I know there’s an obvious answer to this but [shaking no one in particular] WHY DOES THE GAME INDUSTRY HATE CULTURAL ARCHIVAL
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potential Lost Profit?
Which becomes even more hilarious as we see what older games are sold for, or that they are often given away to entice people to buy the newer one.
Apparently, a Silver Case demo is available now on Steam
Sept 13
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jesus, finally.
wait, a remaster?
oh well
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_amiga#
Internet Archive may have lost Nintendo Power but they just added 2000 Amiga games to play in your browser.
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Was cautiously optimistic at the original Battletech announcement, and am now feeling pretty good about it.
The alterations to initiative and turn order looks like they’ll work well here, and the bigger emphasis and ease of indirect LRM fire should be interesting. A lot of the issues I see right now are simply UI and such, like poor awareness of damage levels, movement limitations and so on, and given how early this still is they should have plenty of time to iron those things out.
Also, that Atlas headshot demonstrates that the true Battletech spirit (in terms of mechanics anyway) is there, even if it was a PPC and not the ever hilarious golden BB. Does make me wonder if they might consider including Edge from the RPG side of things to give you a means of at least keeping pilots from not instantly dying from shit like this though.
Also, apparently the armor levels were tweaked to be a bit lower compared to damage levels for the purposes of keeping play swifter for the sake of being a con demo.
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FYI ubi just announced rayman origins is being made free next week but I want to recommend that you not get it because it’s pretty bland, legends is the one that has surprisingly great level design
this does actually look OK, not quite as aggressively bland and momentum-less as a lot of post-new-XCom turn based strategy
Quantum Break is getting released on Steam, will work on Windows 7 and up.
So at this point I can only think of Sunset Overdrive as far as Xbone exclusives.
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Halo 5? Though even Halo fans were not big on that.
and what’s the deal with that? I guess dead rising is finally getting liberated from the 360 after a decade…
Really? I thought it was well received.
Oh, are you talking about the single player? Then, yeah, Halo 5 single player sucks. The multiplayer is maybe the best it has been, though.
I played Legends and instantly bounced off it because of the crap stages where you have to guide some dude around by manipulating the environments. I just wanted to platform! This was the Wii-U version so I dunno if other versions don’t have that. I’d play a version without it.
The other versions have it, but they’ve been streamlined so you aren’t doing it on the Gamepad
I think Legends is better but I liked Origins a good deal as well, I’d have said it was probably the best last gen straight 2d platformer until its sequel came along. It also has the “speed run each stage” feature that I liked and was cut from the sequel, and it is also markedly more challenging for those into that.
Yeah, I honestly can’t imagine playing the Wii-U version due to that. The PS3 version just has you press the O button or something just to have your helper automatically do what it is supposed to and it works so much better for that. With that system it is just like having to remember to hit a button to slide while running at full speed to avoid an obstacle, which actually works while letting you continue to proceed at full speed.
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Yeah, I never really gave a shit for competitive multiplayer, though co-op was always my jam. Hearing the campaign sucked meant I didn’t even bother checking that game out at all. MP was always a side benefit for me.
So, technically, while Microsoft fronted the money for Sunset Overdrive, the reason Insomniac went to them to begin with is that MS would allow them to keep rights to the IP. So ultimately, the decision rests on Insomniac to port the game over to PC or make a sequel for everyone.
My advice is to take advantage of the casual devaluing Microsoft has done of the system and snag yourself a cheap box
the absolute last thing I want is more console hardware in my living room
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