#bioshock rebirth

[geekgemsspooksandtoons]

So...despite I've talked about this before. Despite I wrote some more for part 1. But remember when I talked about taking a long break from writing Bioshock Rebirth and all that?

That is still happening. It's still a long break. But...I give up for. I give up on it for a long time...

Yeah...it's just exhausting for me and...I don't want to work on it for a long time...I want to focus on other things. Even though Bioshock is a franchise I still deeply love. But when writing it...I just maybe feel like I should start over sometime or whatever else...but yeah...

I just found out Ragin Nation lives in Canada...I'm watching his the journey to Transformers 2007 video. Despite I skipped through the video and mainly started at the part where he talked about Michael Bay I think...

Anyway yeah, I wanted to announce this

[heavydivider]

Here's the stream schedule for this coming week, I'll be getting started doing a revisit through Bioshock Remastered on Wednesday as well as going back to my roots in playing an ARPG game called Last Epoch on Thursday and Friday. ​ All this will be happening on Twitch at (https://www.twitch.tv/heavydivider) so be sure to come by while it's happening or drop a follow over there so you know when I go live.

[datcloudboi]

List of Video Games Turning 10 Years Old in 2024

Alien: Isolation

Assassin's Creed: Rogue (the one where you play as an Assassin turned Templar.)

Assassin's Creed: Unity (the one set during the French Revolution.)

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky

Azure Striker Gunvolt

The Banner Saga

Bayonetta 2

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea (the DLC where you go back to Rapture)

A Bird Story (a sort of spin-off of "To the Moon")

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (is this a sequel to 1 or a prequel to 1? I forgor)

Bravely Default (in North America)

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (the one with K*vin Sp*cey)

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (to date, the last new Castlevania game to release)

Child of Light

The Crew (going offline at the end of March)

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (a wonderfully strange game from the guy that made Deadly Premonition)

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (in North America)

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (in North America)

Dark Souls II

Deception IV: Blood Ties

Demon Gaze

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

Disney Infinity 2.0

Divinity: Original Sin (from the team that would go on to make Baldur's Gate 3)

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

Dragon Age: Inquisition (the winner of GOTY at the very first TGAs)

Drakengard 3

Earth Defense Force 2025 (EDF! EDF! EDF!)

The Evil Within (from the creative director of Resident Evil)

Fable Anniversary

Fairy Fencer F

Far Cry 4

Freedom Planet

Guilty Gear Xrd Sign

Hyrule Warriors

Inazuma Eleven (in North America. And digital only.)

Infamous: Second Son (as well as its expansion, First Light)

Kirby: Triple Deluxe

The Last of Us Remastered (just one year after the original version came out...)

The Legend of Korra (the game from PlatinumGames that you can't buy anymore)

Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

Lego The Hobbit

The Lego Movie Videogame

Lethal League (from the team that would go on to make Bomb Rush Cyberfunk)

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (the third and final chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy)

Lisa: The Painful (yes, really)

LittleBigPlanet 3

Lords of the Fallen (not to be confused with Lords of the Fallen, which came out in 2023)

Mario Golf: World Tour

Mario Kart 8 (the original version)

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (the prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which came out 18 months later)

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Might & Magic X: Legacy

Murdered: Soul Suspect (it's like Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, but not as good)

Natural Doctrine

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! (a from the ground up remake of the first Oddworld game from 1997)

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 (yes, it got a sequel. I don't know how or why.)

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Pokemon Omega Ruby & Pokemon Alpha Sapphire

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (the last time that Professor Layton himself was the protagonist. At least, until the New World of Steam comes out)

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Pushmo World

Risen 3: Titan Lords

Sacred 3

Samurai Warriors 4

Shadowrun: Dragonfall

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (the 3rd one)

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

Shovel Knight (yes, really)

Skylanders: Trap Team (the 4th one)

Sniper Elite III

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal

South Park: The Stick of Truth

Steins;Gate (in North America)

Strider (the one from Double Helix)

Sunset Overdrive

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS (or Smash 4 for short)

Tales of Xillia 2

Tales of Hearts R

The Talos Principle

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call

Thief (the reboot)

This War of Mine

Toukiden: The Age of Demons

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (this game merged the storyline of the War for/Fall of Cybertron games with the storyline of the Michael Bay movies. I’m not joking)

Transistor

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

The Walking Dead: Season Two

Wasteland 2

Watch Dogs

The Witch and the Hundred Knight

The Wolf Among Us (sequel this year!)

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z

Yoshi's New Island

[annihilatius]

i finished bioshock 2 today in about ten ish hours in total and WOW it was amazing. bioshock 1 was pretty good but the sequel was so much better by like a landslide, without it even having that many significant differences in the gameplay. keep in mind i can't say everything i like about this game and this isn't a testament to all the things i actively enjoyed, there are very little things i disliked about this game. the only things i just didn't care for were the characters and that isn't a flaw of the game, it's just my personal preference.

(this isnt a spoiler btw its introduced in like the 2nd level) the new little sister mechanics where you can either adopt them like the big daddies you fought in the first game is a really cool idea without it being immediately jarring, just the idea of the character you play as not being a human so the story can have more creative liberties and it won't be rehashy of the first game is just really creative and fun. in the first game there was really no differences if you chose to spare or harvest the little sisters besides getting a good or bad ending, but here if you adopt one you get more adam at different intervals but it takes time, or you could just harvest them

(okay spoiler territory ahead) i was kind of predicting that something similar to the first game would take place, where the character guiding you through everything would actually be a bad no good guy or at least something similar but i was pleasantly suprised that wasn't what happened, it actually being the opposite where you're involuntarily forced to kill the person who has got you to this point. really nice subversion of what the first game would have you to expect as well.

(more spoilers later in text) i can't really praise anything about the characters because i honestly don't significantly like any bioshock character at all, and even though i've played the first two mainline games it still feels like theres so much lore i don't understand. the plot with eleanor and delta is compelling and different enough lore wise from the first game to stand on it's own, and im not going to slander their relationship at all but at the same time i can't write about it because i just don't really care about them. gil alexander was really entertaining though what a silly guy.

i'm comfortable with not playing bioshock infinite for like. another 3 months. now i just have to worry about finishing amnesia a machine for pigs and rebirth then i'll write lengthy paragraphs on how i felt on those. and maybe they'll be better structured because i actually know the lore of those games well YIPPIE!!

[lucrezianoin]

I usually don't buy new games until I played or tried to play at least all of the games I have (I try to leave max 2 unplayed games).

This time I have a bit more because of the holiday sales, but this is my list of future games to play:

Icewind Dale 2

Sunday Gold

Inside

Seven: Enhanced Edition (I tried before but I was so bad at it! I will try again before deciding to abandon)

Morrowind

Spellforce 3

Plus I have a bunch I have gotten for free, so I just have them and I will play maybe one day:

South of the Circle

King's Bouty: The Legend

Broken Sword

Nehrim

Bioshock 1

Bioshock 2

Bioshock Infinite

Amnesia: Rebirth

Encased

Dishonored

Eternal Threads

Fallout 2

Jotun Valhalla Edition

Kingdom Come Deliverance

Metro Last Light

Sherlock Holmes Crime and Punishments

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

And these are the cursed abandoned ones, I hate them all. Leave me alone:

Sunless Sea

Gothic

Anachronox

Gods Will be Watching

Beyond Divinity

Fallout 1

Greedfall

Dragon Commander

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

Assassin's Creed

[hanahaki-ghost]

This has been banging around in my brain, basically.

Hero and RGB got close to the end of the story until something happened, Hate injured RGB to the point being on the edge of death but not to the point for negative to appear, in fear of loosing her guide Hero makes a deal with Hate.

She’ll give herself up in return she’s spares the world and the people in it. Hate takes this deal but with a twist when she ‘heals’ RGB she sticks him in a constant state of death and rebirth aka he’s constantly negative. He’s put as hero protector again but this time to do Hates bidding as Hero is controlled by hate(kinda like @/goosemagician anti-hero au I guess) Hero has moments of clarity where she’ll ask others for help before falling back under gates control and negative coming over.

Negative/RGB kind of becomes a mindless drone his only purpose being to follow and protect hero Think a big daddy from bioshock. If he even begins to slip back into being himself hate will either through hero dump water on him or she’ll do something herself to bring him back to the negative form.

During this the past heros have to work together to save them from Hates grasp and try to return their friends to normal though it’s more difficult than you would think to get a hold of a child and try to get her away from hates control especially when her guardian can tear a fears head off and use it as a sword. But they know to get RGB out of his negative state the best option would be to get hero back to normal.

Idk it needs some polishing but an idea I had idk what to call this au yet if there are name suggestions feel free to let me know

Maybe “The Soldiers of Hate” or something Idk

[vvatchword]

BioShock Themes for You

I have been collecting these like a bird collects foil strings while I write a cogent reply to that theme you gave me @cheesigils​. Here u go. I’m still working on it so it may yet grow. Feel free to critique. I am trying to prove myself wrong in order to become god

Abuse of Power

Individual and Systemic Abuse

Power Abusing Disability, Inability

Power Abusing Age

Power Abusing Class

Power Abusing Race

Strong versus Weak

Bodily Autonomy

The Sanctity of Bodily Autonomy

Choice

Environment, Context, and Choice

Identity and Choice

The Illusion of Choice

Video Games and Choice

Will the Circle Be Unbroken? lol no

The Inevitability of Cycles

The Inevitability of Violence

The Failure of Idealism

False Dichotomies

False Equivalencies

Idealism, Puritans, and Inflexibility

The Importance of Keeping Ideology “Pure”

The Inability to Keep a Pure Ideology

No “Good” versus “Evil”

“People Are Complicated”

“Society Is Complicated”

Environment

How Manmade Environments Create Monsters

How a Man Becomes a Monster

How a Society Becomes Monstrous

Isolation and Extremism

Nature Does Not Give a Fuck

Trapped and Under Pressure

Gnosticism (wat)

Extradiagetic versus Diegetic versus Metadiegetic versus Fuck You

Relationship between Artist (Video Game Studios) and Players and Game (Diegetically Speaking)

What One Can Know versus What One Cannot versus What What in the Butt

Identity

I’m the Main Character and You’re the NPC

Perception of Self

Perception of Self in Relationship to World

Perception of Self in Relationship to Others

Perception of Self in Relationship to Self

Memory and Its Fallibility

The Malleability of Memory

Perception of Self in Relation to Memory

Perception of Self in Relation to History

Perception of Self in Relation to Known

Perception of Self in Relation to Unknown

The True Identities of the Hidden Shakers and Movers

They Either Hate You or Are Indifferent But You Sure Make a Good Gun :(

Transformation and Evolution

Change

Death

Change and Death (Change Is Death and Death Is Change; the Inevitability of Both)

Suicide and Self-Harm

To Suicide as a Society

To Suicide as an Individual

To Suicide on Behalf of Others

Rebirth

Baptism

Trapped

Trapped in a Fucking Metaphor

Trapped by One’s Environment, Context, and Limited Decisions

Parents and Their Children

Children as Tools

Coming of Age

Parents, Children, and Rebellion

Parents, Children, and Their Relationships

Passing the Torch

The Fathers Eat Sour Grapes and Their Children’s Teeth Are Set on Edge

Rebellion

The Call Is Coming from Inside the House

Class Struggle and Rebellion

Race Struggle and Rebellion

Rebellion’s Eternal Nature

Trauma

Abuse and Resulting Trauma

Environments that Traumatize

Parents Traumatizing the Next Generation

Trauma and Memory

Trauma and Monsters

Traumatized Individuals Producing Traumatized Societies

A Traumatized Society

Traumatizing the Individual

Violence

One Side’s Violence Is Always Equivalent to the Other Side’s Violence (??????)

Violence Begets Violence

Violence Is Unstoppable

[krissiefox]

Krissie's Big List of DRM-Free Games!

(This is an ongoing project that I will continuously update as I find more DRM-Free games to recommend) Update: It sadly seems I may not be able to add any more links, I may have reached the limit for one post.

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What do I consider "DRM-Free"?

I've seen people argue and nitpick over what they consider DRM-Free on reddit, so I wanted to be sure to clarify. I consider a modern PC game DRM Free if I don't need to be connected to the internet or log into anything to play the game. I don't necessarily mind the older PC games where you have to enter a CD key during installation, even though this could also be considered DRM. WUUUUGHALGBORK! WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH ABOUT DRM?! JUST CONFORM!

I can speak from personal experiences of situations in which case I've been fucked over by DRM: - My steam copy of Cities XL is impossible to play now because it requires a log in account from a site that doesn't exist anymore.

Not too long ago Epic games delisted all the Unreal games from digital store fronts, making them all harder to get a hold of. Unreal Tournament 4 never even got a physical release so it's only even still around thanks to fans saving and fixing up the game files before Epic cut off all access to them.

I was once locked out of playing my own copy of Minecraft for an extended period of time because something got messed up with my login.

Internet died and I was unable to run some of my games because they require constant internet connection to fully function (or function at all). This includes titles such as Killing Floor 2, or Red Dead Redemption 2, or Quake Champions.

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A list of helpful links:

These sites and groups are part of what inspired me to start keeping track of and seeking to support DRM Free PC games. I've found their info to be very helpful at times, but there have also been times on the wikis where I would find info to be out of date as sometimes companies will decide to be mega-douchey and patch DRM into games that previously didn't have it.

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38523697-DRM-FREE-GAMES/?appid=2310

https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_steam/page1 And now, the games!

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Amnesia Rebirth

DRM-Free on Epic Game Store and GOG.

Amnesia The Dark Descent & Machine for Pigs

The steam version of both game has an executable called "Amnesia_NoSteam" which allows you to play without steam or internet. https://store.steampowered.com/app/57300/Amnesia_The_Dark_Descent/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/239200/Amnesia_A_Machine_for_Pigs/

You can also get the games DRM-Free on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/game/amnesia_the_dark_descent https://www.gog.com/en/game/amnesia_a_machine_for_pigs

Bioshock

DRM-Free on the humble store and GOG.

Bioshock 2

DRM-Free on GOG.

Blood:One Unit Whole Blood

The steam version uses Dosbox, so it should be usable with a source port. Unfortunately, this version of the game was delisted on steam so this is only available to people who already have it in their library. Thanks, assholes! Luckily, it is also available DRM-Free on GOG

Bubsy Two-Fur

This compilation of the SNES versions of Bubsy 1 & 2 are DRM Free on steam. PC Gaming Wiki reports otherwise, but I tested it myself and atleast as of 10-8-2023 the game will run without steam open.

Cave Story+

DRM-Free on Epic Game Store and GOG.

Chex Quest HD

DRM-Free on Steam. And it's free, too!

Codename Gordon (Half-Life flash game)

This Half-Life 2d flash game is hidden within steam can be accessed by using the instructions here to open steam and download the game. And yes, it's DRM free!

Coffee Talk

Available DRM-Free at GOG.

Costume Quest 2

DRM-Free on epic game store.

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos

Physical disc copy is listed as DRM-Free on the pc gaming wiki.

Dead Space

Available DRM Free on GOG.

Dear Esther

The original steam version of Dear Esther is DRM Free, but apparently no longer available for purchase there. (this is why physical media is better...) You can get the Landmark Edition of the game DRM Free on GOG.

Descent Trilogy

All three of these games can be found DRM-Free at GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/game/descent https://www.gog.com/en/game/descent_2 https://www.gog.com/en/game/descent_3_expansion

Physical copies also exist. I cannot vouch for Descent 3 as I don't have a disc copy, but the disc versions of 1 and 2seem to be DRM Free.

Doom (1993)/Ultimate Doom

DRM Free on steam, GOG and in the physical cd-rom format.

Doom 2

The steam version of Doom 2 should be usable with source ports like zdoom. You can also launch the game from the DOOM II executable inside the game's "re-release" folder.

Doom 3 BFG Edition & Resurrection of Evil

Steam version is DRM-Free. Also includes Doom 1 and 2! Also available on gog.

Doom 64

A modern PC port of the originally Nintendo 64 exclusive Doom game. Available DRM-Free on the Epic game Store.

Dusk

DRM-Free on GOG and Steam.

Escape Goat 1 & 2

DRM-Free on GOG, The Humble Store, and the game's own homepage.

Same goes for the sequel! http://www.escapegoat2.com/ https://www.gog.com/game/escape_goat_2?utm_campaign=adtraction&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=adtraction https://www.humblebundle.com/store/escape-goat-2?partner=pcgw

Eversion

DRM-Free on the humble bundle store.

Fallout 1 & 2

DRM-Free on the Epic Game Store. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fallout?epic_affiliate=pcgamingwiki https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fallout-2?epic_affiliate=pcgamingwiki

Fallout Tactics

DRM-Free on the Epic Game Store.

Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition

This game is available DRM-Free on GOG.

Fallout New Vegas

DRM-Free on Epic Game Store when make a command line argument of "-EpicPortal" . Instructions on how to do this can be read here. Also available on GOG.

Flatout

According to the PC Gaming wiki, it is DRM Free on both the Epic Game Store and GOG.

Flatout 2

According to the PC Gaming wiki, it is DRM Free on The Epic Game Store, GOG and also from the publisher's own home page!

Final Doom

DRM-Free on steam (it's bundled with Doom II), but will need dosbox (which is included) or a source port to run on modern Windows.

Gex

This game can be found DRM-Free at GOG.

Grim Fandango Remastered

Available DRM Free at GOG, Itch io and even steam!

Half-Life 1 & 2, (Most) Expansions, Episodes

I was pleasantly surprised to find that these wonderful games are actually DRM Free on steam! Glad to see sometimes Valve isn't being a dick. https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/ Episode 1, Episode 2, Lost Coast, and Half-Life Source can also be made DRM-Free by making command line shortcuts. Look for instructions here on the PC Gaming Wiki for each game respectively. Feel free to message if you need help with these.

Half-Life Opposing Force

Only the retail disc version is DRM Free with later updates. Disc is still needed for the music.

Heretic & Hexen

DRM-Free on GOG.

Hotline Miami Games

Available on The Humble Store DRM-Free.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/hotline-miami

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/hotline-miami-2-wrong-number

Huntdown

Available DRM-Free on the Epic Game Store (now if only those wankers would bring back the Unreal games)

Killing Floor

Killing Floor on steam is somewhat DRM-Free. You can actually run the game without steam for solo play, but you won't be able to change your character model or access your perks. Mods may provide workarounds, such as ones that introduce custom perk classes. I recommend getting a used physical copy or waiting for a humble bundle as I don't recommend giving tripwire money.

Knock-Knock

DRM Free on The Humble Store and GOG.

Master Levels for Doom II

DRM-Free on steam (it's bundled with Doom II), but will need dosbox (which is included) or a source port to run on modern Windows.

Monster Boy and The Cursed Kingdom

DRM-Free on GOG:

NaissanceE

The steam version of this game can be played DRM-Free by going within the "exe" folder and opening the UDK.exe file.

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty

DRM-Free on GOG and Epic Game Store.

Oddworld: Soulstorm

DRM-Free on Epic game store and GOG.

Overload

DRM-Free on GOG and The Humble Store.

Penumbra Trilogy

Available DRM-Free as physical disc copies, and digitally on GOG.

Portal

Portal on steam can be made DRM-Free by following the instructions here. The wiki shows you how to add the command line here.

Project Zomboid

Available DRM Free on GOG.

Rayman Forever

Available DRM Free on GOG

Red Faction 1 & 2

Both games are available DRM-Free on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/game/red_faction https://www.gog.com/en/game/red_faction_2

Re-Loaded (PC Port Version)

This one can be a little confusing, as Steam has two versions of this game with the same title. According to the PC Gaming Wiki, the 10 dollar version of the game that has compatibility with Mac and Linux is the one that is a DRM Free PC port.

Quake

The steam version of Quake can be played DRM-Free using the executable "glquake" inside the game's main directory. This version of the game uses an interface more akin to the original, you won't get all the modern bethesda stuff that shows up when you launch the game through steam, so sadly this one is only partially DRM free.

Thankfully the modern version of the game is also available on GOG.

Quake 2

DRM Free on GOG.

Quake 3

DRM Free on GOG.

SCP 087

This short horror title is available DRM Free here

SCP Containment Breach

Available DRM Free here

SEGA Genesis Classics

DRM Free on Steam when you use the SEGAGenesisClassics.exe launcher. As a bonus, you can also find lots more games to add to it on the steam workshop (I haven't yet checked how to carry them over to a DRM Free installation but hopefully it isn't too complicated)!

Shadow Warrior Classic Redux

This title is available DRM Free on gog. You can also get the original DOS version for free here!

Slayaway Camp

DRM-Free on steam.

Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut

The steam version can be made DRM Free by following the instructions here.

Sonic CD (1995) / Sonic & Knuckles

The Sonic & Knuckles Collection is a physical collection from the 90s that contains both a modified version of Sonic & Knuckles and a PC port of Sonic CD. According to the PC Gaming wiki, the only form of DRM should be a disc check, which won't require internet. The newer steam version, (which was delisted in a slimey move by Sega to bully people into buying the newer Sonic Origins) is no longer available for purchase, but if you already have a copy, The PC Gaming Wiki has some instructions on ways to remove the DRM.

Thanks for being assholes, SEGA!

Sonic Mania

The PC Gaming Wiki has instructions on how to remove the DRM from the steam version.

Sonic Nebulous

A DRM free Sonic fan game. Can be downloaded here on mod db.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series

The first 3 games in the series are available DRM-Free on GOG here:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/stalker_shadow_of_chernobyl

https://www.gog.com/en/game/stalker_call_of_pripyat https://www.gog.com/en/game/stalker_clear_sky

Starbound

Available DRM Free on gog here:

On The Humble Bundle store, for some reason, only the 4 pack is listed as DRM-Free. :

Super Meat Boy

DRM Free at the Epic Game Store, Steam, and Humble Store.

Terraria

DRM- Free on GOG.

The Binding of Isaac

This one is drm-free on steam.

The 3D Adventures Of Sailor Moon

A very old and obscure pc game that seems to be abandonware. Physical copies can be found online but are very expensive and may take a lot of work to get running on modern hardware. You can get a fixed up version of the game here

To The Moon

DRM-Free on both the Humble Store and GOG.

Turok 2 Seeds Of Evil

The steam version can be made DRM-Free by following these instructions on the PC Gaming Wiki. The game can also be found on GOG.

UnderTale

UnderTale is available DRM-Free on GOG.

Unreal II The Awakening

Thanks to the wankers at epic games, this can't be found on digital store fronts but you can still physical copies on ebay. Digital copies are also available on the internet archive which should be DRM-Free (not tested yet).

Unreal Gold

Physical copies of this game can be found on ebay, and a digital copy can be found here on the internet archive. (not tested yet)

Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition

Physical copies can be found on ebay, and a digital copy can be found here on the internet archive.

Unreal Tournament 2004

The game can be purchased as a physical copy on sites like ebay, or you can get a digital copy here on the internet archive. The physical copies require a cd key during installation, but should run just fine off of your hard drive afterwards.

Unreal Tournament 3

If you were able to get a steam copy before it was de-listed, the game is DRM Free after you get it all set up and enter your CD key. Otherwise, it's also available on the internet archive here. (I haven't tested this version yet)

When The Past Was Around

This title is available DRM-Free on GOG. There's also a DRM Free demo on itch.io.

Wolfenstein 3D & Spear of Destiny

Available DRM Free on GOG.

[moonykore]

BACKLOG OF GAMES

THIS IS THE LIST OF GAMES THAT I OWN. They are tagged with:

[completed, played on stream, VOD unavailable] indicates exactly what it says. The VOD is unavailable for any reason. I can play it again.

[completed off stream] this one indicates that even if I already played it I'm willing to play it again on stream.

[video here] which means that there is a video or more on my channel

[completed on stream, video/vod soon] which means that the vod or video will be uploaded soon.

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GAMES

Little Misfortune [completed, played on stream, VOD unavailable]

3 O'clock Horror

Arruyo

Disco Elysium [completed off stream]

Life is Strange 2

The Outcast Lovers

A Raven Monologue

Subnautica

Tell Me Why

The Walking Dead [completed off stream]

What Never Was

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

The Backroom - Lost and Found

Champ's nightmare

Classified Stories: Color out of space

Escape Room - The Sick Colleague

Fungiman

I'm on observation duty

It's dark

Our elusive suffering

Poppy Playtime

Samsara Room

Scarlet Hollow - Episode 1

SCP: Nukalypse

Solitude Underwater

Video Horror Society

Among Us [videos here]

Stardew Valley [videos here]

Dead By Daylight

Payday 2

The Timeless Child

We Were Here

Ann

Annie and the Art Gallery

Skyrim [completed off stream]

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Moon hunters

Princess remedy in a world of hurt

The Rabbit's Scroll

To the Moon

Tower Princess: Knight's Trial

Wicked Games

Without End

You Will (Not) Remain

Yume Nikki

911 Operator

Cult of the lamb

My child lebensborn

Swallow the Sea

theHunter: Call of the Wild

Ballads At Midnight

Find Love or Die Trying

My Therapy

non-binary

one night, hot springs

Purgatory

A Taste of the Past

Who is The Red Queen?

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Dark Deception

Despotism 3k

The Doll Beneath

The Night Fisherman

Dungeon of the ENDLESS

The End of it All

Equinox

Eragon's tale

The Good Time Garden

Grimm's Hollow

Gun Witch

Hollow Knight

Jesus Christ RPG Trilogy

Kach

Lay

Little Nightmares

The Looker

Mansions of Madness

Marie's Room

Martial Law

missed messages.

NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE [completed on stream, vod unavailable]

Ori and the Blind Forest.

Outbreak Island

A Plague Tale: Innocence [completed off stream]

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

Alien: Isolation [completed off stream]

Amnesia: Rebirth

Ancient Enemy

Ark

Bioshock Trilogy

City of Brass

Darkwood

Fallout 3

Evil Dead: the game

Filament

Frostpunk

Gods Will Fall

Hell is other demons

Hundred Days

Insurmountable

Iratus

Jotun

Maneater

Neverwinter

Nioh

Paradigm

Path of Exile

Prey

Quake

Ring of Pain

Tomb Raider: Anniversary [completed off stream]

Tomb Raider: Legend [completed off stream]

Tomb Raider: Underworld [completed off stream]

Tomb Raider 2013 [completed off stream]

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Rising Hell

Saturnalia

Tharsis

Wytchwood

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Terraria

Runaway Trilogy [completed off stream]

Secret Files: Tunguska [completed off stream]

Secret Files: Puritas Cordis [completed off stream]

King of Seas

Fallout: new vegas

Coffee Noir

Dagon

The Darkest Tales

Beyond Good and Evil [completed off stream]

Dex

Against the Moon

A Space for the Unbound

Lucifer within us [completed on stream, video/vod soon]

Cafe in the Clouds

Lavender

7 days in the fire mountain

Butterfly Soup

Lovewood

Winterlore I

Winterlore II

Latide's Plane

Me and My Eldritch Parasite

6 Feet Behind

Nameless - The Departed Cycle

Hampton Court

Roseblight

Doll House

Dear Mom

False Protagonists: A Queer Magical Story About The Rest Of Us

We are bonded kin

Bales of Amber

In your wiggly eyes

Zeitz Mach

Not Alone

Cerulean

Pillars on Poppy Hills

Grunge

Boiling Over

Finding Felicia

Dandelions

National Park Girls

To Kill a Black Swan

Song of the hunt

Make it Last

Terranova

Good Morning Hun

Inverness Nights

Lucah: Born of a Dream

Ciao Nonna

Brassica: A Marry Tale

Winter

Snow Angel

VISIGOTHS vs MALL GOTHS

Apartmen No.9

Pinewood Island

We should talk

All in Love and War.

A Normal Lost Phone.

The Morning Star.

Co-open.

My Alien Roomate.

What's your gender?

Stillwater.

Lookouts.

Symbiosis.

Candylight.

Bunflower.

Lunarrota.

Dark Sheep.

Redd's Runaway.

The Lost Cave of the Ozarks.

Sonny

Fo|rest

Project Mallow

Knight Bewitched

Lost dreams

Back to bed

Lydia

Meta Form

Prison of the magi

Bringris

Murder at the cat Show.

Wonderland Nights: White Rabbit's Diary

Infini

The Tower: The Order of XIII

Without Escape

Roll for Confidence.

RB: Axolotl

Planet Driver

Wheels of Aurelia

No Think

The Light at the End of the Ocean

Nauticrawl

Marginalia

MMM: Murder Most Unfortunate

Paranoihell

Self-Checkout Unlimited

Four Horsemen

Luna

Tales From Windy Meadow.

Bonbon

Amelie

Glittermitten Grove

Homunculus Hotel

Pendula Swing

Midnight Scenes

Explorers

Hero Hours Contact

Reminiscence in the Night

The Lost Night

Pixel Fireplace

Pumpkin Eater

Pale Cachexia

Be Not Afraid

Old Man's Journey

Bard Harder

The Black Iris

Democratic Socialism Simulator

Death and Taxes

Highway Blossoms

Changeling

Sagebrush

Midnight Scenes Ep. 1 & 2

Long Gone Days

Arcade Spirits

A Mortician's Tale

They Bleed Pixels

Sunlight

TowerFall Dar World Expansion

Shattered Planet

Promesa

Celeste

Bury me, my love

A Short Hike

Sundered: Eldritch Edition

Fatum Betula

INMOST

Evergate

Cloud Gardens

[owlixx]

CoD Notes: BO1 Finished

I had been worried that Black Ops 1 would unfairly feel like a step backwards for me since I decided to do MW1/2/3 back to back and MW3 came out a year later. This was not the case. Black Ops feels like such a revelation to the franchise. The story isn’t high art, but it feels so much more involved than anything else in the franchise up to this point. The voice cast is far more stacked than ever before. Alex Mason as a protagonist is far more interesting than any previous protagonist. I think his largest competition is Soap, who only gets to be more than silent player avatar in MW2/3 and even then isn’t as interesting as Mason.

I mean, this one game has so many more memorable characters than any other Call of Duty. Ed Harris’s Hudson, Ice Cube’s Bowman, Gary Oldman’s Reznov, Woods all stand out but even Weaver, Dragovich, Steiner, that one scientist guy in Kowloon, are all so much more vivid than the tryhard wannabe NPC’s of something like Ghosts (oops, I beat many games in a row without taking notes).

The plot twist alone elevates this game from “stupid annual release” to video game hall of fame. I’d argue that video games are the best medium for plot twists. It’s no Bioshock, but the Reznov twist is so fun and so well executed. I remember it blowing my mind as a kid and it was a ton of fun to see all the little hints as I went through this time. But I’ve already talked about the game at large twice. Let’s get into the last few missions.

Crashed plane assault mission was fine. I noticed the radio shout out a “Sergeant Blundell” which I recognized as Jason Blundell, the main Black Ops guy, this time. Also very funny and on the nose to have a section set to Sympathy for the Devil.

Snowy mountain assault was just okay. The top-down tactical part was clearly a stepping stone to the Strike Team missions of Black Ops 2. Didn’t love that section. But it was kind of funny to get to play as Hudson. This series seems to have some sort of quota to meet on having multiple playable characters. I did struggle really hard on one checkpoint in this level.

Then is the Vietnam mission where you get to fly a helicopter. I remember liking that part as a kid and it’s fine now. I’ll admit that these ‘Nam levels blend together for me.

But then we’ve got the Rebirth Island assault where you sneak around as Mason and do a gas-mask armored strike as Hudson. It’s pretty cool to get to see the same moment from two perspectives, a rare good use for having multiple playable characters. I will admit that Hudson’s breakable gas mask ended my life many times though.

Then the big plot twist as a cutscene mission, which is very fun.

Then finally the big boat assault and underwater base. Nothing too special gameplay wise, but generally a nice capper on the game.

And I love the implication that Mason killed JFK. I mean, it’s a very strong implication, but I suppose they never outright confirm it was him who pulled the trigger. I half expected the final scene of zooming in on Mason photoshopped into the background of a JFK pic to turn into a “JFK assassination simulator” for a second, but instead it transitions directly into the opening cutscene for Five, which is such a treat.

I did manage to get to round, like, 9, I wanna say, on Five. Sadly died right I before I could PaP because I forgot how the weapon thief mechanic worked and ended up double buying a gun. The voice lines in this map are even funnier to me as an adult who has more context on this era.

Overall, I think this game is peak CoD as far as campaigns go. First, set out to tell a story that would work even outside of this series, then drench it in a particular era and add a bunch of fun weapons and setpieces.

In the rankings so far, I think this is going at the top.

[geekgemsspooksandtoons]

This is unedited, raw, and not finished. This was meant to be part one of my Bioshock Rebirth AU. Now here’s what I was working on before I gave up. The rest I say was already written here. This draft first started on August 9th, 2022.

This was meant to be after this part. But I deleted it out of there. https://at.tumblr.com/geekgemsspooksandtoons/a-man-or-a-slave/40jam38k1415

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“You” Archie said in an angry tone. He started walking towards Brigid.

“Archie?” Brigid says, sounding frightened.

“Was this your plan? Is that why you lied to me? Is that why you betrayed Fontaine?” Archie said as he sped walked towards her. “You gave me all those memories so I can be little puppet?!” he started yelling at her.

“Please Archie, let me explain” Brigid pleaded to him as she backed away before Archie grabbed her shoulders.

“You knew who I was when I got here! You made up my childhood! You made up my mom! You talk about atoning for your sins, yet YOU DO ALL OF THAT TO ME!” Archie raised his voice as he started shaking her.

“PLEASE LET ME EXPLAI” Brigid pleaded again before being interrupted.

“YOU DESTROYED MY LIFE! YOU NEVER VALUED MY LIFE! YOU WERE NVER BETTER THAN RYAN OR FONTAINE YOU FUCKING WITCH!” Archie yelled at the top of his lungs, screaming at her face as she soon started to tear up at what was happening.

“ARCHIE STOP!” Elizabeth pleaded as she tried to take him off of Brigid. Unknown to the three of them, someone familiar was walking towards them at a fast rate.

“Hey” Atlas said as he quickly walked towards them, with the three turning their faces quickly towards him. “Nice work boyo” he said before punching Archie in the forehead with enough force, that it makes him lose his grip of Brigid, and drop to the ground. Leaving his head dizzy after the punch, and in pain. Not noticing Atlas pushed the women aside.

“ARCHIE!” Elizabeth screamed as Atlas started kicking him Archie in the chest. Before trying to lunge onto Atlas, she was held back by a Rapture Trooper. She started struggling but couldn’t move as the trooper held her arms for dear life. Brigid was on the ground, still shocked by what happened earlier, but soon witnessed Archie being beaten by Atlas. She tried to get her gun, but like Elizabeth, she was quickly grabbed by another trooper, holding her arms.

“Let me go you pig!” - Brigid.

The two women bared witnessed to the beating Archie was enduring.

“You’re a regular hero ain’tcha?!” Atlas yelled as he kicked Archie in the face. “You disrespectful piece of shit!” he leaned closer to punch him as Archie tried to defend himself, but the hits to the head made him feel dizzy and unfocused. “Didn’t your mum ever teach you not to put your faith in strange foreign folks?! Oh right! YOUR MUM WAS FAKE!” he kept beating him until he started to lose consciousness. “YOU’RE BUSTO YOU PIECE OF HUMAN WASTE!”

“STOP IT! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!” Elizabeth screamed at Atlas as she began to tear up. The beating stopped as Archie wasn’t moving much.

“I’m just giving the lad what he needs. He needed a proper beating, and one other thing” Atlas told her as he looked at her. Before checking Archie’s pockets and finding the genetic key that he had taken from Ryan. But before getting up, Archie grabs Atlas’s right wrist with his left hand, getting his attention. He pulls his wrist away from Archie’s hand, as Atlas spits at his face in disgust. Before finally getting up.

“Do what you want with him. But make sure he stays dead after that” Atlas says before leaving Archie’s nearly unconsciousness body. But he stops to say something.

“Oh, Arch. One last thing...even though I couldn’t make you bark like a cocker spaniel...thanks for still being my Ace in the Hole...it means a lot” Atlas says with a smile as he leaves. While they are taken away, Brigid was insulting their captors, while Elizabeth screamed towards Archie. Making sure if he could still hear her. They were soon out of sight. Until two troopers just stood above him.

“So, how do you think we kill him?” the trooper on the left asked his friend.

“How about we dump him in one the pools? Let him drown...underwater. Pretty sick right?” the trooper on the right held in a little chuckle after that.

“Oh, that’s good. That’s ironic” the other trooper told him before they both picked him up.

[leam1983]

On Sessler

I don't get the guy.

So G4's rebirth failed spectacularly, as you all know. It wasn't needed, it worked off of an outdated format and I, a lifelong Progressive, will freely admit that they pulled the most basic-ass, predictable cards in the deck. Frosk's rant wasn't wrong in its context, but it felt like the last twenty years' worth of discourse hadn't happened and Olivia Munn was still clutching a mic in front of a camera.

Welp, Sess went on another Twitter meltdown and more or less expectorated on what he feels is an audience that's betrayed him. He wants to come across as the martyrized high-brow analyst of the art form that's beset with thuggish rubes from the trenches of the Doritos-and-Mountain-Dew Corps, but it just doesn't click.

Seeing him screech online, I was reminded of all the frustrated wannabe Postgrad alumni I've worked with whose features constricted at the slightest provocation, and who'd then find supposedly advanced, but actually entirely sophomoric ways of landing put-downs. You know the type: they take Dark Academia far too seriously, wonder why they're the only ones with expensive Moleskine notebooks and attend Pop Culture Studies lectures at the Postgrad level because they're a requirement of the Master's Degree program. They really rather we went anal over the latest hot-button counter-cultural theorist when the name of the class more or less translates as "Get out your Potter books and your Weyland-Yutani-issued pulse rifles, 'cause shit's gonna get nerdy."

Picture one of these guys going from disinterest to blatant disgust over a little over six weeks, because some girl who's still stuck on Anamanaguchi decided to use The Walking Dead as a vector for her long years of literary observation. Picture them having the nerve to stand up and start a diatribe in the middle of the one class on campus where the closest other guy to the type of student they are's actually overdosed on Alighieri because he played the EA-published video game on PS3.

That's basically Adam Sessler, as of recently. Frothing at the mouth, jabbering away at all the CoD-bros he's never hung out with, likely reliving the halcyon days of his likening BioShock Infinite to Samuel Beckett's output.

I don't get that.

Yes, there's cultureless hacks in the medium. Yes, some people look like their K/D ratio eventually came to become the one dominant facet of their personality. Yes, there's former potentates of twitch reflexes and vaunted quickscoping heroes who haven't caught on to the fact that aging slows you down. The sick shots you landed in your teens get insanely hard to put out in your twenties, unless you relentlessly train for it. Yes, these people tend to mask a sense of inadequacy with toxicity.

The thing is, they don't matter. I game in Single Player, or on closed servers my friends and I administrate. We catastrophically fail and simultaneously laugh it up, then pick ourselves back up and go back to fragging. Whenever shooters get involved, pot usually enters the picture. Try quickscoping when half of your brain is busy coming up with a constant parade of brain farts.

I also don't let my past define my hobbies. I don't need to analyze everything I like. Not everything needs to have narrative value. There's days where all I fucking want is to skip the tutorial and campaign cinematics and build the worst Goldfinger lair ever in Evil Genius 2. There's days where all I want is One Finger Death Punch on Survival mode.

There's days where all I want is Mortal Kombat. As in, the shitty one on SNES. I am under no obligation to be high-brow.

It would help if some journalists remembered that.

Oh - and yes. I do still call myself a gamer. The label fits, as I don't simply pick up a controller when I'm at someone-or-other's house. That's it. It's the same reason why someone who's serious about Lego builds could consider themselves a model maker, or why the term maker came to define anyone who has a valid excuse to go for Prusa's top-shelf extruder, if not two or three more 3D printers.

[heavensarmy777-blog]

Series List

Series List

Just an organized list of series I started or finished and ideas for a new series. You can see what is next or you can donate to continue the next game of your favorite series.

Name of next game needed for series (System it's on)[Owned or not]

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Series I Started And The Next I Wish To Play

Amnesia Rebirth (PS4)[Don't Own]

Batman: Arkham Origins (PS3)[Don't Own]

Breath Of Fire III (PSTV)[Own]

Castlevania Anniversary Collection (PS4)[Don't Own]

Chrono Cross Remaster Radical Dreamers (PS4/5)[Don't Own]

Darksiders Genesis (PS4)[Don't Own]

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness (PS3)[Don't Own]

EarthBound Beginnings (Switch)[Own]

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented (PS3)[Own]

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PS5)[Don't Exist]

Final Fantasy XVII (PS5)[Don't Exist]

Front Mission (PS1)[Don't Own]

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (PS1/2/Xbox/GameCube)[Don't Own]

Kirby’s Tilt ’N’ Tumble (Switch)[Own]

Kingdom Hearts 3: ReMind DLC/ Melody Memory (PS4)[Don't Own]

Langrisser II (Switch)[Own]

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)[Don't Own]

Mario/Super Mario Galaxy (Switch)[Own]

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (PS5)[Don't Own]

Mega Man X-2 (PS4)[Own]

Metroid II: Return Of Samus/Metroid Prime (Switch)[Own]

Parasite Eve II (PS1)[Own]

Persona 2: Innocent Sin (PS1/PSP)[Don't Own]

Pokemon Black And White 2 (NDS)[Don't Own]

Portal: Companion Collection (Switch)[Don't Own]

Prince Of Persia 1989 (PC)[Don't Own]

Radical Dreamers (PS4/5)[Don't Own]

Ratchet & Clank: Deadocked (PS2)[Don't Own]

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 (PS2)[Own]

Skate 2 (PS3/XBOX 360)[Don't Own]

Slender: The Eight Pages (Steam)[Don't Own]

Sly Cooper 4 (PS3)[Don't Own]

Sonic Adventure DX (Steam)[Don't Own]

Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly (PS2/Game Cube)[Don't Own]

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Switch)[Own]

Tekken 8 (PS5)[Don't Own]

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (GBA)[Don't Own]

Tony Hawk’s Underground (PS2/GameCube)[Don't Own]

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4/5)[Don't Own]

Valkyria Chronicles 2 (PSP)[Don't Own]

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Series I Finished Unless Another Game Comes Out

BioShock

Brave Fencer Musashi/Samurai Legend Musashi

Dark Souls

Dark Cloud

Dead Or Alive

Fable

Horizon Zero Dawn/Horizon Forbidden West

ICO/Shadow Of The Colossus/The Last Guardian

InFAMOUS

LEGO Games

Little Nightmares

Mass Effect

Ni No Kuni

Nioh

Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic

Street Fighter

Subnautica

Suikoden

The Elder Scrolls

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

White Knight Chronicles

Zone Of The Enders

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Series Ideas To Start

Alien Isolation

Crash Bandicoot

Diablo

Dissidia Final Fantasy

Dragon Quest

Fire Emblem

Half Life

Jak And Daxter

Metal Gear Series

Silent Hill

Soul Blade or Soul Edge/Soulcalibur

Star Ocean

My Steam games Wish List is also good for ideas.

Any other genres or series that you like to see me play?

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[micah-bells-baby-daddy]

So I wanted to draw @geekgemsspooksandtoons oc Archie from their Bioshock Rebirth story.

Hope I drew him well, also looked at some of @fishtankinhouse drawings of Archie to help me as they are really talented in drawing Archie!

[ianxfalcon]

One thing I hate about this site is that almost every time I find a video game I really, really love and search for it here, turns out that most people seem to hate it for some reason? It’s demoralizing to be quite honest; surely my taste isn’t that bad???

[fivefootunder]

Ok! So this is so posed to be a more I guess if you will ... a broken down subject delta but with flowers growing on top of him. It’s more of a beaten down subject delta. I always love photos with old buildings that are broken but still have flowers growing around them! Like it’s saying I’m still hear in a weak voice! So I named this version of subject delta rebirth.🤗 I was heavily inspired by @the-blueish-trashcan on their piece with jack covered in flowers!