I note that, once you get in using the fix in the article, OpenGL is an option for graphics driver.

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I played the demo when it came out for Steam Next Fest last year, and just…wasn't sold on it. I found the graphics actually made things less comprehensible at a glance compared to FTL, unfortunately. (Like, the icons for each room being tiny and in the corner, rather than clearly spread out face-on on a floor tile of the room.) Now that it's out I should perhaps at least find video of someone playing it and see if that's been improved.

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Quoting: subWasn't that planned to be a free upgrade for those already owning it?

I think I remember that too. But Plans change I guess?

Well with the discount you can think of it as a 16$ addon to a 9$ game.

As a dedicated player of Paradox games: wow, sounds like a great deal!

I played a few hours last night (found the New Content, won't spoil it!), and found I had a silly grin plastered to my face pretty much the entire time. I found the original through watching someone's video on it, so it was fun to go in un-spoiled this time. Maybe I'm just a sucker for metahumor, but I could listen to The Narrator yammer on all day. (Luckily I've spent enough time listening I can hear anything I read in his voice, if I want. )

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySay, Philadelphus, you look kind of different. I could swear you used to be a lot more green, and less anthropomorphic.

New year, new me! Okay, it's almost 4 months late, but, still!

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I think I'd be afraid to touch it, since my brain would keep thinking I'm about to short out some sensitive electronic doohickey.

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Quoting: anewsonSeen this game a lot on Twitch lately, but had no idea what was going on. Enjoyed the writeup, thanks. Just me or are there a lot of Mars games coming out lately? Red Planet Farming and Planet Crafter come to mind.

Cheers! That does seem to be the case. There's also Ad Astra Per Aspera, which came out in 2020.

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Well, Surviving Mars was only published by Paradox, not developed by them, but even their in-house developed grand-strategy games all play quite differently despite the superficial similarities. I personally really enjoy Europa Universalis IV and Stellaris*, but have mostly bounced off Crusader Kings II and Hearts of Iron IV. Some people enjoy all of them, others find only one or two really "click".

*And Surviving Mars to an extent, though I think mostly because I got it when the Green Mars expansion came out; without that long-term reward of watching the planet get terraformed I don't think I'd enjoy it as much.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: ElectricPrismAlso, while Portal 2 dwarfs Portal 1 in popularity and review score, I am one of the few holding fast that Portal 1 was superior. If they do undertake a Portal 3 I would like for them to return to the calculated cold mechanical sociopathic GlaDOS inspired by System Shock's Shodan instead of the Portal 2 one which just "called you fat" and used other low-blow humor. Everything else about Portal 2 was phenomenal except they got the personality profile on GlaDOS slightly wrong. Wrong enough to hit a nerve.

Well, the last 30 seconds of the ending of Portal 2 offers a prime opportunity to recalibrate GLaDOS's personality a bit…

But, I mean, I get the difficulty Valve is in here. Portal had a final boss fight where you take personality cores off the boss. Portal 2 had a final boss fight where you put personality cores on the boss. Where could they possibly go from here??

Hot-swap personality cores?

That actually sounds interesting. In the first two games the order you take/put cores is linear; now imagine a game where you have, say, three cores (as per tradition), but the final battle goes very differently depending on the order you choose to swap them in. Six different permutations of a final boss battle! (How's that for replayability? )

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Quantum Catapults sound like fun. The Subterranean origin sounds interesting as well, depending on how it works.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismAlso, while Portal 2 dwarfs Portal 1 in popularity and review score, I am one of the few holding fast that Portal 1 was superior. If they do undertake a Portal 3 I would like for them to return to the calculated cold mechanical sociopathic GlaDOS inspired by System Shock's Shodan instead of the Portal 2 one which just "called you fat" and used other low-blow humor. Everything else about Portal 2 was phenomenal except they got the personality profile on GlaDOS slightly wrong. Wrong enough to hit a nerve.

Well, the last 30 seconds of the ending of Portal 2 offers a prime opportunity to recalibrate GLaDOS's personality a bit…

But, I mean, I get the difficulty Valve is in here. Portal had a final boss fight where you take personality cores off the boss. Portal 2 had a final boss fight where you put personality cores on the boss. Where could they possibly go from here??

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