its in the stickies on the steam forum - along with the dsfix mod
maybe its the photocopy toner?! o_____O

yes http://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/top/?
yes http://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/840/?
and vinyl no doubt
something like that

stop eating my fucking posts shitty forum software

Hm. Seems GOG is eating the posts on this thread currently.

My son loves them and plays them frequently.

I need a game I can play drunk....and those are NOT drunk-playable.

We need a thread for that; a lot of folks would find it very useful. I don't drink anymore but for ten years that is all I did so I feel I'd have something to offer. :P

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Not sure when this was last updated, but it may prove an interesting read ;)

I've never even done drugs and I can think of some games that'd probably be insane while high.

it all depends on the drug. XD

Reviews on the store pages are not reliable for review purposes and it's a logical explanation for it. First of all, buying games it's not a lottery for most people. If i love playing turn-based RPGs, i might not go ahead and buy all sport games in order for me to rate them. I'm not a reviewer i am passionate about computer games, but i am passionate about computer games that touch the genres that i enjoy playing. So, just because of that, the rating will move towards being positive from a general user perspective.
Same principle goes for the desire of writing reviews. I don't usually write reviews, and i definitely don't write for games that i find "meh". I'm might write for games that i find good, or for games that i find bad, but not for "meh". And that's the case for many users, so you won't find objectivity, as, again, we're not reviewers, we're gamers.

Now, there is something different going on with Steam, for example. Over there, you will find much more games with bad ratings than on GOG. And there are more reasons for that, but the main one is that there are more releases over there. And i mean games that are launched on Steam and they are played for the first time by people that are buying them over there. So, you will get 1.0 version of the game, and, many of them might have some problems until next patches, or simply being bad. So, you will have those negative reviews flowing for these titles. On GOG, you get mostly older games, that, in many cases, have stand the test of time. They were popular games back in the days, some of them were patched and over-patched, so there are less chances of people complaining about bugs and stuff like that.

As for nostalgia, again, we're gamers. We're allowed to be nostalgic, and we should be allowed to express our nostalgia to other fellow gamers.

I personally rarely read user reviews before purchasing a game. I always prefer reviews written by people that do that for money, as they are more objective. It's their job to be. I suggest you doing the same.

If a game is well designed it won't matter if it's nostalgia or not, it will still be a good game.

As an example, i haven't played Defender or Joust from the Atari800 since i was a teenager, and i know they are still fun and i can still play them today. They might not hold my attention for hours at a time, but they are still good.

On the other hand there are games that are poorly made and the only reason they'd get good reviews is either fandom, they pushed technology, or you mentally block all the annoying parts of the game from your childhood and only remember key parts like beating the final boss or where that super secret Easter Egg was. I recall very specifically having fun with the original Tomb Raider, but i also remember having huge annoyances controlling the camera, and the lousy framerate on a 100Mhz machine and low resolution.


Probably a large majority of the games should they were given a little polish on the UI and controls, they'd play MUCH better. On the other hand perhaps they should be preserved as a testament to the change in design over the years, and improvements that are commonly implemented in today's standards; Don't forget they didn't have a lot to work with, hardware wise or how to present/program the games. An example is using the left mouse button for almost everything in Command & Conquer and Warcraft, while if you compare it to Star Craft which Blizzard took in tons of feedback from players, adding a default action to the right mouse button letting you simplify and speed up a lot of what you were doing. So with that in mind until there was a good model of a 'good' design, almost all designs would be flawed or clunky.

Seems a little harsh... Wouldn't DMT be a better choice?

Well acid is the one thing I've never done so I'm going to have to sit this one out. :P

Reminds me of one of the best scenes of any film ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-RsB-L2fQY