Good horror PC games post 2000 First person only

[bobrpggamer]

I was wonder what some good horror games are out there on PC.

I have from GamersGate:

Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
Every F.E.A.R. game
All S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games except S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
Nosferatu
Condemned - Criminal Origins
I Am Alive
Penumbra Requiem
Amnesia - The Dark Descent

GOG:
Amnesia - A Machine For Pigs
Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth 1.0
Clive Barker's Undying
Dying Light - The Following - Enhanced edition
SOMA
System Shock 2
The Suffering
Episode 1 - Dracula - Dracula Resurrection
Episode 2 - Dracula - Path of the Dragon
Episode 3 - Dracula - The Last Sanctuary

Steam:
DreadOut
DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark
The Evil Within
Lethe - Episode One
Near Death
Outlast
Outlast 2
Resident Evil 5
Slender: The Arrival
State of Decay: Year-One
Call of Cthulhu
The Darkness II
Dead Effect
Dead Effect 2
Dead Rising 2 (Third Person)
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (Third Person)
Dead Space (2008)
Dead Space 2
NecroVisioN: Lost Company
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
Doom (new version)
Metro: Last Light Redux
Metro Exodus

Thank to Steam, GOG and GamersGate sales, I will more than likely be long dead before I can play all of them.

Wishlist:

Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Monstrum
Chernobylite Complete Edition
Witch Hunt
From The Darkness
Lazaret
Welcome to Kowloon
I Can't Escape: Darkness
Dead Island 2

If you think this is hoarding, I have 238 RPG game, starting from about 1983 to present. Most is Abandonedware so they were free, but still bought most abandonedware RPGs from GOG to get support.

These game are from:
C64
Amiga and Amiga CD32
Atari 800 PC
Apple II
Apple MAC
Atari ST
3DO
Playstation 1
Sega Genesis
Super Nintendo
MS-DOS
Windows.

I am not much of a hoarder in my house but I am when it comes classic and recent games. Of course most are electronic downloads but I have a few retail boxed Windows games with game boxes. I had way more but sold a lot of the classic DOS game I had, and regret it of course.

 

[ALEXZANDER]

I was wonder what some good horror games are out there on PC.

I have from GamersGate:

Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
Every F.E.A.R. game
All S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games except S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
Nosferatu
Condemned - Criminal Origins
I Am Alive
Penumbra Requiem
Amnesia - The Dark Descent

GOG:
Amnesia - A Machine For Pigs
Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth 1.0
Clive Barker's Undying
Dying Light - The Following - Enhanced edition
SOMA
System Shock 2
The Suffering
Episode 1 - Dracula - Dracula Resurrection
Episode 2 - Dracula - Path of the Dragon
Episode 3 - Dracula - The Last Sanctuary

Steam:
DreadOut
DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark
The Evil Within
Lethe - Episode One
Near Death
Outlast
Outlast 2
Resident Evil 5
Slender: The Arrival
State of Decay: Year-One
Call of Cthulhu
The Darkness II
Dead Effect
Dead Effect 2
Dead Rising 2 (Third Person)
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (Third Person)
Dead Space (2008)
Dead Space 2
NecroVisioN: Lost Company
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
Doom (new version)
Metro: Last Light Redux
Metro Exodus

Thank to Steam, GOG and GamersGate sales, I will more than likely be long dead before I can play all of them.

Wishlist:

Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Monstrum
Chernobylite Complete Edition
Witch Hunt
From The Darkness
Lazaret
Welcome to Kowloon
I Can't Escape: Darkness
Dead Island 2

If you think this is hoarding, I have 238 RPG game, starting from about 1983 to present. Most is Abandonedware so they were free, but still bought most abandonedware RPGs from GOG to get support.

These game are from:
C64
Amiga and Amiga CD32
Atari 800 PC
Apple II
Apple MAC
Atari ST
3DO
Playstation 1
Sega Genesis
Super Nintendo
MS-DOS
Windows.

I am not much of a hoarder in my house but I am when it comes classic and recent games. Of course most are electronic downloads but I have a few retail boxed Windows games with game boxes. I had way more but sold a lot of the classic DOS game I had, and regret it of course.

FEAR GOAP AI is fantastic! The best i ever seen

 

[bobrpggamer]

FEAR GOAP AI is fantastic! The best i ever seen

FEAR is amazing in almost all ways. Combat is the best of all though, with the slowdown mode it can get really gory. It is also my top 10 FPS games of all time. Not sure what GOAP is though. Funny thing is that Monolith Studios has released a lot of cool games like "Blood" back in the early Quake II years. Also Condemned - Criminal Origins which I just finished. The only problem with that game, is it truly linear and not a lot to explore really. But the combat is really cool, with the ability to kick *** with things like a manikin arm or a paper cutter blade.

 

[ALEXZANDER]

FEAR is amazing in almost all ways. Combat is the best of all though, with the slowdown mode it can get really gory. It is also my top 10 FPS games of all time. Not sure what GOAP is though. Funny thing is that Monolith Studios has released a lot of cool games like "Blood" back in the early Quake II years. Also Condemned - Criminal Origins which I just finished. The only problem with that game, is it truly linear and not a lot to explore really. But the combat is really cool, with the ability to kick *** with things like a manikin arm or a paper cutter blade.

GOAP is the type of technology which was used to make FEAR AI

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

I was wonder what some good horror games are out there on PC.

Horror is subjective, for me. I admit I am a tech and information hoarder.
But horror began to fall off, in games and movies for me before 2000. They
became more sensationalized, and catered for popular marketing groups not
content.

As long as a game or movie has an aspect that can keep my mind occupied, I will play
and watch it, some multiple times. Every game I have, I have played at least once to
conclusion. My total archive exceeds, 96TB. Dedicated to games on HD is approx 35 TB.
Plus approx 4300 cds and dvds. Dedicated to 7 Days to die, is 4TB. But I started transferring
stuff, from the 286 to cd and dvd then finally external hard drives for massive storage retrieval.
And I converted the majority of my conslole games to run on emulators. So I still play
them and all of the old arcade games on mame.

The darksouls series to elden ring, Project zomboid, Silent hill, Days gone, Dying light
I love the Bozak Horde mini game, I would have liked resident evil but the jump back slide and
overall controls for the character sucked #$$. I like context and content over hype and overelborately
detailed characters and models. LFD 2, Onimusha genma refer to resident evil, Little nightmares, Inside,
The alien series, Dead rising, Dead Island, Evil dead for comic factor, Nazi zombie army 1-3, COD blackops 3
The zombie chronicles, to name a few that I rotate through.

So most of my favorites would be before 2000, the only one that carried over for me was DOOM.
But even that is has become overly animated for me. I will never sell, I'd rather buy someone a gift.

For 7 days to die I rotate through the alphas, constantly.

 

[bobrpggamer]

Horror is subjective, for me. I admit I am a tech and information hoarder.
But horror began to fall off, in games and movies for me before 2000. They
became more sensationalized, and catered for popular marketing groups not
content.

As long as a game or movie has an aspect that can keep my mind occupied, I will play
and watch it, some multiple times. Every game I have, I have played at least once to
conclusion. My total archive exceeds, 96TB. Dedicated to games on HD is approx 35 TB.
Plus approx 4300 cds and dvds. Dedicated to 7 Days to die, is 4TB. But I started transferring
stuff, from the 286 to cd and dvd then finally external hard drives for massive storage retrieval.
And I converted the majority of my conslole games to run on emulators. So I still play
them and all of the old arcade games on mame.

The darksouls series to elden ring, Project zomboid, Silent hill, Days gone, Dying light
I love the Bozak Horde mini game, I would have liked resident evil but the jump back slide and
overall controls for the character sucked #$$. I like context and content over hype and overelborately
detailed characters and models. LFD 2, Onimusha genma refer to resident evil, Little nightmares, Inside,
The alien series, Dead rising, Dead Island, Evil dead for comic factor, Nazi zombie army 1-3, COD blackops 3
The zombie chronicles, to name a few that I rotate through.

So most of my favorites would be before 2000, the only one that carried over for me was DOOM.
But even that is has become overly animated for me. I will never sell, I'd rather buy someone a gift.

For 7 days to die I rotate through the alphas, constantly.

I too have about 14TB of retro games. MAME, TOSEC for old PCs a Few other massive packs for DOS and Amiga alone. I even have a pack of Future Pinball. Although I only go so far as collecting for PC gaming from Apple II to Windows, no consoles really. I have a couple of RPG games for consoles like: Super Nintendo (Wizardry I-II-III - Story of Llylgamyn), Genesis (Dungeons and Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun), Playstation 1 (Wizardry: Llylgamyn Saga & Wizardry: New Age of Llylgamyn) and 3DO (AD&D - Deathkeep & AD&D - Slayer). But that's about it for consoles. I was one of those PC elitist guys back in the day and I guess today as well.

Almost all of the packs are just for RPGs mainly but DOS and Amiga have other great games too. As far as pre-2000 horror based games, I have Realms of the Haunting that I may play someday. I too tried Resident Evil (some version) and was not impressed, the camera movement had me thinking it was just a slideshow with a couple of times you may have to press one of the joypad buttons. That's why I like FPS and not camera locked 3rd person or whatever. The only thing I have to say that was bad about Condemned - Criminal Origins was the the super linearness of it. But the combat was amazing.

It is just the atmosphere of some of the post 2000 games are more enjoyable than I can imagine Alone in the Dark and Phantasmagoria can be. I agree that games like Weekend at Freddy's and a lot of indie games are not really going to do it for me. But the ones I listed seem really cool. I have already played a few of them, but are good enough to play again.

Its not that I do not remember the early days of PC gaming with my C64 and Amiga and eventually PC DOS, I loved them, but the atmosphere of more modern games are just more captivating and freakier. Then theirs Thief Gold and Thief II the Metal Age. These are perfect as they are, although I know that Thief 2 was In 2000.

 

[bobrpggamer]

I just bought from Steam on sale for $12.00

Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
Monstrum

More game hoarding.

If I had a couple of 16TB drives I would install all of them and back them up, but I do not know the actual size of 200+ games on Steam. apparently 286 games all together. I have all 217 GOG games on my drive which is only 336Gb due to a lot being DOS games. GamersGate is about 330Gb too.

It was really 7 Days to Die that got me into this Horror game phase. Next month I may be back into RPG games for all I know.

My total archive exceeds, 96TB

Curiously what do you use to back up your data. I would love to have a LTO 7 Tape drive, but they are ridiculously expensive.

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

I too tried Resident Evil (some version) and was not impressed, the camera movement had me thinking it was just a slideshow with a couple of times you may have to press one of the joypad buttons

Agreed, it had great potential but the controls made me not want to play

I too have about 14TB of retro games. MAME, TOSEC for old PCs a Few other massive packs for DOS and Amiga alone. I even have a pack of Future Pinball.

You are the first person, that has mentioned Pinball, thank you, after arcades died off like disco,
I eventually found pinball x, future pinball and pinmame, to play my Bally's Playboy was/is my
favorite, even Microsoft's future shock.

I was one of those PC elitist guys back in the day and I guess today as well.

I forever switched to pc after finding that I could drag and drop my profile from Diablo to Diablo 2. Options.

Then theirs Thief Gold and Thief II the Metal Age.

That is my inspiration for how I play now. The purposed arrows especially the water arrow. And
using shadows. even the assassin's cowl.

Curiously what do you use to back up your data. I would love to have a LTO 7 Tape drive, but they are ridiculously expensive.

Western Digital, 4TB external hard drives: Not Seagate too many failed for me: I manually assigned each one
a different drive letter D-Z, then did a cmd console DIR >>driveletter.txt and added them to a spreadsheet. So I can
do a single search, for a title, then quick swap a drive to locate what I am looking for. In the future, depending on
pricing fluctuation, I may start transferring them to SSD. But not yet. They don't have to be the fastest xfer rate,
because it is data, so 100 dollar 4TB. extremely economical, and if Group organized manageable.

I only used a Tape Backup Drive, When I had to manage our NTLOS and OS2 servers.

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

I have all 217 GOG games on my drive which is only 336Gb due to a lot being DOS games. GamersGate is about 330Gb too.

Including the two sizes you have here. A single 4TB drive could store 6.15 times that amount in a single
drive. I have my steam split across two drives, then a duplicated on two others for worst case scenarios.
The best part for me is the one button usb hot swap, If you find a reliable external usb hub, you can have
instant access to 8 drive or 32 TB data at once, just remember to assign them different drive letters.

 

[bobrpggamer]

You are the first person, that has mentioned Pinball, thank you, after arcades died off like disco,
I eventually found pinball x, future pinball and pinmame, to play my Bally's Playboy was/is my
favorite, even Microsoft's future shock.

I have Pinball X too. I was keeping my favorite tables with a bunch of custom content I made to select the table I want.


I really just like the late 60s to like 1980. After 1980 the tables got too complicated.

Including the two sizes you have here. A single 4TB drive could store 6.15 times that amount in a single
drive. I have my steam split across two drives, then a duplicated on two others for worst case scenarios.
The best part for me is the one button usb hot swap, If you find a reliable external usb hub, you can have
instant access to 8 drive or 32 TB data at once, just remember to assign them different drive letters.

I have a SSD 1tb that I call the hub drive that has a bunch of hard drives as folders. I have too many drives to keep in letters, so I needed to do folders. I must have over 30 hard drives around the house. Most are 3TB then some 6TB and some 16TB drives as well.

I am looking to add some more 16TB drives and one 18TB drive. The ones I am using now are 6TB and getting too full.

Storage 1 16TB I already have an external
Storage 2 16TB I already have an external
Backup 16TB 1 in PC and one External
Drive image 16TB 1 in PC and one external

I already have the 2 storage drives in a external enclosure so I want the exact duplicate in my PC. The Backup and Drive Image drives will be exact duplicates in another external enclosure. I have one 18TB now for movies and want another 18TB exact duplicate backup. Newegg sells new enclosures that are USB 3 type C that can accept 20TB drives. I have 1 now that has 5 bays and another that has 2 bays. It took a while for guys to start making over 6TB external enclosures. I have three 4 bay versions of them with 6TB and 3TB drives.

In would still love to have an LTO tape backup system. Its not just the cost, the usual interface is SAS 6Gbps, and this requires an 8 lane PCI express card. Modern motherboards usually have a 16 lane GPU slot and a couple of 1 or 4 lane slots as well. Unless you get a Threadripper Pro motherboard, which are amazing but a bit ridiculous.

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

You have gone way passed me in storage configuration. It seems now all you need to do is
organize. That is what I did, with the folders. Ex. Bookz, TV, Pagez, Appz then sub types.
I often browse my spreadsheet to remember what I have forgotten.

The only reason I never bought bigger; follow the same thought as 1 64gb ram chip,
vs 4 16gb. I can plug 4 drives in so I can see the same volume of data, but with my clones
I feel a bit safer. I would be ■■■■ed if that one device failed, and I lost all the data at once
MsDos through Win10, Win 7 was my favorite, so I an redoing a multiple os multiple partition
for everything that does not function on 10.

Learned that from the Seagate drives. But I respect your volume. This last year I concentrated
on building an AI capable pc 128gb, with high rendering capability 5070ti and just started reorganizing
my other data. I figure as long as I don't break it, I should be covered for the next Game and app
evolution for a few years. It is also to run my Longer 3d printer.

I wish all this tech had been available when I was young. But at least I have gotten to enjoy the history of it.

 

[bobrpggamer]

I use GoodSync to sync my copied drives, which works well. Like you I want to have a clone of all my important drives, usually external, but not NAS. I have a Plex NAS with 2 16TB cloned drives that if fail in the NAS, I have a non NTSF file system to work with and I do not know how to recover data from whatever file system my NAS uses. So I need a 16TB drive to back that up eventually.

Organizing your files can take forever if you have a lot of data. I wanted to make a RPG only folder with all versions of my RPGs from different PCs like Amiga and Atari from TOSEC and others, but I have yet to even do that. I wanted to organize my Pinball tables for Pinball X, but have yet to do that too. I would love to create a Gamebase RPG, but I have problems with the emulators as I am not too good at any kind of programing or scripting. I did fix the GameBase Amiga 2.0 and uploaded that to English Amiga Board, but that was only using WinUAE, and I know WinUAE fairly well.

As far as games, I suggest Game Database CLZ. I have all my RPGs organized now. I want to organize other genres from all games I have from Steam, GOG and GamersGate and some retail boxed games. But I will probably put that off too.

Here is the game organizer I use:

Game Database App / Software, organize your video game collection

Catalog your video game collection. Automatic game details and cover art. Just enter game titles or scan barcodes. Automatically get up-to-date game values from PriceCharting.com. Free trial editions. Available as mobile app or web-based software.

clz.com

 

[bobrpggamer]

I wish all this tech had been available when I was young. But at least I have gotten to enjoy the history of it.

I wish when I was always broke and could not afford many games for my Amiga 500, that I would have found out about something called the demo scene, if you know what I mean.

Also, I would have never known I would have every Amiga and MS-DOS game ever made Via TOSEC and TDC Releases. I really, really respect the time and effort these guys put into collecting old games and software.

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

wish when I was always broke and could not afford many games for my Amiga 500, that I would have found out about something called the demo scene, if you know what I mean.

Yup, learned it early. There was a "basement" shop near Columbia University
way out of my way. But I found it just walking around, Nuts N Voltz era. Still
have a lot, that was pre internet domination. It introduced me to Lo Wang Demo.
The only thing I spent more money on than demo discs was records, to DJ.

I have a non NTSF file system to work with and I do not know how to recover data from whatever file system my NAS uses.
You may be able to try GetDataBack, but you have to do it per each removed physical disc. But it runs on windows.
If you do try it, Check their site it "Runtime Software" also has a module specifically for Nas recovery.

It worked for me when I had a disc start to get intermittent read fails. it showed multiple levels of delete for the same file.
That made me switch to DOD wipe algorithm. There was one neighborhood, with a computer repair shop, they threw out
HDs all the time, I just put them in my bookbag, and restored; that is how I learned what I needed to do for real security.
But, yeah those were good times.

Are you still looking for Amiga collection for posterity sake?

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

Here is the game organizer I use:

Too late for me. I already set mine to a text only lookup. I used xls and mdb to
cross reference. title to genre. That covers all of my data types. After a decade
of compiling sorting and rearranging, it finally came together last year.

 

[bobrpggamer]

Are you still looking for Amiga collection for posterity sake?

Not terribly certain what you mean. But If I could go back in time... I would have an Amiga 500, 1200, 3000 and 4000 and some UN-opened boxed games from all different computers to put on a shelf somewhere. I would also love to have an IBM PS/2 I love that line of PCs and I love those clicking IBM keyboards. Probably an IBM XT and IBM AT also. A C64 and C128 would be cool. Also an Apple II and even maybe an Atari 800 and Atari ST as well.

In reality I have all my favorite (mainly RPG) games with an auto-run system that loads WHDload games or even boots an ADF when you click on the icon. Got it from a guy named Hoborg online. I always give all credit to his mastery of auto-running WHDload configs, I just edited a few Winuae configs and found out how to use his method on other games. got 102 of them. I have also setup some Amiga computers to run in WinUAE, but don't mess around with them to long, it was just fun to get Amiga computers running workbench on my PC.

I did purchase Amiga Forever for the kickstarts. I have like 5 versions of it based on years like Amiga Forever 2013, 2014 and so on.

 

[bobrpggamer]

Funny thing about retro gaming, is that I enjoy setting up the games in game launchers or just have them ready to go, more than playing. I set up MAME, Demul and Supermodel in a frontend called EmuLoader. It took quite a while but when I finished it was cool to use. I have Gamebase for almost all retro PCs that I set up. My Dosbox games are all set up in folders ready to go with a .bat file. Was working on Pinball X to set up my favorite tables with demo videos and custom labels, like the one above. I catalogued my RPG collection back in 2008 or so on paper that I printed, I still have a boatload of retro RPG manuals I printed and put in binders.

I have a Virtual Machine running Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit running some games made for XP or Vista and it really works with finicky games back in the early 2000s. I got:

Pnumbra The Black Plague
Pnumbra Requiem
Cryostasis
Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth
Clive Barker's Undying
Nosferatu: Wrath of Malachi

And I am running Vivisector: Beast Within with no problems. That game crashed on me all the time when I bought it back in the mid 2000s, even on required system requirements. I think it is due to the simplicity of VMware Workstation 17s simple virtual hardware. I could not get Virtual Pool 3 to run at all on my PC but it does run in the VM. I can also Scum Save by saving the state of the VM whenever I want. This was again fun to set up and all.

Do you have any frontends for you retro games? I had Launchbox but it was too complicated. so I stuck with smaller frontends like GameBase, Emuloader and Pinball X. Some other retro PC emulators, I will just load the emulator and add the disk or whatever it needs. No need for a frontend to run a couple of games here and there;. Like 3DO only has 2 games I like, Apple II has 5 games I like, Atari ST has 3 games I like and so on.

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

I went back retracing my history, and it started getting too long.
So I condensed it the best I can. My main interest in games was/is
the tech behind them. Meaning how the controls function, AI interactivity
to make the game flow, if more of a graphic render then how they used the
available resources at default level and or pushed the envelope.

You have definitely been more focused and also more flexible than I have. I am
more of a follower and archive of the driving technologies, for games, apps and
media that stand out, kind of mapping a time line of change.

Spoiler: Part 1

Luckily I ended up working for a company that had me focus on bringing them
from paper standard and basic mainframe access to GUI, Intranet connectivity then
active directory, massive ghost rollouts, and gave me carte blanche, my path forked
there. But games were and will be my fallback, because I get to see what all of
the background processing renders visually.

The part I like about retro-gaming, is it is comfort food for my mind. The lower
resources, in pc hard and software, limited games and apps to a singular focus, or a
single function. 8 megabyte using quake as an example, vs 25 plus gigabyte today,
voodoo 2 vs rtx 5070ti. The graphics and hardware today are miles ahead, but the game-play
has had a much slower progression, ans is still the same to me, just prettier.

Spoiler: Part 2

My origin path stopped me from using front ends, because I learned to use as is mainly because
my career had me focused on trouble shooting, and correction analysis, basically hacking and
rewriting the processes, too many addons and variances camouflage the real problem. I tried
Retro-arch, Vm-ware, and W.I.N.E. for legacy OS compatibility, but it does not feel the the same. I
still like to engage in conversations regarding, the new overlay technologies, but I keep them as
single separate entities, it is easier for me to trouble shoot and correct problems.

I got a lot of my console emulators from EMU-Paradise. For Dos it is Dosbox, or I load my
win 3.11 and windows 95 partition to run them. For newer I have them function under my windows
7, that was the most flexible and non constricted OS for me, Windows Xp and 7 partition I use
for the original Windowblinds.

My first pc was Ibm pc jr. Until conversations here I never paid attention to all that I went
through, I have been blessed and fortunate.

Atari Video Computer System (VCS) Ibm pc jr. Atari 2600:Vectrex:Commodore 64:Nes:Snes:N64:
1988 My first pc 286Dos: PS1: Pc again: Ultima Onlie for 15 years: A chipped xbox: Xbox 360 still have
Commodore 64: Tandy: Imac: Power Mac g3 Still have functional: Toshiba Libretto 100 ct: The one I am
going to get back through Ebay. Sony psp Jailbroken Still use it when I have to wait for someone
at a doctor's appointment.

Spoiler: part 3

Precursors and examples: Pinball=Bullet and Havok physics, Prince of persia Sands of time 3d wall climb=
Assassins Creed, Crazy climber=I am alive, Driving NFS in a class by itself=Forza, halflife quake doom
Portals=Every portal and teleporter. Massive online Ultima, cell shaded sprites, economy, PVE and PVP
rules existing on a single server in symbiosis. Then I found 7 Days to die, I researched as much as I
could, read their intentions and my first thought was they must be nuts, but it was an interesting concept.
So here I am. I have tried to just play games like I have read and heard others speak of, but I am interested
in how history will refer to the game after it is done, and what influences will follow.

I bought HDs from Tiger Direct, and a Raid external enclosure from Newegg, they only lasted a short time
lost a lot of data, and took a long time to reclaim and find most of it. So that lead me to follow the archive
procedures that I do now. Lessons learned, for me. I will research up to a year if necessary, for stability
and price point drops. Hardware is easily replaced, but data is finite, and I value it more.

This conversation has expanded well passed simple game preference. It has been 4 decades in the making
and i am glad we had it. And it caused me to take a retrospective look and what guided my choices.

 

[bobrpggamer]

Well, I am happy for you. I think you started to talk a bit over my head though. I like setting up different platforms and getting things to run eventually, but that is as far as I go I'm afraid.

I love 7 Days to Die for the ability to use my creativity that I use in other programs, mainly 3D. I always wanted to try my hand at 3D graphics back in the days of Byte 4 Byte: Sculpt Animate 4D for Amiga. I never got a chance to try 3D until around 2000 with 3DS Max 3.2. After that I realized I may not be an artist that can illustrate or paint, but I was fairly good at creating things in 3D. Like 7 Days to Die and my first base in 16.4. Unfortunately I have reached as far as I can go for now, because the last base I made is as good as I can imagine, and seeing how my goal in 7 Days to Die is to create a massive base that is impenetrable, well I did that and that's that for now.

My interest, probably due to ADD, goes from one project to another, sometimes in days or weeks. It is hard to stay on one project long. I am just happy I finished my base this time. I actually finished something, oh boy. Well I am proud of it anyway.

Retro gaming is something I got around to in about 2008, when I found out about MS-DOS abandonedware. I was so excited at the time and after that it went on to other platforms, like the Amiga and C64 that I actually owned at one time. It is kind of a bummer when you get into something so much and almost wear it out. Like retro gaming that was so exiting back in 2008. Granted I still enjoy the idea of it but the thrill is not what it used to be.

I do love VMware Workstation. I am very spoken on how cool it is. Maybe there are other/better platforms but Workstation works and does what I need it to do.

I just got hooked into buying the Deus Ex bundle on GOG today. It was like $12:00 or something and I could not help myself. This is the hoarding I do. I thank digital download sales for it of course, but it is a cool thing to get into. Rather than buying some legendary pack nonsense on Steam, I would rather play Deus Ex again someday on my Windows 7 Virtual Machine just for the @#$% of it. Someday I will go at the first Thief series again too maybe, I already have it from GOG a long time ago.

ADD and Impulsiveness all control me I guess.

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[4sheetzngeegles]

I think you started to talk a bit over my head though.

I thought the same thing, in regard to the depth you went with the front ends.

I love 7 Days to Die for the ability to use my creativity that I use in other programs, mainly 3D. I always wanted to try my hand at 3D graphics back in the days of Byte 4 Byte: Sculpt Animate 4D for Amiga. I never got a chance to try 3D until around 2000 with 3DS Max 3.2.

Creative freedom is the same thing that hooked me, except it is in designing environments.
For me it was ray dream 3d studio and Bryce 3d. The thing that interested me in 3ds max, was
when I found out that the Predator cloaking came from one of the plugins, But dealing with
the hasp was a $&%^.

Retro gaming is something I got around to in about 2008, when I found out about MS-DOS abandonedware.

The only difference between your path and mine is timing. I still go back to abandonware sites ever
so often, I just like to see how things have progressed. My actual first pc game was Gorilla.bas part
of MSDos. Then the first game game which wasn't even graphic was Zork.

Someday I will go at the first Thief series again

I recently watched a video of Thief Deadly Shadows, once I get my ssd transfer enclosure, I will finish making
my multi os boot, so I can play those regularly.