The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

I played it when it first came out and still have it. I thought it played way too much like World war 1, with huge lines of units facing each other and slugging it out instead of an operational world war II game. Supposedly that is not true anymore, but I have no come back to play it yet. I often think about it, then realize I don't have a month vacation time, but only the weekend.

I like detail, but I think its a bit overboard and some of the choices did not seem to matter much despite being fun to do. stuff like attaching a stug company to division--- it was hard to tell how much it actually mattered and I got the feeling it probably did not meaningfully change how the division behaved. I had that feeling about many things in the game..very opaque. OTOH, I may simply have not put enough time into the game to actually fully understand it properly...

 

I've began playing (!) the tutorial and read through the separate tutorial manual, and reached page 60 of the nearly 400 pages game manual. They've done a big number of updates since the 2013 release, so let's see. I also saw a part of a 1hr long intro video by an informed wargamer youtuber, where he was doing some interesting pincer movements, encircling a number of soviet divisions. His name was something onomatopoeic, pewepewchewchew or something.

Regarding the free time, I'm taking three weeks off in December. Should be enough reach and take Moscow, right?

 

I saw they wrote a very detailed step by step Demo, and seeing that makes me cnsider giving it another try. It has been changed and upgraded dramatically since it came out, and I have watched videos where it appears to play in a much more fluid manner than when I first attempted it. Its very possible I also was just playing it very poorly. I literally payed it the day it came out.

From what I recall, if you don't take Moscow by the time it starts to get cold and snow you likely never will, which is true to life it seems. Also if you are not surrounding enormous pockets of soviets and pushing ahead furiously, you will never make Moscow, or so I have heard.

Okay, now you are making me want to start playing it again...

 

Trying again since I mis-posted this

What about Age of Wonders + DLCs at 20€?
I wasn't going to buy a game of this genre this time, but I hear good things about it. I also hear AoW has always been very weak on the strategic layer (which sucks), while its excels on the tactical one.
Codex consensus?

 

If you like turn-based fantasy combat, AoW3 is pretty much the prime meat of the genre right now. If you prefer the strategy side of things, like managing an empire and what not, go with Endless Legends.

 

Problem is, I like them balanced, I fear it'd feel wrong with AoW3 from what I hear.
About Endless Legends, I don't like its fantasy style honestly - I also bought Endless Space back then and I regretted it...

 

Maybe Eador then (the 2D one, I haven't tried the 3D). Outside of that it gets kinda slim or not especially 'comprehensive.' I did find the Warlock game fun, but only in the 'build a superhero' type of manner.

 

Endless Legends is pretty but not a very good game. AoW3 has fun battles, weak strategic layer but very fun to play hotseat with a bro. Warlock 2 is the best modern fantasy 4x if you get the Renaissance mod.

 

Satellite Reign 90% off





Anyone played it?

 

It's shit.

 

Yeah, great gameplay designers those devs are not...
They did update it with a high damage mode or something at least, so you wouldn't take forever to kill anything. The overall gameplay is still rather meh.

 

Last played it when it came out, but I remember AOW1 having really nice/magical atmosphere (ost + sound effects + drawings/art style). The newer ones maybe less so (esp. the third).
So if that matters, then I'd go with the first.

Also don't really see the series as strong in terms of its tactical layer... But that goes for any 4x-ish game I can think of.

 

Dude, wat.

 

Mechanics-wise maybe relative to other such games, but not so much in relation to some of the great tactical games with similarly small-ish tactical battles.
Attack effects and animations were also meh in 1 and 2, don't really remember how the third looked in that regard... Probably no better. Made the fights less satisfying than they could have been.

 

Well, if you want to compare them to sth like JA then maybe. However when it comes to strategy games with tactical combat the tactical layer is definitely up there with the best. And it is pretty awesome in 3, if only they avoided the decline of decreasing unit stacks to 6.

 

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/Con...ip_at_least_700_units_to_stay_in_business.php

 

There are a few interesting ideas in the comments for him...

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But this is my favourite part of his blog post...

 

Ubisoft has better deals than Steam, what a time to be alive.

 

I don't regret backing the Kickstarter, but only because it was a cool idea that deserved support. The game itself was disappointing.

 

I evetually gave in and bought Dishonored 2 Deluxe Bundle,Pathfinder Adventures Obsidian Edition,Vanquish and Evil Within Bundle

 

They should've made Satellite Reign turn-based.

 

Thanks guys, guess I'll pass on Satellite Reign even at that price.

 

Steamworld Dig is 80% off. decent (but short, i finished it in 5 hours and there isn't much replay value) metroidvania. the sequel is good (and much longer) too.

 

If you haven't caught up on that little gem yet....

 

please remember that it has a horrible camera.

http://www.ggmania.com/cheat.php3?cheat=10317

Try using this if you don't want to rage quit after 5 minutes of playing it.