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I make and play games - playing games I use as a reward for reaching specific milestones within my various development projects. I've played a wide variety of games, having started at the tender age of three and worked my way up over the years so that, at one point, I was actually going out of my way to find the original games (cartridges, CDs, whatever) to play.
All games I elect to review must be 'Complete' status (though games still in the process of clearing out bugs are fine and will be noted in the review itself). These games must have a download on RMN (as I pass them to my Dropbox queue) and need to be self contained - everything I need to play should be in the download, without needing to install anything (including RTPs; we aren't living in the days of slow connections anymore, people). You should also have any fixes in the download, not something I have to look through the comments for - I'm going to be avoiding them like the plague until I've finished the review.
When I review a game, I try to play as much of it as I can possibly stand before posting the review - I make notes/write part of the review as I'm playing, so a lot of what goes into the review is first impressions of sections. I'm also not a stickler - things don't have to be perfect - but I've seen many examples of things not done perfectly but, at the same time, not done horribly. I rate five categories on a scale from 1 to 10: Story, Graphics, Sound, Gameplay & Pacing, and Mapping & Design. 5 is average to me, so it's not necessarily saying that category is bad - it's saying it's middle of the road. Games within the same editor are compared to one another, not games across editors (I'm not going to hold an RM2k game to the same standards as a VX Ace game due to system limitations, but I won't let it hold back the RM2k game's rating) - unless the game is part of a series across multiple editors.
All games I elect to review must be 'Complete' status (though games still in the process of clearing out bugs are fine and will be noted in the review itself). These games must have a download on RMN (as I pass them to my Dropbox queue) and need to be self contained - everything I need to play should be in the download, without needing to install anything (including RTPs; we aren't living in the days of slow connections anymore, people). You should also have any fixes in the download, not something I have to look through the comments for - I'm going to be avoiding them like the plague until I've finished the review.
When I review a game, I try to play as much of it as I can possibly stand before posting the review - I make notes/write part of the review as I'm playing, so a lot of what goes into the review is first impressions of sections. I'm also not a stickler - things don't have to be perfect - but I've seen many examples of things not done perfectly but, at the same time, not done horribly. I rate five categories on a scale from 1 to 10: Story, Graphics, Sound, Gameplay & Pacing, and Mapping & Design. 5 is average to me, so it's not necessarily saying that category is bad - it's saying it's middle of the road. Games within the same editor are compared to one another, not games across editors (I'm not going to hold an RM2k game to the same standards as a VX Ace game due to system limitations, but I won't let it hold back the RM2k game's rating) - unless the game is part of a series across multiple editors.
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author=TehGuyauthor=TravioWell, that's due more to SquareEnix not wanting anyone to do that..author=arcanAccording to everything that's happened to every Chrono Trigger remake project ever - no.
I'm wondering if it's legal to remake a fully copyrighted game if I don't intend to profit from it.
Black Mesa is really the only entire remake that the original devs were completely fine with that I know of, though
More a guide of assume it's not legal until permission is given.
What are you thinking about right now?
author=arcan
I'm wondering if it's legal to remake a fully copyrighted game if I don't intend to profit from it.
According to everything that's happened to every Chrono Trigger remake project ever - no.
Windows XP users, looks like we just got tossed into the sea.
author=Phoenix90
Software cannot set the fan voltage beyond what the PSU is able to deliver, fans are usually attached by a 12 volt cable, which their motor is designed to handle, but I'm going to stop here.
Assuming a perfectly working and designed fan, yes. Given the parts actually used in most pre-built computers, no. There's a reason the problems are reported in systems that are pre-built.
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I like the idea, but not sure there'd be a necessity to convert everyone to your side - a debate isn't necessarily won by swaying everyone, just by proving a superior position to an audience. So, perhaps something like those "inertia metres" you sometimes see in games and when it hits a certain point you win; might not even be about presenting actual facts so much as presenting a more believable cases - even if that does include "creating" facts and proof. Hell, if you're matching against an audience, even something as simple as charisma becomes part of it - I've seen a number of debates lost because despite one side having better facts and arguments, their presentation of them wasn't as good as the other side who had some charismatic speakers.
Sitting down and working on figuring out the mechanics of a battle system taking bits and pieces from all the combat systems I like until I get what I'm looking for. I think when I'm willing to do this, I've found a game I actually have the intention of completing (though there'll probably be a lot of "hey, this is the game but the graphics aren't final because Ace RTP, lol" moments).
Sitting down and working on figuring out the mechanics of a battle system taking bits and pieces from all the combat systems I like until I get what I'm looking for. I think when I'm willing to do this, I've found a game I actually have the intention of completing (though there'll probably be a lot of "hey, this is the game but the graphics aren't final because Ace RTP, lol" moments).
Windows XP users, looks like we just got tossed into the sea.
author=Phoenix90
Fact is however that no amount of CPU load 0 or 100% should kill a fan and that a OS cannot kill a fan, they're designed to run at any speed (that they support, OS cannot set speeds higher than hardware supports) any time for any duration.
This is an outright lie. Any time doing system programming will show you can cause the fan to spin at a faster speed. Fan motors can only do so many RPM before they burn out - that's a fact of any motor. If there's no safeties in place on the software, the software can spin the fan as fast as it wants. Betas for both OSes and graphic card drivers are notorious for doing this - hence the whole "you accept the risks of damage" clause of using them.
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I wasn't a big fan of the liberties (heh) taken with the script of the BoF2 retranslation, but where it focused on the main story it did nice in fixing up a lot of stuff that was missing out of the official version. Honestly, if there's one game that could do with an official updated version just for script problems, it's BoF2.
On Katt, the translations are better on her text in the ReTrans, but then were arranged in a way to make them fit a younger character. So the context of her dialogue is correct, but the presentation was one of the translator's liberties.
On Katt, the translations are better on her text in the ReTrans, but then were arranged in a way to make them fit a younger character. So the context of her dialogue is correct, but the presentation was one of the translator's liberties.
Windows XP users, looks like we just got tossed into the sea.
author=Phoenix90
Blaming windows 8 for a fan failure is silly and ignorant, I hope you're joking.
Actually, it's quite plausible - especially if it's an upgraded PC that didn't originate with Windows 8.
Windows 8 changed the way fan management works - if the update was applied before any other fan control software was updated, Windows 8 would take over control of your fan to its settings. Unfortunately, in the early versions (it was fixed sometime before 8.1), it applied it's fan speed changes as if your fan was spinning at half the speed it actually was (ie. if your fan was spinning at, let's say, 1400 RPM, Windows 8 thought it was only spinning at 700 RPM) if there was also another program attempting to control the fan (as there often is in laptops). It would then try to make the fan spin faster. This could burn the fan out. It was far more common in laptops than desktops because of the differences required in fan motors to fit space and power requirements.
(And looking it up, it looks like 8.1 caused a problem with fans as well on laptops due to requiring more CPU power than 8 did. I don't know if it was ever resolved.)
Windows XP users, looks like we just got tossed into the sea.
author=CashmereCatauthor=pianotmVista is crap but I have had 7 for 5 years and am only having minor hiccups now. Mostly hardware problems. Plus the general UI for 7 I find way more attractive than XP. I can't believe I used to have so many toolbars open (confusing!).
There is no worse shit on the market than Windows Vista or 7. On no other operating systems have I ever gotten blue screen of death on a brand, fucking, new computer every other day. My big gaming computer with its 10 gigs of RAM and terabyte of storage is four years old, has run XP the whole time, and has even survived and fully recovered from an attack from the 404 virus without requiring major work.
Yeah, I'm gonna go with the "if you're having issues with 7 on a new computer, there's hardware problems." Brand new != perfect; fun fact, at least 1/4 of new hardware has at least some defect in it (most will continue to run fine, but not at optimal capacity).
Skip Vista, it never worked right, even with their SP updates. 7 with SP1 runs perfectly fine without dealing with a lot of the issues of using old software on 8.
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