Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-5641163-20150522174501/@comment-5641163-20150523174453

Hi Vorknkx, thanks for the welcome. Rest assured, I'll be here for a while yet, I've still got DoE, Malice, Shrak, GZ, The Reckoning and Q4 to replay next once I finish Q2 and SoA, so this Wiki will be an essential companion!

I'm playing the somewhat controversial 1998 Tie Fighter Special Edition, the one that requires a joystick of all things, but runs in relatively high-res and has speech throughout. Turns out I actually have a USB joystick (I bought it to play the very same game some 10 years ago), though it does take a while to get used to!

Descent (and D2) is a big favourite of mine, my IT support clients often ask how I can type so fast, Descent is the answer, the game that taught me to touch-type. That and Doom 2 deathmatch before mice were even a thing.

I recently finished Hexen for the first time. I used to play it loads when it first came out, but I never got beyond the second or third episode, as the puzzles were just too obscure and confusing, and we had no internet to look stuff up. Earlier this year I sat down and played it "properly" (using GZDoom), taking my time and exploring all the levels, trying to understand the puzzles and themes, and I finally completed it (after only 20 years!). Turns out the puzzles aren't obscure, it just has some of the cleverest and most intricate level design of any game before or since, and I was too stupid at the time to understand it! ;-) Did have to look stuff up online though, some of the level-spanning secrets are downright evil.

I've still got the Hexen expansion to finish, and I might tackle Heretic 2 at some point, which I've never actually played!

Good luck with your new Wiki, I'll add it to my list of essentials!