Cool. I wonder if that's relevant to my old Loki games.

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Cliches are funny things. Consider, everyone knows the "King offers daughter's hand in marriage" thing is a cliche. But how often has anyone actually done it (in fiction) since the days of the Grimm brothers? I've actually seen a few--but never played straight. So weirdly, it's a cliche and yet it's almost the opposite of overdone.

And really, it's not a bad idea. Consider, you've got a problem so bad it's wrecking your kingdom. The treasury is probably bare. You could offer a duchy or something, but it would have to be somebody's duchy. They would probably object, and the other nobles might back them up just on the principle that the king arbitrarily turfing dukes is bad for the duke business. Then you've got two kingdom-wrecking problems.
But offering your daughter's hand in marriage is free. All you lose is future considerations in the international alliance department. But first, you won't be doing any alliances if your kingdom-wrecking problem, like, wrecks the kingdom. And second, you end up with a great hero in your corner, which might be worth the alliance you lose. Your daughter might be miffed that nobody asked her, but nobody would have asked her if she wanted to marry whatever grubby noble would be politically expedient, either; her chances of a good marriage are probably better this way.

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Remember that space game where you make the clones of yourself that move in tandem with you and the story of why the station is all dead is really quite creepy? Can't remember what it's called though . . . checks library . . . The Swapper, that was it.
This sort of reminded me of that, except I have this feeling The Swapper is better.

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Quoting: DerpFoxIts not very surprising the game is failing and soon will be dying.

If it wasn't for this website I would never have heard of it, if I ask around me even TCG player haven't heard of it. The communication around it have been abysmal. Completely inexistent outside of the Dota 2 community, but I'm not surprised Valve have getting worst and worst with their communication.

This is not the first time I've noticed that Valve seem to be rather bad at marketing (the first time I noticed being Steam Machines). They seem to think the Steam platform will just do it all for them, and evidently it isn't so. If they're going to start new things and make them a success, they are going to need to spend the money and hire the people (or hire the marketing company) that it takes to get the word out. And you know, I hate to say this because fundamentally I hate marketing and advertising and wish they didn't exist, but this is the world we live in.

In the case of this game, there are various other reasons it failed, which have been pointed out. But I don't think the marketing was really there, either, and I think that's (unfortunately) a big deal.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: PatolaI love X: Rebirth but X4 is better in so many ways that I can't realistically get back to it today.

It is at least better at testing my rig. I optimistically thought I was fine to put everything up tot maximum. Wow, did that hurt in the starting station. :D

Other than that I'll have to start figuring it out. It doesn't really help you to even get started. One thing it does really well is to immediately make you feel tiny.

Not as well as the Total Perspective Vortex, I hope.

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It's funny . . . I don't actually have all that many games all told, but I have a bunch of those. I'd have said it's because I'm a Paradox fan, except half of them I bought when they were unrelated to Paradox. Paradox is systematically buying up games I like?!

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I know there are knowledgeable people here. What the heck is "Vulkan pipeline dumping"? It sounds like either a good thing or something oil companies do when something has gone very wrong.

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Quoting: riusmaThe french independent magazine Canard PC gives the game a good review (7/10) in its last issue (n° 393 that will be fully available next month)! :)

I've heard of "le canard enchaine"; how many French periodicals named after ducks are there?

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Guess I'm going to have to get Backbone when it comes out. Looks interesting, but above all, as a Vancouverite gotta explore dystopian Vancouver!

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So in this case you might call it Late Access.

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