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ATTENTION VGR COMMUNITY! I call the attention of @Ja sa bong, @Knight Baridaand @Heatman especially, but I ask that everyone please take notice. I have just locked (and may continue to lock) several threads that have recently been posted on the Sports sub-forum. I have locked them because they discuss transfers, mostly football/soccer related. Wether they be factual, speculative, rumours or discussion on "who should transfer whare", they can all be classed as discussion on transfers. This post is polite reminder we have this pinned thread called "The Transfers Thread" for a reason. These threads on transfers limited to one specific sportsperson. We can't have a new thread for every player that transfers clubs, for example. If we allowed this, the sports sub-forum would flooded with hundreds of threads that are nothing but that. We just can't have that because if bumps down other discussions and is hoplessly impractical. Like I said, we have this thread for a reason. It's for you as much as anyone so you can find the latest discussion on these things in one, convenient place. Please stop posting new, individual threads on transfers. If this continues, we will have to consider more serious action for people who keep posting such threads. And to the members that I have mention, can you please like this post to indicate you have read and understood this.

I'm in the same board as @Kennysplash, only use Android and I have no intention to change. I'm sure that day to day iPhones and iPads are perfectly fine to use albeit with subtle differences, that's not the issue. The reason why I won't even try Apple stuff is because I can't trust Apple. They bank on the trendiness of thier products rather than the quality and that's not good. I want to believe that my next phone, computer or tablet is designed to be reliable and fair on price and Apple just don't have that trust from me. They charge $1000 for a monitor stand with no monitor on it for fuck sake! They also charge out the ass for repairs to issues they know from the begging would crop up, sue people for fixing the issues as a third party and are always at the forefront of every new anti-comsumer move in the tech' industry. At least with Android (And conventional laptops and PC's with Linux or Windows) you know that the companies that make them are in competion with other companies making Android devices, so they are under pressure to do better. I can trust that a hell of a lot more that Apple's stuff who hold a monopoly over thier own tech. The cross compatibility that Android devices have both in hardware and software I feel also makes these devices more free and easy to live with. If me and my partner had one and the other, we wouldn't be able to swap chargers at a pinch, for example.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild This gold sold well, reviewed well and was well ecived and I have no idea why. There is so much wrong with it that I don't know where to start. Breakable weapons: I can what they were trying to do. Have a system were players have to use a variety of weapons instead of relying on the same ones all the time, but this was the wrong way to go about. Forcing players to explore gameplay elements through necessity is only going to make a game feel more restrictive, not freeing. Then there's the fact that break after just a few hits. This doesn't give the player much of a chance to develop statigied with the weapon types, so it defeats it's own purpose. You also spend half of the time in combat going in and out of menus, and that's annoying. People have defended this system to the health, but there is no excuse for it. It sucks, and that's it. The Climbing Sucks: Yes, it's cool that you can climb literally anywhare, but what's the point when the climbing mechanic itself is tedious and boring? It's the same animation with Link slithering up a surface like some weird result of "relations" between a Gecko and a Sloth and it's full to play with. And frustrating, because you move so ridiculously slow, but the stamina bar also depletes very slowly, so it's impossible to judge whether or not you will make the top of that cliff untill you have already spent a solid couple of minutes trying to climb it. Wirse still, the game uses this to "block areas off" whilst holding up the claim you can go anywhere in the game right from the start. And that brings me neatly onto the next issue, and thus is probably the biggest one... The Exploration is Bullshit: Because of the aforementioned issues with climbing, this game is not nearly as free and open as people say it is. It just isn't, and that was it's big selling point, and it was lies. You have to, I I mean have to attain some serious upgrades to your stamina bar before you can go anywhere. So for the first several hours and thoughout much of the game, what you're doing is shrines. These motherfucking, god damn shrines! Don't get me wrong, some of them are pretty cool with som fun puzzles and platforming, but they feel like a chore rather than a treat because of how the player is forced into them. I swear, the first 10 hours of my time with the game, almost all I did was shrines, and I still couldn't get to certain areas if the map. This hurts the combat as well because you simply can afford to invest in your health, it has to be stamina. And in what is actually quite a hard game in terms of combat, that just adds to the frustration even further. The Way they Told the Story did not work: It was fragmented, confusing and to little to it. I admire Nintendo for trying something different, but it didn't work. It was to easy to loose interest or just flat out forget what is going on amist the game tedious, repetitive gameplay cycles anyway, so the story was pretty pointless. I know that if, as the player, you stick at it and push through the games frustrating elements the game would deliver eventually and reward you with more characters, a better understanding of the story, more areas to explore and better combat. For me though, this game asked too much and showed it's worst in the begining, and that's a mistake. I don't get why people liked it and I likely never will.

People need to get over the fact Half Life 3 is NEVER going to happen. Valve print money through Steam and they know that. It makes no sense from a business standpoint to make games anymore. It's a stretch to even call Valve a game developer at this point. Even if I'm wrong and these rumours turn out to be true, the Half Life fanbase has so hyped a game that doesn't exist that it would be almost impossible for Valve to make Half Life 3 and not disappoint eveyone. It would be like bringing Michel Jackson back to life to tour the world only for him to sit on stage and talk about the weather. Put it simply, Half Life 3 can't be justified. It's a waste of people's hope and the sooner everyone just accepts the loss the better.

Isn't this basically the same as this thread you posted on Monday? And almost daily your posting a new thread in the vain of "In looking for reconditions for *insert genre* type games and just abandoning the threads you already have. Two days maximus and you abandon your own threads like you give a damb. People see that you don't care about what you post, so they don't care either. Slow down. Don't just litter the forum with new threads because you can, post stuff you actually care about and give people a chance to respond before burying your own content. Because this thread serves the basically same purpose as the other thread, I'm locking this one.

I never thought I'd see somebody compare "Leisure Suit Larry" to "Monkey Island", "Sam and Max" and "Grim Fandango". I'm also a little confused, are you looking for recomendations of point-and-click games or are you recommending point-and-click games?

Moving this to the Video Games sub-forum as the topic is about asoefic game and not a gaming related topic.

Posting this asking for advice on resources and tools to help with the search is fine, but wouldn't it make more sense to post whatever details about the game you're looking for as well? Give us details you remember on whatever game it is you're trying to find on the chance we've heard of it? Why ask what forums we would use when you're already on one?

I can't speak from personal experience, but I did find this Reddit thread that might help. Overall, it seams like the games run fine with a few issues here and there. I'd say go for it.

This is a complex issue. There are licenses, local laws and contracts involved with selling games in a specific country. These factors of course change from country to country as well. This isn't big, mean Microsoft stopping people getting good deals on games, this is Microsoft trying to stay on the right side of thier contractual and legal obligations. Even so, banning individual accounts over this seems like both an extreme and lazy way to go about this. The right thing to do would be to detect users using a VPN (Something they clearly are able to do) and cutting off access to the store while a VPN us active.

I think the long development time for games these days is a a factor here. Third party developers get dev' kits maybe about a year before a console's launch, but if a game being developed specifically for that console or console generation takes 6-7 years to make, this sort of thing is bound to happen.

Let's face it, even if it was not these modders' intention, it's only a matter of time until somebody makes a version of this mod that will work with downloadable roms. I wouldn't be shocked that it could work with downloadable Ron's right now if they are in the correct format, such as an ISO. Regardless, this is great stuff. Great for game preservation as a lot of publishers/developers who made 360's have gone under since then. I don't see Microsoft wasting thier time taking issue with this, but I do see some publishers (Such as, I'm afraid to say, Sega) not liking this.

What's the point on creating this thread just answer your own question? Locked.

Again, this is thread that makes sense in reference to the current generation of consoles, not the previous one. In this state, this thread is worthless. So this thread is also getting locked.

@Scorpion We're going back to this weird thing whare you post as if it's years in the past. We've been through this before, and I asked you stop. And to your credit, you did. But now it's back. There is no reason to have a "next-gen" discussion involving the PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo WiiU in 2025 with thier successors all having been out for years. Hell, the successor of the successor of one of those consoles is coming out later this year! This is nonsense and it ends now. I don't care for your excuses, there is nothing you can say that will make this anything but these thread a ridiculous waste of time. Stop it. Thread locked.