Quoting: RedfaceI have Overlord, Overlord Raising Hell and Overlord II but have not played them really yet. How does Dungeons II compare to those?

They are totally different games, even different genre. Overlord is third-person hack&slash game. Dungeons 2 is dungeon-keeper-like game.

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Kalypso needs to seriously up their post-release support. Dungeon 2 was cool, skirmish is a bit weaker, overworld is a bit boring, but campaigns were cool and funny. That narrator voice did upped the quality of game by level or so. I bought all expansion and had a blast. However, I think they seriously need further increase their post-release patches and meaningful expansions. In Dungeons, it was cool and worth it. I can't say the same for Tropico 5, where I have never felt that expansions are worth it, from content and price perspective. And as for Grand Ages: Medieval, this game screamed for bunch of DLCs, making the game much less bland and more like heavily trade-oriented grand strategy game.

I feel that they should look at other companies in similar genre. Although I started to hate the way how Paradox do stuff, their games are eventually becoming better with content that one would really assume to be there in first place. And if we look at Firaxis, the DLCs are worth it and make games seriously better (Civ 4 after two DLCs, Civ 5 after two DLCs, we will see similar trend in Civ 6 I think). The result is that the games, that have serious potential and are in those "I can play this game for YEARS!" are getting:
1. loyal fanbase due to feeling that the game is worth it from very long-time perspective
2. additional content with mods due to loyal and active fanbase
3. long shelf-life as the game gets better with time and mods
Which makes hype for new one even better and devs can utilize community in basically implementing ideas and testing them in mods. Which then can show possible direction of additional expansion/sequels.

However, I don't feel that Kalypso does any of those things. Even though most, if not all, its games are in the genre that would most benefit from this. I could gladly buy few more DLCs for Dungeons 2.

Damn you Kalypso!

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Luke_Nukem: Only rarely you want to support the most cutting-edge options and not anything else.

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Quoting: KimyrielleHonestly, the probably biggest application of Civ multiplayer is LAN, and chances are that computers in the same use the same OS, no?

No, not for some time already. And assumption of same OS in of nearby computers is not valid at all as well.

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so anyone already played it? How good is it? I would guess that buggy. But how it is compared to Cossacks 1 and 2 (which was actually completely different, but not bad, game, much more about positioning than spamming)?

It really looks like reimplementation of Cossacks 1. So, is there Algiers? I loved massing bowmens and pikemens and sending one big never-ending wave to enemy and completely flooding him in bodies.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Colomboits not RTS, its not RTS, its RTT!

Perhaps, but I'm not pedantic enough to truly care all that much. It's still a strategy game, that's played in real time (with optional pause in single-player). We don't know if the online modes will have any base building or resource system, as they haven't said.

Either way, it looks amazing so far.

I must be pedantic, because I can't stand RTT, but I love RTS. I was born as zerg and zerging is the way I live. You can't obviously zerg in RTT:/

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its not RTS, its not RTS, its RTT!

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Quoting: liamdaweIf they have no way to verify, then they shouldn't be selling them. I don't see why this is hard to fathom.

Nonsense. Can Ebay verify that I own and not stole this chair that I am selling?

Its public marketplace.

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Quoting: JudasIscariot

Quoting: ColomboNice. It would be even better if it did not crashed my system on startup.

Could you start the game via your terminal and post the output? What error messages do you get when the game crashes?

it did not just crashed, when ran in fullscreen (the default), it made my HDMI output not work for some reason. Imagine you run game and you screen stops working. Had to restart computer.

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Nice. It would be even better if it did not crashed my system on startup.

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