Notices by Damiano Gerli (damianogerli@mastodon.social), page 3

@dosnostalgic more material for another French stream

@dosnostalgic I've reviewed it. Sure, having influencers/content crators talk about games is fine. Featuring an entire minute of a random AVGN episode? Definitely less so.

@dosnostalgic I am also confused as to why entire segments of the documentary feature content creators voicing their opinion on games.
I mean, fine, but that's not what a documentary is?

@dosnostalgic @richardtroupe it's just very bland corridors after corridors of repetitive stuff, even the enemies do not seem very well utilized (not the bosses for sure). It's like a solid framework for a good single player campaign, but definitely does not play like one.

Call of the Machine shows that in the hands of a team (MachineGames) that actually cares about a single player experience, Quake 2 can indeed offer a fantastic journey. Sure, it's been decades of design later and they're working on the strength of an updated engine and all that, but the design is just great, challenging in the right ways and keeps you on your toes.
Basically everything that Quake II SP vanilla isn't.

@richardtroupe well the design of the original single player campaign was honestly terrible. No flow, no pacing, I played on hard and the bosses didn't even get half my health off (and I'm not pro player, god forbid). Really boring, even Quake II 64 is better.

@richardtroupe yeah, I think we briefly spoke about it with @dosnostalgic recently.
The original Q2 single player campaign definitely feels like an after thought. I guess ID was just paying attention to the engine and that the multiplayer worked as it should.

@dosnostalgic RoboCop is an anti-cop movie?! *rages against the machine*

@dosnostalgic Daughter of Serpents honestly

Whether in purple, pink, red or 3D, Capstone games have touched all of our lives in different, significant and terrible ways.
Tonight I'm on Twitch at 9PM CET to celebrate (?) their history, talk about my research/interviews with the devs and play a selection of their games. Yay?
https://www.twitch.tv/thegenesistemple

@dosnostalgic honestly hoping Nightdive is allowed to do the same work for Blake Stone though

@dosnostalgic still in 2023 I don't really vibe with it. It's one of those games which looks incredibly fun in the hands of someone else, then I play it and it's all drab textured walls, same enemy repeated a hundred times and annoying jumps and traps. Respect the quirkiness but can't get into it even now.

As promised, I uploaded the obscure 1996 Italian DOS point and click adventure Pompei AD 79 on Archive plus some instructions on how to run it in DosBOX.
This is the CD version, I hope to be able to upload the floppy one too in the future.
https://archive.org/details/pompei_202307

Two years ago I was wondering if I would ever be able to write a history of Capstone software - famous creators of TekWar and Witchhaven (and Zorro *ARGH*). One year later, look at that. In 2022 I actually managed to publish it over on Retro Gamer magazine.

The point and click adventure sequel to 1993's Nippon Safes Inc, The Big Red Adventure, is now freeware through an agreement with the developers.
I have uploaded the MS-DOS version to Web Archive (the Amiga CD version is already available on the site). ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-big-red-adventure-dos/

Early Twitch was kind of rough.

@dosnostalgic nice that I just bought it on Ps4. pff.

The original PC gaming experience from the 80s/90s (src: Facebook)

@dosnostalgic I wonder what happened to that game that some Italian studio was cooking up together with director Ruggero Deodato

@dosnostalgic that's what happened to me. I just did not vibe with it at all unfortunately, as much as everyone (with good tastes) liked it. I almost felt the game was actively pushing my buttons, I don't know for what purpose exactly.