were my go to games
NotWittyEnough
Were you born in 1985?!
y2sub
Close, 1983
IrwinWongPhoto
There are dozens of us!
PancakesAreDefinitelyCakes
That was quite literally my Christmas holidays in 1996. Hours and hours of Red Alert on my beige PC.
Goldenteckel
Same here. Or some Troika Games (Fallout 1 & 2, Arcanum...).
AkLonewolf
Microprose games were great... xcom and the likes.
khp041000
Throw in some Bullfrog games, some SC2k and TTDX and you have a deal!
theendissneer
OG Mechcommander. So many hours of fun.
TritonJohn54
Original Tanya is Best Tanya!
Tricorder
Cha-ching!
PeterOlintoowesmeacoffee
Found a collection of C&C on steam for ~$20 and knew if I bought it, all free time would go to it.
youlikehueylewisandthenews
What is this? I cant find that from steam! At least not one with ra2.
UltimaRatio
It's the CNC anthology iirc
eddiekilgore
That $20 bundle is... okay? About half the games are NOT plug and play- you have to do some .ini editing and dick around with emulator sett
UltimaRatio
I'm looking to play generals with people. Hit me up!
prisonmike1991
It doesn't work on Windows 10 for me :(
AbsolutelyNotTheNSA
Literally played a mission on the Generals Challenge not an hour ago. China Tank general so I can blitz with the ovahlooord
qtRaven
Have you checked out the 'Rise of the Reds' mod yet?
JakSandrow
Wait - there are multiplayer servers??? Where??????
qtRaven
Come join us... https://cnc-online.net/en/download/
uniqueusernamesarehard
Dot. Also there's openra.net
qtRaven
True. But I'm not sure if that works for C&C Generals.
JakSandrow
!!!!!!
nolanurse
DOOM
baals
Doom.
zorlonjones
Doom takes place in 2022 btw.
vonsmallhausen
NoobsStfu
This gif is delicious
CptRobotNinja
apostlepk
I had a Mac so it was Marathon for me
Merky600
Yes! Yes! I played that so much I started hearing the sounds from the game in real life. I dedicated to pull back my playing after that
Thorax48
DOOMSW - Please distribute like crazy
pasky080810
We were lucky enough to have the MMX 385 if I recall correctly
SpamYarBlockers
idkfa; iddqd; idgod
Frederf
Goblor
Honestly when games were made by the people who were passionate about it and not money bags it was better, change my mind
AlkeneThiol
Westwood was a good company
Goblor
I understand games have higher budget especially AAA titles, but they feel empty and shallow.
CrassiusCurio
There were plenty of corporate cash grabs back then, and I would take anything out today over 100s of licensed movie games a year.
Kamasu0Tra
Sounds like you are playing the wrong games then. Take a look at stuff like Dark Souls, the Mass Effect trilogy, hell, even DOTA 2.
quzar
That's what people said when this was out. Comparing it to the mid-80s halcyon days where you could sell your own games at the local shop >
quzar
> on cassette or floppy in a ziploc. "Now it's just a bunch of Doom clones"
MTekKnight
There were bad games back then, too. We tend to pick our favorite games of an entire generation, and comparing them to EVERY game out.
Goblor
you're not wrong I kinda have the rose tinted goggles on, like Darksouls 3 is good but its the exception not the norm
MTekKnight
I look at it this way. Look at a game like BoTW and compare it to something like Magic Carpet. Objectively, BoTW is better.
quzar
Stugeon's Law. 90% of everything is crap. Since the crap doesn't get passed on, we see it less and less the further in the past it is.
SodomySnake
And when you start Red Alert 2, Red Alert 2 is what starts. Not Steam. Not Epic. Not Ubisoft Connect. Not Origin. Not Rockstar...
OmnipotentBeing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrqQxl5o3eg&ab_channel=TheTiberianSons
xcopperx
Steams alright. What sucks is when you click play game on a game in steam which opens another overlay like Origin or something.
KittyTrousers
God I hate Origin. Slows down my game like mad but you can't close it w/o closing the game too. I bought it on Steam just let me use Steam!
dwarfinathonginacaskinthewaterwoooo
Unit Ready
MarshalFunChef
Hell march https://youtu.be/e3YzmjmAGoI
GumontheLeg
And you can finish it without buying extra content.
0plus1plus0
Also when you bought the game you got the whole game. With an optional add on. No dlc required for chapter two.
lildog21
I can hear hell March already
Freebite
I don't hate the online stores, just the exclusives on them exclusives are bad for consumers period.
frogmanfonzo
kithylin
It still be like that today when we play games properly (pirated) click shortcut and game starts up with no "game launcher".
Ross22TM
For me, steam is fine, but I despise Ubisoft Connect, that shit needs to be put out of its misery.
Anonypuss
Epic ia nice too, though less advanced. their free weekly/daily games make up for it though
Emriys
The games are nice but the shop is garbage, the library is garbage, the exclusivity is garbage.... yeah, only one redeeming factor
MrJollyBear
I love steam. Great to have your library all in one spot… I just wish it stopped there and everything was on their store.
45acp
For me it’s Rockstar that loads once their game is launched. The client will lock the games if it can’t reach internet… and there games 1/2
45acp
Are primarily single player based. So if you don’t have internet for their key check, no game.
bongles
You mean you don't want to click yes to 7 of those windows security prompts just to open Uno?
JellybellyBushroot
Argument is moot when you consider you have to have the CD in the drive to play.
Dodel1976
Not really, that just ensured you had an legit version, pre NOCD cracks.
Markamanic
Even if I had a disc, I'd usually just throw a NOCD on there just to get rid of the hassle.
JellybellyBushroot
A DRM that stores licenses in the cloud is less of an intrusion and PITA than keeping cases of unscratched discs near a working DVD drive?
AoEnwyr
Just bought RDR2 from Steam Sale. Forced to make Rockstar account. Instantly diminished my view of the game.
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AoEnwyr
I’ve not dipped into that yet but am looking forward to working through the story
PimpinKen
Just another reason to sail the pirate seas
vonsmallhausen
Omg a thousand times this! These preloading launch overlays are fucking bullshit!
SodomySnake
But how else will they mine your da- I mean, keep track of your achievements?
vonsmallhausen
LordNergal
*points to a giant bottomless well* It's at the bottom of that.
LadyNetrex
GOG.com. The launcher is optional.
SodomySnake
Already there ?
xdeadfishx
Steamless. Just remove the DRM from your purchases if they are not multiplayer. I only run steam if I need to update or get something.
Nuttsy
Has this annoying habit of slaving the independent installs to the launcher, though. But at least there's half an option...
Neotic357
I get the sentiment but; When I click install game in Steam, it just downloads and installs, ready to play in 10-15 min. No 1/2
tempestfoxthree
When you buy some games on steam and they force you to use Uplay or W/E in addition to steam to play the damn game. That annoys me, so much.
HopelessNecr0mantic
That's the games decision, not steam.
Voidhawk42
Steam was a textbook case of "we know it's basically a monopoly, but we don't care because the service is so good".
velicitia
So, basically Netflix from 10-15 years back...?
Neotic357
multi-disk installs ( ;) ), no cd-keys, no damaged disks... Don't use any of the others, but i am definitely a fan of Steam.
tripozornike
Fine!
Schoonbot
But that was the way.... You had to be smart to be a kid installing a game back then.
MithridateEupator
"Smart" You... had to follow a few simple directions I guess
Schoonbot
Pat your head, run your tummy, insert cd 2, goto page 12 of manual read last line
ThomasThundersword
have..... have you met the general public...?