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Honestly it amazes me companies, bigger ones especially, don't see how these projects can benefit them and instead send the lawyers. You still need to legally own each game, so it can even help boost sales and gain a renewed interest in the classics without Take-Two needing to lift a finger.

If they had any sense, they'd encourage these projects and package the new engine with future sales of the games.

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For some reason that I'm not entirely sure of myself, I've been playing The Lego Ninjago Movie Videogame. I picked it up for free, or in a bundle, or something, ages ago.

I've never had any problem with cynical toy marketing tie-in campaigns, but it was nice, growing up, to have a brand that seemed to stand against all that stuff. Remember when Lego only came in five colours? (Just me? Urgh, I'm getting old.) However it seems that simplicity and innocence are, like, so last century, so apparently now Lego has a line of wisecracking ninjas with their own Saturday-morning cartoon to sell the stuff. It's like seeing your maiden aunt twerking to K-pop. (Or whatever it is the young people do with their time these days.)

Still, it's a TT Lego game, which are always a fun way to pass a few hours, and doesn't deviate too much from the established formula while subtly tweaking the score multiplier into a (very) minimal beat-'em-up-style combo system, which is a nice touch. Plus, although I'm probably missing a ton of fan service, I have to admit that there are a few funny lines in there, too.

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Quoting: Nanobang"FREE'S FREE!!" has long been my call to action, but it's also left me with games that, if I'm honest, I'm never going to play.

True, but on the other hand, over the last three or four years it's meant I've played a lot of games I might otherwise never have given a second thought to.

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I see Spectrum-inspired graphics [External Link], I'm in. :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySounds lovely . . . 70 gigs? 70 GIGS?!

Or 764,586 copies of kkrieger [External Link]. (Yes, apples-to-oranges perhaps. But I just happen to have watched that the other day, and it is kind of mind-blowing. I mean, even 96K would have been a luxury back in the 8-bit days.)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSCREW YOU Epic! I don't see any reason to support them based on their 'we don't give a crap about Linux' attitude :)

Who's supporting them? I'm just grabbing all the free games. They haven't seen a penny of my money in almost two years.

And most of the stuff seems to be DRM-free. Or, at least, it can be launched without the Store (or Heroic) running in the background. The only game I've come across so far that can't is GTAV, and it has such a convoluted start process - run Epic, update, run the R* launcher, update again (and fail, go back to step #1) - that I've given up. It did work for a while, but meh. Easy come, easy go, although I'd be annoyed if I'd paid for it. Which is why I'm not going to buy anything on Epic's platform until there's official support.

Quoting: drlambHas anyone here used Rare [External Link]? It's a GUI for legendary as well but without electron.

Didn't know about it. But I'll give it a try.

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Quoting: hardpenguina bug with background and radio music.

Let's be honest, it may not even be a Proton issue anyway. While Bethesda's engine is homebrew, they did learn amazing lessons from Troïka Games (people from it founded Obsidian). Stable and bugfree games are not part of it. But on Proton 3.16 I had only a few (but some were massive) FPS dips here and there (and as far as I know, it was just the game kind of shitting itself).

Yeah, the only problem I had with FNV was that I couldn't have anti-aliasing and SSAO on at the same time. Otherwise it worked fine (as far as a Bethesda game can be expected to). I even installed a few mods without any issues.

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In case anyone's wondering, this is what's being referenced here [External Link]. (Also this [External Link] and this [External Link] I must say I find the monochrome graphics a bit of a strange choice. Raf Cecco was known for a liberal use of colour on the Spectrum, which (despite the name of the machine) wasn't easy. Still, the dev's love for his work shines through, and it's nice to see the games I remember from my youth being celebrated for a change.

*And I'd like to point out at this juncture that Exolon is just about the hardest game I've ever played. Since 1987, I've never been further into it than roughly the 2 minute mark in that playthrough. Absolutely brutal.

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Wait... the “minimum” specs are based on “medium” settings? :huh:

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