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iberatortoday at 6:57 AM6 repliesview on HN

Rant:

I hate those open source (usually clones) games which are 30 years in the development. IMO it makes the gaming experience worse!

Good games comes with final versions and titles such as: fallout 1, fallout 2, fallout 3, fallout NV, fallout 4. fallout 5.

That makes it way better. For example I remember playing some open source games in 2002 on my pentium 1, while the newest version of it requires much much much more memory and cpu, despite being the same game... (freeciv for example).

Rolling versions of all software is awful leading to fragmentation instead of rock solid final release versions.


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Mashimotoday at 8:38 AM

> For example I remember playing some open source games in 2002 on my pentium 1, while the newest version of it requires much much much more memory and cpu, despite being the same game..

But why does not make 0ad bad? You want to play it on an pentium 1?

I'm seeing you don't like the rolling release, but I can't see the "why".

edhelastoday at 7:22 AM

Tell me how many versions, extensions, remaster and patches World of Warcraft actually have today?

silisilitoday at 7:36 AM

I have no idea what you're ranting about. 0ad is fantastic. I've never played Fallout, but it seems you want it to release versions like that? Why? It's not a version/story game but an iterative design on the same game.

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Valodimtoday at 7:17 AM

...so? It's a hobby project, not a product. It's about the journey, not the result.

gsprtoday at 7:21 AM

Good thing for them they're at it to have fun, not to please you. And good thing for you they're not charging you for it if you do wanna try.