I think the decisions in NV are all grey enough to prevent decision fatigue. Oftimes, you’re picking the best of several bad options.

So sorry about your friend. Loss can make some things too hard to revisit. I’d not dare to speak for your loved one, but I would say that if I were to pass away, I’d certainly hope my friends played my favorite game. I’d probably take some time off from whatever afterlife there is just to watch.

My unfinished games watching me boot up New Vegas again

AYYYYYYY SMOKEWEEDABOUTIT AYYYYYYYYY

LMAOOOOOO

You will love it. I don’t mean to oversell it, but I do view BtA! as the savior of Minecraft.

Doom.

People are still making Doom WADs. And have you ever heard of the FPS genre?

Got a solid chuckle from this one. This may be the first Fallout community I really fall in love with.

She saw anon standing alone and he really took her insult to heart.

That’s hilarious. They’re really keeping the spirit of the wild west-era internet alive.

I agree, I’m not a big fan of modern Minecraft. I tried it out again the other day. First world I created spawned me in the middle of the ocean. I swam in one direction for 5 minutes without hitting land. So, I started another world. This plopped me in the middle of the Mesa biome, a biome with NO TREES. Again, I walked for a while to try to find a biome where I could start crafting tools, and didn’t reach the end of the Mesa. They clearly don’t consider the implications on gameplay when they add new things, just whatever seems cool. I can’t think of another reason as to why they would design it in a way that traps you in resourceless biomes at the beginning.

Just a recommendation, but you should try out Better than Adventure!

It’s basically an “alternate timeline” Minecraft that attempts to answer the question: What if Minecraft was developed to enrich its sandbox elements rather than turning into an adventure game?

It. Is. Awesome. I find it hard to play official releases now. BtA! is based on Minecraft Beta 1.7.3, the update just before the Adventure Update (which added hunger, sprint, XP, Villages, Endermen, etc.) The project’s goal is to work toward a game that’s as feature-complete as modern Minecraft, but every new feature connects back to and builds onto the sandbox and previous features. So, it doesn’t yet have sprint or villages, but it does have:

-Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter

-256 block world height and larger biomes

-New World Types

-Revamped armor system with resistances to different damage types per set, mix and match for success.

-New Steel resource that’s used to craft tools that are stronger, but slower, than Diamond.

-Block called a Trommel that can sift through junk gravel and dirt blocks to yield better resources

-A Guidebook that reveals recipes as you discover components

-Optional icons on signs, for easy labeling -Basket block for automatic item collection (think hopper+chest in one)

-Randomized Mob Skins (ie brown cows, white cows, muddy pigs, zombies with different shirts)

-Mud blocks, which dry in heat but fall like sand when wet.

-Fireflies

-Lanterns (with color variants)

-Wolves fetch items

-Drawable Flags (total design customization)

-Labyrinths to explore

-Snowman hostile mob

-Ice Skates

-Rope

-New Flowers

-Mesh blocks which work as solid surfaces but allow items to pass through

-Ability to carry containers that are full

There’s a lot more, like weather effects and painted wooden planks, but I think I’ve raved about BtA! enough already. If you’re fatigued by modern Minecraft, play it. You’ll rediscover why you fell in love with Minecraft in the first place.

Makes a lot of sense lol. I appreciate your usage of ED as a source, I find that reading between the opinions yields some shockingly accurate web history. I remember being shocked at their articles for gay and trans people… and then you read the one on straight people and realize they believe in equal treatment.

Anyone who got a chuckle from this, it’s an excerpt from the Fur Trapper Saga, a series of fictional letters of advertisement for competing fur trapping businesses. Every one of the letters is hilarious, and they become more unhinged as PB Fouke and JF Swanton start really responding to each other’s claims. Highly recommend for anyone wanting some of that 2007-style forum humor.

For context, this paragraph is lifted from SomethingAwful’s Fur Trapper Saga, a series of fictional advertisements put out by two fictional fur trappers, who are competing in business.

While one of the trappers, PB Fouke, tries to sell his business on dedication, JF Swanton sells his furs on the promise that he is so cruel of course he’s going to have the best furs.

Doesn’t make it less offensive, but the point being that it was written in character as a fur trapper from the 1800s who regarded himself as much more cruel than all else.

It’s extremely good. It feels like it was created by fans of all the high-speed racers (F-Zero, wipEout, Extreme G, Star Wars Episode I Podracer, etc), but it’s also very much its own game. Not exactly a 1:1 replication of Extreme G, especially with its focus on four-“wheeled” vehicles (it also has hover options), but it’s probably as close as you’re going to get nowadays.

Have you ever tried GRIP: Combat Racing?

Caddicarus for me. I love the guy, his new content isn’t bad. I don’t have time to watch a video that’s as long as a feature-length film, wherein so much stuff is covered that nothing gets a spotlight for more than a few minutes.

Feels like every time I sit down to play games now…

Let’s be real: We knew this as Chumdrumbedrum for years.

southsamurai is barely engaging here, I don’t get the saltyness.

For the record, they were extremely gracious to me during a moment of ignorance. I can’t imagine them being hateful about this situation.

I’ll chime in with the obligatory New Vegas recommendation.

It’s so different than Fallout 4 it’s really hard to describe. No looter shooter stuff, no focus on clearing the next dungeon. The world is there, it’s alive, it’s reactive, and you decide what to do and where to go. I’ve spent many hours scouring the world, and I always find something new. And when I say something new, I’m not talking about a copy/pasted skill magazine or bobblehead. I mean new quests, new lore, new perspectives It’s the closest I’ve ever seen a video game come to emulating real-world ideological conflict, and I adore it. The player freedom is off the chain, too. Hell, you can kill every NPC and still beat the game. Love it, rant over.

You can play New Vegas without mods, and I’d say it actually functions well (everyone’s machine handles the game differently though, tbh), but I recommend following this guide, at least the base version, to mod your game. Not strictly necessary, though. I’d hate to recommend you a game you have to spend hours fixing before you can play it.

As for Fable, there’s two versions on Steam. Fable: The Lost Chapters is the original Xbox release, and Fable Anniversary is the 360-era remaster. The only real differences between the two are:

1. Fable Anniversary has remastered graphics. (As for if they’re better, that comes down to personal preference. I personally like the way Fable: TLC looks more)

2. Fable Anniversary has controller support.

3. Fable Anniversary has an added hard mode.

The controller support makes Anniversary my preferred way to play on Steam, but the remaster kinda destroyed the game’s atmosphere. I’d still rather just boot up my Xbox copy of Fable TLC so I can have my cake and, furthermore, eat it as well.