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#81

If anyone has been putting off playing Papers, Please, it is an amazing game and currently on sale for its anniversary for only $1.99: https://www.gog.com/en/game/papers_please https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/

I tried to like it, but it just felt too close to an authentic paperwork simulator for me or get into. Maybe if there wasn’t a timed element to it, that just stressed me out.

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#82

If anyone has been putting off playing Papers, Please, it is an amazing game and currently on sale for its anniversary for only $1.99: https://www.gog.com/en/game/papers_please https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/

I tried to like it, but it just felt too close to an authentic paperwork simulator for me or get into. Maybe if there wasn’t a timed element to it, that just stressed me out.

The game in a way, is supposed to stress you out, or at the very least, make you feel uncomfortable.

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#83
post #64

If anyone has been putting off playing Papers, Please, it is an amazing game and currently on sale for its anniversary for only $1.99: https://www.gog.com/en/game/papers_please https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/

I already own it on Steam but I pulled the trigger on the iOS version, if not only to support Lucas Pope. I still haven't played it, but I played through Revenge of the Obra Dinn a few years ago and read a lot of his blog posts from the development of the game, and I think the guy's an absolute genius.

"Return of the Obra Dinn": https://obradinn.com/

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#85

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Wait, this thing is STILL in pre-order? When is it actually supposed to ship? I first heard about it when the 1st gen Switch came out, and then silence for years. I assumed it'd come and gone, but it hasn't even actually shipped yet...? Are people still expecting it to, or is it considered vaporware by this point?

Got mine recently. Nearly an entire year after ordering. It's alright.

It sucks. Have mine for about a year, barely touch it.

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#86
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Lucas Pope's other game, Return of the Obra Dinn, is also excellent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn

For some reason that game makes me insanely nauseous, something very few games do.

I had similar problem. I can't play Borderlands 2, but surprisingly turning off the comic outline effect in that game works. Obra Dinn is a great game, and I have to endure that by playing at the smallest resolution, which somewhat help. Also take frequent breaks, like 1-2 scene then hours of break. It help you think as well as I often found breakthrough by sleeping over the game.

The Case of a Golden Idol is a game in similar genre but in 2D, in case you can't get into this game. I'd say it's not better, but the last level in the main game is quite close to some of the harder puzzle in Obra Dinn.

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#87
post #64

If anyone has been putting off playing Papers, Please, it is an amazing game and currently on sale for its anniversary for only $1.99: https://www.gog.com/en/game/papers_please https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/

I already own it on Steam but I pulled the trigger on the iOS version, if not only to support Lucas Pope. I still haven't played it, but I played through Revenge of the Obra Dinn a few years ago and read a lot of his blog posts from the development of the game, and I think the guy's an absolute genius.

Obra Dinn is a fucking masterwork. Love this guy.

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#88

If anyone has been putting off playing Papers, Please, it is an amazing game and currently on sale for its anniversary for only $1.99: https://www.gog.com/en/game/papers_please https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/

I tried to like it, but it just felt too close to an authentic paperwork simulator for me or get into. Maybe if there wasn’t a timed element to it, that just stressed me out.

Same. I couldn't get into it. I've heard a lot of good things about it but I think I was expecting more like an interactive story (which I think is an actual genre of "game" now). Instead it's actually hard and I only play games to relax.

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#89

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It feels like there's one of these "doesn't work on FF" threads any time there's a post about a halfway interesting web app. Intentional or not, they really contribute (in my mind at least) to the overall perception that Firefox is truly dead. Nobody even tests for it anymore, or worse, accepts that it's fine to be broken on FF.

Counterpoint: I use Firefox with every privacy setting maximized and several extensions installed, and I can't remember the last time I had an issue with something posted here. This game works fine for me as well. The only apps that are noticeably worse in Firefox for me are Google Docs and Google Meet.

I use Google Docs and Google Meet (calling, webcam, screensharing) and it's perfectly fine on Firefox Linux. What do you mean?

I honestly do not know a single site that is broken with Firefox. What breaks sites is my strict DNS filtering setup, not the browser I use.

Re: LCD, Please

#90
post #64

If anyone has been putting off playing Papers, Please, it is an amazing game and currently on sale for its anniversary for only $1.99: https://www.gog.com/en/game/papers_please https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/

I already own it on Steam but I pulled the trigger on the iOS version, if not only to support Lucas Pope. I still haven't played it, but I played through Revenge of the Obra Dinn a few years ago and read a lot of his blog posts from the development of the game, and I think the guy's an absolute genius.

The description of how he solved the dithering problem in Obra Dinn is mind blowing, and made me appreciate software as a craft, where you have a problem you chisel at for days on end.

Software as art and personal expression, rather than software as a deadline and meetings with your manager.

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