Stuff before ~2000 is retro. It’s from the previous century after all.

Of course there is, capacitors go bad, other parts stop working.

The only fully guaranteed method of preservation is via emulation.

It seems that there were multiple CD box releases in the US.

The attached scan of the back of the jewel case was labelled “alternative US release” on MobyGames. The screenshots on the jewel case show a pretty late stage version of The Sims; more in line with trailer in my OP.

Got to disagree with you on this.

This might be a regional thing, but in Europe, my copy of Simcity 3000 (purchased in 1999) included a trailer that looked closer to the one I posted (I am going from memory). It was definitely not the one you linked.

The trailer was definitely available before The Sims 1 was released in 2000.

This youtube video of my OP video states that:

Trailer video (TheSims.mpg) came from the “demos” folder from SIM Theme Park installation CD.

Sim Theme Park was released in 1999.

It honestly does sound very unique and compelling. This seems the like kind of game that makes me stick to mostly indie titles.

I read that article. I am in no hurry, I will speculate that it will eventually come to other stores.

You’re not missing anything. Heavy modding of older games PC can be a pain in the ass.

You can usually find a somewhat coherent and structured guide that will give you a step by step process, but will still be time-consuming (and there will likely be exceptions or outdated information).

The best option is to keep mods to minimum unless you know what you are doing and it’s a game that you play on a permanent basis.

Beautiful screenshots! Too bad that it’s going to take a while until it’s released outside of the Epic store (on PC).

HOMM was incredibly popular in Eastern Europe in the late 90s. Not as popular as Quake/CS/Unreal, but still very notable.

I think the real world implementation of “Kingdoms of Elyria” is Kingdoms Reborn. A multiplayer 4X/city-builder hybrid (although it works just fine in single player too).

I am so excited for this game! I went into the original Citizen Sleeper without any prior knowledge of the game, ended up finishing it in two (pretty long) sessions.

I don’t think it would be possible to make a tycoon/management game with an official Stargate license. The IP holders would want returns of such a size that would be unrealistic for the tycoon/management game genre. Although Two Point Studios have seen what seems like mainstream success.

It feels like a complete bloodbath with the job situation in the gaming industry in the west.

The worst thing is none of the executives are getting fired (in a proper manner, no golden parachutes and clawbacks on any stock based compensation).

Option #4 sounds most realistic.

I can’t imagine many people who haven’t tried Final Fantasy are going to play this. This seems like a game for super fans only.

FWIW, the last FF game I tried was FF7 in the early 2000s. Bounced off of it in ~40 minutes. I had only played cRPGs and I never really tried any JRPGs (nothing wrong with them, they just not for me).

That being said, I am actually considering trying the original FF7 with mods one of these days.

Huffman is just another american technology oligarch. It is in his interest to spread corruption and undermine rule of law.

Fallout 1/2 are excellent games even by objective modern standards.

While the UI is a bit archaic by modern standards, it gets the job done. Late 90s UI/UX was noticeable better than what RPG games offered in the early and mid 90s.

Some elements of the gameplay are also subpar in hindsight. I find I have to cheese a lot of the early game combat encounters and get in pretty tedious kiting sessions (and even save scumming).

I bought Fallout 3 on release, but I bounced off it after a few hours of play. I’ve been meaning to replay it, but just haven’t gotten to it. New Vegas (technical glitches and limitations aside) is a whole different story though.

Found a workaround for Q2.

Steam Store has a tab heading titled “Recently Updated”, in it you can find a section called “Recently Updated”:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/

This is comparable to your news feed in your library but it also includes news/updates from games that you have on wishlist. Not the most elegant solution, but it does limit the number of items compared to AnarchoNoAdjectives “/updated/all” link.

Thank you so much!

Perfect solution for Q1!

For Q2, does anyone have any thoughts about filtering all updates either by tag or by a specific game list?

Pretty solid achievement, but I wonder if they’ll be able to continue iterating without access to EUV tech.

Is this an ARM CPU or some local ISA, this can’t be x86.