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Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On 7/6/2017 9:49 AM, Justisaur wrote:
>> On 7/5/2017 2:29 PM, rms wrote:
>>  >> I'm kind of interested in trying Need for Speed SE now as I missed all
>>  >> those driving games back in the day.
>>  >
>>  >     I still consider this title the best in the series.  I think I
>>  > steered with just a keyboard, though I think it could recognize
>>  > something like a 8-direction digital gamepad (not sure on that).
>> I bought my logitech controller to deal with that sort of issue. I 
>> haven't had any luck setting up dosbox to work with it, but then I 
>> didn't try very hard yet.
>> 
>>  >
>>  >> Star Wars: Republic Commando (2005 Squad FPS)
>>  >
>>  >     Sorry you didn't like this one, I rather enjoyed it.  Didn't I hear
>>  > some recent blurb that a sequel of some sort was in the works?  Or am I
>>  > spouting nonsense
>> I kind of enjoyed it, It's just a bit dated and has some control issues, 
>> it's still playable, just slightly annoying.  I might go back to it, 
>> especially if I can get a controller to work with it, and one that works 
>> better than mouse, or maybe there's some mods out there to fix it. After 
>> a search, I found some for graphics, one for mouse - but only in menus 
>> which isn't where it bothers me, and one to make the xbox 360 controller 
>> 'mostly work'.  Doesn't sound terribly promising.
>> 
>> I started up Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel the other day, I can see the 
>> control issues with SWRC quite starkly going from one to the other.  On 
>> the plus side with SWRC, it's awfully nice to play an FPS that isn't 
>> dependent on random loot and knowing how to build your character, though 
>> I'm still irritated at the use of ammo in SW universe, when have we ever 
>> seen a blaster run out of ammo?  Not to mention Borderlands is getting a 
>> bit stale with yet more of the same, just slightly different.
>> 
>> Apparently the sequel was canceled along with a couple other SW games in 
>> the wake of Disney's taking of the franchise.
>> 
>I'm still confused about The Mouse's decision to forgo making more 
>obscene amounts of money off computer games when they bought Lucas. 
>Heck, video/computer games has been a bigger industry than movies for 
>several years now.

Perhaps they're just trying to amalgamate their IPs and just need the
right script before they can push their very own Duck Lord of the Sith.

(Hrm would that be Donald or Scrooge?)

Xocyll
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