This looks great. But that music. Holy shit the music. Make it stop.

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Just a quick note that Cadmus updated 0.03 last year and seems to be working again. I'll add this comment to the NoiseTorch article too.

https://github.com/josh-richardson/cadmus/releases/tag/0.0.3 [External Link]

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Just a quick note that Cadmus updated 0.03 last year and seems to be working again. I'll add this comment to the Cadmus article too.

https://github.com/josh-richardson/cadmus/releases/tag/0.0.3 [External Link]

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Love these articles, Hamish. Keep 'em coming. I remember fondly my first experience of switching from software rendering to... some kind of Voodoo card, but I can't remember which one. It was life-changing. I mean that genuinely - it was the moment that crystallised the potential of PC gaming for me. First I played Deux Ex, then I played Quake. Every so often, I'd switch back to software rendering just to remind myself how muddy and uninteresting these virtual worlds were before hardware acceleration.

Back then, motherboards didn't have built-in sound either. Or network for that matter. Stacking the PCI slots in the right order to avoid contact and maximise airflow is a lost art. These days, you basically have a monster GPU... and that's it.

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Quoting: FifteenthPenHadn't tried the demo, but saw the rave reviews and picked it up.

I intended to try it out and then go back to feeding my Valheim addiction.

Now I have two competing addictions. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Yep, I have four right now - Hadean Tactics, Elite, Noita and now Loop Hero. I guess I still have Gloomhaven rumbling away with my mates on Tabletop Simulator too, but that's a different kind of addiction.

It's genuinely weird to have this much choice for must-play games. I mean, Humble Choice landed a few days ago, and includes a game I was genuinely looking forward to playing (albeit via Proton, the awesome Valkyria Chronicles)... and I haven't even bothered firing it up even once yet!

I also have Valheim waiting in the wings. As I say, it's kind of weird having so much quality to choose from. I love it!

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Klei rock, simple as that. Really looking forward to this one - like all their games it's an insta-buy for me. I have the whole of spring to wear myself out on Loop Hero to get ready for this.

Would love to see them release Hot Lava too, but despite a few vaguely positive messages about it coming to Linux, nothing's ever happened. I suspect it just didn't sell well enough and they just can't justify the effort to port it over.

But a big +1 for this announcement. Can't wait.

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Quoting: Chronarius

Quoting: scaineIt's the curse of the voxel engine game, I suppose, to always be compared to Minecraft. This plays nothing like Minecraft, from what I can tell. The depth in this game far surpasses anything Minecraft offers, even in modded servers. However, the core engine looks enough like Minecraft that people just blink and move on. It's a real shame.

Erm.. you know that this game has his roots in Minecraft, right? It was released as a Minecraft-Mod before it became a standalone game. Also you can find a lot of the mechanics still in Minecraft Mods.

Sure. You know that Rocket League started life as an Unreal Tournament mod, right? Or Team Fortress as a Quake mod?

My point is that those games don't look anything like their original mods/inspirations. But Vintage Story choose a voxel engine and as a result, no-one can see past that. "Just another minecraft wannabe", however, is as insulting as it can get for the dev. This plays very little like Minecraft, but looks enough like Minecraft, that it's frustratingly common.

Not just this game, of course. The wannabe statement has been popular for decades. Sometimes it's valid, I suppose, but I prefer to dig a little deeper most of the time.

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It's the curse of the voxel engine game, I suppose, to always be compared to Minecraft. This plays nothing like Minecraft, from what I can tell. The depth in this game far surpasses anything Minecraft offers, even in modded servers. However, the core engine looks enough like Minecraft that people just blink and move on. It's a real shame.

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Super Smash Bros, but in cars? Haha, I love it! It has a real late-90's Sega vibe to it too!

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Not sure I agree with the hot takes that the first is better. It certainly had the impact for the novel new gameplay, sure, but it was chock-full of rough edges. I'll always have a nostalgic soft spot for it, both for the novelty of the gameplay and that fantastic end-of-game music.

But the second is so much better. The environments are bigger, bolder. The characters, GladOS, Wheately and Cave (Cave Johnson, what a character! Absolutely epic voice acting from JK Simmons!), all gel (geddit?) so wonderfully. And that ending! But it's also just simply more fun. The gels in the game are so enjoyable to use, so satisfying.

So yeah, it wasn't the "first", but Portal 2 is certainly the better of the two, in my opinion. And I didn't even mention the incredible co-op...

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