Beauty of the Venom mod is that it's OS agnostic so you can potently run it on the Stream Deck. I even have it running natively in the M1 MBP with the iowolfsp-1.51d game engine thx to Mac source Ports
Know that feeling, you loan a game, CD or video and they never return. Then again you now know who to trust. Good friend of mine once sent me a CD he borrowed from South Africa, I said to him would have been cheaper to buy a new disk. He said but it wouldn't have been yours, 30 years on
Both available on W11, macOS Apple Silicon & Intel 64bit thx to Mac Source Ports game engines.
I set Elden Ring aside and told myself I’ll try it again later, but when I finished playing one of my games, looking for a new RPG to play, I took a glance, at Elden Ring, and SkyRim Special Edition, a game I played 10 years ago, and… chose SkyRim.
Good reason for that mind, let alone the plethora of mods on hand...I set Elden Ring aside and told myself I’ll try it again later, but when I finished playing one of my games, looking for a new RPG to play, I took a glance, at Elden Ring, and SkyRim Special Edition, a game I played 10 years ago, and… chose SkyRim.
Quake 2 is now the Gold standard for remasters the quality and sheer amount of content is stunning...Quake 2 (2023 remaster)
Been playing Q2 since day one. The remaster just dropped at Quakecon but wasn't aware is a free upgrade
Time for some run & gun madness
The modded Return to Castle Wolfenstein still going at that's a gem. Still the standout of the franchise.
Have this one working on the M1 Mac in all it's glory
Q-6
RTCW - IORTCW game engine & Venom graphics pack running natively on Apple Silicon (also 64 bit Intel). Quake 2 can do again natively, however OG game with the Yamagi source port and likely the expansions.
I'll likely comeback to the OG game on the M1, but for now time to Gib an army of Strogg's LOL...
I got a copy of Quake 4 free with a video card one time and ended up LOVING it. I even played the multiplayer a bunch even though I was never much for those twitch shooter type games.RTCW - IORTCW game engine & Venom graphics pack running natively on Apple Silicon (also 64 bit Intel). Quake 2 can do again natively, however OG game with the Yamagi source port and likely the expansions.
There may be ways to run the 2023 remaster of Quake 2 on Apple Silicon (virtualisation), however not natively. Personally I'd opt for the native source port and work with mods to get the desired result.
Ironically had just started a new game of Quake 4 and was discussing with a friend on PM, while also downloading assets for Quake 2 to get up and running on the M1 MBP. Then the remaster dropped
Q-6
Still a fun game to play through, admittedly I prefer the more single minded approach & cleaner Quake 2. Rather like the Alien franchise the less you know the better
Doom 3 has by far the edge in longevity as ID were very open to mod's and even open sourced the game engine. Quake 4 was produced by Raven and has remained proprietary and likely always will.
Talos Principle, solid play like it a lot. Problems & puzzles in a far fetched real world environment with decent exposition 👍👍
Warcraft 3: Reforged
I played all the original WC games, starting with the first one in the mid-90's, the sequels, but WC3 really got me into the lore.
WC3:RoC and FT was so much fun when they launched, and replay them about every half-decade or so.
I pre-purchased WC3: Reforged, but never played it until somewhat recently. While it isn't native to AS, it runs great on my M1 MM, and with max graphic settings on my M2 Pro MM.
There are occasional glitches where the game crashes, so I try to remember to save often. Not sure if the crashes are due to playing on AS or just issues with the game in general.
Honestly, I don't remember the original WC3 ever crashing on my PPC Macs.
I am having a lot of fun playing, replaying the campaigns. I am going very slow, and trying to discover everything, all the secrets and easter eggs.
Another thing I am trying is winning or playing in strange ways. Hard to explain, but for example, the Orc level that Hellscream is acting reckless and attaching all the human encampments, I decided to try to kill off the Warsong Clan (my friends) just to see what would happen. Much to my surprise, Hellscream and his whole Warsong Clan turned hostile, truly making them my enemy. I didn't know that would even happen. So, I had to fight all the humans and the Warsong Clan.
My favorite "deviation" that I did in the game was the Orc level that you play as the Warsong Clan, and Hellscream ends up getting his butt kicked by Cenarius (who heals crazy fast, one-shots people, and is almost immune to non-chaos damage). Manaroth then convinces Hellscream to drink his blood again to become the "red" orcs, and enabling them to deal Chaos damage to kill Cenarius.
I made it my mission to kill Cenarius without drinking the blood, and it was glorious when I finally did. I later looked it up on YouTube and found out that I wasn't the first person to try and succeed. It appears that most other people did it a similar way, with a bunch of towers (I probably had 200 of them), but I also built a 12 barracks, and after the fight started, just kept making spear throwers, until Cenarius died.
I am currently on the Night Elf Campaign, which is probably my least favorite in the game, but still fun.
One thing that I don't ever remember doing before is using Sylvanas' charm spell to mind control another races' "builders", such as peons or wisps, and construct a whole separate camp of that races' buildings, as well as train units of the other race.
What’s going on in World of Warcraft these days, any new expansions? I’ve sworn off World of tanks, but still active with World of Warships.
