wizardbeard

This isn't news, it's just the standard notice that Microsoft isn't going to spend time making their new shiny OS work on 10+ year old hardware.

For incredibly obvious example of "efficiency rules everything", check out the Old School Runescape community.

A ton of grown adults trying to recapture the childhood magic of one old ass MMO that practically anyone could play for free... by optimizing things down to the server update "tick".

Doing things the "fun" way is sin, and looking for help getting through particularly grindy sections is liable to get you directed to the most ridiculously overoptimized solution ever that requires an absurd amount of effort to save an hour.

"The best way to tackle [LOW LEVEL GRIND] is to use [REWARD FOR UNRELATED HIGH LEVEL GRIND]. We will not discuss alternatives."

Thank you for your service Mr. Hill

Probably collected before the used games market got taken over by speculators driving the prices up insanely.

We didn't know how good we had it before 2015 or so.

I have easily a few thousand dollars worth of retro games (I check the going rates of my collection now and then with pricecharting.com), and I rarely paid more than $20 a piece for any game I bought used.

Which reminds me that I need to check some of the SNES cart internals to confirm they're legit, because some of those deals were a bit too good to be true even back then. Super Metroid for $20? Guessing it's a bootleg.

And that also reopens the old scar of an ex who made off with all of my N64 (multiple complete in boxes), Genesis, and GameGear stuff along with some of my GameBoy and Gamecube collection. Fuck.

Don't lend large swaths of your shit to someone all at once.

Yum... crab bucket.

Goodbye

Unfortunately, that's not the style of (at least the mainline) Sims. It's not meant to be a challenge.

I'm fairly certain there are mods available for this sort of thing if you want it, but EA wants the games to be easy to pick up and appeal to the widest possible market.

I think you misunderstood.

They literally remade/remastered the original Zelda CD-i games, before making Arzette as a love letter to the style of those games. I wasn't calling Arzette itself a remake.

Here's the link to Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon Remastered: https://archive.org/details/FOER-and-WOGR

Digimon World 3 is a traditional turn based RPG, and I think 4 on the Gamecube is a roguelike beat em up. What a wild series.

Edit: duped my post somehow

The CD-i games are one of the few places where Nintendo tends to turn a blind eye

The dev of Arzette (a CD-i like, I guess you could say), made a remake of one of the Zelda CD-i games first and didn't ger in any trouble.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners is another great one from Trigger. Set in Night City, same world the Cyberpunk 2077 game, a year or so beforehand (but the plots are largely independent).

Real strong warning though: There are no happy endings in Night City. The ending will fuck you up.