Ohh, I loved this back then.

Nowadays, the constantly wobbling faces are a tad bit too hilarious to take it serious, but I guess a remaster would fix that ;)

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Quoting: PhiladelphusFor those of us who can't easily do conversions from UTC in our heads, would it be possible in future articles to include a little widget or a link to somewhere than can do the time zone conversions? That'd be a nice quality-of-life addition. :)

Yeah, I think the standard time zones for most here are GMT (which is the same as UTC, I think?), EST and PST.

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Quoting: DuncAnd if it ends up wiping out half of humanity, you can learn how to escape in Kerbal Space Program. :D

While the rest can prepare via Fallout.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: BielFPs

Simplified Chinese the current most popular language on Steam.

I wonder how is the current status of Linux usage in the Asian market (Japan, China and South Korea). I think the Chinese one would be bigger if they had PUBG and LoL avaliable natively.

There is big potential for Linux in China. Due to the conflict between Trump and Huawei, the Chinese are threatening to drop Windows in all of the government offices [External Link]. Also WPS Office [External Link], that is the standard office suite for at least some government branches, already supports Linux [External Link] (and is really good actually). But until something more concrete happens, I don't think we will see a lot of Chinese Linux users.

Of course all of this is just conjecture. :S:

Biggest point keeping Chinese people from using Linux is the ridiculously bad support of... Chinese.
In every single Distro, it is a maddeningly hard thing to get even some support for Chinese typing going. Digging through many menus, reading through many guides, getting many failures as things are done radically different everywhere (so the chance the guide you are reading will completely work for you is very low)...
And even when you do manage to set up something, it is not up to speed with Chinese implementations on Mac or Windows.
ibus, fcitx, they are honestly all not only user unfriendly, but actively hostile to beings who are not tech heads themselves. I'm definitely a techie, and this is consistently catastrophic across all distros I ever used.

It truly shows you the worst effects of Linux's fragmentation. A single useful ibus-variant would be 10x better than all the crappy substitutes.

I see no way for this to change without a significant monetary investment to get professionals working on it beyond hobbyism.
Bit of a hen/egg problem. No Chinese users -> bad pinyin -> no Chinese users.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Drift Stage was successfully funded on Kickstarter back in February of 2015, with a reasonable sum of $57,720 to make their modern take on retro racing a reality.

I think the problem is that this is not a reasonable sum. That amount of money funds at most a single person for one year.

I live in one of the more expensive countries in the world (about 10-20% cheaper to live here than in the US, I think) and could easily live two years off that. With some buffer.

And if you get people on board from countries that have a cheaper costs all around (some eastern European countries, or Asian ones, etc.) you can definitely pull off a small indie team for a year or more.

In addition to that, usually the developers put funds of their own into the project and find other sources over the course of development.

If 57k really is the start and end of all the funding, then yes, I could see problems arising from that.

But here I think it was really more a lack of planning and experience.
And then at some point a failure to communicate - and possibly to admit defeat to yourself.

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It's a comet!

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: TheSHEEEPCan't blame them for shifting focus away from a game that just doesn't perform well.

That's not really what's written in the article. More like the opposite of what you said...

Yeah, exactly, they're attempting to actually speed up their updates and their team has grown.

Sorry, Liam, but you have a tendency to be overly optimistic, so I've grown to read positive statements from you like that ;)

If a game that is just a plain failure has its patching schedule changed to smaller updates, that is usually a telltale sign that development is slowly shutting down while allowing developers to keep face.
However, I did indeed miss the growing team part, which seems to counter that assumption.

Who knows, maybe they really are trying to pull a No Man's Sky here.

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Can't blame them for shifting focus away from a game that just doesn't perform well.

What you can blame them for is releasing a game in that state to begin with...

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I tried for a bit, but unfortunately they really messed up the procedural generation in this one.

It is a perfect example of how not to do randomness in games.
The same mission might be a total breeze or almost impossible, simply based on where you start in relation to your mission objectives and the enemy.
I went through a bunch of missions and the difficulty was all over the place. It went from extremely easy, to super hard, to back again. And when I had to do a mission again, the next time it was super easy, as the map generation had placed me right next to where I needed to be. Or it got even harder, as the enemy was put right between me and where I needed to be.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: Avehicle7887Risen 2, not the best game in the series but it's nice to be able to play it higher than 35 fps.

Only thing i remember about the risen games was Angry Joe and Jim sterling saying they were the worst games on pc are they actually worth playing ?

If either of these say a game is bad, it might as well be GOTY material...
Sure, they also rip truly bad games a new one, but they just mindlessly rip everything else, too. And give crappy games a thumb up, so... I'd not trust in AJ or Jim for anything except entertainment value and news.

That said, Risen 2 is the worst of the series, yes, both 1 and 3 are better.

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