August 2025 General Game Discussion

[Pifanjr]

I highly recommend Humongous Entertainment games. They have so many good games to choose from, it's hard to pick a bad one. As a kid I was especially fond of Freddie Fish and Pajama Sam. They have since put a lot of them on Steam if you want to go that route as well.

I introduced my kid to Putt Putt quite a while ago via ScummVM. She played all of the main games multiple times, she really loved them. I also showed her Freddie Fish, but she didn't care about it.

 

[Johnway]

Yesterday I played two rounds of Noita. The first round was going very well, I got some good spells, a good amount of money and I made it to the second Holy Mountain with quite a lot of life left. At the second Holy Mountain I picked up a perk that gave me four spidery legs that allowed me to climb and stick to walls and ceilings, which was pretty useful.
At least, it seemed useful until I realized I had lost the ability to fly. Not being used to having my mobility restricted like that I died pretty quickly after into the third area.

In the second round I decided to just go deep as fast as possible. I got the telekinesis perk, which is awesome as flying debris does a ton of damage to enemies, one-shotting basically all of them. At least, if you hit them and they don't destroy the projectile while you're holding it. Except the one that was seemingly immune to kinetic damage and ended up killing me because I had no good wands to fall back on.

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Today I told my kid she was allowed a bit more screen time if she played something educational. She decided to play Treasure MathStorm!, a game from my childhood that I had shown to her. She had played it in a browser emulator before but when she started it up all her progress was lost (even though I had tested it before to make sure it could save).
So I decided to get a local copy and get the Dutch version while I was at it. I thought it would just be a matter of getting a copy and running it in Dosbox, as that was what the website emulator did, but it turned out that the Dutch version was only ever released for Windows. Cue me spending several hours getting Windows 3.1 installed in Dosbox (with a switch to Dosbox Staging as apparently the regular Dosbox is obsolete), installing drivers, getting the game installed and then making a custom shortcut that loads directly into the game.

But it works! Now to get some more DOS and old Windows games to show my kid what I had to work with when I was her age.

have you tried looking into Exowin3.1 and exodos? plenty of classic dos and windows game of an educational nature. maths workshop was one of the few i played. there are of course the old BBC micro games which i don't remember much bout and the novel-but-actually-really-boring encarter maze game.

i do remember bodyworks 5.0 had a 2 player quiz game complete with FMV animated contestants. I would piss my brother off playing this because i didn't know anything about the medical questions. So i just hit the buzzer as quickly as possible and pressed a random answer. if you got it wrong you lost all your points, but boy on one or 2 occasions i beat my brother doing that and he was not impressed. it annoyed my dad too, who was watching us.

 

[Zloth]

OK, I'm tired of finding excuses to not play BG3. Next game. Something to punish me for not finishing BG3.

View: https://youtu.be/CzUFmzgkzw4


No clue what I'm doing! I've died a few times (twice in the tutorial) but the death penalties, at least at this point, are trivial. I'm trying to get good at killing those bat things, but it's rough. My one spell is a joke, doing less damage than my spear and with a shorter range, too!

I had online turned on, but the messages were pretty annoying and watching other people's ghosts jump around is distracting. Maybe I'll turn it on again once I get by the starting area. That should reduce the traffic a lot.

 

[Pifanjr]

have you tried looking into Exowin3.1 and exodos? plenty of classic dos and windows game of an educational nature. maths workshop was one of the few i played. there are of course the old BBC micro games which i don't remember much bout and the novel-but-actually-really-boring encarter maze game.

i do remember bodyworks 5.0 had a 2 player quiz game complete with FMV animated contestants. I would piss my brother off playing this because i didn't know anything about the medical questions. So i just hit the buzzer as quickly as possible and pressed a random answer. if you got it wrong you lost all your points, but boy on one or 2 occasions i beat my brother doing that and he was not impressed. it annoyed my dad too, who was watching us.

I'm aware of Exodos, but I don't really need several hundreds of gigabytes worth of DOS software. I might just get a couple of the games my wife and I used to play as a kid just to show our kid.

OK, I'm tired of finding excuses to not play BG3. Next game. Something to punish me for not finishing BG3.

View: https://youtu.be/CzUFmzgkzw4


No clue what I'm doing! I've died a few times (twice in the tutorial) but the death penalties, at least at this point, are trivial. I'm trying to get good at killing those bat things, but it's rough. My one spell is a joke, doing less damage than my spear and with a shorter range, too!

I had online turned on, but the messages were pretty annoying and watching other people's ghosts jump around is distracting. Maybe I'll turn it on again once I get by the starting area. That should reduce the traffic a lot.

Very nice parry! I never managed to get the hang of the parry system in any of the Dark Souls games I've played.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

OK, I'm tired of finding excuses to not play BG3. Next game. Something to punish me for not finishing BG3.

View: https://youtu.be/CzUFmzgkzw4


No clue what I'm doing! I've died a few times (twice in the tutorial) but the death penalties, at least at this point, are trivial. I'm trying to get good at killing those bat things, but it's rough. My one spell is a joke, doing less damage than my spear and with a shorter range, too!

I had online turned on, but the messages were pretty annoying and watching other people's ghosts jump around is distracting. Maybe I'll turn it on again once I get by the starting area. That should reduce the traffic a lot.

The messages are pretty important if you want to find secrets and a lot of useful stuff. Death stays pretty trivial as long as you make sure you level up whenever you have enough runes. You can use any Rune items you find around from inventory to top up to the next level if youre close.

Godspeed on your journey!

 

[neogunhero]

I had online turned on, but the messages were pretty annoying and watching other people's ghosts jump around is distracting. Maybe I'll turn it on again once I get by the starting area. That should reduce the traffic a lot.

They can be distracting, but also helpful. There is a certain item you can get where you can summon other players into co-op to help fight a boss which is super handy. However, I think there is a slight issue with lots of current players being so far past the beginning area that they don't offer their help to new players, only the hardest bosses in the game. It may be a bit hard to find these messages, and often times the connection drops or the sign stayed well after the player has moved onto a different area causing them not to join you, but when it does work it's incredibly helpful.