I’ve got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them.
After that I’d probably bring Star Trek TOS and a MOBI copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson combined with a portable install of VLC and Calibre in case the computer didn’t have applications that support the file format.
What about you?
I wanted to phrase this in a way where it isn’t a prolonged or desert island style question where the responsible idea would be to bring Wikipedia ZIMs and educational PDFs. It’s just an awkward amount of time to kill. The mid 2000s office desktop stipulation is just an additional challenge so you can’t just bring in a copy of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077.
Edit: By mid 2000s I meant around 2005; the XP or Vista.
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I’m here for the Morrowind vote. I do that for 12 hours already, willingly, with plenty of other things I could be doing. Maybe for the fun of it though I could grab some other games that are hard to run on modern machines, like the Neverhood
I’d love to chance to play a bunch of nostalgic titles - just off the top of my head I’d play DOOM, Uplink, Darwinia, Morrowind, and my trashy favourite from that era Themepark world. There are definitely more if I had time to think about it.
As a Line Rider Creator, I’d get Line Rider Overhaul, Ungoogled Chromium with the linerider web app, get a bunch of mods and download a bunch of cool .ogg’s.
You can join our community in Discord (unfortunately Discord is where the community is), there’s also a couple good guides, Arglin’s Line Rider for Dummies and Malizma’s .com guide, and you could also just watch videos and make tracks, which is imo the best way to learn.
For how long? Because that’s probably the most important factor.
There’s also a million indie games that run perfectly fine on mid 2000 desktop hardware. Even games that look crazy computational intensive like Factorio.
For anyone above a certain age with kids below a certain age this isn’t a punishment or a challenge, this is A DREAM!!
Heroes of might and magic 3, system shock 2, Anno (any version up to 1503), Morrowind, Civilization 3, Age of wonders shadow magic, Baldur’s gate 1 and 2…
Whenever my wife finds the time she goes to her room to play Morrowind. She just got a new laptop and the first thing I did was install OpenMW and copy her save file.
It goes without saying that you couldn’t finish any of those games in those 12 hours, except for System Shock 2.
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Max Payne 1 and 2, F.E.A.R, Far Cry, MAME with a couple of arcade roms like Galaga, Tetris, Pang, Puzzle Bobble, Metal Slug.
And if I get bored with those there is always Microsoft solitair, mine sweeper and mayong to fall asleep on the keyboard.
Nothing I can explore the PC for 12 hours. Sounds like fun. Maybe play some pinball.
Please not Vista
Windows ME it is!
Okay I have never used it I think that will be interesting!
It was windows 98 but worse. It ground my GF’s Compaq cheapo college computer to a halt at the time.
Fallout 1&2 obviously, and stay trapped for the next month or so
Or morrowind if it can handle it
Would you bring the GOG version or the data files and something like Fallout-CE?
I’m here for the Morrowind vote. I do that for 12 hours already, willingly, with plenty of other things I could be doing. Maybe for the fun of it though I could grab some other games that are hard to run on modern machines, like the Neverhood
Linux and a bunch of ebooks. Maybe Larn and Nethack.
I’d love to chance to play a bunch of nostalgic titles - just off the top of my head I’d play DOOM, Uplink, Darwinia, Morrowind, and my trashy favourite from that era Themepark world. There are definitely more if I had time to think about it.
Winamp with my favorite skin
Entirety of my mp3 collection
All 7 seasons of DS9
All 5 seasons of Kids in the Hall
Someone explain to this guy how long 12 hours actually is.
I like to overprepare - if I get tired of one thing I can switch to another.
As a Line Rider Creator, I’d get Line Rider Overhaul, Ungoogled Chromium with the linerider web app, get a bunch of mods and download a bunch of cool .ogg’s.
Where can I learn more about this
You can join our community in Discord (unfortunately Discord is where the community is), there’s also a couple good guides, Arglin’s Line Rider for Dummies and Malizma’s .com guide, and you could also just watch videos and make tracks, which is imo the best way to learn.
You can download LRO from https://github.com/LunaKampling/LROverhaul/releases/tag/Latest
Around 2005?
TES Oblivion
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego and Commander Keen … wait a second, the time machine’s dial is broken.
Dungeon Keeper, Diablo II, StarCraft maybe, Morrowind, Uplink, Civilization II, Sim City 2000 or 3000 (depends on what will run), quake.
Mid-2000s? SC3K would run easily, I’d have thought. SC4, on the other hand…
I enjoyed Uplink as well.
I blame my career choices to that game and the 90s movie “Hackers”.
For how long? Because that’s probably the most important factor.
There’s also a million indie games that run perfectly fine on mid 2000 desktop hardware. Even games that look crazy computational intensive like Factorio.
Sorry I forgot to put 12 hours in the title. I made the edit.
This kind of feels like every work day. Except I can’t use the pc for fun. Lol help me :')
+1 on roms and Doom. Maybe the sims. Tbh I’m not too familiar with that generation of PC gaming. There’s probably a lot I don’t know about
Boy, this question hurts.
For anyone above a certain age with kids below a certain age this isn’t a punishment or a challenge, this is A DREAM!! Heroes of might and magic 3, system shock 2, Anno (any version up to 1503), Morrowind, Civilization 3, Age of wonders shadow magic, Baldur’s gate 1 and 2…
Whenever my wife finds the time she goes to her room to play Morrowind. She just got a new laptop and the first thing I did was install OpenMW and copy her save file.
It goes without saying that you couldn’t finish any of those games in those 12 hours, except for System Shock 2.
No, at some point I’d make a very unmanly noise and Alt-F4 the fuck outta there.
I’d probably bring Warcraft III, Half Life 2, and potentially Deus Ex if the PC was extra shitty.
Was Deus Ex pretty good on low-end PCs?
I don’t know about pretty good, but it ran on mine!