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Quoting: Guesttouching love for the Apple ][. i ignore nearly everything about this machine. (One day, i will get a true working Amiga...)

I think you're using 'ignore' as a transliteration of the French j'ignore, which simply means 'I lack knowledge ...'; in the colloquial English sense, though, it doesn't really deserve to be 'ignored' (treated as a non-entity)! I was a Commodore kid growing up (though I did get to use Apple ][s at school), but the more I learn about the machine -- especially its extensible/hackable/*completely* user-serviceable design [yeah, the exact opposite of today's Apple], and the community that grew around it -- the more impressed I become. Apple ][ (//e, etc.) series did cost a lot more than Commodore's 8 bit machines, but they had great 80-col. support, & professional software; whereas Commodore went for volume of sales, and not much else (insisting on selling machines at Toys'R'US, alienating computer resellers, and becoming invisible in the 'serious' market as a result).

At least that was better than Tandy's treatment of the Colour Computer, which their own salespeople called "just a toy" while trying to push the business machines instead.

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Quoting: BeamboomPsychonauts have not aged well. I'd advice you to wait for the sequel, Liam.

I think you really need to enjoy it in context. Playing it just after replaying some earlier 3rd person platformers will instantly make you appreciate what they accomplished with it. It's an important piece of gaming history and still enjoyable as such.

A good game - as in a game worth playing - needs no context/excuse. I've always been of the opinion that if one have to make excuses to defend* playing it, then it's not worth playing. And Psychonauts really have not aged well. Very low polygon graphics, loads of visual and mechanical glitches, horrible camera, horrible controls, bad scripting, it is a game that deserves to remembered through rose tinted glasses.

* excuses like "it's good for;
- being so old..."
- so few developers..."
- having no funds..."
- being their first game..."
- being free..."

Why should a game have no context? For me, computer games can be art. Psychonauts is art. You can't completely appreciate art without context.
Damn, 90 % of the jokes I remember won't work without the target knowing a little context.

You are pretty much alone with your opinion and from my point of view, you are damn wrong.

Context is important, but not necessarily when you're asking "Is it fun to play in [current year]".

Pong is a very important game, when taken into context. The original Dragon Warrior is, too. They were both achievements of their time, and quite important. In context. But that doesn't make either of them any fun from a modern standpoint. Indeed, both are pretty damn tedious for anything more than a short session. And don't even get me started on the incessent grind that is Pokémon Blue.

Context, in this case, does mean you can appreciate the achievement it was at the time. But the question of "Can I have fun if I play this right now, before the sequel comes out?" doesn't rely on it.

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It's always Lovecraft, again and again unto infinity...

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Quoting: pbTwo years from now: "Cosmic horror metroidvania 'Lore Finder' has comfortably forgotten the Linux day-1 release promise" :P

Sure thing. This dev, who's alreay got a game out for Linux (MidBoss), is totally gonna forget about Linux. Sounds legit.

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Quoting: GuestHow did we go from this to it's a good game now?

Why don't you just answer the question? And just because people were pissed when it was announced (when aren't people pissed anyway?), doesn't mean it's the same people that like the game now. And even if they are the same people... maybe they should reserve their judgment? Just answer the question.

Valve is more interested in following the money then listening to the community that they used to claim to give a crap about

It seems they are just another trepel ayeee company who does not care about the people that made steam/valve successful in the first place

So enjoy this card game over portal 3 left 4 dead 3 half life 3 or an entirely new ip that sets a new standard for game design
you know?
the thing that made half life 1 and in turn valve successful in the first place

So you will blatantly ignore everything I've said before?

nope enjoy the yet another card game
i will continue to expect better from a company that is more than capable of doing better

Yeah! They should have done yet another first-person shooter based on a first-person shooter they already did!

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Quoting: GuestIt seems they are just another trepel ayeee company who does not care about the people that made steam/valve successful in the first place

This is making me read the entirety of your posts in the annoying snotty voice Jim Stirling always uses when he says that, which I assume you're aping in text.

Protip: It really doesn't work in text.

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Is that a 2400 baud modem at the start? Or a 1200?

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I'm not going to be playing Artifact, for the simple reason that I'm not good at card games so paying up front for the privilege of losing a lot has limited appeal.

However, it's a lot better than Valve becoming a sequel factory. Yeah, I've got some great nostalgia for the Half-Life series, but it's been a long time since HL 2ep2 came out (and let's be honest, it wasn't fantastic), and I've had loads of great experiences with loads of great games since then. So it's not the end of the world if I don't get Half-Life 3 but something else I like instead. It's okay. I'll just play In the Valley of Gods when it comes out, and maybe whatever other game Valve eventually releases, assuming it appeals to me. And I'll have fun with it, even if it's not a continuation of a fun experience I had fourteen years ago.

And y'know, that's okay. No point getting upset at a card game over it.

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Honestly, I'm not seeing Total War in this one. Which is probably the biggest surprise.

The art deco look of the art suggests something Bioshock related, but I'm not sure Bioshock 2 Remastered would bring much in the way of profits for Feral so I'd say that's a long shot. Longer than Skyrim, which it obviously is.

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Vaporum has been on my radar for a while, and MidBoss is really tempting. I just have to remind myself that I'm not buying games right now.

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