Review Why you should be a Knight of the Chalice

Indeed, the cobmat is the game's strong point.

Spotted that as well

Good to see that KOTC2 still has the main priority, and the RTS is just coding practice / working out certain elements.

M&M7 was pretty fluid when I was popping dragon/titan moles left and right with dragon's breath spam.

Crafting and arrows of slaying are pretty retarded, in other hand they are needed during certain parts of the game unless you grind levels.

A good expansion to Kotc would be a pretty neat. I would rather see 2 though.

I too would rather see two expansions for KOTC.

I didn't grind, didn't bother too much with crafting, and only used one arrow of slaying against the dragon in the orc fortress.

I would rather see a level editor for KOTC.

I would rather see KOTC on Steam and $5 and I would then rub it all over my greasy body while groaning softly to myself.

Absolutely no idea. Considering the Geneforge games got put on Steam I would assume the graphics wouldn't be much of an issue, unless there's some weird technical reason.

They have some fairly inconsistent standards. I think Jay tried to get Frayed Knights on Steam but they said no -- which is surprising because it's a lot more polished than some other games on Steam. Might be a pricing disagreement. I doubt you'd see Frayed Knights for $24ish on Steam, probably more like $15 max so that might not be agreeable to him. Same could be the case for KOTC.

I don't get why there are no decent RPGs on tablet devices, something like KotC would work very well on those. The control scheme isn't too bad for touch input, the low res old school graphics would fit well the smaller display sizes, turn based game play is ideal for pick'n'play style games etc.

Maybe it's just me but I think the old school RPG devs really missed the window of opportunity with the tablet devices, instead of casual shit they could have been a haven for some more cerebral games. Even e-readers would work fine for Darklands style games and the core audience is supposedly less likely to object to text heavy gaming experience.

How much of a pain in the ass is Steam for these indie games? Do you buy a copy of the game and download it from Steam and then, if you want to, uninstall Steam? Or do you just buy a license to play the games and need Steam to play them?

I'm wondering if I should buy these indie games while they still are DRM free...

I would rather see the sequel getting dumbed down for no logical reason so I can laugh at the rage on this forum.
Oh well.

Didn't Vogel refuse to even try to get his games Steam approved for a good while because he wanted to sell them at $20 (he still does, just not on Steam where the price point is $10)? While I agree that indie developers are far better off going with a lower price and higher exposure (see, e.g. Dredmor) not all of them agree. Also, I don't think Steam tells you the reason for rejection. I know that Space Pirates and Zombies was initially rejected along with various other games that later got approved. I could probably think of at least ten or so tiles off the top of my head that are far less polished than Frayed Knights that got approved so it's a mystery to me.

(Also speaking of Dredmor how about some Dredmor avatars!)

Just bought Knights of the Chalice (only 8 MB?!?) and the Exile trilogy + Nethergate.
I was planning on buying all the Spidersoft games, but I don't want to pay toll to my government who squeeze their own citizens for all they are worth while throwing billions at corrupt dictators in the third world.

I have yet to buy anything from Steam, just I have yet not paid for sex. Hopefully I'll never be that desperate...

Also, with some indies/older games, you can go into the Steam directory/steamapps/common and run the games' executable directly without bothering with Steam.

BROS KOTC IS AWESOME