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Are planes still as broken as they were a couple of years ago, or have they balanced them out a little? Planes were more or less an infinite money cheat since they're far too profitable. Lots of servers used to disable planes because of it.

I used to play an awesome combo of newGRFs, but now I can't remember what they were called. One replaced the trains and rail cars with real historical models, either american or british. I think they were a bit slower than vanilla trains, but could pull a lot more wagons. And they looked great too, especially the steam locomotives. Another changed the value chain a lot. It added some new cargos, mines and oilfields had a maximum total production, and factories would only accept a certain amount of raw materials every month. I think it changed the look of a lot of buildings too.

Can the topic creator put this in the first post, please?

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How to stop the goddamn Doom-Fan as Shaman

Move as necessary to not die if it's a moving-floor level, spawn large board with yellow C-joint on the end of it, pressing spacebar to make it transparent, welded to the center of the fan

Much more fun to attach a large plank to the end of one of the fan spokes with a blue joint. Cleans out the map in no time at all.

Regarding good games, I just noticed the Monkey Island 2 remake was released today.

Needs more rocket packs and pulse rifles.

Seriously though, looks very interesting. Will try once I get home from work.

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On the other hand, I'm not really a fan of the whole "shinier is better" route that games are taking nowadays, but that's because the laptop I use for games is pretty shitty. So, you know, selfish reasons.

Is that the only reason? I have a low specs computer as well, but am not very happy with most modern games (when I have played them elsewere) because they favor eyecandy over everything else. Granted, not every single one of them, and granted, this has always been a problem, to some extent (not as much as nowadays, methinks). But as far as I am concerned the phase of buying things basing myself exclusively on the "OOH SHINY" department is long past.

If it's any consolation, this Nintendo bigwig agrees with you.

My belief is we should not blame the bad economy for the cause of slow sales of video games. The slow sales must be due to the lack of great software that everyone wants to buy. [...] I think the whole industry should be more cautious about how we act and how the general public perceives us. In the past, the formula was to make the computer graphics more gorgeous. It used to fit the taste of the majority of the gaming audience, but it doesn’t work so well in this day and age. It’s more difficult for us to come up with something new and different and show people how different we are. The whole industry has to recognize that.

Yeah, the servers are about as flaky as the gameplay and the players.

Final day of offers, looks like they put some of the earlier one-day offers back on for a second go just to wring out the last few pennies from us. I cracked and got thief 3. Maybe it's time to get a L4D game too.

Grim Fandango, if you can find it.

If you want first-person puzzle games like Myst your choices are a bit limited though. I mostly remember the old ones, so if you don't mind horribly dated graphics and sometimes quirky interface you could look at:
The B.A.T. series
Gateway series
KGB
The first Dune game, to some extent
Rise of the Dragon, and its sequel, Heart of China