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thought 1 I kinda didn't care about the game then I got told the main girl had abusive lesbian relations in the past... OK.
thought 2 acolyte writer was queer and identifies with villains. who would have thought that the people who want to destroy and corrupt a beloved franchise also identify with the villains.
thought 3 racists say they only want people to voice characters that match their intersectionality scorecard. not the best voice actors.
thought 2 acolyte writer was queer and identifies with villains. who would have thought that the people who want to destroy and corrupt a beloved franchise also identify with the villains.
thought 3 racists say they only want people to voice characters that match their intersectionality scorecard. not the best voice actors.
Rule The Waves 3 is coming out soon, first two games were excellent and the third is basically everything in the first two, plus a lot more.
I am pretty excited for it.
How Disco Elysium Was Stolen From Its Creators
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Gord is a fascinating knot of complex survival systems and Slavic lore
Survival game from ex-Witcher and 11 bit studios devs seems impressively layered
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So I've been pretty busy in a hilarious gaming escapade.
I'm trying to mod the 2000/2001 video game "Empire of the Ants". Amazingly fun and interesting little RTS game based on the 'Les Fourmis' novel series.
Firstly, the game is programmed in the obscure dead language...French. This already makes it a hilarious task to mod and tinker with because I don't speak French, although I am learning it through modding the game.
Oh wait I am getting ahead of myself, did I mention the entire game files are encrypted in some sort of generic but unique cipher? Because good luck modding it when every file looks like "ºŸÌîãäŸÒêèñìèò猉Œ‰ÚÀËÌÎÒÓÞÖÈÍÍÄÑÜŒ‰Œ‰ÌÒƼ¡ÈëŸíäŸãîèóŸäíŸñäòóäñŸðô¦ôí¡Œ‰"
Yeah it looks satanic, and somehow that translates into French.
But for some ungodly reason there exists a handful of non-encrypted files in Patch 1.61 ( released like...18 years ago) which are in the form of handy little .ini files!
So, with some elbow grease and shed blood I translated EVERY, FUCKING, CHARACTER, IN, THE, FILES. Creating a key for which character corresponds to what.
Inputting the key into a translation software helped so god damned much, turning some...120-180 keypresses per file into like 10.
Yay, file translated and ready to go, right?
>Opens game, fucking crash on level start
Oh that's great news, where did I go wrong this time?
>Crash again
>And again
Hmmmm...
A handy fella by the name of Emperor of the Great Unknown did all of this before me and gave me enough information and resources to do all of this myself, and made his own little mod to nerf a laughably overpowered faction.
Comparing my modded file to his showed that both were identical...Hmmm what gives?
>Fucking encoding is different, his is ANSI and mine is something else which I do not understand
Fine, re-encode the file to ANSI, done!
>Enters game, units die instantly when touching enemies
Uhhhh that is not normal...
>His doesn't have this issue
OH WHAT THE FUCK IS IT NOW!?
>The line-feed should be Carriage Return Line Feed
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Fixed that crap, now everything works hunky dory except all the numbers used are a complete joke.
Want an example? The Queen you use to make your armies and units lays an egg every 8000 seconds according to the code...Uhhh why the FUCK is it such a big number?
>Egg-laying-speed-modifier is 0.0005 for a worker/standard soldier, resulting in about 40 seconds per unit
WHY...NOT...JUST...USE...BETTER...COIFICIENTS
SERIOUSLY YOU CROISSANT DEVOURING FRENCHIES WHY DID YOU NOT JUST SET THE EGG RATE TO...OH I DUNNO 100 SECONDS THEN SET THE MODIFIERS TO SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE SCIENTIFIC NOTATION!?
Game has pretty simple graphics (hell a lot of ants are fucking SPRITES) but if you like RTS games, give it a shot, its fucking hard too because the English version of the game (still programmed in FRENCH) incorporates the addon content of the French release, turning the otherwise laughable Harvester Ants into the T-800 except in insectoid form.
The release on Zoom Platform is the only one which seems to work on my PC but some people report the GoG release functions fine (sure as fuck doesn't on my PC though, crash city).
I'm trying to mod the 2000/2001 video game "Empire of the Ants". Amazingly fun and interesting little RTS game based on the 'Les Fourmis' novel series.
Firstly, the game is programmed in the obscure dead language...French. This already makes it a hilarious task to mod and tinker with because I don't speak French, although I am learning it through modding the game.
Oh wait I am getting ahead of myself, did I mention the entire game files are encrypted in some sort of generic but unique cipher? Because good luck modding it when every file looks like "ºŸÌîãäŸÒêèñìèò猉Œ‰ÚÀËÌÎÒÓÞÖÈÍÍÄÑÜŒ‰Œ‰ÌÒƼ¡ÈëŸíäŸãîèóŸäíŸñäòóäñŸðô¦ôí¡Œ‰"
Yeah it looks satanic, and somehow that translates into French.
But for some ungodly reason there exists a handful of non-encrypted files in Patch 1.61 ( released like...18 years ago) which are in the form of handy little .ini files!
So, with some elbow grease and shed blood I translated EVERY, FUCKING, CHARACTER, IN, THE, FILES. Creating a key for which character corresponds to what.
Inputting the key into a translation software helped so god damned much, turning some...120-180 keypresses per file into like 10.
Yay, file translated and ready to go, right?
>Opens game, fucking crash on level start
Oh that's great news, where did I go wrong this time?
>Crash again
>And again
Hmmmm...
A handy fella by the name of Emperor of the Great Unknown did all of this before me and gave me enough information and resources to do all of this myself, and made his own little mod to nerf a laughably overpowered faction.
Comparing my modded file to his showed that both were identical...Hmmm what gives?
>Fucking encoding is different, his is ANSI and mine is something else which I do not understand
Fine, re-encode the file to ANSI, done!
>Enters game, units die instantly when touching enemies
Uhhhh that is not normal...
>His doesn't have this issue
OH WHAT THE FUCK IS IT NOW!?
>The line-feed should be Carriage Return Line Feed
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Fixed that crap, now everything works hunky dory except all the numbers used are a complete joke.
Want an example? The Queen you use to make your armies and units lays an egg every 8000 seconds according to the code...Uhhh why the FUCK is it such a big number?
>Egg-laying-speed-modifier is 0.0005 for a worker/standard soldier, resulting in about 40 seconds per unit
WHY...NOT...JUST...USE...BETTER...COIFICIENTS
SERIOUSLY YOU CROISSANT DEVOURING FRENCHIES WHY DID YOU NOT JUST SET THE EGG RATE TO...OH I DUNNO 100 SECONDS THEN SET THE MODIFIERS TO SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE SCIENTIFIC NOTATION!?
Game has pretty simple graphics (hell a lot of ants are fucking SPRITES) but if you like RTS games, give it a shot, its fucking hard too because the English version of the game (still programmed in FRENCH) incorporates the addon content of the French release, turning the otherwise laughable Harvester Ants into the T-800 except in insectoid form.
The release on Zoom Platform is the only one which seems to work on my PC but some people report the GoG release functions fine (sure as fuck doesn't on my PC though, crash city).
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By the way this the list of videogames developed by Avalanche Software and I wouldn't have expected them...to actually make a decent game.
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The funny thing about development studios is they swap hands so much that within a couple of years a 'team' capable of making world-class games, make complete stinkers.
They obviously brought on some good talent for Hogwarts, but as quickly as they find success, they could find failure.
Always grinds my gears when people go "But developers X made all these awesome games! How could they mess up this bad!?" COS THE DAMNED PEOPLE WORKING THERE BACK IN THE 90's AIN"T WORKING THERE NOW.
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A decent amount of those were actually good games though? Disney Infinity, Tak, Prince of Persia Arabian Nights, Mortal Kombat Trilogy... this is a solid pedigree.
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That's because Avalanche Software isn't really Avalanche Software.
Its the same brand, and a lot of the same core team, but Warner Bros acquired them and massively expanded the team to make Hogwarts Legacy.
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I am going to cross post in the movie thread as well. I expected it to be stuck in development hell frankly.
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I loved the Disney Infinity games and playing them with the kids. They had these cool world building editors where you could make your own maps and the like with Disney stuff. We were able to make a castle in one corner of a giant map with all sorts of stuff inside of it, and a giant racetrack around the entire map with jumps and ramps and everything and our own city block to race around in. Even a stadium for death matches because with the right inputs, you could actually set up versus battles between characters. Like Wampas versus Agrabah Guards or Stormtroopers versus Symbiotes IIRC. Wampas were really powerful! They could take on an entire squad of mooks.
I think the Toys to Life concept was really neat to be honest and was kind of bummed when all of the major games in that genre just discontinued making them within years of each other. I still have unopened Disney Infinity figures hanging about not because I'm a Collector but because I was saving them for gifts but no one wants toys for games they don't play anymore as a present.
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Ok maybe I should rephrase what I said previously with the fact I didn't expected to be that much more sophisticated as this Harry Potter game.
Though I think if it wasn't for the outrage-boycott it could have sold much less copies.
Just speculating though.