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Fintilgin posted:At The Gates. I pre-ordered immediately after making this post. I've been watching it for a while.
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Dibujante posted:I pre-ordered immediately after making this post. I've been watching it for a while. $50 for early access??  Looks cool though.
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Smoremaster posted:$50 for early access?? Ugh don't early access. It's $30 for the game. Also they have a one-hour LP that shows off a simply gorgeous art style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v?Do-RQpQ3rDI
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Jan 26, 2015 17:20
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Dibujante posted:Ugh don't early access. It's $30 for the game. Also they have a one-hour LP that shows off a simply gorgeous art style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v?Do-RQpQ3rDI Yeah wow, the art is really impressive. Looking forward to this release!
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Wait, so it's a historical game simulating the fall of the Roman Empire with randomly generated maps?
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ZombieLenin posted:Wait, so it's a historical game simulating the fall of the Roman Empire with randomly generated maps? Yeah, although it's more that it simulates the Völkerwanderung - Rome is an important, but not exclusively central, figure in this story.
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Dibujante posted:Yeah, although it's more that it simulates the Völkerwanderung - Rome is an important, but not exclusively central, figure in this story. Stupid barbarians plunging the world into a thousand years of darkness? Bastards. In other words, can you play as "Rome?"
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Jan 27, 2015 02:26
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ZombieLenin posted:Stupid barbarians plunging the world into a thousand years of darkness? Bastards. I make no apologies for them but love the time period, much as I make no apologies for the mongols but remain fascinated. Horrible people did horrible things a long time ago; let's play video games about it     You can't play the Romans. They're kind of a force of nature, just like climate change.
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Jan 27, 2015 04:14
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Is that a good game in its current state or is it more something that I should just keep an eye on and grab later?
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Jan 27, 2015 04:38
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ZombieLenin posted:Stupid barbarians plunging the world into a thousand years of darkness? Bastards. They really didn't plunge the world into a thousand years of darkness, just fyi
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Jan 27, 2015 06:44
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Mans posted:They really didn't plunge the world into a thousand years of darkness, just fyi Actually we're still living in the dark ages after the fall of Rome, hth.
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Jan 27, 2015 06:50
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Mans posted:They really didn't plunge the world into a thousand years of darkness, just fyi I know. I was being funny, or failing too.
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Jan 27, 2015 06:54
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Pornographic Memory posted:Is that a good game in its current state or is it more something that I should just keep an eye on and grab later? They only balanced the mid-game about a week ago and they don't yet think it's complete enough to put on Steam Early Access.
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Jan 27, 2015 06:56
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DrSunshine posted:Actually we're still living in the dark ages after the fall of Rome, hth. "Rome" was a fiction created to justify the extension of Achaemenid rule into Europe after the defeat of the Greeks at the hands of Xerxes. It's a pity that it was taken prima facie by later historians, along with Christianity.
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Jan 27, 2015 07:44
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It doesn't matter, the Dark Ages were all just made up by Charlemagne so he could rule in the year 1000.
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Jan 27, 2015 08:18
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Jan 27, 2015 08:30
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Gotta leave something for the expansions. At the Gates looks like a fun game - I like the RPG-ish mechanics of clans that have good and bad traits that are effectively your population points. Will make it sting a bit more if you lose a unit. I also like that healing a unit will take resources, so it won't have the Civ problem where damage that doesn't kill a unit is effectively worthless a few turns later.
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Jan 27, 2015 09:30
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The Roman empire is falling - its armies are critically short on resources: One legionary gets the spatha, the next legionary gets a shield. The second legionary follows the legionary with the spatha, and when he is killed, picks up the spatha and carries on fighting!
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gradenko_2000 posted:It's too bad the At The Gates KS didn't make it to the playable Romans stretch goal. Honestly playable Romans would have felt like bloat. Not sure how you make a game that would make you fight civil wars so much.
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"Panzeh" posted:Not sure how you make a game that would make you fight civil wars so much. Victoria 2 
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Darkrenown posted:The Roman empire is falling - its armies are critically short on resources: One legionary gets the spatha, the next legionary gets a shield. The second legionary follows the legionary with the spatha, and when he is killed, picks up the spatha and carries on fighting! Shouldn't the legionary with the spatha follow the one with the shield? Or is that the revolutionary suggestion a shy and trembling Centurion gives to the new Primus Pilus looking for change? 
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Jan 27, 2015 12:49
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Dibujante posted:"Rome" was a fiction created to justify the extension of Achaemenid rule into Europe after the defeat of the Greeks at the hands of Xerxes. It's a pity that it was taken prima facie by later historians, along with Christianity. Spread the truth! ("Histories of Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt were crafted during the Renaissance by humanists and clergy - mostly on the basis of documents of their own making. Rome in Italy was founded around AD 1380 by Aeneas.")
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What are you guys talking about? Rome is still alive and well. All five of them.
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Jan 27, 2015 14:56
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Burning Rain posted:Spread the truth!
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Jan 27, 2015 15:42
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Burning Rain posted:Spread the truth! My eye is twitching. Not sure what emotion I am feeling, but it's not a good one.
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Jan 27, 2015 15:46
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I have a feeling this has all happened before. Mostly, its the appropriation of Tamerlane as a Russian that I remember the best.
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After a while it starts to sound like this Formenko is just a bitter Russian nationalist who has a complex about his people being ruled by those filthy Mongol animals.quote:All major inventions like powder and guns, paper and print occurred in Europe in the period between the 10th and the 16th centuries. The Plaza would adore this guy.
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VostokProgram posted:This is the best. Now change the Kaiserreich thread title to "Please Ungern-Sternberg, promise me you will conquer the universe." Petroleum is humanity's friend. Can I abandon a friend?
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Funky Valentine posted:After a while it starts to sound like this Formenko is just a bitter Russian nationalist who has a complex about his people being ruled by those filthy Mongol animals. Apparently he went deeper into Russian nationalism with every new edition of his 'chronology' until even his most visible supporter Gary Kasparov left him. (Note that Kasparov still doesn't believe in the 'traditionally dated' Roman Empire according to the interviews.)
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Does the Paratower (Paradrome?) have a general visitor's policy sort of thing? I'm gonna end up in Stockholm in early April because of some bargain traveling, and it'd be neat to drop by there.
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Ofaloaf posted:Does the Paratower (Paradrome?) have a general visitor's policy sort of thing? I'm gonna end up in Stockholm in early April because of some bargain traveling, and it'd be neat to drop by there. Paradox Towers, and you generally can't visit unless you're a relative of an employee and they smooth-talked you in. You can adore its concrety goodness from the outside after I buy you a beer though (just don't be like Visc and make me finish it for you).
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Jan 27, 2015 22:32
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Wiz posted:Paradox Towers, and you generally can't visit unless you're a relative of an employee and they smooth-talked you in. You can adore its concrety goodness from the outside after I buy you a beer though (just don't be like Visc and make me finish it for you). Pfft, only because you wouldn't give me enough time to finish it at my own pace. 
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Dibujante posted:Ugh don't early access. It's $30 for the game. Also they have a one-hour LP that shows off a simply gorgeous art style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v?Do-RQpQ3rDI Part 2 just went up today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0aGi2ZI1A
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Viscardus posted:Pfft, only because you wouldn't give me enough time to finish it at my own pace. I'm sorry, but I had work to do that particular year.
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Wiz posted:Paradox Towers There's two of them? Or is that the paradox?
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:There's two of them? Or is that the paradox? Don't question it.
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Wiz posted:Paradox Towers, and you generally can't visit unless you're a relative of an employee and they smooth-talked you in. You can adore its concrety goodness from the outside after I buy you a beer though (just don't be like Visc and make me finish it for you). If/when I visit, I will have to stipulate hard liquor, then. Sulla posted:Part 2 just went up today: You animal. I have work to do today 
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:There's two of them? Or is that the paradox? The second one is DLC
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Dibujante posted:If/when I visit, I will have to stipulate hard liquor, then. Hi, can I join too ^^
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:The second one is DLC Only the inside. The facade is free!
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