Quoting: starpolloAll the past games had multiple difficulty settings, so yep, this is bait.

If so, then the person who laid out the bait would be the baiter.
But how good are they at it? Are they a master?

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Quoting: BumadarKadokawa is so much more then the owner of fromsoft, its more like the Disney of Japan.

I thought that was Ghibli?

Ghibli makes good movies that people worship (and seems to be kind of running out of steam these days). So, closer to Pixar I guess?

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Quoting: SeegrasOh, I had "The Warlock on Firetop Mountain". As a book, in German.

Huh. I had it as a book too (but not in German).
Come to that, since I hardly ever throw out a book, it may still be around my place somewhere.

Frankly, my recollection is that it was incredibly rudimentary. Those choose-your-own-adventure books necessarily kind of were . . . they were about short-book length, but not only was the effective length of the story shrunk to way tiny by all the branching choices multiplying that you had to fit in that space, but also a lot of what space was available had to be wasted on whitespace between bits. So what you actually had was any given page-through gave you something like a three page long story. A three page long story with a threadbare semi-random plot and no characterization, atmosphere, rising action or most other things that make a good story. Computer games do a much better job of this kind of storytelling--they don't have the same kind of constraints.
So overall, these are an old thing that was around when I was young but I'm basically not nostalgic about them at all--they were an interesting idea that just didn't work out in practice.

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Quoting: Leahi84This feels like it should raise red flags Anti-Trust wise. This would totally be investigated in the US and possibly blocked. But I don't know what Japan's monopoly laws are like, if they even have any. What little I do know about them is that corporations seem to control things even more than in the US.

I'm no expert on this either, but my impression is . . . yes and no. Corporations in Japan are very powerful, but they are probably a little more constrained by norms of behaviour than in the US. Not nearly as much as they used to be, the strong expectations of paternalism that held in the old days have been stretched to breaking point. But there are things companies could do, like probably the kind of stuff private equity gets up to in the US where they do debt-leveraged takeovers to loot and kill the victim company leaving dysfunction and unemployment in their wake, that in Japan would be considered bad and rocking the boat. And if someone tried doing such things, there would be a lot of informal mechanisms to encourage them not to.
But taking over competitors to strengthen your oligopolistic position in the market probably isn't one of those things the Japanese establishment would object to . . . not sure it ever was.

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OK this is going to sound like a minimal point, but I like the art, or maybe more what you'd call the visual design. Normally I'm not huge on visuals, but I've been put off by a few RTS just because they're kind of low-contrast and muddy and your forces don't make an impression. This definitely has that Starcraft "Those, those there--those are my troops. And they look fairly cool. And those others are definitely the enemy" feel.

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Quoting: CybolicI guess I'll wait for the inevitable translucent purple one

Excellent choice, old bean.

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So this is a game about using public goods without paying taxes?

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You know you're getting old when the music you hate that came after your time is now nostalgic.

Damn middle-aged people, get off my lawn!

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLto put it simply, to compile rust we need to have previously compiled rust...

Sounds (probably deliberately) like that old Unix joke, you know, "To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion"

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThese titles are so old they should license the code as open source and dump it on the net. It would do well for their legacy and reputation to immortalize their roots.

Last I heard, Sweeney said he would, but there are too many libraries used.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/epics-tim-sweeney-says-that-unreal-engine-1-may-one-day-go-open-source/

Well, that's plausible. If it wasn't Sweeney I might give the benefit of the doubt.

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