Quick Questions XVI: Answer Time Lore (Part 4)

after enjoying grimrock a few years back ive been meaning to play eye of the beholder. bought that bundle on steam with the pre-configured dosbox and automapper, can you rebind the keys to wasd? i gather this is numpad controlled and… i don’t have a numpad…

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if you press ctrl + f1, you can open dosbox’s keymapper

dosbox staging’s docs explain the ui better than I can but you can remap almost any key to almost any combination of keys in the keymapper

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EYE OF THE BEHOLDER IS SO FUCKING GOOD

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Have you played the Sega CD version with the ridiculous Motohiro Kawashima soundtrack? It’s amazing.

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Is there a decent free video editor? I have a very dumb idea and the will to execute it and ClipChamp (win11) is a nightmare program.

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DaVinci Resolve is your best bet.

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I really liked the original Metro 2033 years ago, and really disliked Metro: Last Light. I haven’t played any of the redux versions. Anyone care to opine on whether Exodus is any good?

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i rather liked it but it will depend on your tolerance for the specific vibe thing it is doing in the story / cutscenes. i dunno, i guess it is a “wifeguy” kinda thing. for some people it is a dealbreaker. i didn’t love it exactly but i was intrigued by it

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there is a very peculiar cultural tone going on in exodus which is pretty different than the first two. i think the game was pretty enjoyable as you do all the metro stuff you normally do, with bigger maps to do them on. some nice setpieces early on.

politically and culturally, i don’t really know. it is fascinating to me, an imbecile

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exodus has a lot of tracks by the bands auktyon and kino so it gets a few points for that

very few games have a song as good as this on their soundtrack

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metro exodus is awesome and punishing you for playing an fps like an fps never gets old to me. yes its extreme wife guy gaming but i love my wife okay

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Well that settles it you’ve all collectively sold me

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Personally I found the pseudo “open world” maps to be exhausting and far preferred the way the original game was traditionally stage-based. The story stuff was sometimes charming, sometimes bizarre, always goofy, I was ok with it.

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I love the usmc guy in that game who forgot how to speak english so in the russian dub he has a heavy accent and emphasizes all the wrong syllables on the words and in the english dub he just sounds like average american military gajme character who often jump scares you by speaking relatively fluent russian in steve blum voice

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The sweaters in Exodus are so detailed.

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Finally a game for me!

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dearest button selectors, what the christ is the deal with the turbografx controller?

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i can’t personally see buttons III, IV, V, and VI on there

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whu

even on a “normal” controller like, what’s the deal with the switches? are they turbo?

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Yeah, the switches are rapid fire. Off/fast/super fast. Adjusting turbo on the fly is very useful in games like Bonk.

II is where B would be on an NES controller. I is A.

I do not think many games use III-VI. Maybe only fighters? Can’t think of anything else that does and I have played a lot fo PC Engine.

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yeah, buttons III-VI are rare enough that the picture of the gamepad you posted has a dedicated switch to switch between 2 button mode and 6 button mode

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incredible. truly one of the most consoles of all time.

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related: look at how the buttons are labelled on the SMS controller:

why are 1 and 2 arranged like that? i hate it

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