Quoting: zimplex1To be honest though as of now I'm personally a bit fatigued with the wasteland/post-apocalypse settings in games... especially zombies, god I can't stand anymore zombies (not that this game has zombies or anything).

I'm so sick to death of zombies, I automatically mark almost any game with them on Steam as "Not Interested". They're so over-used in media in general, but games are 50 times worse.

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Can I just say I like how they use "PC" to refer to all the personal computer platforms collectively, and not just "for Windows"?

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Quoting: IlyaI don't understand why some people think this game is in any way controversial. Sure it is daring (it wouldn't be the first time terrorists attack content creators), but ISIL is the most hated terrorist group right now. I think it's just that people go "Oh, same creators as Hatred, it must be wrong is some kind of way!"

The creator has explicitly said it's got to do with Muslim immigration into Europe and nationalism. Hard to say how much of that is marketing (probably a fair amount) and how much he actually believes in it, but that's how they're selling it in any case. You can certainly see a lot of that sentiment in the Steam reviews.

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Destructive Creations seem to have realized that taking advantage of bigots is a good moneymaker. As with Hatred, they're perfecting the art of lightening the wallets of people who mainly buy it because they think they're upsetting someone. Pretty cynical, as marketing strategies go, but you can't deny the effectiveness.

Find something controversial, dash off a quick game and market it to the angry folks. Add a bit of spin, in this case anti-refugee sentiment, to the marketing and watch the rubes line up to throw money at you.

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the livestream that showcases neither skill nor professionalism but people seem to watch it anyway.

The secret is that this is why we watch it!

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Quoting: tmtvlWelp, guess I'd best quickly inform them that the demo is completely non-functional on my machine, might delay the Linux port by a day or two.

What does "welp" mean? I see it all the time these days, but can't understand the difference between welp and well. Is there one?

"Welp" at the beginning of a sentence like this has a bit more of a resigned tone to it. More like "We're in this situation now, might as well get on with it" than "well", which at least to me has a "time to get down to business" in a more proactive way.

As a stand-alone word, "welp" has a connotation of "there's nothing more to say", thus the "p" providing an abrupt stop to the more open-ended "well", which is typically a little more drawn out. This is the more common usage, far as I know.

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Having tried to play the demo and getting less than stellar results (the tutorial videos gave me a blank screen, so I wasn't able to learn what things did), plus what I saw of it on the livecast a while back, this is definitely not a day-one purchase for me. I won't be surprised if it requires several patches following the launch.

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I really should give this another go. It's been quite a while since the last time I played it, and at that time there wasn't much alternative in difficulty between "puttering around" and "constant stream of zombies and things". Hopefully they've balanced things at least a little.

Edit: I took another quick look, and unfortunately you've still got a choice of no/minimal monsters and ALL THE MONSTERS. Wish they'd just add a "normal" mode in between.

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Save me from devs who release a port months or years later, when their game is old hat and everyone who wants it has already bought it, and then whines "Linux sales are bad, I'll never make a port again!"

Y'all suck at business, dissolve your company.

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I've watched gameplay of The Witness, and while I like the exploration of all the cool areas, the puzzles are just the sort of thing that would frustrate me immensely, and the rest seems like an Automatic Pretentiousness Generator. Random quotes from Einstein or James Burke or for all I know Deepak Chopra doesn't add depth, y'know. If that's my primary reward for solving frustrating maze puzzles, I'll pass on a port, thanks.

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