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One mystical day will get a Black & White remake
Dude FS2004 unlocks so many memories for me
I had Flight Simulator! Crashed so many planes. Happy days.
I don’t think I ever got passed the training in black and white but I liked the game.
One of these is not like the others.
Most of these are my wife’s. Flight Simulator and Black and White are mine, the rest are hers.
Your office? What do you do or what did the person that had your office before do?
That was me. I just have too much crammed in my cabinets that I never open because they are a massive mess. I have the week off work, so I thought I’d make my office a place I’d enjoy to be in. These games were mixed in with some DVDs, a couple of VHS tapes, and CDs of wedding photos.
I’m jealous, I’ve never had a job that gave me the luxury of making my office a place I enjoy being.
Black and white is on my “please god make a VR port” list.
Omg, beating the crap out of your creature would be so awful lol.
Same here but after prototyping, the issue is that the game would require you to face down which is a very good position in XR.
Wow that’d be awesome. Played sitting at a table. Oof good times.
What’s the game like?
Its like a blend of Populus and Creatures.
Youre a god and have to look after your villagers (or torture them into submission/worship) and keep them safe from a rival god, the more villagers you have the more belief (mana) you get, and you’ve got a giant creature as a pet that learns from you to help.
I got annoyed with a quest and threw the quest-giver-villagers into the sea. My pet saw me do that and decided thats what we should do. He went back and forth from the village throwing every villager into the sea one by one and completely destroyed my run.
10/10 experience.
I always wanted to play Spore, but I never have.
It was actually a pretty fun game, and if I recall correctly, eventually free. You might actually be able to find it online somewhere.
Although I’m not entirely sure if you wanna call it a game, per se… It was more like an evolution engine wherewith you got to experiment with different traits combinations, and eventually end up with an evolved creature of sorts. Interesting and amusing.
It seemed like something one might find in a fifth grade biology class as a teaching tool. But fun!
It was supposed to be an evolution engine. That’s how they developed it and how the tech demos and marketing pushed it.
But then it ended up being simplified and gamified so much that it basically didn’t matter what you did, so the only fun part was making your creatures look like penises.
LMAO— ok, true…
But I actually bought the game (yes, once upon a time people used money and exchanged it for software) and the original version was just the evolution engine. There was actually some controversy at the time that the game didn’t actually contain any “game“. Eventually, further updates turned it into the “penis creation engine“ you described.
But who doesn’t love a lovely, well designed penis?
It really was a shame that they never turned it into a “best designed penis competition” game. I believe I would’ve been very good at that.
The game was hobbled in development. I remember reading the early development stories and stuff as it was being made and they wanted to make a serious evolution sim. EA basically forced them to make it a light hearted kiddie game and so it pretty much died on release.
I mean it was extremely popular, got a sequel, and remains one of the top pirated games to this day
There is no spore sequel?
Darkspore is the sequel
I was there, I bought it too. At release it was already dumbed down so much that it did not live up to the expectations from the tech demos.
Thrive is very much a spiritual successor to those tech demos.
Yeah, it sounded so cool, but reading reviews they always make it sound like it wasn’t much fun and didn’t live up to it’s potential.
It’s definitely worth at least one playthrough. You’ll likely do a few replays.
Easy, casual, like a linear sandbox for lack of better terms.
It wasn’t and it didn’t. Cool concept, primitive execution.
It absolutely did not live up to its potential. It could’ve been a lot more, and that was very clear every time you played the game. But what could it have been? Even the game creators didn’t really know in what direction to take it. They created something very interesting, but had no real path to develop it into an actual game. It was just an interesting novelty, and that’s what they released. An interesting novelty.
Still, though, it was fun to play with.
It really reminds me of no man’s sky
You can buy at gog : https://www.gog.com/en/game/spore_collection
Have a look at Thrive, it’s still in development but the first couple of stages are playable.
I really like that the project is FLOSS and made in godot: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive
I did recently, got nightmares from it.
FS2004 was great. More simulators need to take notes on the training materials they use in it, I can probably fly a real plane at this point.
Make a copy of those Black and White discs. You can’t get that game anywhere anymore.
Hopefully I find my USB CD drive and I can get it up on the Internet Archive
I meant purchase, but always good to have backups on the archive! It may already be there.
Most of the PC cds are already archived. However the mac version, except for the platinum version, is very hard to find. https://www.myabandonware.com/search/q/black & white
Sims medieval is such a banger.
The 3 classic harry potter games in one CD? Daaaaamn, what a steal.
It’s actually 3 CDs. I never actually played the Harry Potter games. I didn’t read the books until 2015. They are my wife’s from before we met.
I see no game
I adored the Sims Medieval. And Spore. But medieval was fun with the adventures and making a little medieval town and such.
Man, I always loved the Harry Potter games on PC. Exploring the castle with early 2000s graphics and sound was such a vibe. Of course, this was before Rowling’s whole… everything.
Yeah I loved the Legend of Zelda feel to the old games. The platforming was wonky as a result of not having a jump button but everything else hit so well.
I mean, the racism and bigotry was always in the books, her money has just more open about her hate for specific groups.
In hindsight yes, but at the time I was probably around 8, so it didn’t register back then.
It’s fucking blatant, too. White British people in the nineties/early two thousands might well have had a blind spot (not an excuse) and not realized that “Cho Chang” was as fucked up a name as it was, but I simply cannot believe that nobody noticed the only explicitly Irish character was constantly sneaking whisky and making explosions.
I remember seeing this commercial in the UK in the mid 00s.
Yeah me too! Especially the second game was my favorite as a kid! Did you know that the soundtrack was made by the same dude who made the Skyrim Soundtrack later?
I was surprised to not see The Sims: Making Magic when I saw that. Figured it would have been up their alley
