Looks sweet indeed. However, I suck on the mouse controls. So, not my game. May try it one day again with a joystick.

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Fantastic!
Now there's another shop besides Humble where we can buy DRM-free Linux games. Now I'll consider buying games from GOG.com again.

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Not my cup of tee but it definitely looks good.

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Quoting: nullzeroAnd thinking about it... character fatalities usually just means that the player would load and retry anyways as most are probably not found of an iron man mode.

That's exactly what I always do. I agree that it feels kind of weird that the characters can't die. But then again, when I look at how I play games, I never accept any casualties anyway and always reload a game when a character dies. Therefore it doesn't bother me that the characters can't die in Halfway. I still find the battles in Halfway challenging enough.

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The game is simply beautiful! Fantastic graphics (I love the art style), very nice soundtrack and the gameplay is easy to handle but hard to master. Right from the intro Halfway has a great atmosphere. I haven’t played much yet – so far I only have a team of three characters – but what I’ve seen has already convinced me: Halfway is worth any single cent. In fact, I think at roughly nine Euro the game is a steal. I’m really enjoying it.

One thing that does bug me also bugs me in a lot of other games like Halfway. Your soldiers have terrible aim! I've repeatedly been two squares away from an enemy with ~70% accuracy and missed, and this happens a lot. Trained soldiers my arse!

True. That’s a gripe I have with many turn based games. Halfway just isn’t any different in that respect- unfortunately.

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What I do love though is that it's much more forgiving than games like XCOM, as your soldiers don't die

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don't die? So what happens then, do they fall unconscious and are just out of that particular battle?

Correct, they fall unconscious and are out for the rest of the battle. After the battle, they also have only limited HPs, which makes any following encounter considerably tougher. If the whole team is taken out (which can happen easily) the player has to restart the mission again.

I think the developers choose this way because Halfway is pretty much a story driven game and the characters are an essential part of it.

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Whee! Just watched some trailers of Darkwood. It definitely looks interesting; has some eerie atmosphere to it.

I'm looking forward for Halfway at the moment though.
I'll keep an eye on Darkwood for the time being.

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Wow, that's nice!

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Interesting!

Personally, I’m not interested in their client- or any client at all. But I do like the idea of the software being open source. I see no disadvantages but a whole lot of advantages should GOG.com go open source with their client.

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The game looks truly beautiful, particularly the light effects. It looks very interesting too. I’ll definitely pick this up because I’m a sucker for sci-fi themed films/games (too) and I like the style of Halfway.

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Holy … ! Torchlight II natively for Linux would be nothing less than amazing!

If they’re going to release the game for Linux though I really hope that it will also be available as stand-alone/DRM-free version. (Yep, a new Indie Humble Bundle would be great!)

I own both, Torchlight and Torchlight II. Since I got Torchlight II I never looked back to the first game. In my opinion, Torchlight II is superior to the first game in almost every respect. Of course, game play is pretty much the same and the story isn't any complex either. But from the technical side it's way better. In my opinion it has a dense atmosphere to it whereas the first game was merely a fun game.

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