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Volte posted:My unfounded guess is that Tim Sweeney thinks that they dilute the Unreal brand and memory-holing them will somehow help Unreal Engine's prospects outside the video game space
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Volte posted:I got the DVD version gently caress! I was stuck just manually downloading all the Editor's Choice stuff like a pleb for years any time I reinstalled the game.
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Apr 6, 2024 18:19
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I’m sorry but I regard my time spent installing games from six discs as a fond memory, a romance of what once was. Yeah it’s easier now but sitting and waiting and reading the manual has its own charms.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Some stuff in ut2k4 holds up really well, the basic movement and weapon feel is pretty universally great, the maps are a mixed bag but often solid, but a lot of the single player and bot stuff is weak. The team management stuff is very dumb and not fun, and I think bots (I forget if online voice commands are a thing) have a tendency to yell dumb poo poo like "eat it bitch" all the time. I played through all of 99 campaign on I think inhuman difficulty but the second I reached the actual teamplay portions of 2k4, I had to stop because the teammates were so loving stupid. Just completely ignored orders while also being very bad at it. I'm pretty sure it was CTF that was the problem, easily my least favorite game format though
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Arivia posted:I’m sorry but I regard my time spent installing games from six discs as a fond memory, a romance of what once was. Yeah it’s easier now but sitting and waiting and reading the manual has its own charms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0qwtS0z3Pk I love that they kept these for the remasters 
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Apr 6, 2024 18:31
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tim sweeny is a sack of garbage and if we cross paths im going to stuff him headfirst in a trash bin and kick it down the stairs this means you, tim! Fucker!!
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Apr 6, 2024 18:54
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I'm probably just going to keep being annoying and passive-aggressive about it on the internet. Seems easier.
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Arivia posted:I’m sorry but I regard my time spent installing games from six discs as a fond memory, a romance of what once was. Yeah it’s easier now but sitting and waiting and reading the manual has its own charms. The good news is that modern console games take loving ages to install now so you can read that... Slip of paper that's in the PS5 game case. Oh.
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Mr. Sharps posted:tim sweeny is a sack of garbage and if we cross paths im going to stuff him headfirst in a trash bin and kick it down the stairs lol when I first posted this I felt a bit mean, but as the years pass I feel less and less so. NoneMoreNegative posted:Just started watching the UNREAL ENGINE 5 preview video, and oh my god Tim Sweeney is so awkward on a stage / in front of a camera; a man designed by God for sitting at the Computer.
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Apr 6, 2024 21:22
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Deakul posted:Kids these days will never know the agony of installing games that came on 6+ discs. I guess that you didn't know that you could just copy all 6 CDs to the HDD in a single folder then burn that to a DVD and it would install perfectly? It had no burning protection at all so it was easy to make a single disc inataller
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Apr 6, 2024 23:30
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Fil5000 posted:The good news is that modern console games take loving ages to install now so you can read that... Slip of paper that's in the PS5 game case. Oh. It’s even better when you get disc that just acts as a key to play the game and it downloads the entire thing.
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Apr 6, 2024 23:32
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just look at your phone or something
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Quantum of Phallus posted:just look at your phone or something Encouraging self-harm isn't allowed anymore
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Apr 6, 2024 23:58
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Phones suck
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Baron von Eevl posted:Some stuff in ut2k4 holds up really well, the basic movement and weapon feel is pretty universally great, the maps are a mixed bag but often solid, but a lot of the single player and bot stuff is weak. The team management stuff is very dumb and not fun, and I think bots (I forget if online voice commands are a thing) have a tendency to yell dumb poo poo like "eat it bitch" all the time. Try turning the safety off. 
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Fil5000 posted:The good news is that modern console games take loving ages to install now so you can read that... Slip of paper that's in the PS5 game case. Oh.  we hosed up worst when nintendo stopped doing them, and they always had nice color printing and original concept art
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My thoughts on Minerva: It wasn't that great, and often quite aggravating. I get wanting to make a Half-Life 2 mod with heavy emphasis on combat. Problem is, combat isn't the best part of Half-Life. Even with MMod I was struggling. The puzzles were often obtuse or obscured by the level design and poor lighting. Valve puzzles are great about giving you subtle hints. Minerva puzzles don't give you that much, probably to stymie players enough so they see more brilliant writing from Dollar Store Durandal giving a hint. Yeah, I think I've had enough Half-Life. Don't even wake me up when HL3 gets released.
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Deakul posted:Kids these days will never know the agony of installing games that came on 6+ discs. The true nadir is games that came on a huge stack of discs and required you to constantly switch between them while playing, like Riven. Thank god that later got a DVD release. Honourable mention to FF7PC, which came on three discs and required minimal disc swapping to play but, for reasons which remain obscure to me, also took two and a half days to install.
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Seven disks. FF7 for the PC took seven disks, I still vividly remember the cd sleeve.
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Was gonna say it's funny that everyone remembers Riven as being excessive at 5 discs except that was actually a median number. Also the game was designed relatively well enough that disc swaps weren't arbitrary, each one corresponded to a particular location or locations. And it was cool cuz 5 was a significant number in the game anyway. I think Ripper was also something like 7-8 discs?
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Apr 7, 2024 02:40
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"Seven discs! The game came on seven discs!" "In a row?"
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Serephina posted:Seven disks. FF7 for the PC took seven disks, I still vividly remember the cd sleeve. I don't think you do because ToxicFrog is right. FF7 PC only had four discs (three data discs, as the PS1 version did, plus one install disc). Similarly, FF8 PC had five; one more than its PS1 counterpart. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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I remember the Ross's Game Dungeon review of irreverent godawful adventure game Armed and Delirious talking about how, even if you did everything correct the first time and didn't do any unnecessary backtracking or confused wandering, the game required like 26 disc swaps.
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Mak0rz posted:I don't think you do because ToxicFrog is right. FF7 PC only had four discs (three data discs, as the PS1 version did, plus one install disc). Yeah FF7 definitely had 4 discs for the PC version
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Angry_Ed posted:Yeah FF7 definitely had 4 discs for the PC version Didn't the PS version have the entire game on each disc, and it only needed 3 to contain the different FMVs at various points in the story?
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I remember the Ross's Game Dungeon review of irreverent godawful adventure game Armed and Delirious talking about how, even if you did everything correct the first time and didn't do any unnecessary backtracking or confused wandering, the game required like 26 disc swaps. Yeah and it was according to the walkthrough made by the game's lead tester, which was the only resource on completing the game anywhere on the internet.
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Mak0rz posted:I don't think you do because ToxicFrog is right. FF7 PC only had four discs (three data discs, as the PS1 version did, plus one install disc). Maybe it was only five? They came in a 3-way folding brouchure in order to fit them all. Found someone who took a pic, but not unfolded:  but I'm still fairly confident it was more than 3 cds.
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Serephina posted:Maybe it was only five? They came in a 3-way folding brouchure in order to fit them all. Found someone who took a pic, but not unfolded: It was! It was four! Edit: the trifold had the install disc and disc 1 on the left, discs 2 and 3 on the right, and a sleeve holding the manual in the center. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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My copy had 8 discs but I can't take a picture because my girlfriend took it back with her to Canada. Hopefully next summer you can meet her.
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I bought FF7 on Steam and it didn't come with any discs? Please advise
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Serephina posted:Maybe it was only five? It was definitely more than three but definitely less than five. I'm not sure the exact number
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Trip Hazard posted:It was definitely more than three but definitely less than five. I'm not sure the exact number Threeve?
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I think HL2 came out on like 7 CDs in America
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Is there a way to play Marathon 1 with Marathon 2's graphics & sprites?
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Volte posted:My unfounded guess is that Tim Sweeney thinks that they dilute the Unreal brand and memory-holing them will somehow help Unreal Engine's prospects outside the video game space Unfounded guess or otherwise, this is also how I read it. From an entirely soulless business perspective, I think you can see how an ultra-violent, bloody (puerile?) shooter from the 90’s doesn’t fit into how the modern Epic operate or view themselves as a business. My fantasy draft take is that there’s an effort to remaster them, either internally or shipping the IP to Night Dive. As I say.. fantasy stuff.. but I don’t see how a company like Epic that wants all of the money looks at what’s happening across the industry with other classic 90’s IP and decides the best thing to do with Unreal is to erase it..
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Weirdest thing for me is that the original games have dated, for the most part, really well. Maybe Tim doesn't like the fact that the original engine still stands up with custom renderers and the decades of cool mods makes DLC in modern games look stingy and overpriced
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John Murdoch posted:Also the game was designed relatively well enough that disc swaps weren't arbitrary, each one corresponded to a particular location or locations.
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Doctor Bishop posted:"Seven discs! The game came on seven discs!" lol
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