![]() ![]() It's JRPG lineage with turn-based combat. I've been having a great time with Dragon Quest XI S. I'm not a fan of some of the larger world changes (like the removal of sectors), and it also seems to be designed for gamepads first, and is quite awkward to control with a HOTAS setup. I've tried getting into X4 multiple times and bounced off relatively quickly each time. There are also lots of little tweaks and QoL additions available on the Egosoft forums, which is where pretty much all the modding happens. There's also a relatively new and free total conversion mod called X3: Farnham's Legacy available on Steam that I've been sinking some time into, but while it starts out quite a bit more linear than X3 proper, it pretty much assumes you already know what you're doing, so I'd skip that for now. Can just skip straight to Albion Prelude. I've sunk hundreds and hundreds of hours into the various X3 iterations (mostly Reunion and Albion Prelude), and I would still very much recommend those if you're into space sandboxes, fleet and empire building, and like spending time in menus to manage all of that. I'd say it's just about readable at 1440p on a 27" if you're not too far from the display, but it's borderline. Yeah, the UI is fixed-size, there's no way to scale it. If I were you I'd buy the X4 Collector's Edition on a good sale. I fired up an old saved game of X3 TC recently and at 1440p it's teeny tiny. I've played X-tension (a lot of it in 2001, when I was very underemployed and loved it), X2 (some but not a lot), X3 (hardly any) X3 Terran Conflict (way more than X3 or X2-the QoL improvements over X3 were great), a bit of X: Rebirth (which had some cool ideas that made it into X4 but some terrible ideas that they ditched THANK GOD, like that UGLAY ship they stuck you with, the station corridors you had to navigate to find an NPC, and the space tunnel traffic dodging), and now X4, which I'm really liking but thinking of modding to rid myself of some annoyances.Īll that said I personally wouldn't bother with anything but X3 TC and Albion Prelude in terms of the previous games, and with them, play them at 1080p max, because I don't think interface scaling was a thing then. I've never actually played any of the X games - anyone have any thoughts?ĭo the old games hold up? Are the newer games worth putting down some extra cash? Is the series worth getting into? $1 gets you X and X2 $18 gets you X3 and X4 as well. Humble Bundle has an X Universe Collection ( ) My favorite one is the ubi or warner game that somehow had a typo in the save folder path (Not that most gamer types are going to be using roaming profiles, but I build software for a living that does potentially get run in environments where the distinction matters.) Roaming for the save data itself Local for caches, downloaded content, and other transient material that can easily be recreated/redownloaded. And you *definitely* shouldn't be mucking around with the top-level organization of my Documents folder. Nothing should be in Documents that I did not personally place there, via a Save As dialog. Some of those puzzles fairly broke my brain, although he always seemed to figure them out, until there was one that even he couldn't grok (and he's a brilliant kid-going to be 16 this summer). I played quite a few co-op levels with my young nephew over the net a couple of years back. At the very least, if devs must put it in the Windows user folder hierarchy, put it under \Documents\$Publisher\$Game\ Is that so hard?īTW, much to my shame, I have yet to play through the Portal 2 campaign. There's a folder called Saved Games, for fuck sake. And it's totally random about whether they use Local, LocalLow, or Roaming. I find that extremely annoying, but a *lot* of games do that. I strongly agree with you, btw, about not putting game saves anywhere under AppData. I have lost some data along the way, as I didn't always back up my Steam folder, but the only thing I've really lost has been game saves.Īfter getting burned once or twice, I take a full backup of the entire drive. I still have the final backup from my Win7 machine, along with four backups from Win10 installs. Now it's just another thing I have to remember to keep, or set up a script to back up (so that I remember to reconfigure the scheduled task in the future), or just buy the game from somewhere else that'll do cloud save sync. I do too, but I thought I was good to go and dumped the backup. I always back up my user folder completely to the NAS before doing a new OS install.
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