I've heard of Arcane Dimensions for Quake 1, what are some other top tier campaigns or just top levels for Quake 1&2?
Also is there a main site for Quake 1&2 mods like Doom and Thief have? I tried Slipseer but I couldn't find Arcane Dimensions so I wasn't sure how reputable it was
I've never really been one for fan made content but that changed very quickly after playing Thief The Dark Project's (1998) fan made campaign Thief The Black Parade (2021). It's blowing my mind that it's my favorite game I've played this year and it's a free mod.
Other than Thief I've been really into Doom and Quake this year. Do any of the games (old or modern) have its fan made campaign that's so inspired that it stands above the rest? I've heard for Quake 1 that Arcane Dimensions could be that. Do any of the Doom games have a standout fan campaign?
I've been chipping away at these remasters for the past year and it's really dawning on me just how much content I still have left. These remasters are worth it alone just for the quality of the MachineGames expansions but when you factor in how replayable the base games are, all the extra official expansions, and all the extra community made levels (some which seem like entire campaigns) there's just an impressive amount of quality content to get through.
Are there any other Nightdive remasters with such a vast amount of great content? I also have the Heretic/Hexen remaster and the System Shock 2 remaster that I haven't got around to yet. I've heard Blood Refreshed Supply also has some great extra campaigns. My favorite game is Thief and it would be amazing if some of the Fan Missions were ported over
I'm looking for a fun fantasy game to play tonight and I see the Heretic/Hexen Remaster is on sale on PS5. I recently played through the Doom 1&2 Remaster and ended up loving them. I'm not sure why I've always been so hesitant about Heretic and Hexen, maybe I'm worried Doom was kinda lightning in a bottle and adding extra mechanics to it won't necessarily make it better. I loved Doom 1&2 for its simple yet in-depth roster of weapons/enemies as well as its intuitive level design.
So now that the dust has settled on the Heretic/Hexen Remaster and its more widely available to a wider audience than before, what does everyone think about it?
With a DEEP combat system!*
I typically love more focused singleplayer mission based or just linear games with a deep combat system and a lot of variety to keep it fresh. I'm not really into open world or story games. In fact the less story and side quests the better. Bonus points to any game with additional arcade modes, a ranking system, or the ability for challenge runs. I've played a majority of the Devil May Cry-likes (CAGs) and Old School FPS games.
Some of my favorite games are Doom Eternal, Devil May Cry 3, Resident Evil 4 (2005), Sekiro, Ninja Gaiden 2, Tony Hawk, Max Payne
I know it's a long shot, I'm in my 30's, currently non-binary but leaning more femme everyday
I don't really play any multiplayer games but I figured I'd make a post anyway. I mainly play single player games, my favorite genres are CAGs, Souls, Old school FPS, Survivor Horror, Stealth, ImmSims. My favorites lately are Doom, Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Spelunky, Thief, Pathologic.
I'm also very much into listening to albums and trying to write my own music. I mainly play keyboard/synth but have experience with most instruments. Currently going through a Bob Dylan (lol) and Glam Rock phase.
Also 420 friendly, kink friendly, and mental health/addiction advocate
I'm playing through all the Quake 1 expansions even thought I didn't really enjoy Quake and its just surprising how much more I'm enjoying them than the base game. Quake has solid mechanics but the troubled development left it feeling less than the sum of its parts IMO. It reminded me of the Neverwinter Nights series, how the base games kinda just turned into launchers for the expansions like Mask of the Betrayer.
I'm looking for more interesting games like this, where the base game had solid mechanics but fell short in some way, and then the expansions came out and blew the base game out of the water.
I'm about to go on a road trip and I'm was looking for mostly solid discographies from front to back. I just got through the Bob Dylan discography and other than the 80's stuff I was surprised how good it was from 1962-2020, with the 90's-2020 being a real standout for me. I'm thinking of going through David Bowies discography but I'm already pretty familiar with 75% of the albums. I also thought Beach House and Lana Del Rey have a very consistent discography.
What great discographies would you all recommend?
I currently don't have access to my usual computer (or any PC for that matter). I was about halfway through the campaign for the Black Parade when my computer stopped working. Long story short it'll be a few months before it's up and running again. I still have access to my Playstation and would love to finish The Black Parade campaign when the Thief Remaster comes out on console. I see the STEAM (PC) store page mentions having built in mod management so it seems like Nightdive is aware how important mods are to the Thief community. And to my knowledge they also allowed the very popular DEATH WISH mod for Blood come to console.
Is there any info if the console version of Thief Remastered will play The Black Parade?
I haven't even bought the game yet but I hear there's three difficulties, normal, hard (lives), amd permadeath? Which would you recommend? Hard sounds kinda cool but I don't know how frustrating it would be in practice. I'm somewhat decent at old school Resident Evil games but was terrible at Fear and Hunger and Pathologic
I'm just getting into Bob this year (hi me again, sorry about all my dumb posts). The least expected part of his discography for me was what a solid run of albums it ended on. I'm blown away from the quality of these albums from Time Out of Mind (1997) through Rough and Roudy Ways (2020). I hate to be that person but I think I like them more than the electric trilogy and the 70's Blood on the Tracks/Desire run.
What's your favorite? What do you love so much about them? How do you rank them?
Time Out of Mind - S
Love and Theft - A
Rough and Roudy Ways - A
Together Through Life - A
Tempest - B
Modern Times - C
I use the quotes more of a joke than anything. So I'm listening to Bob's studio discography for the first time front to back. In the past I've only really listened to Highway and Blonde on Blonde so this has been a very pleasant surprise. I finished up Together Through Life (2009) yesterday and loved it. I figured I had more albums of original material but it looks like just Tempest and Rough and Roudy Ways are it and I'm not sure how to wrap up this discography.
I usually love his covers, I thought Bob Dylan (1962), Self Portrait, and Dylan (1973) were all really solid. I didn't really enjoy his two 90's cover albums. I'm just not sure how much I really want to dwell on these albums at the moment when he's just been on such an inspired kick since Time Out of Mind with his Outlaw Blues stuff. I typically hate Christmas songs and Frank Sinatra style songs with a passion so 4 long albums of it sounds dreadful but maybe you guys here at r/bobdylan will tell me they're secret masterpieces that shouldn't be missed.
What do you all think? Listen to Tempest and Rough and Roudy Ways and call it a wrap or include Christmas of the Heart, Shadows in the Night, Fallen Angels,Triplicate and Shadow Kingdom as well?
I've been really into the glam from Roxy Musics first two albums, early David Bowie, and early Brian Eno. I love how flamboyant and queer it feels. I also love the Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack. I've tried a few other Glam albums but a lot of lists mix 70's Glam Rock with 80's Glam/Hair Metal which I'm not looking for at all.
Pathologic, Fear and Hunger, Dark Souls, Thief The Dark Project, Silent Hill are some of my favorite games. If you have played any of these you know what vibes I'm looking for. There's a mysterious and surreal aspect to the lore of these games as you're never quite sure what's going on while trying to escape with your life from unimaginable horrors. Any similar games?
Earlier this year I listened to all the Beatles studio albums from Please Please Me to Let It Be. Loved hearing albums I never listened to before as well as revisiting -- classics I grew up loving. I heard Hey Jude on the radio yesterday and was like, "H--ey wait a minute, what album was that even on?" And after a quick Google search it wasn't on an album and they actually released many songs not on albums. I have a bad habit of forgetting Singles and EPs exist sometimes.
Anyway -- with all the different remasters, mixes, tracklists, etc what's your favorite compilation album of Beatles non-album songs?
Hi girls, so I didn't love Quake 1 when I played it last year. I played it right after playing both Doom 1&2 for the first time and I just didn't click with it. I think my issue was how samey it felt. In Doom 1&2 it felt like the weapons and enemies had more variety and depth to them that I didn't really get from Quake. I'm sure in multiplayer it's really fun with everyone bunnyhopping around but the campaign wasn't my thing sadly.
I just saw the trailer for the new expansion and it kinda looks pretty cool. I love MachineGunGames but is it worth wading through ALL the expansions?
Normally I wouldn't think to even play an expansion to a game I didn't like but it's just such a novel concept to release expansion packs to decades old games, for free.
Hey all, I've really clicked with Bob Dylan this year and I've decided I'm going to go through his whole studio album discography. I know Positively Fourth Street wasn't on a an album, any other material I should be aware of?
Also great work on the subreddit "where to start" post. It really makes it much clearer than how it looks on streaming. Especially the Bootleg material. Love you all💕😘
After years of only listening to Highway 61 and Blonde on Blonde I've finally branched out to his other albums. I'm kinda just listening to albums in whatever order but so far Desire and New Morning absolutely jumped up to my top favorite albums list. But even better than that for me was Time Out of Mind. Love Sick to me is basically a perfect song.
Could anyone recommend more albums like this? The closest anything I could even compare it to is maybe Tom Waits
Hiii I'm very new to all of this. I've always thought I was a trans woman but within the past year I've fully accepted it and are making baby steps to transition. Lately I'm having a problem with women's clothes. I LOVE how they look on me but I have one big problem, I have a 7 inch pp. I'm really just NOT getting this tucking thing down with out pretty severe discomfort. I really want to wear a bikini to the beach or some yoga pants/shorts in public but I can't hide the pp to save my life. I feel like I don't show off much more than the average cis woman shows off her boobs and butt in a bikini or the cis girls with huge butts that wear yoga pants but I'm not quite sure the standards of what's acceptable for trans girl to wear in public.
Hi I'm in my 30's and I've always really thought I was probably a trans woman since I was a child. Every few years my gender envy gets really bad and I end up shaving my whole body and buying some cute underwear but it usually ends there. This year the feelings came back pretty strong. I decided to treat myself and maybe get more gender affirming clothes as a one year sobriety present for myself. During this time I met another trans woman online and we really hit it off, we talked basically every day for a few weeks and the day we were going to meet up and go shopping she blocked me on everything without saying anything. I cried all week about it.
This week I decided to pick myself back up and go more femme presenting to the beach. I shaved my whole body, painted my nails, and made a makeshift bikini by rolling up a tank top and wearing tiny shorts. When I got to the beach I felt so overwhelmed and I cried in my car before going home. I just feel so rotten.