* A smart simulated ecology of species who fight each other over food and territory
* An engaging combat system that learns from your every move

Games have been promising this sort of thing for years. It was called "emergent gameplay" a decade ago. I also have yet to see any game fulfill any of the lofty "emergent gameplay" promises made by developers. I think the best we've seen is the NPCs in the Grand Theft Auto series reacting in unexpected but not particularly meaningful ways.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: KimyrielleCompanies that base their business strategy around taking away consumer choice end up on my shit-list pretty quickly, no matter if they support Linux or not (not that they would).

The other problem is the sketchy way Epic is doing business. They're cutting backroom deals and offering big sums of money to publishers in order to secure an exclusive contract while the developers get the shaft. You see, the publishers don't care if a game sells fewer copies being an Epic Store exclusive because they have their money upfront. It's the developers who's paychecks depend on number of units sold who get screwed.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

It's like a Victorian Era take on "Papers, Please". Looks pretty cool, actually.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Gee, that's great. Too bad they don't support Linux in their own games.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

"I hear you like launchers, so here's a launcher for your launchers!"

Has it really come to this?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The only one I'm sort of interested in but don't have yet is Ashes of Singularity, but since it's not actually available for Linux yet, it's probably not worth it to buy this bundle.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

OK, Valve, you had your fun. Now how about making the games you know we actually want?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

At first I read that as "MAGAfest", and I was like, "Awesome!"

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Graphics look beautiful. Let's just hope there's a compelling reason to explore the game world, because traveling around and taking screenshots could get old very quickly.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: stretch611

Quoting: HoriHype, hype.

Paradox games are easily my favourite strategy games.

I have so many plans for this game. I think I was never before so exited about a game before its release.

Started playing Paradox games with CK2. Eventually I started wishing that they would make an alternative to Galactic Civilisations and something similar to CK2 but in the roman era. My dreams came true with Stellaris and soon with Imperator.

Ahh...Galactic Civilizations... That brings back memories... What a wonderful OS/2 native game that was.

Yep. Wardell made a bad bet that OS/2 was going to be a major player. Of course it would have been if Bill Gates hadn't stabbed IBM in the back.

View this comment - View article - View full comments