I just want to play the ******* game!!!

[WU-TANG]GZA said:
Damn that’s quite early adoption mate.
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It is kind of strange looking back - my secondary school just let some of us (who showed an interest in IT and/or later studying IT) have unsupervised access to the computer rooms out of hours - they'd probably get in all kind of trouble these days due to fire regulations, etc. as there was no record of us coming or going.
 
Don't complain until you tried playing racing destruction set on C64, tape version. Waiting 30 mins for it to load, then it crashes when the race started. Awesome game though.
 
Malevolence said:
Pretty sure it did.
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It really didn't in the time frame I'm talking about.

I bought Ultima Vi in 1990, pretty sure there was no internet then.

In fact, I never even owned a PC when I bought it!

An old mate of mine worked for the council and we used to go every Saturday morning to an office that he had the key to, and load up the game onto a 386 PC.

Built my first PC not too long later.
 
Well then, the game has decided to work today i.e. gets to the menu. No idea why.

What a load of ****, can't even bring myself to play it after all that!

And I've been playing games since gaming began by the way. I'm all too familiar with just holding down all the keys randomly on a ZX Spectrum to make a game load, or slightly changing the volume(!?) on the tape recorder to make it work. WTF was all that about.

Great days though and gaming peaked for me with the N64.
 
Kelt said:
I bought Ultima Vi in 1990, pretty sure there was no internet then.
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I was one of the original 200 who signed up for Demon Internet, if not the first consumer ISP then pretty close to being. That started mid '92 I believe and was of course dial up, 28k in those days.
 
The first time you run the game or update your GPU driver (every time) you are going to have a long wait to let it do it things to textures or ignore and go in and play (it claims it is for MP but it effects the SP FPS as it runs like poop anyhow).

I have had some very big patches din few weeks I have had it installed.
 
JohnG7 said:
The first time you run the game or update your GPU driver (every time) you are going to have a long wait to let it do it things to textures or ignore and go in and play (it claims it is for MP but it effects the SP FPS as it runs like poop anyhow).

I have had some very big patches din few weeks I have had it installed.
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This is caching shaders you're on about there. It's done that and that wasn't the problem. It would not get past the "joining a server" screen to get to the main menu. Just endlessly looped saying wait 1 minute, wait 2 minutes, wait, 1 minute, and on and on.

Anyway, it's working today and I don't know why. Just played the first few mins of the single player campaign. Despite my earlier moodiness it looks like it might be fun. And a good workout for the 3090FE (which is how I got the game free).
 
wunkley said:
Great days though and gaming peaked for me with the N64.
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Same, Mario Kart and Goldeneye with some friends was the pinnacle of gaming for me.
Don't get me wrong, I've sunk hundreds of hours into games since (even hundreds of hours into single games), but nothing beats those N64 days :D
 
wunkley said:
[..] And I've been playing games since gaming began by the way. I'm all too familiar with just holding down all the keys randomly on a ZX Spectrum to make a game load, or slightly changing the volume(!?) on the tape recorder to make it work. WTF was all that about. [..]
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The tape drive on the ZX Spectrum was audio, which was why it worked with any tape player that had the relevant output. So the volume could be relevant.

What I remember most was adjusting the head alignment. Tiny screwdriver in a tiny hole in the tape player, tiny rotations to move the heads a tiny amount. With experience, you could listen to the pitch of the squealing and be pretty sure when you'd got the right head alignment for that tape. How precise it had to be depended on the quality of the recording and the quality of the tape itself and wasn't necessarily the same for each tape. The word "azimuth" comes to my memory, although I'm not sure what it means...

...ah, in this context it's the angle between the tape and the head.
 
Kelt said:
It really didn't in the time frame I'm talking about.

I bought Ultima Vi in 1990, pretty sure there was no internet then.

In fact, I never even owned a PC when I bought it!

An old mate of mine worked for the council and we used to go every Saturday morning to an office that he had the key to, and load up the game onto a 386 PC.

Built my first PC not too long later.
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The internet dates back to the 1960s.

Home use of the internet came a fair bit later and wasn't at all common until the mid 90s, but the internet existed long before that. My first use of the internet was in 1987. VT100 terminal, text only of course. Monochrome. You could choose between green or amber, but only when you decided which monitor to buy :) Data transfer rate was switchable between 300 each way or 1200 up and 75 down. That's in characters per second and there's no 'kilo' there, let alone 'mega' or 'giga'. My first use at home was a few years later, with the astonishing speed of 9600 bps downstream. And an equally astonishing phone bill.
 
All this effort just to realise the game is utterly rubbish. I live out in the sticks, went through the same nonsense but using slow farmer broadband. Imagine the disappointment.
 
Went to play the Outriders demo, downloaded via Steam. I have to create a Square Enix account to play. A Demo. Removed demo. **** you Square Enix.
 
Meridian said:
Went to play the Outriders demo, downloaded via Steam. I have to create a Square Enix account to play. A Demo. Removed demo. **** you Square Enix.
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That's a filter I'd like to see on the Steam store - exclude stuff you need to create an account to play.
 
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