Quoting: BeamboomIt's not a fair comparison on any account of course. A tiny indie company can never produce Battlefront and we know it. But still.
To end where I began in my first post: We thought we had it bad when we felt the consoles held us back. But now we settle with games that could just as well have been played on a friggin' iPad?

These are tough times, comrades.

;)

No, it's not a fair comparison, for one they are a completely different genre of games ;)

Honestly, I think you're going way overboard on this game based on its graphics. That must keep you away from quite a number of games to try.

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Oh I agree, but I am hoping they put in some quality of life improvements in the UI for PC players like us, I've already reported a few to them and they are gaining agreement from people on their forum, so I'm doing my part.

I don't care about graphics, I care about style. The game looks good to me, I don't need ultra lifelike stuff to enjoy myself.

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Quoting: BeamboomThere was a time when PC gamers complained about games being console ports. Today we have to live with friggin mobile phone ports.

This is not a mobile port, it is a fully cross-platform game. They are developing on all at the same time.

Quoting: KelsI suppose my big question about the game is, what's the variety of places you can go and things to do at any given point? One of the attractions of WoW to me, other than nostalgia of course, is that once you're done your tutorial stuff you can do all sorts of stuff. You can work your professions, you can farm, you can quest in a number of different locations, you can skip questing and do PvP or dungeons, there are seasonal events, and on and on.

So what I'd like to know is, how well does Albion stack up in terms of variety?

As I noted in the article, you can focus on whatever you want, and change it up whenever you want. That includes farming and such.

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Quoting: BeamboomThere was a time when PC gamers complained about games being console ports. Today we have to live with friggin mobile phone ports.

That's very funny, and sadly incredibly true.

I watched Liam play and my impression was this....

Resource gather because Minecraft that's why. Craft armor and weapons because Minecraft that's why. Listen to horse hoof beat sound over and over fight once in a while to gain proficiency as a fighter.

I so want a good MMO but seriously enough with the crafting it was awful enough when EQ2 and GW2 decided that crafting should be a main focus of character development, not every game needs crafting it's what smiths and armors are for and most towns had one or two not 100% of the populous was a God damn smith. If I wanted to craft I would play a @!#!@# crafting game.

If I ain't out slaying I'm not playing.

I had, and still have very little idea of what I'm doing. Like I said before though, you can focus on whatever you want, combat included. Combat has a whole section the the Destiny Board (fame levelling up). The only way to be able to use higher level combat equipment is to fight.

Put it this way, I've chosen now to be a bowman, and to get access to a Tier 3 bow I need to kill a certain amount of mobs with my tier 2 bow, but while killing a lot of mobs you can then harvest them (like fox hide's). You can then craft the hides into leather when you're back in a town, and this then levels up something else entirely for you.

It's a big game, lots of stuff to do, give it a chance ;)

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So, as I feared in my article on the leak, it's game-specific optimizations they did for ONLY the previous games mentioned.

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Quoting: Xpanderstill better than nothing, hopefully more games benefit than only those on the picture

I honestly think it's per-game optimizations, which makes me wonder why the heck they haven't focused on some of the new bigger releases, like Alien and Mordor?

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Quoting: TincheFinishing up Shadow of Mordor.
Bought Cryptark but my rig can't handle it. :(
Alien: Isolation but a little too scary for me.
Before that Pillars of Eternity, kinda taking a break from that.
Kingdom, a little.

Your PC can handle Mordor, but not Cryptark? Was that a weird joke? It's a simple 2D game.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismYeah it's annoying Valve doesn't have a "New Releases" list on my Platform - SteamOS/Linux.

I regularly surf through the New Releases Tab and the SteamOS tab and am like what is this?

Indeed, I look through my "queue" now and then, and I'm like "wait, when did this come to Linux?".

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Quoting: HamishIt was also released for GOG at the same time as the Steam release:
http://www.gog.com/game/hard_west

Thanks, updated the links. My GOG guy hasn't been emailing releases recently, my bad.

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Quoting: SkullyWish it was on steam as early access or something. I have no interest in signing up with kickstarter. I guess I will have to wait.

Same here. I would like to see what it's all about, but not on Kickstarter.

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Quoting: BeamboomTypo:

QuoteYou're a spaceship, your float

Don't drink and write folks.

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