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Theswarms posted:Shadow of the Horned Rat is on GOG but the control scheme makes me wonder how the gently caress I ever played this game. The malleability of youth and perseverence.
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Apparently there was another RTS remaster that didn't get marketed well enough this past year but has good Steam reviews regardless: https://store.steampowered.com/app/944010/SWINE_HD_Remaster/ This new Steam "Deep Dive" thing is pretty good
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LLSix posted:You should take a look at Battle Brothers Yeah I remember being hyped about this one. However the units being basically big head chess pieces put me off. There was an LP of the game here on SA however, and it was entertaining. Sadly my character, and archer got mauled to death by wolves fairly early on.  Love Stole the Day posted:Apparently there was another RTS remaster that didn't get marketed well enough this past year but has good Steam reviews regardless: https://store.steampowered.com/app/944010/SWINE_HD_Remaster/ They actually released the original for free a loooooong time ago. I tried it, and it was pretty fun albeit fairly simple in terms of gameplay mechanics. One cool thing was that you could upgrade your units between battles and they would visually change wich was pretty cool for its time. GyverMac fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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Tau DLC for Gladius out of nowhere! Looks very unique compared to the other races.
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Looking for some reviews on this so went to r/4Xgaming... and the top post is a Redditors passion project making a death camp simulator where you can exterminate minority groups based on their religion.
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It's pretty gross. You can't have even connect your death camps by rail. No trains at all from what I can see.
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V for Vegas posted:Looking for some reviews on this so went to r/4Xgaming... and the top post is a Redditors passion project making a death camp simulator where you can exterminate minority groups based on their religion. I honestly didn’t believe you. Wow.
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When your artist quits because you ask them to design a nice big "exterminate" button that you can press to liquify all those pesky minorities, maybe stop and think a little.
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In good RTS remaster news, the EA staff doing the C&C and Red Alert remasters found a bunch of extra studio footage they're going to toss into the game as a bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikJLYYTrIxs Not sure how I feel about how they're upscaling the old video, though.
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There's also a pic off of Petroglyph's site featuring RA1 remastered.
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Petroglyph did a good job with the 8-Bit series, but why would they remake RA1? It has already been done by the OpenRA people, so they're not adding anything. Is it just because EA wants to take a dump on the OpenRA developers so they're giving Petroglyph a bunch of money to do it for them?
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Love Stole the Day posted:Petroglyph did a good job with the 8-Bit series, but why would they remake RA1? It has already been done by the OpenRA people, so they're not adding anything. Is it just because EA wants to take a dump on the OpenRA developers so they're giving Petroglyph a bunch of money to do it for them? I would go out on a limb and say they’re remaking games to sell them for money Does OpenRA have the single player campaigns? Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Mar 7, 2020 |
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I believe it does, but there's also the fact that the OpenRA team have been in contact with Petro throughout this. In fact, I think they were even told of the remakes before anyone else. Besides, OpenRA and the remake are two very different types of projects.
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Fallom posted:Not sure how I feel about how they're upscaling the old video, though. the idea needs to be nipped in the bud before it can catch on. when those FF7/9 upscale mods went around I was kinda uneasy at the idea but wasn't sure why; with this i'm getting terrible visions of a future where bored interns pass old assets through ML tools to feed an endless rolling wave of even more hollow remasters getting a stomach ache just thinking about it.
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Fallom posted:I would go out on a limb and say they’re remaking games to sell them for money It doesn't, but some the missions have been remade in the OpenRA engine so far. Thing is, because of how different OpenRA is from the main game in terms of unit balance, stats etc, the difficulty is all over the place. Not a faithful recreation at all, but that was never really the aim of OpenRA.
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Got some remastered music for ya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcaVLVBGG70 Apparently they're studio recordings of the versions Klepacki played here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ArbE0bEQQ Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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This looks really good, I haven't played the original C&C since the late nineties, but I'm going to grab this for sure.
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Cynic Jester posted:The contrast to reforged is hilarious. It's funny that Lemon Sky is involved in both. I guess it just comes down to proper direction and vision.
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Is anyone playing Panzer Corps 2? Is it worth getting if you already have Order of Battle?
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I picked it up, i've been finding it to be a really fun improvement on panzer corps 1- the leader abilities let you make some ridiculous units(2x ROF, ignores entrenchments and counterattacks tank) but it's pretty fun that way. One thing i'll say is that it doesn't have the air/naval focus of OOB, but other than that it's a really good take. I'm hoping to see if they implement a randomizer campaign because that seems like it could be quite fun(they already have random map scenarios).
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An overview of cheap/free Panzer replacement games "for the stony broke."quote:If Panzer Corps 2 is to drop a fascine into my corpse-dotted Ditch of Doubt, it will not only have to hold its own in the company of modern greats like Unity of Command 2, it will need to offer me experiences I can’t get for nothing or next-to-nothing from hexy alternatives like…
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I had somehow forgotten just how low-rent the Tiberian Dawn cutscenes are. Kane just lounging around in a black button up.
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While I think PC2 definitely makes mechanical improvements over its predecessors(it has encirclement as a thing, for example, and core slots aren't just a fixed quantity of units but it's a more flexible resource, AT guns now actually do something), it's a bit short on the scenario content- it just has the original style grand campaign and some various scenarios. Playing with ridiculous poo poo like this is fun, though: 
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The alternate history path in panzercorps 2 is kinda wild:
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Panzeh posted:The alternate history path in panzercorps 2 is kinda wild: Why does Churchhill have a tank and not some kind of naval unit?
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Most British tank classes start with a C but you will have to ask a much deeper WW2 nerd than I for more specifics than that. Though not much deeper, I'm an abysmally semi-interested-at-best hobbyist if we're being nice.
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Panzeh posted:The alternate history path in panzercorps 2 is kinda wild: Powerful avatar/username/game/post combo.
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Is there a dedicated AOE2 thread? I played it a ton when i was a kid but in the "cheat for resources and send a byzantine deathstack" mode and now that i keep trying to actually play it correctly i'm really bad at economy management
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there's been 2 but the general pattern has been "someone starts a thread, interest is revived, people play like 3 games, then interest dies again"
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Yeah, that's both me and my fault - I love AoE2 but i'm kind of self conscious about not being great at it. So I made a thread and a discord... but since I wasn't up for playing with humans all the time, we only really had one guy who was consistently interested in playing and it fell apart. If you have Definitive Edition, try playing the Art of War campaign/missions which do a good job of teaching fundamentals on a higher level than "basic resource gathering". If you have one of the older games then the support is less directly integrated, but there's supposedly a bunch of mods out which have "training scenarios" which teach you how to manage an economy. There's a lot of video tutorials out there on youtube as well. I'm not as familiar with these, but I know ZeroEmpires did a few (although his series is nowhere near complete) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iybSSMUfbLs. Also Resonance 22 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOZFzqxtvtxf2He2njHa8MvjbPGxqymS8 Jossar fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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The definitive edition has done a really good job and the player base it's steadily growing, last week there was a tournament on twitch with 50k viewers, not bad for a 20 years old game.
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There was an AoE2 thread in GBS a year or two ago that was pretty active for a while. We did Friday night games for a few months, basically until Summer came and it scattered. I'd be interested in doing regular games and could message the group that was playing (about a dozen or so). e: Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is currently on sale for the first time since it was released. It's only 10% off, but it was only $20 to start with (and there should still be a discount if you already own the HD version). DE really was a big improvement. I tried HD again last week and I really missed all of the changes. Shift queuing is awesome. Harveygod fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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Orv posted:I had somehow forgotten just how low-rent the Tiberian Dawn cutscenes are. Kane just lounging around in a black button up. Lmao they really are. But at the time it was the pinnacle of quality.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Why does Churchhill have a tank and not some kind of naval unit? Churchill was the major source of funds for early tank research during his WWI stint as High Lord of the Admiralty. He pushed for them to be named "landships," presumably so that he could be in charge of them. He was also instrumental in making sure tanks actually got made when he became the Minister of Munitions. Tanks would probably still exist without Churchill, but perhaps not before the end of WWI. So yes, Churchill would get his own tank. And his own Infantry unit. Unfortunately he was talked out of learning naval aviation before WWI, on account of it being too drat dangerous.
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Harveygod posted:There was an AoE2 thread in GBS a year or two ago that was pretty active for a while. We did Friday night games for a few months, basically until Summer came and it scattered. I'd be interested in doing regular games and could message the group that was playing (about a dozen or so). Hm I might break down and get it; ive been resisting upgrading because idk about spending more money on a game I keep bouncing off but all the QoL stuff looks really good
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I really like playing coop games against AI on AOE2DE. We should give it a go someday. I also have been playing the singleplayer quests on AOE Online, resurrected by Project Celeste, with all the premium bullshit now free for the taking. Don't let the MMO stuff irks you out, check it out: https://www.projectceleste.com/
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