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Re: The Demise of MobyGames

Posted on 2013-10-04, 18:02

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They are still not listening to the "passionate" pleas by those who were really "passionate" about the real site. Pretty sure "passionate" is being used as a nice word for "abusive". And they're right to not respond to abusive PM's, emails, or comments too, you can't reward that kind of behaviour …

Re: The Demise of MobyGames

Posted on 2013-10-03, 17:10

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VileRancour wrote: The designer responsible for the MG fiasco has finally posted on the forums, and pretty much admitted a "personal failure", and yet they're keeping the current layout anyway. Hmm, looks like I missed a major development there...

Re: The Demise of MobyGames

Posted on 2013-09-21, 22:45

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Jorpho wrote: At least the database is still there - for now. While the database had not changed in and of itself, the blow it had taken from poor presentation and partial loss of accessibility after the redesign should not be taken lightly.

Re: The Demise of MobyGames

Posted on 2013-09-20, 22:14

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I found Quest for Glory just fine -- the search results are abbreviated. If you click View All then everything is found, and Quest for Glory is found. Are you trying to say that it is normal not to display the search result that is a 100% match to the search query at the top of the results list? …

Re: The Demise of MobyGames

Posted on 2013-09-20, 16:46

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I hear the new layout was supposed to work better with mobile devices and tablets, but even there it performs much worse than the old site ever did, because sure, using hover menus for touch screens is a brilliant idea. I haven't thought about that but you're right. This is indeed the worst case of …

Re: The Demise of MobyGames

Posted on 2013-09-20, 16:04

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Also, if you do not get a database match, instead of telling you that nothing was found it tells you that the server has thrown an error. Yep, I've reported this in the redesign feedback thread as soon as I noticed it (I generally type URLs instead of searching anything, and a list of partial …

Re: Best bugs in video games ever.

Posted on 2013-09-20, 15:23

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I went a long time without patching my copy of Doom up to v1.9, primarily because I liked being able to have over 200% health. I even challenged myself once to get over 300% health legitimately on the lowest skill setting. (I did succeed but there was lots of reloading involved.) Hmm, which version …

Re: The Demise of MobyGames

Posted on 2013-09-20, 15:08

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What's really crippling the site is the massive loss of functionality. Things are harder to access, the fixed page width is a joke so you have to scroll like crazy to see the information that was available at a glance on the old website, there's now a completely needless javascript requirement and …

Re: Emperor Battle for Dune question

Posted on 2013-09-18, 19:29

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You don't actually create gholas. IIRC, at some point you'll just receive reinforcements of a limited number of other Houses' units (depending on whom you're going to impersonate) which you then need to use to destroy your targets. That's it. There is no way to build gholas as regular units in …

Re: People who call their entire computer a "CPU"...

Posted on 2013-09-18, 19:27

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However I recently saw in an old music magazine from the 80's a picture of Chick Corea's synth setup at the time, and the computer tower was labeled the "CPU". I also caught someone use the term in this way in an episode of The Computer Chronicles. (Trying to find the episode where I heard this.) …

Re: Looking for Pie 3D GCS games

Posted on 2013-09-15, 18:06

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Sorry for bumping this, but I thought I'd mention two more GSC games that seem pretty obscure. Some time ago I was randomly browsing cd.textfiles.com and on a PSL Monthly Collection CD I found a game called SARGENT BLOOD ALIEN CHALLENGE (that's how the developers spell the title anyway). I didn't …

Re: Looking for shareware compilation discs. (CD or Floppy)

Posted on 2013-08-26, 12:20

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E.g. Classic Fond. Oh Russia, never change. :P Yeah, but it's the administration of archive.org that didn't bother to remove the "Classic Fond" images. I wrote to Jason Scott asking him to remove them, and also had this request transmitted via another person who's in contact with the archive.org …

Re: Daggerfall CVS Build by Ykhwong

Posted on 2013-07-19, 22:16

Out of curiosity, I did some testing with the old builds and settings as suggested in DaGrooved1's guide, but it seems that the vanilla DOSBox build v0.74 has better performance anyway. enclose your dosbox.conf I usually go by something like this (only modified parameters): [sdl] fullscreen=true …

Re: Daggerfall CVS Build by Ykhwong

Posted on 2013-07-15, 13:12

Sorry for bumping this but I since I've been using some of Daum Cafe DOSBox CVN builds, and never heard of one specifically designed to run Daggerfall , this thread had caught my attention. From what information I could find, the build in question is actually one of Gulikoza's builds, available here …

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