The visual style where both your people and the opponents are just little pictures in a box of (stats + die roll) is a bit too abstract for my taste.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs it just me, or have there been a lot of games lately about failing and reconstructing memory, mental trauma, stuff taking place inside the mind trying to put it back together and such like? And if so, is it just a kind of minitrend or does it say something about us as a society?

Kinda related. [External Link]

Cool article.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs it just me, or have there been a lot of games lately about failing and reconstructing memory, mental trauma, stuff taking place inside the mind trying to put it back together and such like? And if so, is it just a kind of minitrend or does it say something about us as a society?

"Unfortunately" actual society implies minitrends and lack of originalty.

OK, point, but I was thinking more in terms of a fixation on mental illness.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: slaapliedjeI'll wait until the modders fix her face to look like the first one. :P

"Pretty woman get us to buy beer, ugly women make us drink beer!" - Al Bundy.

I played the first one to nearly 100% at 120 hrs, and I have put several hours into this new one, and I think she looks the same. I mean I know it's been years since I saw her, but she seems totally fine.

If you look at side by sides... to quote both my friend and brother (whom I sent the image to separately) 'they look like a younger Slug' (Slug in this case being a dude we've known for a long time.) They definitely look a lot different.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fylnzmyqcwv171.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3d358d4dc6f814975b3b3a0f40236b03fd463680 [External Link]

That looks to me more like a difference in the shots than a difference in the face itself. Like, the impression was different, but then when I looked at like the nose, or the eyebrows or stuff, I realized it was pretty much the same. The difference is more in the expression, in the amount of forehead you're seeing (because the 2017 pics were cropped and/or had headgear) and so on.

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Quoting: bonkmaykrbut seeing as Yuzu was kind of a big deal and was fairly profitable off donations alone for a community project I don't see why they couldn't afford a court battle.

Because a court battle against the likes of Nintendo is really, really expensive.

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Is it just me, or have there been a lot of games lately about failing and reconstructing memory, mental trauma, stuff taking place inside the mind trying to put it back together and such like? And if so, is it just a kind of minitrend or does it say something about us as a society?

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Quoting: alka.setzerThe number of times "playable again" shows up on Proton release changelogs is a bit worrisome..

To be fair, this is the beta of the new upcoming version. It would be a bigger problem if new point releases of the stable version showed a lot of that. Well, for all I know maybe they do.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: nenoro*flips the table* i got fooled

Turns out they just opened a new branch in Poland [External Link] so I guess they fooled us all?

They seem to be doing very well. Branches in six different countries now plus the HQ in Belgium.

So it's transnational horniness.

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Quoting: LoftyDevils advocate here ofc. im a Linux user after all and don't support DRM.
That said i don't support total software / hardware anarchy either i do think there is a right of the seller to choose how their content is delivered even if just for the simple facts of cross platform development costs. I may not like it though but i do support their freedom to choose.

I don't think anyone doing emulation is claiming that Nintendo or whoever should be forced to do cross-platform development and deliver their software on all platforms. The whole point of emulation is to make up for the fact that the makers of the software did not do this--to in fact do that work, and pay those costs, for them.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Purple Library Guy[
And there is an answer to the question. The answer is "No, businesses should not have that right. If I buy something, I should be able to do anything I want with it that isn't illegal for real reasons unconnected with that business' ability to exploit me." In fact, the whole thing where when you buy software you are claimed to have "licensed" it and have to click on a EULA is bullshit from start to finish. I don't sign a EULA when I buy a TV, even though it probably has software in it.

Hypothetically speaking what do you think about a creator, indie developer etc.. that wants to place their game on a Switch, NDS, 3DS or Wii-U because they want for it to be played in a specific way (locked to that hardware) because its part of the experience and creative vision they wanted to share because all of the unique hardware mentioned (mostly.. excluding the switch) compared with other generic platforms like PC.

Forgetting the hardware vendor for a moment (sony, microsoft, nintendo, valve etc..) Do you think the seller has a right to keep their creative vision locked into a specific platform because that is both

a.) where they expected to sell it

and

b.) how they wished it to be played ?

Or does the creator, artist developer have no right to expect this ?

They have a right to express a preference about it. But I don't think they have a right to enforce it. If I buy a gorgeous tapestry and decide I want to use it to wipe my butt, whoever made the tapestry can reasonably be horrified but they should have no legal right to stop me.

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