Quoting: chuzzle44

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Wonder Boy is pixel-art done right. A game that was originally pixelated, redone, with the option to switch back and forth. Cave Story Plus did something similar, but with just slightly more pixels and terribly remixed music. I'd love to play the 3DS version. Still holding out for proper emulation.

Yeah wonder boy is an improvement on the 16 bit style this however is a step backwards.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Yes creating a game takes talent, but i hope that creativity would lead them to look at just how many pixel barf games (broforce is a fun game but looks terrible) are available and then decide on a different art style.

Sadly, there's more to it than picking a style. They also need the skill and the resources to produce said art or the cash to commission it. It is extremely unrealistic to expect every developer to be equally talented in all aspects of their work. I thought my point was obvious, but I guess it got lost in the sarcasm.

Go ahead, rail at big budget team projects but being mad at indies for looking cheap is just inane and frankly obnoxious. Who appointed you the grand arbitrator of aesthetic value anyway?

Probably the same person who made you protector of developers once again i do not care this conversation is over and yeah i got your point i made mine.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Whitewolfe80for f*ck sake enough of this bad pixel shite at least make the games look like a 16 bit game instead of mess of blocks.(owlboy is retro pixels done right)

Yeah, why didn't they simply make it as pretty as Owlboy? It's just art, right? It's not like it requires real talent, skill, effort or time. I'm sure the developer appreciates and will take heed of your super constructive criticism. [/snark]

Sorry edgelord but i am sick and tired of pixel crap games there are so many and i am so over them. Yes creating a game takes talent, but i hope that creativity would lead them to look at just how many pixel barf games (broforce is a fun game but looks terrible) are available and then decide on a different art style.

Well, AFAIK you are not obliged to buy "this bad pixel shite". But reading the devblog it seems as if it is just one person working on this game. Cut him some slack - he might be just fond of "pixel barf games".

That's fine but i don't actually care and nor should the developer its just one persons opinion. This is a forum right to comment on stories i have done so and you don't agree the end.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Whitewolfe80for f*ck sake enough of this bad pixel shite at least make the games look like a 16 bit game instead of mess of blocks.(owlboy is retro pixels done right)

Yeah, why didn't they simply make it as pretty as Owlboy? It's just art, right? It's not like it requires real talent, skill, effort or time. I'm sure the developer appreciates and will take heed of your super constructive criticism. [/snark]

Sorry edgelord but i am sick and tired of pixel crap games there are so many and i am so over them. Yes creating a game takes talent, but i hope that creativity would lead them to look at just how many pixel barf games (broforce is a fun game but looks terrible) are available and then decide on a different art style.

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for f*ck sake enough of this bad pixel shite at least make the games look like a 16 bit game instead of mess of blocks.(owlboy is retro pixels done right)

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Quoting: AlveKattIf you are considering getting Total War WH, should you start with the first one or is it better just going on the second one?

The long term plan for the games is to link them all together on one HUGE map, so grabbing the first one seems to me like a good idea.

we dont know if the second one is coming to linux yet though but if it does if you have the first game you get the full experience basically. It adds all the races from the first game to the second game and makes the campaign map that much larger

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Quoting: elmapulyou know how to get more games on linux?
simple, with more engines supporting it.

just look at how many visual novels we have, and the reason for that, is that Renpy became popular and it supports linux.
now, renpy have an proprietary competition with much more features, we gona lose an niche of games if we dont improve it, people will start using other tools to make visual novels and as a result those games will not support linux anymore.

nowadays, unreal, unity, cry engine do support linux, so its easy for small developers to support it, and more likely big developers will.
but nowadays, big developers are doing their own engines instead for some reeason, except for japan.
so the future is uncertain, but one of the most critical things for the linux sucess is engines, the libraries, to support multiplatform

Although not universally true as crytek and Unreal 4 have linux versions and we have not seen that many games using either engine on linux and there are tons of unreal 4 games.

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Nice open ra continues to impress, I managed to get Dune 2000 campaign working via the grunt mod studio freeware version of the campaign levels, but the mp is not included in that build def going to check this out.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkThe last time I bought a pre-built PC it was obsolete before I'd even got it out of the store, that the PCs biggest strength & weakness, you can upgrade it but it's already obsolete the moment you decide which one you want.

Yes and no. My 7-year-old Sandy Bridge i7 is still powerful enough for all my gaming needs. If you don't go for the absolutely cheapest components (or laptops) and don't expect to run every new game at ultra settings, barring HW failures (thank almighty Tux for guarantees/warranties) you can squeeze a good bit of use out of them. The GPU is the one component you will need to keep updating every couple of years.

Yeah I mean in all honesty I gave an old Q6600 away about 2 years ago its still being used for gaming granted at low or med at 1600 x900 but that is a 10+ year old chip still handling games today.

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Quoting: ColomboPersonally, I think that the old Duke Nukem and Blood are closer to Half-Life than to Painkiller.

I get why people think that but to me painkiller and duke nukem are in the same vain no story monster closet games. I liked them back in the day but just massively gone off them as i have gotten older.

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