Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: TheSHEEEPMore than 5% of reviews is actually incredibly much.
The general guideline for reviews to sales is actually that less than 5% leave reviews.

For RoR that would make it more than 10% reviews. Impressive!

It's a very tricky thing to calculate, and each person I've seen attempt to do so has some different outcome and method to try. It ends up varying a lot. In this case, when you look at total sales (first link) from September over the lifetime it would give less than 2% that left a review for RoR.

My bad.
I read the article wrong, didn't see that those numbers were "only" in 2020.

That sounds much more in line with what I know (<5% reviews in general).

It is of course never an exact calculation. Some games ask their users to write a review within the game, others don't.
Some might have users that for some reason are more likely to write reviews, etc.

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More than 5% of reviews is actually incredibly much.
The general guideline for reviews to sales is actually that less than 5% leave reviews.

For RoR that would make it more than 10% reviews. Impressive!

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: dudeYeah, Valve taught me how to spend my money on games like women on shoes. Thanks Gaben

Some of us have to maintain a gaming budget as well as a shoe budget.

The struggle is real.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeGuess the question is, can the Raspberry Pi 4 handle PS2 games? I may have to take my old tower and use it as a games console... been tempted to do it anyhow..

I'd say... probably?

I've been running PS2 emulators many years ago (when they were still eating more performance, too) and if you assume that the best Pi now has about the power of PCs back then. Definitely possible.

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The perspective mess is killing it for me, tbh.

Some characters look like they are lying on the floor, looking towards the ceiling.
While the main character looks like it was drawn with a kind-of isometric perspective.
The walls look like the camera has a fish-eye perspective.
Every piece of furniture seems to have been drawn with a different perspective in mind.
Nothing fits together, really.

I honestly got a slight headache from watching the video.
But I have the same with the old Ultima games...

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I do have a Facebook account, but I really only use it for family & friends stuff.

But I don't think I'm even remotely the target audience for this.

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Hmmm, I don't think this one will be for me.
I generally loathe puzzles in combat games, and in tactical combat games, the line between doing a battle and solving a puzzle can be very thin, especially if deterministic.
Also didn't like Into The Breach at all.

And this developer has a reputation for puzzles, obviously.

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Quoting: minfaer

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: minfaerBtw, the article confuses me. It sounds like Hutchinson tweeted this by himself, but then keeps using 'they' as if it was his studio's (or some groups) stance. Which is it?

Hutchinson did tweet directly, not from a studio account. Perhaps you're tripping up on singular they [External Link]? Don't know, hard to tell, as you didn't point out the parts confusing you. When talking about a person, using "they" is just pretty normal here.

Thanks for claryfing, that was indeed what tripped me up. Non-native speaker here :huh:

You were understandably confused. Using the pronoun they for a singular person is a new trend and not what anyone was taught in English.

Language "rant" incoming...

"they" is generally used if the gender of a person is unknown, which can happen with a name like Alex that fits both male and female. Languages can also have a generic masculine (actually, English used to, but that came out of practice since the 60s or so) or a generic feminine (which is what I was taught in school for English).
So nowadays it is drifting towards "they" and who knows, in 40 years we're probably back to "he"...

German, for example, generally uses the generic masculine, but of course the modern extremist variant of feminism has caused a movement to appear with the goal to replace it with the generic feminine as if that wouldn't be exactly the same thing - if you feel a generic masculine is exclusive (which is rubbish, but nvm), how is the generic feminine not exclusive (but I guess it's okay if it excludes men?).
Just to be clear, I'd be fine with either, but the idea that one would be better than the other... one can only shake their head at these people.

Other languages don't have a grammatical gender to begin with, like Finnish. When you read a sentence about a person in Finnish, you simply don't know their gender. You can read entire books without knowing if the protagonist is male or female (if it isn't relevant for the story or obvious from the name, etc.) - and nobody minds, because really, it shouldn't matter.
And trust me, they know how good they have it when they look at these absurd discussions going on right now ;)

Anyway, in this case, Liam could've looked it up to see it's a guy or just write they and save himself the trouble.
Both seem fine to me, really.
English has the advantage of being able to use "they" so people can save themselves the trouble of having to look up the gender of every person they write about. I get how it can confuse people not fluent, though. It's just one of the many oddities to learn about a language.

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I really liked the first game, so I'll also keep a watch on this one.

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Quoting: X6205It's like uploading full a movie.

Games are not movies.
Games are played.
If you just watch a game, you are not playing it.
If you watch someone playing it, you are still not playing it. That would be like saying watching sports and doing sports is the same thing (lol, I wish...).

Sure, there are a few games that really only have their story and not much else.
It might be imaginable that those actually lose a few sales from people watching instead of playing.
But how many more sales do they get from people becoming interested in the game due to the coverage? Tenfold? Hundredfold? Thousandfold?

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