Quoting: RavenWingsLove it at first glance. I´m just a bit unsure about the cutscenes. We dont get to see much in the trailer, but for me it seems a little to much "lets try hard to make it very bad and cheesy" instead of the real "its bad and cheesy and we dont care"-coolness of the original games of that era.

Still an appreciated project and that MicroProse-Logo adds an extra kick of nostalgia

Microprose used to be basically the Paradox of their time.

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Very nice! I may have to pick this one up!

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Quoting: slaapliedje

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI haven't seen season 3 of The Witcher yet, but the writers for the show have publicly stated their disdain for the source material. Like why are these people getting jobs to just trash the source? I don't get it...

Money?

One would think they would make more money by 1) keeping the fans of the source material. 2) getting new fans by making a great show.

Instead a lot of these shows are trying to cater to a specific audience, which is not their original fan base, they outwardly despise them in many cases, and attempt to either ruin the shows by making them close to unwatchable, or the take beloved franchises and try to jumpstart new ones by decimating the things that people loved about the original...

If they wanted to make money for the audience they have been making things for, they should create new content... but that actually requires talent.

Oh, I see. I thought you meant "Why would someone take a writing job to write about source material they hate?"

Yeah, dunno. Although I have noticed that even though in our society profit is supposed to drive everything, often it's actually mental laziness. Like, nobody can be bothered to do the smart thing even if it would make more money, because it's too complicated, would require departing from the template they've got and so on.

Right, it seems like instead of doing a great translation of a story to film (which arguably the first few seasons of Game of Thrones were amazing) we have now had a few examples where the show runners have publicly stated they hate the source material. Rings of Power, The Witcher and Wheel of Time. I maintain the only reason the Witcher was any good was because of Henry Cavill, who is a huge fan of the books and games. The Wheel of Time was so awful I didn't even finish the first season, and I am not even a fan of the books, I just didn't return to watch past episode 3 or so...

Rings of Power I just ignored after hearing about all the idiocy surrounding the show... mainly the firing of the best Tolkien scholar we currently have...

But... I still think there is money somehow in pushing these ideologies that are behind this... just haven't found out exactly where it is. There is definitely a push for companies to get a certain score to get funding on some chart...

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI haven't seen season 3 of The Witcher yet, but the writers for the show have publicly stated their disdain for the source material. Like why are these people getting jobs to just trash the source? I don't get it...

Money?

One would think they would make more money by 1) keeping the fans of the source material. 2) getting new fans by making a great show.

Instead a lot of these shows are trying to cater to a specific audience, which is not their original fan base, they outwardly despise them in many cases, and attempt to either ruin the shows by making them close to unwatchable, or the take beloved franchises and try to jumpstart new ones by decimating the things that people loved about the original...

If they wanted to make money for the audience they have been making things for, they should create new content... but that actually requires talent.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThe funniest bit about the whole IBM/RH drama is Oracle trying to step in to be the good guy.

I am trying to imagine Oracle being the good guy. I am failing miserably, but the mind is boggling!

Right? The 'big red' vs 'big blue'. We are indeed in interesting times...

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: 14What they could have done was made an entire race Black: Dwarves, or maybe Hobbits if you stretch it. They simply cannot make Elves Black in any number and be in agreement with the literature. Now, that is something I get a little more angry about. If you want your fantasy world to reflect the real world, write a new story with its own world instead of bastardizing someone else's creation.

The problem with modern day Hollyweird... they can't. Look at all the current things coming out recently. The Witcher; writers hate and mock the original source. Wheel of Time; show runners hate the fans and the source material. Rings of Power; fired the living expert of all things Tolkien. Any of the successful shows have either almost been canceled (The Expanse), or been based off of books (the four previous ones all are, it's just The Expanse was actually good!)

Modern day Hollyweird is all about taking old famous movies, and basically remaking them / ruining them. Sure remakes were always a thing, but at least here and there, there have been amazing ones (Scarface always comes to mind). New sequels for old movies would be great... if they actually got old school writers to extend the characters, instead of newer writers that weren't even born when the original movies came out. All we can do to them is hit them where it hurts. Don't see them in the theater, don't pay for streaming services to watch them, just go back and watch some of the classics already in your physical library. That's what I've been doing lately. Enjoyed A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures lately. Re-watched the Arnie Conan movies as well! I'm thinking I should fire up The Goonies tonight...

Yeah, I'm mostly with you. I do actually like the Witcher series though. The third season is close enough to The Time of Contempt book. I'm somewhat of a big Witcher fan, too. I have beaten all three games (100 hours in the 3rd one) and read four of the books so far. I have some gripes on the previous TV seasons, but I still like it.

I definitely have the same view about Hollywood writers. I'm not impressed with the stuff I've seen in recent years. But I'm also afraid of turning into an old fart too early that shuts out all pop culture. I suspect I'll get to a point someday where I really couldn't care less, but not quite there yet. ;)

Ha, I'm getting pretty close to the point where I'm about to forego watching any shows for entertainment (I prefer watching things on Discovery, or Historical things. Lately been watching Expedition Unknown, which is pretty fun and educational about things at the same time).

I haven't seen season 3 of The Witcher yet, but the writers for the show have publicly stated their disdain for the source material. Like why are these people getting jobs to just trash the source? I don't get it...

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Quoting: MisterPaytwickWait, SuSE is actually picking to have competition over stagnation ? That's nice. Looking a bit harder at it, I guess it's wait and see again, sounds pretty opportunistic.

Yeah; I mean, SuSE the business couldn't act any other way; but what's puzzling is what they're promising -- a 'hard fork' of RHEL that 'plays nice' with clones makes sense if it's meant to receive the care & attention RHEL itself receives. But SuSE isn't making that big of a commitment; & although the news articles stress the $10M they say they're investing into this, that amount is about half of what Rocky started with in the first place. & SuSE already has its own enterprise OS. It's pretty weird. Maybe they want Rocky & Alma to become SLE clones?

.... ok sorry about the weird tangent.
More on topic: fsck Microsoft!

Quoting: ShabbyXYeap, they _have_ done much for computing, mostly in the form of ruining it.

This can't be stressed hard enough.

The funniest bit about the whole IBM/RH drama is Oracle trying to step in to be the good guy. Kind of seems like RH vs Oracle vs Suse... and the collateral damage is likely to be Alma / Rocky. If Oracle or Suse had a truly open community enterprise linux, there really wouldn't be a need for Alma / Rocky. But I somehow don't see that really happening from Oracle, and Suse suddenly deciding they want to be compatible with RH is weird...

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt sucks. More consolidation is bad. I have no fondness for Activision Blizzard, but then I'm not a big fan of Microsoft either and neither of those is the main point. Corporate behemoths are too big; in general they should be getting chopped into smaller pieces, not allowed to stitch together into even gianter Frankenstein leviathans.

I feel most countries (USA especially) have long ago abandoned even the pretense of fighting against monopolistic behavior. I cannot say how bad this merger will be over time. I fear, in maybe a decade, it will be bad for people not on Windows or XBox... then again, I have a very negative bias against Microsoft and A/B (especially the Activision potion), so take what I said with a grain of salt, I suppose.

Curious what you have against Activision that makes them worse than the Blizzard side?

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Quoting: 14What they could have done was made an entire race Black: Dwarves, or maybe Hobbits if you stretch it. They simply cannot make Elves Black in any number and be in agreement with the literature. Now, that is something I get a little more angry about. If you want your fantasy world to reflect the real world, write a new story with its own world instead of bastardizing someone else's creation.

The problem with modern day Hollyweird... they can't. Look at all the current things coming out recently. The Witcher; writers hate and mock the original source. Wheel of Time; show runners hate the fans and the source material. Rings of Power; fired the living expert of all things Tolkien. Any of the successful shows have either almost been canceled (The Expanse), or been based off of books (the four previous ones all are, it's just The Expanse was actually good!)

Modern day Hollyweird is all about taking old famous movies, and basically remaking them / ruining them. Sure remakes were always a thing, but at least here and there, there have been amazing ones (Scarface always comes to mind). New sequels for old movies would be great... if they actually got old school writers to extend the characters, instead of newer writers that weren't even born when the original movies came out. All we can do to them is hit them where it hurts. Don't see them in the theater, don't pay for streaming services to watch them, just go back and watch some of the classics already in your physical library. That's what I've been doing lately. Enjoyed A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures lately. Re-watched the Arnie Conan movies as well! I'm thinking I should fire up The Goonies tonight...

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: 14The changes seem pretty minor to me. Still not a children's game, so it's not like the style or mood or rating changed.

In principle, it is a weird thing to do to a game many people purchased a long time ago. Doesn't feel right.

For me, it is the fact they censored it at all. I am also pissed there have been charging/ censoring of books by long dead writers. Who gave them the right to alter the work of others?

I am pretty sure the contract they signed gave them this right, that's usually how it works.

This goes back to my other point about art being modified years later by whomever feels they have the right to change that art to whatever current levels of acceptance.

Let's take an extreme example of something like this (I was thinking of this the other day due to this subject matter);
Mein kampf. What if some publisher decided to edit this book and change it around so that it looks much less like the work of an evil ego-maniacal dictator, and instead just an elderly gentleman that had some political views. Many, many years from now, and with how atrocious our school system is in the USA..., they could potentially turn it into something people slowly start to agree with and ignore how terrible of a person Hitler was. This could very well be done by censoring things out that make people feel bad (for whatever reason).

Art is Art, for whatever level of acceptance that is. (Mind you, I couldn't really consider Mein Kampf anything but terrible, but much like I say about people making 'non-offensive gaming tables' for D&D, sometimes you need to bring up some terrible atrocities to entice people to be the hero.)

So yes, while this is just a dumb game that the original artists / developers made a little risque, and it has no real bearing on anything anyone deeply cares about; the idea of the censorship and modifications by another team, even if they own the rights to it, sicken me. Imagine if another game series that is far more popular got a similar treatment. Say Grand Theft Auto... people would lose their minds!

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