I'm so far behind on FINAL FANTASY it's crazy at this point, ...

My number of played FF games is still ..... 0! And this has denuvNO, so guess the total will remain like that for a while longer.

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Played it for a couple of hours. Exceptionally high quality for an early access game. Nice that provides varies choices for difficulty. Both at the start and mid game. So far it mostly plays like the first game. I'm just getting into fluids, so that's a little bit different. I guess the biggest change is that you need platforms for building space.

Quoting: Eike.. no challenge, no satisfaction...

I'm not fully sure what I would expect from such a game, but this one didn't seem to provide it. I liked Infinifactory, because I wasn't sure I could build what's needed. I didn't get this feeling from playing the demo of Shapez 2. :-/

The challenge in the first game was getting to build the MAM (Make Anything Machine). I guess this game will result in a similar thing, but with more options to deal with. It's a design challenge instead of a combat one.

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Now we know why they developed all the new weaponry. Can't wait to test them out!

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Quoting: neon_soaked_chryssalidI'm glad they're trying to do something about all of that garbage on the review page. The sad thing is that there was already a system in place to take care of it, the helpful/not helpful button, and most Steam users won't use it correctly. Hopefully the new system works a bit better!

To be fair, if you look in the screenshots in the article then you see that the top review without the new system has 14 helpful tags and the one with the system has 65. So just sorting it would have been better.

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With all those (new) fans of original Doom, I wonder how many people know what it was like to play Doom originally.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Jarmerand these cpus are very underwhelming, so very easy to pass on.

How are they underwhelming? From what I've read, it's a major improvement over Zen 4.

Minimal performance gain over the previous series.

Power use is better, so I'd call that a big plus. Unfortunately idle power use is still too high on AMD CPUs.

Still can't seem to compete with the X3Ds though, so it'll be interesting to see what that could do for this series.

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There is only one thing we know for sure. It won't be called "Half-Life 3". :tongue:

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My system is almost 6 years old, so it's about time for an upgrade. But not before the next GPU generation.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Video edited with Kdenlive on Linux Mint

I sadly had to switch to Lightworks because both the Arch Linux package and the Flatpak are broken.

But I'm pretty happy with Lightworks. I just bought my lifetime Pro License and everything, so now seems like a good time to switch.

I once tried to install it and the list of dependencies was so long that I left it. Now I edit my incidental video with Shotcut.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: EhvisA potentially interesting outcome of this could be that publishers that sell a product that depends on an external party for functioning will have to specify a minimum time that they guarantee the functioning of this product for all or part of its functions. This could apply to everything from games to a "smart" fridge. I think it would be extremely beneficial for consumers if producers are forced to think about this before they are allowed to sell anything so it could be included in the value of a product.

No company will ever promise that, and if anybody bothered to read the fine print, they would know that companies actually state the opposite, that there is no explicit or implicit guarantee of future functionality, and that product support can be discontinued at any time with or without notice.

And that's why they need to be forced. No promise of functionality for a reasonable amount of time is a clear indication of the value of a product. Having this explicit is what will make people vote with their wallets. More regular people that is. I already value everything with a 3rd party dependency at zero for a primary function at zero. (and a second party dependency if I don't trust them)

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