If I’m being honest with you, I really didn’t like it. Right after this I did get WC3 and I never looked back.

If you’d like other classic early 00s games might I recommend Empire Earth or Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds

Now I have to ask , was it in 2004 ? Was anything else on Steam when you bought it? I remember how mad everyone was that the disc in store just provided a steam installer

Game: Dark Planet: Battle For Natrolis Publisher: Ubi Soft Developer: Creative Edge Software Platform: Windows Release: 2002

This was the first unsolved !!! Thanks for everyone who participated!!

Tribal lizard people !

It actually predates ROC by a few months hahaha

The idea for the challenge is to just guess . If you can’t remember I’d consider it “against the rules” I will allow you typing in a game name you think it is and seeing the screenshots look similar.

It’s just to easy and ruins the fun for someone to pass an image to Google search or AI and they find it for you …

I’m thinking these communities need to add a rule no sharing Vibecoded projects …

Project Highrise or the direct sequel to this Yoot Tower. But PH is far easier to run

SimTower Publisher: Maxis Developer:OpenBook Release: 1994 Platform: Windows PC

Winner: BrunoMLopes

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I am curious the case now. I am always paranoid about this and haven’t bought a 3 fan for this reason

It’s not that customers are stupid it’s that customers are ultimately at times powerless. Certain things are forced upon by monopolistic tendencies. I believe full well there are still millions of PC players who would love to have boxed disc releases. But no stores in major markets carry any. No major publisher produces them. It was just agreed upon across industry to cut it off. Now look, you want to play on PC it has to be digital.

And I know people are going to say “but but but it’s about digital rights not discs “ and there is some truth to that. Until every major company agrees to do the same horrible thing. And you have no competition to go to. You either deal with it or stop buying into the hobby all together.

And maybe if we all stoped buying new games … but we all know how unlikely any of that is to happen.

Not every company got that option. And over 3,000 people still lost their jobs …

For me I’ll only build a machine to game with. I’m not into video editing and I don’t run any home servers. For anything else I’d just happily keep using m2 Mac Mini.

Benchmarks only get so much value for me. It scored 2490 Thorbles you say? Oh that’s wonderful ! What’s a Thorble ??

For me it’s more helpful with human experience. How does it work daily ? How is it with games stability wise ? Brands matter little bit as the setup between them can be different.

In the past historically I’ve been let down by AMD processors so I for personal reasons shy away.

I’m hoping to spend under 2500 dollars if I can help it. Reusing components where I can.

I mean technically there is nothing wrong with my existing machine. It works great just staring to fall behind. Would need a new motherboard no matter what I did so I minus well price this out / consider this a near new build.

Mate this wonderful!

This is what I needed. I was wondering my current rig has 32 gb of ddr4 (two sticks of 16) higher speed.

Was wondering maybe it’s worth it to salvage that and try to save some costs as well.

Just wondering with the price I’m paying to upgrade is it worth whatever bottleneck that presents ?

I was looking at 13 - 14 gen but I remember the issues when they first launched. I wasn’t sure they were resolved.

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H.E.D.Z Publisher: Hasbro Interactive Developer: VIS interactive Platform: Windows Release: 1998

Winner: ratel

Boycott Xbox

While this is something I’d love to see I have a hard time fathoming how they could do this to any level of scale. They would have to pick a few games and probably a language or two.

I think GOG would be best suited to just offer cover art as a download and maybe build tools right into GOG galaxy to let you burn games to DVR.

But I do love GOG if I can I always buy through there store front. Sadly it’s rarer then I’d like