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Are videogames for children?

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Thinking about buying Rogue Trader but a little iffy on how well the game will run. I meet the system requirements but have heard complaints about it being a bit bloated and choppy. Wrath of the Righteous runs fine on my computer and people say Rogue Trader is really only a slightly upgraded version of that engine. Anyone have issues running it?
 
I didn't have super-high expectations when I downloaded the demo to The Good Life since I heard how flawed it was, but MAN. The demo version wouldn't load at all on my old Windows 7 computer even though it said it would, then on my current one has the "loading" screen when starting a new game then just hangs, even four minutes later.

I've been familiar with demo versions of games for as long as I can remember, but all of them gave me a fair shot at whether "yeah, this sucks" and "I want the full version NOW", with several variations in between.

Guess I should've been worried with the Limited Run Games logo in the title screen given the recent drama.
 
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>The year is 2046
>Square-Enix-Namco-Bandai-Sony has just released yet another remaster of Tactics Ogre
>It now has an install footprint of 38 exabytes and requires so much processing power that no known hardware can run it
>It's still just the same fucking Super Nintendo game with a pixel filter and is still embarrassingly unbalanced

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Look at this shit and realize that it regularly hitches and drops frames when you pan the camera. Everybody craps on EA and Ubisoft and Activision, but Square is indisputably the laziest publisher in the industry.
 
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Oh look, more news at 11
>Sony destroys the Helldivers 2 golden goose, by forcing people to get a PSN account
>Tekken 8 gets massive backlash over $30+ DLC/Season Pass
>Kerbal Space Program 2 devs are laid off after Take-Two shuts the studio down
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
>The year is 2046
>Square-Enix-Namco-Bandai-Sony has just released yet another remaster of Tactics Ogre
>It now has an install footprint of 38 exabytes and requires so much processing power that no known hardware can run it
>It's still just the same fucking Super Nintendo game with a pixel filter and is still embarrassingly unbalanced

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Look at this shit and realize that it regularly hitches and drops frames when you pan the camera. Everybody craps on EA and Ubisoft and Activision, but Square is indisputably the laziest publisher in the industry.
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I just downloaded the Front Mission 1 & 2 remakes and you're not helping me get excited to play them.
 
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Got a new game recently called Abiotic Factor, very good game. It is a Half-Life 1 knock off with two key differences

A: It is a survival base building game.
B: There are two types of disgusting aliens, the normal ones from knock of xen and the Australian coworkers.

I currently live in a fort consisting of office chairs surviving off vending machines and feeding a definitely human wage slave who comes to my fort every night begging for food to feed his 'larva' in exchange for staplers. It's in early access but I haven't encountered any bugs or performance issues yet, art style is very nice, gameplay is fun, its on sale for $20 and supports up to 6 player co-op.

Also, theres a lot of cool little details like drinking a slushy will give you a brain freeze and you can roll around on the office chairs.

Steam
 
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There used to be a website that got eBay listings and permanently re-posted them for posterity (kind of like WorthPoint but for entertainment purposes), and there was all sorts of rare and interesting stuff, like complete Infocom boxes with untouched "feelies" and manuals.

One of them was a special edition version of a Japanese game (it was for either PlayStation or Saturn) but it stuck out in my memory because it had some of the tights and gloves that the booth babes wore as part of the special edition. I wish I could remember what it was, though.
 
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Was part of a costume, with them dressed as the games character, or was it just some generic booth babe garb?
 
Ibanez RG 350EX said:
>The year is 2046
>Square-Enix-Namco-Bandai-Sony has just released yet another remaster of Tactics Ogre
>It now has an install footprint of 38 exabytes and requires so much processing power that no known hardware can run it
>It's still just the same fucking Super Nintendo game with a pixel filter and is still embarrassingly unbalanced

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Look at this shit and realize that it regularly hitches and drops frames when you pan the camera. Everybody craps on EA and Ubisoft and Activision, but Square is indisputably the laziest publisher in the industry.
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What are you playing on? I haven't had any issues on PC.
 
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What are you playing on? I haven't had any issues on PC.
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Just some plain-jane Thinkpad. It's no gaming laptop, but my God, this is a tarted-up SNES game. Or even being charitable, an upscaled PSP game. It ought to run flawlessly on anything.

When this game launched, it required an AVX-compatible processor. It's a lazy hack-job port that was farmed out to the lowest bidder.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Interesting. Though I imagine it's just a generic set of tights and gloves?
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I FOUND IT!!!

Enemy Zero for Sega Saturn. It was on the archived version of GameSniped.com (which still exists but somehow purged its most of its older content).


Twenty copies of a limited edition Saturn version were produced and sold for a price roughly equal to 2,000 US dollars. These special copies were hand-delivered to recipients by Kenji Eno himself.

Not only were they hand delivered, but they came in a big ass crate which showed up at the buyers door on a flatbed truck. Seriously.

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The contents included:

- copy of the “regular” Enemy Zero special edition
- A full set (leather outfit w/gloves, hat, tights, EO-logo badge and earrings) of the outfit worn by the companion girls at WARP’s 1996 Tokyo Game Show booth, designed by Yasushi Nirasawa
- A towel embroidered with the EO logo
- A model of an “enemy” corpse, complete with bodily liquid
- A metallic bookmark
- A flyer and ticket to an Enemy Zero art exhibit held in 1996
- A set of press releases for Enemy Zero (back when these were faxed around instead of emailed)
- VHS video of Enemy Zero music clips
- A large 3D lenticular sheet
- A set of stickers
- An Enemy Zero T-shirt
- A replica of the gun Laura uses in the game, again designed by Nirasawa
- Actual design documents used in developing the game
- Floppy disks, envelopes, and paper bags with the WARP logo
- A Sega Saturn-stamped CD-R (contents unknown)

Number eight, appeared on Yahoo! Auctions in Japan back in November 2009 and eventually sold for ¥300,000 ($3,396).
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Anyone tried Animal Well the flagship game of bigmode (dunkey's publishing company)? It came out today. I just pirated it, it's tiny 34MB.

It's good, is it 23€ good? I don't know. My only complaint is, it does not look good on a big display. Pretty fun so far otherwise.
 
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