Quoting: 14I find it baffling that good books can't get a movie, or they take 15 years to do it, but then a video game with no story at all gets one.

It's really difficult to live up to expectations when making books into a movie. Especially with good ones.

Quoting: 14I guess I can contend with the fact that with no story baseline, there is just as much chance for it to be good as there is for it to be bad. I'm still salty about some bad writers and their producers though.

If Hollywood can get off their nonsense train, there might be chance.

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Quoting: MohandevirThey skipped the second "E". :grin:

I don't understand the joke. :(

The good old microsoft method of "embrace, extend, extinguish". Embracer skipped the extend part.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Embracer themselves said that Saints Row had "left the fanbase partially polarized"

I don't think so.
The game is pretty much universally reviled - an deservedly so.

Then again, even 95% is probably still "partially"...

Exactly what I was thinking. :grin: 1% was polarised. The rest hated it. :D

To be fair, you can have all kinds of thoughts on the closing down of a studio. But Volition hasn't really produced anything noteworthy for a decade. And after SR reboot, what reason was there to keep sticking with it? At some point keeping it open becomes charity.

Kind if interesting that they were shoved under Gearbox though. They managed produce a piece of the most awful game writing themselves with BL3. Paired nicely with the SR reboot. At least the gameplay of BL3 saved it somewhat.

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Quoting: GlitteryLast game I would think it could be made into a movie.

The game does little more than present a setting. That might actually give it enough freedom to write something suitable for a movie.

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An interesting little bit of information from the forums is that the estimate of 80 hours for a full playthrough (to victory condition) is based on a level of play that compares to 35 hours to victory for the base game. So this is a substantial increase. My first full game to victory took about 65 hours, so take that into account if you think of doing this expansion as your first proper Factorio experience.

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Quoting: TcheyFirst played in 2013 when nobody cared about it. I'm happy i did, and i’m happy i contributed to its early near-death success.

That's very early. I didn't get it until about 0.16 and only started putting in serious hours when 0.17 released.

However, looking forward to the expansion and all the things modders will be doing with the new mechanics. This will be a day one purchase and play!

However, I'm sure the game can still keep me entertained for the year that it takes to get the expansion.

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Well, if they insist on taking away choice when it comes to snaps, then I feel a reduction by at least one user will come in the near future.

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This actually looks pretty darn cool! Have my weekend already planned, but I just have to dive into this next week.

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You all absolutely adore Denuvo right?

Kinda. My wallet is happy about it.

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Quoting: lejimsterWhile the wine devs deserve a lot of credit, Vulkan and dxvk was the real game changer in terms of performance. So many titles run at 90+% of native because of dxvk and Vulkan titles often run better on Linux than they do Windows.

I'd say this is the key as well. DXVK was a major leap as it demonstrated how well Vulkan could be applied to D3D translation.

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