Okay, that game really surprised me. I didn't know at all about it, and it's a good game. For those who like action based RPGs, it's a steal at 80 % off.

Very good storyline, very good implementation, very deep and nice characters. I yet have to figure out how to seduce them though ;-) ...

For my taste, a bit branching is missing. I guess they have that at personal relations, since I didn't seduce anyone yet. I've two playthroughs now, and the balance is a bit ... well, not too well done, since ranger seems to be overpowered to the other two choices. But this game is way deeper (RPG-whise) than I expected, and a lot of more fun than I expected considering the reviews.

I'd rather compare it with The Witcher 2 than with a crap title. They put a lot of love in there, and it shows off. After I've bought it for the "steal" of €5.99, if I knew what they created, I'd even have paid full price. But I didn't know the game until two days ago.

Performance whiese it's okay, and I've had 5 crashes by now (21 hours playtime, the 2nd playthrough was way faster than the first :D), but due to their savegame policy (autosvave very often), it's no issue if you have a crash, so it's a small annoyence I can just ignore, especially since it happens just occasionally.

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€5,99. Bought :-) .. let's see what the game is like.

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I never played any of their creations. Was never interested in them, so in that regard, I couldn't care less personally.

Though, every game not released for Linux is not good for our ecosystem, since some will like those. They're still trying to make money, and it's costs money to make Linux ports. Even if it's just for the testing and fixing part.

I doubt the statement though that it's a Unity issue which can't be fixed, too many games done too well with Unity. If it's a Unity issue, the right way to go is to go to Unity3D and ask them to fix their issues. Even if it's a Unity bug, there is always a way to work around this, but that sometimes is quite some work, which they probably didn't want to put into a port for a non profitable platform. Understandable.

How ever they decide, I wish them good luck for their future games.

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Vrooooom!
I like :-).

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I've watched movies about it yesterday, and it certainly looks interesting. Though, it sounded - pretty flat gameplay whise, and more into "short" matches instead of real city building as it was in Settlers.

For this, I'm more into Banished and Heartlands than this one. Trying new features in Heartlands since I last checked it did cost me my nights sleep tonight :D.

But what I'm really looking forward to is Banished. I don't think that Valhalla Hills will be anything good for me, but I'll keep it on the watchlist, maybe if it's on sale one day I'll give it a shot.

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Not a single bug of Raven's Cry was actually fixed in Vendetta. It's the same game, with the same bugs, with the same memory leak. Just a few logos were switched and that's it.

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Just requested my free upgrade... hope I'll get it :-).

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Quoting: DrMcCoyWell, that was to be expected, considering that they had added a lot of stretch goals, and then Wasteland 2 took longer than they thought it would be. As far as I know, no one who followed the development thought it would really come in 2015 (I myself said, on several occasions, that I expect that it'll be moved to a 2016 release).

So the only thing that does surprise me is that it took them that long to announce the changed release year. And that they are already this far along that they'll release a beta (to which I'll have access, thanks to my backing level) this year; I actually thought that would be moved to 2016 as well.

I don't have the backing level on this one, but I'd guess a release in Q2 2016, just considering how long it took PoE to get to a release, and those projects are pretty easy to compare.

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Quoting: Mountain Man"...the biggest part is to transition the engine from DX9 to OpenGL, and then changing from WinAPI to Linux/MacAPI..."

When will developers learn to make their software crossplatform from the start? Then they wouldn't have to deal with these kinds of problems.

Well, using SDL2 they could have saved themselves a lot of pain. X, Input and Screen handling really really sucks (even with XCB), and "it sucks" is just ... a very weak description for the actual pain. That's a fact. SDL2 solves a lot of those issues, and they'd have it cross platform as well. That's a design choice to do in the beginning, and if I was interested in this project, I'd probably offer help with that (since I implemented a few input-systems and screen handlings in SDL already).

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Ok, 25 for the 3-game-pack collection ... I guess I'll just try it myself. Last time I looked it was terribly more expensive, something about 40-50 for one game. 25 for all 3 is worth even to try and if I don't like them, well, I supported a dev bringing the games to Linux.

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