yep, I was playing forced showdown non-stop up until a day or so ago. I've beaten Ruby von Wouthingtonne IV in Frontline, that is a tricky battle. the first fight of the game that will make you almost pull your hair out the first time you fight her.

The Grand Return seems to almost double in difficulty, so I'm not going to try and push through that content. I'll take it nice and easy from time to time. mostly I just keep farming gold from the first run with a difficulty modifier to make it a level 6 modifier. which yields 780 gold plus whatever bonuses you got during play. which typically I end up with around 900 gold to spend on the fortune slot machine to try and gain the cards I'm missing.
The game seems to be very adamant about not allowing me to get the squire of the light's cards, of course the squire is my favorite to play, lol.

Although I've practically gained double supreme on a number of the cards for the other characters in the game. I'm starting to like Volco a lot, and I'm working on a decent deck for Stormbringer and Ravager.

But I feel beating the last portion of the game will require certain types of decks that are streamlined so this will require almost all the cards to be unlocked.

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I really like the classic style graphics and effects, they were very well done. it reminded me of so many 2D side scrolling games from the late 80's and early 90's. I really liked the weapon selection there, pretty awesome "modern" aspect compared to retro. all these retro styled games with updated modern mechanics are great.

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congrats, nice to see recognition for GOL community.

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the original Forced was ok, but didn't really care for it much. But this game on the other hand has had me hooked. I guess it's the card game dynamic that really makes the whole game more interesting. i've been playing since the release non-stop. one of the most surprising aspects is there's no micro transaction for the cards.

It does have a "multiplayer" aspect to it, which is the season play, which is a type of ranked play.
every few hours it has 3 different dailies to compete with other players on the same battles. to see who can get the highest score overall.
You get a boat load of gold if you go pretty far, which you can use to get more cards with.
I actually got rank 2 on one of them so far. Haven't participated in to many as I'm still getting cards and the mechanics down of certain cards. the quests are the main thing to complete which gives you the other companions and health bonuses for you and your companions. plus the extra gold and various boon unlocks are nice.

it's a really interesting card/strategy/action hybrid game.

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something I whipped together real quick. it's done with gimp.
http://imgur.com/TBrAQ9n [External Link]

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can not wait for this one :D

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I've had all three mentioned, Crea and the others are great for different reasons. I guess I've found myself falling head over heels for these 2D Sandbox/voxel/survival games. I guess it's part nostalgia driven by newer modern mechanics that make it all the more worthwhile. More 2D games like this please, take my money all day :)
The overall gameplay of these titles I find to be really interesting and fun being an old school gamer
(i started with coin-op pac-man and my best friend in school had an old pong game).

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Quoting: coruun

Quoting: neowiz73In their nightly they've changed their old launcher into a more native steam type launcher.

I was hoping that they are dropping the launcher, because there was simply no value.

in the Steam type launcher there's no extra web info via HTML like their old one. But it still allows you to choose to run a dedicated server or just run the regular Starbound client, just a plain steam type launcher.

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once 1.0 is released people will get a fresh look into Starbound, because they get that "new released" hype. With all the crazy amount of content going into the game I'm sure it will turn out to be a legend in it's own right. I really like this new wave of 2D sandbox/voxel style games. Terraria, Crea and Starbound are all great in their own way. each being unique enough, But I think so far Starbound is my overall favorite.

In their nightly they've changed their old launcher into a more native steam type launcher. So I'm sure their SteamOS logo will be back when 1.0 drops. hopefully their Linux sells will be up a bit higher then.

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looking forward to this one, will grab it on release :)

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