Holy crap, this looks like EXACTLY the kind of thing I'd love. This is definitely one to watch for, at least for me.

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Hmm. Lack of world flavour, which quests help communicate when done decently, is a pretty big negative for me. I'm still interested, but my enthusiasm just dropped a lot.

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I gotta say, your articles about this game have me really excited to give it a try on release, and see how far I can go as a F2P player.

When I play oldschool WoW (WotLK era), I'm all about the quests and general flavour of the world. How does Albion stack up in that regard?

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The Thea: The Awakening devs are apparently eager to move to move to 5.3. Smart move for a quality game.

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From the performance I've seen in videos, they didn't even test it for Windows. Why bother for Linux?

Brutality in games is like in the movies, and somehow, there's no one protests.

A lot of people did go "WTF, this shouldn't be on Steam, this is awful" back when it was about to come out, but once they saw how it actually played (buggy, repetitive, overwrought, basically The Room in video game form) they shrugged and said "Fool me once" and moved on.

OTOH, people who hate that first group opened their wallets happily and gave good reviews independent of quality. That's what I call the "fool me always" demographic.

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There's a fair few people comparing it to Grimrock which isn't surprising, as it's one of the newer games in the dungeon crawler genre, but I've been enjoying this game a lot more.

I'd personally compare it to Grimrock because the environments look almost exactly like Grimrock in quite a few places. Hell, that one bit at 0:46 where they press a hidden switch could easily be lifted directly from the earlier game. Other environments and how the camera moves look so similar that I thought from the start that this was just a mod of the original Grimrock with a few tweaks in how the party is handled.

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Quoting: Mountain ManIs it randomized? That's the one thing I didn't like about Legend of Grimrock because it really limited the replay value.

There are some pretty good fan mods out there, so that's a plus.

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I'm not expecting a huge jump in market share but a change that couldn't get overwhelmed by a rounding error would be nice. Has there been any change since the advent of Steam Machines that goes beyond normal month-to-month fluctuations?

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Fourth class citizens, rejoice! We shall drop a crumb from our royal table, which we expect you to be grateful for!

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Quoting: MajorLunaCI suggest moving Darkmod.cfg out of the game directory to see if that helps with any graphical issues. I think the download comes with one, but the game is supposed to make a custom one for your computer when you start up the game.

Just tried it, but unfortunately no luck. Same result as before.

I have trouble believing I have some unique configuration, since I never tinker with anything "under the hood" on my OS.

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