It's very funny because by the time 7 came out, Vista was actually good and people acted like they were exorcising a demon from their computer by upgrading to 7
EDIT: Also 8's issues were mostly on a presentation front
BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
nah vista had all kinds of performance issues and DRM problems and compatability issues when moving from XP
they improved it over time, but people who hated it had some pretty good reasons not to like it
I remember the system not letting ANYTHING go fullscreen when i was using my ATI All-In-Wonder videocard and TV-tuner combo, because it wasn't signed with the right HDCP handshake, and Vista wouldn't let you roll drivers back once they were signed
Remember having to load Windows from MS dos shell? That was fun. I only needed it for like one or two games, everything else just ran from dos.
Man I fuckin hated dos. Fuck typing in commands, just let me use the mouse to click on stuff like a civilized person
nah that's what dos shell was!
a mouse-driven GUI... but for dos
finally you could run unprotected run-time applications that would re-write critical operating system files from the comfort of a mouse based interface
Remember having to load Windows from MS dos shell? That was fun. I only needed it for like one or two games, everything else just ran from dos.
Man I fuckin hated dos. Fuck typing in commands, just let me use the mouse to click on stuff like a civilized person
nah that's what dos shell was!
a mouse-driven GUI... but for dos
finally you could run unprotected run-time applications that would re-write critical operating system files from the comfort of a mouse based interface
I didn't know about that! I was very young back then and didn't know much about computers at all
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On the topic of games, a couple more little demo reviews:
OGOPOGO: a game about palindromes It's a match-three sort of game, coloured blocks try to fill up your playspace and you have to get rid of them, but instead of matching red,red,red or blue,blue,blue, you have to make a palindrome, so it would be red, or red, blue, red, or red, yellow, green, blue, green, yellow, red.
It's fun to play and nicely polished - and also I know how good I am at anything past the most basic versions of this sort of block-matching game, and that is "not very good at all". If you are good at making combos in puyo puyo and that sort of thing, then you will probably like this one, though.
Square Paper City. I'm not quite sure what this wants to be -- it has the "explore a world that is mostly invisible" sort of feeling of The Unfinished Swan, mixed with the "jump over things on the beat" as you rush towards them feel of Thumper/Temple Run/etc, mixed with the "world is made of cubes" feel of, oh, lots of games.
I went through most of the demo (I think), but at one point I couldn't work out where I had to go / what I had to do next, and just hadn't had enough fun along the way to want to keep going. I feel like there's a good game in there somewhere, it just needs to be a lot more obvious to me, the player, how to find that good game.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Got my first win with Roguebook.
Only took me about seven runs, so I think generally speaking this is a fair bit easier than Slay the Spire. Although I'm not sure if I had the best possible deck or the worst possible deck for the end boss I encountered, so I might have gotten lucky.
The NG+ stuff is pretty neat - rather than the straight ascension mode of Slay the Spire, you get a bunch of different negative modifiers you can choose to apply to your game, split across three different categories (which you can use in combination). You start with only three available, one for each category, but there are a bunch you can unlock.
Overall it's a game that I think is as mechanically neat (or maybe even neater) as Slay the Spire, but I don't love the story (which is mostly non-existent) or the aesthetics/setting/theme. Slay the Spire managed to do so much with so little there, so it's also hard to hold it against other games, but also the style of StS was laser focused on my sort of thing.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
edited June 2021
speaking of deckbuilders
let's slay this spire together, as a family
Deck:
what are my moves for this turn? got 4 energy, and then my happy flower will give me 5 energy next turn
frozen core will also give me one ice orb at the end of this turn, which will give me three block
StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
edited June 2021
Coolheaded for sure. If it pulls another frost based thing or a better defense, use that as well. Powers are dangerous, but I'd be willing to toss out a defrag or two at that stage if you get one, probably nothing else you've got though.
If it doesn't pull anything useful, I guess just bite, barrage, and defend after that.
Straightzi on
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
what are my moves for this turn? got 4 energy, and then my happy flower will give me 5 energy next turn
frozen core will also give me one ice orb at the end of this turn, which will give me three block
Coolheaded for sure. If it pulls another frost based thing or a better defense, use that as well. Powers are dangerous, but I'd be willing to toss out a defrag or two at that stage if you get one, probably nothing else you've got though.
If it doesn't pull anything useful, I guess just bite, barrage, and defend after that.
shame that it looks like your deck is the exact thing woke bloke eats for breakfast, but if you can get scaling going fast enough you should win. if you feel confident enough in that, playing machine learning to get to echo form/apotheosis/creative AI faster makes sense
Urgh. I'm almost temped to just force field, and save art of war energy for next turn and hope we draw better could beam cell/bite front cultist as well
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It's very funny because by the time 7 came out, Vista was actually good and people acted like they were exorcising a demon from their computer by upgrading to 7
EDIT: Also 8's issues were mostly on a presentation front
Man I fuckin hated dos. Fuck typing in commands, just let me use the mouse to click on stuff like a civilized person
they improved it over time, but people who hated it had some pretty good reasons not to like it
I remember the system not letting ANYTHING go fullscreen when i was using my ATI All-In-Wonder videocard and TV-tuner combo, because it wasn't signed with the right HDCP handshake, and Vista wouldn't let you roll drivers back once they were signed
But those issues by and large got cleaned up and by the time 7 came along, it was a relatively minor upgrade from Vista to 7
It was just very funny watching people act like 7 was a balm when by that point, Vista may as well have been the same operating system
nah that's what dos shell was!
a mouse-driven GUI... but for dos
finally you could run unprotected run-time applications that would re-write critical operating system files from the comfort of a mouse based interface
I didn't know about that! I was very young back then and didn't know much about computers at all
I think this one would have fewer defenders than Vista, though:
And I just remembered that there's a little toolkit inside there, which I'm sure I can find a use for:
OGOPOGO: a game about palindromes It's a match-three sort of game, coloured blocks try to fill up your playspace and you have to get rid of them, but instead of matching red,red,red or blue,blue,blue, you have to make a palindrome, so it would be red, or red, blue, red, or red, yellow, green, blue, green, yellow, red.
It's fun to play and nicely polished - and also I know how good I am at anything past the most basic versions of this sort of block-matching game, and that is "not very good at all". If you are good at making combos in puyo puyo and that sort of thing, then you will probably like this one, though.
Square Paper City. I'm not quite sure what this wants to be -- it has the "explore a world that is mostly invisible" sort of feeling of The Unfinished Swan, mixed with the "jump over things on the beat" as you rush towards them feel of Thumper/Temple Run/etc, mixed with the "world is made of cubes" feel of, oh, lots of games.
I went through most of the demo (I think), but at one point I couldn't work out where I had to go / what I had to do next, and just hadn't had enough fun along the way to want to keep going. I feel like there's a good game in there somewhere, it just needs to be a lot more obvious to me, the player, how to find that good game.
as always, takes a while for the prices to update
Man remember a few years after that having to exit Win95 and reboot into DOS mode?
Could just be lag in sales going up - I know it usually takes a little bit when steam sales start.
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Edit: nevermind it's not on sale on Steam, I got confused by the header image. Well anyway it's still cheap on GOG
https://www.gematsu.com/2021/06/konami-announces-mystery-simulation-game-crimesight-for-pc
konami... announcing a game... for... PC...?
That being said...Live by the Sword: Tactics is literally created for me to be injected directly into my blood
Only took me about seven runs, so I think generally speaking this is a fair bit easier than Slay the Spire. Although I'm not sure if I had the best possible deck or the worst possible deck for the end boss I encountered, so I might have gotten lucky.
The NG+ stuff is pretty neat - rather than the straight ascension mode of Slay the Spire, you get a bunch of different negative modifiers you can choose to apply to your game, split across three different categories (which you can use in combination). You start with only three available, one for each category, but there are a bunch you can unlock.
Overall it's a game that I think is as mechanically neat (or maybe even neater) as Slay the Spire, but I don't love the story (which is mostly non-existent) or the aesthetics/setting/theme. Slay the Spire managed to do so much with so little there, so it's also hard to hold it against other games, but also the style of StS was laser focused on my sort of thing.
let's slay this spire together, as a family
Deck:
what are my moves for this turn? got 4 energy, and then my happy flower will give me 5 energy next turn
frozen core will also give me one ice orb at the end of this turn, which will give me three block
If it doesn't pull anything useful, I guess just bite, barrage, and defend after that.
got me a sweeping beam
the beam has been swept
i'm guessing we're going for the eyes next
and then yeah, this all tracks
let's move it over here:
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/241042/lets-slay-the-spire-together-as-a-family/p1?new=1
yes, war of the chosen is a great addon
it can be pretty overwhelming though, and it essentially modifies the vanilla xcom campaign to add a whole bunch of new stuff to it
so if you haven't done *any* xcom before, maybe just play a little bit of vanilla to get a feel for it, and then try it again with War of the Chosen
I probably won't buy anything