The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Syt]

Was listening to the Space Game Junkie podcast yesterday where they talked to the developer of Relic Space.

It wasn't on my radar, but it looks interesting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1146420/Relic_Space/

[Jacob]

Any of you played A Plague Tale: Requiem?

[Syt]

Was listening to the Space Game Junkie podcast yesterday where they talked to the developer of Relic Space.

It wasn't on my radar, but it looks interesting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1146420/Relic_Space/

Been playing a fair amount of it over the weekend. It's not very content rich at the moment (esp. the randomized missions), but I do enjoy its turn based combat a fair bit already - managing energy and heat, plus upgrading/targeting components. I hope the dev sticks to his road map, and he's been pretty up front in his interview that he's working on this by himself and therefore made the timelines less ambitious. More equipment, more events/missions, a new faction, plus a "free play" mode are in the cards.

Here's Splattercat looking at it: https://youtu.be/YBP819UoCZg

It feels a bit like a turn based Drox Operative (i.e. factions do their own thing to win a war, and you do missions to help them out).

Some of the concepts could have been explained a bit better, like buying (old tech) relics from one faction to give to "your" faction which gives them new tech.

Bit hard to recommend at the current price vs. existing content (€17.49), but if nothing else it's a very solid foundation for more to come.

[garbon]

Goodbye to the 3ds eshop.

[Josquius]

Goodbye to the 3ds eshop.

why I insist on buying hard copies of Nintendo games.
Ridiculous they keep replacing the shop with every generation.

[Syt]

Combat Mission Battle for Normandy is now on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297010/Combat_Mission_Battle_for_Normandy/

€59.99, but currently 15% off at €50.14. Oh, and all DLC is also there, available as a bundle with main game for €119,49.

[Syt]

That being said: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2297010/discussions/0/3825284575369534276/

DLCs and Battlefront redeem
Hi everyone,

we are proud to announce that the DLCs for Battle for Normandy are going to be released alongside the base game on March 28th. But that's not all:

1) If you bought the game from the Battlefront store, you can register your serial on the Matrix store to obtain the Matrix Games version, which in turn, allows you to unlock a Steam version too.

2) If you decide to buy the Matrix version of the game, you will also get a Steam key.

[Solmyr]

Six Ages getting a sequel: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/storybook-strategy-sim-six-ages-2-treks-to-pc-this-summer

[Barrister]

I don't know why but I wound up buying Hogwarts: Legacy.  I really shouldn't buy any expensive games, I don't have time for them - I haven't even finished the prologue of this one!

But one thing I found curious though is that in character creation - you never actually choose a gender.  You're a late arrival at the school (5th year so what - 14 or 15?), but because of the bulky wizard robes you don't select a body type, all faces and hairstyles are available to you.  About the only differentiation is you get a choice of two voices: one which sounds female, one which sounds male.

[crazy canuck]

Six Ages getting a sequel: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/storybook-strategy-sim-six-ages-2-treks-to-pc-this-summer

 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

not sure for how much longer but Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is free on steam currently.

[Razgovory]

What's the consensus on Anno 1800?  Never played an Anno game before, but the 19th century looks kinda neat.

[Josquius]

What's the consensus on Anno 1800?  Never played an Anno game before, but the 19th century looks kinda neat.

Depends what you want.
They're less cities skylines or Caesar and more Age of Empires.

[Razgovory]

I build armies and command them on the map?

[Grey Fox]

It's a business logistics simulator with a side of warfare. Anno 1800 doesn't have land troops, only ships.