If you like Point and Click adventures (are they still called that?), have you ever tried Yorkshire Gubbins? Very silly humour.

I also bought it and completed it over the weekend - about 3 hours I reckon. Certainly laugh-out-loud funny in a few places. Nicely surreal and funny, and very well animated.

It suggests it’s better with a controller, but I played it just with the keyboard, and it was totally fine.

Not sure how well the humour will travel (it’s set in a fictional Yorkshire town, I have mostly lived and worked in Yorkshire) - though I’d imagine it travels fine, because Yorkshire humour is obviously best :)

As far as I’m aware, in English, the punctuation goes outside the quotes, unless it’s part of the original quote.

In American, the punctuation goes inside the quotes, even if it’s not part of the sentence being quoted.

I’m unsure of the habits of other English-speaking countries.

Thank you, and likewise. It’s good to know I’m not the only person using a pseudonym. I guess everyone else is using their real names :)

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Personally, I’d probably prefer to see Fallout 3/4/NV converted to an isometric turn-based engine.

However, I know I’m old and have a niche opinion on such things, so I genuinely wish them good luck :)

This won’t apply to everywhere, but near me (in the UK), the council removed some of our bus lanes and cycle lanes last year, to appease some angry car babies, and possibly Rishi “We’re a nation of car drivers” Sunak.

It’s now difficult to safely cycle to the city centre.

At commuter times, the bus can now take 45 minutes for a 40 minute on-foot journey. Used to be 10 - 15.

The buses also get stuck in traffic at various earlier points in their route, so may be 10 - 30 minutes late or cancelled. This was already a problem, because the bus company is appalling, but it’s got worse since some of the bus lanes are gone. Very little chance of using this to get to work on time, or to get to the train station if you’re working out of town.

I’m not surprised bus and cycle usage is down. I walk instead, but I imagine many others can’t afford the extra hour of travel time every day and are now driving again.
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I suppose any of the games with a good plot and not-so-exciting gameplay - I’d probably go for “To The Moon” and the other ones from that series.

It’s the “RPGmaker” one where the two scientists can go into the mind of a dying person, then change the person’s memories so their dreams were fulfilled and they die happy… assuming the scientists get it correct.

If not the full plot, the premise behind it would make a great series of novels or a TV programme.

Some from discussion on here actually, but I think mostly from gamingonlinux.com, and steam telling me “this is a bit like the other stuff you like”.

The rogue extra option, is me hoping a game exists and searching the internet to try and find if it does. It’s quite common with old unique games, where you’re looking for “did anyone ever do a remake/sequel of…”

I’d had a go at the blood rugby one, but it didn’t quite work out for me for some reason. The sevens one looks promising - even though it’s Union instead of League, I love a career mode - and it’s on sale. Thank you :)

Good call - I forgot that one existed. Its been in my wishlist for years, but for some reason I’ve never clicked “buy”. It’s on sale today :) Thank you.

1. Hitman series as an X-Com or Jagged Alliance style turn based strategy. I think that’s pretty easy to imagine and self explanatory.

2. FIFA or Pro Evo as an ascii turn based tactical roguelike. I don’t mean running through dungeons etc, I mean still playing football, just that it’s controlled on a grid, with you controlling a single @, and the other players moving when you move a tile etc, keyboard shortcuts for pass/lob/shoot/skill manoeuvres etc.

3. Rugby League Live series in the style of Sensible World of Soccer. Pretty self explanatory. Rugby pretty much missed the “fast paced arcade action, 3 minute match” era of computer games, and they just churn out these slow, buggy Fifa-likes each year.

The closest I’m aware of currently are “Phantom Doctrine” (as a spy Xcom) and “Football Tactics & Glory” (as a turn based football game).

I don’t have a system, and I have a pretty bad backlog of unplayed games. Your system sounds pretty good though. I’m very tempted to try something similar :)

If you include remasters, I’ve been playing Shenmue I, which I think I originally played on my friend’s Dreamcast in about 2001. Think it was one of the most expensive games ever made when it first came out, so I guess that’d make it pretty AAA?

There’s a lot that feels a bit dated in it, like slightly clunky controls, annoyingly long sequences for tiny things (i.e. taking your shoes off every time you go in/out the house), emotionally stunted voiceovers etc - but it also holds up as a good mystery, and such a beautifully realised game world that the clunkiness just becomes sort of joyously nostalgic. I think it’s great.

Also, the creepy little kids that shout “HEY MISTER! DO YOU WANT TO PLAY… soooocccerrrr?” are still hilarious.

You can use the box to collect cats in.

I had a quick play of this - I lost after about 25 minutes - my fortress was overrun by Serpentmen. Anyway, just wanted to say it’s really well written and nicely illustrated, and I enjoyed the gameplay loop. It’s a really interesting game. I’m not sure on my free time/availability for testing, but if it is literally “do a playthrough and let me know if anything was broken”, I could fit that in somewhere :)

There’s a gamingonlinux article which might explain a bit.

Very roughly, a few alterations to the anticheat to make it work on Wine made some of the anticheat’s workings apparent, which in turn allowed people to work out new exploits.

Wine is an excellent tool for reverse engineering. Additionally, we had to disable many antitamper checks to make Hyperion run on Wine. This has allowed interested parties to learn a lot about the internal workings of Hyperion, relevant to both Win32 and UWP. As the initial shock of Hyperion’s release started wearing off, many people have begun discovering the various angles through which one can learn more about the inner workings of Hyperion.

As to why all the anticheat stuff matters so much, I’m not quite sure.

I know there’s plenty that I like whilst playing the games, but the Stellaris soundtrack stands out as a beautiful suite of music in its own right. I’ve listened to that on headphones on the train.

How nutritious/healing is ass cheese?

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It sounds like that’s an important and interesting part of the game - and I also have no issue with No Man’s Sky’s shared Universe and so on.

I suppose it’s more those games that have no reason for needing it. Rise of Flight was one where the single player campaign was kept on their server, and you land back at base after an hour-long mission, and it would fail to connect to the server, and delete all your progress. Dirt Rally was bad for deleting your progress because “Could not connect to Racenet”.