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Free game (until August 26, 1pm UTC = 9 am US EDT): Serious Sam: the First Encounter - https://www.gog.com/game/serious_sam_the_first_encounter
More info on the sale: https://www.gog.com/news/the_harvest_sale_brings_the_juiciest_deals_up_to_91_off
me as an adult: *does hours of research before buying a $5 game*
Ah, that feel. It's a brilliant feel.
TL;DR this is an article about proportion of revenue for a game sale that goes to the store. The topic has been a thing lately.
* Epic, which made news recently for taking only 12%, is unusual for doing so. Most stores take roughly 30%.
* Steam, the dominant industry player, takes 30%, and less than that for sales revenue exceeding very large amounts (typical for AAA games, rarely seen by indies).
* Humble Store, pioneer of Humble Bundles and nowadays also a store that sells DRM-free games and Steam keys, takes 25%, of which 15% is for themselves and 10% is up to the customer's choice to become store credit or go to charity.
* GOG, the leading retailer of DRM-free games, uses 30% as a starting point but apparently individually negotiates every contract.
* itch.io, a site that sells/distributes a variety of lesser-known indie games, lets developers set their revenue share amount.
* Console companies tend to also take 30%.
N.B. This is only about the share of revenue going to the store. It doesn't represent the actual revenue received by the publisher/developer.
Well I've only played Dragondot 3 so far, but yes.
Well, technically, there is; you just need to play with a sufficiently low-health character.
But that means switching to a different character for building stuff. I feel ehh on that. Wish there were a way to disable them in the settings. There might be but I just don't know how yet.
also they changed several piano sprites from grand pianos to upright pianos
That's an exaggeration, but not by much.
Besides that, I recently learned about the Eve: Online expansion that would break Windows, as well as that Myth II would wipe your drive if you installed it in the root folder (which I guess isn't a good idea in the first place) then uninstalled it.
Excuse me.
Elaborate please.
That's really bad.
Also, TIL there's no game called Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest, but there's one called Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.
Yeah I thought it was the other way round too.
This could be one of these "spot the difference" riddles.
This article, about the game Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest, a video game based on a tabletop game, mentions that it's set in Poland, specifically the Białowieża Forest. And it even makes the claim that it's "The first game to bring to life actual Polish stories and legends", making reference to The Witcher by saying that such legends only inspired The Witcher.
I somehow doubt that last claim is technically true all the way, though it might be the highest-profile game to do so. I know almost nothing about said realm of cultural mythos being represented in video games though. @lrdgck do you have any thoughts on this? Or on this game overall.
That's a weird feeling, you know. When you realize that a) stuff happened twenty years ago and it's within the reach of your own memory, b) people who did that stuff are (obviously) still around.
I think this belief is what the Disney Channel starlet pipeline is meant to exploit.
I think this should be here for the cultural importance, rather than because I'll be playing it (I won't, I worked out all my Final Fantasy fandom guilt with FFXV);
It seems like it'll be following in Final Fantasy XV's footsteps in terms of gameplay, with it being a single-player action RPG. I know it's not as extremely different from XIII's single player turn-based RPG, but I will always prefer things turn based. The color scheme seems to be gringy real (again) with the color provided by nature (rather than XIII's extremely colorful everything, which I loved).
In terms of world, it seems to be following in FFXII's footsteps in trying to be closer to the original six games rather than the series more futuristic side. I guess it's time for that sort of entry, especially with how popular high fantasy remains in pop culture at this point.
I like what I see of the plot elements, and I'll certainly be watching any supplementary anime and reading any side-story books Yen Press chooses to publish.
I don't think this trailer has really captivated me, though.
I enjoyed the musical references to classic FF themes/motifs, though I gotta say, the main theme doesn't really work well if you put it in F minor because the second phrase tonicizes G minor, which needs the major tonic to play off of, or you have to change the chord to Gdim instead.
At some point I might play FFXIII.
because of course
jerks
To be fair, some of those people who just like playing with hardware might be perfectly cool people, though I'd still say there's diminishing returns to these technical advancements, in the realm of gaming.
I've seen a lot of entitlement-based reactions from gamers, that the cards are being wasted if they're used for "financial" purposes rather than to render their games and that something is being taken away from them, something they "deserve".
Besides that, until now I never noticed the relation between the "No items. Fox only. Final Destination" meme and the fact that Melee's Final Destination theme has part of Star Fox's theme in it.
People are great.
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Also, it's not exactly the same thing but there's emulators with functions to corrupt RAM by changing values at random.