As much as it pains me to say it, you are right on so many points.
Take DSA (Das Schwarze Auge / The Dark Eye, formerly Realms of Arkania in countries outside Germany). It was a thing since the 80s, originally sold by one of the largest board game companies out there, then later by Fantasy Productions (who also ran…

Yup. Got a Xeon on my old X99 mainboard, it allows for 768GB of RAM. And with it not needing fast memory at all, getting some ECC DDR4 server sticks is not that expensive.
And that is a 7 year old CPU, mind you.

Hah. Nice that this problem will solve itself in Europe, because the maximum weight most people with driving licenses here may commandeer is 2.8 tons fully loaded.
That leads to absurd stuff like 2.4 ton vehicles that - after 5 average adults have boarded them at 80kg each (which is the EU norm passenger iirc) may not…

I wanted to ask if you played Rally Chamionship 2000, but then I looked it up again, and I saw that there was only a PSX1 port of it called Mobil1 Rally Championship - and it lacked in the graphics department and apparently sensation of speed/driving, compared to the PC version.
It had not very detailed looking…

But the typical COD player is a reflection of the apparent working conditions at Blizztivision, and so they don’t want the “socialist snowflakes” to “take away their game from them”.

Seriously, what you read online just makes your head hurt. Then watch a video of a COD console tournament, and how the teams act, and…

Funny. I remember the Commodore Amiga having a voice synthesizer built in (think it was even written in BASIC). I remember when Microsoft added “Microsoft Sam” as a text-to-speech tool. I remember FR-030 Candytron, a Demo by FarbRausch in 64kb wich packed not only nice visuals, but also a voice synthesizer (and…

A GTX980 should be more powerful than a 1060 though. So the above statement is not correct, if the game is not specifically using anything that was only added with the 10x-generation of nvidia cards - afaik only the 20x-generation really added new stuff (RTX and so on).
Especially a 980ti can even kick the ass of a…

And I hate it that Volvo all but forgot about the 480. That was the most forward-thinking car they ever put out. First FWD car of Volvo, and standard options in 1986 were onboard computer with fuel consumption, temperatures with warnings, range and other stuff, illuminated door keyhole (LED behind transparante plastic…

This reminds me to go check if Super Rub-A-Dub is still on my old PS3.

Since when it the license to kill unquestionable?
In a civilised country the police will have to issue a loud, hearable warning before even firing a shot, and give the target enough time to surrender peacefully. Also, they have to file a report for every time they fired a gun while on duty, and every time somebody is…

For some select few companies. And even with those, you see record profits for a select few games, you never hear about the dozen titles that get shelved for every title that makes it even into alpha testing.

Developing games has come with such high expectations by consumers that creating a game with top-notch visuals…

The Predecessor of the 480 for a lowly 19.000 in such a beautiful condition? NP all the way, I’ve seen normal P1800 in worse condition been offered for more money.
Such a lovely place to be in, that car is just fantastic for a relaxed cruise.

The worst thing is that she now faces hate from all those neckbeards who accuse her of lying to them for years, a lot go as far as to want all of the money back they donated, even seeking punitive damages - or worse.

None of them realize what pressure she has been under or why she did this, they don’t see her as a…

The Golf Bon Jovi is nothing special. Throughout the models (Golf 1 (Cabriolet) to Golf 3), they also had Genesis, Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd. The Genesis had a cool purple color, while the Pink Floyd came optional in “Soundblue pearl” which was a really, really nice colour (too bad a lot of people opted out due to…

Played it at launch on PC, with an old Xeon and a Vega64. Got decent fps with (apart from Raytracing, not supported on that card) almost maxed out visuals. Vehicle controls were a bit like driving a Warthog in the first Halo, apart from that it ran fine. Encountered only one breaking bug on a side quest, that could be…

ah I see that you are an ignorant troll who probably has never played what is currently offered to those who have put in the sum needed to try out SC: Zero.
Yes. Zero. There are lots of events throughout the year when you can try out what’s currently avaiable for nothing.
If you want, you can purchase a starter…

Ads. They are bad on Twitch, but worse on Youtube. Also the platform itself doesn’t work as well for a lot of people as Twitch, plus Twitch has those open APIs for game integration and interaction with your audience.
Also, Youtube Streaming is not available in every european country for everyone due go GDPR regulations.

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Yeah. I was always upset at my last company when a game that looked good and seemed fun was cancelled during development or - in some cases - during public beta.
But in the end, it was probably for the greater good of the game, saved it from a fate like this. You can become blind to glaring flaws as a developer when…

At least in this regard, Star Citizen ist the only game I know of which did it somewhat different. Because they vowed to give playable snippets to their community as early as possible, they always finished some stuff up so it was presentable if not (in the later years) nearly finished. Of course, going this route,…

They also slipped up with PS2, it was 749 here at launch. With one controller, no memory card, no game. Dreamcast was 399 at that time, quickly lowered to 299. But PS2 hat a DVD player built in, and DVD players themselves were expensive at that point. So a lot of people used that to justify the purchase, even though…