The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

Tamas · October 21, 2020, 11:55:50 AM

I am afraid to buy it, there is no way it aged well.

Barrister · October 21, 2020, 12:13:15 PM

Quote from: Tamas on October 21, 2020, 11:55:50 AM
I am afraid to buy it, there is no way it aged well.

Wasn't it terribly buggy at the time, then the company went bankrupt or out of business or something?

celedhring · October 21, 2020, 12:13:32 PM

Play Shadow Empire instead

Syt · October 21, 2020, 12:23:11 PM

Quote from: Barrister on October 21, 2020, 12:13:15 PM
Quote from: Tamas on October 21, 2020, 11:55:50 AM
I am afraid to buy it, there is no way it aged well.

Wasn't it terribly buggy at the time, then the company went bankrupt or out of business or something?

That's what I heard, but for 5.99 I find it hard to resist. Not that I think I will be able to sink much time into this.

That said, it sounds like the intro was narrated by David Warner

https://youtu.be/t5ZtHphQWt4

Syt · October 21, 2020, 12:43:41 PM

Ok, I clicked around for 5 minutes, and I admit the game has a very neat aesthetic and a cool soundtrack. And it strikes an interesting atmosphere somewhere between Warhammer 40K, Dune, and HRE in spaaaace (thought he throne world is Byzantium II ....).

The Brain · October 21, 2020, 12:45:41 PM

Really enjoyed the game until my save was corrupted.

Syt · October 21, 2020, 12:48:27 PM

The GOG forums have a few links to fan sites and mods. I might give this one a try over the weekend, maybe watcha tutorial, to figure out what's going on. Even if it's buggy, it looks interesting enough, even if it might be buggy.

It seems they also released RPG rulebooks for the setting.

The Brain · October 21, 2020, 01:13:32 PM

And a tabletop space combat game, Noble Armada.

grumbler · October 21, 2020, 03:44:03 PM

I'd forgotten the name of this game so could never find it again, but I recall it quite fondly (except for the incredibly slow land movement). Holding the right office at the right time was the key, as I recall. There's one office that has to fight on some nightmare planet and if you get it too early you won't have the strength to beat the.... I don't recall what that enemy was.

It had a great vibe.

viper37 · October 24, 2020, 04:27:45 PM

Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition.

The original one was a great game. I've always had fun battling evil British imperialists, fighting rebel Iroquois nations and of course, nothing could compare with the joy of destroying the Russian invasion force in the Colorado Rockies during the Seven Years War

They've made a lot of under the hood changes, bug fixes and they uspcaled the graphics&videos to look really nice. They apparently tweeked the story a little and renamed the Sioux and Iroquois as Lakota and Haudenosaunee, changed their unit rosters, their abilities, their buildings and their economy. Since I've only played the first 4 missions, I haven't seen it yet, but on paper, it looks really nice.
Unfortunately, it seems they put the accent on MP, human vs human, and they kinda forgot about optimizing the AI.

The result is a bug ridden game. They will fix it like they fixed the 2 others, they've just begun, but it's gonna take a couple of months at least to reach the level of quality of the original game.

Units get stuck in unmovable objects; AI will build a fuckton of units but can't send it to attack you because they're stuck in its base between building and he keeps pumping units to the max that increase the problem; sometimes an attacking army will see your towers as fixed objects (like rock) that it can't attack; lambs&cows can't be slaughtered for food yet they are critical to some campaign missions; and so on...

It was a great game that has the potential to be even better, it's still played a lot online (though it can't be compared to something like Starcraft), but unfortunately, at this point, I could not recommend it for anyone. Wait one year, like I did for AOE II DE and it will be great again

Syt · October 26, 2020, 12:31:46 PM

Zachtronic are known for puzzlers like Spacechem, Shenzhen I/O, TS-100 and Opus Magnum.

New game coming next week:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/971160/Mbius_Front_83/

QuoteThe year is 1983 and the United States of America must defend itself from an enemy it could have never imagined— an America from an alternate universe that will stop at nothing to seize control of the country's heartland!

In Möbius Front '83 you will fight tactical, turn-based battles with the cutting-edge military hardware of the early 1980s. Use every tool available -- powerful tanks, fast-moving attack helicopters, long-ranged artillery, tenacious infantry, and more -- to control the complex and rapidly-changing battlefield of the era.

Who are the "Americans" attacking America, and why? Find out in the game's extensive single-player campaign and its fully voiced cutscenes. When you're ready for some R&R, play a new kind of solitaire, solve Zachtronics-style puzzles, and even read the U.S. military manuals that inspired the game.