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Quoting: NezchanI suspect this has Grimrock in its DNA somewhere. The map layouts and movement feel familiar.

Looks more to me like the engine from StarCrawlers [External Link], which does support Linux nicely (also a good game in its own right).

Seems that when that game came out, it invited a lot of comparisons to Grimrock. So again, it seems to be part of that pedigree.

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I suspect this has Grimrock in its DNA somewhere. The map layouts and movement feel familiar.

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The "Inspired by Proteus" surprised me. I don't know a lot of people who have also played that. It's a little more...benign than the forces at work in this game though.

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"one of the first radio telephones ever built"....in 1993? Must have been a museum piece even then, given they'd been in commercial use, if not all that common, for decades at that point.

The one in the trailer looks like one of the original Nokia phones from the 80s.

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Quoting: einherjarPerhaps all new Tux Gamers :woot:

Sounds legit. 2020 is the year of Linux on the desktop, after all.

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Huh, tried out Skyrim (original edition with mods), and when I quit to desktop....it actually exited the program! In the past, the process continued running when I tried to do that.

Wonder if Banished works without tweaking the sound now?

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Quoting: NezchanI'm sorry Liam, but I don't wanna hear about your Nether regions.

I heard he's got warts in there, as well. Gross.

And let's not even talk about the creeper infestation.

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I like the weighting of the reporters. My first thought was how they're going to prevent brigading, or mass reporting of an individual in order to silence them and get them banned for malicious reasons, often including fake accounts to boost the numbers. If anything, it's the people characterized as "I'm so offended by everything!" (or as we say in reality, those speaking out against toxicity) who are most often the targets of such actions.

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I'm sorry Liam, but I don't wanna hear about your Nether regions.

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[quote=eldaking]

Quoting: TheSHEEEPRTS games were the multiplayer hotness once, a long time ago, which probably won't happen again. But the genre goes a lot beyond competitive multiplayer, and there could be a lot (more) of amazing single-player RTS if people stopped focusing all their efforts in online skirmishes (which they do to the detriment of the single-player, of course).

It's amusing to contrast the call for single player with the hue and cry when Ravenfield definitely stated that no, there would not be multiplayer even though that style of game was almost always done with multi in mind. As it happens, Ravenfield did very well at crafting a good single player experience, so they made the right decision. But wow, were there a lot of people giving up on the game at the time for that reason.

Not that I disagree. More well crafted single player experiences would be more than welcome. Heck, doing that with an almost inherently multiplayer genre like RTS would set them apart, I think. But they'll be a hard sell for sure.

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