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What is the definitive way to play certain games? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 3 days ago by fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org to c/games@lemmy.world
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To clarify, if I was introducing someone to the Diablo series for the first time and told them they'd have to start on the first one. I wouldn't want them playing the bare vanilla version. There is a Bezelbub mod out there that gives the game lots of QoL improvements, you'd be thinking you're playing a build of Diablo 2 before its final version.

So, if I had to tell anyone what the best way to play that game would be, it is the Bezelbub mod. That was how I've beaten the first game anyways.

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[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 12 points 3 days ago

First off, here's a big list of unofficial ports:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_unofficial_ports

Dhewm 3 for Doom 3. Just updates the game engine to run better on modern hardware since id tech 4 is open source. Mod support sort of, not every mod is compatible. They helpfully list those that do here: https://dhewm3.org/mods.html

The Sims 2 High DPI patch, self explanatory:
https://github.com/lah7/sims2-4k-ui-patch

VCMI - Heroes of Might and Magic 3 open source engine/game extension. Has a built in mod manager, really handy: https://vcmi.eu/

Coming soon / WIP: I'm excited to play this port of the MS-DOS game Albion when it reaches feature parity with the original:

https://github.com/csinkers/ualbion

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 3 days ago

Does VCMI includes the ability to play the original campaigns with everything they had, on whatever language they were installed? It's not clear in their FAQ.

I tried installing the original with HD mod through lutris on a PC I am converting to linux, only to discover HD mod just doesn't support the French version of the game.

Lutris apparently passes down the system language to the installer with no option to change it. I'm sure there is a way to change the install script, but I haven't really looked into it yet.

If there's a way to pass down the French version in VCMI and get about the same improvements HD mod provides, and get all that to run natively, maybe I won't have to.

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's on a seperate page:

https://vcmi.eu/translators/Translations/

Edit: oh I got confused you said OG with HD mod. Well, hopefully you have better luck with VCMI.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago

Well I was trying to run OG with HD, the original game already had a French version (it's the one I've always played, even back in 2000). But I just learned that the HD mod was not directly compatible with it, though there might be workarounds. As is, it crashes as soon as I start a map.

Honestly even though I'd heard of the project before, I had competely forgotten about VCMI, so thank you for reminding me of it (very good timing too). If VCMI let me do what I am trying to do, really there's no point messing with the OG install. I'll try it when I can get back to it.

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