Very cool. I just wish they would (at least make it possible to) change the controls. They were horrible for keyboard and mouse. Very stupid inventory management.

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We've had a beer-cartel here in Switzerland from 1935 to 1991. During that time, it was only possible to take over other breweries to increase your market share, which lead to condense 530 breweries down to 34. Which were only allowed to brew 4 kinds of beers, all of them bottom-fermenting and basically all lager and pils (which are very similar anyway).

So, we've been fucking tormented by the pils-mandating assholes for decades, had them kill most Swiss breweries and just about every older style of beer we've ever had.

So I'd guess this game is something for boomers who were never allowed to develop a taste in beer.

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Oddworld: Strangers Wrath bad shading on NPC chickens

I can only assume the shading was already ok on Player Character chickens.

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The remake moves from the original's fixed-camera viewpoints to an over-the-shoulder perspective, putting you closer to what James sees, for a more thrilling, more immersive experience

They're soo close to getting it.

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Oh, I had "The Warlock on Firetop Mountain". As a book, in German. :wub:

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The originals have horrible controls. Basically unplayable because of that. So if they fixed that, it's a reason to get them.

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Of course, being a mechanic of a computer games makes this a) a pure software patent and thus not patentable in Europe and b) mathematics and this not patentable in Europe and the rest of the world. The Japan patent was granted illegally.

The patent mentioned above is the classic case of a "Moby Dick Support Device" https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/the-moby-dick-support-device/ [External Link]

On an unrelated note, "game mechanics" and -rules are explicitly not copyrightable.

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Let me guess, ChessBase uses ODBC? :tongue:

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This was very satisfactory in 2022 already. I spent 150 hours with it then..

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Quoting: shadow1w2No surprise that RPGs fit well on the deck.
Being able to sleep the machine and resume quickly is a big help for lengthy games plus playing them on the go.

Sleep and resume, yes. But I totally don't understand why you would want to play first-person rpgs like Fallout 4 on this a tiny screen. Also, I don't see how this works with the rather massive UI of BG3 -- and no mouse either.

Stardew Valley seems like a perfect fit, however, and so do most of the low-res jrpgs.

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