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    GOG.com

    Yeah, I won't defend GoG on their game selection policies, because I don't know wtf they're doing. Refusing good indies while flooding the store with tons of low effort garbage hentai games. Is the porn game market really so profitable? And on GoG of all places? I doubt it. Steam's approach has...
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    RTS should focus more on single-player campaigns, lore-heavy settings

    I wish I still had it somewhere, but I remember reading an analysis of Diablo 2 SP vs MP specifically, and the conclusion was that comparing D2 sales vs how many people played MP on Battlenet was that only a small fraction bought the game to play in MP. Granted, it was written from the...
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    Incline Best Video Game Intro

    Most of the good ones are already posted, so I'll just add: Now, a lot of the visuals are very :prosper:, and yes, it's just music over random fantasy scenes happening, but the music is very good and they fit it nicely with introducing the factions.
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    What was your first video game? (Or the first ones per major generation)

    Sorcery was very good, and one of the few games I finished on Amstrad. I know it's Who Dares Wins II, but apparently there was no Who Dares Wins I, I just called it Who Dares Wins :lol: https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/who_dares_wins_2.htm?t=Uw==
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    What was your first video game? (Or the first ones per major generation)

    The first game I played on Amstrad was Cauldron (I had the German version - Hexenküche). Cool game. Impossibly hard, but fun to fly around and go into different dungeon levels. On the same day I played Boulder Dash, Jet Set Willy and a few other games. First console game was probably Contra on...
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    Lost and forgotten (except by us)

    Oh, I played the demo of this. I don't remember anything about it, other that it had ground and underground layers like Armies of Exigo.
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    Captain Claw

    I'm not entirely crazy after all. Mine is from 1999. "Gra bez przemocy" (Game with no violence) I guess it is, when compared to Blood.
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    The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk - parodic fantasy tactical RPG - now with Back to the Futon DLC

    The humor is hit or miss, but it never got so bad that I'd want to quit the game, so whatever, that's just the convention this setting has, I can live with it. It's pretty embarrassing that a parody of the genre has better gameplay than most "serious" games these days. I chuckled at some things...
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    GOG.com

    It works better than steam for me. If anything, the steam client got worse that it was a couple years ago, I now have a better setup but get a few seconds of lag whenever I move between things on steam, opening and closing the client takes even longer, while game pages in the store autoplay...
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    Games that impressed you with technology

    War Wind (1996) - RTS where every unit has its own inventory, learns spells and can receive individual bio-mechanical upgrades to their body parts. Units can also be upgraded from a worker to other classes and then to elite versions of these classes. Lords of Magic (1997) - First one is maybe...
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    GOG.com

    If a game is on both Steam and GoG, I'm getting it on GoG. Not because I love GoG and their policies, because I can download the game and keep it. The GoG launcher is also a lot faster than Steam and doesn't stop working every time there is a sale, and I'm using it when playing new games because...
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    Vapourware Spire of Sorcery - turn-based RPG where you play a party of runaway mages - abandoned in Early Access

    I know. But that doesn't even work as a cash grab, how many sales are they going to get from a game stuck in EA for years with bad reviews? One that if you look even a little deeper into you'll see is no longer being developed. A dozen a year maybe? And there are still refunds on Steam. It's...
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    Pathfinder What Would You Think If Owlcat Switch to Turn-Based Only for All Future Pathfinder Games?

    Encounter design aside, if that meant they'd add a proper grid, so abilities like charge or healing spells don't randomly stop working, doors don't become invisible force fields in combat, and you can actually see where the combatants can and can't pass, then sure, why not. I'm curious if they...
  14. Dr Skeleton

    Vapourware Realms Beyond: Ashes of the Fallen - Chaos Chronicles reborn and dead again

    I think they sent the demo to all backers at some point?
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    Vapourware Spire of Sorcery - turn-based RPG where you play a party of runaway mages - abandoned in Early Access

    Here is an easy 6 phase plan to save this project: 1. Rename Spire of Sorcery to Wild Mages Sister of a Dragon (they're already using the same assets) 2. Develop it in EA for 3 years, with hours of videos of new game systems 3. Throw it all away and redesign the game completely. It's now a...

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