Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: chrIs the desirable alternative thumbstick (that you wish your ideal controller included) here based on irregular potentiometer or capacitive or ldr?

As I understand it, hall-effect magnets, which, as anyone with experience of the Sega Saturn analogue controller knows, can fail too, with some very wacky effects when they do. :tongue:

Plus it's really inconvenient to have controllers that only work when you're in a hall. :tongue:

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: BlackBloodRumThink this is bad? Wait until those "requires online to play" games start getting this. Not only will they be de-listed, but they will also be unplayable. :grin:

See also: Ubisoft's The Crew, which was not only delisted, but they then went and removed it from the libraries of everyone who had purchased it, too.

Good lord. Was there fallout? I'd be out for scalp if someone did that to me.

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Quoting: chrWhat are regular potentiometer sticks and what is the alternative?

Irregular potentiometer sticks, obviously. :grin:

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I don't do platformers because I'm not really into them and anyway I suck. But I like the feel here--it's got that optimistic feel from before movies were all remakes.

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I was always interested in Hard West, but when I looked at the Steam page reviews it seemed like it was very buggy and had some important problems that seriously undermined the good things about it, so I never got it. Hard West 2 has significantly better reviews, so maybe I should have a look.

(I do agree with eldaking's point--it so happens that I like strategy games, AND I often like turn-based RPGs, but they are not the same and half of this bundle really doesn't look like strategy to me)

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I am thinking of taking advantage of the sale, maybe grab a Pangolin. And while I don't expect to use the OS, I'll have that confidence that if it's shipped with a Linux, not only that but one in the Ubuntu lineage, probably when I rip it out and replace it with Mint there won't be any issues.

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Cosmic? Duuuuude.

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So just how Dim are these settlers? :grin:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWeird, I wonder why they relaunched the Infogrames brand. I don't think it was ever terribly popular.

I may be misremembering, but last time this came up around here I seem to recall someone noting that what is now called Atari was actually originally Infogrames, who acquired the Atari IP and renamed themselves, or something like that. So I figure some of the old Infogrames hands are nostalgic and wanted their original company to exist again.

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Seems nice.

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