Meanwhile I’ve done five or six playthroughs of Freelancer while this game has been in development and had more fun than I’ll ever have with Star Citizen.

All you need is an account (even a banned one) that is set to old.reddit in the options. Then all the reddit links will look normal.

Without people like him, we wouldn’t have innovative indie games.

People forget that Hollow Knight didn’t do very well at first, also. It took an excruciatingly long time for it to pick up steam.

I bet it’s like when Peter stops giving a shit in Office Space.

C makes them unnecessarily confusing in my opinion. In Forth they’re as simple as can be compared to C.

God. I hate it so much.

First multiplayer FPS I played was Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (released in '97). In that game, you had to lead your shots to a silly degree to actually hit anyone. But I think you’re right; by then most games weren’t suffering from that problem as much.

On the one hand, we’re more accustomed to better hardware latency. On the other hand… we played first-person shooters on 56K modems. The lag was legendary

Just in case you’re wondering, they actually do man all those checkouts during superbowl weekend

First screen is much more readable at a glance.

Shadow of Mordor is just so much fun to screw around in. Does a really good job making you feel badass

You’re not the only one. I’ve beaten The 7th Saga more times than Chrono Trigger lol.

I’ve been living under a rock. What happened to baseball?

Star Wars Galaxies was kinda like that. No idea if it’s still playable though.

My best friend and I used to spend summer afternoons trying to figure out the answers to all the riddles on the chests (in Betrayal at Krondor). We sucked at it (lol) but when we finally managed to crack one, the feeling was euphoric.

The music was awesome. I used to listen to the CD while I slept.

Thief 2 is just incredible. Many games try, but none can dethrone the stealth game king.

And I totally forgot about Diddy Kong Racing, but yeah. It’s legitimately a better game than Mario Kart 64.

• Doom/Doom II. They somehow lucked the hell out on mechanics, speed of movement, ease of modding etc. John Carmack did us all a massive solid and got the game released under GPL license only four years after it came out. As a result of the incremental improvements enabled by that, the game keeps my interest to this day.
• TIE Fighter. I used to be a massive Star Wars fan, and this game was just the best thing ever for a detail-oriented kid. I memorized the stats of every single ship and for the rest of time was pissed whenever someone got it wrong. The missions truly require you to use your brain and every advantage at your disposal (in-flight map; reinforcements; wingmates; ship characteristics; good tactics). 've’never come across a better flight sim to this day (although the Freespace series comes close).
• Diablo II. I was 15 when this game came out. I rollerbladed all the way across town to buy this game without my parents knowing. The clerk almost didn’t sell it to me because he thought I looked too young but in the end he did me a solid. The game was worth it and then some. It consumed the rest of my teenage years. Digital crack.

Games that deserve to be in the top three but don’t fit:

• PlanetSide. I still remember being in shock watching a hundred people shoot at each other without massive rubberbanding etc. It totally redefined what was possible in a game. I was obsessed with making loadouts for every situation. TR forever!

• Dark Souls. They totally nailed the feeling of being in some sort of dark fantasy fever dream. So beautiful, and I love how the lore is relevant to how you feel trying to overcome the adversity of the game. First half of the game has some of the best world design I’ve ever seen.

• World of Warcraft. I flunked out of college because of this game. I think it was worth it.

The norms on where files belong are really dumb.

Similarly, programs being entitled to strew files all over kingdom come.

Ten different ways to install software and maybe one or two of them actually keep track of where all the files are and clean them up properly upon removal.

I miss when JS was just a silly thing you could use to add trails to the mouse cursor to impress anyone who stumbled onto your geocities page