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The Original Postal Has Been Made Open Source

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Re: The Original Postal Has Been Made Open Source

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Post by gbersac »

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #20

Wow. Now I can play it on my Linux system. Thanks, RWS. This, as well as being a fantastic gesture, makes it seem as though RWS understands something that many of its contemporaries don't: Games, or rather, their engines, must be open-sourced for those games to continue to be playable and relevant. You can't update your games forever, and sooner or later, they will be rendered unplayable by the inexorable march of te…

It's not in their interest. If people stick to old games, they have less time to play others and buy less games.

Re: The Original Postal Has Been Made Open Source

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Post by amiga-workbench »

jakebasile wrote: post #14
Alupis wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, Postal 2 was the peak of the franchise. It's goofy, and has it's fair share of [sometimes funny] bugs, plus it has first person view. It's currently on sale for $0.99 on Steam[1] [1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/223470/

It is amazing how much objectionable content they put in that game while still maintaining a satirical black comedy tone instead of a "trying too hard" feel. The tagline was "it's only as violent as you are!" as it is possible to complete all your tasks without violence. At one point, it has you protecting the developers of the game from anti-violent video game protestors who want to solve their problems with violenc…

I'm very pleasantly surprised to see people who can appreciate the humour on HN.

Re: The Original Postal Has Been Made Open Source

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Post by lisivka »

craigds wrote: post #25
lisivka wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Factorio is good, but drones are cheat.

The drones are only available after a certain tech level and require a lot of power to operate on a large scale. They have pros and cons like all the other tech. You need a balance of drones with well planned conveyer belt layouts to do really well. +1 for factorio, biggest non-baby timesink I've had in years

Create very compact base, with 3 drone towers around it, so drones will be in fly for much less time. Automate everything, up to drones. Profit. Solar power solves problem with energy. Only mining is left, which is easy to layout with drones. Most of the time after drones I'm watching or laying out solar panels and batteries just for fun, until launch.

Re: The Original Postal Has Been Made Open Source

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Post by qwertyuiop924 »

gbersac wrote: post #31
qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #20

Wow. Now I can play it on my Linux system. Thanks, RWS. This, as well as being a fantastic gesture, makes it seem as though RWS understands something that many of its contemporaries don't: Games, or rather, their engines, must be open-sourced for those games to continue to be playable and relevant. You can't update your games forever, and sooner or later, they will be rendered unplayable by the inexorable march of te…

It's not in their interest. If people stick to old games, they have less time to play others and buy less games.

But if people stick to old games, they can make content packs for old games, and people will still buy them (and relatively cheaply, too).

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Post by Pica_soO »

pyromine wrote: post #4

This is completely off-topic, but in the vein of talking about old games. Does anyone have any suggestions for games that scratched the same itch as the old school RTS games like Age of Empires and Rise of Nations? I've been searching for years but never found anything that eclipses the classics.

Zero-k? www.zero-k.info

Re: The Original Postal Has Been Made Open Source

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Post by Maken »

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #20

Wow. Now I can play it on my Linux system. Thanks, RWS. This, as well as being a fantastic gesture, makes it seem as though RWS understands something that many of its contemporaries don't: Games, or rather, their engines, must be open-sourced for those games to continue to be playable and relevant. You can't update your games forever, and sooner or later, they will be rendered unplayable by the inexorable march of te…

Alternatively, you can keep updating your games until the end of times like Valve does.

On a serious note, the thing about Doom and other Id games is that they used to release the complete toolbox along with the game, allowing anybody to create content on-par with the base product.

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