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X-COM꞉ UFO Defense image

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(XCOM > on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/XCOM_UFO_Defense/
was on microprose.com
was on mythosgames.com

Aliens drop by Earth and evil Humans shoot them down and mug them.

Nothing about the interface makes enough sense, and there are no hints as to how things work. It could have been made much better, even back in the day. I'm not going to forgive how bad it is, especially since there was zero effort by Steam to actually fix basic things like aspect ratio.

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Turtle Wow--turtlewow_logo_full

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https://turtle-wow.org/

A classic/vanilla World of Warcraft server with additional modifications.

While it looks like it has hope, it fails because there are no quest markers on the minimap, so I don't know where to find quests. I don't want to re-live that part of things.

  • Abandoned - Nuked by Blizzard



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Ascention logo

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World of Warcraft >

https://ascension.gg/

A heavily-modified World of Warcraft which removes the concept of classes, allowing the player to pick-and-choose abilities to create their own unique character. Another server has a random selection+choice concept which is very fun.

Has various challenge modes and the ability to rework a character back to level one for a reward.

While lacking some bits and pieces of convenience, it's really quite good. Has some expensive pay-to-win. It's ultimately not good because it has bonus experience available to all the players so there's no actual authentic world, it's just a bunch of overpowered characters smashing through everything; fail. Or play it single-player if you'd like..



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Fictorum - (2017 game) image

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/503620/Fictorum/
https://www.gog.com/game/fictorum
https://fictorum.com/

Be a wizard that runs around casting spells.

Really hard to play, but because its gameplay is bad. A new game, but it looks and feels like a PlayStation 2 game. Get it if it's on sale for a laugh, otherwise don't bother with this one.



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World of Warcraft Classic logo

World of Warcraft >
Entertainment > Games >
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/World_of_Warcraft:_Classic [ 1 ] was https://wow.gamepedia.com/World_of_Warcraft:_Classic
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/wowclassic

World of Warcraft 1 (Vanilla) revisited.

no notes were taken

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geneshift image

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/308600/
https://geneshift.net/

A top-down shooter with superpowers.

An awkward and unforgiving game that's zoomed in too far to be fun.

  • 2020-06-30 -- The forum seems to have been dead since 2017-08 or later.

    • No announcement was archived, and no replacement was found on a cursory look.



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