This one had some of the most amazing behind-the-scenes Kickstarter drama I ever witnessed going on! Sierra alumni and Reloaded writer Josh Mandel jumped ship the day the game finished, He knew full well he was sitting on a ticking time bomb. Al Lowe quit on unfriendly terms shortly afterwards.

Quote from Al Lowe: "I got a little pittance. But the CEO of the company and I had a falling out, and I'll let people Google that and find out. I'm not going to get into that here. Paul and I just had a falling out and he's refusing me to pay anything, and it's not worth suing him for it. So he can just have it, I guess."

Replay's CEO Paul Trowe (a convicted sex offender) had a total meltdown, fired the entire staff of community volunteers (and called one of them the ugliest looking transsexual he has ever seen on Twitter for good measure), banned basically half the forum regulars of the Replay forum for daring to call him out on his retarded behaviour, which effectively nuked 70+% of forum posts and left it a wasteland populated by spambots. He then went to Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat (that was before Takahashi became infamous for failing games at the tutorial level) and gave him a huge crock of bullshit to publish (to Takahashi's credit, his piece was updated after the real story got out).

I can't remember all the details. There were also extended bitch slap sessions on Corey Cole's facebook page (those were about Bolt Riley: A Reggae Adventure, I think, which was developed by the Israeli team that was originally slated to create Larry Reloaded, but got axed in favor of nFusion) and a bit of drama about a KS backer/community volunteer publishing Trowe's email exchanges with him, which didn't paint a pretty picture either. I can think of at least two instances where he tried to sink other Kickstarters (Sam Suede and SpaceVenture). Oh, and he had a habit of pretending to be either Lowe or Mandel in comment sections. Not speaking on behalf of them, but literally starting flame wars signing in their names.There's so much stuff I'm forgetting here, but let me tell you: It was a rollercoaster ride!

It was fucking AMAZING! One of the very best internet meltdowns I have ever witnessed. Waaaay more entertaining than the serviceable but rather ho-hum game that we got along with it.

But would I give money to this guy or his company? Hell no!

It's nice to see releases coming a little more frequently, hopefully they can keep that momentum going.

I hope either Zoom or GOG get https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/capcom_fighting_collection

For what it’s worth, I tested the mod functionality of hatred and it does not work. It should be just a matter of placing files in a folder and then enabling them in the game menu. However nothing is ever found, so I can only assume this has been disabled.

Also, for those thinking of using zoom platform, support is via third party account on the instant messaging site Discord, which for the young cool kids may be good but I find incredibly annoying. Whilst I realise that GOG support is now non existent, it used to work great before they “improved” it. Send a question, get a response, great. Don’t need to setup another account and sit and watch loads of others typing and chatting is not. So my enthusiasm for the platform has diminished somewhat after this.

Thanks for the feedback Night

I did say you could PM me if you had any questions, but you did not. You're also comparing a support system with a company with a full-scale team specifically for support.


I would invite feedback to be sent over PMs, instead of on here given we're often under the gaze of the mods and I do not want to fall afoul of their CoC.

It’s definitely something to look into. As for you mentioning it, I stopped the annoying updates from discord and haven’t been back to check so may have missed it. PM? Is that the messaging thing here as I have not used it, always greyed out, I assume it was another broken system.

Thx! That's another 10 bucks saved.

Check your privacy settings, there you can change who you want to receive messages from.

It seems that Steam Workshop integration is screwing over free modding for any games that are not purchased through Steam. Another good reason to not use their service, imo.

Oh, absolutely. Steam Workshop is fucking dogshit.

HOWEVER, that doesn't mean I'm going to buy a version that - in lieu of proper, Workshop-free modding support - strips out modding altogether.

Yes, re been happening for a while on all stores. Here on GOG you can’t get the the quest expansions as workshop only. A lot of the elder scrolls mods were moved to Workshop or removed entirely due to to, and even moddb is becoming more like a steam workshop advert site with mods described there but no files, or way outdated. Sad days.
TBH I wasn’t impressed with the game anyway. It has the premise, and it’s ok, just found it aimless. Also couldn’t find anymore ammo, so just kept killing until death. For a few quid it’s ok. Thanks for the tip.

They just released several releases this week. Two that might stand out to some is Knights of the Temple - Infernal Crusade and Knights of the Temple II since they aren't available anywhere else.

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Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade is actually available on Steam, but it does seem Knights of the Temple II isn't.

edit: seems like maybe II was on Steam at one point but removed, because GMG is selling Steam keys for it.

edit2: just saw Flatout 1 and 2 and Shadow Tactics DLC added.

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Yes, a whole bunch of new games have been released on Zoom over the past few days. Also:

Sacred Gold
Galador - The Prince and the Coward
Vampyr Story
Shadow Tactics - Aiko's Choice

The first Knights is pretty fun, if not janky in spots. But i'm a sucker for anything in plate

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Whazzup, fellow Zoom fans! :)