Quoting: slaapliedjeI believe the worse are the ones like Take2 (I think it was them) that added a launcher where there wasn't one before... Conan Exiles did as well, though that's easily bypassed.

THAT caused me to repurchase all the Bioshock games on GoG, because they were at the patch level just before 2K added that crappy, pointless launcher... and nobody will be touching those games but me.

Wait 'till Microsoft starts converting all their titles.

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Indie games can be amateurish (keep those, in general, if binary) but as a "genre" it can also be associated with lower budget. That's more what I think of when I see an "Indie" tag, it can be good or bad, just don't expect a studio with thousands of people to be working on it, possibly even farming more of it out to other studios beyond that.

While there's probably no more need to label it in that manner, I wouldn't exactly consider this an "AAA" game. It is neither of that quality nor feature level. You can see skilled, professional work in it, but only so much work can be done.

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I cannot overstate how cool that is, a game giving the user control over brightness, contrast and colour intensity and sticking them in a prominent place, collapsible on the main menu. Most games would only give you a gamma slider, never mind contrast.

There are a lot of stupid looking games with oversaturated colours that could be fixed (to taste) with such settings.

Now this is a pretty good game, possibly even an abandoned gem. I've only got a couple of hours into it, but so far it's been nice. A bit rudimentary in some ways, like character interaction and text based dialog instead of voice acting but it seems so far to be my kind of game. The combat is not horrible either, and it drives the need to get better stuff.

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Quoting: articlePlay with the default visual style for maximum eeriness and tension or customize the color and contrast settings to suit your tastes.

I am so glad that tidbit of information was included in the write-up. I thought "meh... this game" until I read that. I looked at this game years ago, and passed on buying it because I didn't like the colour scheme (greyscale with coloured NPCs etc... stuff like that is a big turn off for me. My life is drab enough, thank you lol). I'd have passed on it for free, too.

With the light intensity and dark intensity (brightness and contrast) and that greyscale actually implemented as reduced colour intensity, I actually have it looking like a normal game (though overuse of bloom, as is typical of Unreal 3 games of that era)

I haven't gotten far enough to know how much I'm going to like it yet, but, walking through the woods... check. Reading notes for discovery... check. Shoot enemies with arrows and they die... check. The promise of better weapons coming... check.

So far so good :-)

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Cloudpunk is surprisingly good. I'm not a fan of those voxel art graphics, but flying through the city is very colourful and pleasing. The buildings etc. look pretty good and the vehicle is nice to control. While the in-game characters look terrible (like bad minecraft lego people or something), the faces and the com channel dialog are pretty good and it has a story that made me want to continue, the missions/deliveries were somewhat interesting and the characters have character.

P.S. Note that I have a VERY low tolerance for crap. They did very well to make me like such a game.

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Quoting: PikoloThe Judge's son works at Microsoft. Hopefully the appeals court can fix this

That's similar to how Microsoft got in in the first place... Gate's mother was on the IBM board of directors. There's no way they'd have chosen that mickey mouse operating system on its own merits. DOS (well, CP/M at the time) was utter garbage, it was sold for a song and Gates stayed up a few nights porting some essentials like a Basic interpreter and then chummed BBS's and lists with open letters urging people that they need to pay for software.

"Oh, but look at how much Microsoft has done for the computing industry!" I counter that with who knows what we could have had, if not for those bloody creeps throughout the history of PC computing.

Even what WE have now (our Linux and software environment and yes, especially our gaming technologies now), is geared towards interoperating with them.

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Ahh well, if browsers started going for /etc/*-release files people would be screaming bloody murder. So "Linux" it is. Some benchmark sites I go to for testing builds for performance regressions report my OS as "Linux Null" or "Linux Unknown" because it doesn't have any other info.

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In typical open source fashion... deps I don't want or need for anything else, ever. (I'll stick them in a non-system location). I sympathize with the calls for an appimage. I don't like containerisms, but I couldn't fault it for this type of application.

I don't have the game, but like OpenMW, I'll see about getting it compiled first before I purchase any game data. Hopefully it'll be a go!

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... sad trombone slide... :cry:

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I don't have a problem with a Steam hardware survey, and that's opt-in for every submission. I want them to know people (like me) still use older hardware, for example.

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