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dada

#5121 October 15, 2012, 10:03:55 pm

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Honestly, I'd rather Tom Hall made a kickstarter to get the Commander Keen rights back and to make the final installment. But that's not going to be easy. I know he wants to do it, but the character is currently in legal limbo. Nobody knows who really owns the rights.

Commander Keen has been killed by a lawyer.

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goldenratio

#5122 October 16, 2012, 12:05:31 am

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We need a kickstarter to buy the rights to System Shock back.

yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?

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Warped655

#5123 October 16, 2012, 12:25:00 am

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Who owns it?

Also, turns out, no, My PS2 did not come with memory cards. I talked to the guy that sold it to me though and said I could have some of his memory cards since he did not need them anymore. Nice guy.

Before I learned that though I actually tried using some PS1 cards found they did not work and looked up their capacity. 128k is astoundingly small, even for the PS1 era.

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goldenratio

#5124 October 16, 2012, 12:37:46 am

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You know what, I was thinking of a different game, but I don't remember what. Some random company, through a series of buyouts happened to acquire the license, and it was like a construction company or a floor tile manufacturer, something random and not at all related to gaming, they just happened to acquire it, and as such nobody can use the license or whatever. But I just looked it up and it's owned by EA, so it's not SS2.

yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?

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Warped655

#5125 October 16, 2012, 12:58:42 am

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http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=2981.0

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As Spector had mentioned, an insurance company got the rights to System Shock after Looking Glass Studios shut down. I tracked down the insurer, Star Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Michigan-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc., and confirmed that the rights are available for sale.

Was kind of excited then:

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It sounds to me like Meadowbrook wants a game company to share sales revenue, but Borkowski wouldn't talk about financial details. He did say that there have been inquiries about the rights, but elaborated no further.

UGH

Edit: basically its sounds like an insurance company poisoning the well they are trying to sell.

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goldenratio

#5126 October 16, 2012, 03:27:02 am

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Yeah I remember it was really dumb.

yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?

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Warped655

#5127 October 16, 2012, 04:11:28 am

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They (being the original developers) should do what Monolith ~~did~~ was going to do with FEAR and just call it something different but be an actual continuation of the story.

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Hundley

#5128 October 16, 2012, 05:11:59 am

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Quote from: goldenratio on October 16, 2012, 12:05:31 am

We need a kickstarter to buy the rights to System Shock back.

but who would actually make it? give it to warren spector and it'll be MICKEY SHOCK, give it to ken levine and it'll just be another high school-level political theory essay. i'm not really able to name anyone in the industry capable of doing system shock again, particularly the guys that got lucky once with it.

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dada

#5129 October 16, 2012, 07:47:04 am

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give it to me. TARG SHOCK

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tuxedo marx

#5130 October 16, 2012, 08:58:29 am

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guys. guys.

new xcom is REALLY good

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JMickle

#5131 October 16, 2012, 10:45:35 am

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Quote from: Hundley on October 15, 2012, 07:29:49 pm

you know the industry is bad when you can probably honestly give him credit for what he didn't do, and that was fucking up anachronox. if that's the sort of game that's OK on his watch, then he's probably one of the good ones.

i don't understand what you mean this is a confusing post

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new xcom is REALLY good

yeah it fuckin is

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tuxedo marx

#5132 October 16, 2012, 10:47:48 am

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i hope, like me, you're making your soldiers bizarre colours

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JMickle

#5133 October 16, 2012, 10:48:23 am

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woah how do you do that???? i would totally be doing that

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Dead Phoenix

#5134 October 16, 2012, 12:24:31 pm

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Quote from: JMickle on October 16, 2012, 10:48:23 am

woah how do you do that???? i would totally be doing that

Sadly you must have preordered the game to get that option. though i think you also get it if you got the first copies of the game that came out? idk. might be(hopefully free) dlc later.
And yes game is great, got tried of customizing my guys after i lost all the ones i started with... though i do have a guy i pick up off a mission very early in the game that just won't die(but has kill one civilian and one team member thanks to wildy inaccurate rockets... seriously one went like 45 degrees of course, that pissed me off).

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tuxedo marx

#5135 October 16, 2012, 01:24:40 pm

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if you buy a boxed console copy, you'll get a code for it

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Warped655

#5136 October 16, 2012, 07:29:06 pm

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I just noticed we are on 343 guilty spark page.

I've decided to play the original Driver and MechAssault 2 while I wait to get those memory cards.

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DDay

#5137 October 18, 2012, 08:36:26 pm

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Mugen Souls It's OK. A lot a lot going for it in gameplay but as you can guess the story blows at the moment and it could get repetitive fast.

DDay is Dead I am a dead man typing

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Warped655

#5138 October 19, 2012, 04:13:42 pm

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I finished MechAssault 2 and looked up stuff about the F2P game MechWarrior: Online. And learned that Battletech fans do not like MechAssault one bit. Seems MechAssault did poor research on story elements and technical elements of the battletech mechs themselves.

Fun games though.

Moving on to Driver 1.

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JMickle

#5139 October 20, 2012, 12:55:22 am

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so me and sarevok played a multiplayer match on xcom and it was pretty fun. much better than we expected.

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goldenratio

#5140 October 20, 2012, 12:58:10 am

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i've heard almost nothing but good things about the new xcom.

yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?

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