Which character did you not like?

Yeah, it’s very believable that the tech is finicky and it’s very easy for it to look bad.

Plenty of people aren’t interested in vr for different reasons.

I turn off HDR whenever I can. I think it looks bad

Looks kind of like Left4Dead but Control

It’s evolution rather than revolution. Which is fine, not everything can be revolutionary.

Seems obvious

Ign gives everything a 9/10

Yeah, Chris (the Arcen guy) makes some great mechanics but “things that look appealing” is his big weak point.

It’s been a couple years since I played TI, so maybe they’ve improved it, but I think this is a lot simpler than TI.

Ign gave it a 7/10:

There’s one historical movie scene that comes to mind for me when I think about Sid Meier’s Civilization 7, and it’s not a flashy arena fight in Gladiator or mission control cheering as we safely bring Apollo 13 back home. It’s Leo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator, running his hand along an airplane fuselage and insisting that he doesn’t want to see any rivets.

Ouch

Does this get rid of the stagecoach driving?

I enjoyed this one a lot when it came out. The levels can be kind of repetitive and the game is on the shorter side but the story is good and it’s nice to hear the original actors.

After WoW had been around for a year or so, were you still unhappy about it?

Nah, I enjoyed WoW well enough for what it is. When WoW was announced there was a lot of skepticism on whether or not a company that was primarily known for their RTS games could make an MMO, along with a decent amount of “Who asked for this”. In hindsight I’m also a bit bitter that we never got and never will get Warcraft 4 though. To some degree Blizzard basically stopped developing games for a few years due to WoW’s success consuming the company.

Were most WC3 players unhappy about the announcement?

I think most of them would have preferred another RTS game.

Zero K is uglier but has a full campaign, more units, and is less micro intensive.

BAR has better graphics and tiers of units ala classic TA (zero K is flatter), and more active multiplayer.

They both have Total Annihilation as a distant ancestors.

As someone who played a lot of Warcraft 3 and really enjoyed the campaign before wow was announced, I was not pleased with the MMO announcement.

Aka “buy the rumor, sell the news”

You were okay with the child labor, forced 24 hour shifts, brothels, etc but draw the line at the tavern?

It’s possible (and common) to win without alcohol, but in some cases you’d be handicapping yourself.

Guess you couldn’t get into Frostpunk either if doing objectionable things in a game is a showstopper for you.

Heard it felt unfinished

Leveling systems come from pen and paper D&D, which was inspired from wargames where units gain experience.

Yes, theoretically Itch could sue them for lost revenue. Brandshield should be very afraid of Funko getting sued since getting your client sued can’t look good

Mask of the Betrayer was great

The first one was meh, the second one was good. Haven’t played most of the others but people seem to enjoy them.

Looks like a good change, though the original isn’t awful

Can they fix Warcraft 3 while they’re at it?

I did it for the original Killing Floor because they had class features locked behind achievements.

You can use certain programs to give yourself achievements. Could be that

Anyone played it? How is it?

That’s what authentication is. You’re thinking authorization.

I want to like it but every time I try it I bounce off it.

They had a free weekend and I was enjoying it until all of the story stuff back at the base. I typically like that kind of stuff but there was way too much of it.

I played the demo on desktop Linux and it was fine

I didn’t care for it. More like a turn-based puzzle game than a city builder.

It’s an Anno reskin, but a fairly good one

Killed future updates that were being done by a different developer because they thought it would compete with this game.

Fuck this dev for what they did to dead cells

Thanks, I’ll probably skip it then

Is this going to play anything like Origins?

I thought the game was pretty dull. Too much slowly walking/riding in what’s basically an interactive cutscene