^ Oh, I thought their engine was in-house. The article didn't say it was a third party engine.

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I have Deponia and the part that puzzles me is why haven't they done this before? I looked at the dlls in Steam and it uses ffmpge and sdl libraries.

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Quoting: KristianHappy birthday GOL and commodore256! :)

Oh, thanks

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It's my Birthday too.

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Hey, I just find turned based combat to be too easy because I could sit there for hours without making a move. Thank god FFVII has a time limit. In realtime combat, you need to act and you need to act now! Oh and I do wish games had better AI, that makes realtime combat so much better. I played Evoland and the only times I died was in realtime combat, not once in turn based combat. I find turn based combat to be elementary...

Back on the topic of most Japanese games sucking, their menu interfaces are horrible, they obsess with making stuff obvious for the player (like cracked rocks are blow-up-able)and have broken game mechanics like having your block button be the same button as attack like in Revengence.

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Quoting: HyeronMost modern western games are terrible.

Don't play Call of Duty, Batman Arkham City, I like the fight with Mr. Freeze because he doesn't fall for the same trick twice, you pull a trick on him and he makes it impossible for you to use the same exploit. Play The Blackwell series, best adventure games I ever played (though I mostly recommend Gemini Rue for an adventure game) and most Japanese adventure games are just Visual Novels or WAIFU Simulators with no control apart from dialogue, so it's basically mass effect without the action. I could list names of good western games for hours because "The West" only means "Not Japan", so it's the whole world minus Japan and it doesn't mean "'Murica", it includes Poland where The Witcher is made, it includes Canada of which a development studio from there made Mark of the Ninja and it's a Ninja game where you play a Ninja of which Japanese companies has failed to produce a Ninja game where you play as a Ninja that's marketed as a Ninja. Though Rikimaru from Tenchu was pretty close, but he failed at covering his whole face during missions. My other problem with most Japanese games is the main protagonists are whiny emo b!tches and don't have much confidence and that's very unrealistic, if a person like that tried being a hero, they would be killed because they don't think like a hero or at least an engineer like Gordon Freeman where his intellect makes him successful.

Quoting: HyeronI see FPS as games for people that have no ability to think at all.

Then if people that can't think at all can play, play them. I bet somebody as smart as you would be very good at them. After all, you don't want those "mindless" people to embarrass you now do we? I bet you can show them who's boss if you're so smart.

Oh and I find turn based combat to be very easy, the only time I find it harder than it should be is when I don't know something. Like using a Phoenix Down on the Second Evrea in FFX and once I know exploits, why wouldn't I use them to my advantage?

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Quoting: Hyeron

Quoting: commodore256All Ubisoft games? Yes.
Uplay? No.

Except it's Ubisoft we're talking about. We're not getting the former without the latter. And THAT is the problem (well, that and their sh***y behavior toward customers).

From Software makes good games, (apart from Ninja Blade) But other than Dark Souls or Demon Souls, most modern Japanese games are terrible. I see turn based RPGs as games an accessibility to people that have no ability to think on their feet. (however I like how FFVII has a time limit for turns) To me the only time a game is hard is when I don't know what to do or I think I know what to do and screw it up.

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All Ubisoft games? Yes.
Uplay? No.

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Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.

So you want Nvidia to be a Monopoly? Also, I had a 4870 and the open source drivers for that Card out performed the GTX 460 Linux Binary Drivers that I replaced it with a year ago. (even though that Nvidia card runs better in Windows than that 4870 ever could)

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Well, at least there are 9 more games on Steam for Linux than I own. However, I doubt the majority of the 395 games I have on Steam will ever converge to Linux natively. However I'm sure there will be a max of 8 games that won't work in Wine. I have Ghosts and I know that doesn't work.

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