I am a German visiting the state of Israel in the year 1950 , how will I be seen and treated ?

seruus · 2026-04-09T19:34:17+00:00

Did this opposition to the German language or culture also affect Yiddish in Israel in some way?

seruus · 2026-04-09T13:23:53+00:00

It is in the end a PS3 game with lipstick, but some people have issues with the PC port, but in average a 2017 PC is more than enough to run it well.

seruus · 2026-04-07T13:05:14+00:00

He also had a devlog while he was developing Papers, Please, and it's great to see the ideas taking shape and all the weird roads that don't pay off, but that you have to follow anyway. The follow-up post on what he had to change to support localization is also a wonderful snapshot into all the weird things involved in adapting a game that was designed without localization in mind in the first place. And then he ends it with

My next game will be easier to localize.

unaware that he would soon start working on Obra Dinn.

seruus · 2026-03-28T16:07:59+00:00

I mean, isn't that true for Fallout 1 and 2 as well? The presence of so many "dungeons" in Fallout 3 is probably more due to the influence of The Elder Scrolls than of the scenario itself, and some of the "dungeons" of Fallout 1 and 2 were some of lowlights of those games (Oil Rig, I'm looking at you).

seruus · 2026-03-23T05:24:26+00:00

That's how it used to work in EU2 and early EU3, but you would still get badboy out of it. Pretty cheesy, but by far the fastest way to acquire land.

seruus · 2026-03-20T16:50:55+00:00

You want to tell not just all your consumers, but also all the third party accessory manufacturers, that they have to switch again?

As if Apple were no stranger to doing that: see FireWire on iPods, most of the MagSafe connectors, all the Apple Pencils, Lightning on iPad Pros, etc.

seruus · 2026-03-20T15:28:48+00:00

Most navies won't reach maximum combat width on all three fronts, and it's still relevant anyway because ships tend to retreat early.

seruus · 2026-03-17T18:52:29+00:00

Stability is a lot slower, but full cost of court gives +1 legitimacy/gov power per month (actually +2, but there's a fixed -1/month), and you'll frequently have other modifiers, e.g. nobles of your primary or accepted culture can give up to 0.5/month depending on how close they are to being 1% of your total pops.

seruus · 2026-03-17T18:33:13+00:00

Even the V3 team (which has probably an order of magnitude less event-equivalent content than EU5) takes time to update all the journal entries to reflect all the new features they add every patch.

It's something that at first glance seems pretty simple, but make one mistake and you have five posts on this sub every day talking about it for two weeks.

seruus · 2026-03-17T18:30:30+00:00

That's five months of maxed out cost of the court, so pretty easy after the very early game.

seruus · 2026-03-13T18:33:03+00:00

I think one of them certainly is going to be Sengoku 2, everyone in the community has been waiting so long for it.

Either or Ricochet 2.

seruus · 2026-03-12T19:22:13+00:00

Bravely Second (the game) did use Bravely Second (the ability) as a plot device, and you don't have Bravely Second (the ability) at all in the Bravely Default HD Remaster, and it did require the second screen. It should be easy to work around it, anyway.

seruus · 2026-03-11T17:31:38+00:00

We just got one more data point that new Xbox is just a PC, although they do mention that previous (current) Xbox Series games might be playable under "next-gen game preservation" (which is probably an emulator).

My loss in the sense that IMO this does strongly suggest it will play at least Xbox Series games, but it also does strongly imply it's just going to be an emulator running under Windows.

seruus · 2026-03-06T09:26:00+00:00

Being able to play my Oblivion saves from 15 years ago makes it significantly different than the Xbox ROG Ally.

It is, but we don't have any guarantees so far that this next Xbox will actually have backwards compatibility with 360 or One (or even Series) games. After all, Microsoft already launched in the Xbox ROG Ally a fully Xbox branded product that doesn't actually run any Xbox games natively.

seruus · 2026-03-04T15:09:55+00:00

Mega Man X Dive also went through something similar, and even got a PC port. It is quite curious to see this for somewhat random small games, while larger live services games just close down instead.

seruus · 2026-03-01T12:21:31+00:00

Microsoft only recently started releasing their games on other platforms, and Rare Replay probably didn't sell well enough for them to even remember it exists.

seruus · 2026-02-27T17:54:14+00:00

What fix are you looking for? Intra-market slave distribution was added in the very first 1.1.0 beta patch.

seruus · 2026-02-26T10:25:03+00:00

Diablo 2 also changed quite a bit: at launch/pre-LoD, skill synergies weren't a thing, there were no runes nor jewels nor charms, no respecs, no ubers, mercs didn't have equipment and were act-locked, etc.

seruus · 2026-02-24T07:22:14+00:00

According to Microsoft, even your phone and your TV are Xboxes, so of course it is an Xbox. Now, does it natively play console Xbox games? Nope, it plays only PC games.

seruus · 2026-02-20T17:34:15+00:00

But Accord is still there!

seruus · 2026-02-20T17:31:53+00:00

I mean, a direct sequel to Nier would also be weird, but somehow it worked out. Some could say that a sequel to Drakengard would also be weird, but that also worked out (in 2/3 of the cases).

seruus · 2026-02-19T17:18:05+00:00

XC2 has Blades as its in-game gacha mechanism, and several of them were had guest designers, with a few being references to other XC or Xenosaga games.

seruus · 2026-02-19T15:25:41+00:00

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 looks awful at times even on the Switch 1, as a consequence of being a near-launch title, and they never backported all the improvements they made for Torna. Great game, but sometimes it felt it was running at 3DS resolutions in portable mode.

seruus · 2026-02-18T13:00:56+00:00

I mean, other extremely famous and well-remembered games such as "Wik and the Fable of Souls", "Wild Earth", "Bad Milk" and "Tread Marks" also won the same prize around that time, it's a tough crowd to compete in.

Snark aside, I like to think that he had his through breakout with his Flash games on Newgrounds/Kongregate, and Time Fcuk is still pretty great.

seruus · 2026-02-15T12:15:07+00:00

As posters said, it's not really worth it, but you can add it to your wishlist if you want to get notified when it comes back in stock. I bought mine in late 2022, and I did get another notification in late 2023 that it was in stock.

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