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[warpig]

 

[catfood]

cyka haram

Pig-man, Pink-man. Ha-ha, charade you are.

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[Citizen]

Looks good, but I'm afraid of trying it. BS3 damaged me on mental level really hard, I haven't touched a single adventure game since then.

 

[Citizen]

The harvester mechanic is not right. They just work as a simple resource tile, providing money every turn. You do not feel the pain of losing a harvester full of spice. Also too much plants. Otherwise, very good.

 

[Orma]

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

The only thing I can warn about, is to not play the last part from 2008. It's a horrible, unpatched mess left to rot by Atari. I've tried the localized version where new Carnby is shouting like a maniac "Kurwa! What is happening here! ". At these moment I felt connection with him, watching and interacting with this mess.

I remember betting that I could beat it without getting locked up in a mental institution and even managing to do it. There were interesting ideas within the game... frankly, it could be a very unique game if the devs had more time/money/talent/QA/???.

Illumination, on the other hand, looked like shit and I didn't even bother to try it.

 

[Ivan]

Looks good, but I'm afraid of trying it. BS3 damaged me on mental level really hard, I haven't touched a single adventure game since then.

I have it right behind the first game. Give it a shot.

 

[Beastro]

working my way through armored core 2

I got outta consoles with the PSX and never got around to trying any PS2 emulators, but AC2 I've always wanted to try.

How does it stand against the originals?

The harvester mechanic is not right. They just work as a simple resource tile, providing money every turn. You do not feel the pain of losing a harvester full of spice. Also too much plants. Otherwise, very good.

Dune's setting is made for an RTS. Would be ideal if one could be made striking a balance between something like Supreme Commander (only with a very restricted unit amount) and a Paradox Grand Strategy game.

 

[agentorange]

working my way through armored core 2

I got outta consoles with the PSX and never got around to trying any PS2 emulators, but AC2 I've always wanted to try.

How does it stand against the originals?

The series gradually got faster until it reached its peak in For Answer, but AC2 is still relatively similar to the first generation games. You get an overbooster but the levels are so small that you rarely end up using it. Missions are shorter in general. The setting is less interesting since it takes place in newly made colonies on Mars, you don't get much of those apocalyptic industrial areas of the original. Worth playing though if you have interest in the series.

 

[agentorange]

Played Clear Sky on release, got a save corruption bug near the end of Limansk and never played it again. Until now, finally finished it.

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[Orma]

Powerlevelling with Cholo, Brady and Angryeddy

 

[Great Deceiver]

Man everything about BGEE looks like absolute dogshit. Those outlines, that UI, that lousy filtering

 

[octavius]

BGEE

Oh, was that the game it was?

 

[Great Deceiver]

For reference, I'm currently replaying BG1 (very slowly) at its original aspect ratio with just the fixpack, here's what the original looks like:

What exactly does "enhanced" mean in Beamdog's dictionary, I wonder?

 

[Orma]

What exactly does "enhanced" mean in Beamdog's dictionary, I wonder?

Being able to zoom in/out I guess, for starters.
The first screenshot was really zoomed in tbh, in their defence.

Here are some better shots

 

[Snorkack]

Man, this looks... not good. BG1&2 EE were on steam sale recently and I considered buying them. Seems like I dodged a bullet there.

 

[Citizen]

That BGEE screen reminds me of stardock's Elemental. Ugly as sin, blurry, thick outlines and atrocious hit point bars.

I think it takes talent to make old pretty looking games look like garbage and make money out of it.

 

[Orma]

Baldur's Gate games never looked good in the first place, to be honest. So not like they defiled sacred ground.

BG has nothing that can compare to the beautiful backgrounds and portraits in Icewind Dale.

 

[agentorange]

finished clear sky and now replaying call of pripyat

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[felipepepe]

Man, this looks... not good. BG1&2 EE were on steam sale recently and I considered buying them. Seems like I dodged a bullet there.

To be fair, you can disable the outline. Here's a comparison of the exact same area:

The original is a lot crisper and cohesive. What bothers me is how fugly and amateuristic the UI looks:

Look at that shit, it was clearly cut & copied on Photoshop, the gap between icons has a different size, some icon borders were cut more than others.... it's like they made a quick mock-up and never bothered to actually do the real UI.

 

[Darth Roxor]

thats hilariously ugly

 

[Orma]

Alienman Poocolator

 

[abnaxus]

 

[Orma]

Skewering is fun

Despite the otherwise boring spear movesets

 

[Astral Rag]