I love GDQ but for the last several years I’ve only been able to go back and watch the VODs, because I always forget when it’s happening.

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Quoting: CatKillerThat's pretty aggressive.

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Yeah, $213aud, discounted from $300…

They’re trying to beat out Paradox here.

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I liked Before The Storm. I didn’t like LiS1 though, I got bored really quickly with it.

I didn’t play LiS2, but I watched my partner play it. It was good. I liked the two brothers.

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I thought Shadow of Chernobyl was awesome. Very memorable game even though I didn’t finish it.

I didn’t really like the Metro games, but I read Metro 2033 first and in my experience when you love a book no adaptations live up to what you expect.

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Quoting: PenglingI find this really interesting, thanks for posting it. :smile:

Reason being, Contra became Probotector (and sometimes Gryzor) in PAL territories because of strict media censorship in Germany, and it's not often that something resulting from that gets considered superior. (I followed the import scene a lot as a youngster, so I always knew about the existence of both "branches".)

It’s a bit worn out as I wear this almost daily under my corporate attire.
https://ibb.co/wCt4VPC [External Link]

And yes, my confusion in the 90s I found out all about the censorship issue.
There was an unlock Probotector character in Contra 4. But you had to first complete the game, and then they weren’t available in the normal game mode anyway.

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Just a long rant about my personal experience with Contra.

I grew up playing a little Mega Drive game called Probotector.
I even had two different sega magazines (a UK and an AU one) with walkthroughs of the game that I’d read and look at the screenshots just because I thought the game was so cool. Especially with Robotech being aired here at the time and similarities with the ride armour and the robots.

(In 2024 I still wear a tank top with the red and blue robots from the game posing on it, and have similar artwork on card stock)

In the late 90s when I got into emulation, I found out that game was known as Contra Hard Corps in the United States, featuring generic Rambo Commando ripoffs. Any further Probotector was a dumb pipe dream.

I know Contra is the same game, but it removes the cool factor. I can go back and emulate Super Probotector on snes, Probotector II on nes, etc.
But whenever something like this comes along now it just breaks my heart how cool it could have been.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestThen again I am maybe the only person who still thinks the original fat Xbox controller was the most comfortable one ever made.

(Had to look it up...)

This... THING?

Yep, somehow that was a near perfect fit for me. I'm not even sure how or why, and everyone probably rightfully thinks I am crazy.

Never, I only have small hands and I still think this is the most comfortable controller ever.

I have the Hyperkin version that they remade for PCs in 2019 (I think).
But in Linux it keeps switching off and back on every 30 settings unless steam is running. Apparently whatever driver in the kernel runs gamepads has never been fixed and requires the application to poll the controller twice a minute, which steam does..

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I just installed ChimeraOS on a htpc. Would I have been better off with Bazzite?

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Is ulwgl implemented in Heroic now? If I use the most up to date version do I need to do anything to make it work?

The only problem I’ve had with heroic in the past is the wine implementation being hit and miss. Games that load instantly on steam proton, when I play the gog version using heroic and wine tended to just hang or fail to load.
I was hoping that ulwgl is going to be the solution.

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Full soundtrack - Selaco is accompanied by a full length original soundtrack composed by an experienced musician who has worked on many games in the past.

Tommy Tallarico? As featured on MTVs Cribs (but not really).

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