Bayonetta. Beat the first level last night; this game is ridiculous in the best possible way. I’ve had it on Steam for a while, but never played it. I recently cobbled together a 2010-ish PC out of parts from various family members’ old computers, and installed Linux on it, so now I’m wanting to see which xbox360/ps3 era games it can play. Bayonetta runs perfectly fine.

Whoa, this is cool. I’ve never had any idea how SHA works.

Nice. I had borrowed a friend’s physical copy of Crysis, and that’s how I played it back in the day.

Yeah, I had forgotten how slow an optical drive was, and how that was usually the limiting factor. I installed Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear from the original CD a couple days ago, and it took about 20 minutes to install on my current PC. I’m pretty sure that’s about how long it took in 1999, too.

Downloading it from Steam takes about 10 seconds.

Very cool. I’ve never backed mine up; I should do that. What game was it last week?

Piracy hysteria was at an absolute fever pitch in 2007 – those online activations are what make me think that much of my physical collection won’t be playable anymore.

Oblivion was also one that I owned physically. I just assumed that I had also acquired it on Steam by now, but it looks like I haven’t. Also great memories with Oblivion. I think it’s still my 4th or 5th most-played game. (I have to guess, based on remembering the number of hours that Xfire said I had back in the day, which is a whole nother nostalgia trip right there, lol.)

Nice. I haven’t tried OpenMW yet, but I definitely want to. Are you running a bunch of mods with it?

Oh dang, that is a good idea.

I’d say that absolutely counts!

I’ve been wanting to do this, too, for games that I bought on Steam. Like, make a bootable Linux DVD that has Steam and the game preinstalled on it, with Steam already logged in as my account.

The most recent ones I’ve bought were only a Steam key in the box, and the DVD simply had a Steam installer on it. Nice that some have both, I haven’t actually seen one of those.

I should still have that somewhere as well. That was one I didn’t find, but it should be around.

Do you need a battle.net account to play Diablo 2, or can you just install and play offline if you only want to play singleplayer? I haven’t been able to find a clear answer about this, since everyone talking about it these days is talking about the download-only version.

Sweet! Lutris is amazing, I tried it for the first time a couple days ago. One of my physical games is Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, which would not run on my Windows 10 PC, but runs just fine on my Linux PC through Lutris.

Nice. I was recently browsing this used bookstore near me, and C&C: Generals was sitting on the shelf in the music CD section, so I bought it. That was what got me thinking about my existing physical game collection.

Yeah, they definitely aren’t seen as a necessity anymore.

However, the Silverstone FLP01 was mentioned in another community around here and I was so tempted to get one. At $150, it’s not exactly inexpensive, and I already have a perfectly good case (Fractal Design Core 500), but man I want one. The “floppy disk drives” are doors that flip down: the top one reveals an optical drive, and the bottom one reveals the USB ports.

I almost went that route, but kept moving my disc drive from one PC to the next just for Morrowind. I didn’t have room for it in my latest build, though (I put in a tower cooler for the first time), so I bought an external DVD drive.

So, how far can you throw those DVDs?

Yeah, I love that. I figure this is because a site like that one is “a bunch of files in a folder on a server somewhere, including the videos,” whereas nowadays the videos would be on a separate CDN or media host, which is why those tend to break separately.

Oh wow, that whole site is a gem, I hadn’t heard of it before. I’m planning on playing a couple of games that have shrines on there, too. I’ll definitely use those as a reference before checking some fandom.com site.

Haha, that’s not dumb at all. :) Really, Lemmy’s UI does not make it obvious that a post is a link. Sometimes the title is just the title, and sometimes it’s a link to the thing that was actually being posted. Others, like Piefed, make it more obvious.