The ambiguity of Dredd is very much a thing but it's also not something they often hit the reader over the head about, probably because the comics are often done as broad satire, so readers can laugh about how this stormtrooper muscling citizens around is actually a stuck up jerk ("Littering! Five years in the cubes for you!"). I think the Stallone movie sort of tried to do something like that, but it...just wasn't very good and they kept tripping over the epic story they were trying to tell. The more recent movie had some satirical aspects but with the movie being relatively low budget, I think they tried to keep things as lean as possible and just do a simple action story.

I thought the game was okay in a regular FPS sense, but I think there's still untapped potential in a Judge Dredd video game.

To be fair real life changed so much that some people believe some satires are now the norm. For example Starship Troopers was made to be a satire about how a country (or in this case, a whole planet) was taken by propaganda that foreigners (or in this case, alien creatures) threaten their livelihood and people need to unite against the threat. Then it's amplified by orchestrated hoax by the world govt to drive people into war (in this case, bombing of Rio de Janeiro by bugs even when those bugs literally have zero knowledge about space travel thus making it impossible for them to actually attack earth) and Sean Patrick Harris character is obviously wearing a nazi uniform expy.

And yet, all those satires completely lost in translation for 90% of audience, who went "AW YEAH KILL ALL THOSE BUGS! AW YEAH BIG GUNS AND VIOLENCE! NUDITY AND SEX WOOOOOO!" and a franchise was born that no longer realizing the irony. It got so bad the sequel is trying so hard to show how it's supposed to be a satire by showing more about political side of it but the movie flopped hard.

Now with Judge Dredd it's also failed due to fear or crime thanks to mainstream media creating sensational news about how everyone is out trying to hurt or kill you even when in reality crime rate in USA actually keep dropping every year. And in other country it's taken as truth because it's what happened in their country, like how Philippines voted Duterte as their president because he's a literal Judge Dredd IRL even when he's not a police. But because the law enforcement is so bad in that country he made his own band of vigilantes and murder a lot of criminals and people actually approved of that.

Making satire is hard when the world go mad.

Satire? Really? I never got that. Dredd is a stuck up jerk for sure, but in universe his actions are deemed acceptable or even praiseworthy. Yet he never clearly becomes truly evil, he doesn't take bribes, knowingly kick innocent bystanders or visibly enjoy the pain he's inflicting. He doesn't comically fail either. He's.. just doing his job. Can't love him, can't deeply hate him, can't relate to him, can't laugh with him, can't laugh at him. And there is (in the 2012 movie and this game at least) no other character to really care about. Budget has nothing to do with that, it just seems like poor writing to me.

There are so many directions they could have taken. Be funny: make him a fool, slip and fall everywhere, pull a candy bar instead of a weapon out of his pocket to try and stop a criminal, but stay a stuck up jerk while falling down. (The Thin Blue Line basically, recommended) Comment on society: take bribes, get entangled in increasingly larger conspiracies to corrupt and betray society. Or just turn it into a classic murder mystery. Or a dumb action movie with a good guy and one or more bad guys.

Dredd as a character is mostly remarkable in how unremarkable he is. He is neither good nor evil, smart nor stupid, empathetic nor psychopathic, hero nor antihero, superhero/supervillain nor average Joe. The more I think about it, the more I'm amazed how incredibly bland Dredd really is.

The way I viewed the 2012 movie (and played the game) was as a dumb action movie, but Dredd is no hero, so it doesn't really work.
True that. I have met a police officer IRL who was more of a (cough) character than Dredd, go figure..

My wallet, my poor wallet.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a shooter? What can I shoot?

Interplay, if you read this: I have been waiting for a deeper sale for quite a while now. I'd buy several of these titles at 75% off from the current base price. (about €2.15) At 85% off (€1.29) I'd just buy everything. A few years ago the base price was much lower, but the discount percentage the same, so it was possible.

I can wait. Plenty of unplayed games in my library. No rush. You know where my wallet is.

GOG decides on the genre by throwing darts while blindfolded.

There are several walking simulators classed as action. Sequels indiscriminately belong to another genre. Flight simulators are split across three genres (action, shooter and simulation). At one point there was a game where the soundtrack belonged to a different genre to the actual game (Found an example: Shadows: Heretic Kingdom is action. Shadows: Heretic Kingdom soundtrack is role-playing)

Well, you can shoot yourself in the foot by making bad decisions :P

The discounts for the Q.U.B.E. 2 parts have been increased from a whopping 5% to at least 25% (perhaps the 5% should have been 50%, which we already have seen before ;P).

The only offer with a new highest discount seems to be Iron Storm, everything else already has been on sale at higher discounts.

Added:
• $2.99 • -50% • Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
• $4.99 • -50% • Descent
• $4.99 • -50% • Descent 2
• $4.99 • -50% • Descent 3 + Mercenary
• $4.99 • -50% • Descent: Freespace Battle Pack
• $4.99 • -50% • Evolva
• $4.99 • -50% • Freespace 2
• $4.99 • -50% • Redneck Rampage Collection
• $4.99 • -50% • Shattered Steel
• $4.99 • -50% • Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
• $4.99 • -50% • Subwar 2050 Complete
• $10.49 • -25% • Q.U.B.E. 2 Season Pass
• $17.99 • -40% • Starpoint Gemini 3
• $18.74 • -25% • Q.U.B.E. 2
• $22.78 • -40% • Starpoint Gemini 3: Supporter Bundle

Full list of games – in the post edited above.

Thanks for Subwar 2050 being on sale, I'll investigate on why I have bad luck in North Atlantic Mission 2.

Added:
• $16.49 • -45% • INSOMNIA: The Ark