Here is a list of goofy multiplayer games that are stupid cheap and might be funny for game night sometime:

Murder some miners

Drive tank game

I don't even know

"Crysis: Poor Guy Edition"

Looks like Micro Machines

Platform shooter

Mother.
Fuckin.
PRAETORIANS.

I AM THE LAW

I'd like to point out that Pang owned almost every game selling for less than a dollar that I looked at.


Oh right, and don't forget Good Worms since we've been talking about playing that for ages.

Hmmmmmmmmmm

Not Good Worms, Best Worms.

Well, yeah. All the newer worms are Garbage Worms so the nomenclature is flexible as long as the distinction is made.

Pomme worked! It was a Christmas miracle!

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Some assorted treasures for the banner rotation:

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garr must be busy~

anyway he took a screenshot of the slightly related drawing I was working on before Pang went and destroyed it like he do

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Tails was playing Windwaker HD and uh... I was looking through my folder of random pictures for something to draw and stumbled into a Zelda dump and one with Midna in a Christmas stocking sort of tied it together since we were supposed to be playing a Christmas Fiasco.

ATTENTION MOTHERFUCKERS

GoG Star Wars wave two announced. Drops this week.

X-wing Alliance and vs. TIE Fighter are in it.


THIS IS NEXT WEEK'S GAME.

Alright assholes, I bought XWA.

Game won't launch without a joystick so either set up your controllers or dig out those old wingman pros from the closet because it's fucking go time.

There's a tool to increase res to 1080p, and we can use gamer anger to hook this shit up and it'll be wonderful.

Alright. So the plan is to shoot lasers at each other until someone inevitably gets salty about it. Since this game is circa 1999, we're going to have to fenaggle a few things. Luckily, those things are minimal thanks to the recent GOG release. That said, it's not plug-and-play steam-invite friendly, so here's an instructional post.

Requirements:

A joystick or controller input device that Windows recognizes. You can set up a virtual one if you'd like. See suggestions for further. - The game will literally not boot if you don't have one. This has always been the case. The thing would be impossible to play with just a keyboard anyway.
The Game - Installer here. GOG installer comes with everything you need to get it going, including updated libraries and other things of note.
Gamer Anger - Here, as usual. The game used to run on Microsoft Zone over a decade and a half ago. That clearly no longer exists. So LAN emulation is how we gonna do.

Suggested:

XWAHacker - Available on Sourceforge here, this is a quick set of fixes for XWA and other XW games. For XWA, you can override rendering resolutions from the game's list of presets and change FOV settings and the UI scaler. UI scale at 1.8 or so, and override the 800x600 to 1080p resolutions and you'll be fine. Feel free to play around with some of the bat files available at that project page if you want, but it's mostly pointless.
vJoy - Found here. Again, space sim from the 90s. Z axis might not do what you expect it to do. Lots of games do this from this era, so it might not be a shock. But if you're used to something like airplanes in battlefield or spaceships from Elite, your yaw and roll will be reversed. You can use this to set up a virtual joystick to remap these axes if it'll help. There is no in game way to do this. You can set up an entirely virtual joystick using this if you really want to hate yourself or something and insist on playing with a keyboard.
Running in XP Compatability Mode - Some (people haven't found out exactly which, yet) drivers for specific cards are having issues with the GoG release freezing upshortly after hanger load. This also happened to some of the updated renderer projects the GOG release is based on. Run in compatability mode for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and this seems to vanish universally. Unlikely you'll need it, but I'm pointing it out.

No go:

XWAUpgrade - If you're familiar with this game because you don't suck out loud, you're probably familiar with XWAUpgrade, which is a project to replace all the in game models with higher poly variants with better texture work, along with new starfields and the like. This currently DOES NOT work with the GOG version, although rapid progress is being made. Rapid enough for Thursday? Probably not. I'll update if it does, but I'm not expecting movement for another week or so.

Reading Materials:

Keyboard Shortcut "Quick" Reference - It's a space sim. From the late 90s. It takes more buttons than you're used to. Yes, you can redirect energy to engines. Yes, there's a button combination to eject. Yes, you can manually toggle S-foils. Click this.

You should:

Play the damn thing - Try the combat sim and maybe the first two or three missions. How "good" a ship is relatively to others is shown as a point cost. This typically manifests in better shield/hull/weapons. The first two or three missions should give you an idea of basic controls. If you're farting around, try the X-Wing or B-wing. TIE/Advanced (the ones with shields) aren't bad either. Stay away from TIE/Ints and the regular fighters due to the squishiness. A-Wings are fast but only have two lasers and very little hull. The YT Series is heavily armed but large. The Firespray has an odd profile but has potential. Learn where to allocate laser energy before you drain the battery.

That should be about it.

So, uh, Transformice is on Steam now

HOLY SHIT

Acer and I just played it for three hours. It has somewhat better graphics and random music that pops in and out, but it's otherwise the same obtuse, broken heap of a game it always was.

So it should probably be scheduled for a throwback game night some time soon.

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FUCK YEAH


Look at how mad this guy is!

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FUCK

Hey I have to use this thread to actually record future plans because you chumps have the memory retention afforded by a back-alley lobotomy. SO!

Next week is Jedi Knight II, which Skills will probably be persuaded to steal from GOG for us again. I don't know shit about this but I think Jedi probably don't have to engage in fuel management so I'm tepidly interested.

After that is Icewind Dale, which has co-op for some hellish reason! Skills will PROBABLY not feel strongly enough about this to steal it, so you're on your own. You should already own Icewind Dale, though. What the fuck. Dig those discs out if you have to.

After that: probably another Star Wars game! Skills does not understand the danger of the Jedi/Wizard Alternation Arrangement and he is a fool.

Ok! Actually remember these things maybe! Rad!

I thought JK was the end of our trading off horseshit.

If you still want to go, I can make your shit ABSOLUTELY MISERABLE if you want though.

Hahahaha you think the force is a limitless resource? PREPARE FOR BARS AND GAUGES AND OTHER VISUAL DISPLAYS.

Ok! Next week: Icewind Dale Extended Edition Co-op! Don't give money to Beamdog, click this.

Week after that: Magic again, but with a less frustrating application. Or maybe we'll just finish IWD, it's not a super long game but it might take two weeks I guess?

Additional Spam:
PS: Wizards win, the Jedi are extinct. Their fire has gone out of the universe.

As it turned out, the Jedi had no response to being shot with a flechette cannon.

All according to Wizard Plan.

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Ok so! OBVIOUSLY finishing IWD is not gonna be a thing because starting IWD wasn't even really a thing. So: wizard cards, again, with a less annoying platform. And more card variety.

A COUPLE of you played Magic on OCTGN with me last year sometime? You still might have it installed. Probably not. Even if you do you will need new set patches so stay with me here.

Get OCTGN over here: Download - Gaming Platform

You need an account these days I think. Endure it.

Follow these directions to add Magic (and/or a bunch of other games) to OCTGN's game library:

Then you go over here: Image Pack Downloads - Magic: the Gathering

Download ALL THE THINGS. You should end up with about 42 .o8c files. Open OCTGN, navigate to the Games Manager, find Magic, and add all of them in! OCTGN will probably ask you to subscribe around this point. ENDURE IT (do not actually subscribe. I should not have to tell you this but some of you are wandering off in the middle of games to raid with total strangers so I'm not sure about you).

YOU ARE IMPORTING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF IMAGES HOLD ON A TICK

Ok! Now you have all the cards, even the dumb ones that make no sense for internet play and the ones that don't even work according to current rules! Make a deck, or just wait for me to give you one, lazy chump. So lazy. Geez.


Week after next: some variety of Descent it would seem? Probably Descent 3. That's the word on the street.

Toot toot here comes the treasure fleet

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