TF2 Classic (2010 era TF2) will have an official release soon.

The only time I ever tried loot boxes was with TF2 and Dota2 back in the early to mid 2010s.

I very quickly realized that this wasn’t what I was looking for in gaming. These days I mostly play indie games where monetisation is not issue. Even gave up on Paradox because I am not okay with their DLC approach. I don’t mind paying for DLC, but one has to look at their release of Cities: Skylines 2 to see that they’ve really become the “EA of Europe”.

I have a copy of Black Mesa, but have yet to play it. I will probably get the Blue Shift remake (do they have an Opposing Force remake?) and do back to back run closer to NYE.

I agree that it has a bit more personal feel and I like that it’s a different perspective on the events of HL, relatively original for the late 90s/early 2000s.

I really enjoy Blue Shift and Opposing Force, I thought the epilogue feel of those two expansions contributed to the overall Half-Life experience.

Every 2-3 years I do a back to back replay of HL/OF/BS.

HL2 + Expansion replays tend to be more like once in 4-5 years.

The city in the original was a huge, you could get lost exploring all the different neighbourhoods. Almost all of them had their own style and design.

If they have the resources (I am assuming Cloudpunk performed significantly above their initial projections), I have no issues with them taking longer (as long as they aren’t stuck in development hell).

If you Piefed, you’ll get big sacks of money instead.

Apologies, I misunderstood your comment. :)

Yes, I largely agree, although I generally can’t stand motion blur at all.

What’s wrong with not being able to turn off motion blur being a deal-breaker?

I would argue that this actually makes his opinion more relevant, as executive management is more likely to think like Ybarra, as opposed to someone that regrets the decline of Blizzard.

I wouldn’t limit it to x86 though.

Playstation 2 supported Linux and it ran MIPS, which was the architecture used in SGI Indigo systems, perhaps most famously seen in Jurassic Park’s “it’s a UNIX system” scene.

It seems that even Playstation One has an (early) public Linux port.

There is no right answer of course. :)

I guess it depends on how you define PC. But older consoles also used CPUs that were found in desktops (and laptops), although they weren’t PCs in the strict sense.

• Sega Mega Drive (and other consoles) used the Motorola 68K that was also used on Macintosh and Amiga.
• Game Gear and Sega Master System used the Zilog Z80 which was also used in the ZX Spectrum and other computers.
• N64, PSOne, PS2 used MIPS CPUs which were often used in high-end computer systems (SGI).

Consoles did often have custom GPUs though.

That being said, these days both Playstation and Xbox are literally locked down, custom form factor, AMD Ryzen CPU + Radeon GPU PCs.

The reviews for this game seem to be mostly positive (albeit it does seem like a short game). Surprised they have a mere 200 CCUs considering that DoubleFine is relatively well known.

I still play the original Majesty to this day (it’s been a quarter of century since I tried the demo from a gaming magazine CD).

There have been a lot of attempts to make a real sequel to Majesty. This seems like the closest one, but I have yet to play it myself.

The combat was honestly subpar (especially guns), but the quest design, character design, conversation and skill/clan system was super well done (I would argue these are critical elements for gameplay).

But those 81 cities take up a tiny portion of global land area.

A quick Excel import of the table from Wikipedia suggests that the “urban area” for those 81 cities is 190 K KM(2).

Total land mass on early 148.94 M KM(2).

So the world land could hold ~63,400 such cities.

It would likely take many years to build a city like Guadalajara (#81 on the wikipedia list).

So basically it has little to do with the original VTMB and what made it great (other than the brand name).

They should have just made a random vampire adventure game.

I think The Chinese Room makes solid games, but they have zero experience in immersive, complex RPGs.

Was going to try this on the weekend.

Too bad the demo is so bare bones.

I wonder if it would be possible to make a single-player release for EOL.

I’ve been meaning to try this out.
Thanks for the reminder!