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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 04:55:17 PMA lot of very interesting demos on this season's Steam Next Fest.
I'll try to get through a bunch over the weekend, but so far a few that have stood out include:
Replaced: Side scrolling platforming/fighting game, set in post-apocalyptic late 20th century America. Neither the theme nor the concept are particularly novel, but execution so far was solid, the art looks good and the story got me hooked.
Titanium Court: This one has been getting a lot of buzz, perhaps deserved. It's definitely weird. It's a strategy game of sorts, but the core seems to be a Match 3 game played out on map grid where you move around terrain tiles, using matches to gather resources but also trying to position your castle behind obstacles like rivers or hills. You get a certain number of moves and then have to defend against the other castles. If you survive there is a round of interacting with members of your court, where you try to figure out exactly who they are and what you are supposed to be doing.
Morg Borg Heresy Supreme Apparently Morg Borg is a real life table top RPG based on a Swedish death metal aesthetic. This is a computer implementation of that system into a side scrolling hack-and-slash fighting game. Art is interesting. I struggled a bit with the game play though. Could see this landing with the right audience.
Ardenfall Indie developed, Bethesda style open world RPG, seems to be attempting to channel the spirit of Morrowind with its exotic looking setting and scenery.
Scriptorium Master of Manuscripts: Casual game where you play a medieval artist. Win commissions to earn resources that allow you to purchase more sketch elements and pigments that you can mix.
Then there are remakes of two of my favorites from the 1990s:
Machiavelli: The Prince: This looks like a straight up remake of the Micropose 90s era trading game, complete with the old school graphics and UI. Similar in concept to the Patrician series. Worth it if you played and enjoyed the old game and miss it.
1492 - Colonization of the New World : This appears to be an effort to reboot or reimplement Sid Meier's Colonization (not authorized), with modern graphics and some more modern UI elements. Really hope this will succeed and the demo played pretty well. However, this same developer released a reboot of the Capitalism series of games and then appears to have abandoned it while still in early access . . . caveat emptor.
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Estoeric Ebb is in the Next Fest but I already tried it in the last one. RPG based on D&D rules set, but emphasis here is more on story and exposition then build optimization and fiddly rules exploitation.
Hopefully more to come - downloaded a bunch of military and strat games as well I hope to get to.
I'll try to get through a bunch over the weekend, but so far a few that have stood out include:
Replaced: Side scrolling platforming/fighting game, set in post-apocalyptic late 20th century America. Neither the theme nor the concept are particularly novel, but execution so far was solid, the art looks good and the story got me hooked.
Titanium Court: This one has been getting a lot of buzz, perhaps deserved. It's definitely weird. It's a strategy game of sorts, but the core seems to be a Match 3 game played out on map grid where you move around terrain tiles, using matches to gather resources but also trying to position your castle behind obstacles like rivers or hills. You get a certain number of moves and then have to defend against the other castles. If you survive there is a round of interacting with members of your court, where you try to figure out exactly who they are and what you are supposed to be doing.
Morg Borg Heresy Supreme Apparently Morg Borg is a real life table top RPG based on a Swedish death metal aesthetic. This is a computer implementation of that system into a side scrolling hack-and-slash fighting game. Art is interesting. I struggled a bit with the game play though. Could see this landing with the right audience.
Ardenfall Indie developed, Bethesda style open world RPG, seems to be attempting to channel the spirit of Morrowind with its exotic looking setting and scenery.
Scriptorium Master of Manuscripts: Casual game where you play a medieval artist. Win commissions to earn resources that allow you to purchase more sketch elements and pigments that you can mix.
Then there are remakes of two of my favorites from the 1990s:
Machiavelli: The Prince: This looks like a straight up remake of the Micropose 90s era trading game, complete with the old school graphics and UI. Similar in concept to the Patrician series. Worth it if you played and enjoyed the old game and miss it.
1492 - Colonization of the New World : This appears to be an effort to reboot or reimplement Sid Meier's Colonization (not authorized), with modern graphics and some more modern UI elements. Really hope this will succeed and the demo played pretty well. However, this same developer released a reboot of the Capitalism series of games and then appears to have abandoned it while still in early access . . . caveat emptor.
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Estoeric Ebb is in the Next Fest but I already tried it in the last one. RPG based on D&D rules set, but emphasis here is more on story and exposition then build optimization and fiddly rules exploitation.
Hopefully more to come - downloaded a bunch of military and strat games as well I hope to get to.
#2
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 03:45:30 PMQuote from: garbon on Today at 10:06:58 AMQuote from: crazy canuck on Today at 09:29:57 AMQuote from: OttoVonBismarck on Today at 09:11:46 AMMuslims should not be allowed to vote or hold citizenship in the West--once people realize that you will have less problems of that sort.
OVB's racism raises its ugly head once again. Based on past experience, most of you will say nothing. Some of you will agree with him silently. And the most odious of you will come to his defence.
I put him on ignore a long time ago. So it is true I won't say anything but that's because I don't see it.
Fair, and good for your mental health
#3
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by mongers - Today at 03:17:58 PMEnjoying this on steam, less a game, more of an interactive graphic novel or perhaps a theatre performance.
It had also sorts of sponsors/collaborators including Faber & Faber, the Scotish national library and a couple of well know actors doing the voices.
The 39 Steps on steam
It had also sorts of sponsors/collaborators including Faber & Faber, the Scotish national library and a couple of well know actors doing the voices.
The 39 Steps on steam
#4
Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...
Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 02:18:41 PMQuote from: Norgy on Today at 02:11:39 PMQuote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on Today at 05:17:15 AMAnother reason to keep the borders closed. Got enough barbarians within the gates already
On behalf of Norway, we are sorry that so many of our footballers play in your fake country, you bigot.
I'll wear it with pride, coming from you.
#5
Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...
Last post by Norgy - Today at 02:11:39 PMQuote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on Today at 05:17:15 AMAnother reason to keep the borders closed. Got enough barbarians within the gates already
On behalf of Norway, we are sorry that so many of our footballers play in your fake country, you bigot.
#6
Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...
Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 02:05:10 PMQuote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on Today at 05:17:15 AMAnother reason to keep the borders closed. Got enough barbarians within the gates already
I agree we have too many barbarians in the gates in the US already. But closing off immigration won't help with that, very few new migrants are seeking cabinet and sub-cabinet level positions in the Trump administration.
#7
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Norgy - Today at 01:34:51 PMHave you tried looking at the Internet?
#8
Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis GOP?
Last post by HVC - Today at 01:31:25 PMQuote from: garbon on Today at 01:27:32 PMQuote from: Razgovory on Today at 01:10:52 PMQuote from: The Minsky Moment on Today at 10:28:16 AMThe Clintons were a bluff that failed. Trump & Co hoped that the Clintons would defy it and that Democrats in the House would rally behind the Clintons and support obstruction of an obviously political subpoena, thus setting precedent for others to defy such subpoenasin the future. Some old-line Dems fell right into the trap, but others broke ranks and joined the threat of contempt sanctions (the right thing to do to preserve the House's prerogative), and the Clintons conceded the point. Now, the Republicans are stuck with a deposition that they never really wanted to take.
The precedent will do us no good if Trump never leaves office.
He will die.
AI and holograms. The future is now. Or I guess his dumb kids.
#9
Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis GOP?
Last post by garbon - Today at 01:27:32 PMQuote from: Razgovory on Today at 01:10:52 PMQuote from: The Minsky Moment on Today at 10:28:16 AMThe Clintons were a bluff that failed. Trump & Co hoped that the Clintons would defy it and that Democrats in the House would rally behind the Clintons and support obstruction of an obviously political subpoena, thus setting precedent for others to defy such subpoenasin the future. Some old-line Dems fell right into the trap, but others broke ranks and joined the threat of contempt sanctions (the right thing to do to preserve the House's prerogative), and the Clintons conceded the point. Now, the Republicans are stuck with a deposition that they never really wanted to take.
The precedent will do us no good if Trump never leaves office.
He will die.
#10
Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis GOP?
Last post by Razgovory - Today at 01:10:52 PMQuote from: The Minsky Moment on Today at 10:28:16 AMThe Clintons were a bluff that failed. Trump & Co hoped that the Clintons would defy it and that Democrats in the House would rally behind the Clintons and support obstruction of an obviously political subpoena, thus setting precedent for others to defy such subpoenasin the future. Some old-line Dems fell right into the trap, but others broke ranks and joined the threat of contempt sanctions (the right thing to do to preserve the House's prerogative), and the Clintons conceded the point. Now, the Republicans are stuck with a deposition that they never really wanted to take.
The precedent will do us no good if Trump never leaves office.