Just picked it up, though I'll have to wait until I have something other than a (work-provided) Macbook to play it on... :sad:

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Liam DaweWhile we sit and attempt to wait patiently

Emphasis mine. Yeah, exactly this. It feels like time as slowed since original announcement. :grin:

When it first announced: "Oh, shipping in December? Neat, maybe I could get one before going on my annual Christmas vacation to see family (who all live a 5-hour plane ride away), something I can game/browse the web on besides my phone while I'm away from my normal desktop for a week or so". :grin:

After three hours trying to get a reservation: "Ok, well, Q2 2022...I guess that's better than nothing. Oh, maybe I can get it in time for that rumored family reunion in the middle of the year in a different state, to have something to game/browse the web on while I'm away from my normal desktop for a week or so." :huh:

After the announcement of shipping being delayed two months: "Well, maybe I can have it in time for next Christmas vacation?" :unsure:

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Yeah, I think certainly a part of why I liked it was that as a kid I was obsessed with the solar system, so getting to drive around on different planets and moons was like catnip to young me. Also I think the Scion heavy tank from BZ2 is possibly my favorite ship design of all time (I also loved the Scion morphing vehicles in general). But I totally agree about environments being sparse and a lack of interesting characters.

I guess we'll have to wait and see what Valve comes out with and if they can come up with a better control scheme. :smile:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOh, Terraformers had a Next Fest demo? What's it like?

I found it quite engaging, to the point where I went back to play it probably some 20-30 times by now (the demo is a 30-turn limited slice of the gameplay). It's definitely got a very board game-like feel to it; you play in turns which are one Martian year long, and each turn you get production of resources and your choice of two "projects" (basically buildings, though some can be built in cities and some can be built on the surface of the planet). Some turns also have random events that can get you extra free resource production or an additional project or stuff like that. The game is a fun balance of building things to increase your resource production, with one resource being the happiness of your people, who come to expect more of it over time as Mars becomes more terraformed. Terraforming buildings are in the demo, but they have fairly long-term effects such that there's not much point to building them with only 30 turns, and while that limit makes for fairly quick games (<1 hour), I'm really keen to get a longer game like 100–200 turns (not sure what the optimum length will be) where the terraforming has a chance to stretch its legs and I can actually spread cities over more than just ~1/10 of the planet.

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Quoting: elmapulomg i say the words AAA and Triple A or blockbuster all the freaking time, i cant believe i forgot right now.
on the other hand, people always complain when i use those terms.

Aww, sorry in that case! :happy:

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I haven't played Sacrifice so I can't comment on it, but much as I loved both Battlezones as a kid they absolutely have very clunky control schemes and doing most stuff now (I have the remastered versions) feels like swimming through molasses.

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Wow, having demos available increases sales?!? Who'd've thunkit?? :tongue:

I've definitely bought a few games after trying their demos at previous Next Fests (Webbed and Per Aspera, off the top of my head, and I'm waiting for Terraformers to release).

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Judging by the look of that graph, we might need to stop fitting just a straight line pretty soon. At least a second-order polynomial. :happy:

Quoting: elmapul370 million dollars may sound like a lot, but its not, the cost of production of an modern game can go easy to something like 200~250 millions

A modern AAA game, sure. I doubt most indie games (of which there are vastly more than AAA games) cost more than a few million to develop, at most. I see this a lot, that people conflate "modern game" == "AAA game", and it bugs me no end. There are tons of modern indie games that came out this year. :wink:

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Hopefully around the start of next year I'll be able to play again with a friend that I put easily hundreds of hours of Minecraft in (versions ~1.3 to ~1.8), up until 2017 when for a variety of reasons we couldn't do so. Neither of us were really interested in playing solo but we've both remained interested in playing together again, so I imagine we're going to have a whole lot of new things to check out once we finally fire it up again. From what I've read this update really shakes up the terrain generation, which sounds awesome (my friend's big on exploring far and wide, while I'm big on finding a gorgeous location and building a lovely base of operations, so this'll be good for both of us :grin:).

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Quoting: MayeulCSounds like a RTS/FPS hybrid like Natural Selection (first [External Link] or second one [External Link] or Nuclear Dawn [External Link]?

Or Battlezone [External Link] and Battlezone II [External Link].

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