It matters because you can get used games for sometimes a tenth of the price they charge on the digital store.

It’s so hard to complete your Pokedex these days

The sequel Fade to Black was too clunky to enjoy. I never played the remake but I hear the remake is getting a sequel, so I might pick it up.

My favourite was Flashback. Kind of the spiritual sequel to Another World. I had the SNES version. I think it’s my all time favourite video game.

It wasn’t the tank controls per se. It was the tile based actions. Tomb Raider was basically a 3D Prince of Persia game. If you’re running and you press the jump button, the character would jump the next time to got to the edge of the current tile. It was a very deliberate and measured way to plan your moves.

They did that with Tomb Raider, but ironically the obtuse controls were pivotal to the game design.

Patents don’t protect art

Edit: ok, apparently “prior art” might be a phase in US patent law. I don’t quite understand what it means. In my country patents protect functions, not expressions of ideas (art)

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?

I love the Commandos series. Looking forward to this one.

I hoped the Stargate commandos clone would help scratch the itch, but it wasn’t very good

Do you have any tips for writing professional documentation? I want to do some for my workplace but it’s hard to know where to start, how to arrange it, etc

Metal Gear Solid and “clear rules” are not synonymous.

MGS is the game where you cure the effects of poison by spinning your character in the menu screen until they throw up, plug your controller into the second port to prevent mind control, and take a week long break from the game to kill a character via old age.

I remember getting a 2 GB hard drive and thinking I’ll never be able to fill it up. Now I have video files more then 10 times that size

I think there actually is a rights issue. Sphere Hunter on YouTube has some good videos on the series

Paprika. I haven’t used anything else aside from having a folder of word documents.

Paprika allows you to copy/paste the URL of a recipe and it will download only the recipe. No more scrolling through a blog and a dozen ads looking for what you want. You can then create categories and tag recipes for any combination of categories.

It also has extra functions like meal planners, pantry inventory, and shopping list generators based on the meal plan and pantry, but I don’t use those.

It syncs between devices. The only real downside is you must purchase per platform type. If you bought the windows licence and you want it on your phone you must separately purchase the Android licence.

They don’t need to release it as open source. They could just do what games used to do, have a server executable so people can host their own sessions.

That’s a shame. I was keen on cp77 ever since its teaser trailer, but the troubles at launch made me wait. I still haven’t played it because it still doesn’t seem like a stable project.

I think what I really want is another good Deus Ex.

Most of the bad guys in Resident Evil 5 were black because of the relevancy to the setting, and people were similarly kicking up.

Is getting up in arms about one of those any different to the other?

(And just to be clear, I’m not taking about the tribal depictions, I’m referring to the reaction to the early trailers)

How does your music server work?

This thing has been delayed on and off for the last few years.

Whatever is going on with this game, it’s not a good sign. There was a fan made game called Stargate Network that flew under the radar for a long long time. Once this game, Timekeepers, started MGM shut them down. Stargate Network was praised by fans, and even by actors from the show, as an accurate recreation of what we saw on the TV show.

So far feedback of the demo has been poor. Stargate seems to be cursed in the video game space.

The Cyberpunk 2077 hype got me excited because I love the Deus Ex games. I was ready to mainline that technological dystopian future.

After hearing about the terrible reception, I decided it was just time to play Human Revolution again.