I understand that apprehension, and I feel it sometimes too, but one thing to keep in mind is that your credit card provider/bank probably has your back. If for some reason a given company keeps charging you after you've cancelled a subscription, your provider/bank will probably block/revert the transactions for you and possibly blacklist the company if they keep getting complaints. Depends on whom you do business with and your agreements of course, but I know I feel pretty safe with my own credit card.

Last year a hotel in the U.S. charged me then issued a refund for three "cancelled reservations" I had not made in the first place, but by the time they had sorted it out, the fluctuation in exchange rates (I'm in Canada) amounted to me getting shafted for I think $80. The hotel said they couldn't do anything about it because they had refunded the same amount charged (which was true in USD but that doesn't help me). I reported the situation to my credit card provider and they paid me the balance themselves, no questions asked.

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Yeah you can definitely pledge and cancel the next month. They send you an e-mail to notify you when your payment goes through, so you can use it as a reminder to cancel at that point. (Just check your notification preferences to make sure, maybe you don't get e-mails by default.)

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I've only played it a couple hours since to me Worms has always been about local multiplayer and I rarely get an opportunity to play video games with friends nowadays (we're more into board games), but it has this "updated Worms Armageddon" feel I was looking for and I consider it a long-term investment that we can play once in a while when the stars align.

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Quoting: br3n065It is a sequel to 'The Whispered World'...

Thanks for the info! Wasn't a big fan of The Whispered World either, mainly because the main character was kind of trying too hard to be depressed. It hovered awkwardly between amusing and disheartening and got annoying.

Quoting: ziabiceYou can't imagine how much I was disapponted by the Deponia games...

I didn't have as bad an experience with Deponia as a lot of the reviews I've seen (most people seem to take issue with the fact that the protagonist is a jerk and the fourth wall breaking, and neither really bothers me in a game like this), though I did decide not to buy the last one since three games seem quite enough. I did however prefer Memoria, Chains of Satinav and The Night of the Rabbit. It's been too long to pick a favorite but all three are much more serious (without going overboard like Sadwick) and give you a more traditional experience, story-wise, if you're coming from RPGs. Night of the Rabbit got kind of weird around the end but was still a gorgeous game (not just visually), and there was something deeply tragic about Memoria that I can't quite recall but made me decide to buy more Daedalic games almost blindly.

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They reused Sadwick and Spot from The Whispered World? Is there officially a connection between the two or did they just feel like giving them a big cameo because (TWW spoiler)

Spoiler, click me

it's also an imaginary world

?

I'll probably pass on this one, but it's good to see Daedalic keep making their games available on Linux.

Quoting: LinasSometimes I really wish I would enjoy point and click games more. They tend to have amazing art and interesting stories. However the mechanics of solving arbitrary puzzles, and not having direct control over the character and being limited to certain predefined actions really puts me off. :(

I suppose you could look for Let's Plays on YouTube so you'd get to enjoy the visuals and story and maybe the lack of control wouldn't put you off as much if you're in the mindset of watching a "movie." I imagine you've already considered that, though. Of course, it could still get annoying if the person playing takes too long to figure things out or commentates the playthrough.

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Quoting: BTREI'm not sure where people are getting that the game forces you to commit 'evil' acts from this review. I thought we emphasized that there's a lot of freedom of choice in the game as shown by the contrast between my experience and Liam's.

What I got from it was mostly that you can choose whom to side with and how violently versus diplomatically you can assert yourself. I didn't catch any indication of choices leaning toward a strictly benevolent personality (Liam's character saved an old man in the intro, but he said it was to recruit him into his party, so it could be more self-serving than benevolent).

Quoting: BTREHell, even Kyros is less of a Skeletor/Palpatine/evil generic antagonist and more of a real world leader like many a Roman emperor during the height of the empire - someone who did great things, brought order and stability but also passed harsh laws and was at times callous about the lives of the masses, especially those who rebelled.

Now that's something I was very much hoping to hear. One question though, is Kyros a man or a woman? The first paragraph left me confused.

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Thanks for the heads up. Having limited periods where you can redeem games makes the whole concept rather impractical.

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Thank you beefsack for making us all look better :)

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Quoting: meggermanCrowd funding.. or in words as it typically end up .. Pyramid scheme.

I don't think a pyramid scheme means what you think it means.

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Not something I would get myself since I'm not big on portable gaming, but it's always nice to see more options enter the Linux gaming space. It would be nice, though, if they maintained their own catalog of games the device will actually be able to run.

Quoting: GuestI'd be interested in the possibility to use Steam in-home streaming with this. Is that working on Linux yet (as a host)? That would be pretty cool.

Yes, sometimes I lie on the couch and stream games from my Linux desktop on my Linux laptop.

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