🚀 go-pugleaf

On 7/7/2017 10:48 AM, Xocyll wrote:
> 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?)
> 
Scrooge is the CEO, Donald is just the press flack, while Mickey is the 
puppet master at the upper end of the strings.  :)


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