Now that you mention it I seem to recall reading that some of the old Infocom games were running as BBS doors. I didn't realize you could save your progress
in them though. That's great to know. I was talking about how my gaming tastes have changed over the years and the ability to save whenever I need to is far more important than it used to be. I like things I can just pick up and
play with the amount of time I have, instead of having to worry about if I have
enough time to make it to the end of a level. I guess that's what happens when
you become an adult and have to be responsible. What was I thinking?!!? ;)

Talking back to games is at least half the fun of playing them. Some of the best times I've had gaming are based on my running narration as I play the game. Depending on the game and what's happened I've had to pause to give myself time to quit laughing or wipe the tears out of my eyes.

If you do try paying HHGTG again, remember that "Punch Prosser" is an option. :)

There was a point during The Long Dark where I was in real danger of freezing to death and did not have time to stop to drop things after finding a wolf killed deer. I managed to "motivate" the character to make it to a cave without an ankle sprain. I like to think that my encouragment was the difference in that little adventure. :)

What games are you working on now? Anything new?

Any word about when the next level will be released? Are you on the mailing list?



On Sunday April 05, 2020, John Hiemenz said to Ray Sbaitso...

Re: Re: The Long Dark
By: Ray Sbaitso to John Hiemenz on Sat Apr 04 2020 12:45 pm

If I recall, I never finished that one. When this type of game was
new, I would sit for hours playing games where I would tediously map on paper and maintain notes. Because of the great amount of time this consumed, I didn't get to play many of those until later, when computer games were starting to incorporate these features, and I grew impatient having to do those things myself and they would lose my interest.

I do have a version of THGTTG running on my BBS using DOSemu, but I haven't spent much time with it other than making sure it would run as
a 'door'. I may have to go back and look at it again, since it can
save progress.

Thinking back to The Long Dark, I find myself talking back to the game
a lot.. when I pick up a feather and my character complains they don't think they can carry much more. I don't think I've every carried so
much that it resulted in anything other than moving at a snails pace.

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Re: Re: The Long Dark
By: Ray Sbaitso to John Hiemenz on Fri Apr 10 2020 12:27 pm

I haven't tested this, but I think if you are playing in story mode on the easiest level, it is very difficult to die while playing.

These email conversations urged me to pick my story mode game back up and see where it goes. Honestly, I hadn't really played since sometime in January. I've just finished the last bit the preacher gave me for the town hall and am working on the next bit of travel out of the area.

I've picked up an old game, Might and Magic VI, and have been tinkering with that off and on. Weird I have 'fond' memories of this one but first thing I find is a lot of grinding to get characters at a decent enough level to do anything.

Other than that, I frequent Sniper Elite 4. There's an aspect of role playing and discover when playing in the campaign mode, typically play campaign solo.

I am on the Hinterland mailing list, no news that I've seen regarding the next level yet...

Stay safe and be well.
--

JH

There was a point during The Long Dark where I was in real danger of freezing to death and did not have time to stop to drop things after finding a wolf killed deer. I managed to "motivate" the character to make it to a cave without an ankle sprain. I like to think that my encouragment was the difference in that little adventure. :)

What games are you working on now? Anything new?

Any word about when the next level will be released? Are you on the mailing list?

... Prepositions are not good words to end sentences with.
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I never played Might and Magic. At the time I think was the only person I knew
who never did. I haven't thought about those games in years. I picked up The Witcher on CD a few years back and still haven't gotten it installed. At some point I had a look around and found there are some patches to fix various issues caused by 10, newer drivers, etc. I keep meaning to take the time to get it installed and patched again.

There was a long list of stuff to get done at the Town Hall. At one point I never thought I was going to finish.

I just started working on Cities in Motion. I was looking for something that reminded me of the earlier versions of Sim City. I really should take a look at the most recent Sim City, but the version or two before it just didn't hold my interest the way the earlier versions did. That may be a perception situation based on what other games were available when the earlier versions were released.

Keep me posted if you hear anything about the next episode being released. I check the Steam forums every once in a while.

Take it easy out there...



On Sunday April 12, 2020, John Hiemenz said to Ray Sbaitso...

I haven't tested this, but I think if you are playing in story mode on
the easiest level, it is very difficult to die while playing.

These email conversations urged me to pick my story mode game back up
and see where it goes. Honestly, I hadn't really played since sometime
in January. I've just finished the last bit the preacher gave me for
the town hall and am working on the next bit of travel out of the area.

I've picked up an old game, Might and Magic VI, and have been tinkering with that off and on. Weird I have 'fond' memories of this one but
first thing I find is a lot of grinding to get characters at a decent enough level to do anything.

Other than that, I frequent Sniper Elite 4. There's an aspect of role playing and discover when playing in the campaign mode, typically play campaign solo.

I am on the Hinterland mailing list, no news that I've seen regarding
the next level yet...

Stay safe and be well.
--

JH

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Ray Sbaitso wrote to John Hiemenz <=-

I've started playing Breathedge. It's an interesting game. Have you
heard of it?

I have not. I briefly looked it up but was convinced to start playing
DayZ by/with some gaming friends I'd been playing Sniper Elite 4 with.
In my opinion, survival in DayZ makes survival in The Long Dark look pretty easy.

I listen to Jason Scott's podcast and I'm pretty sure he has talked
about DayZ on that. It sounds pretty intense. I haven't done any multiplayer online gaming in years. He mentioned that it could be
fairly buggy. Is it still under development?

It is under development, sort of. Not a lot of 'new' things I've seen, though in the last month I have seen new updates fixing bugs. There are also a lot of community mods for it, and it is usually those mods that highlight the game's quirks and bugs. If you play on the 'vanilla' server, it's not very buggy. If your character spawns in the woods and it's raining, or in an area infested with the 'infected' ( zombies by any other name ... ), well... then your character is likely to die very quickly. I do have one character that I play on a vailla server and finally spawned in an area without rain and some fruit trees, so a 'hack' I learned it to navigate the fruit trees, removing any rotten fruit and eating the good fruit. Without any fruit on the ground, new fruit will spawn. Then, if it is dark and cold, or starts to rain, I tend to hide in a building and leave the server for a few hours until the nighttime cycle has passed. That has kept me alive long enough where I finally found an axe and a knife, so now I can stay around at night, build a fire. Usually in the middle of the floor of an old building...

It's good to have a group of people you know to game with, there can be
so much hostility out there if you just have to wander into a random server or game that it takes all the fun out of it.

This is the main reason I avoided multi player games for so long unless I was playing with friends. Our group tries not to be like this, though we also try to retaliate against those that do. So far the score is 1-1 in that arena and we've been left alone since.

I was always interested in more multiplayer co-op, but there just isn't much of that out there. I guess it's difficult to find a way to put something like that together that would draw a big enough player base
to make it worthwhile.

Sniper Elite 4 does have that, and thats where I met the online gaming friends.
You can do cooerative maps with one other player, or survival against the enemy with up to 4 teammeates on the same side. The game difficulty level will dictate if there is 'friendly fire' or not, but there is also an option to vote-kick a player if they are being unruly and won't leave when asked.

I remember Leo Laporte talking about Minecraft once and him saying how unreal it would have sounded if Notch had gone to EA to try to pitch
the game. "It's going to be all pixelated and it's going to sell a million copies." You just hear the EA rep yelling "SECURITY!!!"

Ah.. Minecraft is another game I used to love playing. I love the creative ability the game offers, though my biggest issue is I'm not freelance creative.
I can follow plans and instructions though, and have built some castles with moats and towers, but only if someone else has designed them. If I build from my own plans, things tend to look like big pixelated squares.

Be well. Cheers.

John
... I don't trust trees, they just seem a bit shady.
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