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Quoting: NezchanOoh, I was planning to get Dicey Dungeons this Xmas for myself anyway. This just seals the deal.

Hidden Folks is tempting too, at 50% off. I hear it's excellent.

I can recommend Hidden Folks too, fun little game, the sounds just top it off :D

Liam recommend it, I believe it, that settles it!

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Ooh, I was planning to get Dicey Dungeons this Xmas for myself anyway. This just seals the deal.

Hidden Folks is tempting too, at 50% off. I hear it's excellent.

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Quoting: razing32Hope it does enough to not just be "another one"
One thing i find odd in the trailer is how much work they put in the world and the characters only have a basic walk animation. Couldn't they draw them swinging an axe or casting a line ??

That's what turns me off about it honestly, especially given that I'd have to watch that clumsy walk and those barely-animated actions all the way through. No way that wouldn't irritate the hell out of me on a playthrough that takes hours.

A shame, given how the idea is right up my alley and I've been wanting a SF-based farming sim for ages.

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I liked the first game, but found that once I started destorying portals the difficulty ramped up fast and it didn't seem to matter how many fortifications I made. So eventually I just gave up on it. Got the second game in a bundle, but haven't actually played it. Guess I should, if it's that big an improvement.

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I was a backer when this was on Kickstarter, and I've been watching the updates as they roll along. Holding myself back from playing it more than just seeing if it works until the full game is released though.

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Come to think of it, I wonder if this means Banished is playable now. I gather sound is the real sticking point, but I'm not sure about the details.

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Avernum 3, but not the other games in the series? That's weird, especially given the low overhead of the games.

I can definitely say I haven't had problems with Avernum 5 or 6 via Proton and afaik all have a platinum rating.

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Quoting: PhlebiacMogwai? http://gremlins.wikia.com/wiki/Mogwai [External Link]

Mogwai.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luM6oeCM7Yw [External Link]

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This looks pretty polished. Loads of content, a good, consistent art style and what looks like a strong story? That's something I could get into.

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Quoting: Guesttouching love for the Apple ][. i ignore nearly everything about this machine. (One day, i will get a true working Amiga...)

I think you're using 'ignore' as a transliteration of the French j'ignore, which simply means 'I lack knowledge ...'; in the colloquial English sense, though, it doesn't really deserve to be 'ignored' (treated as a non-entity)! I was a Commodore kid growing up (though I did get to use Apple ][s at school), but the more I learn about the machine -- especially its extensible/hackable/*completely* user-serviceable design [yeah, the exact opposite of today's Apple], and the community that grew around it -- the more impressed I become. Apple ][ (//e, etc.) series did cost a lot more than Commodore's 8 bit machines, but they had great 80-col. support, & professional software; whereas Commodore went for volume of sales, and not much else (insisting on selling machines at Toys'R'US, alienating computer resellers, and becoming invisible in the 'serious' market as a result).

At least that was better than Tandy's treatment of the Colour Computer, which their own salespeople called "just a toy" while trying to push the business machines instead.

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