Can I trade that in for Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games getting back together and putting the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay books back on DriveThru? :(

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou mean, like, a sort of send-up or ironic commentary on the book?

No. As an honest-to-goddess adaptation of the novel.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI mean whole minutes spent looking at the bloody moons or something, with no action, no dialogue, nothing!

Not nothing. They build up atmosphere and suspense. A breather between more intense scenes. And even there, a glance between characters already told a lot.

This is unfortunately something that a lot of editors don't get. So they produce all these annoying rapid cuts, rushing from scene to scene, removing all the build-up. What you get is the movie equivalent of the loudness war [External Link], where all the dynamics have been trampled to death.

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Quoting: sub(There are people that tend to love it, though!)

I do. I love me some David Lynch movies.

Hell, I also still maintain that his Dune movie is a work of genius. It only works if you have read the book, though.

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Quoting: liamdaweone bit with the clue sorting was annoying as fuck

Huh, I for one really liked that clue sorting; I even wished there was more of that in the games.

What I really hated was the stealth sections in the fifth episode. But I also really hated the real-time stealth in the matrix in Shadowrun: Hong Kong. In both games, the controls aren't fit for this high-accuracy fiddly stuff (but in different ways).

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On-topic: I seriously loved Life is Strange.

Sure, the stealth sections at the end were annoying. Also, I have some issues with the final choice and how it interacts with the premise. And I have some strong opinions that several story bits could have been handled better in general.

That said...I enjoyed it. A lot.

Was it life-changing for me? Well, not in the way that it a singular turning point for me or something. But it will stay with me, just like other great games I played, books I read, music I listened to, movies and TV shows I saw, etc. I treasure them all.

And yes, I did get wet eyes while watching the ending video. Though, I must say, for raw emotional impact, the end of Dreamfall: Chapters, examining the memorabilia as Lady Alvane, hit me harder. I howled like a dog there. :P

As shitty as the year 2016 is, when it comes to games, the year was great. Life is Strange, Dreamfall Chapters, Pillars of Eternity, Shadowrun: Hong Kong (and that's only the big name ones from the top of my head; there's also several great Interactive Fiction and Visual Novel games that moved me). Yes, yes, they're not really new games of 2016, but were finished in 2016 or got a GNU/Linux version, so I played them in 2016 and I count them as 2016 games. Sue me. :P

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Halifax, wtf. That comment is bad and creepy and just plain wrong on so many levels.

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Yeah, this is grade A bullshit.

And it's not even new bullshit at that: Polygon wrote about the very same OTON console back in 2013 [External Link].

As a programmer, I'm pretty aware about what procedural generation can do. Spitting out good games, created from nothing, well, that's just not something it can do. Give it lots of human-generated prefab pieces, sure, it can recombine them and create variations, but completely new games from whole cloth? No.

(Narrative-focused games, like point & click adventures and RPGs, of which I am a fan, those are even more not possible. There's a reason we still have authors instead of letting an algorithm write stories for us.)

The timing is quite bad as well, what with the current hubbub about No Man's Sky and its procedural generation.

And the comparison graphic, wtf. "Privacy"? "Unlimited Storage"? What.

Also: If he wants to sell a procedural generation thing, why is it a console to begin with? Why not sell the software itself?

(And he's not gaining any sympathy from me with his "ex-marine" schtick, either. Quite the contrary.)

Frankly, I'm torn between this just being someone without a clue or an actual scam. Could be both. Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, or somesuch.

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Quoting: K3rcusGuys what do you think about The Beginner's Guide? I'm curious about this one, not very much in the other games.

I for one really like it. It's a narrative-focused game. It's weird, it's experimental, it's...meta.

Keep in mind, though, that it's rather short. I took like under 3h, IIRC. Some people even rushed through it in under 2h. And then gloated about how they refunded it...which I find rather shitty, to be honest.

Me, I don't mind the shorter length. Sure, long games are great too, but if the game manages to hit a point well (and make an emotional impact, no less) in a short amount of time, all the power to it. It's kinda like a well-drafted short story: condensed to make a single point. That's an art in and of itself, IMHO.

And just like a good short story, I found it to be a game to think about and engage with through discussions, reviews and analysis way after I finished it.

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I for one can whole-heartedly recommend The Beginner's Guide. It's a weird one, but weird experimental narrative-focussed games are right up my alley. :)

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FIXED - High CPU Usage on single thread due to issue in curl library

And with that, the issues I had are gone; the game looks to be quite playable on my 10 years old CPU.

I hate to do it, but I told you so.

I also wrote them a support mail with a few more details I found out about the issue. Would have been nice if I had gotten a reply to that mail, instead of having to ping edddeduck on IRC two weeks later and then only getting a "yes, we have an internal fix for this" out of them.

Yes, sure, I know, that's Jammern auf hohem Niveau [External Link], sue me. :P

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