I'd prefer not to jeopardise my marriage any further than already accomplished by my Civ3-addiction, so (somebody else's idea of) erotic videogames are not ever going to be a part of my life (and especially not if they come *hur-hur* from Steam...
)
So I'll just stick with what I've got, thanks very much. On which subject...
After my GOG-download of Star Wars: X-Wing (inexplicably?) stopped working on my Win8.1 box a year or so back (I could get as far as the mission briefings, but it CTD'd as soon as I tried to begin the mission), I started playing TIE-Fighter instead, because it was unaffected by whatever had disabled SW:XW. But I hit a wall on that campaign a couple of months back, so I'd had an increasing hankering to go back to X-Wing — and now, following extensive Google-fu, and trawling the GOG message boards, I have finally got it working again!
(The solution was so simple: [possibly as a result of a Windows-update] 3D acceleration must [now] be disabled
).
Only to (re)discover that in the Win8.1 installation, my active pilot had only got as far as Tour 1 Mission 8 (flying a lone Y-wing; identify, disable and then defend 2 prisoner-transport shuttles). On the CD-version installed on my laptop (before the CD-drive died), I'd had serious difficulty with this mission, eventually requiring
at least 20 attempts (over the course of multiple weeks) before I completed it. I didn't fancy going through all that again, so I re-located my old pilot-saves and copied them across to the new installation — which means I'm now facing the late-stage Tour 3 missions (Death Star assault) instead
But TIE-Fighter has spoiled me: I would appear to have forgotten how to fly these slow, clumsy, poorly designed Rebellion ships
Although I've been able to skip the obligation to re-do T1:M8, I thought I'd try refreshing my skillz with X-Wing Historical Mission 5 (rescue the Mon Calamarian slaves), but right now I'm having trouble even with that.
(I got thiiiis –>||<– close to finishing it yesterday, by flying completely unshielded for extra speed — but then got toasted by my so-called wingman!
)
So I fear I won't be completing
this game any time soon, either...