Nintendo are no doubt warming up their lawyers.

That makes Nintendo's lawyers sound somewhat robotic. But I'm sure that wasn't Liam's intent. :grin:

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How are they doing on moving forward from X?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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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.

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Quoting: ticktokIt seems like a low-poly version of 7 days to die. could be interesting. then again, I always burn out in 7dtd really quick as I can only hoard/build so long with no really storyline goal.

That gives me an idea. Something a little larger scale . . . imagine a slightly further post-zombie-apocalypse where you have a typical top-down town/castle/kingdom builder, but the point is that you're trying to clear and keep the zombies out of larger and larger territories and build back the human population.

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Quoting: Pengling

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.

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Hm. 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.

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Waiting for the comments about "but they didn't fix this or that, did they?"

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Quoting: MinuxMarvel... These people tend to be superheroes in real life too. Helping the ones in need, helping Linux gaming community to make them grow stronger!

Hail Hydra! (ooops, I guess I wrote this on the wrong side)

Well, Hydra, with their strong need for security, surely would be smart enough not to use a closed source OS with probable government-sponsored backdoors in it. So they're probably totally Linux people. :grin:

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I was thinking "I swear there's been an article about this game here before." So I checked, and there have been six! We have a first "it's going to be coming" article, behind the scenes development stuff, new teaser, gameplay video, going on kickstarter, and fully funded on kickstarter.

Lotta build-up. I hope it's good.

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Quoting: enigmaxg2Playing the catch-up game again... as more games become DX12-only this only will get worse

I don't see any evidence that it will only get worse. The whole trajectory thus far, certainly ever since the beginning of DXVK and probably for a while before that, if more slowly, has been towards this kind of thing getting better. Even a year ago, an equivalently problematic game would have not worked at all at launch and then taken weeks to be fixed.

Really, it seems like in the taillight-chasing game we are now in a situation where at worst, we're seriously tailgating, into that point where what we're chasing is going "Holy shit, what happens if I brake? We're gonna crash!!!", and for most games we have now actually merged with the car "ahead".

The one holdout is anti-cheat, and even that isn't a complete shut-out.

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