"the developers add that players can "save time" if they use Gold"

Purposely make the game a grind, and then offer players a way to circumvent said grind by paying a ransom. I detest third-person console ports, so I wasn't really interested in the game in the first place, but, as a PC gamer, it pisses me off that this bullshit is on it's way to becoming ubiquitous in PC gaming. Fuck you, Monolith, as well as anybody who's ever paid for skins or XP or loot crates, etc.

Kxmode wrote on Aug 1, 2017, 03:19:
I do not feel like I am flying around in a big ship with weight and inertia. It feels like I am in a free-roaming camera overlayed with some UI and pew-pew lasers.

I kind of noticed that watching the video. Seemed as if everything stopped on a dime and just didn't look like movement should be in a zero-gravity environment, like you were speccing in free mode.

Cutter wrote on Aug 2, 2017, 12:48:
It's not the fucking salary it's the job itself.

Then, three sentences later, complains about the salary (again).

Cutter wrote on Aug 2, 2017, 10:17:
And some people wonder why so many get pissed off with government waste on things like NASA.

"And I wonder why I get pissed off at things I don't have a fucking clue about."

Fixed that for ya.

It's like deja vu all over again. "Some people"? Speak for yourself. These "many people" you speak of are either fictions of your imagination, the collective delusions of whichever echo chambers your ilk infest, or the blatherings of the voices in your Corn Flakes.

And only a denizen of some podunk hovel on Bizarro World would think that $124k starting salary is too much for a job requiring "expert(ise) in planetary protection". Not exactly a 0100-level course at whichever community college you learned to read. You did read the article, didn't you? Do you really think a PPO is being hired to protect us from little green men?

Well, if you wait to hire a Planetary Protection Officer until you need a Planetary Protection Officer, it's probably going to be too late to save our gold and women.

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WingmanDU wrote on Jul 31, 2017, 14:54:
We also like Overload, but for some reason, fans want to start a war between us and them, and there is room enough for all Six Dof games.

My own comments here were based largely on reading the Steam comments, and actually having played the Overload demo. I haven't tried Underground yet, but that BrightLocker shit... I completely lost any interest in getting the demo and trying it for myself. I'm interested in the single-player game, not community interaction or bridging the connection between myself and the developer. I might give it a shot if it's offered on Steam in the future without the hoops, but, quite frankly, I detest developers who design around the premise that potential players are primarily open wallets.

jdreyer wrote on Jul 31, 2017, 14:32:
The Syndicate game is a different beast than Underground since they took the name but made a completely different kind of game.

True. Just the first thing that came to mind when trying to think of another "shitty game with a great name". How about Thief 4, Duke Nukem Forever, and Dragon Age 2?

Rigs wrote on Jul 21, 2017, 06:16:
DOOM on ULTRA all the way and way beyond playable, my jaw was on the floor! I couldn't believe it.

Had a similar experience. I recently went from two 5870s in SLI (surprisingly good with even today's games) to a 1080. The 5870s ran everything I threw at them, but finally choked on Doom, but the 1080... incredible. Too bad the game is so boring. Looked gorgeous, but I just lost interest about what I reckon was a quarter of the way through.

I played the Overload teaser and dug it. I loved original Descent, and Overload definitely has the same feel. From the Steam comments, this seems like another Syndicate... another shitty game riding the name of a respected (beloved?) franchise.

I still love playing the old Doom-engine games. I normally use ZDoom, because Doomsday has issues on my computer displaying video at 144hz, but I reset to 60hz and use Doomsday to play the excellent Ancient Aliens, which ZDoom seems to have problems with.

Alamar wrote on Jul 27, 2017, 10:25:
Pretty sure most of those aspects of 'consolitis' were first seen in PC games... ; )

Since most of those are concessions for console controllers, gotta disagree. They aren't non-existent on PC, but they are most definitely and primarily attributes of console games and their ports. Regardless, a consolitis rant wasn't my intention (believe it or not).

I was commenting on Microsoft's duplicity in their public declaration of devotion to PC gaming. It reeks of horseshit. Guess I went off on a little tangent.

This comment was edited on Jul 29, 2017, 07:36.

It’s all part of a “multi-pronged strategy,” according to director of Xbox marketing Kevin Unangst, to make their Windows 10/Xbox environment the best place to play games on PC.

Director of Xbox marketing... ok. The PC is already the best platform to play games. This sounds more like making the PC (well, Windows 10) a more Xbox-compatible platform for game development, and trying to assuage PC gamers by, yet again, dangling graphics features that do nothing to address the gameplay that makes console gaming so shit (and... it's the gameplay, stupid). Graphics are the first, and usually only, aspect that multi-platform developers champion to camouflage the fact that their console port is an inferior PC game. It's amazing to me, and frustrating, how many PC gamers will fawn over support for higher resolutions that take advantage of their $500 video card, but are just fine with the radial U/I, heavily-nested menus, do-everything "action" buttons, over-the-shoulder or third-person perspective, hide-n-heal, limited keyboard and/or mouse configurability, limited multiplayer compatibility, QTEs, endless, lengthy cutscenes, limited save system, and the convenient existence every ten feet of impenetrable, belly-high barricades, trashcans, crates, planters, abandoned cars, desks, and railings to which humans can attach like refrigerator magnets.

Console shite.

Blue, I marathoned "Ozark" this weekend. It's on Netflix. Loved it. Ten episodes, and with the ratings it's getting, little chance it won't get a second season.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552

EDIT: Ok, just watched 1st ep. of "Downward Dog". Loved the dog parts, but the human parts just seemed like something to get through to get to the clever dog commentary. I'll keep watching though. Martin's part are too good. Regarding Martin's perspective of how dogs and humans came together... I've always had the view that our ability to befriend and/or domesticate animals is greatly aided by having fingers that can deliver unique ear-scratching and belly-rubbing experiences. Imagine the first time a befriended wolf trusts you enough to allow you to pet it or rub it's belly... for the first time ever. Their wolf brain must freak out! "Ok, where has THIS been all my life?!"

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Couldn't watch this idiot. Why do all these YouTube 'stars" think they have to fucking yell everything?

Will this patch finally let me play on DWANGO?

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Jul 13, 2017, 11:57:
I think the previous post about this a week ago mentioned it has classic mode which is 2d, but upped the resolution and the same levels as the original.

I believe classic mode is the Apple II version, or one of the other earlier releases (C-64?). LR:TLR was released for PC about 10 years later by Sierra. You can compare all the different versions here (more or less).

I'd much rather see "Lode Runner: The Legend Returns" updated for modern computers. Don't make it 3D or anything. Just up the resolution and make it run on a modern PC. That would definitely push my nostalgia auto-buy button.

I still use Winamp with MMD3 skin. Haven't found a reason to use anything else.

Microtransactions... cross another game off the list.