Imagine firing up your brand-new Intel 486DX and waiting those several minutes to show Windows, Open American Online and connect to go to your favorite site about Quake – Blue's News. One of the oldest and still operated Gaming Websites in the world, it is using crowd sourcing for it's articles and editors similar to SoylentNews to share what is happening in the gaming community. Passing it's 25 year anniversary recently, Blue's News continues to give the latest on Diablo to Science related news. Congrats Blue's News!
[Editor's Comment: There are certainly some news items that we haven't covered that will be of interest to our community. But I am never sure - how big IS our gaming community? Hands up please... JR]
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Monday June 05 2023, @10:38AM
It's time for a computer handshake
Boop be boop be boop
I fired up my linux box
To go to Blues News, Blues News
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dalek on Monday June 05 2023, @11:16AM
I'll answer your question to say that I'm interested in gaming, both from the perspective of someone who plays games and develops them. Retro gaming, sports games, simulation games, and racing games are all of interest to me. I'm also interested in discussions about programming games, especially things like the techniques and algorithms that are involved. There's a reason I posted a journal about collision detection and resolution awhile back. I actually took the time to develop my own physics engine, learned a lot, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I just need to find some time to build a game around that physics engine.
THIS ACCOUNT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 05 2023, @11:27AM (6 children)
The problem with community is the range of interests is wide enough that possibly no overlap exists among some gamers, and range of available time is wide.
Stuff I like or liked includes DCS World, Modded Minecraft, DF and its many clones, Roguelikes such as FTL, Rimworld. Played a lot of crusader kings and civilization in the older days. Never got much into FPS.
The time aspect is an issue I barely have time with work stuff to post on SN, although in the past my spare time has varied widely. So you got "real gamers" whom are addicted to Fortnite and play 16 hours a day vs I played thru a couple hours of "autoterrafirmacraft ATFC" modded minecraft last month.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2023, @11:37AM
I'll toss in an "anti" vote -- not a gamer. Have too much fun running my tiny company.
But don't let that stop SN from posting gaming news, I'll just skip those discussions.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Monday June 05 2023, @12:04PM (1 child)
That's also why I tend towards older games that are known gems:
1. Life's too short to spend it on bad video games that just got good hype before they were released.
2. They're frequently much cheaper, like $10 instead of $80-100. Or sometimes even free.
3. There are good walkthroughs and wikis if I ever get stuck or are trying to decide on strategy.
4. Multiplayer tends to be more relaxed.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 06 2023, @12:22AM
Older games, definitely (though, i guess 'older' is defined by who you are).
I still play Total Annihilation and have gone on to the Supreme Commander series.
Europa Universalis (not old, but low graphics/hardware need).
Not really 'into gaming' that i need a 'gaming site', but would probably join the conversation once in a while (as usual).
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by dalek on Tuesday June 06 2023, @03:30AM (1 child)
I'm just curious, do you think Rimworld and FTL are worth it? Rimworld is on my wish list on Steam, but I've never bought it because I haven't noticed a particularly good sale on it yet. Civilization was good fun, but I haven't played anything beyond Civ IV yet. But I certainly played far too much Civ back in the day when I was trying to think what to write next on my master's thesis.
As someone who has a day job and is also starting a business, it's hard to find a lot of time to play games. It doesn't help that I watch too much NASCAR on weekends. I share your sentiment that there are a lot of games I'd like to play, but I don't really have the time to do so.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 06 2023, @04:15PM
Rimworld is simplified and polished to a graphical shine attractive dwarf fortress - alike, so you could just try DF (which is free) and see if you feel like that kind of game or not. RW is simpler to learn and less vertical learning curve than DF. RW has more of a "tech tree" whereas DF the dwarfs are assumed to already know everything, sort of. RW was (still is, I think) single story whereas DF is 3-D multistory.
FTL is just a roguelike it has some replay ability but gets tired after a couple dozen hours. But its cheap and fun and sometimes a challenge to think about.
I try to "unwind" for at least an hour each day, probably a good idea.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 06 2023, @11:37PM
I haven't been able to get into CK(2): i don't seem to be able to get into the whole succession/marriage/etc: i keep getting betrayed and etc. Just don't get it.
Been thinking i should watch a video (the tutorial sucks, really).
Europa Universalis, though.... i've played almost 6,000 hours of that (according to steam, though some of that may be me forgetting and letting it run all night).
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by boltronics on Tuesday June 06 2023, @11:22AM
I was playing some Command & Conquer Remastered last night via Proton on Holo OS, using my restored gaming PC that I rescued from an e-waste bin and upgraded with spare parts.
The night before that, I was playing NFS: Unbound on my Series X.
The night before that, I was playing Othercide from GOG. Going back a week, I was playing some Far Cry 6 DLC.
I track all games I beat on my website. https://systemsaviour.com/finished-games/ [systemsaviour.com]
I'm learning Japanese so I can play more games, but now I don't have so much time to play them! OTOH, I used to spend more time getting games working under Wine then actually playing them, but these days most games just work, or I play on console for newer hardware-pushing titles since console hardware is more affordable.
It's GNU/Linux dammit!
(Score: 2) by The Vocal Minority on Wednesday June 07 2023, @04:48AM
I did read and contribute to Blue's news at one time, before Blue got all woke and ban happy. I don't really even play computer games that much these days...