As always, "AI" stands for "replacing people with robot slaves". Amazon is very into that.

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I played the first one, but wasn't very good at fighting back against the gates, so I'd end up overrun eventually.

Tried the demo for Eighties and it was pretty amusing, although I lost there too.

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Not much time left to get in on the bubble, act now!

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What i don't understand is where the lawyers at ?

The trouble is, they're conflicted. On the one side is copyright and their ability to squeeze all the money out of intellectual property forever.

On the other, they might get to use the technology to replace all the artists, writers, actors, etc. with free robot slaves. Or worse, someone else might get robot slaves first.

It's a tough call.

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Are you really going to reject good games just because they dared to use AI in some irrelevant corner?

Yes.

I do not want to drink wine that only has a little sewage in it.

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They didn't do the previous two DLC as I understand it. Assumed since the original studio last worked on it with Green Planet in 2019 they probably wouldn't now but who knows. Would be surprised if the original dev team was still together.

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Hard pass. Loved the original game, but not enough to hand over cash for what any other game would be a free update.

Hamaimont Games, the original devs, haven't been involved for a long time now. The last two DLC were not well received (buggy, poor design) so it's hard to get excited over more. So I'm not seeing the attraction, tbh. It's just a cash grab.

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So...a Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy-like?

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Just played the demo, and jfc that's a lot of tutorials. None of them are too onerous, but it's a hell of an info dump taken together.

Pretty fun overall though. Combat takes some reflex, which is unusual, but navigating the traps and stuff is a good time. Jokes about programmers and being a game take me out of the headspace as usual, but thankfully they don't hammer those jokes and keep the flow going.

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Waffled a bit on what to buy, but I picked up Terra Nil, Jupiter Hell, and Synergy, all at 50% off or more. Pretty happy with that.

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