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[Amentep]

i think I had Curse of Monkey Island and didn't get into it.

[Lexx]

I liked the first and second Monkey Island games the most... because I never bothered with any other due to the changed art style which I didn't liked at all. :> This is also why I didn't liked the remakes (well, and the obvious gamepad focus they had, plus you couldn't skip dialog anymore if I remember right... horrible, stupid changes)

 

Also the Indiana Jones games. I played Fate of Atlantis so, so, so often.

Edited June 15, 2018 by Lexx

[Keyrock]

For my money Curse of Monkey Island has the best insult swordfighting in the series.

[Malcador]

CMI gave us Murray.  And the pirate song.  Therefore it is best.

[Tale]

I cried the first two times I played through Tales of Monkey Island, therefore it is the best. Who wants to fight me?

[Fenixp]

I just assume Fenix is too young to know what a huge jump the Monkey Island games were in quality.

I, for one, assume Fenix was quite simply never into adventure games at large. I'm actually pretty sure I did play Monkey Island at some point, but only like first few screens. But, at the time my family actually did have money to buy a computer, Myst was out - and that was an audiovisual revelation ... That I didn't actually enjoy at all. Edited June 16, 2018 by Fenixp

[Katphood]

Played Monkey Island 1,2,3 back in the days. 2 was the best and the weirdest.

 

Briefly played Monkey Island 4 on the PS2 in 2001 but it didn't grow on me so I left it unfinished. Haven't played any Monkey Island games since then.

 

Btw, for those of you who are interested in the Prey: Mooncrash DLC:

 

Edited June 16, 2018 by Katphood

[Blarghagh]

Oof! I want to get Jurassic World Evolution but 60 bucks for a relatively shallow looking management game with DLC on the way? I will resist until that price falls a bit.

[Lexx]

Yeah, Jurassic World game looks interesting, but what the hell about the price.

[Katphood]

Man, I want Machine Games to make a Quake game similar to the first one. Actually, they released a free episode for Quake 1 a while ago. It would certainly be more interesting than Quake Champions.

Edited June 16, 2018 by Katphood

[Hurlshort]

 

I just assume Fenix is too young to know what a huge jump the Monkey Island games were in quality.

I, for one, assume Fenix was quite simply never into adventure games at large. I'm actually pretty sure I did play Monkey Island at some point, but only like first few screens. But, at the time my family actually did have money to buy a computer, Myst was out - and that was an audiovisual revelation ... That I didn't actually enjoy at all.

If Myst was out when you started your pc voyage, then you were a generation after the release of Monkey Island. The release of Myst was towards the end of the whole adventure game dominance, whereas Monkey Island was the height. Even though it really was only a few years, the tech was moving so quickly back then that made a huge difference.

 

In short, adventure games were pretty much all you had on the PC in the 80's. I started with King's Quest and The Black Cauldron, so when Monkey Island hit the scene, it was a dramatic jump in everything. If Myst was out when you jumped on board, you missed it. I never dug Myst either, we had way more quality action and RPG options by then (Might and Magic III!).

 

Not that it's a big deal, but as the video you posted showed, it continues to influence more modern games with the way it handled production and many of the gameplay systems. 

Edited June 16, 2018 by Hurlshot

[Malcador]

 

 

https://www.pcgamer.com/hands-on-with-turn-based-cold-war-spy-thriller-phantom-doctrine/

[Keyrock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BVcjfJynyg

 

 

https://www.pcgamer.com/hands-on-with-turn-based-cold-war-spy-thriller-phantom-doctrine/

I'm definitely very interested in this game.

[Mamoulian War]

New Tales of... game in the works. Nothing specific announced yet, but small teaser revealed at the end of Tales of Festival 2018.

 

http://www.abyssalchronicles.com/news/new-tales-series-mothership-title-works

[marelooke]

Played Monkey Island 1,2,3 back in the days. 2 was the best and the weirdest.

 

Briefly played Monkey Island 4 on the PS2 in 2001 but it didn't grow on me so I left it unfinished. Haven't played any Monkey Island games since then.

 

Btw, for those of you who are interested in the Prey: Mooncrash DLC:

 

 

And then rinse and repeat... I'll wait for a sale.

[Chilloutman]

I just love that narrator:

 

[Mamoulian War]

Some Cyberpunk 2077 impressions from playable demo by Ars Technica.

 

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/cyberpunk-2077-world-premiere-50-minutes-of-william-gibson-level-insanity/

[Tale]

Steam is launching its creator pages where you can follow and get announcements of new games.

 

Obsidian doesn't have one, neither does Bethesda for that matter. CD Projekt RED does, on the other hand. Paradox has two! One for developer and one for publisher.

[Malcador]

"Deus Ex's freeze-and-strategize tactics"

 

What ?

[Malcador]

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evk7ak/game-developers-dump-redshell-tracking-program-after-privacy-backlash

 

Across Reddit and Steam forums, a few people are getting up in arms about Redshell, a tracking program that game developers use to see how well their advertising is working. To customers, Redshell represents yet another uninvited invasion of digital privacy. And while people on gaming forums being upset isn't unusual—and Redshell itself seems to be mostly harmless—developers are dumping Redshell with unusual speed.

 

The snowball started a week ago with a post on reddit about Holy Potatoes! We're in Space?!, a space exploration game. Within a couple of days, these small potatoes had started to grow as other users found the Redshell analytics program installed on their own games. General paranoia and frustration over digital privacy rights and surveillance fueled the spread of the post into other gaming communities. The list expanded into a Google spreadsheet that included games like Civilization VI, Kerbal Space Program, and Elder Scrolls Online.

Seems like something people shouldn't be too surprised at.

[evilcat]

WHO states that there exist Gaming Addition

http://www.who.int/health-topics/international-classification-of-diseases

 

Serious: Probably exist, there are online disorders or eating disorders, could be gaming.

Pros: Scientists could publish research about VGA, also get funds for that.

Public health system could fund therapy either by psychotherape or alternative like soccer youth team, or painting lessons.

There could be complex disorder with compulive gaming being easy to spot, but ill could have more in mind, like depression or something like that.

 

Less Serious: Can i take sick day to play Deadfire?

Edited June 20, 2018 by evilcat

[marelooke]

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evk7ak/game-developers-dump-redshell-tracking-program-after-privacy-backlash

 

Across Reddit and Steam forums, a few people are getting up in arms about Redshell, a tracking program that game developers use to see how well their advertising is working. To customers, Redshell represents yet another uninvited invasion of digital privacy. And while people on gaming forums being upset isn't unusual—and Redshell itself seems to be mostly harmless—developers are dumping Redshell with unusual speed.

 

The snowball started a week ago with a post on reddit about Holy Potatoes! We're in Space?!, a space exploration game. Within a couple of days, these small potatoes had started to grow as other users found the Redshell analytics program installed on their own games. General paranoia and frustration over digital privacy rights and surveillance fueled the spread of the post into other gaming communities. The list expanded into a Google spreadsheet that included games like Civilization VI, Kerbal Space Program, and Elder Scrolls Online.

Seems like something people shouldn't be too surprised at.

 

 

"tracking" "mostly harmless", those don't belong in the same sentence without a negation.

[Zoraptor]

It's Vice, they're a corporate stooge so long as it's the right corporates. They'd also be concerned saying anything that might put gamers in a positive light lest said gamers turn out to have 'gator' at the end.

 

 

WHO states that there exist Gaming Addition

http://www.who.int/health-topics/international-classification-of-diseases

 

Serious: Probably exist, there are online disorders or eating disorders, could be gaming.

Pros: Scientists could publish research about VGA, also get funds for that.

Public health system could fund therapy either by psychotherape or alternative like soccer youth team, or painting lessons.

 

Less Serious: Can i take sick day to play Deadfire?

 

You can get addicted to gaming for sure, I very much doubt it's unique enough to deserve a separate category though. You can get addicted to pretty much anything that has a reward reaction, as it's the reward reaction you usually get addicted to.

[marelooke]

It's Vice, they're a corporate stooge so long as it's the right corporates. They'd also be concerned saying anything that might put gamers in a positive light lest said gamers turn out to have 'gator' at the end.

 

Yeah, quite obviously so. There's so much wrong with that article...

 

 

To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation—or GDPR—in Europe, Redshell began encrypting IP addresses and Steam IDs

Just...no...that's not how the GDPR works. Encrypting information you don't have the right to collect in the first place doesn't suddenly make you GDPR compliant.

 

It's also funny that they mention it not being in the EULA for at least one game, as if it being in there would have somehow made a difference. Afaiu (ianal) you need explicit consent for the collection of any personally identifiable data, these things being hidden in EULAs nobody reads that are written in legalese being exactly one of the things the GDPR was designed to combat.

 

The entire thing seems like a massive GDPR violation and given the speed with which it was dropped it seems as though the companies involved (or their lawyers at least) are well aware of it...

 

Could be pretty interesting if someone decided to take this to court. Preferably a German one as they're seemingly quite fast and keen to set examples when it comes to privacy given ICANN was one of the first to lose a case about the GDPR for requiring more data than they strictly needed.

 

EDIT: typo

Edited June 20, 2018 by marelooke

[Malcador]

 

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evk7ak/game-developers-dump-redshell-tracking-program-after-privacy-backlash

 

Across Reddit and Steam forums, a few people are getting up in arms about Redshell, a tracking program that game developers use to see how well their advertising is working. To customers, Redshell represents yet another uninvited invasion of digital privacy. And while people on gaming forums being upset isn't unusual—and Redshell itself seems to be mostly harmless—developers are dumping Redshell with unusual speed.

 

The snowball started a week ago with a post on reddit about Holy Potatoes! We're in Space?!, a space exploration game. Within a couple of days, these small potatoes had started to grow as other users found the Redshell analytics program installed on their own games. General paranoia and frustration over digital privacy rights and surveillance fueled the spread of the post into other gaming communities. The list expanded into a Google spreadsheet that included games like Civilization VI, Kerbal Space Program, and Elder Scrolls Online.

Seems like something people shouldn't be too surprised at.

 

 

"tracking" "mostly harmless", those don't belong in the same sentence without a negation.

 

 

Well, Vice was the only one I had found at the time, It's on PCG and others now.   Interestingly some people are a-okay with it, some saying it's needed to make the games better.