chaos3346

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

This game kinda looks ugly, gotta be honest...

2.50's not really too bad.

That said, would having eight more items make this 15 buck game into a 20 buck game?

I don't think it would.

I like my roguelikes like I like my women - inaccessible, unforgiving, indecipherable, impossible to control and randomly generated.

Wow, Joystiq. Wow.

You continually impress me with having the WORST REVIEWS I'VE EVER READ.

I honestly don't understand how you choose the worst journalists to cover games. An experienced guitarist to cover a guitar teaching tool - and judging it by how much FUN he's having, not how effective it would be (hint, this method is really effective at teaching songs, because this is actually how you learn them.) Guys with no friends to cover games with local multiplayer. Players who generally dislike competitive FPSs to cover major online FPS releases. This is standard Joystiq folly.

What are you thinking?

@PointlessPuppies

Yes, I expect them to email programs to themselves. You taking THAT away from my comment reflects upon your own reading abilities.

Any reasonably responsible person goes through pains to make sure that their work stays secure and safe. For me, that's mailing files to myself and uploading them to Google Docs, and sometimes printing hard copies. For a carpentry company, that's covering materials with tarps to protect from weather damage. For a car lot, that's blocking the entrance and keeping keys stored in a very safe place. For museums, that's keeping guards on staff. See, everyone takes precautions against this sort of thing.

Losing a week of dev build is one discussion. Losing six months is absolutely absurd and completely irresponsible. There are tons of sites willing to provide backup space for large files, many for very, very, very cheap or even free, and there are ways to auto-backup folders on your HD without even copying things over. Most teams would even have a secure, private server with this sort of thing so they could access it remotely. For a smaller company, even something like DropBox could work.

There's plenty more than burglary that could have gone wrong. Fire, water damage, or a concurrent crash (what if a bug in the code caused some sort of HD write error that borked it and they both ran the program concurrently?) One backup is not enough, especially when that's stored in the same darn apartment.

Honestly, I find it hard to believe that only one backup of this existed. Didn't they buy a mac to code on that, and complained on the internet about people complaining about their development speed? They didn't at least copy the code to it to see if they could run it? Or WAS that the spare computer? I'm actually fairly partial to the "we can't deliver, say there was a robbery" theory, because that's actually more flattering to the devs. To think that they were so stupid and irresponsible as this is almost impossible. This isn't your grandma, these are people who KNOW that computers have issues sometimes and who are getting FUNDED by INVESTORS to make a game (hence a milestone meeting), ie. computer-savvy adults. Either they're liars or idiots beyond compare.

Aaaaand no sympathy from me.

Look, I write papers for a living (full time grad student.) I do a lot of work. I have a GDocs account and I email myself drafts. I back my crap up and I save often.

If a hard drive crashes, a professor doesn't give me a break. I was supposed to be prepared for that contingency. Once you get to a professional level, this is expected of you. The dog can't eat your work anymore.

What if their ONE hard drive crashed? And that happens frequently, and always at the worst moment.

Too bad they didn't use any of that preorder money for a Seagate or an online backup service.

Frozen Synapse is great.

Its tutorial system is horrendous, though. It fails to teach you many things that are actually crucial (How to use the sight preview line, that crouching does nothing, the order of how winners are determined in a shootout, the proper roles and functions of each unit...)

The game is amazingly well-balanced (in the end, individual matches may be unfair on occasion, but you can actually see how others fared on the same board) but the game doesn't really teach you the strategies needed to succeed. The only way to learn is to make mistakes over and over.

This is frustrating because it matches me with new players so I end up coaching them more than anything else. >_

@Colin

I don't believe it was really possible for them to fix it. The issue arose from FAT file size limitations.

Plus, why do you want to run it off an external drive? Unless it's an external SATA I wouldn't want to add that bottleneck to my games.

@Knives Chau

I swear to God I hit reply to the correct one. These comment forms are notorious for being kooky.

If it was user error though...

Oopsies! Fortunately the adjacency of the comments makes it clear.