I have supported GoG for quite some years. I don’t understand why they keep pivoting different things to do.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I would support paying for the initial game as well as every major patch when a new OS came out. Say, they do something to make a game work on Win 11. One year later we have Win 12 so I don’t mind paying a little for the patch. Then one year later we have Win 13 and I’m willing to pay again if I still play the game.
I would also support paying for online servers for games that have multiplayer components. That takes money to maintain.
As others mentioned, GoG should stop wasting time on a launcher. Hell, even the installer. Just ZIP the whole thing for me to download.
I would also support paying for online servers for games that have multiplayer components. That takes money to maintain.
If the developers were interested in allowing people to keep the servers running, they’d just give us the server code like they used to. If I was in charge of a GOG that was a little more flush with capital, I might fund an easy drop-in replacement library for Steam’s multiplayer APIs so that developers can easily port their games to GOG and be playable, in multiplayer, offline.
“The human mind. Six hundred miles of synaptic fiber, five and a half ounces of cranial fluid, fifteen hundred grams of complex neural matter… A three pound pile of dreams. But I’ll tell you what it really is. It is the ultimate battlefield–and, the ultimate weapon. The wars of this modern age–The Psychic Age-- are all fought somewhere between these damp, curvaceous undulations. From this day forward, you are all Psychic Soldiers. Paranormal Paratroopers! Mental Marines who are about to ship out on the adventure of their lives! THIS IS OUR BEACHHEAD. And this is your landing craft! You shall engage the enemy in his own mentality! You shall chase his dreams, you shall fight his demons, you shall live his nightmares! And those of you who fight well, you will find yourselves on the path to becoming international secret agents. In other words… Psychonauts! The rest of you… WILL DIE.”
Haha, and here I was thinking that I did horribly. I saw someone on a random reddit thread say they did it in 400 and something.
As I was typing this out I rechecked the thread and they we’re playing the full PC version with assist mode on. Apparently the PC version has the original playable within the game at some point. A quick Google search put the average at 1000-1200 or more deaths for the Pico-8 version.
So, damn. That makes me feel pretty awesome lol. Thanks for the kind words, you made my day!
I played the pico-8 version for the first time after the full game including all the B/C sides and farewell, so it took around 100 deaths, but thats with a significant amount of experience for the type of platforming Celeste offers and the type of level design Maddie and co tend toward.
Yeah, I dabbled a bit with the full game since I own it through itch.io. But never played past the third stage. I’m no stranger towards brutal platformers though, so maybe that gave me a little bit of a boost. I can hold my own with fairly difficult games and have even tried my hand at some Mario Kaizo hacks. That said, I still felt like I was doing a lot worse than I was apparently. It’s also been quite some time since I really took on a challenge of this difficulty, as I have been mostly been playing cozy stuff like TOEM and GNOG lately. I’m really enjoying the change of pace though, it feels good to beat a good challenge like this again. I’m playing through Celeste Classic 2 now, and I’ll be playing the full Celeste soon as well.
Makes sense, though unlike zero mission i suspect it would essentially be a graphical update more than a remake. Gameplay-wise dread isn’t that different from super
Same reason anyone has played any of the thousands of games that predate “the cloud” or games that don’t even have a save feature. Cloud saves? No thanks, never have, maybe never will.
Besides, if you’re not paying for the service, you’re the product not the consumer.
I remember playing super mario 6 golden coins 20 times and speedrunning it before I knew that was a thing. Nowardays I drop a game if it feels too generic and wonder why I have nothing to play.
any of the thousands of games that predate “the cloud” or games that don’t even have a save feature.
Well sure, but those games were all made with that specific context in mind. You don’t simply start over BotW each time and have as good of an experience, because that’s not how it was designed. You don’t design 25+ hours worth of content for a campaign and expect it to be fine for players to lose their progress. This is a portalable gaming handheld we’re talking about. You can drop it. You can lose it. Spills happen. SD cards get corrupted.
Besides, if you’re not paying for the service, you’re the product not the consumer.
It wouldn’t be a problem if it wasn’t a walled garden. Forcing payment for a basic feature plus not allowing any alternatives is classic anti-competitive behavior.
I do like the visuals AC shadows. They are very satisfying and I say this as someone who is willing to tolerate even bad art (not just average) as long as the gamplay is good.
Big tech (oraz technologia wojskowa) to działki gdzie najtrudniej będzie zastąpić amerykańców. Ale jak dla mnie to nie jest tylko jednorazowa akcja tylko pewien shift w myśleniu - część usług już wymieniłem, na część nie miałem jeszcze czasu, a wiele z alternatyw jeszcze nie istnieje albo jest zbyt niedojrzałe. Europejska konkurencja Google będzie za parę lat, doczekamy się i innych jak Office, jeśli ten shift będzie duży i trwały.
Co do social media to moda może zmienić się z dnia na dzień, gorzej z takim molochem jak FB, gdzie tysiące lokalnych firemek na całą swoją aktywność… Tu potencjalna zmiana może zająć najwięcej.
Zgadzam się. Nie chodzi o rewolucję, a o ewolucję. Do tego wydaje mi się, że wybieranie europejskich usług, nawet jeśli są niedoskonałe, daje szansę na ich powiększenie i udoskonalenie w przyszłości.
Faktycznie jednak ciężko zastąpić bigtechy - skoro jestem na FB od jakichś 15 lat, w Google podobnie (jak nie więcej), ciężko teraz wszystkie dane naraz przenieść np. Na Protona.
Powoli, krok po kroku. Mi to chwilę zajęło, żeby odciąć się od Google’a, ale satysfakcja z używania rzeczy robionych przez znajomych anarchistów przy użyciu wolnego oprogramowania zdecydowanie wynagrodziła jakikolwiek trud przełączenia się. I tu od razu zareklamuję disroot.org, które daje swego rodzaju coś podobnego do konta Google, tylko że lepsze, m.in. usługi takie jak konto xmpp, konto email, kalendarz, kontakty, dysk sieciowy, cospend i inne. Darmowe, aczkolwiek można (i warto) wesprzeć np. na Liberapay.
Powiedziałabym, że problem nie tkwi w trudności przenoszenia danych, a raczej w trudności “przenoszenia ludzi”, tak żeby oni zaczęli korzystać z nowych rozwiązań.
Dobrze, że wspomniałeś o czasochłonności tej zmiany. Jednak miło by było, gdyby wszystko to wydarzyło się w trybie natychmiastowym, ale z drugiej strony na rzeczywiście wypracowanie skutecznych rozwiązań potrzeba czasu.
I really wish GOG would do more to support Linux and the Deck. I started buying a little bit more there ever since Heroic came around but overall the Steam experience is still vastly superior.
I make sure that every game I buy on GOG is done so through Heroic, so that the team (hi, Linguin!) gets the small % of each sale. I do love that GOG have an arrangement with them - it makes me very glad there is some option. And lucky for us, that option is amazing.
It’d be kind of like if Assassin’s Creed Unity played the same song that was in that famous reveal trailer (…)
God, that AC Unity trailer with “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” might still be my all time favourite trailer. It’s so good.
I’m glad AC Shadows is going in a good direction though. I thought the series was completely lost after the shift to RPGs. Still not sure I’ll play it but I might consider it now on sale. Yours is not the first surprisingly positive review I’ve seen.
I agree. It still has a bit of a way to improve, but I’d say that if you were to pick it up though, the sale would be the safest bet, especially with the freakishly large base price tag
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