The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Syt]

I started off on C64 with some very basic ones (including a German one literally written in BASIC), and of course FM 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Manager_2
https://www.mobygames.com/game/12358/football-manager-2/

And the first "life sim" in sports I recall, Footballer of the Year; the music by legendary Ben Daglish is still seared into my brain.

[Norgy]

I think Brian Clough lent his name to a computer game, too.

https://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=1568

[Sheilbh]

I get everything everyone's saying about FM and the bloat etc.

But it's been a few years and even reading the complaints has kind of given me an itch to scratch. It's all true and I also know I will absolutely be getting this game and ruining my weekends

[crazy canuck]

I wish we could get a motorsports manager with the depth of FM.

Have you tried F1?

[Grey Fox]

I wish we could get a motorsports manager with the depth of FM.

Have you tried F1?

F1 manager? Yeah, it's fine. The promess of yearly release at the start of the franchise was really off putting. I prefer Motorsport Manager (2016).

[Syt]

A Video about the Psygnosis RPG "Drakan" showed up in my feed. "The Lara Croft Open World RPG that everyone forgot." Tbf, I never played the game.

But I do remember the ad campaigns from ca. 1999 quite well.

[Syt]

I started a game as Le Mans yesterday in French third tier; the squad looked decent, projected to finish 7th, so why not.

Looked at the team report. Poor passing, poor strength, poor headers, poor dribbling, poor positioning, poor marking, poor penalties + corners + throw ins, poor endurance, poor ball handling, poor decision making, poor composure, poor tackling .... think of any technical or mental quality and there was a good chance it was rated poor. The only positives was "Hey, you have a few decent people in this position", "there's some youth players that look decent" and the goalkeepers (except in one-on-one which is also rated poor). 

[Josquius]

A Video about the Psygnosis RPG "Drakan" showed up in my feed. "The Lara Croft Open World RPG that everyone forgot." Tbf, I never played the game.

But I do remember the ad campaigns from ca. 1999 quite well.

You know, the name does ring a bell with me.
I do think I have quite the encyclopaedic knowledge of games from that era where I just memorised games magazines but couldn't afford many games. Had it sort of set in my head there were several hundred games in existence and this was something worth knowing.

[celedhring]

A Video about the Psygnosis RPG "Drakan" showed up in my feed. "The Lara Croft Open World RPG that everyone forgot." Tbf, I never played the game.

But I do remember the ad campaigns from ca. 1999 quite well.

You know, the name does ring a bell with me.
I do think I have quite the encyclopaedic knowledge of games from that era where I just memorised games magazines but couldn't afford many games. Had it sort of set in my head there were several hundred games in existence and this was something worth knowing.

In the 1990s- early 2000s many video rental stores rented PC games too, at least over here. That's how I got to play most stuff. You could easily bypass most copy protection back then too. Halcyon days if you were a young gamer.

[Valmy]

Heh. Yeah we rented lots of PC games and somehow still had them even after returning them.

It was only the really big titles you would actually buy, because you just had to have the box and all the stuff they used to include in the game box. Like the cloth map for the Ultima games.

[Norgy]

Two words: Turbo tape.