Love me some old games.
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TL;DW: Mario blinks at a set interval even after level loads to prove legendary Japanese speedrunner of old, who even had a timing sequence named after him, of cheating by splicing. Even in the run that gave him his fame.
Quite interesting video showing different ways people can prove a run is spliced.
For the future maybe. For games that were sold one day, they would have to either keep supporting it, or release server software.
It is up to the gamers to keep supporting this practice in the future.
I can still play Unreal Tournament '99 and 2004 even though the servers are offline. I can even still play it online with the server ip and even use the server browser with fan mods.
You can’t say the same for the crew when it goes offline.
Post by user:
Capcom has implemented your product on their back catalogue of games and it’s causing performance drops, crashes and has broken many popular mods people use to make these games run better.
The PC community is very angry and has noticed the implementation of your product. It is being mentioned in a ton of negative steam reviews.
You should be aware that there is likely a huge negative PR storm coming your way and possibly offer Capcom advice on how to implement your product properly as you’ve angered a lot of people. It wouldn’t surprise me if big PC YouTubers like Digital Foundry pick up on the issue and make their many subscribers aware.
Reply by developer:
Curious, what action do you need from us? And why do you blame us that someone use our software? Someone use, we do not push to use it. What is our guilt you think?
And why are you so sure that all that you reported belongs to our software?
Maybe you are so angered because you can’t use the cheats anymore?
Best reply is always be a dick. Fuck corporations that act like this
Edit: it seems like the thread is deleted now.
Are you implying doom is not palatable? It’s a matter of taste, but of all the old FPS games, Doom is one of the most replayable in my opinion. Even without nostalgia goggles. The gameplay is tight, the weapons are timeless. The only thing that dates it other than the obvious graphics, is the level design can be a little tedious.
Never heard of them. But if you want to play old dos/win3x era games, you might want to give http://retro-exo.com a shot. ExoDOS v6 recently released, and there is a lite version. They attempt to archive all DOS games (or win3x games for exoWin3x) it might also have most games you’re looking for.
So pressing unfinished games on disks is fine for you? They should release a finished game. What if the console shop or server goes offline? How can you play it then? For preservation, day one patches are a nightmare.
I’m glad to see the trend of releasing more games for pc beside their console counterpart rising. It makes preservation easier.
Day one patch means they released an unfinished game. They haven’t done enough testing before physical production. Also fucks over the people with a slow connection.
A patch 1 year after release is fine. Some people found a rare bug which can be fixed. If the game gets patches 1 year or longer after release tells me the developers have love for their game and/or community for fixing it long after they had any obligation to.
It’s basically the same game just with modern controller support and HD graphics. It looks better. The 3d FMVs look less dated.
Edit: I had Full Throttle in my head. But mostly the same pretty much applies to Gim Fandango. And they made the tank controls optional. It plays like an actual point and click now.
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Everything was under delivered since the early 90s by Peter. I think het just gets off from the attention. Considering most of the projects were a financial success nonetheless, he probably saw this as a reason to keep doing it.
This really bit him in the end though with godus. A failed god game where he went to kickstarter for money. I guess releasing an under promised game when you ask for money before making it, promising all sorts of things and never delivering it is not really good PR.