Astaroth

@Astaroth@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats your favorite Main Menu music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Eclipse Vanguard 💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What were your top favorite video games as a kid?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Warcraft 3, Age Series (AoE, AoE2, AoM, AoE3), Need For Speed Most Wanted (2005)

  I played the first age of empires when I was 6 or 7 y/o and I’ve played all of the games besides AoE4 (including Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds).

  As a kid we had few crappy dell computers connected to just a hub (LAN without internet) and would play a lot of Age of Empires 2 and C&C Red Alert 1 & 2 multiplayer.

  Age of Empires and Red Alert were also games I would frequently play at LAN parties (although everyone was really bad)

   

  I played a bit of online AoE2 when AoE2 HD came out on steam but it was pretty bad so I stopped playing it. When DE came out I started watching AoE2 content but I’ll never play it because I’ve come to greatly dislike Microsoft over the years.

   

  I’ve replayed Need for Speed Most Wanted (and also Carbon) tens of times over the years, and I still play it every now and then (with mods now)

   

  The game I’ve played the most is probably Warcraft 3, I’ve played a ton of custom games on Battle.net (RIP) and it’s what got me a bit into programming since I liked making custom maps and making triggers eventually led me to learn JASS (Just Another Scripting Language)

  If Blizzard didn’t completely ruin Warcraft 3 with WC3 Reforged I’d probably still be playing it and making custom maps every so often.

  I have played a bit on private servers but it’s just not the same anymore.

   

  There’s a pretty cool Warcraft 3 open source project called Warsmash though so maybe one day I’ll start playing again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Already saw this a year or two ago, it’s a great watch and would highly recommend anyone who hasn’t seen it yet does watch it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How you worded this makes it seem like “if those games didn’t” refers to requiring subscriptions.

  I would suggest editing it to “If those games didn’t appeal to kids” or similar; if what you meant was that kids just plays what appeals to them, and those games “just happens” to be subscription games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Not the Skywalker Saga)

  Clone Wars is also really good, plus it has a lot better split screen which is great for 2p coop playing with your kid/nephew/niece or just being able to have 2 children play together instead of fighting over who gets to play and who has to wait for their turn that never comes