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Well thank you for making it free for everyone else!
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I figured I'd download it anyway, since the version I have is for the PS, and I'll never play that version because the controls aren't customisable (whatever pillock thought that left/right strafe on the left stick is the best control layout for a game that requires precision jumping is so far beyond idiot-level that he has to look up to see marketing pros), and they might be for the PC version.
And, joy of joys, it requires installation of yet another bloatware "helper" program that comes in any mode you like, as long as it's black.
That's four, now. At least it's not as bad as that godawful travesty of UX that steam forces you to install, if you want any access at all to your paid-up-front property.
I miss just going to game shops, looking at boxes, and trying them out (without having to install anything on my machines).
Finding and buying games was fun, then. Now, it's just a pure PiTA.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Finding and buying games was fun, then. Now, it's just a pure PiTA. I agree... I still have some classics in CD (Age of Empires, Starcraft, Diablo 2, Warcraft 2, Recoil, Avalon Stories...) and have made images of them. virtually mounting them and play it without having to install anything else.
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RickZeeland wrote: Ni ! No!
And keep that Lara Croft out of it, too!
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In the library (once inside the Ubisoft App) the list is bigger. Pity is that most are trials or demos.
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Does it worth to install wine or VM? Because Tomb Raider wasn't that much of a game...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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for the little part I have played...
The game itself might be played in a VM, it is not that heavy in resources needs. One can see that the game came in 2009, the graphics are good for that moment but look poor nowadays (I would say worse than Tomb Raider), the dynamics look "easy" but controling things correctly needs a while.
The story I can't tell, I just played less than an hour.
A friend of mine has played it through three times, so I suppose it means something. Albeit I suppose I won't like it more than Assesin's Creed IV (Black Flag).
I have installed it in my main OS, but because my PC is quite old (playing it in a VM would probably be a bit challenging for me) and I am anyways going to img-restore it soon, so I don't really care that much because it will disappear with other things I have checked lately.
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modified 16-Apr-20 11:09am.
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I more after a good story and gameplay than extreme graphics...
Tomb Raider has a very poor one IMHO...
I installed Assassin's Creed II on Wine and so far it looks good (but a bit more demanding on the hardware)...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Tomb Raider has a very poor one IMHO... The story could get a pass, but the gameplay... yeah, it could be a bit more fun.
But for a free game... one can't complain. And I spent a nice time playing it.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Tomb Raider wasn't that much of a game Maybe not, but the time I got Laura stuck to a rock wall 20 ft. in the air by her...um.. assets.. was priceless. They just don't make entertainment like that any more.
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Epic Games is giving Just Cause 4 free until April 23, 2020.
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you got caught by the spam filter. I don't really understand why, but anyways... next time don't repost, just be a bit patient, it needs a human confirmation.
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How many people can say they invented their own "Game of Life," not just played a hand-me-down version ?
Nature (scroll down): [^]
"14 April 17:00 BST — Mathematician John Conway dies of COVID-19
Renowned British-born mathematician John Conway died aged 82 on 11 April, reportedly of complications arising from COVID-19.
Conway attained a legendary status among maths and science enthusiasts, mostly by designing mathematical games and puzzles. But his work transcended the boundary between recreational and ‘serious’ maths, turning play into research and vice versa. "He’s been known to carry on his person a few decks of cards, dice, ropes, pennies, coat hangers, sometimes a Slinky, maybe a miniature bicycle, all props he deploys to extend his winning imagination," wrote biographer Siobhan Roberts in 2015.
His celebrity status was cemented by Martin Gardner’s popular maths column in the magazine Scientific American, which featured many of Conway’s contributions, beginning in 1970 with his Game of Life, a minimalistic 2D model universe in which ‘organisms’ grow and multiply on the basis of simple rules.
Conway had taught at Princeton University in New Jersey since 1987, and his research spanned several fields of mathematics. In algebra, he studied the ‘monster group’, an object that has an enormous — but not infinite — number of symmetries. With the late British mathematician Simon Norton, he formulated the ‘monstrous moonshine’ conjectures, linking the monster group to an entirely different subject in mathematical analysis."
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Is a dog that likes bubble baths a Shampoodle?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes! And if it likes bubbly, it's a champoodle.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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(Serious comment: )
Seeing-eye dogs for users allergic to dogs' coat are often labradoodles - a cross breed between labrador and poodle. The poodle's coat is usually acceptable to allergics, and the labradoodle has inherited this trait.
(So why don't they use large purebred poodles? I don't know if this is an international phenomenon or specific to Norway: The Poodle owner's organization are actively boycotting the use of poodles for menial work. They consider the poodle to be such high class that members selling puppies to be trained as seeing-eye dogs are kicked out. So those training the dogs switched to labradoodles rather than going to poodle-napping to get enough dogs for the allergics.)
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Does severe flatulence == shampoo?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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You stupid boy Pike
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Is a poodle-American a Yankee Doodle?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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No, but I proposed to my now wife on St. Patricks day and gave her a fake diamond ring...aka a shamrock.
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