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Millennial PC Gaming Aesthetics

@millennialpcaest.bsky.social

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Celebrating the visuals of the games I grew up on. Not your mum's librarian (but actually possibly your mum's librarian). Ōtautahi.

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Millennial PC Gaming Aesthetics @millennialpcaest.bsky.social · 1d

'Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force' - 2000

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Millennial PC Gaming Aesthetics @millennialpcaest.bsky.social · 4d

Also: P-3 Orion, my beloved. It's nice to see you getting some love...

Millennial PC Gaming Aesthetics @millennialpcaest.bsky.social · 7d

This is 'Silent Hunter 3'

Millennial PC Gaming Aesthetics @millennialpcaest.bsky.social · 7d

I always felt that their previous missile-age sim, 'Cold Waters', frustratingly hinted at complex systems happening above the water, and you never really got to see them as you were stuck with the limited information your submarine had access to. 'Sea Power' feels like a unveiling of those systems.

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Millennial PC Gaming Aesthetics @millennialpcaest.bsky.social · 7d

What that means is that you can dive into it without having to read a 200 page manual like you did with the old
Sonalysts sims from the mid-2000s. It's still punishingly difficult in places, but it feels like that because of you making mistakes rather than battling the controls or camera.

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Millennial PC Gaming Aesthetics @millennialpcaest.bsky.social · 7d

This may have been triggered by me picking up the early access release of 'Sea Power', which I am loving so far. It's a real love letter to ships, and it hits the right balance of complexity in its simulation but with a fairly intuitive interface and good tutorials, something the genre often lacks.

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Millennial PC Gaming Aesthetics @millennialpcaest.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, the basic mechancs are clearly System Shock inspired, although it's actually more of an adventure game than it's surface aesthetics would lead you to believe.

They did begin development on a First Contact game using the same engine (I think), but it never released.