Yeah... I don't know. Maybe it's because just as for Blaze Rush I don't do coop or online, but I found this game quite... Meh. :|

Maybe I missed something, somewhere. :)

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Quoting: MohandevirThat kind of racer where no matter what you do, it's all decided in the last lap.

I actually hate the race mode exactly because of that, but king of the hill and especially survival are heaps of fun.

I tried the game, hated the race mode too. The thing is, as I haven't seen it in other comments I will explain it, that you can't get too far behind or ahead. The camera works in a way that every car has to be on screen at any given time. So if you get too far behind you are "pushed" (you can see that several times in Liam's video).

Maybe I should have tried the other modes, but I was annoyed to the point that I asked for a refund.

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Interested too in a key here :)

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Quoting: hardpenguinThis one reminds me of Majesty.

Possibly because of this bit, right ?

Set goals instead of directly controlling units 

That's one of the things I loved about Majesty. Well, Majesty 2, I couldn't play the one for long, despite it having a Linux version. I should try to go back to it if I manage to find how, bought it in the Ubuntu Store a long time ago.

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I'm maybe a bit too much of a hardcore strategy fan but Dungeon Rushers, even if it was fun for a small while, became boring pretty soon. Can't remember exactly why though. Dungeons were too easy as far as I remember, and it had too much of a mobile game for me. Also, the fact that there was a linear progression in Dungeons, you didn't really have much choice on where to go, was pretty lame.
Don't think I'll buy this one unless it has really improved on these aspects, even if the basic idea of Dungeon Rushers was quite nice.

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Quoting: tuubiSo, if an adventure game has lots of choices and different endings, it's suddenly an RPG?

How would you define an adventure game vs RPG game ? I think that most of the time people mistake RPG with D&D.
So for a game to be a RPG you need to have lots of stats for your character / party.

The way I classify my games an "ARPG" is not a RPG but an action game. And adventure game without any stats but as you said with lots of choices and different endings is a RPG.

But I come for the tabletop RPG world, and I've seen a lot more than D&D so maybe my definition is very personal.

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Well, I can't find the video now but they talked about the new version of their cross-platform engine, the Creator engine. So hopes for Linux are not that bad I hope

EDIT: it was not on the video but in the announcement post [External Link]

Quoting: rustybroomhandleThe thing with Age of Wonders: Planetfall is that it is also announced for XBox One, so in all likelihood, the Microsoft thing will happen where the dev/publisher is not even allowed to mention any non Microsoft platforms for a set period of time.

It is also announced for Mac Os and PS4 and other platforms, so the "not allowing any non MS platforms is definitely not a thing. (see OS compatibilty here [External Link]

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I played this one before this version, and even then I considered there were some interesting things that set it apart from other city builders.

1 - No "insta build". Your buildings take time to be built, people have to work on the construction. Maybe lots of other city builders do that, but it's the first I see. I find it very nice

2 - Houses do not magically upgrade themselves. I like city builders but that is one of the things I can't bear anymore now. you build a manor, it stays a manor, you build a common house, it stays a common house.

(However it is still lacking, to me, the fact that maybe you should only be allowed to build up to x % of manors, depending on social classes, etc)

Now I can't remember more, but those two felt quite interesting to me.
Of course, it was lacking some depth, so this update is quite welcome.

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Quoting: LeopardWell , we're talking on a game Linux sale numbers and then when i talk about feeding Windows instead of Linux , then making sad faces in the message while one simply does not care ; suddenly you call it a zealous move.

Zealous is despising the guy just because in your opinion he does not care.
I have been a Linux user for 10 years, and for two years now more or less I don't dual boot. But I'm not on the "exclusively DRM free" side, even if I know it should matter to me. But when some guys caring about DRM free talk to me as if I was a criminal, well, it doesn't motivate me at all. Same thing applies here. I think that to defend our ideas we should talk to people respectfully, especially when they are at least partly on our side (Linux side in this case)

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPThis is also something I thought about. Many people buy on platform A, then play on platform A, B or C - whatever they currently use.
I also buy the vast majority of games on Windows - since it is currently the platform I (have to :( ) use for work, then install and play them on linux whenever I get the chance.

Quoting: TcheyI think i've read the buying plaeteforme doesn't matter much, it's more about where you play that actually count.

Quoting: LeopardNo , it is important. Especially if you buy them but get chance to touch them weeks later.

@Leopard could you please bring some reference about what you are saying? I think some time ago Liam posted a long article explaining how sales were computed for each platform, so that would confirm what @Tchey was saying. It depended on the first hours of play as far as I can remember but I'm not 100% sure as I could not find the article. But maybe in the meantime it counts as a sale for the platform it was bought in?
@Liam: Any chance you could enlighten us?

Quoting: LeopardYou're just keep feeding Windows market. Good job.

I'm sorry, but it seems a bit tragic when you say it that way. Maybe the guy, as he stated, didn't realize that he was having this effect. Plus, I don't think that's the thing that makes a big difference, some Linux guys computed as Windows if they buy on Windows. The problem is the overwhelming use of Windows on personal computers, and that is a structural problem, not an individual one.

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