Oh good. Americans will swallow the fascist satire without realising the satire like they did with Starship Troopers.

Between your immediate downvotes and the tone of your message your response is unnecessarily long and rude

Firstly you could read user names before going off, I was simply asking a question that Im unwilling to buy the game to answer.

I haven’t played or watched Balataro but from the description on steam

You’re going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory.

Unless ante here is referring to something else it seems it does have them?

The anime one will be harder to source clips but I do recall creatures being released as ‘energy’ then forming quickly from thrown objects. Will need to get back to you on that one!

Gen 1 Pokemon designs were straight rips of Dragon Quest monsters.

Arguably the Poke ball mechanic first appeared in anime such as Dragon Ball, Im not sure on any games predating Pokemon, but if they had patented it with the first games release it would have expired by now.

Nintendo will pull off some bullshit but they really shouldn’t have a leg to stand on.

Like most fandom types gamers who make gaming their whole identity are prone to over reaction.

You just need to look at the insanity of the pro-shipping vs anti-shipping fandom ‘wars’ for another example lol

My response was all in good fun ;)

As a gamer, fuck you, funkos are for freaks who watch tv and have a Live. Laugh. Love. Doormat.

I can’t finish any bioware games because I always get so angry at the options and dialogue yet I see them being praised all the time.

I received a refund in 2018 though they have since tried changing their EULA and TOS to make it harder, they have no legal standing to refuse a refund to Australian customers.

I was refunded for around $750 USD IIRC and at one point was in email contact with Will Leverett prior to my refund being approved.

In what way is Nintendo guilty?

That’s hardly unique when damages exceed what a person can pay, wage garnishing is actually relatively common.

Nintendo also gave Gary Bowser a warning and he signed an agreement saying he would stop his illegal activities… and then he continued anyway.

They gave him an out at no cost and instead he landed himself in prison because he fucked around and found out.

In video games development, and more broadly in software development, Alpha state refers to a feature incomplete and largely untested state and is unrelated to internal/external sales, review, testing or release.

Alpha software is not thoroughly tested by the developer before it is released to customers.

While outside of recent trends, particularly in crowd funded games development, alpha releases to customers for paid software are less common they do occur and don’t have any bearing on the alpha state of the software.

In general, external availability of alpha software is uncommon for proprietary software, while open source software often has publicly available alpha versions.

Further

A feature-complete (FC) version of a piece of software has all of its planned or primary features implemented but is not yet final due to bugs, performance or stability issues. This occurs at the end of alpha testing in development.

And for Beta

Beta, named after the second letter of the Greek alphabet, is the software development phase following alpha. A beta phase generally begins when the software is feature-complete but likely to contain several known or unknown bugs

I am both a qualified software developer, and have worked in the video games industry. I hope you have learnt something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle

The industry definitions of alpha/beta disagree with you.

Words have meaning and you’re using them wrong.

Valve being pieces of shit while gamers worship them for no reason yet again.

Sometimes people want to play with a toy and not scream at their OS because of… millions of possible reasons.

How many times did you open terminal up to get a game working?

If it’s more than zero then it isn’t user friendly or accessible.

The reliance on the terminal holds Linux back.

The second there’s a problem all the guides on how to get stuff configured or fix a problem start with… open Terminal. At that point your average user is asking for Windows.

I say this as someone with over twenty years of experience with Linux. Users hate command line interfaces.

He did give reasons. Can’t you read?

See I thought of Rogue first but trusted the Guiness book of world records! I guess they need to be corrected

You’ve likely listened to the same or similar lectures I have on level design and I seriously apply those lessons to every single game and UI I have influence over!

Elite was the first game to utilize procedural generation, which has been extremely popular across multiple genres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-use-of-procedural-generation-in-a-video-game

While some might not consider it a game mechanic I certainly do, as gaming the proceduraly created levels is a core part of certain games, see mapping tactics in Diablo 2 for example as you use knowledge of procedural generation to reduce the time to find and kill bosses!

I would counter that FFXIV is poorly written, has horrible pacing and awful quest design.

The dungeons aren’t the worst Ive seen but offer little challenge.

You could finish a play through faster than I could list all the possible mods for you.

Download some big titty mods or whatever floats your boat and just do it

I need more representation in my gambling reeeeee

I’m confused how you think the insurance will work, as it seems you believe the 6 months in your example couldn’t be extended or renewed?

I doubt players following the ToS will ever lose ships bought with real money permanently as it would generate extremely negative press.

Though EVE online allows essentially the same thing and you can absolutely lose those ships and equipment.

I’ve seen this issue on my friends PC where he was using a hdd and had 16gb of ram but have never experienced it myself.

For comparison I ran the game fine for years on an 8700k 32gb ram with a 1080ti and an ssd.

Im surprised by some of the negativity here too… I have genuinely played hundreds of hours and yes, experienced bugs, but also had some extremely memorable experiences and lots of fun.

Two issues, you can download and play your games in ‘perpetuity’ so long as Valve continues on the current operating model.

And Valve has not been particularly consumer friendly in the past.

They were found to be violating consumer rights in Australia at the very least and had to put a large notification on their storefront to disclose exactly what they had been wrong.

Valve were forced into providing a refund model and even then it often conflicts with consumer interest. Though admittedly bad actors will always try to abuse any refund model on digital products.

Good to see you have formed a strong opinion without having all of the information.

I am not buying a 4060 to satisfy you when there are plenty of benchmarks available.

If you think an extra 3gb of vram makes no difference under any possible circumstances then you do you.

The 1080ti has the 4060 beat, just barely, in Metro Exodus.

Anything that requires signficant amounts of vram will see the 1080ti outperform the 4060, which despite being on a newer architecture also has a lower memory bus speed.

Almost everything. The 4060 has less vram which makes it fall behind in some circumstances.

The layoffs continued until 2010 in some places, which is when my whole team got axed.

That was not a fun time.

Im very happy to be in Cybersecurity now.

At least I know who to blame for such shit writing.

That’s a lot of words to say: expect possible delays to intels next gen and maybe an early release from amd.

I’m surprised they expect a dead game to continue to get treated like a live service.

One CCP rules over a dystopian hyper capitalist society brimming with war mongering psychopaths and scammers and the other runs China.

Can you link any prerelease announcements that include the bugs and performance issues?

The comments in here are really disappointing and a reflection of what this community has become, corporate bootlickers.

Excusing companies scamming customers because gamers dared to point out the scam? All because the companies quarterly profits weren’t up enough, is a really toxic state and not what this community should be.