I wanted so badly for this game to be good. Since the early days when it first went on Steam in what was basically Early Access, although I'm not sure it was even called that yet. But colonists not doing tasks, dying with alarming regularity from lack of sleep while standing next to their beds, fires appearing for no apparent reason and the little robot thing that got added later not really making that much sense, that stuff finally killed my enthusiasm to keep trying. Never saw any word that any of that really improved all that much.

If the dev went back and overhauled it the way the No Man's Sky devs did? I'd still be willing to give it a chance, after all this time. But it'll take a little more than what this update has to offer.

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Meh. I'm Gen X and there doesn't seem to be much of anything that appeals to me.

A lot of that older stuff just isn't my thing in the first place; I'm much more into the modern indie scene. They can keep their collection of Duke Nukem variants.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHm. This is one of those ones where I can't decide if it's nice that they updated it, or if it will just kind of ruin my nostalgia.

This kind of reminds me of how generations had their own imaginations' versions of what Hobbits looked like, but those who came along after the Hollywood Lord of the Rings movies tend to see them as Elijah Wood with big feet and funny clothes. :tongue:

Yeah . . . although to be fair, as a massive LoTR fan I found that most of the Peter Jackson representations did amazingly little violence to my existing notions of how Middle Earth is. Exceptions: Paths of the Dead, Shelob's lair, to some extent Elrond, Denethor, in a way Eowyn (I liked the movies' Eowyn, but I was picturing someone slimmer and wirier and grimmer), the Mouth of Sauron. But those are far less major worries than I was expecting.

The Ralph Bakshi ones definitely had big feet and goofy clothes over the Peter Jackson interpretation. Though they definitely 'borrowed' some of the scenes directly from that version!

My biggest disappointment with the Jackson trilogy is the treetment (pun intended) of the Ents. The extended version made it seem a little bit better, but still seemed to do a disservice to them deciding on their own that they should help.

Ugh, the Bakshi.
The Ents . . . won't disagree with that criticism, but in some ways they were executed better than I dared hope. I love the ents, but I can see where it would be amazingly hard to do them without seeming totally hokey. Like, they come off great in your imagination in a book, but getting their cool qualities across on film, oh man. There's something about walking talking trees in a visual medium that wants to be goofy. I thought on that front, managing to make them feel like something serious and even dangerous, the movie succeeded surprisingly well. Their Isengard scene rocked pretty hard.

So you thought the boobie tree from The Last Unicorn was goofy looking? How dare you, sir!:tongue:

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So did they dumb down the Villager AI to make them as suicidal as they tend to be in Minecraft?

Like the pathing has to make a beeline for things they can fall off of, for immersion's sake.

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Honestly I've only puttered around in Mineclone 2 the way it's presented. But I have done CallMeKevin's One Chunk Challenge a few times using it, because I don't have (or see the need for) official Minecraft, but wanted the same experience and mechanics as the original videos on the challenge.

That said, I am interested in digging deeper into it. Now that they've got their original benchmark (1.14, I think?) pretty much locked down and have moved on to the more modern stuff like the newer mobs, blocks, biomes and so forth, it looks like a lot of fun.

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Weird not to see Shovel Knight, tbh. There was a point where any crossover like this would have them, just by default.

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Happy Merry Time to you and yours.

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Undecided at this point, but I'm leaning toward Chained Echoes (native) and Tunic (not native).

Probably pick up Loop Hero regardless, since it's pretty cheap right now.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47Does it ban you if you install games with LGBTQ characters?

No, but the car bricks itself if you play a flight sim.

Joke RIPPED from today's headlines!

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If they came out with a new Steam Controller that incorporates all they've learned since the first one came out, I'll buy that thing immediately. I managed to get the first one and love it, my only real complaint is the right trackpad is way too big to be easy to control. On some games, that's no big deal, but many others it's a real flaw.

My trouble with the original really is that I don't know how to configure it for play outside of Steam, except via SC-Controller which...isn't great tbh. I've seen people mention there are other ways to do it, but I don't know what they are.

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