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Source: https://www.talkesport.com/news/gaming/miniclip-has-officially-shut-down-its-servers-except-for-8-ball-pool-and-agario/ I thought at first Miniclip as a whole was basically going away barring 8 Ball Pool and Agario, but it turns out they've shut down the servers for their web-based games and are shifting focus entirely to their mobile gaming ventures, which have been successful for them as the death of Flash gradually killed off what I expect a lot of people grew up with. Did anyone here ever use Miniclip at any point? If so, what memories or stories do you have to tell from it? I adored this place back when Flash games were all the rage. My school would even unblock the website on Sponsor Day for us to play games on there if that was one of the activities we chose to do for that day, and it was always one of the most popular choices for that day. I'm trying to find a list of all the games they had that were exclusive to them so I can see what ones I played a lot of, but haven't had any luck yet. I hope the games they had were at least preserved by one of those Flash game preservation groups that are out there. I understand that hosting all that stuff is costing more money than it brings in but it would at least be nice to have the ability to play some of the games offline.

Congrats man, time sure does fly.

For most part BioShock was fun the plot twists and the storyline are good as well. I didn't even realize until later in the game that jack was just a pawn under Fontaine’s hypnotic control and then he was later brainwashed into killing Ryan.

That's interesting, so you wouldn't play videogames like age of empires or even any of the assassin's Creed games where representation of the medieval period are in display.

Congrats on the game. I wouldn't say it's my type of game, but it's something I can see my mom getting into. She usually plays cooking games, but I can see her getting into this too.

The very first family computer we had was in 1995. Was pretty mind-blowing at the time, but it only had a 100MHz processor, and it wasn't even connected to the internet! However, the first computer I owned was a Toshiba laptop that I got in 2009. I actually acquired it through a university grant... wasn't the best computer (and it was particularly lacking in hard drive space, with only 65GB), but other than that, it did the job 🙂 .

I can't say I've actually heard of this person to begin with, but it sucks that they are stopping their coverage on video games. Is it because people weren't tuning into his gaming content and so he decided to just scrap it? I figure it being financially viable was the key thing. If it wasn't providing any value, I can understand dropping it.

I actually desperately want to say you're both wrong , but unfortunately I have to agree. The key to a strategy game, what literally makes a strategy game, is that it should take literally no skill to play. It may be cool that you can juggle chess pieces, but it won't make you better at chess. What true strategy game needs is an interface that's there to allow the player to oversee and situation with a vast verity of control options right there to implement thier idea's in a timely enough manner to execute them, it's no about skill and timing from a smaller scale perspective like what gamepads have been developed to do well. On console, the interface just isn't designed for this sort of thing, not like on PC whare the interface itself was designed to be a utility to begin with. Games like AoE were made to get the best out of that utility style interface, and why not? Console gamers have every right to enjoy these kinds of games if the want to, so I'm long way from objecting to them being made available to console gamers, but that doesn't change the fact that this is not a straightforward thing to port over and I highly doubt that even with the best effort the Xbox version will not be as easy to play as the PC version.

Unless they make a mouse/keyboard setup of the games, releasing them on console is not a good idea. It will flop I guarantee, simply due to gamers not being able to to control the game the way they think they would. Personally, I'm sticking to a 20 year old computer for AOE.