The Black Isle version of Fallout 3 (Van Buren).

Bethesda’s version had expansive and impressive maps and visuals, but the writing and world-building were subpar compared to Fallout 1/2 and New Vegas.

Cheer!

My last playthrough was about a year ago, so I have time. :)

Dredge is really cool if you are looking for something a bit more casual, but with decent narrative and very strong world-building.

Jesus Christ, the DLC prices. They’re selling each additional ship for ~$50? Like, the game with all ships is ~$700? I mean, I know that DCS World and Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad use that model, but I can’t imagine that the ships function as differently from ship-to-ship as the combat aircraft in those games, bring as much additional gameplay.

It’s the Star Citizen model. Players should be happy they are not paying $400 for a concept art piece of a ship.

Might have to check this out when I do my next replay of Hl1/HL2 (I do them every 2-3 years).

Did not know about Dave the Diver releasing FOMO DLC, it’s been on my medium term wishlist, but I might just skip it. I have more then enough games to play.

It just doesn’t seem like that kind of game to do FOMO DLC.

Thanks for the update. Lots of interesting highlights.

Haven’t played the 2nd one, the first one is solid though. I did find the political simulation to be a bit inflexible, I think I disabled political impact on my runs.

“It has been over a quarter of a century since SimCity 3000 was released in 1999.”

First off, rude.

😜

I am glad I am not the only one who is still playing it somewhat regularly. :)

Honestly, just try Simcity 3000 or Simcity 4 (some community mods are mandatory). Simcity 3000 is easier to start imo.

Just remember to watch spending and make sure to always have new zones (primarily industrial and residential) until you hit 1950 or so.

Start at the edge of the map with an industrial district that goes parallel to the edge of the map.

Plan ahead with your transport structures (leave a compact corridor for a railway line) and zone locations.

Initially focus on surplus budget and growth (i.e. surplus budget mostly spent on expansion), but try and invest into education so that by 1950 you have a more educated populace.

Have fun!

I played a lot of Simcity 2000 (it was the first game I played), so for me the visual, size and quality of life upgrades in Simcity 3000 were always impressive.

So this is what REPO looks like. I heard it was super popular, but never had a chance to encounter it.

Cheers!

Never heard of The Escapist before, sounds like a fun game.

Cheers!

Surprised it’s your GPU fans that are the loudest, I barely hear my 3080 and I regularly heard the CPU cooling fans, but then again I most play strategy games that heavily bottlenecked by CPU.

GPU fan noise is not something that’s easily fixable, unlike CPU cooling.

This is a good addition to Lemmy.

Dunky video

What if you don’t know who Dunky is and you didn’t find the video funny (seems pretty low effort).

I honestly didn’t mean it in that way. 😆

So now i have a few fox cubs along with the dozens of cats i have populating my base.

Do fox cubs mix with cats? :)

Some Steam games don’t come with any DRM and function like games on GOG.

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

It’s a pain to deal with it, just pointing out that there are Steam games that are fully DRM free.

I wouldn’t go as far a stating that it’s mainly a systemic problem. Individual choices also matter to some degree.