That's the thing, knowing how little my actions mean in Telltale games, I think I would rather watch a let's play and view it as a movie rather than an expensive interactive movie with little interaction at all and no real appeal as a game. At least then I could do something else while watching and feel like I actually accomplished something, rather than throwing money away at a game that promises things and does not deliver. If it had more meaningful outcomes then maybe, buy let's be honest, no big company will spend money on alternative outcomes, they won't spend time and resources on parts people might not even see. Indie developers might, but not bigger companies. They seem obsessed with you viewing it how they want, not how you want.

It is not just bugs and polish, some have been bundled, or been in many Steam sales. It is simply not profitable for GOG to have them here after all that. If it was day one then sure, but if the game has been out for a year or more, been in bundles, and on sale, many gamers who want it already own it.

I agree, but I guess if the BBC are pressuring for time maybe they simply did not have time for a new model and blew it up, thinking they could make another one but for some reason never did.

There seems to be many 2D games now that require 1GB+ of VRAM, which seems strange given that even 3D complex games don't often need that. They blame the engine, but then another developer comes along with the same engine and it's optimised, so I guess some a lot of it really is lazy developers.

Most pc developers seem to use some emulator nowadays, everything runs and looks like crap, they even make phone ports run like crap in powerfull pc's.. Hopefully dark souls 3 isn't the worst port ever.. Still it totally can be.

That and the lack of skill are definitely important factors.

Emulators they don't know how to optimise, by the look of things. I guess they chose the easy path rather than make a decent port, even AAA developers have been making terrible ports recently, not that they have not done this for ages, but some seem to be very much broken.

You forgot the "indie" excuse they get to use every time to excuse their bad practices and lack of effort. :-)

I already counted that with the "lazy developer" factor - but yes that is another problem.

I wonder... now that indies are charging AAA prices do we get to hold them to the same level, or will fanboys still defend them as poor old indies? :-)

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I think I will be calling it a night. My head is feeling a little better and my nosebleeds have finally stopped, so hopefully that is the last of them for a while.

Have a good night, everyone!

*goodnight sleepy hugs*

Well they probably will - same like all fanboys do - but then there shouldn't be any difference in terms of valid and constructive critism between Indie games and non-Indie games in the first place.

That's good to hear - hopefully it'll stay that way. I wish you a good night and sleep well *big good night hugs* :)


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Think i'm also going to sleep now. Wish you all a goodnight. and see you tomorrow :)

Hmm. Well...I hadn't planned on drinking, but at least when I put a cigarette out and part of the ember sticks to my finger, I can't really feel it.
Sounds like a plus to me.

weell... it may or may not be a plus... depending on how you feel in the morning-after :P

I hope you don't require an hour in the bath tub like my brother who just woke up today after heavy partying ;)

Just to try and add something to your last-night's conversation: I checked out Red Dwarf for a bit... vudu.com has many seasons available from the first one onwards... they allow for 2 minute preview and that looked like fun :)

No worries on that one. Didn't drink very much, it's already wearing off and I don't get hangovers.

It's a fun show, you might enjoy it. My finding it was a total fluke. Watched a bit, enjoyed it, wanted to watch all of it.

For what it's worth, I've tried Downfall Redux's demo and it worked just fine on my cheap-y laptop. My specs are i3-3120 cpu @ 2.50GHz, 6 gigs of ram and Intel HD 4000 graphics. I bought Downfall Reux last night so we'll see if it runs as well as the demo did, but the demo itself ran perfectly. It could be a case of a dev or publisher not really knowing what the minimum specs are and overcompensating as a result, assuming it DOES work as well as the demo.

Good morning - or good whatever you choose - it's still dark but the birds are singing happily, so dawn is not far off. Hope those of you who weren't feeling well will soon be on the mend.

I want to be the engineer, please please. When I was a child, my father called me his little engineer; I'm a star at fixing things with bits and pieces of nothing, and making stuff that involves using string and nameless things you leave lying around in case you find a use for them. :-)
Hi superstande, thanks for missing me, it means a lot, truly. I've missed you too and your great music, hope you get your game soon.

Good morning. =)

Silly birds. They chirp happily no matter what happens. -laughs-

How are you doing today?

Bonjour Owl, and thank you for the welcome back, it 's much appreciated, and for the coffee - yum. Hope that you and the owlets are doing well, apart from the ankle, which I'm sure will mend soon.



Great image, DD, I loved that. :-)

Hope you will soon be well again.


Good morning, Crow, always good to see you. The chirping ones are ok, it's the big ones that make a very loud shrill caw like something out of Mordor that I'm not so fond of. They like the big trees here, and turf wars ensue.

Fortunately I get up before they do.

Have some coffee? I've made a fresh pot..

An upshot to being such an early riser...

Coffee does sound good right now. Course, I can't think of many times that it doesn't.

Looking at the weekend sale. It has good items, but I already have them all.